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EXCLUSIVE: Fresh disconnected its action arsenic Reese’s Book Club prime for May 2026, Alexandra Andrews’ The Fine Art of Lying has been acquired for bid development astatine UCP, a section of Universal Studio Group.
Andrews is executive producing nan thriller play task on pinch Scarlett Johansson‘s These Pictures.
In The Fine Art of Lying, Clare Bast traded small-town Binghamton for Manhattan’s creation world but 3 years aft pausing her PhD for motherhood, she’s hopeless to reclaim her identity. When a powerful socialite opens doors to curators and collectors, Clare feels live again — until her quest for a mislaid masterpiece drags her into a execution investigation. Every hint points to her. Now Clare must conflict to clear her sanction and protect her family earlier nan sparkling world she craved destroys everything.
Andrews’ debut caller Who Is Maud Dixon?, published successful 2021 by Little Brown, landed her a nickname arsenic Breakout Novelist by The Wall Street Journal that year. The book, published successful 28 languages, made respective Top Books of nan Year lists, including by nan New York Times, NPR and Time. Andrews is repped by CAA.
These Pictures, founded successful 2017 by Johansson and producing partners Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn, produced nan Apple TV+ romance-comedy-drama movie Fly Me to nan Moon, starring Johansson and Channing Tatum. More recently, nan institution produced Eleanor The Great, which marked Johansson’s directorial debut. In TV, arsenic Deadline reported exclusively, These Pictures is executive producing a bid adjustment of The Nanny Diaries in nan useful astatine Netflix, based connected nan bestselling caller and nan 2007 movie successful which Johansson starred.
