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EXCLUSIVE: The Michael Crichton and James Patterson novel Eruption has been bought at auction by Sony in what we hear is a seven-figure deal after several circled. The feature take of Eruption already has Oscar-winning Free Solo directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi attached to direct…

The Random House Publishing Group, a division of  the world’s largest trade publisher, Penguin Random House, has entered into an agreement to acquire comic book, graphic novel and licensed storytelling publisher and studio, Boom! Studios. The Boom! Studios publishing program will now join the Random…

Romance author Emily Henry now has five of her most recent novels set to be adapted for the big and small screens. Henry went on a rom-com writing spree that began with Beach Read, which came out in the summer of 2020. She has published a book a year since then, with People We Meet on Vacation coming out…

EXCLUSIVE: Carolyn Huynh’s debut novel, The Fortunes of Jaded Women, is being adapted as a TV series. Universal International Studios (UIS)-owned Heyday Television, in partnership with Universal Television, acquired the rights in what’s been called a “highly competitive situation.” Heyday boss…

EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf) and Mary Mouser (Cobra Kai) are leading the cast of the Simon & Schuster Original Audiobook Know Your Newlywed. The rom-com is written by Heather Taylor (Braaains, Anomaly) and Hillary Nussbaum (Anomaly) with Elena Armas (The Spanish Love Deception, The American Roommate…

Days after Paramount Global purged online content of MTV News, as well as Comedy Central, TVLand and CMT, MTV News has resurfaced on the Internet Archive. There is now a searchable collection of more than 460,000 web pages previously available on MTVNews.com now accessible on the organization's Wayback…

The hit Netflix series My Life with the Walter Boys is coming back for a second season, and now the book the show is based on is getting a sequel too, telling the next chapter of Jackie’s story. The followup book will be out April 15, 2025, author Ali Novak said to Today.com. It will be titled My Retu…

The original watercolor illustration for the cover of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, the first book in author J.K. Rowling’s famous series, is now the most expensive piece of Potter-related memorabilia ever sold at auction. The illustration was on the debut edition of the 1997 novel. It…

Gallery Books will publish actor Ione Skye's memoir Say Everything: A Memoir next March, the publisher announced today. The daughter of singer Donovan, Skye made her film debut opposite Keanu Reeves in 1986’s River's Edge, followed by her role as Diane Court in Say Anything in 1989. She has appeared…

EXCLUSIVE: Kristy Woodson Harvey, the New York Times, USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author of eleven novels including The Summer of Songbirds and Under The Southern Sky, has signed with Rain for representation. Harvey’s most recent novel, A Happier Life, which just hit the market…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-showrunner Emily Whitesell (Siren) has been tapped to adapt Bless Your Heart, Lindy Ryan's debut novel for television in conjunction with Rain Productions and Boilermaker Entertainment.  Bless Your Heart is a horror-mystery novel set in a small Southeast Texas town where the dead…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Netflix has optioned the novel Happy Place by Emily Henry for Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican. Plans to adapt the novel as a series are underway, and I understand producers and streaming executives are currently meeting with writers. The news follows as Lopez’s Netflix movie Atlas…