Tag Archives: Based on Book
UNDER ROSE-TAINTED SKIES (SALES)
Suffering from agoraphobia, Nora can’t leave her house, but when Luke catches her trying to fish groceries off her front porch she must decide if she can let someone in.
NEED TO KNOW (SALES)
The story of a young wife and mother who works as an analyst at the CIA. One morning while digitally searching files in hopes of unmasking a Russian sleeper cell in the US, she makes a shocking discovery that threatens her job, her family, and her life.
The true story of how the KGB tries to stop ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev from defecting from the Soviet Union in 1961.
The story of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945, which killed 100,000 people, ending World War II, and heralded the Atomic Age.
Jared Leto to Make Feature Directorial Debut With Crime Movie “77”
Law & Order maestro Dick Wolf is producing the Paramount project, which involves the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst.
Kyle Killen to Write R.L. Stine’s “Fear Street” Movie for Fox, Chernin (Exclusive)
The big screen adaptation of R.L. Stine’s Fear Street series is just around the corner, as 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment have hired Kyle Killen to write the script.
When an aspiring comedian gets a job driving his famous but eccentric improv teacher, they develop a close relationship.
After a single mother discovers her son has been kidnapped, she sets out to find him with other mothers from her social meet up group.
Chronicles John Kennedy Toole’s futile attempt to publish his book “A Confederacy of Dunces” that eventually won a Pulitzer Prize after his death.
A couple with a marriage in crisis meets a young woman who changes their perspectives about their relationship.
After a woman begins her new life after she breaks up with her unfaithful husband, she discovers that he has gone missing in Greece and reluctantly sets out to find him.
A single mom who is always down on her luck in the ever-chaotic world of raising teenagers meets a handsome stranger and finds love again.
While working at a Connecticut hospital, Ruth, a widowed labor/delivery nurse with 20 years of experience caring for newborns, is told not to touch the baby of a couple who are white supremacists. When the baby subsequently dies while Ruth is the only one present, she is taken to court by the couple.
Viola Davis, Julia Roberts to Star in Drama “Small Great Things” for Steven Spielberg’s Company
Fresh off winning a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for Fences, Viola Davis has signed on to co-star alongside Julia Roberts in Small Great Things, an adaptation of the Jodi Picoult novel that is coming together at Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners.
A seventh grader enters a silent world of imagination after losing her best friend.
Follows American heiress and super-spy Virginia Hall, who attempted to break into the ranks of the American Foreign Service in the years before World War II. Rejected because of her gender and a disability, Hall worked during the war for the British intelligence unit SOE. She later joined the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA.
Bestselling author Jane Green is seeing one of her works headed to the big screen for the first time as Good Deed Entertainment acquires The Beach House. The adaptation will be penned by Meghan Hughes.
Follows a 65-year-old eccentric Nan who opens up her Nantucket home to tenants in order to combat her financial troubles. Facing the realities of happily-ever-after not happening, Nan and her new group of strangers find themselves gaining new leases on life as they come together despite their differences.
The Beach House (Film Rights)
Follows a 65-year-old eccentric Nan who opens up her Nantucket home to tenants in order to combat her financial troubles. Facing the realities of happily-ever-after not happening, Nan and her new group of strangers find themselves gaining new leases on life as they come together despite their differences.
A 16 year-old girl from a small Texas town is inspired by her mother’s Riot Grrrl past and starts a feminist revolution at her high school.
A 16 year-old girl from a small Texas town is inspired by her mother’s Riot Grrrl past and starts a feminist revolution at her high school.
After surviving an IED explosion in Afghanistan, United States Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills must struggle to live as a quadruple amputee.
The young adult romance novel The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon has landed at Warner Bros. Pictures and MGM for a feature film adaptation. Tracy Oliver, the scribe behind Barbershop: The Next Cut, is set to adapt the book.
A girl falls in love on the day her family struggles to keep from being deported.
Reveals how corporate America employed Broadway talent to take part in industrial shows from the 1950s to the 1980s to help motivate sales forces and educate employees on products.
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger is set to be the next big screen heroin as Black Bicycle Entertainment and producer Justine Ciarrocchi have joined forces to acquire the rights to Ellen Feldman’s Terrible Virtue.
The Tracking Board’s Film Rights Round Up of 2016
Continuing our 2016 reflection, we scoured our bookshelves to find some of our favorite novels from the past year that are still available on the rights market and highlighted a few of the properties optioned this year that we can’t wait to see up on the big screen.
Focuses on Margaret Sanger, the hard-drinking, smooth-tongued free thinker, and mother worn down by 13 children, who vowed her life would be different.
A 13-year-old named Jack Buckles, who is uncanny at locating missing things, test his mettle and searches for his father, who disappeared one day in London without a trace.
Ten years after the death of his wife, a man finds a time-travel machine and embarks on a grand journey and adventure finding and exploring the woman he loved.
