TV adaptations of Cheng, Clarke books receive development funding
TV adaptions of Melanie Cheng's short story collection Australia Day (Text) and Maxine Beneba Clarke's Foreign Soil (Hachette) have received funding from Screen Australia in its latest development funding announcement. The...
‘The Strays’ to be adapted into six-part drama series
Emily Bitto’s Stella Prize-winning novel The Strays (Affirm) will be adapted into a six-part drama series as a co-production of See Pictures and Apogee Pictures. Beatrix Christian (Picnic at Hanging...
Adaptations win at AACTA Awards 2018
The 2018 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards have been announced, with many of the awards going to book-to-screen adaptations. The award for best adapted screenplay went...
UK films based on books create 44% more revenue
A new research report commissioned by the UK Publisher’s Association (PA) has found that UK-produced films based on books generate 44% more revenue in the British box office (and 53%...
‘The Dressmaker’ adaptation prompts film tie-in, international interest
Australian publisher Duffy & Snellgrove will release a film tie-in edition of local author Rosalie Ham’s The Dressmaker in August—the publisher’s first new book since 2005—ahead of the film adaptation’s release in...
The Box Office effect: The popularity of YA book-to-film adaptations
As YA’s popularity has risen in recent years, so too have the number of big-screen adaptations. Carody Culver investigates the effect on the publishing industry.As kids, many of us probably...
Screen Australia announces funding for book-to-film adaptations; nonfiction from Garner and Law among the projects
A film based on Helen Garner’s nonfiction book Joe Cinque’s Consolation (Pan) is the latest book-to-film project to receive funding from Screen Australia. The film will be directed by Sotiris Dounoukos, who...
Xoum memoir optioned for film
The film rights for Lenuta Hellen Nadolu’s memoir Give Me Courage (Xoum) have been optioned for film by producer Stuart Quin in association with production company Ealing Studios. Publisher Xoum told...
Lemony Snicket’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ to be adapted for Netflix
Lemony Snicket’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ (HarperCollins) will be adapted into a drama series by Paramount for distribution through online streaming service Netflix, reports the Bookseller. Paramount, which is yet to...
Screen Australia announces funding for book-to-film adaptations
A film based on the comic memoir Lost Cat by US author Caroline Paul (illus by Wendy MacNaughto, Bloomsbury) is the latest book-to-film project to receive funding from Screen Australia. Lost Cat will be...
Shaun Tan exhibition to travel to regional areas
An exhibition based on Shaun Tan’s book The Lost Thing (Hachette) will tour nine regional centres from 2015 to 2017, after the Australia Council for the Arts awarded the Australian...
‘Tiddas’ optioned for television
Anita Heiss’ most recent novel Tiddas (Simon & Schuster) has been optioned for television. Pursekey Productions has optioned the book ‘with a view to making it into a six-parter’, according...
Madman acquires film rights to ‘Quota’
Film rights to Quota by Jock Serong (Text) have been optioned by Madman. ‘We are delighted that Madman has optioned Jock Serong’s acclaimed debut Quota, and look forward to working closely...
Moriarty’s ‘Little Big Lies’ optioned for film by Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman’s production companies have optioned the film rights to Big Little Lies by Australian author Liane Moriarty (Pan Macmillan).Deadline Hollywood reports that Kidman and Witherspoon ‘will...
Canberra-based political thrillers to be adapted into TV miniseries
Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis’ political thriller The Marmalade Files, along with the newly released sequel The Mandarin Code (both HarperCollins), are being adapted into a TV mini-series by Matchbox...
Book-to-screen adaptations pitched at Books at MIFF
The eighth annual Books at MIFF (BaM) was held on 31 July as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).The event, which is run by 37º South Market, began...
Eight of the 20 top-grossing films adapted from UK books
A British Film Institute (BFI) report has found that eight of the world’s 20 highest-grossing film releases from 2001 to 2013 were adaptations of novels by UK authors, reports the Bookseller. The adaptations were four films based on J...
Book adaptations nominated for AWGIE Awards
The Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) has announced the nominees for the 47th Annual AWGIE Awards for screen, television, stage and radio writing. Among the nominees are a number of works adapted from...
Andy Griffiths TV cartoon premieres in Australia
A TV cartoon based on Andy Griffiths’ The Day My Bum Went Psycho (Pan) premiered in Australia this month. The 80-episode series called The Day My Butt Went Psycho screened...
Andy Griffiths TV cartoon to premiere tomorrow
A TV cartoon based on Andy Griffiths’ The Day My Bum Went Psycho (Pan) will premiere in Australia tomorrow. The 80-episode series called The Day My Butt Went Psycho will...