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HarperCollins, Fox Strike Content-Sharing Deal
The companies, both controlled by Murdoch media conglomerates, have inked an IP trading partnership which will see Fox adapt titles from HarperCollins’s YA-adult crossover imprint Avon A for the screen and the publisher bring Fox originals to Avon A.
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Alloy Entertainment Repackages Book Division
Three longtime book division executives—Josh Bank, Lanie Davis, and Joelle Hobeika—have helped grow the presence of the company, which started primarily as a YA book packager, in the adult and page-to-screen markets. They have been promoted to senior creative advisor, SVP and co-editorial director, and SVP and co-editorial director, respectively.
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TV Alert: 'Charlotte’s Web'
HBO Max has released a three-part animated adaptation of E.B. White’s classic children’s novel Charlotte’s Web, now available for streaming.
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TV Alert: 'The Sisters Grimm'
Michael Buckley is celebrating a momentous occasion: the 20th anniversary of his Sisters Grimm series and the arrival of an animated adaptation, slated for release October 3 on Apple TV.
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Oxbelly Retreat Toasts to a Decade of Storytelling
The all-expenses-covered gathering of authors, screenwriters, and other creatives in southern Greece brings together emerging authors and recognizable names to promote cross-pollination between the worlds of literature and film.
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TV Alert: 'We Were Liars' by E. Lockhart
Viewers are invited to spot the lies in Universal Television and Amazon Studio’s adaptation of E. Lockhart’s bestselling YA novel 'We Were Liars,' which premiered its eight-episode series on Prime Video on June 18.
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MediaScout connects books with Hollywood buyers
Ingram’s new service MediaScout connects film and TV professionals with books available for screen adaptation—and makes it easier for titles to get noticed Hollywood runs on stories—and needs great books to help tell them.
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TV Alert: Kwame Alexander's 'Acoustic Rooster'
PBS Kids in collaboration with GBH Kids is releasing a slate of short-form episodes and an hour-long special adapted from Kwame Alexander’s picture book 'Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band.'
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Ingram’s MediaScout Goes Live
MediaScout, which the Ingram Content Group introduced at last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, is designed to facilitate book-to-screen adaptations for some 2.5 million titles.
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Martin Scorsese to Adapt Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Home’
The Academy Award–winning director is set to helm the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s 2008 novel as a feature film for Apple, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Apple also plans to develop the other three novels in Robinson's Gilead series, with Scorsese and Todd Field attached to write, direct, and produce.
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