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EXCLUSIVE: James Rollins’ bestselling Sigma Force techno-thriller novels are getting the small screen treatment. A television adaptation of the book series is in development from Absentia creator Matt Cirulnick, Amazon MGM Studios, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions, Oakhurst Entertainment and…

A new Hunger Games novel by author Suzanne Collins will be published on March 18, 2025, publisher Scholastic announced today. Sunrise on the Reaping will be the fifth in the dystopian book series. The new book will be set 24 years before the original Hunger Games novel and 40 years after the most…

EXCLUSIVE: Heyday Television has acquired adaptation rights to Gillian McAllister's novel Just Another Missing Person. After what’s been described as a “highly competitive situation,” British screenwriter Georgia Pritchett (Succession, Veep) will adapt the story for TV. It’s another example of how…

Hachette Book Group has laid off seven employees at its Little, Brown imprint today, the company announced. The layoffs were described as part of a corporate restructuring, but is viewed by some as yet another sign of a struggling book publishing industry. Among the seven people being laid…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is developing a feature adaptation of None of This Is True, the psychological thriller novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell, sources tell Deadline. Eleanor Burgess (Perry Mason) has been tapped to pen the script. Netflix won rights to the book in a…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has launched development on They’ll Never Catch Us, a series adaptation of the bestselling thriller novel by Jessica Goodman from Blumhouse Television, sources tell Deadline. Published by Razorbill in July 2021, the book revolves around a small town’s high school women’s…

Ready for Game of Thrones lite? A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a new series coming to HBO next year, and author George R.R. Martin, the EP of the series and creator of the novels that spawned this world, promises a shift in tone. The new spinoff "will be a lot shorter than Game of Thrones or…

EXCLUSIVE: An adaptation of Emma Törzs’ debut fantasy novel Ink Blood Sister Scribe titled Ink has been greenlit by Gato Grande, an Amazon MGM Studios company. From writer and executive producer Bronwyn Garrity (Accused, Outlander), the fantasy thriller series will follow estranged half-sisters…

EXCLUSIVE: The novel Next to Heaven hit the market this week. Written by Anonymous, it’s a social satire that is being shopped by WME simultaneously for both a publishing deal and a TV deal. The TV deal has just closed, and the publishing deal will be next. The rights to turn the book into a TV…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Universal Television has acquired the rights to Jana Monroe's memoir Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, The Behavioral Science Unit, And My Life As a Woman In The FBI to develop into a series. Winner filmmaker Susanna Fogel and Julia Ruchman (The Walking Dead) will…

EXCLUSIVE: T. J. Newman, the flight attendant who hung up her wings to become the bestselling author of the movie-bound action thriller novels Falling and Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421, is catching her next flight with Little Brown. Related Stories …

UPDATE 8 AM PT: Studiocanal has now unveiled Sara Reese Geffroy as SVP of its nascent Studiocanal Stories label and TV series development. She will run the French major’s new literary adaptations division, which was unveiled earlier today, while also supervising the development of Studiocanal TV…