GHOST SOLDIERS Hampton Sides (Doubleday, $24.95, on sale May 20)Universal Pictures optioned rights to Sides' World War II saga about an elite team of U.S. soldiers sent to liberate a prison camp in the Philippines.
BUMP & RUN Mike Lupica (Putnam, $24.95) The New York Daily Newscolumnist sold film rights to his novel, a satire about the business of pro football, to Universal Pictures.
JOE COLLEGE Tom Perrotta (St. Martin's, $23.95) Bona Fide Productions, which produced Perrotta's novel Election, has optioned his sweetly cynical story about an everyday college joe.
SHOT IN THE HEART Mikal Gilmore (Anchor, $14.95) HBO Films has greenlit a tele-pic of Gilmore's memoir about the 1977 execution of his brother Gary. Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa) will direct.
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