Chloe Moretz Offered “Carrie”
Written by Julie Vegas on Tuesday, March 27th, 2012Chloe Moretz has been chosen to star as the title role in Carrie, the remake of a movie based on the Stephen King novel. The role was originally made famous by Sissy Spacek back in 1976. (more…)
Enid Blyton Books To Be Updated?
Written by Julie Vegas on Tuesday, March 27th, 2012Yesterday, we alluded that Hachette UK had interesting plans for the Enid Blyton estate. It appears as if some of those plans have become apparent.
Hachette plans to not only update the illustrations in the Enid Blyton backlist, but they intend to update the language used in the books. And as it is 2012, they look to have her books out in eBook format as well. They had already raised some eyebrows by updating The Famous Five under Chorion’s license. (more…)
Mistborn Fantasy Novels To Be Adapted Into Video Game
Written by Julie Vegas on Tuesday, March 27th, 2012Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series is going to be hitting shelves in Fall 2013 — video game shelves, that is!
Sanderson recently announced that Little Orbit Games will be developing a video game adaptation of Mistborn called Mistborn: Birthright. Little Orbit has in the past made licensed video games of Young Justice and Sherlock Holmes. (more…)
Order of Pendergast Books
The Pendergast series is a series of thriller novels by American novelists Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The books are named after the title character Aloysius Pendergast, an FBI agent. The series is largely divided into sub-series, with trilogies and direct sequels within the series. (more…)
New Young Adult Novel by Carl Hiaasen Out Now
Written by Brandon Williams on Tuesday, March 27th, 2012Today is the release of a new young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen. The Florida-based author has started writing quite a few novels for younger readers that are getting good reviews. (more…)
Who Will Play Title Role in “Carrie” Remake?
Written by Dan Malone on Tuesday, March 27th, 2012It appears to be down to Chloe Moretz and Hayley Bennett in the race to play Carrie in the remake of the Stephen King horror film. (more…)
“The Hunger Games” Has Huge Opening Weekend
Written by Dan Malone on Tuesday, March 27th, 2012Expectations were high for the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins‘ book The Hunger Games, but it more than lived up to every one of them. The first in the trilogy was able to pull in a cool $155 million, making it the third biggest opening weekend of all time, behind the final Harry Potter film and Dark Knight. (more…)
Universal and Focus Features Get the Rights to “Fifty Shades of Grey”
Written by Dan Malone on Monday, March 26th, 2012As we expected, a deal has been made with E.L. James and her Fifty Shades of Grey series. Universal Pictures and Focus Features have acquired the rights to adapt the series. Considering rumours have it that Sony bid $5 million and didn’t get the rights, we can only imagine what this eBook series sold for. (more…)
Hachette UK Buys Rights to Enid Blyton Properties
Written by Dan Malone on Monday, March 26th, 2012Hachette UK is the new owner of the rights of Enid Blyton‘s estate with the exception of the Noddy Library (those rights were recently purchased by Classic Media).
Hachette Children’s Books rep Marlene Johnson said, “I am absolutely delighted that we have acquired world rights to publish Enid Blyton. Hodder was her original publisher, so it is fitting that her whole portfolio has come home and will now be published and managed under one roof. We will be honouring existing contracts and will be in touch with licensees in due course.” (more…)
Order of Lincoln Child Books
Lincoln Child is an American author who is the writing partner of Douglas Preston. Preston and Child have written many different novels together, which are techno-thriller and horror novels – mostly notably the Pendergast series. Before starting as a novelist, he worked as an editor at St. Martin’s Press. (more…)