Book-to-film adaptations are common practice in Hollywood, but parallel to this well-trodden path lies another, slightly more obscure one: the movie novelization pipeline. The adaptation of movies into books, also known as novelization, began in the 1910s, and hit peak popularity in the 70s and 80s. More @Wikipedia
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