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An Option on “Damnation Street”

February 10, 2013 Books

What I guess is now the leading show business trade “publication” — Nikki Finke’s blog Deadline Hollywood — had a nice mention of a project of mine this week. And — cool! — this is my blog, so I get to link to it here: Fox Hill Productions has optioned development and production rights to Andrew Klavan’s mystery trilogy Dynamite [...]

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Homelanders Movie Update

November 25, 2012 Books

  Next to “How do you keep your boyish good looks?” the question I’m asked most often is “When will the Homelanders movie come out?” The answer is I keep a portrait of myself in the attic and while it grows older, I remain supernaturally young. Oh — and the other answer is: I don’t [...]

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“Homelanders” At CNN’s The Wrap

July 1, 2012 Books

At CNN’s show biz site The Wrap, Lisa Carroll writes an article entitled “One of These Books is The Next Hunger Games,” featuring six young adult novels headed for the screen — one of them being my own Homelanders series. What it has going for it: The script is being written by Mike Chapman, and [...]

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“Warlands” Option Renewed

May 14, 2012 News

Independent producer Dan Lupowitz has renewed his option on Andrew’s screenplay “Warlands.” The script is the only romantic comedy Andrew has ever written. The story follows two video gamers who fall in love with the same girl gamer. Lupowitz first optioned the story a year ago. Lupowitz is the producer of such films as “Good” [...]

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Animal Hour Comes Round Again

February 27, 2012 Books

Nice news — over in the news section — that my screenplay adaptation of my novel Animal Hour has been optioned for film. I was always fond of the premise of this book. Girl goes to work. No one knows who she is! She gets thrown out of her own office by people she thinks [...]

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Andrew’s “Animal Hour” Optioned for Film

February 27, 2012 News

Andrew’s 1993 thriller novel The Animal Hour has been optioned for film by Double Life Productions. The company has worked in the past with Millennium Films, producer of The Expendables. The option came on the strength of Andrew’s recent screenplay adaptation of the novel. Animal Hour is the story of Nancy Kincaid, who goes to [...]

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Homelanders in the Hollywood Reporter

August 15, 2011 Culture

This article in last week’s Hollywood Reporter laid out the team that will be tackling the Homelanders movie: Miles Chapman has been hired to pen Summit’s adaptation of Homelanders, a young-adult book series by Andrew Klavan. Screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, best known as the showrunners of TV’s Smallville, are working with Chapman in [...]

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Movie: Bridesmaids

June 1, 2011 Culture

[Possible spoiler - though I think everything here is in the trailer.] So regarding Bridesmaids:  reality check me here.  A bride and her bridesmaids go to a high-class dress shop.  They all get food poisoning and vomit and have diarrhea over everything.  Is that a funny idea?  Am I missing something?  I mean, I get [...]

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“Warlands” Optioned

May 24, 2011 News

Andrew’s first ever romantic comedy screenplay has been optioned. The script, called “Warlands,” deals with a pair of video gamers who fall in love with the same girl gamer. “I never thought I’d write a romantic comedy,” Andrew says, “but I think the story is unique and it had been bothering me for over ten [...]

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DVD: Country Strong

May 18, 2011 Culture

If ever there was a woman who should be seen and not heard it is Gwyneth Paltrow.  I find her stunningly beautiful, but every time she opens her mouth off-screen she sounds awesomely shallow, spoiled rotten and anti-American. In fact, I can’t help wondering if the expatriate actress took this role as an alcoholic country [...]

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