Book Market Picking Up As Universal Buys ‘Run For Your Life’ Short Story Package; Britney Spears Memoir & Journo Student’s Takedown Of Stanford President Also Spark Bids – The Dish

Story fetched mid-six figures, but the deals for the scribe and director put this in the seven-figure range.

Universal EVP Matt Reilly will oversee for the studio.

The book will be published by Penguin Press/Penguin Random House.

The Britney Spears memoir ‘Run for Your Life’Getty

Hargrave is represented by WME.

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