Warner Bros. Has Announced Release Date for Feature Film Adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot
Warner Bros. has announced that its upcoming feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot will be released on September 9th. Salem’s Lot is produced by James Wan and Gary Dauberman, who also wrote and directed the film. Lewis Pullman will star as author Ben Mears. The cast also includes Makenzie Leigh, Alfre Woodard, Bill Camp, John Benjamin Hickey, Nicholas Crovetti, Jordan Preston Carter, William Sadler, Spencer Treat Clark, Cade Woodward, Debra Christofferson, and Pilou Asbaek.
To All the Boys Author Jenny Han Signs Overall Deal with Amazon Studios
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before author Jenny Han has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios. Along with Wiip, Amazon is currently producing a series adaptation of her novel The Summer I Turned Pretty. Under her new deal with Amazon, Han will also create and develop new projects for the Amazon Prime streaming platform. “Adapting my novel The Summer I Turned Pretty into a television series at Prime Video has been an incredible experience, and I’m so thrilled to now expand my relationship with them,” Han said in a statement. “I’ve been telling stories for as long as I can remember, first on the page, then onscreen, and now I’m delighted to start this new chapter: creating and championing stories about coming of age at every age for Prime Video’s global audience.”
Joan He’s Newest Fantasy Novel Strike the Zither Gets a Cover Reveal
Joan He, author of 2021’s The Ones We’re Meant to Find, is publishing an epic fantasy YA duology, and the cover for the first book has been revealed. According to the tweet from Text YA & Kids, Strike the Zither is “the first book in a duology inspired by the Three Kingdoms, the first of the Four Classics of Chinese Literature.” The novel is now available for preorder and will release on October 25th of this year.