Publisher’s Weekly recounts the unlikely journey of novice Bay Area filmmakers and identical twins Logan and Noah Miller:

“In January 2006, Logan and Noah Miller’s father, a homeless alcoholic, died in jail. The twins, aspiring filmmakers with no meaningful experience, had for years wanted to make an autobiographical film about their dad, and on the day he died, they vowed to make it happen. In Either You’re In or In the Way, the Millers will describe how, without a dime to their name or a single Hollywood contact, they managed to make a movie starring Ed Harris that landed in the San Francisco Film Festival (their story of how they persuaded Harris to appear in the film, Touching Home, has already gotten 475,000 hits on YouTube). Matthew Benjamin at Collins preempted world rights in a significant six-figure deal with Mary Ann Naples at the Creative Culture…”

Read about this and other book deals this week, including more on the Sam Zell chronicles, here.

Watch Ambushing Ed Harris here.

Miller brothers photo from touchinghomemovie.com.

Part II: Speaking of unlikely odysseys … check out Behind Every Card Shark There’s A … Well, Another Card Shark. (Congrats to Stuart Pfeifer!)

**10/30/08 update: Producer Jeromy Zajonc messages to note that the correct title of the Miller brothers’ book is actually Either You’re In Or You’re In the Way.