Clooney buys rights to Grisham's true crime 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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Taking a page from the movie  industry's marketing playbook, global book club DirectGroup  said on Thursday it will sell the latest thriller from  best-selling author James Patterson to its members in 16  countries in eight languages simultaneously.
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Entertainment company 2 Way Traffic NV said Friday it agreed to buy the global rights to "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" for 106 million pounds ($207.1 million) from Celador International.
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The family of Nicole Brown Simpson wants a piece of the rights to O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It" book that a proposed federal bankruptcy court settlement would award solely to the estate of Ron Goldman, who was slain along with Simpson's ex-wife in 1994.
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A Miami bankruptcy judge on Friday gave the father of Ron Goldman the rights to a book by O.J. Simpson that speaks in hypothetical terms about the 1994 murders of Goldman and Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole.
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The New York Post reported Wednesday that Maurice R. Greenberg had been buying hundreds of thousands of The New York Times CompanyÂs shares.
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The half sister of convicted murderer Scott Peterson has written a book about the "untold story" of the case &#151; and why she believes he's guilty, her publisher announced Thursday.
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A court Wednesday convicted an author of directing the killing of a businessman in a crime that bore eerie similarities to a murder he described in a novel three years later.
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TNT has snatched up the off-network rights to CBS' second-year crime series "Cold Case" for &#36;1.4 million per episode, sources said.
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A sheriff&#39;s detective testified that he found a book autographed by Catherine Zeta-Jones and her husband, Michael Douglas, in the home of a woman charged with stalking Zeta-Jones.
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An author sued by a film company after her novel about life as a truck-stop prostitute was exposed as a hoax was found liable for fraud on Friday in a case involving tales of the author's multiple personalities.
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The onetime football star admits in an interview that the book deal was "blood money," but claims it was no different from any other books about the notorious murders
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A fifteen-year struggle for the film  rights to Patrick Sueskind's top-selling novel "Perfume"  culminates this week in the premiere of the grisly 18th century  murder story, featuring Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has sold the rights to his political memoir, which will feature his views on the U.S. war on terrorism and the Bush administration, to Simon & Schuster imprint Free Press, the publisher said on Wednesday.
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Private investment firm JDS Capital Management, Inc. on Thursday said it acquired DreamWorks Music Publishing, a unit of the DreamWorks entertainment group that holds the rights to music by legendary artists John Denver and The Byrds and popular tracks including "The Thong Song" and "Take the A Train."
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Google News has signed a deal which it says is aimed at cutting down on multiple copies of the same story, and will give the original authors credit over those who redistribute it.
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Some things John Grisham knows: He got 15 rejections before his first book, "A Time to Kill," was published. He made $9 million last year. He's not James Joyce or William Faulkner. He's an entertainer.