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The 55th NAACP Image Awards continued to honor Black excellence on Saturday night, with Queen Latifah hosting the live telecast from the Shrine Auditorium. The Color Purple continued its winning streak on the final night of the NAACP Image Awards, taking the trophy for Outstanding Motion Picture…

Random House will publish a memoir by Wicked director Jon M. Chu this summer. Titled Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen, the book, co-authored with Jeremy McCarter, will be released July 23. An announcement by Random House today says, “With striking candor and unrivaled insights…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Colombia Pictures has acquired the rights to Teddy Wayne's upcoming dark thriller, The Winner which Amy Pascal has come aboard to produce through her Pascal Pictures with Rachel O’Connor. Wayne is adapting his own tome for the big screen. The novel hits shelves…

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Lightfoot (Shantaram, The Punisher) has been tapped to develop a series adaptation of the Scot Harvath books from New York Times bestseller Brad Thor, under a relatively fresh overall deal with Sony Pictures Television that has previously gone unreported, Deadline has learned. We’re…

In addition to his Oscars Best Picture announcement, there’s something else combining Al Pacino and reading on the way – his memoir. Pacino has announced that his memoir, Sonny Boy, will be published this fall by Penguin Press. "I wrote Sonny Boy to express what I've seen and been through in my…

Book Soup has canceled a March 27 appearance by Stranger Things actor and author Brett Gelman. The store claimed that escalating threats “became a safety risk we were not willing to take.” The store has hosted many controversial authors over the years and has rarely canceled, but said “the current…

EXCLUSIVE: Online content creator Parker James is going from social media stardom to the book store shelves. James and animated story studio Toonstar have signed a multi-book deal with Random House Children’s Books for titles based on their animated StEvEn & Parker series. The series will be…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Television has optioned Liza Mundy’s nonfiction book The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA to develop as a scripted series, with Tony winner Scott Delman attached to executive produce. The series revolves around a newly trained female CIA officer who is sent on…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Nomadland producer Peter Spears has optioned Mike Nichols: A Life, the 2021 biography of the director by Mark Harris, for development as a dramatic feature film. The planned adaptation of the book, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, will not be a cradle-to-grave…

UPDATE: An Instagram announcement by Bethany Joy Lenz today revealed that her upcoming memoir will be titled Dinner for Vampires. The book details her decade in a cult while working on the hit TV show One Tree Hill. “Being a writer has been a great, private joy in my life since I was about 12,” she…

EXCLUSIVE: R.F. Kuang’s bestselling fantasy novel Babel is in the works for the screen. Independent studio wiip (The Mare of Easttown, The Summer I Turned Pretty) has optioned the novel for television/film adaptation with Temple Hill Entertainment (Twilight) producing. Babel is a historical fantasy…

EXCLUSIVE: Having successfully adapted The Summer I Turned Pretty books into the popular Prime Video YA series, Wiip is aiming to do the same with another YA title. The independent studio has acquired Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ novel Little White Lies, to develop for television. Like the breakout first…