Screen Australia announces funding for book-to-film adaptations; nonfiction from Garner and Law among the projects
A film based on Helen Garner’s nonfiction book Joe Cinque’s Consolation (Pan) is the latest book-to-film project to receive funding from Screen Australia. The film will be directed by Sotiris Dounoukos, who...
Screen Australia announces funding for book-to-film adaptations
A film based on the comic memoir Lost Cat by US author Caroline Paul (illus by Wendy MacNaughto, Bloomsbury) is the latest book-to-film project to receive funding from Screen Australia. Lost Cat will be...
‘The Broken Shore’ to screen on ABC TV this weekend
The television adaptation of Peter Temple’s novel The Broken Shore (Text) will screen on ABC Television at 8.30pm on Sunday 2 February. The telemovie stars Don Hany, who has appeared in...
Screen Australia announces funding for new book-to-film adaptations
Films based on books by Malcolm Knox, Timothy Conigrave and Erin McKean are among the latest projects to receive funding from Screen Australia. Screen Australia announced $424,000 in development funding...
Screen Australia funds new book-to-film adaptations
Screen Australia has allocated $643,125 in funding to support the development of 18 new feature films, including film adaptations of books by Peter Carey, Melanie Joosten, Susan Duncan and Megan Abbott. Part...
Charalambous novel republished with new TV tie-in title
John Charalambous’ 2006 novel Silent Parts (UQP) has been republished with the new title An Accidental Soldier ahead of an ABC TV film adaptation of the same name. UQP publisher...
Dench, Hoffman to star in ‘Esio Trot’ adaptation
The BBC will produce a feature-length film adaptation of the children’s classic Esio Trot by Roald Dahl (various imprints) next year, which will star Dame Judi Dench as Mrs Silver...
‘The Dressmaker’ adaptation receives investment funding from Screen Australia
A film adaptation of The Dressmaker by Melbourne author Rosalie Ham (Duffy & Snellgrove) is one of three feature film projects to receive a share of $4.4 million of investment...
Readings creates a ‘Book Nook’ for Classic Cinema patrons
Melbourne bookseller Readings has created a mini library with one of its partners, the Classic Cinema in Elsternwick. Launched last week, the Readings Book Nook is located in the foyer of the Classic Cinema and...
‘Veronica Mars’ creator signs two-book deal with Random House
In the US, screenwriter and novelist Rob Thomas has signed a deal with Random House to publish two books about the titular character in his television series Veronica Mars, reports...
Susanne Gervay’s ‘I Am Jack’ to be adapted to film
Screen Australia has announced script development funding for a film adaptation of Susanne Gervay’s book I Am Jack (HarperCollins). Gervay will write the film script for I Am Jack, with director Nadia Tass, producer Stephan Wellink...
Sony Pictures acquires ‘The Rosie Project’
Sony Pictures has optioned the screen rights to Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project (Text Publishing). Simsion will write the script for the film, which will be produced by Sony-based Matt...
Temple’s ‘The Broken Shore’ to screen on ABC
ABC Television has announced the cast for a television adaptation of Peter Temple’s novel The Broken Shore (Text). The novel will be adapted into a telemovie for ABC1 starring Don...
‘The Amber Amulet’ wins Crystal Bear award at Berlin film festival
A film adaptation of Craig Silvey’s novella The Amber Amulet (A&U) has won the Crystal Bear award for the Best Short Film in the Generation Kplus section, for films aimed...
Screen Australia funds book-to-film adaptations
Screen Australia has announced 'development support' funding for several book-to-film adaptations, which are among 23 projects that will receive a total of $700,000. Among the funding recipients is a film adaptation of Tim...
Book adaptations receive investment from Screen Australia
Screen Australia has approved investment for the second season of ABC television series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, the adaptation of Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher books (A&U). The funding was part of a $20 million...
Your store: Book-to-film clubs
An abundance of book-to-film adaptations have been released this year, with still more to come. It’s good news for the Sun Bookshop and Riverbend Books, which run their own film...
‘Addition’ film rights sold
Text Publishing has announced that film rights to Toni Jordan's Addition have been acquired by Buon Giorno Productions and Bruna Papandrea. The film is set to be co-produced by Cristina...
In brief
HarperCollins announces new sci-fi short story competitionHarperCollins has announced a new science-fiction short story competition that will use its social network for unpublished authors, authonomy.com. Entrants will compete for the...
‘Capote’ screenwriter to adapt Nix book?
Author Garth Nix looks set to bring his novel Sabriel to the big screen, with plans the possible film of the first book in the ‘Old Kingdom' trilogy to Hollywood...