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HOME IN THE MORNING by Debut Novelist Mary Glickman is Open Road’s First E-Riginal to Head to Big Screen
(New York, NY – March 8, 2011) Jane Friedman, CEO and co-founder of Open Road Integrated Media, today announced that director/producer Jim Kohlberg (THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED) has optioned Mary Glickman’s debut novel HOME IN THE MORNING, for feature film adaptation. Open Road president and co-founder Jeffrey Sharp (BOYS DON’T CRY, YOU CAN COUNT ON ME, PROOF and EVENING) will executive produce for Open Road with Luke Parker Bowles and Peter Riva. This marks the company’s first e-riginal to be adapted for film.
With the e-book publication of HOME IN THE MORNING in November, 2010, Mary Glickman joined a new breed of authors whose work premieres exclusively in electronic format (with a print on demand component). In addition to her publishing partnership with Open Road, Glickman has partnered with Open Road on the film rights as part of the company’s innovative e-riginals all screens program.
“Open Road offers a unique opportunity for filmmakers, such as Jim, to partner with an author and his or her work early in the publishing process. We are thrilled to collaborate with him in introducing this new content model,” said Jeffrey Sharp of Open Road Integrated Media. “Jane and I are very excited to watch Jim translate Mary’s beautifully written story to film.
Jim Kohlberg says, “As a filmmaker, I look forward to tackling Mary’s complex vision of love, family and tradition in the world of 1960’s civil rights America. I have a unique affinity for this world, its language and characters and am confident that I’ll find the perfect cast to play Katherine Marie and Jackson and Stella Sassaport.”
