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Paramount Pictures Buys Screen Rights to New York Times Bestsellers Beautiful Boy by David Sheff and Tweak by Nic Sheff
May 13th, 2008
Paramount Pictures announced that it has purchased the screen rights to the current New York Times non-fiction bestsellers Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff, for development and feature film production by Plan B. The critically lauded Beautiful Boy, published by Houghton Mifflin Co., chronicles the teenage Nic Sheff's descent into methamphetamine abuse from the point of view of his father, journalist David Sheff, as he struggles to help his son overcome addiction. In Tweak, Nic Sheff himself details a harrowing summer during which he lapsed back into drugs and how he...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-05-13)
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