Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories is teaming up again with Bold Films on a feature adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s The Son. Denis Villeneuve is set to direct.
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The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe has landed at New Line Cinema with Andrew Lazar attached to produce. This is Grebe’s first solo outing having teamed up on previous works.
Louise Erdrich, widely acclaimed as one of the country’s greatest literary talents, has a new novel hitting bookshelves in May. LaRose is the final volume of her trilogy which also includes The Plague of Doves and The Round House. The TV and film rights are now available.
After a tragic accident in which a young boy is killed, the man responsible follows an ancient means of retribution by giving his son LaRose to his grieving neighbors. Both families navigate their fragile emotional states, affected by the strange blood feuds and scores left unsettled.
An ode to the families we make for ourselves, Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life examines life’s darker dramas and its solaces in a gripping story of devotion, suffering, and the difficulties of recovery that is not easily forgotten.
Four college classmates – broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition – move to New York in search of fame and fortune. A hymn to brotherly bonds – the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
A memoir from Patti Smith. “The tone is elegiac, melancholic, and meditative, filled with wistful flashbacks and haunting Polaroid snapshots.”
Patti Smith’s memoir M Train tells the story of her life through the eyes of the locations she lived in on the road or at home. It is already a national bestseller.
Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen is hitting the rights market hard. The book has drawn favorable comparisons to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, described as Girl on a Train meets To Die For.
Eileen Dunlop divides her days between caring for her alcoholic father and dealing with juvenile delinquents as a secretary at a boy’s prison, but things get interesting when a new co-worker, Rebecca Saint John, starts to get her out of her rut.
Rights to the international phenomenon The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep have hit the market, with agents hoping the best-selling illustrated children’s book will become an animated juggernaut.
Roger The Rabbit, a sleep-deprived rabbit, seeks the help of his Mommy Rabbit, Uncle Yawn and Sleepy Snail to fall asleep. An international bestseller, originally self-published on Amazon.com in 2010.
Follows the life of Sonny Lofthus, a once gifted 15-year-old and promising wrestler, whose downward spiral ensues when his cop father commits suicide.
Logline: A deep exploration into the phenomenon of public shamming that occurs on a daily basis thru the internet.
Logline: Two ex-lovers –one CIA spy and one ex-CIA spy– meet for dinner and to reminisce
Logline: A woman becomes involved in a murder investigation after catching a glimpse of a stranger’s life through the windows of her daily commuter train.
A woman in a midlife crisis agrees to anonymously participate in a survey about marital happiness, only to experience a reawakening through the power of confessing to the mysterious ‘Researcher 101’ who fields her responses.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will focus on inequities between how women and men are treated in the workplace and in leadership positions.
A recap of the week’s TV news!
A recap of the week’s TV news!
A roundup of the week’s TV news!
Logline: A boy goes to great lengths to reunite his family.
A recap of the weeks TV sales!
Logline: An English teacher and an art teacher meet each other at a small New England prep school where they begin a complicated relationship.
Logline: A politician trying to make a bid for vice president resigns from his post as a senator to spend more time with his family when his sex tape becomes public news.
Logline: Centers on a scrappy, down-in-the-dumps detective who lives in a mobile home and makes his living taking on cold cases.
Logline: When a businesswoman starts lying in an attempt to advance her career and life, she runs into trouble when the lies turn into reality.
Logline: Details a firsthand account in the United State’s mission to kill Osama Bin Laden.
Logline: Centers on a man who wakes up with amnesia and has seven days to convince his wife not to divorce him before the decree is finalized.
Logline: A divorced sex education teacher is forced by religious conservatives to teach abstinence. While fighting for the freedom to keep touting the joys of sex, she falls for a born-again soccer coach.
