The exclusive right to make a film based on a particular book or other work.
Miramax bought the film rights to one of her novels
Example sentencesExamples
- And now Hollywood's literary agents are moving in, scenting huge profits from book and film rights.
- Harry Potter is going to be a huge money-earner for Time Warner, which owns the film rights.
- The film rights to the new book have already been sold.
- Already there is huge interest in the film rights.
- His widow granted film rights to the story.
- I've signed the contract for the cinema film rights, and will be co-director.
- A Hollywood studio optioned the film rights, but the project foundered in development hell.
- There is mounting speculation about who will snap up the film rights.
- The film rights for the book have been bought by the Hollywood studio that produced the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- The actor wanted to purchase the film rights to the story to secure his place in the big-screen version.