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EXCLUSIVE: The Michael Crichton and James Patterson novel Eruption has been bought at auction by Sony in what we hear is a seven-figure deal after several circled. The feature take of Eruption already has Oscar-winning Free Solo directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi attached to direct…

Viola Davis and bestselling author James Patterson have signed with Little, Brown and Company to co-write a novel. Davis has won the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy, and she has already made the bestseller lists with her memoir Finding Me. Patterson is a fixture on the bestseller lists, most recently for Eru…

A docuseries about the murders of four University of Idaho students has been picked up by Amazon with the streamer also planning a scripted version. Bryan Christopher Kohberger was charged with four counts of murder after Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were found…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Free Solo directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi have come aboard as part of the package to direct Eruption, the novel by Michael Crichton and James Patterson that was just published atop every bestseller list. The duo will be in the center of meetings to be held…

EXCLUSIVE: Back in the day, Michael Crichton novels would enter the movie auction marketplace and routinely sell for more money than commercial fiction by any other author. Usually within a day or two. That hasn’t happened in a good long time, but today it might. The book is Eruption, a big scale disaster…

James Patterson is the latest celebrity figure to sign on to subscription streaming service Fox Nation, with a new true crime series that debuted today. Unsolved with James Patterson is a three-part series that examines three unsolved homicide cases. They include the deaths of Nanette Krentel of…

EXCLUSIVE: Studios, get ready to dip into the nest egg. The screen-rights auction on the Michael Crichton-James Patterson novel collaboration Eruption will happen in February, in advance of the book's June 3 publication by Little Brown. Patterson took over the unfinished novel by Crichton, the Jurassi…

EXCLUSIVE: James Patterson and the late Michael Crichton are teaming on a novel, and now it has a title and pub date. The duo has combined global sales in excess of 675 million books, so we can expect a monster screen auction to erupt early next year. Watch a video reveal of the cover art below…

The story of the horrific Idaho student murders is in the works for the page and the small screen. Bestselling author James Patterson and award-winning journalist Vicky Ward are teaming on a nonfiction book about the 2022 murders of the four University of Idaho students. Additionally, Skydance Television…

Author Judy Blume says she worries about intolerance in the US, following the removal in schools of some of her novels.  Blume’s bestselling 1970 novel Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret has been adapted for the screen and is due to be released in May, starring Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams and…

James Patterson has inked an exclusive first-look deal with Skydance Television, which is in production on an adaptation of his Alex Cross series starring Aldis Hodge. As part of the deal, Patterson will develop a slate of series based on his top-selling book series Women's Murder Club and Michael Ben…

Bestselling authors James Patterson and the late Michael Crichton will coauthor an untitled novel about a mega-eruption of Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano. The event thriller about an event that threatens to destroy not just the island, but the entire world, will be published in hardcover, ebook, and…