Warner Bros. picks up &quot;Heap&quot; of books
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With &quot;Harry Potter and  the Order of the Phoenix&quot; breaking boxoffice records, Warner  Bros. Pictures -- on the lookout for its next franchise -- has  picked up the rights to another seven-book children&#39;s fantasy  series, &quot;Septimus Heap.&quot;
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Warner Bros. Pictures,  whose &quot;Harry Potter&quot; series is past the halfway mark, may have  found its next big all-ages franchise. The studio has come out  on top of a bidding war for the rights to upcoming children&#39;s  book series &quot;Skulduggery Pleasant&quot; by Irish author Derek Landy.
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The book retailer looks a little pricey at the moment.
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The next Harry Potter book has just been announced, and it&#39;s rocketed--or broomsticked--to No. 1 on Amazon.com&#39;s best-seller list.
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Warner Bros Entertainment has agreed with United Arab Emiratesâ Aldar Properties and Abu Dhabi Media to set up a film and video game production firm.
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DC Comics tries to reach what it sees as underserved readers.
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Digital audio downloads save shelf space, and patrons don&#39;t have to wait until a book is returned. Remember how exciting it was as a child to go into the library to fill out an application for your very own
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment  Group on Tuesday became the latest division of a major  Hollywood studio to offer television shows, including the hit  sitcom "Friends," for sale on Apple Computer Inc's   iTunes Web site.
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The deal is likely to mean that audiobooks will become the latest addition to its fast-growing music download store.
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The final book in the Harry Potter series sold an estimated 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours of sale, setting a new record for the book industry, according to U.S. publisher Scholastic.
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New products will include a free Acrobat reader with reviewing capabilities.
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Gregory David Roberts' "Shantaram: A Novel," which is scheduled for publication next week by St. Martin's Press, has attracted the attention of Warner Bros. Pictures as a starring vehicle for Johnny Depp.
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Entertainment companies had been vying for MGM to get their hands on its library of more than 4,000 titles. Time Warner initially was seen as the front-runner in the race.
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The News Corp. publishing division appears to have a winning title on its hands.
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Major movie studious Paramount, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., and New Line Cinema all said today that they have adopted the new high definition DVD disc format (HD-DVD), and will begin issuing movie titles in the new format in 2005.
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In most book-to-screen transfers, the big question is what to eliminate. But with Chris Van Allsburg&#39;s popular children&#39;s book &quot;The Polar Express,&quot; the challenge was what to embellish.
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Nearly 1.6m copies of the final Harry Potter book have been ordered online ahead of its release later this month.