EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s 3000 Pictures has acquired nan authorities to Katy Hays’ forthcoming novel Home Economics with Academy Award-winner Julia Roberts attached to star. Roberts will besides nutrient on pinch partners Lisa Roberts Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill through their Red Om Films explanation alongside Marc Platt, who will nutrient done his Marc Platt Productions.
Hays is group to accommodate her caller and executive produce. Book synopsis and movie crippled are nether wraps.
Home Economics sold successful a highly competitory publishing auction landing astatine Pamela Dorman Books, an imprint of Viking Penguin, at Penguin Random House, wherever it will beryllium published successful 2027. It has besides been sold successful 11 world territories.
Jake Bauman and nan Sony Literary squad were instrumental successful bringing this task to Sony’s 3000 Pictures. Elizabeth Gabler and Aislinn Dunster will oversee for 3000 Pictures.
Roberts was astir precocious seen successful nan Amazon MGM Studios pic After nan Hunt and tin beryllium seen adjacent successful Panic Carefully for Warner Bros. Hays is simply a New York Times best-selling author with her debut novel The Cloisters and is besides nan writer of nan critically acclaimed and NYT best-selling novel, Saltwater, which is presently connected nan NYT best-seller list.
Roberts and Red Om Films are represented by CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein. Marc Platt is represented by 42 West and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Katy Hays is represented for publishing by Elisabeth Weed and The Book Group and for movie and tv by CAA.