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A high-concept psychological thriller from a fresh new voice in fiction, The Day After Yesterday is up-and-coming novelist Felicia Yap’s debut, and it’s already building buzz on the TV and film rights market.
In a world where a person’s memory stops working after the age of 18, most people can only remember the past 24 hours, and must keep e-diaries to remind them what they did, what they felt and who they loved, a married couple struggles to solve a mysterious murder.
Matthew Quick, author of The Silver Linings Playbook and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, has a new novel in the works, the rights to which are already starting to turn heads on the rights market.
A man must move home to assist his estranged, aging father – a Vietnam veteran.
Master of suspense Mary Kubica has a new novel on the horizon, Don’t You Cry, and it’s causing quite a stir on the rights market. With Zoe Saldana attached to Kubica’s Pretty Baby, the buzz around the author only continues to build.
When a young woman disappears from her apartment without a trace, a haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her friend and roommate to wonder where she is and whether or not she’s the person she thought she knew.
Zoe Saldana, star of Avatar, Star Trek, and Guardians of the Galaxy, is attached to produce the feature adaptation of best-selling author Mary Kubica’s suspense thriller, Pretty Baby.
When a woman decides to help a stranger she finds on the street, what starts as an act of kindness quickly spirals into a story far more twisted than anyone could have anticipated.
An uncensored and shameless take on the deviant, dysfunctional, and absolutely excessive world of finance.
Warner Bros. has just picked up the rights to J. Ryan Stradal’s acclaimed debut novel Kitchens of The Great Midwest, which made waves this past summer following its July release.
A psychology student begins to suspect her fiancee was not the man she thought he was after his grisly murder. Now, she must discover the truth before she becomes the next in a line of mysterious killings.
Psychological thriller The Hand That Feeds You by A.J. Rich hits the rights market. The novel is being hailed as a smart, thrilling, sexy, and emotionally riveting story of psychological suspense about an accomplished woman involved with a man who proves to be an imposter.
Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, has a hot new sci-fi property making waves on the market, Seveneves. The novel is being hailed as an epic space adventure in the vein of Interstellar.
Logline: In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
Centers on a young woman with a “once-in-a-generation” palate who becomes the head chef and shepherd of the country’s most premier and exclusive underground dinner spot.
Making the NY Times Hardcover bestseller list, the debut novel from J. Ryan Stradal hit shelves this past July via Viking/Pamela Dorman Books. The book centers on a young woman with a “once-in-a-generation” palate who becomes the head chef and shepherd of the country’s most premier and exclusive underground dinner spot.
Logline being kept under wraps.
After being relocated and living with a foster family, the teenage daughter of a convicted pedophile and serial child-killer begins to have strange urges that lead her to fear that she may follow in her mother’s footsteps.
A famed novelist, who has since become a recluse following the night she discovered her sister’s body and caught a glimpse of the fleeing killer, writes a novel about the crime in order to get an interview with the journalist she believes to be the murderer.
Based on actual events; tells the story of how a young John F. Kennedy struggled to save the crew of his PT Boat after it was sunk by a Japanese warship during World War II.
Logline: Centers on the early days of electricity and the legal battle between Thomas Edison against George Westinghouse who fought over the invention of the lightbulb, told through the perspective of Westinghouse’s attorney, Paul Cravath.
A roundup of the week’s exec moves!
Both film and TV studios are eyeing Matthew Quick’s “Every Exquisite Thing,” upcoming in 2016.