The first of the Simon Bloom books was optioned by a company founded in 1912.
 The first of the books was optioned by Universal Pictures after a bidding war over the manuscript. 
 The company was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour, and is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States, the world's fourth oldest after Gaumont, Path and Nordisk Film, and the oldest in terms of the overall film market . 
