"Independent producer Nick Wechsler ("North Country") has launched development of Bruce Bauman's debut novel "And the Word Was". Story's centered on a grief-stricken emergency room physician who leaves New York for India after the death of his son in a Columbine-like massacre and searches for life's meaning amid the poverty of New Delhi..." (full details)
"Laura Linney has signed to star in the HBO miniseries "John Adams" opposite Paul Giamatti. Tom Hooper, who won an Emmy for helming cabler's "Elizabeth I," has come aboard to direct all seven hourlong episodes. Giamatti was cast several months ago as Adams who will be portrayed in his earlier years as a Massachusetts lawyer working behind the scenes to mobilize the revolt of the colonies. Linney will play Adams' wife, Abigail, whose letters to her husband..." (full details)
"Actress Kate Bosworth has bought the film rights to Catherine Hanrahan's novel "Lost Girls and Love Hotels". The story revolves around a disenfranchised English specialist slowly who becomes increasingly haunted by images of a Western girl missing in Tokyo and begins an affair with a mysterious gangster..." (full details)
