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Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis are teaming for an Amazon series based on Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta novels, Variety has confirmed with sources.

Kidman would star as Scarpetta with Curtis playing her sister, Dorothy. Sources say that deals for the show are not yet done, but that it is nearing a two-season order of eight episodes each at the streamer.

Reps for Amazon declined to comment.

Liz Sarnoff will write the series and serve as executive producer and showrunner. Kidman and Per Saari will executive produce via Blossom Films, while Curtis will executive produce via Comet Pictures. Blumhouse Television’s Jason Blum, Chris McCumber and Jeremy Gold also executive produce. Curtis is currently under a first-look deal with Blumhouse.

Cornwell has written over 20 books in the Scarpetta series. Scarpetta starts out as the Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia in the books before becoming a private forensic consultant.

Gael García Bernal is joining Nicole Kidman in the Amazon Prime thriller Holland, Michigan.

Mimi Cave is directing the movie, which is described as a “Hitchcock-style thriller involving secrets that lurk beneath a Midwestern town.”

Andrew Sodroski is behind the screenplay. Kidman is producing with Per Saari via her Blossom Films banner, which has a longstanding relationship with Amazon, having recently teamed for Things I Know to Be True, an adaptation of Andrew Bovell’s award-winning play, and the upcoming drama series Expats. Pacific View Management and Productions’ Peter Dealbert is also producing. Churchill Films’ Kate Churchill is executive producing.

Bernal, repped by WME and Hansen Jacobson, is reteaming with Amazon following his role in Cassandro, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to overwhelmingly positive reviews. Reads The Hollywood Reporter‘s festival review: “Bernal nails his best role in years, giving a performance steeped in cheeky humor, resilience...

“The Undoing” has now surpassed 12.3 million viewers, with 48% coming from digital viewing, Variety has learned. This makes the HBO miniseries headlined by Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant the premium cable network’s most-watched show of 2020, surpassing the audience for both seasons of “Big Little Lies.”

The psychological thriller and mystery drama, written and produced by David E. Kelley, directed by Susanne Bier, and featuring Donald Sutherland, Lily Rabe and Noma Dumezweni, was a ratings success for HBO from its Oct. 25 debut to its finale on Nov. 29.

According to the network, the six-parter’s finale drew a total of 3 million viewers across all platforms, a 43% boost from the penultimate episode and more than double the premiere’s tally. The whodunnit’s finale also performed strongly on WarnerMedia’s streamer HBO Max, as numbers were up more than 80% from the penultimate episode and were nearly five times higher than the debut’s first night on the platform.

Academy Award and Emmy-winner Nicole Kidman will executive produce a television series based on Maria Sødahl’s European Cinemas Label-winning “Hope” under her Blossom Films banner. “Hope” is currently in the running as the Norweigan entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 93rd Academy Awards.

The rights to the film’s adaptation were acquired by Amazon Studios. The script is being penned by Alice Bell, who will also serve as an executive producer alongside Kidman. The original “Hope” film, released in 2019, stars Andrea Bræin Hovig and Stellan Skarsgård. The romance and family drama was nominated for best director and best actress at the 2020 European Academy Awards. Not much is being divulged yet about “Hope” (the show), but we do know that the narrative will chronicle over the twelve days of Christmas for a couple in a tenuous marriage and six children between them.

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