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EXCLUSIVE: The Mentalist actor Simon Baker, Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Australian agent-producer Lee-Anne Higgins are taking to adapt Emily Perkins’ novel ‘Lioness.’ The trio have optioned the hot book, which comes from bestselling Aotearoa New Zealand author Perkins and won the recent…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE 4.17am PT, July 2: We’ve got more details on Jodi Matterson’s new indie, Silent Firework. The indie has developed partnerships with a pair of execs that Australian exec Matterson worked with at former company Made Up Stories, and another with a key exec behind kids series Bluey…

EXCLUSIVE: Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories has teamed with producer Monica Saunders-Weinberg to adapt Fiona McIntosh’s novel The Pearl Thief as a feature film. One Life screenwriter Nick Drake is attached to write. The Pearl Thief is billed as a sweeping, epic story love and betrayal set between…

EXCLUSIVE: The team behind Binge’s newly-crowned biggest original, Strife, are headed back to the writers’ room. The drama series — from Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers and Anatomy of a Scandal producer Made Up Stories in partnership with Fifth Season — has quickly usurped Colin From Accounts…

EXCLUSIVE: Teresa Palmer (The Clearing, The Fall Guy), Miranda Richardson (Good Omens, Spider) and Danielle Macdonald (The Tourist, Patti Cake$) and a host of other names have joined Nicole Kidman’s light-hearted Australian drama series The Last Anniversary. The Foxtel drama for Aussie streamer Binge…

EXCLUSIVE: Luckiest Girl Alive author Jessica Knoll’s new bestselling thriller novel Bright Young Women is in the works for the small screen. Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories, Erik Feig’s Picturestart and Fifth Season have acquired the rights to the book to develop as a television series. Knoll will pen…

Primetime Emmy winning producer Bruna Papandrea is looking to sell her production company Made Up Stories per sources. This is very early in the works with no bidders as of yet, nor if the Big Little Lies EP will maintain a stake in the next phase of the company which she co-founded with her husband…

Whenever a producer in recent times has exited their partnership with a star, quite often said producer’s output is not as robust. It’s a different situation for Bruna Papandrea, who after peeling off from Reese Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard Production Company has been on quite a roll with such TV…

It's been another challenging year in the world of content creation and the climate has arguably demanded more gumption and savviness from its leaders than ever before. With the business increasingly looking beyond U.S. shores for revenues and opportunities for growth, Deadline's International Disruptors…

Welcome to Deadline's International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we're talking with Bruna Papandrea, Jodi Matterson, Steve Hutensky, Jeanne Snow and Sarah Harvey from Made Up Stories. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories and Fifth Season have optioned the rights to Hayley Krischer's young adult novel The Falling Girls for television. Chloe Stearns and John Wynn are set to write the series.  Set against the backdrop of a high school cheerleading squad, The Falling Girls is…

EXCLUSIVE: Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories, Fifth Season and Imogen Banks’ Kindling Pictures have optioned the rights to Ewan Morrison's novel How To Survive Everything, to adapt as a series for television.  Published in the UK by Saraband, How To Survive Everything will be published in the U.S…