Posted May 24, 2017

ICM Partners promoted Rich Green to head of media rights (which sells book-to-film rights). He joined the agency in 2014. Co-heads of the publishing department Sloan Harris and Esther Newberg and fellow board member Kevin Crotty said in the announcement: “Intellectual property is the lifeblood of media in all formats. With Rich at the helm of our media rights department, we are poised to build on the strength of our publishing department, providing the best opportunities to

Posted May 8, 2017

Recent film sales include rights to The Hunger, a parable that “reimagines the Donner Party with a Walking Dead-style twist,” to Scott Free and 20th Century Fox. At Warner Brothers, they are developing a TV show about “an insular group of increasingly ineffectual and disenchanted gods passing themselves off as mortals,” and with Roth-Kirschenbaum Films, they are working an “epic disaster movie that reimagines the global collision of science and religion as one between a

Posted April 25, 2017

” Film and television rights have been acquired by Michael Mann (The Insider, Ali, Heat, Collateral) and Michael De Luca, for development as an 8 to 10 part miniseries.

Posted March 3, 2017

Victor’s head of rights Georgina Le Grice will move over to United Agents as well. United Agents took over exclusive representation of Victor’s film and television rights in 2013. Awards The IACP presented their extensive set of cookbook awards at their annual conference on Sunday. The full list has not been posted yet so their hashtag is the easiest way to review the winners; Vivian Howard‘s Deep Run Roots was the event’s big winner, collecting 4 awards, including

Posted February 15, 2017

Chris Wellbelove will move to Aitken Alexander Associates as an agent next week, from Greene and Heaton. The longtime head of the agency’s film and TV department Lesley Thorne has been appointed managing director, and head of translation rights Lisa Baker is joining the board as a director. The agency says it will “seek to appoint another senior agent later in the year.

Posted January 12, 2017

stay at parent company March 4th, working with Sourcebooks to generate new book projects while also creating and acquiring content and developing video, film, and merchandise strategies “in support of Sourcebooks and other partners.” Sourcebooks ceo Dominique Raccah said in the announcement: “There are opportunities for creating momentum and real change in this industry by having publishers band together to better support booksellers and authors.

Posted January 6, 2017

The agency tells the Bookseller it is “pivoting its strategy in the UK” to return to its historic focus on representing film and TV rights. At Tarcher Perigee, Joanna Ng has been promoted to editor, and Lauren Appleton has been promoted to associate editor. At Holt, Richard Pracher has been promoted to creative director, reporting to Steve Rubin. Therese Coen has joined Hardman & Swainson as rights director.

Posted October 18, 2016

This imprint will seek to revive the culture of intelligent debate, both within the right and between right and left, creating a sense of openness and ferment that will attract the most original and interesting writers and build community through a sense of shared mission and purpose.” He has been executive editor at Harper Collins since 2008, and started their Broadside Books imprint for conservative books in 2010.

Posted August 22, 2016

Principals Sylvie Rabineau and Jill Holwager Gillett will join WME as co-heads of the book to film/TV division, and will work in the film and TV departments as well. Geoffrey Sanford continue to represent authors and co-agents for WME. Liza Wachter is said to be leaving to pursue producing and philanthropic projects. WME head of books Jennifer Rudolph Walsh said in the announcement, “This acquisition builds upon WME’s commitment to great storytelling and our love of books.

Posted July 19, 2016

” It’s her second book for adults, after the 2008 release, The Host. Candlewick Press has sublicensed rights to publish “a significant program of interactive children’s tie-in books” to the forthcoming J.K. Rowling Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie from Insight Editions, in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products.

Posted June 29, 2016

Rachel Crawford has returned to New York from Australia to join Wolf Literary Services as an agent and film rights manager. She has worked previously at Fletcher & Company and most recently at University of Queensland Press. Obituaries Former book publicist Rose Carrano died on Sunday. A founding editor of New York magazine and author of books including Little Gloria Happy at Last, Barbara Goldsmith, 85, also died on Sunday at home in Manhattan.

Posted June 10, 2016

Conville and Walsh will continue to represent foreign rights to Walsh’s authors, and Curtis Brown UK will continue to sell film/tv rights for the new agency. Walsh says: “I have loved working with the team at Curtis Brown. For me the drive for this new company has simply been to explore new pastures.” He adds, “I enjoy the start-up energy and excitement and I would like to spend more time thinking about what areas and books I would like to work in.

Posted June 8, 2016

Previously she was at UTA. Nina Post has joined Curiosity Quills Press as subsidiary rights manager, focused on licensing film and TV rights. KF Literary Scouting will now scout in Germany for w1 Media, incorporating previous clients Arche Verlag and Atrium Verlag, along with new imprint Arctis Verlag. Additionally, they will expand their relationship with previous client HarperCollins Germany to include adult fiction and nonfiction.

Posted May 20, 2016

” At the same time, the company “will continue to acquire new works and aggressively pursue subsidiary rights including book club, audio, foreign, and film and TV.” McBride writes in closing, “As we go through this trying time, I ask for your patience, understanding and support.”

Posted March 22, 2016

K. Rowling‘s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” set for a November 18 release. Scholastic has children’s book tie-in rights to all of the new films, in all languages; but HarperCollins won global rights for adult tie-ins (including “interactive formats such as coloring books and postcard collections”), and Insight Editions continues with rights to “deluxe novelty and paper engineered books across a variety of formats.

Posted March 17, 2016

Deadline says “the imprint will generate a series of novels with a stable of writers and the properties will simultaneously be developed for film and television.” One project is a prequel to Mann’s own crime thriller Heat. (Note that production company Temple Hill Production recently made a publishing deal with HarperCollins.) Forthcoming Hodder & Stoughton in the UK has accidentally pre-announced the new John Grisham novel, coming October 25.

Posted October 5, 2015

Mankell’s crime novels sold more than 40 million copies around the world and were filmed as series for Swedish TV and the BBC (the latter starring Kenneth Branagh.) A spokeperson for his UK publishers Harvill Secker said in a statement: “Beloved by readers across the world, especially for his Kurt Wallander series, it was a privilege to have worked with a man of such talent and passion, and to have been his UK publisher for so many years.

Posted May 18, 2015

The Hollywood Reporter features Drew Reed, Maria Campbell, Jayne Pliner, Marcy Drogin, Erik Palma, and John Delaney as “six of the very best [film scouts] who handle some of the most aggressive buyers.” Also from Hollywood, Nikki Finke plans to launch HollywoodDementia.com by the end of June. “After 30 years as a journalist, I’m now going to expose the hard truths and gritty reality of showbiz through creative writing.

Posted February 10, 2015

Winfrey’s production company Harpo Films has also acquired film and TV rights to RUBY, and an interview with Bond will appear in the March issue of O Magazine, due on newsstands on February 17. Winfrey told the AP in a telephone interview, “I thought, ‘Wow, this is so good I have to wait until I actually have the time to absorb the language.’ I put it down and waited until I was in bed with the flu to start reading it.

Posted February 2, 2015

They had every right to make the movie — but they claim they have no obligation to honor my contract with New Line. It means that any writer who sold film rights to New Line Productions can have those rights freely exploited by its parent company Warner Bros. — and the original contract you signed with New Line will not be honored. Warner Bros. can make a movie based on your book but you will get no credit, even though your contract called for it.