José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night is a monument of vulgarity and erudition, perfused by an eerie air of alluring, unsettling ambiguity. An intensely oneiric work, it was originally published in 1970 and is now being released in a new unabridged translation by Megan McDowell for New Directions that constitutes a major literary event.
Donoso’s novel attempts to give decisive language to the ineffable. It’s the progeny of Borges, its language as technically adroit and stunning as Gabriel García Márquez’s. But instead of lovely, tragic lyricism, Donoso spins wicked sentences, suggesting a corruption of Marquez’s romanticism.
The Obscene Bird of Night is defined by its unexpected swoops into surrealism and litany of exciting developments and imagery. The ridiculous isn’t rendered believable, as Donoso’s prose is governed by the logic of a realm that exists only in the mind of our ever-ruminating, ever-rambling, and quite unreliable narrator,...
Donoso’s novel attempts to give decisive language to the ineffable. It’s the progeny of Borges, its language as technically adroit and stunning as Gabriel García Márquez’s. But instead of lovely, tragic lyricism, Donoso spins wicked sentences, suggesting a corruption of Marquez’s romanticism.
The Obscene Bird of Night is defined by its unexpected swoops into surrealism and litany of exciting developments and imagery. The ridiculous isn’t rendered believable, as Donoso’s prose is governed by the logic of a realm that exists only in the mind of our ever-ruminating, ever-rambling, and quite unreliable narrator,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Greg Cwik
- Slant Magazine
Former President Bill Clinton plans to debut a memoir about his experiences after his presidency, with with publication date set for November 19.
In a statement, the former president said that the memoir, Citizen: My Life After the White House, “is the story of my twenty-three-plus years since leaving the White House, told largely through the stories of other people who changed my life as I tried to help change theirs, of those who supported me, including those I loved and lost, and of the mistakes I made along the way.”
Alfred A. Knopf will publish the memoir, which it says will be “remarkably candid” and “richly detailed.” While Clinton writes about major issues and cultural wars since he left office, the publisher also indicated that Clinton will share his experiences during the 2008 and 2016 elections, when his wife, Hillary Clinton, ran for the presidency. The former president also writes about the...
In a statement, the former president said that the memoir, Citizen: My Life After the White House, “is the story of my twenty-three-plus years since leaving the White House, told largely through the stories of other people who changed my life as I tried to help change theirs, of those who supported me, including those I loved and lost, and of the mistakes I made along the way.”
Alfred A. Knopf will publish the memoir, which it says will be “remarkably candid” and “richly detailed.” While Clinton writes about major issues and cultural wars since he left office, the publisher also indicated that Clinton will share his experiences during the 2008 and 2016 elections, when his wife, Hillary Clinton, ran for the presidency. The former president also writes about the...
- 4/4/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: As production is about to begin on 3000 pictures’ adaptation of Klara and the Sun directed by Oscar winner Taika Waititi, Natasha Lyonne and Simon Baker have rounded out the cast, with Jenna Ortega playing the titular character. Academy Award-nominated actress Amy Adams, Mia Tharia and Aran Murphy also star in the film.
Eying a fall theatrical release, the film is based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s New York Times best-selling novel, and is being produced by Heyday Films’ David Heyman, Garrett Basch and Waititi. Ishiguro will also exec produce. Heyday’s Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison brought the project to Heyday. Drew Reed was instrumental in bringing the project to 3000 Pictures and Sony. Elizabeth Gabler and Aislinn Dunster are overseeing the project for 3000 Pictures. Dahvi Waller-penned script.
The novel tells the story of Klara (Ortega), an Artificial Friend designed to prevent loneliness. Klara is purchased by a mother...
Eying a fall theatrical release, the film is based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s New York Times best-selling novel, and is being produced by Heyday Films’ David Heyman, Garrett Basch and Waititi. Ishiguro will also exec produce. Heyday’s Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison brought the project to Heyday. Drew Reed was instrumental in bringing the project to 3000 Pictures and Sony. Elizabeth Gabler and Aislinn Dunster are overseeing the project for 3000 Pictures. Dahvi Waller-penned script.
The novel tells the story of Klara (Ortega), an Artificial Friend designed to prevent loneliness. Klara is purchased by a mother...
- 2/21/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Newcomers Mia Tharia and Aran Murphy are the newest additions to the cast of Klara and the Sun, Taika Waititi’s feature adaptation of the New York Times bestseller by Kazuo Ishiguro for Sony’s 3000 Pictures. The pair joins the previously announced Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams.
Adapted by screenwriter Dahvi Waller, the film tells the story of Klara (Ortega), an Artificial Friend designed to prevent loneliness. Klara is purchased by a mother (Adams) and a bright teen named Josie (Tharia) who adores her new robot companion, but suffers from a mysterious illness. This is the story of Klara’s quest to save Josie and those who love her from heartbreak and how in the process Klara learns the power of human love. Murphy — the son of Oppenheimer Oscar nominee Cillian Murphy — makes his feature film debut as Rick, Josie’s best friend and next-door neighbor.
In its...
Adapted by screenwriter Dahvi Waller, the film tells the story of Klara (Ortega), an Artificial Friend designed to prevent loneliness. Klara is purchased by a mother (Adams) and a bright teen named Josie (Tharia) who adores her new robot companion, but suffers from a mysterious illness. This is the story of Klara’s quest to save Josie and those who love her from heartbreak and how in the process Klara learns the power of human love. Murphy — the son of Oppenheimer Oscar nominee Cillian Murphy — makes his feature film debut as Rick, Josie’s best friend and next-door neighbor.
In its...
- 2/7/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Amy Adams is in negotiations to co-star alongside Jenna Ortega in Sony’s 3000 Pictures’ Klara and the Sun, which Taika Waititi is set to direct. Based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s New York Times bestselling novel, the film is being produced by Heyday Films’ David Heyman, Garrett Basch and Waititi. Ishiguro is an executive producer.
Klara and the Sun tells the story of Klara (Ortega), an Artificial Friend designed to prevent loneliness. Klara is purchased by a mother (Adams) and a bright teen named Josie who adores her new robot companion but suffers from a mysterious illness. This is the story of Klara’s quest to save Josie and those who love her from heartbreak and how in the process Klara learns the power of human love.
Heyday’s Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison brought in the project to Heyday. Drew Reed was instrumental in bringing the project to 3000 Pictures and Sony.
Klara and the Sun tells the story of Klara (Ortega), an Artificial Friend designed to prevent loneliness. Klara is purchased by a mother (Adams) and a bright teen named Josie who adores her new robot companion but suffers from a mysterious illness. This is the story of Klara’s quest to save Josie and those who love her from heartbreak and how in the process Klara learns the power of human love.
Heyday’s Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison brought in the project to Heyday. Drew Reed was instrumental in bringing the project to 3000 Pictures and Sony.
- 2/1/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Sports and music representation powerhouse Wasserman has finalized its acquisition of Brillstein Entertainment Partners, the venerable Hollywood management and production company. Terms were not disclosed. Deadline exclusively revealed the acquisition talks back in February.
Wasserman chairman and CEO Casey Wasserman and Brillstein co-CEOs Cynthia Pett and Jon Liebman made the announcement. It puts Wasserman, grandson of the iconic Hollywood representative and studio chief Lew Wasserman, directly into the film and TV representation and production game for the first time. It is the second strategic alignment for Wasserman, who took over the lucrative music touring business that was once the most profitable part of the Paradigm agency, at a time when the pandemic grounded live touring revenues.
It would be the latest move in management after 3Arts made a deal with Lionsgate, and Range Media Partners linked with Automatik.
Wasserman, Pett and Liebman believe their cultures will mesh in their compatible business and staffs.
Wasserman chairman and CEO Casey Wasserman and Brillstein co-CEOs Cynthia Pett and Jon Liebman made the announcement. It puts Wasserman, grandson of the iconic Hollywood representative and studio chief Lew Wasserman, directly into the film and TV representation and production game for the first time. It is the second strategic alignment for Wasserman, who took over the lucrative music touring business that was once the most profitable part of the Paradigm agency, at a time when the pandemic grounded live touring revenues.
It would be the latest move in management after 3Arts made a deal with Lionsgate, and Range Media Partners linked with Automatik.
Wasserman, Pett and Liebman believe their cultures will mesh in their compatible business and staffs.
- 9/18/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Robert Gottlieb, the legendary editor at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker who helped shape the work of many of the world’s greatest writers over the past six decades, has died, according to Knopf and The New Yorker. He was 92.
A partial list of the literary talents whose work Gottlieb edited includes Nobel laureates such as Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul; bestselling novelists such as John le Carré, Michael Crichton and Ray Bradbury; Hollywood types such as Elia Kazan, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Nora Ephron and Lauren Bacall; Pulitzer Prize-winners such as John Cheever, Katharine Graham and Robert Caro; and even a president, Bill Clinton.
Gottlieb was featured in the documentary Turn Every Page, directed by his daughter Lizzie, which premiered at last year’s Tribeca Festival and was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics. The film focuses on Gottlieb and Caro as...
A partial list of the literary talents whose work Gottlieb edited includes Nobel laureates such as Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul; bestselling novelists such as John le Carré, Michael Crichton and Ray Bradbury; Hollywood types such as Elia Kazan, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Nora Ephron and Lauren Bacall; Pulitzer Prize-winners such as John Cheever, Katharine Graham and Robert Caro; and even a president, Bill Clinton.
Gottlieb was featured in the documentary Turn Every Page, directed by his daughter Lizzie, which premiered at last year’s Tribeca Festival and was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics. The film focuses on Gottlieb and Caro as...
- 6/14/2023
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Famed literary editor Robert Gottlieb, former Simon & Schuster editor-in-chief and editor of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Beloved,” has died at the age of 92.
The writer died of natural causes at a New York hospital on Wednesday, and his death was announced by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The New Yorker, where Gottlieb also previously served as editor-in-chief, shared the news of his death via Twitter, posting an article that details his life and impact.
Gottlieb was born April 29, 1931, and was raised in the Manhattan borough of New York City. He graduated from Columbia University in 1952 before attending Cambridge University in the U.K for two years.
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Three years later, Gottlieb joined publishing company Simon and Schuster working as an editorial assistant for Jack Goodman, then-editor-in-chief. While there he edited Joseph Heller’s “Catch 22,...
The writer died of natural causes at a New York hospital on Wednesday, and his death was announced by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The New Yorker, where Gottlieb also previously served as editor-in-chief, shared the news of his death via Twitter, posting an article that details his life and impact.
Gottlieb was born April 29, 1931, and was raised in the Manhattan borough of New York City. He graduated from Columbia University in 1952 before attending Cambridge University in the U.K for two years.
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Three years later, Gottlieb joined publishing company Simon and Schuster working as an editorial assistant for Jack Goodman, then-editor-in-chief. While there he edited Joseph Heller’s “Catch 22,...
- 6/14/2023
- by Raquel "Rocky" Harris
- The Wrap
Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. He was 89.
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, a Penguin Random House imprint, announced that McCarthy died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“For 60 years, he demonstrated an unwavering dedication to his craft, and to exploring the infinite possibilities and power of the written word,” Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya said in a statement. “Millions of readers around the world embraced his characters, his mythic themes, and the intimate emotional truths he laid bare on every page, in brilliant novels that will remain both timely and timeless, for generations to come.”
McCarthy, raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, was compared to William Faulkner for his expansive, Old Testament style and rural settings.
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, a Penguin Random House imprint, announced that McCarthy died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“For 60 years, he demonstrated an unwavering dedication to his craft, and to exploring the infinite possibilities and power of the written word,” Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya said in a statement. “Millions of readers around the world embraced his characters, his mythic themes, and the intimate emotional truths he laid bare on every page, in brilliant novels that will remain both timely and timeless, for generations to come.”
McCarthy, raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, was compared to William Faulkner for his expansive, Old Testament style and rural settings.
- 6/14/2023
- by Alex Nino Gheciu
- ET Canada
Acclaimed writer Cormac McCarthy is dead at age 89. He died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of natural causes, his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, confirmed to multiple outlets.
McCarthy, who won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, was the author of a long list of celebrated novels that often explored dark and violent themes. He published his first book, The Orchard Keeper, in 1965 and achieved widespread critical acclaim in 1985 with the bleak revisionist Western Blood Merdian in 1985. His other novels include All the Pretty Horses and The Road.
In addition to being a celebrated figure in American literature, McCarthy also made his mark on film. Several Cormac McCarthy novels were adapted into movies, including No Country for Old Men, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 2008.
‘All the Pretty Horses’
The first big-screen adaptation of McCarthy’s work was All the Pretty Horses (2000). The movie,...
McCarthy, who won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, was the author of a long list of celebrated novels that often explored dark and violent themes. He published his first book, The Orchard Keeper, in 1965 and achieved widespread critical acclaim in 1985 with the bleak revisionist Western Blood Merdian in 1985. His other novels include All the Pretty Horses and The Road.
In addition to being a celebrated figure in American literature, McCarthy also made his mark on film. Several Cormac McCarthy novels were adapted into movies, including No Country for Old Men, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 2008.
‘All the Pretty Horses’
The first big-screen adaptation of McCarthy’s work was All the Pretty Horses (2000). The movie,...
- 6/14/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Martin Amis, the British author of 15 novels including “Money: A Suicide Note” and “The Zone of Interest,” has died on May 19 of esophageal cancer at the age of 73, according to his publishing house Alfred A. Knopf.
His death comes just days after Jonathan Glazer’s film adaptation of his 2014 novel “The Zone of Interest” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Amis’ satirical novel follows a Nazi officer who falls in love with the wife of his camp commandant at Auschwitz, with the love triangle playing out as the trio reacts to the genocide happening around them with varying levels of apathy.
Amis is best known for his “London Trilogy,” three novels released between 1985 and 1995 that sharply satirized late-stage capitalism and its impact on London society.
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The first of those novels was “Money: A Suicide Note,...
His death comes just days after Jonathan Glazer’s film adaptation of his 2014 novel “The Zone of Interest” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Amis’ satirical novel follows a Nazi officer who falls in love with the wife of his camp commandant at Auschwitz, with the love triangle playing out as the trio reacts to the genocide happening around them with varying levels of apathy.
Amis is best known for his “London Trilogy,” three novels released between 1985 and 1995 that sharply satirized late-stage capitalism and its impact on London society.
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The first of those novels was “Money: A Suicide Note,...
- 5/20/2023
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Taika Waititi looks to have found his next project to direct: Sources tell Deadline that the Jojo Rabbit Oscar winner is in negotiations to direct Klara and the Sun, based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s New York Times bestselling novel, for Sony’s 3000 Pictures. The project is in development, with Dahvi Waller penning the original draft of the screenplay.
Ishiguro’s novel follows Klara, a robot girl created to prevent teenagers from becoming lonely. This is the story of how she tries to save a family of humans she lives with from heartbreak. The role is certain to become one of the more sought-after parts for a actresses in their 20s given the awards pedigree Ishiguro adaptations have garnered.
David Heyman is producing the film for Heyday Films, and Garrett Basch and Waititi are in negotiations to produce. Heyday’s Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison brought in the project to Heyday.
Ishiguro’s novel follows Klara, a robot girl created to prevent teenagers from becoming lonely. This is the story of how she tries to save a family of humans she lives with from heartbreak. The role is certain to become one of the more sought-after parts for a actresses in their 20s given the awards pedigree Ishiguro adaptations have garnered.
David Heyman is producing the film for Heyday Films, and Garrett Basch and Waititi are in negotiations to produce. Heyday’s Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison brought in the project to Heyday.
- 5/1/2023
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Alfred A. Knopf will publish Brittney Griner’s untitled memoir next spring 2024. Deal was closed by Reagan Arthur, Knopf EVP and Publisher and world rights were sold by Kimberly Witherspoon at Inkwell Management with Jon Liebman at Brillstein Entertainment and Lindsay Kagawa Colas at Wasserman.
For the first time Griner recounts the tumultuous events of 2022 that both reshaped her life and captured the world’s attention: Griner’s arrest at the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow on February 17, followed by her detention, trial, and imprisonment in Russia, as well as the efforts in public and behind the scenes at the highest levels of government to bring her home. Griner’s memoir also documents how the global #WeAreBG movement began as well as the issue of pay equity for women athletes in the United States – the very inequity that led Griner to play basketball in Russia for seven previous seasons and to...
For the first time Griner recounts the tumultuous events of 2022 that both reshaped her life and captured the world’s attention: Griner’s arrest at the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow on February 17, followed by her detention, trial, and imprisonment in Russia, as well as the efforts in public and behind the scenes at the highest levels of government to bring her home. Griner’s memoir also documents how the global #WeAreBG movement began as well as the issue of pay equity for women athletes in the United States – the very inequity that led Griner to play basketball in Russia for seven previous seasons and to...
- 4/11/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Jennifer Hudson, Trevor Noah and Viola Davis are among the winners from the second night of the NAACP Image Awards‘ non-televised ceremonies.
Hudson won for hosting her eponymous daytime talk show, while the Noah-hosted Daily Show won best variety or game show series or special and Davis, just a little over two weeks after achieving Egot status with her Grammy win, took home the award for best literary work, non-fiction for Finding Me.
Other high-profile winners Tuesday night, which featured literary, variety show, reality program and news information categories, include Michael K. Williams and Jon Sternfeld’s Scenes from My Life and Stacey Abrams for outstanding literary work – children for Stacey’s Remarkable Books, written with Kitt Thomas.
Additionally, Lizzo’s reality TV series Watch Out for the Big Grrrls added to its trophy collection, winning best reality program, competition or game show series. And Robin Roberts’ conversation with Michelle Obama...
Hudson won for hosting her eponymous daytime talk show, while the Noah-hosted Daily Show won best variety or game show series or special and Davis, just a little over two weeks after achieving Egot status with her Grammy win, took home the award for best literary work, non-fiction for Finding Me.
Other high-profile winners Tuesday night, which featured literary, variety show, reality program and news information categories, include Michael K. Williams and Jon Sternfeld’s Scenes from My Life and Stacey Abrams for outstanding literary work – children for Stacey’s Remarkable Books, written with Kitt Thomas.
Additionally, Lizzo’s reality TV series Watch Out for the Big Grrrls added to its trophy collection, winning best reality program, competition or game show series. And Robin Roberts’ conversation with Michelle Obama...
- 2/22/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At nearly 1,500 pages, author Robert Caro’s 1974 biography of New York City urban planner Robert Moses “The Power Broker” remains one of the most influential tomes about the city’s infrastructure. Beneath New York’s highways and bridges lie political power-brokering and corruption, a sort of real-life, East Coast “Chinatown” (albeit on dry land) mapped out across an epic tome.
But behind author Caro was also an editor, Robert Gottlieb. Now 91, he has served as editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker, and is now, along with Caro, the subject of a documentary directed by his daughter, “Turn Every Page.” Lizzie Gottlieb’s film focuses on Gottlieb and Caro’s creative collaboration across nearly half a century, with talking heads including Bill Clinton, Conan O’Brien, Maria Tucci, and many more. The movie opens in New York and Los Angeles on December 30 from Sony Pictures Classics.
But behind author Caro was also an editor, Robert Gottlieb. Now 91, he has served as editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker, and is now, along with Caro, the subject of a documentary directed by his daughter, “Turn Every Page.” Lizzie Gottlieb’s film focuses on Gottlieb and Caro’s creative collaboration across nearly half a century, with talking heads including Bill Clinton, Conan O’Brien, Maria Tucci, and many more. The movie opens in New York and Los Angeles on December 30 from Sony Pictures Classics.
- 10/28/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
A live-action television series adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s young adult fantasy novel Eragon is in the early stages of development at Disney+. According to Variety, the show would be based on Paolini’s novel series The Inheritance Cycle, with Eragon being the first of the four-book series. Paolini will serve as co-writer on the adaptation, with Co-Lab 21’s Bert Salke on board as executive producer. 20th Television will produce. Set in the fictional world of Alagaësia, The Inheritance Cycle follows the adventures of a teenage boy named Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, as they attempt to overthrow the evil king Galbatorix. The first book was originally self-published in 2001 before being re-published by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers on June 25, 2003. The second book, Eldest, was published in 2005, followed by Brisingr in 2008 and Inheritance in 2011. While the series has received mixed reviews from critics, it has become a huge hit with readers,...
- 7/26/2022
- TV Insider
Late last year brought news of a forthcoming Paul Newman memoir, based on an unfinished manuscript found in the legendary actor's house after he died in 2008. Alfred A. Knopf is said to be publishing it this fall, but before then, you'll be able to get another window into the life of Newman and his famous wife and fellow Oscar-winning actor, Joanne Woodward, courtesy of the star-studded, six-part HBO Max docuseries, "The Last Movie Stars."
Directed by Ethan Hawke and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, "The Last Movie Stars" was originally meant to prop up the CNN+ streaming service, which...
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Directed by Ethan Hawke and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, "The Last Movie Stars" was originally meant to prop up the CNN+ streaming service, which...
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- 7/8/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Sony Pictures Classics has secured the worldwide rights to “Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb” out of Tribeca Film Festival. The film premiered Sunday as part of the festival’s Spotlight Documentary program.
Directed by Lizzie Gottlieb, the film chronicles the 50-year partnership between her father – the legendary editor of The New Yorker and publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Alfred A. Knopf – and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Robert Caro. “Turn Every Page” examines the contours of their prolific partnership as Caro completes his fifth and final book in his “The Years of Lyndon Johnson” series, and Gottlieb prepares to edit it.
The film will also dive into their individual accomplishments and idiosyncrasies, from Caro’s famous writing process to Gottlieb’s storied career as a ballet critic and historian. According to Tribeca’s synopsis, it will also feature commentary from the likes of Conan O’Brien,...
Directed by Lizzie Gottlieb, the film chronicles the 50-year partnership between her father – the legendary editor of The New Yorker and publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Alfred A. Knopf – and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Robert Caro. “Turn Every Page” examines the contours of their prolific partnership as Caro completes his fifth and final book in his “The Years of Lyndon Johnson” series, and Gottlieb prepares to edit it.
The film will also dive into their individual accomplishments and idiosyncrasies, from Caro’s famous writing process to Gottlieb’s storied career as a ballet critic and historian. According to Tribeca’s synopsis, it will also feature commentary from the likes of Conan O’Brien,...
- 6/15/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
HBO Max picked up “Julia” for a second season on Thursday, the same day its Season 1 finale dropped on the streamer. With that good news, fans of the Julia Child scripted series can rest assured they will be learning more about The French Chef herself (played by Sarah Lancashire) and the people who made her the icon she is in Season 2, including Judith Light’s Blanche Knopf.
And there will be plenty to uncover about Blanche, the publisher of Child’s best-selling “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” books, in particular. The finale episode, titled “Chocolate Soufflé,” revealed the powerful co-founder and leader of publishing house Knopf is going blind, and only her mentee Judith Jones (Fiona Glascott), who was editor for Child, as well as novelists like John Updike at Knopf, knows about the dire situation.
Much like many other details depicted about these real-life people on the first season of “Julia,...
And there will be plenty to uncover about Blanche, the publisher of Child’s best-selling “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” books, in particular. The finale episode, titled “Chocolate Soufflé,” revealed the powerful co-founder and leader of publishing house Knopf is going blind, and only her mentee Judith Jones (Fiona Glascott), who was editor for Child, as well as novelists like John Updike at Knopf, knows about the dire situation.
Much like many other details depicted about these real-life people on the first season of “Julia,...
- 5/6/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
He is a TV news star: His views are populist, his subtext racist. His advocacy is passionate and his TV audience is vast, despite suspicion that he pursues an agenda above and beyond his own.
Some may rush to identify this character – images of Fox News flash before us – but the TV anchor was, in fact, a creation of Paul Newman, a star of a previous generation whose presence seems pervasive in the present.
At a moment when political expression, personal or corporate, seems instantly suffocated, Newman was a courageous free spirit who vented his opinions and put his career at risk in support of them. The superstar is the subject of a riveting new documentary directed by Ethan Hawke prompting praise this week at SXSW. He also is the subject of a revealing, long-suppressed memoir being published this fall by Alfred A. Knopf.
Though he passed in 2008, Newman occupies...
Some may rush to identify this character – images of Fox News flash before us – but the TV anchor was, in fact, a creation of Paul Newman, a star of a previous generation whose presence seems pervasive in the present.
At a moment when political expression, personal or corporate, seems instantly suffocated, Newman was a courageous free spirit who vented his opinions and put his career at risk in support of them. The superstar is the subject of a riveting new documentary directed by Ethan Hawke prompting praise this week at SXSW. He also is the subject of a revealing, long-suppressed memoir being published this fall by Alfred A. Knopf.
Though he passed in 2008, Newman occupies...
- 3/17/2022
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group imprint Alfred A. Knopf announced today that it will publish Cormac McCarthy’s new novels The Passenger and Stella Maris this fall. The former title will be published on October 25, with the latter being unveiled on November 22, and a box set of both volumes set for publication on December 6.
The novels, set eight years apart, tell one grand story of siblings Bobby and Alicia Western.
The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God. 1980, Pass Christian, Mississippi: It is three in the morning when Bobby zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the...
The novels, set eight years apart, tell one grand story of siblings Bobby and Alicia Western.
The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God. 1980, Pass Christian, Mississippi: It is three in the morning when Bobby zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the...
- 3/8/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Paul Bogaards, the storied publicity and marketing exec at Alfred A. Knopf, will step down from his job after a 32-year career with the publishing house.
His departure, effective Jan. 1, 2022, was announced today by Reagan Arthur, EVP, Publisher, at Knopf.
“Paul’s unparalleled impact on scores of best-selling and now-classic books cannot be overstated,” Arthur said in a statement. “His passion, creativity, and savvy media instincts have not only burnished the Knopf ethos but also shaped the reading and bookselling world at large.”
Continued Arthur, “Paul has worked his one-of-a-kind magic on several of the biggest books of our time. Even just a partial list of authors is staggering and counts among them Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winners, celebrities, debut novelists, politicians, and chefs.” Among those authors: Andre Agassi, Lidia Bastianich, Ken Burns, Robert Caro, John Carreyrou, Julia Child, President Bill Clinton, Michael Crichton, Joan Didion, Bret Easton Ellis,...
His departure, effective Jan. 1, 2022, was announced today by Reagan Arthur, EVP, Publisher, at Knopf.
“Paul’s unparalleled impact on scores of best-selling and now-classic books cannot be overstated,” Arthur said in a statement. “His passion, creativity, and savvy media instincts have not only burnished the Knopf ethos but also shaped the reading and bookselling world at large.”
Continued Arthur, “Paul has worked his one-of-a-kind magic on several of the biggest books of our time. Even just a partial list of authors is staggering and counts among them Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winners, celebrities, debut novelists, politicians, and chefs.” Among those authors: Andre Agassi, Lidia Bastianich, Ken Burns, Robert Caro, John Carreyrou, Julia Child, President Bill Clinton, Michael Crichton, Joan Didion, Bret Easton Ellis,...
- 11/4/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Paul Newman left behind an impressive body of work, including nine Oscar nominations for his performances in films such as "The Hustler," "Cool Hand Luke," "The Verdict," and "The Color of Money" — to say nothing of his legendary collaborations with Robert Redford, "The Sting" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Newman's final appearance in a live-action feature film was "Road to Perdition," almost twenty years ago now. Newman passed away in 2008, but next fall you'll be able to read his newly discovered memoir.
The publishing company Alfred A. Knopf has announced (via Deadline) that it will release a memoir written by Newman but "left unfinished in...
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The publishing company Alfred A. Knopf has announced (via Deadline) that it will release a memoir written by Newman but "left unfinished in...
The post Paul Newman's Memoir Will Be Published Posthumously Next Year appeared first on /Film.
- 11/4/2021
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
A memoir written by actor Paul Newman but left unfinished in his lifetime will be published by Alfred A. Knopf next fall, the publishing house announced today.
Newman started writing the book in the 1980s with screenwriter Stewart Stern, but the memoir remained unfinished and unpublished when the Cool Hand Luke actor died in 2008. The manuscript, according to Knopf, was recently discovered in the Connecticut home where Newman’s wife Joanne Woodward still lives.
The publisher said in a statement that the memoir addresses such topics as “acting, directing, boyhood, family, fame, Hollywood, Broadway, love, his first marriage, his 50-year marriage to Joanne Woodward, drinking, politics, racing, his ultimate ride to stardom, and aging gracefully.”
Said Knopf, “Through Newman’s voice, and the voices of others, the book captures the paradoxical and unstoppable rise of a star who wrestled with doubts, believing he was inferior to Marlon Brando and James Dean,...
Newman started writing the book in the 1980s with screenwriter Stewart Stern, but the memoir remained unfinished and unpublished when the Cool Hand Luke actor died in 2008. The manuscript, according to Knopf, was recently discovered in the Connecticut home where Newman’s wife Joanne Woodward still lives.
The publisher said in a statement that the memoir addresses such topics as “acting, directing, boyhood, family, fame, Hollywood, Broadway, love, his first marriage, his 50-year marriage to Joanne Woodward, drinking, politics, racing, his ultimate ride to stardom, and aging gracefully.”
Said Knopf, “Through Newman’s voice, and the voices of others, the book captures the paradoxical and unstoppable rise of a star who wrestled with doubts, believing he was inferior to Marlon Brando and James Dean,...
- 11/3/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Apple has given a series order to City on Fire, a drama inspired by Garth Risk Hallberg’s novel of the same name, from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl). This marks the first series order to hail from Schwartz and Savage’s first look deal with Apple under their Fake Empire Productions banner. Produced by Apple Studios, the eight-episode first season will premiere globally on Apple TV+.
In City on Fire, an NYU student is shot in Central Park on the 4th of July, 2003. Samantha Cicciaro is alone; there are no witnesses and very little physical evidence. Her friends’ band is playing her favorite downtown club but she leaves to meet someone, promising to return. She never does. As the crime against Samantha is investigated, she’s revealed to be the crucial connection between a series of mysterious city-wide fires, the downtown music scene, and a wealthy uptown...
In City on Fire, an NYU student is shot in Central Park on the 4th of July, 2003. Samantha Cicciaro is alone; there are no witnesses and very little physical evidence. Her friends’ band is playing her favorite downtown club but she leaves to meet someone, promising to return. She never does. As the crime against Samantha is investigated, she’s revealed to be the crucial connection between a series of mysterious city-wide fires, the downtown music scene, and a wealthy uptown...
- 6/30/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: HBO Max’s Julia Child drama Julia has found its publisher.
Judith Light will star as Blanche Knopf, co-founder of the Knopf publishing house. Knopf, who was married to publishing giant Alfred A. Knopf, is widely credited with bringing in Child’s hugely successful Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Knopf worked with a swath of top writers during her career including Sigmund Freud, Albert Camus, John Updike and Raymond Chandler as well as Child.
HBO Max picked up to series Julia in January after ordering a pilot. The eight-episode series sees Happy Valley star Sarah Lancashire play Child with David Hyde Pierce as her husband Paul. The series is currently in production.
Julia, whose pilot was written by Daniel Goldfarb and directed by Charles McDougall, is inspired by Child’s extraordinary life and her long-running television series, The French Chef, which pioneered the popular cooking-show genre. Through Julia and her singular can-do spirit,...
Judith Light will star as Blanche Knopf, co-founder of the Knopf publishing house. Knopf, who was married to publishing giant Alfred A. Knopf, is widely credited with bringing in Child’s hugely successful Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Knopf worked with a swath of top writers during her career including Sigmund Freud, Albert Camus, John Updike and Raymond Chandler as well as Child.
HBO Max picked up to series Julia in January after ordering a pilot. The eight-episode series sees Happy Valley star Sarah Lancashire play Child with David Hyde Pierce as her husband Paul. The series is currently in production.
Julia, whose pilot was written by Daniel Goldfarb and directed by Charles McDougall, is inspired by Child’s extraordinary life and her long-running television series, The French Chef, which pioneered the popular cooking-show genre. Through Julia and her singular can-do spirit,...
- 6/28/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Picturestart has acquired the rights to Jenny Jackson’s debut novel Pineapple Street to develop as a television series.
Pineapple Street take a deep dive into generation wealth and all its trappings. The Stockton family, an “old money” NYC clan that has enjoyed all the privileges of capitalist success, now faces a schism as their three children set to inherit all that money grapple with what it really means (from the perch of ultra-privileged indulgence).
Chloe Dan and Neil Krishnan are overseeing the project with the search for a scribe underway.
Pam Dorman’s eponymous imprint at Penguin Random House has U.S. publishing rights with additional rights sold in eight countries across the globe.
Jackson is a Vice President and Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf where she has worked for nineteen years. Her authors include Chris Bohjalian (The Flight Attendant), Kevin Kwan (Crazy Rich Asians), Emily St. John Mandel...
Pineapple Street take a deep dive into generation wealth and all its trappings. The Stockton family, an “old money” NYC clan that has enjoyed all the privileges of capitalist success, now faces a schism as their three children set to inherit all that money grapple with what it really means (from the perch of ultra-privileged indulgence).
Chloe Dan and Neil Krishnan are overseeing the project with the search for a scribe underway.
Pam Dorman’s eponymous imprint at Penguin Random House has U.S. publishing rights with additional rights sold in eight countries across the globe.
Jackson is a Vice President and Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf where she has worked for nineteen years. Her authors include Chris Bohjalian (The Flight Attendant), Kevin Kwan (Crazy Rich Asians), Emily St. John Mandel...
- 6/24/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony’s 3000 Pictures Sets ‘Mrs. America’s Dahvi Waller To Adapt Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara And The Sun’
Exclusive: Mrs. America and Mad Men writer Dahvi Waller has been set by Sony’s 3000 Pictures to adapt author Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel, Klara and the Sun.
The novel was published this month to raves by Alfred A. Knopf in the US and Faber in the UK — Ishiguro is the Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day, so his every book is a publishing industry event. Elizabeth Gabler’s Sony-based 3000 shingle acquired the screen rights at auction last summer.
David Heyman is producing through his Heyday Films.
Klara is a robot girl created to prevent teenagers from becoming lonely. This is the story of how she tries to save a family of humans she lives with from heartbreak. Ishiguro is exec producer.
Heyday’s Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison brought in the project to Heyday. Gabler, Drew Reed and Aislinn Dunster are overseeing the project for 3000 Pictures.
The novel was published this month to raves by Alfred A. Knopf in the US and Faber in the UK — Ishiguro is the Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day, so his every book is a publishing industry event. Elizabeth Gabler’s Sony-based 3000 shingle acquired the screen rights at auction last summer.
David Heyman is producing through his Heyday Films.
Klara is a robot girl created to prevent teenagers from becoming lonely. This is the story of how she tries to save a family of humans she lives with from heartbreak. Ishiguro is exec producer.
Heyday’s Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison brought in the project to Heyday. Gabler, Drew Reed and Aislinn Dunster are overseeing the project for 3000 Pictures.
- 3/12/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Gillian Anderson, who was just nominated for a SAG Award and a Golden Globe for her work in “The Crown,” will star in Marc Forster’s “White Bird: A Wonder Story,” the follow-up to Lionsgate’s 2017 film “Wonder.”
Anderson will star in “White Bird” as a woman in Nazi-occupied France during World War II who must make unimaginable choices for her family after her son takes in a Jewish girl and hides her from the Germans. The film will begin production later this month.
“White Bird” is a “creative companion” to “Wonder” that sees one of the characters from the 2017 film hear a story from his grandmother about her memory of Nazi-occupied France.
The film is an adaptation of “Wonder” author R.K. Palacio’s graphic novel “White Bird” from 2019. Forster will direct the film from a script by Mark Bomback.
Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, who produced “Wonder,...
Anderson will star in “White Bird” as a woman in Nazi-occupied France during World War II who must make unimaginable choices for her family after her son takes in a Jewish girl and hides her from the Germans. The film will begin production later this month.
“White Bird” is a “creative companion” to “Wonder” that sees one of the characters from the 2017 film hear a story from his grandmother about her memory of Nazi-occupied France.
The film is an adaptation of “Wonder” author R.K. Palacio’s graphic novel “White Bird” from 2019. Forster will direct the film from a script by Mark Bomback.
Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, who produced “Wonder,...
- 2/4/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
World War Z filmmaker Marc Forster has boarded Lionsgate’s feature adaptation of White Bird: A Wonder Story, a creative graphic novel drawn from the universe of the 2017 Lionsgate-Mandeville Films hit pic Wonder which grossed $306M WW. Forster returns to the studio where he directed the Oscar-winning Monster’s Ball 19 years ago.
In White Bird: A Wonder Story from author R.J. Palacio, Julian Albans, the 11-year-old bully who left Beecher Prep, is still waiting for that insight when he is visited by his Grandmère from Paris and is transformed by her remarkable story of compassion and courage. Grandmère’s fairy-tale life before the war abruptly changes as the Nazis occupy France, and the outcast classmate who she once shunned becomes her savior and best friend.
Scribe Mark Bomback is adapting White Bird, his previous credits include The Art of Racing in the Rain, War for the Planet of the Apes.
In White Bird: A Wonder Story from author R.J. Palacio, Julian Albans, the 11-year-old bully who left Beecher Prep, is still waiting for that insight when he is visited by his Grandmère from Paris and is transformed by her remarkable story of compassion and courage. Grandmère’s fairy-tale life before the war abruptly changes as the Nazis occupy France, and the outcast classmate who she once shunned becomes her savior and best friend.
Scribe Mark Bomback is adapting White Bird, his previous credits include The Art of Racing in the Rain, War for the Planet of the Apes.
- 10/29/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Marc Forster is set to direct “White Bird: A Wonder Story,” the follow-up to the 2017 Lionsgate film “Wonder” based on R.J. Palacio’s graphic novel, Lionsgate announced Thursday.
“White Bird” is set in the same universe as “Wonder” and is the story of an 11-year-old bully seen in the first film who gets a visit from his grandmother from Paris and learns about her fairy-tale childhood before she’s forced to escape from the Nazis in occupied France.
Mark Bomback wrote the screenplay based on Palacio’s graphic novel. The producers behind “Wonder,” Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, are also producing “White Bird,” as is Palacio.
Renée Wolfe will be coming on board as an executive producer. Alex Young will also serve as an executive producer.
“White Bird” was published by Alfred A. Knopf and hit bookstores last October. Palacio’s books have sold more than 15 million copies...
“White Bird” is set in the same universe as “Wonder” and is the story of an 11-year-old bully seen in the first film who gets a visit from his grandmother from Paris and learns about her fairy-tale childhood before she’s forced to escape from the Nazis in occupied France.
Mark Bomback wrote the screenplay based on Palacio’s graphic novel. The producers behind “Wonder,” Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, are also producing “White Bird,” as is Palacio.
Renée Wolfe will be coming on board as an executive producer. Alex Young will also serve as an executive producer.
“White Bird” was published by Alfred A. Knopf and hit bookstores last October. Palacio’s books have sold more than 15 million copies...
- 10/29/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Keith Calder and Jess Wu Calder’s Snoot Entertainment have optioned the rights to Christopher Paolini’s To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. Paolini will adapt the book with his sister and collaborator Angela Paolini for the big screen. Both will serve as EPs.
Christopher Paolini’s debut adult sci-fi novel from Tor Books (an imprint of Macmillian Publishers) follows Kira Navárez. She’s dreamed of life on new worlds and awakened a nightmare. Epic space battles for the fate of humanity take her to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, and in the process, transform not only her–but the entire course of history.
Paolini is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Eragon which he began writing when he was 15. After self-publishing the original book, Alfred A. Knopf published Eragon and the rest of his The Inheritance Cycle series, made...
Christopher Paolini’s debut adult sci-fi novel from Tor Books (an imprint of Macmillian Publishers) follows Kira Navárez. She’s dreamed of life on new worlds and awakened a nightmare. Epic space battles for the fate of humanity take her to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, and in the process, transform not only her–but the entire course of history.
Paolini is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Eragon which he began writing when he was 15. After self-publishing the original book, Alfred A. Knopf published Eragon and the rest of his The Inheritance Cycle series, made...
- 10/8/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Elizabeth Gabler’s 3000 Pictures just closed a preemptive deal for Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro’s upcoming novel, Klara and the Sun. Gabler was able to make the deal was made as bids were mobilizing from multiple parties. David Heyman is producing through his Heyday Films banner.
The novel will be published in March 2021 by Alfred A. Knopf in the US and Faber in the UK, followed by other territories around the world. Heyday’s Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison brought in the project and Sony’s new head of Literary in New York, Drew Reed, was instrumental in the deal.
The author, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and a Booker Prize for his novel The Remains of the Day – is an executive producer on the film.
Ron Bernstein made the deal from ICM Partners; ICM’s Amanda Urban reps the author.
The novel tells the story of Klara,...
The novel will be published in March 2021 by Alfred A. Knopf in the US and Faber in the UK, followed by other territories around the world. Heyday’s Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison brought in the project and Sony’s new head of Literary in New York, Drew Reed, was instrumental in the deal.
The author, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and a Booker Prize for his novel The Remains of the Day – is an executive producer on the film.
Ron Bernstein made the deal from ICM Partners; ICM’s Amanda Urban reps the author.
The novel tells the story of Klara,...
- 7/27/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Video game actress Jennifer Hale, best known for her starring role as the Mass Effect series’ Commander Shepard, has been attached to Christopher Paolini’s next audio book.
Author of the wildly popular Eragon series about a boy and his dragon, Christopher Paolini became a household name in the early 2000s. Now he’s venturing into a new and unrelated science fiction universe, beginning with To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. An adult novel marketed as “epic”, it has a starting point very familiar to science fiction video game fans, with xenobiologist Kira Navárez finding an alien relic. The publisher’s summary says:
“During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she’s delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.
As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation.
Author of the wildly popular Eragon series about a boy and his dragon, Christopher Paolini became a household name in the early 2000s. Now he’s venturing into a new and unrelated science fiction universe, beginning with To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. An adult novel marketed as “epic”, it has a starting point very familiar to science fiction video game fans, with xenobiologist Kira Navárez finding an alien relic. The publisher’s summary says:
“During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she’s delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.
As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation.
- 6/13/2020
- by Megan Crouse
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: In competitive bidding, Village Roadshow Pictures has acquired rights to adapt the upcoming Emma Brodie novel Songs In Ursa Major into a feature film. The author will write the script and Berlanti Productions’ Sarah Schechter and Greg Berlanti will produce. The book will be published in summer 2021 by Alfred A. Knopf, after the house acquired the book earlier this month.
Michael McGrath will executive produce. Jillian Apfelbaum will oversee for Village Roadshow Pictures.
The book is described as a love story set in 1969 at the crossroads of rock and folk; a young musical prodigy falls in love with a hard-partying folk legend.
The author is an executive editor at Little Brown’s Voracious imprint. In her 10 years in book publishing, she’s worked at Trident Media Group, William Morrow and Clarkson Potter, where she authored over 20 gift books and games. They include the bestsellers Punderdome, Deal or Duel, Come As You Aren’t,...
Michael McGrath will executive produce. Jillian Apfelbaum will oversee for Village Roadshow Pictures.
The book is described as a love story set in 1969 at the crossroads of rock and folk; a young musical prodigy falls in love with a hard-partying folk legend.
The author is an executive editor at Little Brown’s Voracious imprint. In her 10 years in book publishing, she’s worked at Trident Media Group, William Morrow and Clarkson Potter, where she authored over 20 gift books and games. They include the bestsellers Punderdome, Deal or Duel, Come As You Aren’t,...
- 4/28/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Lionsgate is diving back into the world of “Wonder.” The studio and the producers of their family film have acquired “White Bird: A Wonder Story,” and will adapt it into a feature film that is a follow-up from R.J. Palacio, the author of “Wonder.” The news was announced on Tuesday by Lionsgate’s president of the motion picture group Nathan Kahane.
Palacio’s “White Bird” is a graphic novel that will be released on Tuesday as published by Alfred A. Knopf, and though this book is set during World War II in Nazi-occupied France, the stories of “Wonder” and “White Bird” are connected.
“White Bird” follows the story of a young Jewish girl hidden away by a boy and his family in Nazi-occupied France, including her fairy-tale life before the war until everything is abruptly changed. Suddenly the boy she and her classmates once shunned becomes her savior and best friend.
Palacio’s “White Bird” is a graphic novel that will be released on Tuesday as published by Alfred A. Knopf, and though this book is set during World War II in Nazi-occupied France, the stories of “Wonder” and “White Bird” are connected.
“White Bird” follows the story of a young Jewish girl hidden away by a boy and his family in Nazi-occupied France, including her fairy-tale life before the war until everything is abruptly changed. Suddenly the boy she and her classmates once shunned becomes her savior and best friend.
- 10/1/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Following the critical and commercial success of the Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay-starring film, Wonder, Lionsgate is set to develop Nyt best selling author R.J. Palacio’s graphic novel White Bird: A Wonder Story into a feature. Wonder producers David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman of Mandeville Films, as well as Palacio, will once again produce the adaptation.
White Bird, which hit bookstores today via Alfred A. Knopf, inhabits the same universe as Wonder, which centered on young Auggie Pullman, a boy born with facial differences, and his transition to a mainstream elementary school.
White Bird follows a young Jewish girl hidden away by a boy and his family in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Recounted by Grandmere to her grandson, Julian, a character already known to those familiar with Wonder, Grandmere’s story about her childhood—her fairy-tale life before the war, how everything abruptly changed...
White Bird, which hit bookstores today via Alfred A. Knopf, inhabits the same universe as Wonder, which centered on young Auggie Pullman, a boy born with facial differences, and his transition to a mainstream elementary school.
White Bird follows a young Jewish girl hidden away by a boy and his family in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Recounted by Grandmere to her grandson, Julian, a character already known to those familiar with Wonder, Grandmere’s story about her childhood—her fairy-tale life before the war, how everything abruptly changed...
- 10/1/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Toni Morrison, the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who chronicled the black American experience, passed away Monday night at the age of 88. Her death, at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, was announced by her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. The cause of death was complications of pneumonia, according to a spokesperson. (Via The New York Times.) The author of 11 novels, including “Beloved,” “Sula,” and “Song of Solomon,” Morrison became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1993.
Morrison’s biggest screen legacy was Jonathan Demme’s 1998 adaptation of “Beloved,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Set during the American Civil War, the story follows a former slave who is haunted by a poltergeist and visited by a reincarnation of her daughter. The film starred Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandie Newton, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design.
In June, Magnolia Pictures...
Morrison’s biggest screen legacy was Jonathan Demme’s 1998 adaptation of “Beloved,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Set during the American Civil War, the story follows a former slave who is haunted by a poltergeist and visited by a reincarnation of her daughter. The film starred Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandie Newton, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design.
In June, Magnolia Pictures...
- 8/6/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Toni Morrison died on Aug. 5 at the age of 88. The renowned novelist's publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, shared the news of her death the following morning. A spokesperson later told the The New York Times the cause was complications of pneumonia.
Through her lauded writing, Morrison explored an array of black experiences in the United States. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved, which tells the story of a former slave haunted by her deceased daughter. Morrison's following two novels, Jazz and Paradise, are considered to be part of what is unofficially referred to as the Beloved Trilogy.
In 1993, Morrison became the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize when she was awarded the Prize in Literature. She was also honored by former president Barack Obama with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. A few years later, she published her last novel to date, God Help the Child.
In...
Through her lauded writing, Morrison explored an array of black experiences in the United States. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved, which tells the story of a former slave haunted by her deceased daughter. Morrison's following two novels, Jazz and Paradise, are considered to be part of what is unofficially referred to as the Beloved Trilogy.
In 1993, Morrison became the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize when she was awarded the Prize in Literature. She was also honored by former president Barack Obama with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. A few years later, she published her last novel to date, God Help the Child.
In...
- 8/6/2019
- by Kelsey Garcia
- Popsugar.com
Beloved author Toni Morrison died Monday night. The cause of death was not disclosed. She was 88.
Her death has been confirmed by her publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Named Nobel laureate in Literature in 1993, Morrison died at New York’s Montefiore Medical Center.
Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Beloved was perhaps the most celebrated and famous of her great canon of work, but novels such as 1992’s Jazz, 1997’s Paradise and 2015’s God Help the Child secured her status as one of her generations leading lights of both literature and civil rights.
Just last February, director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am was acquired by Magnolia Pictures for release by end of year. The documentary chronicles the life and works of the legendary storyteller who in 1993 became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize.
In the documentary, Morrison describes emerging from the steel town of Lorain,...
Her death has been confirmed by her publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Named Nobel laureate in Literature in 1993, Morrison died at New York’s Montefiore Medical Center.
Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Beloved was perhaps the most celebrated and famous of her great canon of work, but novels such as 1992’s Jazz, 1997’s Paradise and 2015’s God Help the Child secured her status as one of her generations leading lights of both literature and civil rights.
Just last February, director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am was acquired by Magnolia Pictures for release by end of year. The documentary chronicles the life and works of the legendary storyteller who in 1993 became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize.
In the documentary, Morrison describes emerging from the steel town of Lorain,...
- 8/6/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Village Roadshow Pictures has optioned David Grossman’s prize-winning novel “A Horse Walks Into A Bar” to develop into a feature film.
The company will produce the project with Veritas Entertainment Group. The short novel is about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed in the course of one evening’s performance. The book is narrated by a retired district court judge who is invited out of the blue by a local comedian to attend his show, a stand-up routine in a bar. The judge and the comedian, who trades on divisive and offensive jokes, knew each other as boys but have had no contact for over 40 years.
In the dance between comic and audience, with barbs flying back and forth, a deeper story begins to take shape — one that will alter the lives of many of those in attendance and lead to a series of candid and chilling revelations.
The company will produce the project with Veritas Entertainment Group. The short novel is about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed in the course of one evening’s performance. The book is narrated by a retired district court judge who is invited out of the blue by a local comedian to attend his show, a stand-up routine in a bar. The judge and the comedian, who trades on divisive and offensive jokes, knew each other as boys but have had no contact for over 40 years.
In the dance between comic and audience, with barbs flying back and forth, a deeper story begins to take shape — one that will alter the lives of many of those in attendance and lead to a series of candid and chilling revelations.
- 8/5/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
FX has handed out a pilot order to the anthology series “Platform” from “The Office” alum B.J. Novak, the network said Monday.
Lucas Hedges, Jon Bernthal, Kaitlyn Dever, Boyd Holbrook, O’Shea Jackson Jr., George Wallace and Ed Asner have signed on to star in the project, which is described as “an anthological television series that uses the boldest issues of our times as a jumping off point to tell singular, character-driven stories about the world we live in today.”
Novak will serve as writer, director and executive producer. Production on the pilot began on Monday.
Also Read: Jeff Bridges to Star in FX Drama 'The Old Man' Based on Thomas Perry Novel
Novak has previously juggled multiple roles on one project, having served as writer, director, executive producer and actor on both “The Office” and Mindy Kaling’s follow-up series “The Mindy Project.” As an actor, he...
Lucas Hedges, Jon Bernthal, Kaitlyn Dever, Boyd Holbrook, O’Shea Jackson Jr., George Wallace and Ed Asner have signed on to star in the project, which is described as “an anthological television series that uses the boldest issues of our times as a jumping off point to tell singular, character-driven stories about the world we live in today.”
Novak will serve as writer, director and executive producer. Production on the pilot began on Monday.
Also Read: Jeff Bridges to Star in FX Drama 'The Old Man' Based on Thomas Perry Novel
Novak has previously juggled multiple roles on one project, having served as writer, director, executive producer and actor on both “The Office” and Mindy Kaling’s follow-up series “The Mindy Project.” As an actor, he...
- 7/29/2019
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Exclusive: MGM Television has optioned Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff’s bestselling Ya sci-fi thriller Aurora Rising, to develop as a TV series. MGM Television will produce and MGM will internationally distribute the series. They are currently out to showrunners and writers.
The novel, which was published on May 7, is from Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.
Set in the year 2380, Aurora Rising follows Ty Jones, the top cadet of the Aurora Academy, and his unwanted squad of misfits and losers as they slowly realize that the girl they rescued from hundreds of years of cryo-sleep may be the catalyst for a war millions of years in the making. The book, the first in the Aurora Cycle, is slated for publication in ten foreign territories, with more in the works.
Bill Todman Jr. and Edward Millstein will executive produce with Limor Hakim co-producing for Level 1 Entertainment. Kaufman and Kristoff will serve as consulting producers. Max Kisbye, MGM’s Executive Vice President, Television Development and Production and Rob Hochberg, Director, Television Development and Production, will oversee the series for MGM Television.
“Amie and Jay have created something really special with Aurora Rising. Their novel blends comedy, action and heart seamlessly in such a wonderful way. We are all looking forward to working with them, Bill and the whole creative team at Level 1 to bring this impressive story to television,” said Steve Stark, MGM President, Television Production and Development.
“We are beyond excited to be working with MGM Television, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff to make this epic space opera into a fantastic television series,” said Todman and Milstein.
MGM Television is also developing Kaufman’s bestselling Starbound Trilogy, co-written by Meagan Spooner. Eric Balfour, Stephanie Varella, Martin Berneman and Warren Littlefield are executive producing.
Kaufman and Kristoff are represented by Stephen Moore at The Kohner Agency.
The novel, which was published on May 7, is from Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.
Set in the year 2380, Aurora Rising follows Ty Jones, the top cadet of the Aurora Academy, and his unwanted squad of misfits and losers as they slowly realize that the girl they rescued from hundreds of years of cryo-sleep may be the catalyst for a war millions of years in the making. The book, the first in the Aurora Cycle, is slated for publication in ten foreign territories, with more in the works.
Bill Todman Jr. and Edward Millstein will executive produce with Limor Hakim co-producing for Level 1 Entertainment. Kaufman and Kristoff will serve as consulting producers. Max Kisbye, MGM’s Executive Vice President, Television Development and Production and Rob Hochberg, Director, Television Development and Production, will oversee the series for MGM Television.
“Amie and Jay have created something really special with Aurora Rising. Their novel blends comedy, action and heart seamlessly in such a wonderful way. We are all looking forward to working with them, Bill and the whole creative team at Level 1 to bring this impressive story to television,” said Steve Stark, MGM President, Television Production and Development.
“We are beyond excited to be working with MGM Television, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff to make this epic space opera into a fantastic television series,” said Todman and Milstein.
MGM Television is also developing Kaufman’s bestselling Starbound Trilogy, co-written by Meagan Spooner. Eric Balfour, Stephanie Varella, Martin Berneman and Warren Littlefield are executive producing.
Kaufman and Kristoff are represented by Stephen Moore at The Kohner Agency.
- 6/13/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar winner Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) and Anthony Peckham (Invictus) have boarded The President Is Missing, the drama series adaptation of the novel by President Bill Clinton and James Patterson. McQuarrie will executive produce the project, currently in development, with Heather McQuarrie and the book’s authors. Peckham will also executive produce and write the adaptation.
In The President is Missing, a powerless and politically aimless Vice President unexpectedly becomes President halfway into his administration’s first term, despite his every wish to the contrary. He walks right into a secret, world-threatening crisis, both inside and outside the White House. Attacked by both friends and enemies alike, with scandal and conspiracy swirling around him, he is confronted with a terrible choice: keep his head down, toe the party line and survive, or act on his stubborn, late-developing conscience and take a stand.
Showtime acquired the rights to the book,...
In The President is Missing, a powerless and politically aimless Vice President unexpectedly becomes President halfway into his administration’s first term, despite his every wish to the contrary. He walks right into a secret, world-threatening crisis, both inside and outside the White House. Attacked by both friends and enemies alike, with scandal and conspiracy swirling around him, he is confronted with a terrible choice: keep his head down, toe the party line and survive, or act on his stubborn, late-developing conscience and take a stand.
Showtime acquired the rights to the book,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The Cardboard Kingdom
By Chad Sell
282 pages, $12/99/$20.99, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
All too often the Young Adult graphic novels crossing my desk live in worlds of fantasy and science fiction, borrowing heavily from what has come before, resulting in a colorful sameness to so many. As a result, The Cardboard Kingdom is a breath of fresh air.
Cartoonist Chad Sell has assembled a team of writers — Jay Fuller, David DeMeo, Katie Schenkel, Kris Moore, Molly Muldoon, Vid Alliger, Manuel Betancourt, Michael Cole, Cloud Jacobs, and Barbara Perez Marquez – to visit a multicultural neighborhood filled with imagination. The boys and girls like to play make-believe games but do so taking ordinary cardboard boxes and turning them into costumes, props, weapons, and the like to aid in their games. Consider it early cosplay training.
This vividly illustrated series of vignettes and short stories has a nice blend of Caucasian,...
By Chad Sell
282 pages, $12/99/$20.99, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
All too often the Young Adult graphic novels crossing my desk live in worlds of fantasy and science fiction, borrowing heavily from what has come before, resulting in a colorful sameness to so many. As a result, The Cardboard Kingdom is a breath of fresh air.
Cartoonist Chad Sell has assembled a team of writers — Jay Fuller, David DeMeo, Katie Schenkel, Kris Moore, Molly Muldoon, Vid Alliger, Manuel Betancourt, Michael Cole, Cloud Jacobs, and Barbara Perez Marquez – to visit a multicultural neighborhood filled with imagination. The boys and girls like to play make-believe games but do so taking ordinary cardboard boxes and turning them into costumes, props, weapons, and the like to aid in their games. Consider it early cosplay training.
This vividly illustrated series of vignettes and short stories has a nice blend of Caucasian,...
- 6/3/2018
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Exclusive: Works by Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) are headed to the small screen. American Gods producer FremantleMedia North America, Random House Studio and Dancing Ledge Productions have signed an exclusive deal with the famous Brazilian author to develop the first-ever TV drama series based on his books.
Exploring themes and characters from Coelho’s novels The Devil and Miss Prym, Brida and The Witch of Portobello, all published by Harper Collins, the crime thriller will explore the human condition, celebrating Coelho’s multi-layered and inspirational storytelling.
The yet-untitled TV series follows a young priest who embarks on a journey of self-discovery and redemption – ostracized by his church, a fugitive from the law, and hunted by a powerful crime family. Meanwhile, the CIA agent chasing him discovers mysterious powers, and a more profound connection to the priest than she ever thought possible.
Coelho, who is known for his deep connection with his audience,...
Exploring themes and characters from Coelho’s novels The Devil and Miss Prym, Brida and The Witch of Portobello, all published by Harper Collins, the crime thriller will explore the human condition, celebrating Coelho’s multi-layered and inspirational storytelling.
The yet-untitled TV series follows a young priest who embarks on a journey of self-discovery and redemption – ostracized by his church, a fugitive from the law, and hunted by a powerful crime family. Meanwhile, the CIA agent chasing him discovers mysterious powers, and a more profound connection to the priest than she ever thought possible.
Coelho, who is known for his deep connection with his audience,...
- 5/1/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Author Anita Shreve, whose books The Pilot’s Wife and The Weight of Water made her a top-seller and were later adapted into films, has died. She succumbed to cancer at age 71, according to her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf.
Shreve’s oeuvre explored how New England women in crisis handled their affairs. She lived that in her real life as well – Shreve announced her illness last year via Facebook, saying she could not tour for her final novel, The Stars Are Fire, because of a “medical emergency.”
Jordan Pavlin, a Knopf editor, said Shreve’s “writing has touched the lives of millions of readers around the world, and she did some of her most elegant, rich, and unforgettable work in the last years of her life. Her body of work is extraordinary, and her books will continue to be read for generations.”
Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Shreve graduated from Tufts University...
Shreve’s oeuvre explored how New England women in crisis handled their affairs. She lived that in her real life as well – Shreve announced her illness last year via Facebook, saying she could not tour for her final novel, The Stars Are Fire, because of a “medical emergency.”
Jordan Pavlin, a Knopf editor, said Shreve’s “writing has touched the lives of millions of readers around the world, and she did some of her most elegant, rich, and unforgettable work in the last years of her life. Her body of work is extraordinary, and her books will continue to be read for generations.”
Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Shreve graduated from Tufts University...
- 3/30/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Anita Shreve, author of books like “The Pilot’s Wife” and “Testimony,” has died. She was 71. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf said that Shreve had been battling cancer and passed away Thursday at her home in New Hampshire. “We are sad to report that Anita Shreve, the beloved writer and bestselling novelist, died of cancer yesterday,” the publisher said in a statement to TheWrap on Friday. Also Read: Stephen Hawking, Superstar Physicist, Author and Cultural Icon Dies at 76 “Anita was the author of 19 novels. Her first story, ‘Past the Island, Drifting,’ was published in 1975, and her first novel, ‘Eden Close,’ was published...
- 3/30/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
The Gotham Group has optioned rights to Gork, The Teenage Dragon, the debut novel by Dear Mr. President author Gabe Hudson, to develop as a television series. Gork, The Teenage Dragon was published by Alfred A. Knopf in July 2017. It centers on Gork, a lovable dragon at WarWings Military Academy, who has a gigantic heart, two-inch horns and an occasional problem with fainting. He’s about to embark on the most important mission of his life: on the eve of his high school…...
- 1/30/2018
- Deadline TV
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