This year’s Blood List has named the 13 best genre scripts around town, and in its sixth year the annual screenplay contest is expanding its scope to include hot books, TV pilots, and young scribes ripe for signing. Taking top honors in 2014 is sci-fi thriller Bird Box from The Thing and Final Destination 5 scribe Eric Heisserer, an apocalyptic tale of a woman trying to lead her children to safety – all three blindfolded – after monsters descend on earth that turn people insane on sight. Universal set Heisserer to adapt the manuscript from Josh Malerman in 2013 for Mama helmer Andy Muschietti. Previous Blood List alumni include Black Swan, Stoker, Warm Bodies, and the upcoming Blumhouse thriller The Boy Next Door.
Like the Black List naming the top unproduced screenplays circulating around Hollywood, the genre-focused Blood List taps exec votes to determine each year’s best unmade horror, sci-fi, and thriller scripts.
Like the Black List naming the top unproduced screenplays circulating around Hollywood, the genre-focused Blood List taps exec votes to determine each year’s best unmade horror, sci-fi, and thriller scripts.
- 10/31/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Disney Pictures has acquired Larry Brenner's action/adventure script pitch "Labyrinth".
The story follows the journey of the mythical princess who must enter the complex and dangerous Labyrinth to save her father.
Meanwhile, Fox 2000 has scored the film rights to Sally Green's upcoming supernatural thriller novel "Half Bad", the first in what's called the "Half Life Trilogy".
The story is set in a contemporary world inhabited by covert witches.
Source: Deadline...
The story follows the journey of the mythical princess who must enter the complex and dangerous Labyrinth to save her father.
Meanwhile, Fox 2000 has scored the film rights to Sally Green's upcoming supernatural thriller novel "Half Bad", the first in what's called the "Half Life Trilogy".
The story is set in a contemporary world inhabited by covert witches.
Source: Deadline...
- 4/10/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Now that vampires, wolves, and post-apocalyptic youths have been done to death, Hollywood is circling back to an old trope to push onto young adults: witches. Fox 2000 has purchased the film rights for an as-yet-unpublished supernatural trilogy of books about the wand-havers and spell-casters. The Sally Green-penned series of books kicks off with Half Bad, debuting under the Penguin imprint in 2014, and telling the story of a world inhabited by two secret factions of witches—one good, one bad. While the two sides obviously hate each other, they’re united when a boy is born who has the ...
- 4/8/2013
- avclub.com
More witches are coming to Hollywood, from a planned trilogy of young adult novels by Sally Green. The first book, Half Bad, hasn’t even come out yet. Penguin Books has it scheduled for release in spring of 2014. That hasn’t stopped Fox 2000 from gobbling up the film rights for the film.
The trilogy takes “..place in a world inhabited by covert witches; one faction is good and the other evil. They are divided by hatred and united by one thing only — fear of a boy descended from both sides.” The film will be produced by Karen Rosenfelt, a veteran of the Twilight Saga and Percy Jackson franchises.
The trilogy takes “..place in a world inhabited by covert witches; one faction is good and the other evil. They are divided by hatred and united by one thing only — fear of a boy descended from both sides.” The film will be produced by Karen Rosenfelt, a veteran of the Twilight Saga and Percy Jackson franchises.
- 4/8/2013
- by Andy Greene
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Doesn.t it seem, with the Twilight .saga. finally behind us, that there is a severe lack of young adult novel adaptations out there? *waits for laughter to die down* Oh I guess I must have forgotten about The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and Ender.s Game, much less the seemingly endless amount of not-yet-produced projects out there. The hills are alive with post-pubescent drama, that.s for sure. It is now the season of the witch . not to be confused with the terrible film of the same name. Deadline reports Fox 2000 cast just the right spell and acquired the rights to author Sally Green.s upcoming novel Half Bad, with Karen Rosenfelt producing. Rosenfelt worked on the Twilight films, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters and The Book Thief, so she knows a thing or two about young adult adaptations. Half Bad, which will...
- 4/8/2013
- cinemablend.com
It's been a few days since we've heard about any new young adult novels being adapted for the big screen so of course it's time for another! Here's the first word on Half Bad, the beginning of a trilogy that takes place in a world inhabited by covert witches.
Per Deadline, Fox 2000 has acquired film rights to Sally Green’s debut book, Half Bad, a contemporary supernatural thriller that will be published under the Penguin imprint in spring 2014. It deals with two factions of witches, one good and the other evil (of course), which are divided by hatred but united by one thing — fear of a boy descended from both sides.
The adaptation will be produced by Karen Rosenfelt, whose recent films include The Twilight Saga, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, and The Book Thief.
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Per Deadline, Fox 2000 has acquired film rights to Sally Green’s debut book, Half Bad, a contemporary supernatural thriller that will be published under the Penguin imprint in spring 2014. It deals with two factions of witches, one good and the other evil (of course), which are divided by hatred but united by one thing — fear of a boy descended from both sides.
The adaptation will be produced by Karen Rosenfelt, whose recent films include The Twilight Saga, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, and The Book Thief.
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- 4/5/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Exclusive: Fox 2000 has acquired film rights to Sally Green’s debut book Half Bad, a contemporary supernatural thriller. The film will be produced by Karen Rosenfelt, whose recent films include Twilight Saga, Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters, and The Book Thief. Half Bad starts a trilogy taking place in a world inhabited by covert witches; one faction is good and the other evil. They are divided by hatred and united by one thing only — fear of a boy descended from both sides. The Ya title will be published under the Penguin imprint in spring 2014. The book was a hot title at Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and since then, Zosia Knopp, Penguin Children’s Rights Director, concluded a six-figure U.S. rights deal at auction, along with Ken Wright, VP and Publisher of Viking, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group. Pre-empts have been accepted from Brazilian publisher Intrinseca and Israeli publisher Kinneret.
- 4/5/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Just two weeks after Penguin Books acquired Sally Green's new novel, Half Bad , for publishing in 2014, comes word, via Deadline , that Fox 2000 has taken the film rights. Planned as the "Half Life Trilogy," Half Bad is officially described as being "a supernatural thriller set in a modern world inhabited by covert witches, Black and White: factions divided by hatred and united by only one thing-fear of a boy descended from both sides." Karen Rosenfelt is attached to produce. Her previous book-to-screen credits include The Twilight Saga and both Percy Jackson and the Olympians feature films.
- 4/5/2013
- Comingsoon.net
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