Mandalay Pictures optioned the film rights to Elizabeth Eulberg's novel, The Lonely Hearts Club (Point/Scholastic, $27.99, 9780545140317/0545140315), which will be released December 29.
Variety reported that "Eulberg, a tastemaker in the teen/young adult arena, is director of global publicity at Little, Brown and has worked closely with Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, steering the teen vampire series' PR campaign."
Mandalay's Cathy Schulman, one of the film's producers, told Variety that the book is "a terrific female empowerment message to a younger set. [Eulberg has an] amazing insight into an entire generation of young women and their desires."