{"id":659491,"date":"2026-05-23T00:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659491\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:49:09","slug":"julia-roberts-to-star-in-home-economics-movie-adaptation-for-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659491\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Roberts To Star In &#8216;Home Economics&#8217; Movie Adaptation For Sony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Sony\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/3000-pictures\/\" id=\"auto-tag_3000-pictures\" data-tag=\"3000-pictures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3000 Pictures<\/a> has acquired rights to Katy Hays\u2019 forthcoming novel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/home-economics\/\" id=\"auto-tag_home-economics\" data-tag=\"home-economics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Home Economics<\/a>, with Oscar winner <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/julia-roberts\/\" id=\"auto-tag_julia-roberts\" data-tag=\"julia-roberts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Roberts<\/a> attached to star. Roberts will also produce along with partners Lisa Roberts Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill\u00a0through their Red Om\u00a0Films label alongside Marc Platt, who will produce through his Marc Platt Productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHays is set to adapt her novel and executive produce. Book synopsis and film plot are under wraps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHome Economics\u00a0sold in a competitive publishing auction, landing at Pamela Dorman Books, an imprint of\u00a0Penguin Random House\u2019s Viking, which will publish it in 2027. It has also been sold in 11 international territories. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJake Bauman and the Sony Literary team were instrumental in bringing the project to Sony\u2019s 3000 Pictures. Elizabeth Gabler and Aislinn Dunster will oversee for 3000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRoberts was most recently seen in the Amazon MGM Studios pic After the Hunt and is next up in Panic Carefully for Warner Bros. Hays is the New York Times bestselling author\u00a0with her debut novel\u00a0The Cloister. She also wrote Saltwater,\u00a0currently on the NYT bestseller list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRoberts and Red Om Films are represented by CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein. Marc Platt is represented by 42 West and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Hays is represented for publishing by Elisabeth Weed and The Book Group, and for film and television by CAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Sony\u2019s 3000 Pictures has acquired rights to Katy Hays\u2019 forthcoming novel\u00a0Home Economics, with Oscar winner Julia Roberts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[234808,236,88,284038,32177],"class_list":["post-659491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-3000-pictures","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-home-economics","tag-julia-roberts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}