Beautiful Sales: Trade Roughage 03/04/08

By Karina Longworth on March 4, 2008 at 8:30 am

The season's hot debut novel gets sold, and Full Frame gets its debut film.

Warner Independent Pictures has picked up adaptation rights to Beautiful Children, the hot-right-now literary debut of Charles Bock. Bock, who was the subject of much high-profile press earlier this year, managed to finish his novel in just ten years by ignoring his girlfriend five nights a week.
Trumbo, a documentary on blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, in which the writer’s letters are read by stars like Joan Allen and Paul Giamatti, will open the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival on April 3.
IFC has picked up Fear(s) of the Dark, a French animated film which “presents the stylized interpretations of nightmares from six graphic artists and cartoonists.”
Bob Marley’s ex-wife wants Lauryn Hill to play her in the biopic she just sold to The Weinstein Company. Oddly, the adaptation of Rita Marley’s autobiography is being handled by Working Girls director Lizzie Borden who, according to IMDb, hasn’t worked since directing an episode of Red Shoe Diaries a dozen years ago.