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Charlie Kaufman Sets Debut Novel At Grand Central Publishing

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 28, 2012 @ 4:33pm PDTTags: Charlie Kaufman, Grand Central Publishing
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is putting that cosmic mind of his toward his first book. Kaufman, whose scripts include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Human Nature and Being John Malkovich, has just closed a deal for his first novel for Grand Central Publishing, I’m told. The subject of the novel is being kept under wraps, which is probably just as well since it is pretty close to impossible to log line any of his original script creations anyway, even if you try after seeing his wonderfully imaginative movies. Kaufman takes this on even as he continues to develop to direct his script Frank or Francis, a Hollywood satire set to music where a film director feuds with a blogger and…oh, never mind, what the hell does that mean anyway? Nic Cage, Steve Carell, Elizabeth Banks, Catherine Keener, Jack Black, Kevin Kline and Paul Reubens are all circling that one. Kaufman is repped by WME.

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Colin Quinn Makes Book Deal With Grand Central Publishing For ‘Yesterday’s News’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 26, 2011 @ 8:25am PDTTags: Book Rights, Colin Quinn, Grand Central Publishing, Jerry Seinfeld
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Colin Quinn has signed with Grand Central Publishing’s Ben Greenberg for Yesterday’s News. Quinn’s first book went for mid-six figures and is a humorous look at humanity and pop culture, in which the former Weekend Update … Read More »

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Chelsea Handler Launches Publishing Imprint At Grand Central

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 15, 2010 @ 5:21pm PSTTags: Book Deals, Book Publishing, Books, Chelsea Handler, Grand Central Publishing, Tom Brunelle
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After cranking out three bestsellers, E! Entertainment Chelsea Lately host Chelsea Handler has taken the next step forward. She has been given her own imprint by her publisher, the Hachette Book Group USA division Grand Central Publishing. The imprint, … Read More »

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Relativity Buys New Nicholas Sparks Novel

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 5, 2010 @ 5:29pm PDTTags: Book-to-Movie, Grand Central Publishing, Nicholas Sparks, Relativity Media, Ryan Kavanaugh, Safe Haven
Mike Fleming

In a deal that is in the vicinity of $2 million against $5 million, Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media won the auction for the Nicholas Sparks novel Safe Haven. Temple Hill partners Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey will produce with Kavanaugh and Sparks, and Tucker Tooley exec producing. All of them teamed on the adaptation of the Sparks novel Dear John, the Relativity-financed pic that grossed $110 million worldwide with Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried starring. Sparks has become the closest thing the movie business has to a slam dunk, and that allowed UTA to make a rather sensational ask in a sluggish book-to-movie marketplace. What is most intriguing is the quick trigger on the deal, whose heft turned off some potential bidders. Buyers got a 9-month window to develop a script. If that date passes and a script isn’t ready, the rights return to Sparks and he keeps the $2 million, sources tell me. Read More »

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Grand Central Books Exterminators To Tackle Bedbug Problem

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 21, 2010 @ 7:48am PDTTags: Bedbugs, Book Publishing, Grand Central Publishing, James Patterson
Mike Fleming

bedbug2Bedbugs have run rampant in New York City offices this summer (Bedbugs In CBS’ NY Offices), and Grand Central Publishing is the latest haunt to catch the bug. The publisher, whose Park Avenue offices near Grand Central Station are home … Read More »

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