The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers unveiled the nominees for this year’s Scribe Awards. Early this year, they announced that prolific tie-in writer Dayton Ward had been named the recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Award for the year.
Adapted Novel
· Blast from the Past! By Chris McGuire (The Racoons)
· Cwej: Requiem by James Hornby (Doctor Who)
· Doctor Who: 73 Yards by Scott Handcock
· Doctor Strange: Dimension War by James Lovegrove
· Terrifier 2: The Official Novelization by Tim Waggoner
Audio Drama
· Archipelagio by Tim Foley (Doctor Who)
· Cass-Cade by James Moran (Doctor Who)
· The Krillitane Flint by John Dorney (Doctor Who)
· Nowhere Never by Katherine Armitage (Doctor Who)
· Star Cops – Blood Moon by James Swallow
Graphic Novel
· Alex Rider: Snakehead by Antony Johnston
· Dark Souls: The Willow King by George Mann (Dark Souls)
· Godzilla vs. Cthulu by Jonathan Maberry
· Infinite Darkness: The Beginning by Keith R.A. DeCandido...
Adapted Novel
· Blast from the Past! By Chris McGuire (The Racoons)
· Cwej: Requiem by James Hornby (Doctor Who)
· Doctor Who: 73 Yards by Scott Handcock
· Doctor Strange: Dimension War by James Lovegrove
· Terrifier 2: The Official Novelization by Tim Waggoner
Audio Drama
· Archipelagio by Tim Foley (Doctor Who)
· Cass-Cade by James Moran (Doctor Who)
· The Krillitane Flint by John Dorney (Doctor Who)
· Nowhere Never by Katherine Armitage (Doctor Who)
· Star Cops – Blood Moon by James Swallow
Graphic Novel
· Alex Rider: Snakehead by Antony Johnston
· Dark Souls: The Willow King by George Mann (Dark Souls)
· Godzilla vs. Cthulu by Jonathan Maberry
· Infinite Darkness: The Beginning by Keith R.A. DeCandido...
- 7/24/2025
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper are returning to Doctor Who! The original stars of the 2005 revival will reunite as the Ninth Doctor and his companion, Rose Tyler. However, this time, they will appear in an audio drama instead of on TV.
The new series, The Ninth Doctor Adventures, will feature twelve full-cast episodes. It marks the 20th anniversary of their first appearance in Doctor Who. The first episode, Snare, is written by Tim Foley and takes place between Father’s Day and The Empty Child.
Here’s the official synopsis from Big Finish:
Related: ‘Doctor Who’ Season 15 Episode Titles Released Along Small Clips
“Kevin left the Powell Estate a long time ago. He wasn’t going to be trapped there. But all these years later, he’s back and clearing out his dad’s old flat. At least his neighbors, the Tylers, are still here.
But Rose has a...
The new series, The Ninth Doctor Adventures, will feature twelve full-cast episodes. It marks the 20th anniversary of their first appearance in Doctor Who. The first episode, Snare, is written by Tim Foley and takes place between Father’s Day and The Empty Child.
Here’s the official synopsis from Big Finish:
Related: ‘Doctor Who’ Season 15 Episode Titles Released Along Small Clips
“Kevin left the Powell Estate a long time ago. He wasn’t going to be trapped there. But all these years later, he’s back and clearing out his dad’s old flat. At least his neighbors, the Tylers, are still here.
But Rose has a...
- 3/26/2025
- by Valentina Kraljik
- Comic Basics
A24 is closing on Eva Victor’s Sundance hit Sorry, Baby, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed on Sunday.
Victor’s film — which she wrote, directed and starred in — tells the story of a college professor recovering from sexual assault. Per the logline, “Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.”
A24 noted that bidding was an incredibly competitive situation, but that the studio is closing on acquiring worldwide rights to the movie. The final price tag is still unknown.
Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi and Kelly McCormack co-star, with Moonlight‘s Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak as producers. The movie took home Sundance’s Waldo Salt Award for Screenwriting, and earned a 100 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. THR’s Jon Frosch called it “a winning, at times strikingly strong big-screen debut.”
The film also landed on THR...
Victor’s film — which she wrote, directed and starred in — tells the story of a college professor recovering from sexual assault. Per the logline, “Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.”
A24 noted that bidding was an incredibly competitive situation, but that the studio is closing on acquiring worldwide rights to the movie. The final price tag is still unknown.
Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi and Kelly McCormack co-star, with Moonlight‘s Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak as producers. The movie took home Sundance’s Waldo Salt Award for Screenwriting, and earned a 100 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. THR’s Jon Frosch called it “a winning, at times strikingly strong big-screen debut.”
The film also landed on THR...
- 2/2/2025
- by Zoe G. Phillips
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Filming has begun in Scotland on Big Beach’s adaptation of Borges And Me starring Fionn Whitehead, Luis Gnecco, and Alan Cumming.
Marc Turtletaub directs from a screenplay by Oren Moverman in which the memoir’s author Jay Parini finds himself stuck in a Morris Minor chauffeuring the brilliant, blind Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges through Scotland in 1970.
As a young student, Parini harbours dreams of becoming a writer and struggles to make sense of the 70-year-old, irrepressible Borges, until events take a surreal turn, leading the men to a place where they find common ground. The cast includes Peter Mullan and Harriet Sansom Harris.
Marc Turtletaub directs from a screenplay by Oren Moverman in which the memoir’s author Jay Parini finds himself stuck in a Morris Minor chauffeuring the brilliant, blind Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges through Scotland in 1970.
As a young student, Parini harbours dreams of becoming a writer and struggles to make sense of the 70-year-old, irrepressible Borges, until events take a surreal turn, leading the men to a place where they find common ground. The cast includes Peter Mullan and Harriet Sansom Harris.
- 10/2/2024
- ScreenDaily
Fionn Whitehead and Luis Gnecco are set to star in Borges and Me, an adaptation of Jay Parini’s memoir of his 1970s journey through the Scottish Highlands with renowned Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Parini is best known for his historical novel The Last Station, which was adapted as an Oscar-nominated feature by Michael Hoffman in 2009.
Dunkirk actor Whitehead, fresh off his performance as Pip opposite Olivia Colman’s Miss Havisham in the FX/BBC production of Great Expectations, will play Parini, with Chilean-Italian Gnecco, best known for his roles in Neruda, No, and A Fantastic Woman, as Borges. The cast also includes Alan Cumming, Peter Mullan, and Harriet Sansom Harris.
In Borges and Me, Parini, a 23-year-old shy student who dreams of becoming a writer, finds himself stuck in chauffeuring the brilliant, blind Borges, aged 70, through Scotland. At first, Parini is at a loss to make sense of the wild,...
Dunkirk actor Whitehead, fresh off his performance as Pip opposite Olivia Colman’s Miss Havisham in the FX/BBC production of Great Expectations, will play Parini, with Chilean-Italian Gnecco, best known for his roles in Neruda, No, and A Fantastic Woman, as Borges. The cast also includes Alan Cumming, Peter Mullan, and Harriet Sansom Harris.
In Borges and Me, Parini, a 23-year-old shy student who dreams of becoming a writer, finds himself stuck in chauffeuring the brilliant, blind Borges, aged 70, through Scotland. At first, Parini is at a loss to make sense of the wild,...
- 10/2/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As per Radio Times, fans of Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor can rejoice, with official news stating that her character will return to the franchise as she makes her Big Finish audio debut in the upcoming "Once and Future: Coda The Final Act". Big Finish's 60th Anniversary celebrations have been taken to new heights with this news, as their eighth and final chapter begins to take shape. Tim Foley's full-cast drama will pit two of Doctor Who's most intriguing Time Lord incarnations together, with Martin's Fugitive Doctor and The War Doctor, voiced by Jonathon Carley. An official synopsis for the upcoming audio drama reads:...
- 7/10/2024
- by Jake Hodges
- Collider.com
Exclusive: Big Beach, the production company behind Starz’s Vida and Facebook’s Sorry For Your Loss, has landed television rights to Alexandra Tanner’s debut novel Worry.
Worry follows two siblings-turned-roommates, one a 28-year-old media employee, navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity. The book has been described as a “Seinfeldian” novel of existentialism and sisterhood.
Lesley Arfin, co-creator of Netflix comedy series Love, which starred Gillian Jacobs, has signed on to write the pilot episode alongside Tanner.
Worry was released last week by Scribner and was described by the New York Times as a “fabulous comic novel of young adult angst.”
Set in 2019, it follows 28-year-old Jules Gold — anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed — who has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she’d marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. Poppy, a year and a...
Worry follows two siblings-turned-roommates, one a 28-year-old media employee, navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity. The book has been described as a “Seinfeldian” novel of existentialism and sisterhood.
Lesley Arfin, co-creator of Netflix comedy series Love, which starred Gillian Jacobs, has signed on to write the pilot episode alongside Tanner.
Worry was released last week by Scribner and was described by the New York Times as a “fabulous comic novel of young adult angst.”
Set in 2019, it follows 28-year-old Jules Gold — anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed — who has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she’d marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. Poppy, a year and a...
- 4/1/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Last Animal,” the award-winning bestselling novel from Ramona Ausubel, has been snatched up for film adaptation by production companies Walden Media and Big Beach.
Ry Russo-Young has been set to direct the feature based on the emotionally resonant story. Published in April 2023 by Riverhead Books at Penguin Random House, Ausubel’s work was named best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews and Oprah Daily, among others. A distributor has not yet been set.
“Last Animal” follows teenaged sisters Eve and Vera, unexpectedly spending summer vacation on their mother’s scientific expedition. Fooling around in the permafrost, the sisters accidentally uncover a perfectly preserved, four-thousand-year-old baby mammoth. The discovery sends mother and daughters from the slopes of Siberia to the shores of Iceland to an exotic animal farm in Italy, resulting in the birth of a creature that could change the world — or at least their family.
“I...
Ry Russo-Young has been set to direct the feature based on the emotionally resonant story. Published in April 2023 by Riverhead Books at Penguin Random House, Ausubel’s work was named best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews and Oprah Daily, among others. A distributor has not yet been set.
“Last Animal” follows teenaged sisters Eve and Vera, unexpectedly spending summer vacation on their mother’s scientific expedition. Fooling around in the permafrost, the sisters accidentally uncover a perfectly preserved, four-thousand-year-old baby mammoth. The discovery sends mother and daughters from the slopes of Siberia to the shores of Iceland to an exotic animal farm in Italy, resulting in the birth of a creature that could change the world — or at least their family.
“I...
- 3/1/2024
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Big Beach, the producer of “Little Miss Sunshine,” A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” and “The Farewell,” has fully relocated from New York to Los Angeles while building out its ranks.
Keetin Mayakara has been tapped by Big Beach as a producer. As a post producer, she has worked on the Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo,” and most recently, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” another Academy Award nominee. Before joining Big Beach, Mayakara co-produced the “The Year of the Everlasting Storm,” which premiered at Cannes Film Festival, and produced Season 2 of HBO’s “Random Acts of Flyness.”
Austin Cottle joins the company as its head of finance after starting his career at 20th Century Fox with stints in-house at Netflix and Amazon, as well as on the show side where he oversaw “How to Become a Tyrant” for Netflix and “The Heart of Sergio Ramos” for Prime Video.
Zoe Levine...
Keetin Mayakara has been tapped by Big Beach as a producer. As a post producer, she has worked on the Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo,” and most recently, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” another Academy Award nominee. Before joining Big Beach, Mayakara co-produced the “The Year of the Everlasting Storm,” which premiered at Cannes Film Festival, and produced Season 2 of HBO’s “Random Acts of Flyness.”
Austin Cottle joins the company as its head of finance after starting his career at 20th Century Fox with stints in-house at Netflix and Amazon, as well as on the show side where he oversaw “How to Become a Tyrant” for Netflix and “The Heart of Sergio Ramos” for Prime Video.
Zoe Levine...
- 1/5/2024
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Wellington Paranormal‘s Mike Minogue and Shortland Street actor Tim Foley are launching creative talent agency Frank Management with Kiwi agent Naomi Ferry.
The trio has created the New Zealand-based company with a pledge to offer an alternative for all creatives seeking representation. They say their collective experience in acting, writing and producing and representation positions Frank as a “unique presence in the local industry.“
Frank will seek clients across all disciplines, including acting, writing and filmmaking.
Minogue, best known as ‘Officer Minogue’ in Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s series Wellington Paranormal, is also a writer and producer, having recently produced the 2021 Sundance film Coming Home in the Dark. He will be Head of Development.
“I’ve been fortunate in my career to have had success across different areas of our industry and will draw on my experiences both in front of the camera, and in the development and business side,...
The trio has created the New Zealand-based company with a pledge to offer an alternative for all creatives seeking representation. They say their collective experience in acting, writing and producing and representation positions Frank as a “unique presence in the local industry.“
Frank will seek clients across all disciplines, including acting, writing and filmmaking.
Minogue, best known as ‘Officer Minogue’ in Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s series Wellington Paranormal, is also a writer and producer, having recently produced the 2021 Sundance film Coming Home in the Dark. He will be Head of Development.
“I’ve been fortunate in my career to have had success across different areas of our industry and will draw on my experiences both in front of the camera, and in the development and business side,...
- 5/23/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers (Iamtw) recognizes the wide range of authors who work on media tie-ins. Often overlooked, these writers craft exciting tales using beloved characters and settings of franchises including the likes of Mike Hammer, Firefly, Murder She Wrote, James Bond, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Wars, Doctor Who, and Star Trek. These stories can be original adventures, or adaptations of movies or television episodes. They include all genres and a wide range of lengths and formats.
To recognize the accomplishments of the unsung authors in this particular field, the Iamtw sponsors the annual Scribe Awards. This year’s awards have six categories to highlight excellence in Novels, Short Stories, Audio Dramas, Young Adult/Middle Grade works, and Graphic Novels.
Congratulations to all the nominees.
Audio Drama:
The Enemy of My Enemy by Tracey Ann Baines
He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not by Carrie Thompson...
To recognize the accomplishments of the unsung authors in this particular field, the Iamtw sponsors the annual Scribe Awards. This year’s awards have six categories to highlight excellence in Novels, Short Stories, Audio Dramas, Young Adult/Middle Grade works, and Graphic Novels.
Congratulations to all the nominees.
Audio Drama:
The Enemy of My Enemy by Tracey Ann Baines
He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not by Carrie Thompson...
- 6/8/2021
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
• Oscar nominee Casey Affleck will return to his native Massachusetts to star in and produce a film based on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The script written by Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy (The Fighter) is based on the book "Boston Strong" by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge and chronicles the massive manhunt to find the two men believed responsible for the bombings and the city's response to the horrific events. [Variety] • Steve Carell will continue his trend of taking on less comedic roles in an untitled thriller from director Gore Verbinski (The Lone Ranger). The film will be the third straight...
- 10/8/2014
- by Jake Perlman
- EW - Inside Movies
Exclusive: Jemaine Clement, best known as one half of the comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, has linked up with Grace Is Gone helmer James C. Strouse for indie feature People Places Things. New Zealander Clement stars as a newly single, under-employed graphic novelist navigating life, his young twin daughters, a case of writer’s block, a classroom full of students, and a new love while letting go of the woman who left him.
Strouse recently wrapped principal photography, directing from his own script. Regina Hall, Stephanie Allynne, and Jessica Williams round out the cast of People Places Things. Michael B. Clark and Alex Turtletaub are producing for Big Beach spin-off shingle Beachside. Beachside’s Tim Foley is exec producer alongside Summer Shelton. Sundance award-winner Strouse, a recipient of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, made his writing debut with 2005’s Lonesome Jim for director Steve Buscemi and also penned Grace Is Gone...
Strouse recently wrapped principal photography, directing from his own script. Regina Hall, Stephanie Allynne, and Jessica Williams round out the cast of People Places Things. Michael B. Clark and Alex Turtletaub are producing for Big Beach spin-off shingle Beachside. Beachside’s Tim Foley is exec producer alongside Summer Shelton. Sundance award-winner Strouse, a recipient of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, made his writing debut with 2005’s Lonesome Jim for director Steve Buscemi and also penned Grace Is Gone...
- 10/7/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
(Photos: Warner Bros.)
As fairy tale movies go, Jack the Giant Slayer is pretty middle-of-the-beanstalk. While it may lack a key distinguishing feature that has made certain fairy tale flicks beloved classics (The Princess Bride's witty self-awareness; Legend's visual daring; Labyrinth's enchanting leading lady, David Bowie), it's a handsome, fast-paced, and nimble enough romp through one of bedtime lore's less complicated narratives. Moviegoers looking for a moving or truly awe-inspiring escape might be disappointed, but casual fans of well-staged action, decently-rendered CGI, and stature-indiscriminate sausage parties might want to check it out.
Wait, whah?
It's true: Jack the Giant Slayer may not be the funniest, cleverest, or most rapturous fairy tale movie around, but it is the manliest.
Let's start at the beginning (once upon a time, even), as young farmboy Jack is frightened by a storm and has to be comforted by his hulking but painfully adorable...
As fairy tale movies go, Jack the Giant Slayer is pretty middle-of-the-beanstalk. While it may lack a key distinguishing feature that has made certain fairy tale flicks beloved classics (The Princess Bride's witty self-awareness; Legend's visual daring; Labyrinth's enchanting leading lady, David Bowie), it's a handsome, fast-paced, and nimble enough romp through one of bedtime lore's less complicated narratives. Moviegoers looking for a moving or truly awe-inspiring escape might be disappointed, but casual fans of well-staged action, decently-rendered CGI, and stature-indiscriminate sausage parties might want to check it out.
Wait, whah?
It's true: Jack the Giant Slayer may not be the funniest, cleverest, or most rapturous fairy tale movie around, but it is the manliest.
Let's start at the beginning (once upon a time, even), as young farmboy Jack is frightened by a storm and has to be comforted by his hulking but painfully adorable...
- 3/1/2013
- by brian
- The Backlot
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