EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s 3000 Pictures has acquired the rights to Katy Hays’ forthcoming novel Home Economics with Academy Award-winner Julia Roberts attached to star. Roberts will also produce along with partners Lisa Roberts Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill through their Red Om Films label alongside Marc Platt, who will produce through his Marc Platt Productions.
Hays is set to adapt her novel and executive produce. Book synopsis and film plot are under wraps.
Home Economics sold in a highly competitive publishing auction landing at Pamela Dorman Books, an imprint of Viking Penguin, at Penguin Random House, where it will be published in 2027. It has also been sold in 11 international territories.
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Jake Bauman and the Sony Literary team were instrumental in bringing this project to Sony’s 3000 Pictures. Elizabeth Gabler and Aislinn Dunster will oversee for 3000 Pictures.
Roberts was most recently seen in the Amazon MGM Studios pic After the Hunt and can be seen next in Panic Carefully for Warner Bros. Hays is a New York Times best-selling author with her debut novel The Cloisters and is also the author of the critically acclaimed and NYT best-selling novel, Saltwater, which is currently on the 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 film and television by CAA.
