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NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - The Weinstein Company has picked up domestic distribution rights to "Blood Sisters," the first film adaption from the popular young adult novels, "Vampire Academy." "Mean Girls" director Mark Waters will direct the film, which should begin shooting this summer. The Weinstein Company wants to release …

(Reuters) - Amanda Knox, the U.S. college student cleared of murder by an Italian court after four years in prison, will talk publicly about the trial for the first time to ABC News in April, the network said on Monday. Knox, 25, will discuss the sensational case with Diane Sawyer in an interview to be broadcast on April …

(Reuters) - Truman Capote's true-crime novel "In Cold Blood" is getting renewed attention after the Wall Street Journal reported it has found evidence raising questions about some details in the celebrated book. The newspaper said it has reviewed a "long-forgotten cache" of documents from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A British writer has written a book based on Jane Austen's classic novel "Pride and Prejudice" but told from the servants' point of view, its U.S. publisher said on Thursday. In "Longbourn," which will be released later this year in the United States, writer Jo Baker focuses on a romance between the …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When author Mary Blume moved from New York to Paris in the early 1960's, a friend introduced her to Florette Chelot, the top saleswoman for fashion designer Cristobal Balenciaga. The friendship that developed with Chelot was the initial impetus for Blume's new book, "The Master of Us All," which borrows …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Publication of Lawrence Wright's new book about the Church of Scientology is being held up in Canada while Knopf U.S. awaits to results of a legal review, a company spokeswoman told TheWrap. "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief" was released last month in the United States, …

TORONTO (Reuters) - Tom Carter found himself homeless, jobless, with little money and 6,000 miles from home after answering a job posting on Craigslist that turned out to be a scam. But rather than return to San Francisco, Carter found a teaching job along China's Yellow River Delta, which is a world away from Beijing and …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Gore Verbinski will direct and produce the outsourcing comedy "Pyongyang." New Regency and Verbinski's shingle Blind Wink will join forces on the film, which will adapt a graphic novel by Guy Delisle. The book recounts the French-Canadian cartoonist's travels to North Korea, where he supervised …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios has secured the feature film rights to Jojo Moyes' novel "Me Before You," MGM announced Tuesday. "Jojo's book is frankly one of the most unique, emotional and engaging love stories written in recent years," said MGM president Jonathan Glickman. "We're so thrilled to …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Killing Lincoln," the National Geographic Channel drama based on Bill O'Reilly's bestseller, will premiere February 17 at 8 p.m., the network said Thursday. Perhaps not coincidentally, the debut, falls on Presidents Day weekend. The film - which, according to the network, "thrillingly chronicles …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Robert Jordan's book "A Memory of Light" retained the No. 1 spot on Publishers Weekly's bestseller list on Thursday for the second consecutive week. The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Last …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A groom and his closest college friends descend on Miami for a high-society wedding but get waylaid by Haitian refugees, Russian gangsters, an angry stripper and a beautiful Cuban woman in author Dave Barry's latest book, "Insane City." Fortified with medical marijuana brownies and alcohol, the groom …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Whitney Houston's mother has told People magazine that she questions her skills as a parent and wonders if she could have saved her superstar daughter from the drug use that played a role in her death. "Was I a good mother?" Cissy Houston, 79, was quoted as telling the celebrity magazine in an advance …

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co's North American president, Mark Reuss, was considered for the top job at the U.S. automaker in 2010 before his lack of seasoning led the board to the current chief executive, Dan Akerson, according to an excerpt from a forthcoming book by GM's former CEO, Ed Whitacre. As GM, which …

(Note strong language in book title in paragraph 3) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Adam Mansbach moves out of the bedroom and into the world of graffiti in his new book "Rage is Back," a tale of redemption revenge featuring a "nerd with swagger" and his father. Kilroy Dondi Vance, a biracial teenager, is kicked out of his elite Manhattan …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Writing a novel wasn't the tough part for Srikumar Sen, a sports journalist. He just didn't have the time - for a long time. In fact, it took nearly half a century after he had his idea before he sat down to write. But when he did, the first draft just poured out. Sen, now 81, made his debut last month …

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Vancouver neighborhood of men who drink fig-infused martinis and eat fiddleheads on skewers faces a crisis when a beer-swilling, barbecue-loving truck driver moves in. An Olympic mascot marmot kidnaps a young boy from his parents. These are just a few of the tales in "Better Living Through Plastic Explosives," …

(Reuters) - John Powers, a U.S. author and motivational speaker who wrote about his experiences growing up Catholic in Chicago including the novel "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" has died, his family said on Thursday. Powers, 67, died late Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Robert Jordan's book "A Memory of Light" jumped to the No. 1 spot on Publishers Weekly's bestseller list on Thursday. The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Last Week 1. "A Memory of Light" by …

LONDON (Reuters) - Etiquette expert and Reuters columnist Mary M. Mitchell found that using a dog as an intermediary helped to take the sting out of tricky discussions with a treasured friend. Mitchell created an email personality for her French bulldog ZsaZsa LaPooch and began sending her friend Nessa emails from the dog …

LONDON (Reuters) - Giant corporations will have to consign the alpha male office culture to the paper shredder if they want to hang on to today's high-flying 20- and 30-somethings, particularly women. The world's top firms will struggle to inspire the "millennial" generation with a reward culture based on endless hours …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sushma looks as if she's in her late forties but she's not sure about her real age. Her name isn't real either, just the one she goes by in New Delhi's red light district. She is among the many women, men and children living and working in brothel number 300 on Garstin Bastion Road, known as "G.B. …

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Philip Roth says that since retiring from writing, he wakes up each morning and has a glass of orange juice. Then he goes back to bed and reads. "I'm doing fine without writing," he said Monday. "Someone should have told me about this earlier." Roth's contentment will disappoint legions of readers …