Sharps revolves around 30-year-old Tyler Flynn, a nice guy with a normal job, a great girlfriend, and a secret that’s eating away at him: he’s one of the millions of Americans addicted to sports gambling. After hitting rock bottom and struggling to tell his loved ones about what he’s done, he finds a way to win back everything (and more) when he’s recruited into a sports gambli...
The third installment of the anthology series, following Jocelyn Wildenstein a Swiss socialite known for her extensive cosmetic surgery, resulting in her catlike appearance; her 1999 high-profile divorce from billionaire art dealer and businessman Alec Wildenstein; and her extravagant lifestyle and subsequent bankruptcy filing.
“The Anarchy” will be mounted as an international co-production between Wiip and Roy Kapur Films to be produced across the U.S., U.K. and India. The book tells the story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires, the Mughal empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company – a dangerously unregulated private company based thousands of mile...
Cary, who is under an overall deal at Sony Pictures Television, also revealed that he’s developing Macintryre’s Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle.
That book follows an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors from a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany.
The book explores the eliti...
A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and is a set of 13 interrelated stories with a large set of characters all connected to Bennie Salazar, a record company executive, and his assistant, Sasha. Her bestselling 2022 follow-up novel The Candy House revisits some of the characters and their progeny.
First up is an adaptation of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War. The book tells the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a former KGB colonel who became a bureau chief in London and was a double agent, providing information to the British secret intelligence service MI6.
It tells the story of how, on a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood o...
Follows Cecil Peachtree, a schoolteacher, and Dooley, an outlaw, as they strike a deal and develop an odd friendship along the road to Fortune after having to deal with gunfights, jailbreaks and saloon gals on the way.
Emancipation to Exodus (wt) explores the African American struggle for freedom and opportunity “from the Civil War and end of slavery, through Reconstruction and the start of the Great Migration out of the south that began in the early 20th century,” according to a release about the film.
MRC has acquired rights to This, But Again, a short story by David Iserson.
Life is a reoccurring simulation and Marcus is stuck inside it—re-experiencing his life exactly as it was, from the beginning. Until he is able to change just one thing. This, But Again, is a story of love, regret, fate, and a software error that transforms the universe. Iserson, who began his writing c...
The story follows Alex and Poppy, who have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—bu...
Set in the closing months of WWII, Fog of War tells the story of injured American pilot Gene and his OSS agent fiancée Penny as they retreat to a remote estate in Massachusetts to stay with Penny’s distant uncle Robert. Unbeknownst to her, the OSS has recruited Gene to spy on the family and the surrounding community as top-secret documents related to the D-Day invasion have bee...
The Dwelling tells the story of a newly divorced father who discovers a house buried in his backyard. He is a former all pro football player trying to ease into retirement, and the hits he took on the field starts to make him unsure what is real and imagined, as things begin to go awry. The short story has a fantastic male lead at its center.
What Happens At Night, a finalist for the LA Times‘ Book Prize for Fiction, is a dream-like story of a married American couple who travel to a small, snowy European town to adopt a baby.
The couple check into a cavernous, largely deserted hotel where they encounter an enigmatic cast of characters including a flamboyant chanteuse, a depraved businessman and a charismatic faith h...
