Columbia Pictures has acquired the
rights from Scholastic Media to adapt R.L. Stine's best-selling
"Goosebumps" book series for the big screen, the studio said on
Thursday.
The hugely popular series for children, which has sold 300
million books worldwide, is second only to Scholastic's "Harry
Potter" series in sales, and the Sony Corp.-owned studio is
hoping for similarly magical results.
The film version of "Goosebumps" will be produced by Neil
Moritz, best-known for such action hits as "The Fast and the
Furious" franchise, and Scholastic's Deborah Forte.
Columbia says that it will begin working on the first
"Goosebumps" film immediately.
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