Amy Poehler's Paper Kite Productions "has come aboard to option rights to Rebecca Makkai's 2018 novel The Great Believers, set during the wide swath of the AIDS epidemic, with plans to turn it into a TV series," Deadline reported. Paper Kite also recently acquired rights to a pair of books, Jennifer Mathieu's Moxie and Karina Yan Glaser's The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street, to adapt into feature films.
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"Global organization icon" Marie Kondo's new Netflix series, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, is launching January 1, 2019. Deadline reported that the project, from the bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, "will spark joy around the world as she helps real people get organized."
During the eight-episode series, Kondo "guides people who are at a crossroads and resolved to finally tackle the clutter blocking their joy, transforming lives in emotional and surprising ways. As seen in the trailer, things get a little emotional between the bestselling author and those whose lives are in desperate need of tidying," Deadline wrote.