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Paula Mazur & Mitchell Kaplan Adopt ‘The Orphan Master’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday April 26, 2012 @ 12:46pm PDTTags: Mitchell Kaplan, Paula Mazur

EXCLUSIVE: Two months before the book is due out, producers Paul Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan have optioned film rights to Jean Zimmerman’s The Orphan Master. The historical serial-killer thriller, set in the New Amsterdam of 1633, will be published by Viking on June 19. Mazur and Kaplan, whose Mazur Kaplan Company along with Kevin McCormick optioned the Helen Simonson bestseller Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand last year, are currently in pre-production on The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, starring Kate Winslet and directed by Kenneth Branagh. Zimmerman is repped by Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency in association with CAA.

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‘Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand’ In Film Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 11:14am PDTTags: Kevin McCormick, Mitchell Kaplan, Paula Mazur
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Producers Paula Mazur, Mitchell Kaplan and Kevin McCormick have acquired screen rights to the Helen Simonson novel Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. Jack Thorne has been hired to write the script for a film that will be a co-production between … Read More »

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Fox 2000 Buys ‘Delirium,’ Makes Overall Deal With Author Lauren Oliver’s Lit Venture

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 24, 2011 @ 12:37pm PSTTags: Elizabeth Gabler, Jon Shestack, Lauren Oliver, Maria Maggenti, Mitchell Kaplan, Paula Mazur
Mike Fleming

Elizabeth Gabler’s Fox 2000, one of the more prolific studio book buyers, has closed a deal for screen rights on Delirium, the Lauren Oliver novel which hit the New York Times bestseller list for childrens books in its first week … Read More »

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