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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has enlisted Girls Trip scribe Tracy Oliver to adapt The Wedding Date from New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory, with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry set to produce for Archewell, alongside Tracy Ryerson. The Wedding Date sees a chance elevator encounter on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is developing BadAsstronauts, the 2022 novella from top genre author Grady Hendrix, for film, with Todd Garner and Adam Goldworm to produce and Hendrix to exec produce. The novella is described as a blue-collar space odyssey about a washed-up astrophysicist who…

Lionsgate's The Housemaid, adapted from Freida McFadden's best-seller, will be one of the last book adaptations to release in 2025. Originally it was set to go against Timothée Chalamet's Marty Supreme at the box office, but now it will open against Avatar: Fire & Ash. Find everything we know…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Spenser Cohen & Anna Halberg have sold Apple Original Films the pitch for a feature adaptation of The Teacher, the bestseller from hot genre author Freida McFadden, sources tell Deadline. Apple declined to comment. But we’re told the duo will adapt the…

Following the death of Shopaholic author Sophie Kinsella, Isla Fisher is paying tribute to the woman who created one of her breakout roles. On Wednesday, the actress grieved Kinsella’s death with a heartfelt statement, more than 15 years after starring as shopping addict Rebecca Bloomwood in Conf…

One of Apple's most highly anticipated series is Margo's Got Money Troubles, based on the book by Rufi Thorpe. Loaded with a star-studded cast, the book adaptation has gone into production, bringing together the likes of Elle Fanning to Nick Offerman to Michelle Pfeiffer and more. For all…

Netflix has roped another season of Ransom Canyon, its Texas-set series based on the book by Jodi Thomas. The Season 2 renewal came two months after the April debut of the show on the streamer. The first season ran for 10 episodes, weaving together overlapping storylines with a large ensemble of…

Sophie Kinsella, the best-selling British author whose ‘Shopaholic’ novel series became the basis of 2009 film Confessions of a Shopaholic, has died. She was 55. The author, who also wrote under her real name Madeleine Wickham, had been suffering from a rare form of aggressive brain cancer. She…

Apple TV has set the release date for David E. Kelley's Margo's Got Money Troubles series adaptation based on the book by Rufi Thorpe. The show will premiere with three episodes on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. The show will star Elle Fanning in the titular role of Margo, recent college dropout and…

Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell), Annabeth Chase (Leah Sava Jeffries) and are setting sail for Season 2. The television adaptation of Rick Riordan's series has already been renewed for a third season, with production underway. That's more than the film franchise got, stopping after The Sea of Monst…

Season 3 of My Life With the Walter Boys is adding some new faces to the cast. Erin Karpluk (Being Erica, Smoke) will portray George's (Marc Blucas) nomadic sister Hannah, mother of Isaac (Isaac Arellanes) and Lee Garcia (Myles Perez) who left her two sons to live with the Walters and took off…

EXCLUSIVE: Heidi Engerman will be stirring up trouble as Yancy Grey's (Jack Schumacher) wife in Season 2 of Netflix's Ransom Canyon. Deadline exclusively reported Engerman's casting alongside Ben Robson (Animal Kingdom) in September. In an exclusive interview with Deadline in November, Ransom Can…