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Exclusive: Netflix Brazil is bringing Paulo Coelho’s The Pilgrimage to the screen. The streamer has greenlit a film adaptation of the Brazilian author’s novel, which will shoot in Brazil and Spain.

The commission was announced during Netflix’s session at the Rio2C market in Brazil and Coelho shared the news in a video message for attendees. Rio based Migdal Filmes will produce.

The Pilgrimage, first published in 1987, is one of Coelho’s early novels. In the book, he recounts a journey across Spain on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. He is accompanied by a spiritual guide and mentor and the novel deals with the main protagonist’s quest for spiritual learning and fulfilment.

Another adaptation in the works for Netflix hails from Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles and his son Quico Meirelles. They will jointly helm a miniseries based on Edyr Augusto’s novel Pssica.

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Legendary Entertainment has acquired the film, television, and ancillary rights to Paolo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist and will steer the feature film development of the project with Sony’s TriStar Pictures and Palmstar.

Jack Thorne, who adapted the family hit Wonder, and Netflix’s Enola Holmes, is attached to write.

The Alchemist tells the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way are pieces of wisdom which encourage those who find them to listen to their hearts, read the omens strewn along life’s path and follow their dreams. Originally written in Portuguese in 1988, Coelho’s novel became an international bestseller, and holds the record for the most translated work by a living author. The title has won several literary awards including the Grand Prix Litteraire Elle,...

Paolo Coelho’s modern classic “The Alchemist” is about to become a major motion picture. Legendary Entertainment has nabbed the film, television and ancillary rights to the worldwide literary sensation. Sony’s TriStar Pictures is set to distribute. Jack Thorne will pen the adaptation, which has been in development since at least 2016.

The novel concerns a young shepherd journeying to the pyramids of Egypt after having a recurring dream of finding fortune and glory within the ancient tombs. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way has taught its readers about the wisdom of listening to their hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life’s path, and following one’s dreams.

The novel, originally published in 1988 in Portuguese, has sold over 150 million copies since its publication. Its legion of fans took to its suggestion that “When you truly want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

The elusive feature adaptation of Paulo Coelho’s popular novel The Alchemist has gone from lead to gold — again.

Legendary Entertainment has secured the film, TV and ancillary rights to develop a feature based on the classic novel, with TriStar Pictures on board to release. Jack Thorne — whose film credits include Enola Holmes and The Swimmers — is attached to write the feature adaptation of a popular 1988 novel that has seen a road to the big screen as winding as the traveler’s philosophical journey in the book.

Laurence Fishburne had wanted to develop Coelho’s best-selling book for 16 years after acquiring the film rights from Warner Bros. Pictures with the intent of making the movie themselves. Warners acquired author Coelho’s book — about a traveler journeying the world during the Inquisition in order to find man’s purpose in the world — in 2003 as a Fishburne vehicle.

In 2008, The Weinstein Co.

Creative Artists Agency on Wednesday announced the elevation of five to agent, along with the promotion of another to an executive role.

Yasi Agahnia has been promoted to agent in the Music Touring area’s private events division, with Logan Binstock now to serve as a talent agent, and Abe Coelho working as an agent in the Media Finance department, led by Roeg Sutherland and Benjamin Kramer. Ryan Quint has assumed a post as agent in the Comedy Touring department, with Karen Schillinger to serve as an agent in in the Music Touring department, and Erik Toral as an executive in Global Client Strategy.

Agahnia, Binstock, Coelho, Quint and Toral will be based out of the agency’s Los Angeles office, with Schillinger working from Nashville.

Graduating with a degree in Communication Studies from the University of San Diego, Agahnia began her career in CAA’s mailroom in 2018 and later...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Book Club: The Next Chapter.

Towards the final act of Book Club: The Next Chapter, it seems like Vivian (Jane Fonda), who's the only one who's never been married out of her friend group, is finally going to walk down the aisle, but at the last minute Diane (Diane Keaton) takes her place, and it turns out to be the best way to conclude the film. The pair have reunited with Carol (Mary Steenburgen) and Sharon (Candice Bergen) on a whirlwind trip to Rome, Florence, Venice, and finally Tuscany that's full of romance, intrigue, and adventure in celebration of Vivian's bachelorette party. They're reading Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, and taking everything as "a sign."

Though the trip is an uproarious journey of self-discovery and unforgettable memories in Book Club 2's beautiful Italian locations, Vivian has the wedding jitters the entire time and has...

Since Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist came out in 1988, it’s obtained an almost apocryphal status that it’s bound to never outgrow. The book, which concerns an Andalusian shepherd on a journey to find out what his destiny is, has been acclaimed less as a gift of great literature than as a fount of self-help. Given that it’s an affirming and, especially, digestible tale of discovery and hope, it makes for an apt early reference point for Bill Holderman’s Book Club: The Next Chapter: Though its main characters don’t carry on an official reading series in this sequel, each points to Coelho’s book as something of a north star in their lives.

The film is cinema as affirmation, asking us to think of it as a ticket to a far-flung locale, where love might be birthed alongside conversations with good friends about innocuous barriers that we pretend are insurmountable.