Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment has acquired movie rights to Rachel Renee Russell’s young teen book series “Dork Diaries.” “Twilight” producer Karen Rosenfelt is in negotiations to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and Summit have tapped writer Annie Hendy to adapt YA project Dork Diaries, the bestselling book series from Rachel Renée Russell.

Published by Aladdin, a division of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, “Dork Diaries” has over 13 million copies in print with a seventh book due out in the summer and and eighth in the ...