By Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office Editor EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of winning a multi-studio and streamer auction for film rights to Judy Blume’s classic novel Are You There, God?
It’s Me, Margaret this morning as Deadline broke, Lionsgate continues to strut its stuff in the YA sphere. It is reteaming with Five Feet Apart filmmaker Justin Baldoni, who’ll direct a feature adaptation of Katie Khan’s novel Hold Back the Stars.
Baldoni, I hear, will direct and produce from a screenplay by Christy Hall, and the film will be produced by 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen.
Khan’s novel, from Gallery Books, focuses on a young man and a woman who revisit memories of their doomed love affair on a utopian Earth while trapped in the
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