Peace Arch Entertainment, Producer Barnet Bain Acquire Screen Rights to Children’s Book ‘Milton’s Secret’ from Best-S...
02 October 2009 - 7:37AM
Business Wire
Peace Arch® Entertainment Group Inc. (OTC:PAEGF) (AMEX:PAE)
(TSX:PAE.T) has teamed with Emmy nominated producer Barnet Bain
(What Dreams May Come, Homeless to Harvard) to acquire screen
rights to Eckhart Tolle and Robert S. Friedman’s children’s book,
Milton’s Secret: An Adventure of Discovery through Then, When, and
the Power of Now.
Tolle, a Canadian spiritual teacher and the best-selling author
of The Power of Now and A New Earth, which have sold more than 11
million copies, wrote Milton’s Secret with Friedman as his first
work of fiction.
The story, being adapted as a live-action family film, centers
on a boy who discovers that his obsession with pre-teen fears,
shaky parental relationships, confidence issues and mistreatment by
his schoolmates are preventing him from finding true happiness
through living in the Now. Donald Martin (Dim Sum Funeral, The
Christmas Choir) is writing the screenplay.
Bain, who most recently directed The Lost & Found Family,
acquired by Sony for release this fall, says, “We get to tell this
inspiring story and, at the same time, help as many people as we
can–kids and parents—to stop stressing and start living."
“We’re delighted to be able to bring to life this extraordinary
first fiction work from Eckhart and Robert,” Peace Arch
Entertainment CEO John Flock says. “In this age of anxiety, its
lessons will ring as true to movie-goers as they have to the
countless fans of Eckhart’s best-selling books.”
Milton’s Secret was co-authored by Friedman, president of
Hampton Roads Publishing Company, and co-published by Hampton Roads
and Namaste Publishing in Vancouver.
Peace Arch Entertainment and Barnet Bain Films will produce,
with Tolle, Friedman and Constance Kellough serving as executive
producers.
Peace Arch Entertainment produces and acquires feature films and
television programs for worldwide distribution. The Company’s Emmy
and Gemini Award winning drama “The Tudors” airs on Showtime in the
United States and CBC in Canada, and its lifestyle series “The Last
10 Pounds Boot Camp” and “Bulging Brides” each air on FLN in the
U.S. and Slice in Canada. The Company’s recent feature film
releases include “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh” starring Jon Foster,
Peter Sarsgaard, Sienna Miller, Mena Suvari and Nick Nolte and
“JCVD” starring Jean Claude Van Damme. Peace Arch owns one of the
largest libraries of top quality independent feature films in the
world, featuring more than 800 classic and contemporary titles. For
additional information, please visit www.peacearch.com.
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