Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories has inked a deal with Agatha Christie Ltd to develop a new TV series centered on Christie’s iconic sleuth Miss Marple. The latest incarnation will be based on the author’s Miss Marple books and short stories, and will be co-developed by the Big Little Lies producer and Endeavor Content…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated producer Janice Williams has signed her Well Red banner to a first look deal with Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories. This follows their successful collaboration on the Facebook Watch series Queen America. They worked together on the Andrew Jarecki-directed All Good Things and the Gus Van…

Netflix has given an eight-episode order to Pieces of Her, a series based on the 2018 book by best-selling crime author Karin Slaughter, from an all-female creative team of executive producers Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland, Madmen), Charlotte Stoudt (Homeland, House of Cards) and Bruna Papandrea (Big Little Lies).

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As part of the Stella Artois & Deadline Sundance Series, Nisha Ganatra, Bruna Papandrea, and Cathy Schulman sat down for special Women in Film panel titled "#GotStamped: Gender Parity Success Stories" moderated by Amanda N’Duka.

Ganatra collaborated with Mindy Kaling for Late Night which, Deadline exclusively reported…

Hot off the Bravo series Dirty John, Eric Bana will star in an adaptation of Jane Harper's bestselling novel The Dry. Robert Connolly (Balibo) will direct the Australian production from a script he wrote with Harry Cripps (Paws). Made Up Stories has set up the picture, and Bruna Papandrea (Big Little Lies, Gone Girl)…

EXCLUSIVE: Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories has acquired film rights to As Long As We Both Shall Live, the upcoming JoAnn Chaney novel that Flatiron Books will publish January 15. Made Up Stories will develop the project for film in partnership with Endeavor Content.

It adds to a number of female-centric novels that M…

Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories has acquired rights to The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, the debut novel from Australian writer Holly Ringland. The plan is to develop the coming-of-age drama into a TV series.

The novel, a bestseller in Australia after HarperCollins published it in March, centers on a young girl whose v…

Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories has acquired the rights to Signe Pike's historical epic The Lost Queen to develop for television, through the company’s partnership with Endeavor Content.

Published last month by Simon & Schuster’s Touchstone Books, The Lost Queen is based in medieval Scotland, a land of mountains and…

Arriving on the Lido, The Nightingale filmmaker Jennifer Kent was primed for questions about being the only female director in the Venice Film Festival competition, something she first addressed with Deadline earlier this week. What she may not have expected at her press conference this afternoon, was to be fielding…

Cecelia Ahern’s upcoming short story collection Roar is getting the TV series treatment. Nicole Kidman and Per Saari's Blossom Films, Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories and Theresa Park are teaming to produce the new series, and have tapped GLOW co-creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch to executive produce and showrun…

Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories have closed a preemptive deal for tv/film rights to Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty's upcoming novel Nine Perfect Strangers. Kidman will star in the project and be exec producer with Per Saari alongside Papandreas and Steve Hutensky under her…

EXCLUSIVE: Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories has acquired the bestselling Jessica Knoll novel The Favorite Sister to develop it for a television series through the company’s partnership with Endeavor Content. Simon and Schuster published the novel as Knoll’s follow to Luckiest Girl Alive, which Papandrea and Knoll are…