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River Road Entertainment said Thursday that it will adapt Greg Grandin’s “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City.” River Road founder Bill Pohlad will produce ...

Once they did, they shipped it to Fordlandia, where it was perched on top of the water tower, above the tall trees, giving it a seven-mile range. The whistle was piercing enough not only to reach ...

Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group has acquired the rights to Greg Grandin’s nonfiction book Fordlandia to develop as a potential television series, with acclaimed filmmaker Werner ...

“The magic of that name has penetrated into the hearts of the most humble; it has got into mine. They have faith in Ford, so have I. Thousands await his coming; he will come.” He never did. It’s not ...

But Fordlandia’s sleek, modern hospital has since been destroyed. A 2012 fire destroyed much of its furniture, and in the aftermath, plunderers made away with materials containing lead and ...

Hours upriver, the lost city of Fordlandia appears portside. Industrial buildings with shattered windows rise above rows of homes. A rusting water tower stands as the highest structure.

Ben Coccio, who wrote the upcoming Ryan Reynolds-Bradley Cooper drama The Place Beyond the Pines, has been tapped to pen the script based on the Greg Grandin non-fiction book.