THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY ACQUIRES WORLDWIDE PUBLISHING, FILM, AND TV RIGHTS TO BRIDIE CLARK’S ‘I THINK SHE’S GOT IT’
NEW YORK, NY (November 27, 2007)
The Weinstein Company is pleased to announce that the Company has acquired the worldwide publishing, film and television rights to Bridie Clark’s new novel, I THINK SHE’S GOT IT, a thoroughly modern retelling of Pygmalion. Weinstein Books will publish the novel in 2009. The Weinstein Company has optioned the rights to develop and produce the project for film and television. The announcement was made today jointly by Harvey Weinstein, Co-Chairman of The Weinstein Company and Weinstein Books President and CEO Rob Weisbach.
Set in contemporary Manhattan, I THINK SHE’S GOT IT is the story of a shy, young Midwesterner named Lucy Ellis who is transformed into a sophisticated socialite by Wyatt Hayes, a dashing but arrogant man-about-town who is convinced he can turn anyone?even the most awkward wallflower?into this year’s “it” girl. I THINK SHE’S GOT IT tells a timeless story of transformation and unlikely love set against a contemporary backdrop.
Says Weisbach, “Bridie Clark writes what she knows and does it with style: In I THINK SHE’S GOT IT, she offers an insider’s take on New York’s social and fashion circles and wraps it in sharply observed humor and undeniable charm. Bridie is a refreshing young writer whose future shines bright.”
Bridie Clark, a former book and magazine editor, graduated from Harvard University, where she was an editor of The Harvard Crimson. She has written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York, Quest, and Elegant Bride. Clark’s debut novel, BECAUSE SHE CAN, about a beleaguered young book editor who works for a notoriously tyrannical female publisher, was published in nineteen countries around the world and was reviewed and featured in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Glamour UK, and USA TODAY. Clark lives in New York City.
Weisbach negotiated on behalf of The Weinstein Company. Daniel Greenberg at the Levine Greenberg Agency in New York negotiated on behalf of the author.
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Weinstein Books published its inaugural list of titles in Fall 2007, including Padma Lakshmi’s Tangy Tart Hot & Sweet; Vincent Lam’s Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures; Chris Elliott’s Into Hot Air; and two new children’s series. Bob and Harvey Weinstein have an extraordinary track record in the publishing business, dating back to 1993 when they formed Miramax Books. Under the Weinsteins’ leadership, Miramax Books published many #1 New York Times/ bestsellers including Leadership by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Leap of Faith by Queen Noor, Big Russ & Me by Tim Russert, Summerland by Michael Chabon, the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer, and Ice Bound by Dr. Jerri Nielsen. Some of the other New York Times bestsellers published by Miramax Books include Plum Sykes’ Bergdorf Blondes and The Debutante Divorcée; Madam Secretary, a memoir by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; Kristin Gore’s debut novel, Sammy’s Hill; the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud; and Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir.
ABOUT THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY
The Weinstein Company (TWC) was created by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the brothers who founded Miramax Films Corporation in 1979. TWC is a multi-media company that officially launched on October 1, 2005. Dimension Films, the genre label that was founded in 1993 by Bob Weinstein, is also included under the TWC banner.
During the Weinsteins’ tenure at Miramax Films the company released some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful independent feature films which received 249 Academy Award® nominations and won 60 Oscars®, have generated billions of dollars in worldwide box office receipts and billions more in home video sales. In its history, Dimension Films has released some of the most successful franchises including ‘Scream,’ ‘Spy Kids’ and ‘Scary Movie.’
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