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Perez (1-0), who was making his first start since being optioned from the San Diego Padres, allowed two runs, scattered four hits and retired 10 straight to start the game, including seven strikeouts over that span. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"With an award-winning indie horror anthology (BONE CHILLER) under its belt and a few titles optioned for film, R.M. Heske at Heske Horror was a creator we wanted to offer to customers - both in our store and online," says Nicole Leigh, President at Zaldiva, Inc.

UK debut Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips has been "optioned" to be developed as a TV series. ❋ Tia Nevitt (2007)

The series has been optioned twice by film companies but no one has ever gotten as far as the script stage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On a vaguely related note, I was re-reading Dreamsongs and you mention in the "Siren Song of Hollywood" piece that you had had some of your works optioned even before The Armageddon Rag was optioned by Philip DeGuerre. ❋ Grrm (2010)

FEVRE DREAM was optioned once by Oprah's company, Harpo Productions, but they never did anything with it. ❋ Grrm (2010)

Mary Pauline Lowry's unsold novel The Gods of Fire has been optioned for film by Pandemonium Productions. ❋ Mary Pauline Lowry (2011)

And some of these stories have picked up traction in Hollywood, and have been optioned for the big screen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thanks in part to their prior work together, movie director James Cameron has optioned the book [5] for a possible film. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thanks in part to their prior work together, movie director James Cameron has optioned the book for a possible film. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An email from my agent informing me that The Red Tree was just optioned for a fat six figures by [insert dream director here], and I can stop writing and spend the next ten years on the next novel ... that would definitely change my mood. ❋ Sovay (2009)

The film rights have been optioned and the entire Anderson family has fingers crossed about the movie. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The first time, it was optioned by the old character actor Elisha Cook, Jr, who wanted to play Simon Kress himself. ❋ Grrm (2010)

There was a spec script and we optioned it, but while discussions are going on it is not active right now. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Nightflyers" was optioned and actually filmed, of course. ❋ Grrm (2010)

Her memoir, The Glass Castle (2005) was a New York Times bestseller with movie rights optioned by Paramount (but as of October 2009 there is no sign of the movie entering production). ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Remembering Melody" was optioned and filmed, as an episode of THE HITCHIKER. ❋ Grrm (2010)

Ridley Scott has optioned movie rights and hired Rowan Joffe "The American" to write and direct. ❋ Alexandra Alter (2011)

"Sandkings" was optioned a bunch of times before it was finally done for television on THE OUTER LIMITS. ❋ Grrm (2010)