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Again with the fantasy novel-to-movie adaptation. Today's update comes to you from Fox 2000, who have ambitiously picked up the rights to a book that has yet to be published. Royce Scott Buckingham's Demon Keeper (which apparently was originally envisioned as a screenplay anyway) will be published this fall, and is described as "best suited for middle-school-age children who like fantasy books like Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series." The story is that of an orphaned teenage boy who inherits a house, only to move in and discover that it is haunted by monsters/demons/ghoulies of some form. The primary antagonist is a character named "The Thin Man," who is trying to free the baddies from the house.

So as far as I can tell, this story is something like Stephen King meets Cheaper by the Dozen. If anyone out there somehow has advanced information on this story and what it is like, please comment away and let us know. For now, I'm just going to continue to picture William Powell leading a pack of demons pied-piper style away from a house occupied by Danny Radcliffe.

Spurred on by continued success, the book-to-movie trend in Hollywood continues unabated with Fantasy/adventure properties topping the list of most sought after commodities. Today's announcement fits right into that form, as Nickelodeon Movies has annouced a film adaptation of Jeff Stone's adventure book series The Five Ancestors. Lawrence Bender and Karen Barber, but no futher cast/crew announcements have been made at this time. The Five Ancestors is a 17th century tale of five young monks, each specializing in a different form of animal kung-fu (reasonably standard eastern storybase so far). Their secret temple gets raided by a renegade monk, and the five are forced to take to the wild, surviving by their skill and training.

Do I know anything about this work? No, I don't. If you do, please feel free to share your thoughts with us. It sounds like an amusing story, although there was nothing that stood out in any of the plot summaries I read to make it sound any more impressive than the typical fare. Fans, here's your chance to tell us why this story deserves some silver screen love.