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Sony Pictures gets "Goosebumps"

LOS ANGELES
Thu May 15, 2008 8:49pm EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - 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.

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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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