How Your Magazine-Movie Sausage is Made

Magazine editors are increasingly looking to place their stories at studios -- for what it's worth: "'Hollywood is essentially in the business of not making movies,' said Henry Finder, editorial director of The New Yorker. 'They only make a movie when they run out of reasons not to make it. [... B]ut if I'm trying to get talent attached it might be easier for me to say, "Hey look, Brad Pitt, there's this really cool story that was in Vanity Fair or Rolling Stone" -- it's going to be based on that.'" Great! It beats Ouija. [WWD via The Awl]