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Novelist Brown cuts first film deal


March 20, 2008 Sandra Brown has sold the option on her 1996 legal thriller "The Witness" to TwinStar Entertainment. It's the first time in her 27-year career that Brown, who has written 56 New York Times best-sellers and has 70 million copies of her books in print, has made a movie deal. Todd Garner ("Anger Management") and TwinStar executive vp Lane Shefter Bishop will produce the feature film version, with TwinStar CEO Russell Werdin executive producing.

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