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Nick Harris Forms The Story Foundation; Pay Authors, Hatch Ideas, Share In IP Cash

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 23, 2012 @ 12:08pm PDTTags: Jodi Picoult
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The Story Foundation Nick HarrisEXCLUSIVE: Nick Harris, most recently the co-head of ICM’s Media Rights department, has teamed with entertainment financing specialist Jason Traub to form The Story Foundation. It is a funded company that will create intellectual properties that start as books with ancillary life in film, TV and other multi-platform opportunities. Harris will take a hands-on approach in hatching ideas and guiding writers to hone them. Traub has worked as a financier to banks specializing in entertainment, and most recently has been running his own boutique financing company focused on structured lending in the media world. He is also the brother-in-law of Harris, who has brokered book and movie deals at London-based AP Watt, RWSG and ICM. READ MORE »

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Ellen DeGeneres Wants To ‘Sing You Home’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 9:23am PDTTags: Anjelica Huston, Craig Zadan, Daniel Radcliffe, Debra Messing, Ellen DeGeneres, Footloose, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Jodi Picoult, Neil Meron, Nick Cassavetes, Steven Spielberg
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Ellen DeGeneres is teaming with Storyline partners Craig Zadan and Neil Meron to produce Sing You Home, a feature film based on the bestselling novel by Jodi Picoult. DeGeneres will be involved solely as producer on this, and I’m … Read More »

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Emily Bestler Gets Atria Books Imprint

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 8, 2011 @ 7:43am PSTTags: Brad Thor, Jodi Picoult, Simon & Schuster, Vince Flynn
Mike Fleming

At the Simon & Schuster division Atria Books, Emily Bestler has been promoted to editor and chief and senior vice president, and she has gotten her own imprint–Emily Bestler Books–which will debut this spring. She has been with S&S for … Read More »

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