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EXCLUSIVE:  IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Robert Connolly's atmospheric mystery thriller The Dry, starring Eric Bana. A May 21 theatrical and on-demand release date is planned for the Made Up Stories feature. The pic is the actor’s first Australian film in over a decade. As we told you at the start o…

While the domestic box office was hammered over the holidays, over in Australia, it’s been quite alive. A leading example of this last weekend was Roadshow Films’ Eric Bana thriller The Dry, based on Jane Harper’s bestselling and award-winning debut novel, which has minted $3.5M since its New Year’s Day release. I’m…

EXCLUSIVE: Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories has acquired the rights to bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo's YA novel Clap When You Land to develop as a television series. Published in May by Harper Collins, Clap When You Land is a dual narrative novel, in verse, about two sisters, Camino and Yahira – separated by…

Jennifer Donnelly’s YA novel Poisoned has been acquired by Endeavor Content. Lynette Howell Taylor's 51 Entertainment and Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories are producing. Published today by Scholastic Press, the novel is an empowering re-imagining of Snow White. Aided by seven mysterious strangers, Sophie's journey of…

Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories and Keith Calder and Jess Wu Calder's Snoot Entertainment have optioned the rights to Christopher Paolini’s To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. Paolini will adapt the book with his sister and collaborator Angela Paolini for the big screen. Both will serve as EPs. Christopher Paolini’s debut…

Marie Lu’s bestselling YA sci-fi novel Warcross is in the works for the small screen. Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories and Emmy-winning producer John Cameron have optioned the rights to adapt the novel as a television series. The project hails from Made Up Stories, Cameron and Endeavor Content, where both Made Up…

Nina Dobrev and Made Up Stories have acquired the rights to Greer Macallister's novel Woman 99 to develop as a TV series starring the Vampire Diaries alum. Dobrev also will executive produce alongside Made Up Stories founder Bruna Papandrea. Historical thriller Woman 99 follows a young woman whose quest to free her…

Big Little Lies creator David E. Kelley and former House Of Cards showrunner Melissa James Gibson are collaborating to create an anthology series for Netflix, which will be directed by S.J. Clarkson (Succession, Jessica Jones). Anatomy Of A Scandal is a six-part series based on the bestselling novel of the same name…

Big Little Lies producer Bruna Papandrea has tapped Allie Goss as EVP of Development and Production for her production company, Made Up Stories. Goss, a former Netflix exec, will develop and produce television and film for the company. Goss joined Netflix in 2006, just before the company's streaming service launched…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories has hired Amia Lazarus as its first head of brand and marketing. Lazarus comes to the company from the CAA and Stagwell Group joint venture Observatory. In her new role, she will promote the Made Up Stories brand and support its social impact goals to help create…

When Nicole Kidman first met Per Saari back in 2004, theirs would become the collaboration that spawned a brave new wave of television and film production. From their first film Rabbit Hole in 2010, to this year's second season of smash hit limited series Big Little Lies, Kidman and Saari's company Blossom Films…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has won an auction for a sci-fi comedy that is a star vehicle for Lupita Nyong’o, who will re-team with the principals behind Little Monsters, the Sundance film that sold to NEON and Hulu. Abe Forsythe is writing the script and directing. Nyong’o will produce with Made Up Stories' Bruna Pa…