Here’s news of Frankfurt, Ukraine’s Andrey Kurkov, and rights sales in this Roundup from Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, France, and Norway.
‘Loving Highsmith’: Switzerland’s Eva Vitija on Her Biopic
‘Access to the girlfriends’: ‘Loving Highsmith’ by filmmaker Eva Vitija offers a new glimpse of the elusive author Patricia Highsmith.
Books to Screen Edition: Patricia Highsmith via Switzerland
Fans of Patricia Highsmith can look forward to adaptations of her five Mr. Ripley books as well as ‘Deep Water,’ coming to Showtime.
Books to Film: No Hard and Fast Rules
By Liz Bury The heyday of huge film deals being made for books may be over, but, there’s still big money on the table for the right kind of story. Deals are being done, however the sums are often more conservative than they were during the boom years. “The money is less,” said Josie Freedman of ICM, as part of …