TaleFlick, A New Database for Book Adaptations is Launched

We cover a fair few adaptations here on For Reading Addicts and once we have read the book, we love to watch the television or movie adaptation. They don’t always live up, and some can be a bit hit and miss but hopefully a new database will ensure even more of our favourite books make it to the big and small screen.

Producer Uri Singer of Passage Pictures and George Berry formerly of Netflix and Apple have launched TaleFlick, a database they say will bridge the gap between the written word on paper and the spoken word on screen, allowing authors and publishers to submit their work in the hope it might make it onto the screen.

The submission fee is $88 and the service covers all books and short stories. Authors will retain the rights to their own books but once loaded up onto the website, the Los-Angeles based company will get the chance to bid on their dramatic rights.

Singer and Berry have invested in new technology that uses the Natural Language Processing machine to curate, categorise and classify content with human expertise. They’re hoping to use this technology to become the most reliable source of supply to the television and movie industry which demands constant original content.

Film adaptations do fantastically at the box office, research has shown that an adaptation from a book can gross 44% more at the UK box office and 53% more worldwide than films from original screenplays.

Authors wanting to find out more information can visit taleflick.com