Amazon Publishing is launching Kindle Worlds, a publishing platform that lets authors sell fan fiction based on properties like Gossip Girl. Amazon Publishing retains the rights to the works and will set the prices. So much for those 50 Shades problems.
Perhaps Gus Van Sant is out of luck, reports today indicate that Joe Wright, the director of Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and Anna Karenina, may be the guy who is going to undertake the film version of mommy-porn phenomenon Fifty Shades of Grey. And he might be perfect.
Today in show business news: Lots of casting stuff, including a sordid rumor about Emma Watson, a potentially holy gig for Christian Bale, and a 90210 actress having a comeback.
Today in showbiz news: Some interesting choices to adapt America's favorite S&M sex book, Joss Whedon has some good news, and one movie promises the end of days.
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Fifty Shades of Grey insanity has now reached complete saturation (we hope): In addition to Fifty Shades sheets, hotels in Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco are offering packages based on the erotica trilogy.
Today: A zombie movie is in trouble, Angelina Jolie might be into bondage, and a Stephen King classic gets another look.
Today in books: 50 Shades is read in the North but loved in the South; Bob Woodward's new book is about the Obama economy; authors are not reading their elders.
Look, I'm not afraid to say it: 50 Shades of Grey is a terrible book. I know this because I have started reading it. It didn't take long to figure out.
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Today in books: Edward Klein's "exposé" on Barack Obama gets an unfavorable review; 50 Shades hits the bodegas, Colbert's Sendak quote, and more.
The freakout over a Tina Brown Newsweek cover story is basically becoming a cliché at this point, but the addition of Slate's contrarian-at-large Katie Roiphe made this week's troll-bait all but irresistible.
This must've sounded edgy to Tina Brown: Get Katie Roiphe (the Katie Roiphe) to write about 50 Shades of Grey for a Newsweek cover story and watch the media pull out their hair and keel over. Unfortunately, everyone's too busy laughing to be outraged.
Today in books and publishing: 50 Shades of Grey gets a parody spin-off, fan fiction gets a defense, and Jodi Picoult says the darndest things.
If bestselling books turned into movies are hot, bestselling books about kinky sex turned into movies about kinky sex must be even hotter.
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