| AUTHOR |
DATE |
BOOK
(covers linked to Amazon) |
PRODUCTION COMPANY |
STATUS/COMMENT |
Abbey, Edward |
09/27/05 |
The Monkey Wrench Gang |
|
Columbia Pictures |
William Goldman to adapt |
| Abbott, Jeff |
08/18/05 |
Panic |
|
The Weinstein Co. |
|
Ahern, Cecelia |
10/06/05 |
If You Could See Me Now |
|
Walk Disney Pictures |
To be pubbed by Hyperion in early 2006 |
| Albert, John |
09/29/05 |
Wrecking Crew: The Really Bad News
Griffith Park Pirates |
|
Paramount Pictures |
renamed Wrecking Crew |
| Alexander, Michelle and Long, Jeannie |
08/24/05 |
How to Tell He’s Not the One in
10 Days |
|
Paramount Pictures |
Sequel to How to Lose a Guy in 10
Days. Hudson and McConnaghey may reprise. |
Allende, Isabelle |
1/17/06 |
City of the Beasts |
|
Walden Media |
Purchased trilogy |
Andrews, V.C. |
09/27/05 |
Flowers in the Attic et
al |
|
The Hatchery |
Optioned rights to this and all of the
67 titles in the franchise |
| Barry, Dave and Pearson, Ridley |
12/08/05 |
Peter and the Starcatcher |
|
Walt Disney Feature Animation |
For animation |
| Bass, Julian |
09/26/05 |
Headhunters |
|
Fox 2000 & Regency Enterprises |
Nicole Kidman to produce and star |
| Berenson, Alex |
09/28/05 |
The Faithful Spy |
|
Fox 2000 and Regency Enterprises |
Red Wagon Entertainment producing.
Book to be pubbed by Random House in June |
Burke, Shannon |
11/01/05 |
Black Flies |
|
Paramount Pictures |
|
| Canseco, Jose |
08/02/05 |
Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids,
Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big |
|
Canterbury Films |
Canterbury Films' Bob DeBrino to produce |
| Cleary, Beverly |
11/30/05 |
The Ramona Quimby books |
|
Fox 2000 |
DiNovi Productions |
| Cohen, Tish |
09/26/05 |
Town House |
|
Fox 2000 |
no publisher yet |
| Cooper, Susan |
10/11/05 |
The Dark Is Rising |
|
|
Marc Platt to produce |
| Dent, Jim |
11/21/05 |
Monster of the Midway |
|
Space Program |
Bill Reilly to produce |
DeWoskin,
Rachel |
12/06/05 |
Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind
the Scenes of a New China |
|
Paramount Pictures |
Darkwoods Prod. Frank Darabont to produce |
Ellis, Bret Easton |
12/07/05 |
Lunar Park |
|
Palm-Star Entertainment |
|
Eskridge, Kelley |
09/28/05 |
Solitaire |
|
Warner Independent Pictures |
Cherry Road Films to produce |
Fesperman, Dan |
1/18/06 |
The Small Boat of Great Sorrows |
|
Kennedy/Marshall Productions |
|
| Fleming, Ian |
08/30/05 |
Casino Royale |
|
Sony & MGM |
Rewrite- Broccoli to produce |
| Gaiman, Neil |
10/26/05 |
Stardust |
|
Paramount Pictures |
turnaround from Dimension Films |
| Gattis, Ryan |
10/25/05 |
Kung Fu High School |
|
The Weinstein Co. |
Ernesto Foronda to adapt |
Giffin, Emily |
1/18/06 |
Something Borrowed |
|
Palomar Entertainment |
|
| Gran, Sara |
08/09/05 |
Dope |
|
Paramount Pictures |
Michael London will produce- Book to be
pubbed in February |
| Greenberg, Jack |
12/07/05 |
Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles
of the Civil Rights Movement |
|
New Line Cinema |
Terence Howard to star |
| Halperin, James |
08/19/05 |
The Truth Machine |
|
Lions Gate |
|
| Hamilton, Donald |
08/10/05 |
The "Matt Helm" series |
series
|
DreamWorks |
"The Untitled Matt Helm Project" |
| Harris, Charlaine |
10/31/05 |
The Southern Vampire series |
series
|
HBO and Alan Ball |
Pilot for possible TV series |
| Hodgson, Barabra |
12/01/05 |
The Tattooed Map |
|
The Jim Henson Co |
Lisa Henson to produce |
| Hollon, Frank Turner |
9/29/05 |
Life Is a Strange Place |
|
Prospect Pictures |
renamed Barry Munday |
Hoveyda,
Mandana |
11/04/05 |
I'm Fine!: A Really Helpful Guide to
the First 100 Days After Your Breakup |
|
Paramount Pictures |
Ken Kwapis to produce and direct |
| Iverson, Portia |
10/31/05 |
Strange Son |
|
Revolution Studios |
Julia Roberts bought rights.
Updated:
pub date July 21 2006 |
| Jacobs, A.J. |
08/04/05 |
The Year of Living Biblically: One
Man's Humble Quest to Obey the Bible as Literally as Possible |
|
Paramount Pictures |
Nonfiction book scheduled for fall 2006.
Plan B Entertainment to produce. |
| James, Henry |
09/20/05 |
The Turn of the Screw |
|
Universal Pictures |
Vertigo Entertainment |
| James, P.D. |
updated
09/19/05 |
The Children of Men |
|
Universal Pictures |
Strike Entertainment. Now in production. |
| Johnson, Maureen |
11/18/05 |
The Key to the Golden Firebird |
|
Fox 2000 |
Abby Entertainment |
| Kerouac, Jack |
08/05/05 |
On the Road |
|
Focus Features |
American Zoetrope to produce. Walter
Salles to direct. |
| King, Stephen |
11/08/05 |
From a Buick 8 |
|
Chesapeake Films |
George Romero to direct |
| Kishiro, Yukito |
12/07/05 |
Battle Angel Alita series |
|
20th Century Fox |
12 part manga series |
Krum, Sharon |
10/25/05 |
The Thing About Jane Spring |
|
Paramount Pictures |
Christine Peters to produce |
| Kunkel, Benjamin |
08/29/05 |
Indecision |
|
Scott Rudin Productions |
Rudin to produce |
| Lansdale, Joe R. |
08/16/05 |
A Fine Dark Line |
|
Traveling Light |
Lansdale will adapt. |
Lethem, Jonathon |
10/27/05 |
As She Climbed Across the Table |
|
DreamWorks |
|
Linson, Art |
10/27/05 |
What Just Happened? |
|
2929 Productions |
Robert De Niro to produce star,
Barry Levinson to direct |
| Littell, Robert |
11/03/05 |
The Company |
|
Scott Free Productions and John Calley
Productions |
Possible 6 hour cable mini-series |
| Lupica, Mike |
10/25/05 |
Heat |
|
Walden Media |
|
| Lutz, Karen McCullah |
08/23/05 |
The Bachelorette Party |
|
Twentieth Century Fox |
Blueprint Films (Nicole Kidman) &
and Alloy Entertainment to produce.
Kidman may star. |
| Martel, Yann |
10/24/05 |
Life of Pi |
|
Fox 2000 |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet to adapt and direct |
| McDonough, Jimmy |
12/08/05 |
Big Bosoms and Square Jaws : The
Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film |
|
Nowita Pictures & Broken Road Productions |
|
| Moehringer, J.R. |
09/13/05 |
The Tender Bar |
|
Scott Rudin Productions |
|
| Moggach, Deborah |
11/18/05 |
Tulip Fever |
|
DreamWorks |
Rewrite deal - Peter Flannery to adapt |
| Mooney, Chris |
12/27/05 |
The Republican War on Science |
|
|
Morgan Spurlock purchased option |
| Morris, Edmund |
09/12/05 |
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt |
|
Paramount Pictures |
Scorsese to produce & direct, DiCaprio
to produce & star |
Mullen, Thomas |
10/07/05 |
The Last Town on Earth |
|
DreamWorks |
Random House to publish |
| Naipaul, V.S. |
12/06/05 |
A Bend in the River |
|
Inspired Movies |
Naipaul to executive produce |
| Nance, John |
12/08/05 |
Orbit |
|
Fox 2000 |
Apartment 3B Productions’ Jennifer Klein
to produce |
| Patterson, James |
11/08/05 |
SantaKid |
 |
New Line Cinema |
|
| Paver, Michelle |
08/01/05 |
Wolf Brother
(first book
in the "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness"
series) |
|
Fox 2000 |
Scott Free Productions will produce. |
| Peck, Dale |
08/05/05 |
The Drift House: The First Voyage |
|
Nickelodeon Movies |
Nickelodeon's Julia Pistor to produce. |
Pelletier, Cathie |
1/17/06 |
The Funeral Makers |
|
Magnolia Mae Films |
Doug Limon to direct |
| Perrotta, Tom |
08/22/05 |
The Wishbones |
|
Identity Films & Firm Films |
|
| Peterson, Holly |
10/17/05 |
The Manny |
|
Columbia Pictures and Red Wagon |
Dial Press to pub |
Pollen, Bella |
10/07/05 |
Midnight Cactus |
|
Michael London to produce |
To be pubbed by U.K. by Macmillan in May.
US rights pending |
| Pratchett, Terry |
1/10/06 |
The Wee Free Men |
|
Sony Pictures Entertainment |
Sam Raimi to direct |
| Radish, Kiris |
1/10/06 |
Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling
Funeral |
|
Point Blank Productions |
|
| Ray, Nicholas |
1/09/06 |
I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray
on Making Movies |
|
City Lights and Walrus & Assoc |
Phillip Kaufman to produce and direct |
Richard, Mark |
1/12/06 |
The Ice at the Bottom of the World |
|
Picturehouse and New Line Intl. |
Charlize Theron to produce and star |
| Roberts, Gregory David |
10/26/05 |
Shantaram |
|
Warner Bros. Pictures |
Plan B to produce, Johnny Depp to star |
| Ronson, Jon |
09/20/05 |
Them: Adventures with Extremists |
|
Universal Pictures |
Black and White’s Jack Black & Mike
White to produce. Edgar Wright to direct |
| Rothman, Rodney |
11/16/05 |
Early Bird : A Memoir of Premature
Retirement |
|
Paramount Pictures |
Judd Apatow to produce |
| Russell, Trista |
12/07/05 |
Going Broke |
|
Triumphant Pictures |
Cecil Chambers to produce |
| Satran, Pamela Redmond |
1/10/06 |
Younger |
|
Lifetime Television |
for series development |
| Sendak, Maurice |
1/06/06 |
Where The Wild Things Are |
|
Warner Bros. Pictures |
Acquired out of turnaround from Universal
Pictures - Tom Hanks to produce |
| Singer, Gammy L. |
09/14/05 |
A Landlord's Tale |
|
Cinema Gypsy Productions |
Cinema Gypsy is Laurence Fishburne |
Smith. Zadie |
10/17/05 |
On Beauty |
|
FilmFour |
Scott Rudin to produce |
| Stetson, Jeff |
12/14/05 |
Blood on the Leaves |
|
Paramount Pictures |
Foxxhole/Jaime Foxx to produce |
| Stone. Jeff |
1/10/06 |
The Five Ancestors (series) |
|
Nickelodeon Movies |
Lawrence Bender Productions |
| Tevis, Walter |
10/28/05 |
The Man Who Fell to Earth |
|
Warner Independent Pictures |
Remake 0f 1977 film |
| Toews, Miriam |
08/03/05 |
A Complicated Kindness |
|
Film Four UK |
Sarah Gavron to direct. |
| Tsukiyama , Gail |
12/13/05 |
The Samurai's Garden |
|
|
Jennifer Fukasawa, producer |
| Twain, Mark |
11/18/05 |
The Prince and the Pauper |
|
Sony Pictures Entertainment |
Jeffrey Hatcher to adapt |
| Verne, Jules |
1/17/05 |
Journey to the Center of the Earth |
|
Walden Media and New Line |
retitled Journey 3-D and shot in 3-D |
| Wignall, Kevin |
1/10/06 |
For the Dogs |
|
Stone Village Pictures |
|
| Wilson, Robert Anton |
12/13/05 |
The Earth Will Shake: The History
of the Early Illuminati |
|
Deepleaf Productions |
|
Wintle, Edwin John |
09/29/05 |
Breakfast With Tiffany |
|
Hart Sharp Entertainment |
|
| Wolfe, Thomas |
10/11/05 |
I am Charlotte Simmons |
|
Trilogy Entertainment and Syntax Entertainment |
|
