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Kassie Evashevski
Here at The Tracking Board, we’ve ranked some of our favorite books that were picked up in 2015, as well as our those that are still available on the TV and film rights market. It’s our annual Film Rights Round-Up of 2015!
Logline being kept under wraps.
The true story of a fashion show that took place in 1973 pitting the top French designers against the unknown upstart American designers. It resulted in a victory for the Americans, but also broke racial barriers as the Americans brought out 10 African American models – the likes of which had never been seen on a French couture runway.
The latest novel from Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls, is heating up the TV and film rights market. The novel, set to be published next year, is a fictionalized memoir set in 1940s New York City.
A fictionalized memoir written by a woman named Vivian Morris as she looks back with both pleasure and regret at her teenage adventures amid the swirl of the New York theater world of the 1940s.
The latest work from one of the world’s greatest writers, Salman Rushdie, hit the shelves in September, and now the rights to the book are–like a gathering storm–building interest on the television and film rights market.
Logline: In a Bladerunner-esque Manhattan, Nick Bannister is a futuristic “archaeologist” who helps clients relive and often get lost in their happiest memories. But when one of his client’s memories holds clues that implicate a wealthy and powerful family in drug trafficking and murder, Nick finds himself on the run to unravel a series of mysterious crimes which continually lead back to the very woman he loves.
Logline: The true story of the world’s most sophisticated bank robber, jewel thief, and fraud artist who’s stunning capers earned him international infamy. To be published in the April issue of WIRED magazine.
Logline: A comedy about a young Jewish girl’s obsession with Christmas.
Logline: A comical He said, She said marriage memoir being pitched as a “How Not To Have a Marriage Like Ours†& “We’re Just Not That Into Us.â€