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Over the last couple of years, it's been tough not to notice the increase in dramatic rights deals in the book industry. A quick search on Publishers Marketplace reveals a new film or television deal almost every week.  Read more

Book-to-screen deals are reported by the Hollywood trades in pieces that dutifully mention the novelists, directors and actors involved but often leave out the people who actually made it happen - the agent or manager who hooked up the players, the producer who optioned it years ago, the book scout whose secret source shared the proposal before book publishers had even seen it.

The relationship between the book, TV and film industries has never been stronger trade figures have said, with new, hungry players such as Netflix and Amazon Prime spurring on the number of dramatic rights deals being struck.  Read more

A clash of opposing worldviews. Countless innocent lives at stake. Dirty street-fighting and a race to save the country from a maniacal, self-indulgent sociopath. Sure, that was Wednesday's presidential debate - but the new Jack Reacher movie is pretty exciting too.  Read more

This story first appeared in the May 22 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.