Pop culture news for readers: September 22, 2026

Here's how pop culture and literature have been intersecting lately ... 

• The horror novel Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson is becoming a TV show (Deadline).

• So will the near-dystopian bestseller Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg; it was previously made into a movie (Deadline).

• Jensen Ackles will both star in and executive produce the TV series Rules of Prey, based on the first novel in John Sandford’s Prey book series (Deadline). 

• You can watch the full trailer for R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2, which premieres on Tubi on October 9; the movie was inspired by the Stine TV series The Haunting Hour (The Hollywood Reporter).

• The Mosquito Bowl, a film adaptation of Buzz Bissinger’s book of the same name, will hit theaters October 30 and then Netflix on November 25; the bestseller tells the story of four football stars who enlisted in the Marines after the attack on Pearl Harbor (The Hollywood Reporter).

• Neither Prince William nor his brother, Harry, acknowledged reporter questions about their uncle Charles Spencer's new memoir about their late mother; Swan Song: Diana, My Sister contains a passage that doesn't exactly show their father, King Charles, in a flattering light (People). 

• Netflix and the British Library have entered a partnership to bring attention to the books behind popular movies and TV series, as part of the UK's National Year of Reading (Variety).

• BookTok star Quan Millz, who has published more than seventy books and who boasts over 1.2 million followers, has signed with a major full-service entertainment agency (Variety).