The Year of Fog was featured yesterday in Variety.

Newmarket Films has acquired the film rights to Michelle Richmond’s novel “The Year of Fog” and tapped Semi Chellas to adapt. Newmarket will produce and fully finance the bigscreen project. P. Jennifer Dana and Andrew Lauren of Andrew Lauren Productions and Newmarket’s Aaron Ryder will serve as producers, with Newmarket principals Chris J. Ball and William Tyrer exec producing…Chellas penned and produced Canadian TV series “The Eleventh Hour” and wrote “The Life Before This,” a dramatic thriller starring Catherine O’Hara, Stephen Rea and Sarah Polley…Andrew Lauren Prods. is a New York-based indie with credits that include “The Squid and the Whale.”

Read the full article here.The deal is also mentioned in New York Magazine, Media Bistro, the Brit blog Filmstalker, and some other fun places, likethis Polish film website, which is, um, Polish to me. (See my post from a couple of days ago about my favorite Polish writer, Ryszard Kapuscinski.)