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Cherie Priest's Boneshaker coming to the big screen
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Hammer Films, in association with Cross Creek Pictures and Exclusive Media Group, bought motion picture rights to Cherie Priest's Boneshaker, and already have a writer working on the screenplay...

Max Brook's World War Z sells one million copies; coming to theatres next year
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Originally published in 2006, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, by former Saturday Night Live writer Max Brooks, has sold more than 1 million copies in all formats. It will be hitting the big screens next December as a film starring Brad Pitt...

Patrick Thomas options Fairy with a Gun to Laurence Fishburne
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Actor Laurence Fishburne's production company Cinema Gypsy Productions has taken an option on Patrick Thomas' Fairy with a Gun, a Terrorbelle spin-off from his Murphy's Lore series...

George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards coming to big screen
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Syfy Films options George R.R. Martin's long-running shared universe series Wild Cards, and already has co-creator Melinda Snodgrass working on a screenplay...

Stillking Films options Adam L.G. Nevill's horror novel The Ritual
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Stillking Films, which has produced films such as Casino Royale and The Illusionist, has optioned Adam L.G. Nevill's horror novel The Ritual...

Robert J. Sawyer's WWW trilogy optioned for television
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Original Pictures licensed Robert J. Sawyer's recently completed WWW trilogy for development as a television series, with Sawyer writing the pilot...

BenderSpink buys film rights to Arcana's Continuum
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Arcana's graphic novel Continuum, by Sean O'Reilly and Stephen Snyder, illustrated by B.C. Hailes, will be turned into a feature film by BenderSpink...

The Clockwork Girl is coming back into print, and to the big screen
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Sean O'Reilly and Kevin Hanna's The Clockwork Girl is coming back into print as a single volume hardcover, and later this year as a trade paperback and a motion picture...

Warner Bros bringing new Goyer/Cassutt trilogy to the big screen
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Warner Bros bought film rights to Heaven's Shadow by David S. Goyer & Michael Cassutt, and is fast-tracking the film to production, with Goyer writing and directing...

Multistory options School's Out by Scott Andrews
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Scott Andrews' School's Out is the third book in Abaddon's Afterblight Chronicles, and has been optioned by new UK producer Multistory Films...

Warp Films options Ian McDonald's The Dervish House
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Warp Films has optioned both film and television rights to Ian McDonald's The Dervish House, which just won the BSFA Award...

Michael A. Burstein's "I Remember the Future" now being filmed
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Michael A. Burstein's "I Remember the Future" is being adapted into a short film by German director Christian Offner...

John Scalzi's Old Man's War coming to the big screen
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John Scalzi's Old Man's War has been optioned by Paramount Pictures, with Wolfgang Petersen attached to direct...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer coming back to the big screen
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Warner Bros, Atlaas Entertainment, Vertigo Entertainment, and Whit Anderson are planning to revive the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series with a new movie...

Charlaine Harris news: tv pilot, short fiction, and foreign sales
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Charlaine Harris's Harper Connelly series has been picked up for a pilot by CBS, as well as a British audio edition. She also's appearing in Glamour, and in six more countries...

Goyer and Cassutt's The Heavens Trilogy going British and cinematic
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Tor UK bought UK and Commonwealth rights to David S. Goyer and Michael Cassutt's The Heavens Trilogy, while Warner Bros optioned the whole trilogy...

Hammer Films relaunches, and Random House gives them a new imprint
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Classic horror film producer Hammer Films returns after a 30-year hiatus, and launches a publishing imprint through Random House's Arrow Books to join the new line of films and other productions...

Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion coming from Radical Publishing and Disney films
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Disney will adapt Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion (written by Arvid Nelson, illustrated by Andrée Wallin), which Radical will publish next summer...

John Jarrold Literary Agency signs on The Gotham Group as media subagent
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The John Jarrold Literary Agency is now represented by The Gotham Group for sales of media rights to its clients works...

Robert J. Sawyer's Illegal Alien optioned for tv miniseries
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Robert J. Sawyer's 1997 novel Illegal Alien has been optioned for a television miniseries...

John Goldmisth/AIP Entertainment option Randall Garrett's "Lord Darcy" novels
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Agent Joshua Bilmes sold a film option on Randall Garrett's "Lord Darcy" novels to Australian producers AIP Entertainment and British screenwriter John Goldsmith...

Tanya Huff's "Smoke" series moving to the small screen
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The Fremantle Corporation and Kaleidoscope Entertainment are turning Tanya Huff's "Smoke" books into a television series called Smoke & Mirrors...

New production firm options Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy
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Paloppa Pictures has optioned Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy for feature film production...

Studio 407 sells film option on Night and Fog
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Long-time horror producer Gil Adler and new partner Shane McCarthy have optioned Alex Leung/Studio 407's sci-fi horror property Night and Fog...

Sam Worthington options The Last Days of American Crime
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Sam Worthington has optioned Rick Remender's The Last Days of American Crime comic book series, and plans to produce and star in it...
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