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Shane Salerno’s JD Salinger Biography Eyes Global Windfall

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 18, 2013 @ 12:24pm PDTTags: JD Salinger, Salinger, Shane Salerno, Simon & Schuster
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: It took Shane Salerno eight years and $2 million of his own cash to make his JD Salinger documentary and book. It’s paid off quickly: The Weinstein Company landed worldwide rights to the movie and will release it during Oscar season September 6, it will air on PBS’ American Masters in 2014, and Simon & Schuster scooped up the 700-page Salinger biography from Salerno and David Shields. All three deals were for seven figures, making it one of the richest-ever pacts for a feature docu. Now comes foreign book sales: I’m hearing the London Book Fair is hot over The Private War Of J.D. Salinger, which is not a companion to the movie but an oral biography featuring more than 100 never-before-seen photos and material not found in the two-hour film. Multiple six-figure advances are on the table in London, I’m told, and Simon & Schuster has already concluded at least one major overseas rights deal for the UK and Commonwealth — with Simon & Schuster UK — before rivals even arrived at the sales confab. The plan is to publish the book in the UK simultaneously with its September release in the U.S. Salerno will speak directly with other foreign publishers next week, and other deals could come from magazine serialization as well as a secondary push following the film’s big- and small-screen debuts. Overall, it’s possible global sales could reach into the several million dollars, putting the book in the black before it hits shelves, a rare feat in the current book business. The Salinger bio was repped by The Story Factory.

I can also shoot down a rumor: there will be no special footage of the film screening at the Cannes Film Festival, which unveiled its slate this morning. I’m told Salerno is still editing the movie around the clock, and he might even still be shooting footage if his Twitter feed is to be believed.

Salerno is repped by CAA and attorney Robert Offer.

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News Corp’s HarperCollins And CBS’ Simon & Schuster In Merger Talks: WSJ

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 20, 2012 @ 3:05pm PSTTags: CBS Corp, HarperCollins, News Corp, Simon & Schuster

The News Corp publishing unit has expressed interest in acquiring CBS Corp‘s Simon & Schuster book unit, according to the Wall Street Journal. If true, the overture comes less than a month after News Corp reportedly … Read More »

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Chuck Lorre Signs Vanity Card Book Deal With Simon & Schuster

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 10:23am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, CBS, Chuck Lorre, Chuck Lorre Vanity Cards, Simon & Schuster

Chuck Lorre’s TV vanity cards are coming to a bookstore near you. Simon & Schuster announced today that the executive producer of CBS’ Two and a Half Men, Big Bang Theory and Mike & Molly has signed a … Read More »

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Apple E-Book Price-Fixing Trial Date Set

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday June 23, 2012 @ 11:38am PDTTags: Apple, E-Books, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster

The federal judge in the e-book price-fixing case against Apple and book publishers who haven’t settled out of court has set a trial date of June 3, 2013, Bloomberg reports. Of the five publishers … Read More »

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Will Feds Challenge Apple And Publishers’ E-Book Pricing Arrangement?

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday March 8, 2012 @ 12:11pm PSTTags: Amazon, Apple, E-Books, HarperCollins, iPad, Kindle, Simon & Schuster

Apple AntitrustIt could be a fascinating anti-trust case according the details reported by The Wall Street Journal. The paper says that the Justice Department is gearing up to sue Apple and five top publishers — Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Penguin Group, Macmillan, and HarperCollins — for conspiring to fix e-book prices around 2010 when the tech company introduced its iPad. The group allegedly wanted to end Amazon’s practice of selling e-books for a deeply discounted $9.99, part of the company’s strategy to promote sales of its Kindle e-readers. Hoping to loosen Amazon’s grip on the market, and help its new iPad, Apple encouraged publishers to stop selling books wholesale — which enabled retailers to set the selling price– and to adopt a so-called “agency model.” That empowers publishers to set the sales price, and pay retailers a fee of about 30%. The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson that he told publishers “the customer pays a little more, but that’s what you want any way.” He added that Read More »

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Simon & Schuster Shifts Pub Date Of ‘Savages’ Prequel To Coincide With Film Release

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 29, 2012 @ 4:06pm PSTTags: Don Winslow, Oliver Stone, Savages, Simon & Schuster, The Kings Of Cool
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Simon & Schuster has moved the publication date of the Don Winslow novel The Kings Of Cool from fall to June 26. The move was made to bring the book closer to the launch of Savages, the Oliver Stone-directed … Read More »

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Simon & Schuster To Coincide Don Winslow Prequel Novel Bow With Release Of Oliver Stone-Directed ‘Savages’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 5, 2012 @ 10:07am PSTTags: Don Winslow, Oliver Stone, Shane Salerno, Simon & Schuster, The Kings Of Cool
Mike Fleming

New York, NY, January 4, 2012: Simon and Schuster announced today that Don Winslow’s The Kings of Cool, the much-anticipated prequel to his New York Times bestseller Savages will be published to coincide with the release of Academy Award winning filmmaker Oliver Stone’s major film of Savages from Universal Pictures in September 2012. Savages stars Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro (Traffic), Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights, John Carter, Battleship), Blake Lively (Gossip Girl, The Town), Demian Bichir (A Better Life), Aaron Johnson (Anna Karenina), two-time Oscar nominee John Travolta, Oscar nominee Uma Thurman, Emile Hirsch (Milk), Mia Maestro (Twilight) and Oscar nominee Salma Hayek. The screenplay is written by Shane Salerno & Don Winslow & Oliver Stone.

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CBS Chief Les Moonves Says Ad Sales Should Stay Strong Into 2012

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday September 14, 2011 @ 1:26pm PDTTags: CBS, CBS Films, CSI, ESPN, Hulu, Les Moonves, Netflix, NFL, Simon & Schuster

CBS chief Les Moonves joined the chorus of media execs telling analysts today that they aren’t feeling any pain from the anemic economy. “We don’t see a slowdown,” he told the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications and Entertainment Conference. Ad pricing in the TV scatter market is strong, he says. Also, “people who bought (ads) in the upfront are increasing their orders.”  Even radio and billboards are holding up. Indeed, Moonves expects the television network to be “very much in demand in the first quarter. Our schedule is very strong. The other guys have a lot of new shows. I know we’re the boring network, but we’re the stable network and we just win.” Stations also will benefit from what he says will be a record level of spending for the 2012 elections. “It may not be good for the country, but it’s going to b good for CBS.” Read More »

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Don Winslow To Write Prequel To ‘Savages’ As Oliver Stone Ramps Up Production

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 6, 2011 @ 10:19am PDTTags: Aaron Johnson, Blake Lively, Don Winslow, Emile Hirsch, John Travolta, Oliver Stone, Salma Hayek, Savages, Shane Salerno, Simon & Schuster, Taylor Kitsch, Uma Thurman
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Simon & Schuster has made a deal for Don Winslow to write a prequel novel to Savages, his bestseller that forms the basis of the film that Oliver Stone will begin shooting for Universal Pictures July 6, with Taylor … 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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Reveille & Jack Black To Turn A.J. Jacobs’ Book ‘My Life As An Experiment’ Into Sitcom

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday July 12, 2010 @ 4:24pm PDTTags: Books, Electric Dynamite Productions, Jack Black, My Life as an Experiment, Reveille Productions, Simon & Schuster, TV, TV Rights
Nellie Andreeva

MyLifeasanExperimentJacketEXCLUSIVE: Reveille and Jack Black’s Electric Dynamite Prods. have optioned the TV rights to journalist/author A.J. Jacobs’ best-selling non-fiction book My Life As An Experiment for a potential half-hour comedy series. This marks one of the first projects under Black’s two-year … Read More »

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