Irene Webb Literary is a bridge between the publishing world and the film and TV industry with a reputation for handling top quality film material. The agency handles marketing, negotiating and selling media rights on behalf of writers, publishers and top independent literary agencies from all around the country. Unrivaled Experience
Webb has an unrivaled depth of experience in the publishing and film industries: selling rights at Alfred A. Knopf and G. P. Putnam’s for hundreds of books, making six and seven-figure deals for authors such as Peter Straub, Robin Cook, and setting industry records by selling paperback rights for Mario Puzo’s books, THE GODFATHER and FOOLS DIE, and getting the largest sum for a TV mini-series ever, with SCARLETT, Sequel to Gone With the Wind at CBS.
A Wide Range of Genres
Irene Webb has worked with books across a wide range of genres, including literary and commercial fiction, thrillers, mysteries, narrative non-fiction, memoir, young adult, self-help and pop-culture.
Award Winners and Fantasy Heroes
As Vice President in charge of film rights at International Creative Management, Webb made over $5 million worth of deals on behalf of authors including Caleb Carr, Cormac McCarthy, Howard Blum, Anna Quindlin, Carl Hiassen, and the comic book, MEN IN BLACK. While VP of the William Morris Agency, Webb was renown for selling film and TV rights for commercial and literary authors, including Dominick Dunne, Susan Isaacs, Tom Clancy, H.G. Bissinger, Carrie Fisher, Gregory McDonald, John Updike, and Douglas Adams.
Top Relationships
Irene Webb has built strong relationships with all the top film and television producers, studios, and artists, including actors, directors, writers and their representatives. Working in various capacities with actors such as Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts and many others, Webb has a strong network of contacts in the film business. Webb’s extensive experience working with one foot in Hollywood and one in New York enables her to be a top dealmaker in both arenas.
Jane
Friedman,
Publisher of
Harper
Collins
(left),
Irene Webb
and Burt
Boyer
