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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon has put in development the fantasy drama Havenfall, based on the novel by Sara Holland, from feature writer Evan Daugherty (Divergent), Lauren Oliver’s Glasstown Entertainment, Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road Pictures and Amazon Studios, where Oliver and Glasstown are under a deal. Written by Daugherty, Ha…

EXCLUSIVE: Glass Entertainment Group, the Emmy-winning production company behind such programs as Pope: The Most Powerful Man In History, has secured rights to bestselling author Adam Cohen’s book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America, to adapt into a television…

The Strand, New York City’s 93-year-old independent bookstore so familiar as an East Village literary signifier that it’s long been a go-to for filmmakers and location scouts, is in danger of closing, its owner says. The three-story shop and its “18 miles” of new and used books has appeared in such movies and TV shows…

The holidays are almost here, and while this year promises to be one of the more unusual celebrations, the traditional wave of feel-good entertainment should help. Netflix is leaping into the spirit on November 10 with the romcom series Dash & Lily, which issued its main trailer today. The series is based on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Project X Entertainment, the production/financing company formed last year by William Sherak, Paul Neinstein, and writer-director-producer James Vanderbilt, has optioned film rights to Mia Sosa's romantic comedy The Worst Best Man. Published in February by HarperCollins imprint Avon Books, the novel is…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Union-founded I'll Have Another Productions has picked up the rights to The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, the debut novel from broadcast journalist Anissa Gray. The book is being developed into a series under I'll Have Another’s first-look production deal with Sony Pictures…

Ava DuVernay is set to direct, write and produce her first feature film for Netflix, an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson's NYT bestseller Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The project reunites DuVernay with Netflix exec Tendo Nagenda after the two collaborated on A Wrinkle in Time, the 2018…

In a move to expand diverse voices in the romance novel industry, writer Bobby Smith Jr. (Jason’s Lyric) and bestselling Black romance author Brenda Jackson have teamed to launch a film and television company to develop and produce titles from Jackson’s works. The endeavor will include Jackson's bestselling titles…

The plot details of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two have been carefully under wraps, until now. The author, co-producer and co-screenwriter of Ready Player One revealed the details Friday morning at New York Comic Con in a panel moderated by Wil Wheaton; the details of which you can read below. The long-awaited sequel…

American poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Gluck was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, the world's highest literary honor, "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal," said the Nobel Committee. She is the first American woman to win the…

"Is this anything?" is the question that every comedian says to every other comedian about any new bit they want to try. Now, in his first book in 25 years, Jerry Seinfeld is answering that question by opening up the vault of his jokes collected over five decades. The Simon & Schuster book, Is Thi…

EXCLUSIVE: Erik Feig’s Picturestart is making its first foray into animation, acquiring the rights to Nick Drnaso’s graphic novel Beverly to develop as an animated series. Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Sarah DeLappe (The Wolves) is attached to pen the adaptation and executive produce. Beverly, published in 2016…