In 1987, three boys plot to break into a convenience store to steal the May issue of Playboy and along the way, there’s love and the 8-bit video game “The Impossible Fortress.”
Shari Smiley
Based on a true story focuses on odd, reclusive and self-proclaimed “hacker” Mark Karpeles, who after becoming infatuated with the concept of digital currency, navigated his way to become owner of one of the largest bitcoin exchanges in the world, only to become the linchpin in the fourth largest heist in the history of mankind.
Grady Hendrix’s upcoming novel, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, isn’t set to debut until May but the horror tale about demonic possession, friendship, and the Eighties is already generating buzz on the rights market.
Contributing editor of The Rolling Stone, David Kushner, published a new article in the zine entitled “The Darknet: Is the Government Destroying ‘the Wild West of the Internet?'” in October of this year, taking the reader inside the web’s secret platform known as The Darknet. It’s now on the TV and film rights market.
Randy Krane has become adept at pulling “the Bob Watson,” the artful ditching of useless corporate meetings, named after a colleague who was the original master of the game… only today’s Bob Watson leads to a wild, off the rails adventure.
With elements of the classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Greg Bardsley’s second novel creates a wish-fulfilling comedy for adults, and it’s now available on the film rights market.
The Tracking Board exclusively reported on the hot novel last month, when several studios were making offers. We now can confirm that New Line won out, with Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea coming on to produce under their Pacific Standard banner.
Centers on reclusive crime writer Lenora Shaw, who reluctantly accepts her distant friend’s invitation to spend the weekend together in an eerie glass house, hidden away in the English countryside.
Written by emerging author Ruth Ware, this breakout hit-in-the-making has already climbed to number eleven on the NY Times Bestseller list after hitting shelves August 4th, via Gallery/Scout Press.
Pitched as the boardroom meets Sons of Anarchy, the series centers around a family’s corporate empire, where power, sex, and deceit drive every action, and two bothers vie for control.
Logline: In desperation, a fifty-something PR pro agrees to take a new top-secret product guaranteed to make her look thirty years younger, but is thrust into a world of secrets and deceit after users of the product begin to mysteriously die.
A roundup of the week’s exec moves!
Logline: Centers on “The Donnybrookâ€, a three-day bare-knuckle fighting tournament in blue collar Southern Indiana.
Industry executive moves of the week.
Logline: A broken-hearted Brooklyn girl creates a museum of keepsakes from people’s past relationships, and unexpectly climbs the New York art world.
Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “Harry Potter” : A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow–impossible though it seems–they may still be alive.
Logline: Comedic tale of a failing used car salesman from Detroit who hits the jackpot when he learns he’s the new King of Tonga, thanks to his mothers illicit affair years earlier with the previous King.
Logline: Story centers on a young pilot who makes the Earth Interstellar Racing Team and must take his ship on a perilous journey across the galaxy on the brink of war.
