“Angelfall” fantasy bestseller to be adapted into movieNovember 15, 2012 - 17:19 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Good Universe have acquired multipicture rights to Susan Ee’s bestselling book series “Angelfall”, TheWrap said. Sam Raimi (“Spider-Man” trilogy) and Rob Tapert (“The Possession”) will produce the feature film adaptation. Joe Drake (“Hunger Games”) and Nathan Kahane (“Hope Springs”) will executive produce. Initially self-published, this fantasy novel was released in the fall of 2011 through Amazon Children’s Publishing, after being courted by multiple publishing houses. “Angelfall” became an instant success across a broad demographic of readers resonating with the ravenous young adult crowd as well as adults. The book ranked number one on Amazon’s Most Wished for Teen Book list and number one best seller in Sci-fi & Fantasy. Susan Ee is a lawyer turned writer, and “Angelfall” is her debut novel. The second book in the series will release in Fall 2013. Sam Raimi said, “Susan is a brilliant writer. She has created a fantastic world with instantly engaging and real characters. I immediately connected with the material and knew that she had conceived the perfect combination for a great fantasy film.” Lucy Stille of Paradigm brokered the deal on behalf of Susan Ee whose book she first read as a self-published e-book. The deal was negotiated for the producers by Dan Freedman. Aaron Lam brought the book to the producers. Nicole Brown will oversee for Good Universe. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |