“Gilmore Girls” star Lauren Graham adapting YA novel “Windfall”June 7, 2017 - 11:00 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Lauren Graham is adapting Jennifer E. Smith’s young adult novel “Windfall” into a movie and will produce the film for her Good Game Productions, Variety said. “Windfall,” published in May by Delacorte Press, centers on a teenage girl whose parents died when she was a child. She buys her best friend a lottery ticket on his 18th birthday and he winds up winning $140 million, creating conflict between them, which makes the money feel like more of a curse than a windfall. Smith previously wrote “The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight,” which has been in development for several years with Dustin Lance Black attached to direct. Hailee Steinfeld was attached to star in 2014. Graham, best known for starring opposite Alexis Bledel on seven seasons of “Gilmore Girls,” wrote her first novel “Someday, Someday, Maybe” for Ballantine Books in 2013. She reprised her role as Lorelai Gilmore on Netflix’s “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life” last year and published a memoir “Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between).” The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood. 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. |