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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…

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…

Genevieve O'Reilly, Keir O'Donnell, and John Polson are set to co-star opposite Eric Bana in The Dry, an Australian crime thriller based on the Jane Harper bestselling novel of the same name. The pic, which is currently in production on location, hails from Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories with Robert Connolly…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories is partnering with Endeavor Content to develop Karin Slaughter’s upcoming thriller novel Pieces of Her for television, with Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland, Mad Men) attached to direct and Charlotte Stoudt (Homeland, House of Cards) to pen the adaptation. Pieces of Her asks: What if…

Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories (Big Little Lies) has optioned The New York Times‘ bestselling author Allison Pearson's new novel How Hard Can It Be? for an upcoming TV project. The book is the sequel to Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, and has a street date of June 5, 2018 from St. Martin's Press. How Hard Ca…

Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories has optioned Tina Brown's upcoming book, The Vanity Fair Diaries, for development as a limited series. The book, to be published next month by Holt, follows the British editor’s rise and eight-year reign at the helm of Vanity Fair in the 1980s, when she arrived from London scarcely…

EXCLUSIVE: Bruna Papandrea, whose Pacific Standard production partnership with Reese Witherspoon yielded the HBO series Big Little Lies and the films Gone Girl and Wild, has made the first acquisition under her newly launched solo shingle. Made Up Stories has optioned Elizabeth Klehforth's debut novel The House On Lang…