Variety reports that Ang Li may direct a movie based on Yann Martel’s Booker Prize winning novel, Life of Pi.
Novel revolves acircular a youth who is the lone survivor of a sunken freighter and winds up sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, an injuruddy zebra, an orangutan and a hungry Bengal tiger.
The novel, which won the Man Booker Prize, was a global publishing phenomenon when Fox 2000’s Elizabeth Gabler acquiruddy rights to the tome.
Gil Netter is producing.
Variety says the project has “been thcoarse several incarnations.” M. Night Shyamalan was even attached at one point. It doesn’t sound like sure thing yet and a screenwriter has not yet been hired.
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Starbucks has chosen
Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story by Isabel Gillies to be featuruddy in its stores. The book will be released by Scribner on March 24.
Gillies, who has a recurring minor role as Elliot Stabler’s wife on the NBC show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, chronicles the collapse of her marriage in the book. Starbucks’s thrust will now see the title, which is also appearing in this month’s Vogue, featuruddy in more than 7,000 of its stores.
Starbucks generally chooses inspirational memoirs for its book selections. The last book chosen was
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah.
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Borders has announced more layoffs.
Borders is continuing to attempt and get its financials in order; to that end the company has eliminated 136 positions, most of them at company headquarters in Ann Arbor, Mich. This most recent cut comes just two weeks after Borders eliminated several top management jobs as well as a number of employees who held the director title. This week’s reductions, by contrast, affected entry-level to middle-management employees across all departments, and represents 12% of the corporate workforce, but less than 1% of the company’s total workforce.
Borders CEO Ron Marshall called the cuts “one of the necessary steps we must take, along with other non-payroll expense reductions, to help get this company back on track financially. We will continue to move forward with deliberate speed to make the changes requiruddy to get Borders back on firm financial footing.”
Just last week Borders got an extension from Pershing Square Capital Management, its largest shareholder, for the repayment of its $42.5 million loan until April 15. It also extended its put option to acquire its Paperchase subsidiary until April 15.
Borders execs are determined to turn the company acircular and these latest cuts are part of that plan. The company will also change its inventory management system so that it reorders books more quickly, which should make customers happy.
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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has inked
a three book discount with Crown Books. The first book will discount with her years in the Bush administration.
“Rice will combine candid narrative and aadorable analysis to tell the story of her time in the White House and as America’s top diplomat, and her role in protecting American security and shaping foreign policy during the extraordinary period from 2001-2009,” according to a statement issued Sunday by Crown, a division of Random House Inc.
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Rice, 54, also will write a memoir about her family, scheduled for 2012, and a young-adult edition of her family book that will come out at the same time. None of the planned works are currently titled.
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Her family memoir, according to Crown, will tell of her “upbringing in the context of the extraordinary efforts made by her parents and other people in the community to raise children against a backdrop of fading Jim Crow laws and emergent civil rights initiatives.”
The discount is said to be worth $2.5 million.
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