ICM has signed yet another East Coast news outlet as a client, further establishing itself as the primary interlocutor between the impoverished ranks of freelance magazine writers and giant pots of gold shimmering on the other side of the continental divide in Hollywood. The Atlantic will now be a major motion picture.
We dread the Read More
The Hunger Games is a series of sci-fi young adult novels written by Suzanne Collins and published by Scholastic that we know from reading the internet all day that people are really excited about. Presumably they’ll be even more excited to learn that Steven Soderbergh is directing the second unit of the movie Read More
Norman Mailer’s novel about a director on the Hollywood Blacklist in the 1950s is now in development as a film, reports The Daily. The novel was originally adapted for the screen by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne in the 1980s for producer Elliott Kastner, but it was never made.
Now Michael (“son of”) Read More
Two stories from New York have been optioned through the recent arrangement signed between the ICM agency and the magazine. ICM already represented The New York Times in Hollywood when it added New York as a client in June to better facilitate the transition from non-fiction article to screenplay (and to ensure magazine gets a Read More
Ron Howard and Brian Grazer will adapt Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer’s book about Mormons who murdered.
Bradley Cooper will play Lucifer in a film adaptation of Milton’s Paradise Lost directed by Alex Proyas, who also gave us I, Robot. “Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n,” although it’s Read More
John O’Brien, the publisher at Dalkey Archive Press in Chicago, has seen steady sales of Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans for the past sixteen years.
“Given the size of the novel (925 pages) and its ‘difficulty,’ it has always sold relatively well (perhaps with an emphasis on ‘relatively’),” wrote Mr. O’Brien in an e-mail Read More
