'Bridgerton,' 'The Queen’s Gambit' Among Books Surging in Sales After Netflix Series Adaptations

NEW YORK -- Fiction by Garth Greenwell and Douglas Stuart and nonfiction by author-comedian Samantha Irby are among this year's nominees for the Lambda Literary Awards, given for the best of LGBTQ writing.Greenwell's “Cleanness” and Stuart's “Shuggie Bain,” winner of the Booker Prize last fall, are contenders for best gay fiction, along with Joon Oluchi Lee's “Neotenica,” Brandon Taylor's “Real Life” and Dennis E.

Toni Collette will make a feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Lily King’s Writers and Lovers. Topic Studios, which recently released the Jodie Foster-starrerThe Mauritanian, is behind the project that is based on the New York Times bestseller.

Oscar-nominated actress Toni Collette is set to mark her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of New York Times bestselling novel, Writers And Lovers by Lily King. The project is set up at Topic Studios with Collette producing under her Vocab Films label. She’s also adapting the screenplay with Nick Payne (The Crown).

NEW YORK -- Oh, the books that sold last week by Dr. Seuss.More than 1.2 million copies of stories by the late children's author sold in the first week of March — more than quadruple from the week before — following the news that his estate was pulling six books because of racial and ethnic stereotyping.

Mariah Carey is being sued by her older brother Morgan following the release of her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey.

Here comes the bride! Summer House star Hannah Berner is engaged to boyfriend Des Bishop, Us Weekly confirms.

here.

Mary-Kate Olsen enjoyed dinner with Brightwire CEO John Cooper on Friday night. 

Emmy and Golden Globe winner America Ferrera is set to make her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by author Erika Sánchez, who will serve as a co-producer on the film. Anonymous Content and MACRO are producing the pic, which will be released on Netflix.

The Queens Drive-In, which became a lifeline for New York film distributors, festival organizers, awards campaigners and cooped-up cinephiles in 2020, has booked an encore for this spring.

EXCLUSIVE: In what shapes up as a hot package for the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin, Ryan Gosling has committed to star in The Actor, with Duke Johnson directing a script he wrote with Stephen Cooney, based on Donald E. Westlake’s hard boiled novel Memory.

FX has landed the rights to a New York Times writer's best-selling book. The network is adapting cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth's newly released nonfiction bookThis Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, which chronicles the history of cyberwarfare and how the U.S.

Amazon has set the Season 2 cast for its half-hour romantic anthology series Modern Love, based on The New York Times column. The new season was filmed in Albany, New York City, Schenectady, and Troy, New York and Dublin, Ireland, and will premiere on Prime Video later this year in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Mila Kunis will star in the feature film adaptation Luckiest Girl Alive for Netflix. The bestselling novel from Jessica Knoll centers on Ani FaNelli, a sharp-tongued New Yorker who appears to have it all: a sought-after position at a glossy magazine, a killer wardrobe, and a dream Nantucket wedding on the horizon.

Mila Kunis is taking on an exciting new role!

Mila Kunis will take on the role of Ani FaNelli in its upcoming film adaptation of Jessica Knoll's best-selling 2015 novel of the same name.The film follows Ani, «a woman who must confront a dark truth when asked to participate in a crime doc and reflect on a shocking incident from her past,» Netflix tweeted." centers on Ani FaNelli, a sharp-tongued New Yorker who appears to have it all: a sought-after position at a glossy magazine, a killer wardrobe, and a dream Nantucket wedding on the

Danny Huston has joined the cast of Across the River and Into the Trees, the feature adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's final novel and New York Times bestseller, heading to Berlin's virtual European Film Market with The Exchange. Now in production in Venice, Italy, Huston joins six-time Golden Globe nominee Liev Schreiber, Josh Hutcherson and Italian actresses Matilda De Angelis (The Undoing) and Laura Morante (Cherry on the Cake, The Ball).

Mila Kunis has signed on to topline the Netflix feature adaptation of Luckiest Girl Alive, based on author Jessica Knoll’s 2015 New York Times bestselling novel of the same name.

EXCLUSIVE: Newcomer Ainsley Seiger has been cast as a series regular opposite Christopher Meloni, Dylan McDermott, Tamara Taylor and Danielle Moné Truitt, in Law & Order: Organized Crime, and Charlotte Sullivan (Rookie Blue), Nick Creegan (David Makes Man), Ben Chase (The Last Thing He Wanted) and Jaylin Fletcher (Snowpiercer) are set to recur in NBC’s SVU spinoff series.