Clooney buys rights to Grisham's book
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Actor and filmmaker George Clooney has teamed up with Warner Bros.' specialty studio to buy the movie rights to "The Innocent Man," the first nonfiction book by best-selling novelist John Grisham.
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NEW YORK -- Barnes &amp; Noble Inc., the biggest US bookseller, received a subpoena from a US attorney requesting documents on its stock options practices, according to a regulatory filing.
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The New York Times Co. , owner of The Boston Globe, said it will buy a 49 percent stake in Metro Boston, the free newspaper distributed to commuters.
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A woman accused of stalking Catherine Zeta Jones owned a book signed by the actress, a court hears.
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The rights to publish Tony Blairâs memoir were bought by two divisions of Random House: Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada and Hutchinson in Britain.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota  - Arizona businessman  Reggie Fowler has agreed to buy the Minnesota Vikings, making  him the NFL's first black owner, the team said on Monday.
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O.J. Simpson's scuttled book about  the murder of his ex-wife popped up for sale on eBay on  Wednesday and attracted a top bid of more than $1,600 before it  was removed.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota  - Arizona businessman  Reggie Fowler has agreed to buy the Minnesota Vikings, making  him the NFL's first black owner, the team said Monday.
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By Eric Benderoff, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 2--At a time when everyone from stay-at-home moms to international media conglomerates call themselves publishers, a small Chicago company sitting in the middle of a distribution revolution was purchased Friday by Web giant Google Inc.
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O.J. Simpson's scuttled book about the hypothetical murder of his ex-wife appeared for sale on the Internet on Wednesday, attracting bids of $1,500 within the first two hours.
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Mandalay Entertainment has optioned film rights to "The Hookup Handbook: A Single Girl's Guide to Living It Up," which is scheduled to be published in March.
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George Clooney will produce a movie based on John Grisham's "The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town."
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Arizona businessman Reggie Fowler agreed to buy the Minnesota Vikings in a deal that would make him the NFL's first black owner.
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A real estate investment firm has purchased the original Warner Bros. studio for $125 million from the Tribune Co., according to a newspaper.
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Wendyâs International said that it had reached a deal to give the billionaire investor Nelson Peltz access to the companyâs books as he considers making an acquisition offer.
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Incisive Media, a British business news provider, said Thursday it will pay about $630 million to buy the publisher of The American Lawyer and other titles as it seeks to boost its product range and strengthen its foothold in North America.
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A production company that made the action film "Sahara" reneged on a deal to give best-selling author Clive Cussler creative control of the movie based on his book, his attorney said Friday.