Blink49 Studios to adapt Marissa Stapley novel for TV

TORONTO — Blink49 Studios, formerly called Blink Studios, announced today it has acquired the rights to Canadian author Marissa Stapley’s novel Things to Do When It’s Raining, which it plans to adapt for television. Blink49 is the Toronto-based independent content studio launched last November by several former Entertainment One executives. The studio is backed by global film and TV studio Endeavor Content, which is its lead strategic investor. Things to Do When It’s Raining (book cover pictured above) is set in Canada’s Thousand Islands and centres around a woman “who is driven by deception and despair to return home from...