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EXCLUSIVE: Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea, who co-founded and co-ran the production company Pacific Standard that produced such hits as David Fincher’s Gone Girl and the Jean-Marc Vallee-directed Wild, are ending their long partnership. Papandrea will be leaving to start a new venture. Witherspoon will retain…

Everybody has an origin story, including the  world’s most famous doll. Bold Films said today that it will finance and produce Barbie and Ruth, the tale of the toy that forever changed an industry — and the visionary woman behind it. Reese Witherspoon is being eyed for the starring role of Barbie creator Ruth…

EXCLUSIVE: Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea’ s Pacific Standard has just closed a deal for film rights to The Dry, a debut novel by Jane Harper that is one of the hot publishing titles in play at this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair. In The Dry, a policeman returns to the drought-stricken town of his youth to bury his…

Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea's three-year-old production company Pacific Standard is making a foray into broadcast television with an overall deal at ABC Studios. The two-year pact, which is exclusive in broadcast, comes on the heels of Pacific Standard’s first TV greenlight, for limited series Big Little Lies…

Reese Witherspoon is developing a big-screen take on the upcoming novel Opening Belle, which also could be her next starring vehicle. She and her Pacific Standard partner Bruna Papandrea are set to produce the story about a mother of three trying to balance home life with her Wall Street career during the year before…

One thing was made clear today at the Produced by Conference held at the Paramount lot – don’t ask Pacific Standard founders Reese Witherspoon (Hot Pursuit, Wild) and Bruna Papandrea (Warm Bodies, All Good Things) to define what a film for women is unless you are "trying to kick the hornets nest." As Witherspoon…

Lionsgate has snapped up the rights to Jessica Knoll’s first novel Luckiest Girl Alive, which Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea will produce under their Pacific Standard Films banner. The Simon & Schuster tome will be published May 12. Luckiest Girl Alive centers on Ani FaNelli, a 28-year-old New…