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EXCLUSIVE: The Palm Springs Film Festival has booked its 2025 “Books to Screen” schedule. The event will host January Q&As with Conclave director Edward Berger, Nickel Boys helmer RaMell Ross, Queer screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes and Reading Lolita in Tehran director Eran Riklis, author Azar Naifisi…

EXCLUSIVE: Black Label Media has acquired film rights to The Strange, the 2023 sci-fi thriller novel by Nathan Ballingrud, enlisting Aisha Porter-Christie (Amazon MGM’s Citizen) to adapt the screenplay and J.D. Dillard (Devotion) to direct. The project reunites Dillard with Black Label Media on the…

EXCLUSIVE: In heated competition, Netflix has optioned the rights to Callie Hart's fantasy romance BookTok phenom novel Quicksilver. Deadline hears this is a 7-figure deal. Elizabeth Cantillon will produce for The Cantillon Company. Hart will be executive producer. WME brokered the…

Walker Scobell's Percy Jackson will get the chance to take on "The Sea of Monsters" just like Logan Lerman before him in the film version. Related Stories News ‘Percy Jackson & The Olym…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed modern romantic fiction company 831 Stories for representation. Founded by Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur, 831 Stories is focused on an innovative, multi-touch approach to the romance genre. The ambition, aside from publishing binge-worthy, contemporary romance novels, is…

EXCLUSIVE: Some of Black Mirror‘s most memorable storylines are to be retold in a series of comic books next year. Banijay Rights, the global distribution arm of Black Mirror ancillary rights holder Banijay Entertainment, has struck a deal with Neil Gibson’s UK-based Twisted Comics to create comics…

Updated with the latest: Colleen Hoover's popular thriller Verity is in the works for a feature film adaptation with Amazon MGM Studios starring Anne Hathaway, and another of her books Regretting You has been picked up for an indie adaptation with stars already attached. Reminders of Him, her latest…

As Jon M. Chu brings the latest big-screen installment to L. Frank Baum’s ever-expanding universe, he’s reflecting on the societal shifts that have historically punctuated adaptations of Oz. The Wicked director explained that the Yellow Brick Road has become “the road we travel” ever since Baum…

Apple and A24 have tapped Lena Dunham to adapt the Michael Lewis book Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, which tells the story of failed FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. The film is early development. Going Infinite is the story of FTX's spectacular collapse and the enigmatic founder at…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has picked up rights to bestselling author Eliza Jane Brazier's recently published novel It Had to Be You. Brazier will adapt the script and executive produce the project, which is in early development at the studio. Related Stories …

While viewers await Denis Villeneuve's third Dune film, Max's Dune: Prophecy series will take audiences back to the world of Frank Herbert's science fiction novels. The prequel series takes place long before the characters in Villeneuve's films fight for control of the galaxy. Co-produced with…

A movie extending the Game of Thrones franchise, based on the hugely popular fantasy books by George R.R. Martin, is in very early development at Warner Bros., sources have confirmed to Deadline. Warner Bros declined to comment. From what we hear, there have only been preliminary discussions on the…