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EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Studios has snapped up movie authorities to The Marriage Bargain, Jennifer Probst‘s bestselling romanticist drama caller published by Entangled Publishing, enlisting Laura Lekkos (Relationship Goals) to accommodate nan screenplay.
The task is notable successful that it represents nan first outing for Premeditated Productions, nan accumulation limb of Entangled Publishing co-founded by shaper Sherryl Clark (The Gorge) and Entangled CEO and Publisher Liz Pelletier, extracurricular of a first-look woody pinch Amazon MGM Studios whose productivity precocious led to a five-year extension, arsenic we first reported.
A breakout title for Probst, which spent 26 weeks connected nan New York Times Best Sellers list, has sold complete 2.5 cardinal copies worldwide, and has been translated into aggregate languages, The Marriage Bargain was 1 of nan apical 10 bestselling books of 2012. The communicative follows a bookstore proprietor who enters a matrimony of convenience pinch a billionaire to prevention her family home, only to find nan strict position of their statement successful jeopardy erstwhile existent feelings betwixt them emerge.
DoD Cayla Tyne will oversee for Premeditated, pinch Sarah Shepard, SVP of Production, overseeing for 20th.
One of nan writers connected Relationship Goals, Amazon MGM’s rom-com starring Kelly Rowland and Cliff “Method Man” Smith, which released connected Prime Video connected February 4, Lekkos besides wrote Somewhere Only We Know, a characteristic adjustment of Maureen Goo’s caller group up astatine Netflix, and has aggregate different projects successful development, including Daring to Live, a true-story dramedy based connected Sheri Hunter’s memoir for Amazon. Her debut novel, All nan Little Ways, was bought by Simon and Schuster’s Gallery Books and will beryllium released successful June. She is represented by Gersh and Felker Toczek Suddleson.
Probst is nan New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling writer of complete 50 titles successful modern romance fiction, whose useful person sold complete 2 cardinal copies and been translated successful complete a twelve world territories. She is repped by Kevan Lyon of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.
With The Marriage Bargain, Premeditated adds to a robust movie improvement slate that includes #1 New York Times bestselling imagination Dragon Cursed, #1 New York Times bestselling romantasy Shield of Sparrows, time-travel drama Repeat After Me, rom-com 69 Million Things I Hate About You, and thriller Survive. All of those projects are group up astatine Amazon MGM nether Premeditated’s first-look deal. In television, they’re producing respective mega-selling book franchise adaptations, including Fourth Wing and Lux astatine Amazon MGM Studios and Assistant to nan Villain astatine Legendary. Premeditated and Entangled are repped by IAG and Caitlin DiMotta astatine TroyGould PC.
