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DC has big plans for June's Pride Month, including the launch of an 80-page anthology comic featuring LGBTQIA+ characters from across the DC Universe. The anthology DC Pride #1 will feature cameos by Batwoman, Renee Montoya, Alan Scott, Midnighter, Apollo, Extraño, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Constantine, and more. The D…

Norton Juster, author of the acclaimed modern classic children’s books The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line, died last night. He was 91. His death was confirmed by Penguin Random House. Additional details were not immediately available. Both of Juster’s most well-known works of the early 1960s were adapted…

EXCLUSIVE:  Corbin Bernsen’s Home Theater Films has optioned author Daniel Friedman’s Buck Schatz trilogy for a limited series. Friedman’s mystery series – comprised of Don’t Ever Get Old, Don’t Ever Look Back and Running Out of Road –  tells the story of an 87-year-old World War II veteran and retired police officer…

She’s been Connie Conehead, the youngest spawn of Beldar and Prymaat. Or perhaps you remember her as Christie Christina, the cohost of E. Buzz Miller’s public access cable show. Maybe you recall the stints as a TV news reporter on Chevy Chase’s version of SNL’s “Weekend Update” segments. However you remember Lara…

EXCLUSIVE: After a competitive situation, Annapurna has successfully optioned the rights to bestselling author Sarah Gailey's most recent novel The Echo Wife and is adapting the book as a feature film. Gailey will executive produce the project alongside Annapurna. In The Echo Wife, brilliant scientist Evelyn Caldwell…

EXCLUSIVE: Torrey Peters’ groundbreaking novel Detransition, Baby is in the works for the small screen. Anonymous Content is developing the novel as a television series. Peters is executive producing the project and will write the pilot episode. Veteran writing and producing duo Joan Rater and Tony Phelan (Council of D…

Editors note: Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 for his debut novel The White Tiger, which his old Columbia University classmate Ramin Bahrani turned into the movie that has been generating awards buzz since its Netflix release in January. Adiga penned a guest column for Deadline about how the pair became…

Stephen Colbert kicked off Tuesday night’s episode of The Late Show with a dose of optimism. “Normal life is somewhere out there waiting for us,” the late night host said during his opening monologue. The source of Colbert’s  excitement? More promising news about Covid-19 vaccines. During his segment, Colbert…

UPDATE With Fox News going all in on today’s news that six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published due to their offensive depictions of racial caricatures, White House press secretary Jen Psaki lauded efforts at diversity and inclusion in children’s literature. Psaki was asked specifically about the wording of…

EXCLUSIVE: Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film (The Boys) and Sony Pictures Television have acquired the rights to the upcoming War Arts Saga fantasy novel trilogy by The Lives of Tao bestselling author Wesley Chu to adapt it for television. The three books are set to be published by Del Rey in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Jason Ni…

Republican Senators have asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a letter why a book that “challenges the transgender movement” was pulled from sale on the website. The book, When Harry Became Sally by Ryan T. Anderson, was an Amazon bestseller. Its description says it provides “thoughtful answers to questions arising from our…

Bridgerton, which has become Netflix’s biggest series ever, continues to raise the bar as the series-turned-cultural phenomenon handed Julia Quinn and the Vitamin String Quartet boosts in book sales and streams, respectively. Netflix revealed that following the show’s explosive December debut, Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton…