Author Patricia Cornwell has OK'd a deal with Lifetime to adapt two of her crime novels into movies.At Risk was first published in 2006 while its sequel The Front hits bookshelves next month. They are the first novels by Cornwell to be produced for TV or the big screen. — J.R. Whalen
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Turner Broadcasting has secured the broadcast-premiere rights for King Kong, scheduled to swing on to TV in 2008.... Universal Pictures is working on a big-screen adaptation of Robert Ludlum's The Sigma Protocol, about an American economist targeted by professional assassins.... Per Variety, the current front-runners to be the Bond girl in Casino Royale are Eva Green (The Dreamers) and Olivia Wilde (The O.C.).... Crime author Patricia Cornwell is donating at least $500,000 to help researchers solve the mystery of the sinking of the Confederate submarine Hunley. If only she invested as much in the ending of Trace. Grrrr.
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