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variety.com - 6/27/2009
Dreamworks, Frey in 'Four' play
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Film News: Studio acquires rights to embattled author's book -- DreamWorks is firming up a deal to preemptively acquire screen rights to "I Am Number Four," the first of a six-book science fiction deal that has "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" director Michael Bay aboard to produce and possibly direct.
DREAMWORKS, FREY IN "FOUR" PLAY
weblogs.variety.com - 6/26/2009
DREAMWORKS, FREY IN "FOUR" PLAY
— weblogs.variety.com — DreamWorks has acquired screen rights to “I Am Number Four,” the first of a six-book science fiction... book series that has “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” director Michael Bay aboard to produce and possibly direct. DreamWorks is working on a high ... DREAMWORKS, FREY IN "FOUR" PLAY

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variety.com - 6/27/2009
Dreamworks, Frey in 'Four' play - Entertainment News, Film News, Media
— variety.com — Studio acquires rights to embattled author's book DreamWorks is firming up a deal to preemptively acquire screen... rights to "I Am Number Four," the first of a six-book science fiction deal that has "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" director Michael ... Dreamworks, Frey in 'Four' play - Entertainment News, ...

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mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com - 6/26/2009
Under the Covers, James Frey Pitches Again
— mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com — James Frey, the author of "A Million Little Pieces" and "Bright Shiny Morning," is working with another... writer and anonymously shopping a young adult novel called "I Am Number Four." Under the Covers, James Frey Pitches Again

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Michael Bay To Direct Adaptation of Book by Embattled ‘A Million Little Pieces’ Author?
/Film — ... Here’s what we know: according to Variety, Dreamworks is working to preemptively buy the rights to I Am Number Four, the first novel in a projected six-book sci-fi series, eyeing Michael Bay to produce and possibly direct. The unpublished novel is being shopped around with the two authors represented by a single pseudonym. But the interest level rose when reports surfaced that one of the writers is James Frey, who rose to fame, then infamy, as the author of the partly fictional ...

'Wild Things' & 'Parnassus' To Appear At Comic Con 2009, Jason Lee Joins Kevin Smith's 'A Couple Of Dicks,' Trailer For 'Daybreakers'
:: The Playlist :: — ... has acquired the screen rights to "I Am Number Four," the first in a series of six upcoming sci-fi novels which has Michael Bay on board to produce and possibly direct. The story centers on a group of nine earthbound alien teens as they try to assimilate into high school and discover that they are being hunted by the enemy that blew up their planet. This sounds horrible even for the Disney children's show it sounds like. [Variety] ...

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