Simon & Schuster’s Children’s division has partnered with Gotham Group, a Los Angeles-based management firm, to develop book properties for film, starting with Alienated, director David O. Russell’s upcoming middle-grade book series. “It’s about having more control in the process,” Rick Richter, president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, told the New York Times. The Times offers a painstakingly clueless account of how this might aid S&S, with no sense of other film partnerships struck by other big six houses recently.NYT
