Mel's Shopping Diary
AU PAIRS: THE MOVIE!!!! GAH!!!
October 05, 2006From today's VARIETY... THE BIG FABULOUS NEWS!!!!
'Au Pairs' for Warner
Barrymore shingle to produce young-adult tome series
By PAMELA MCCLINTOCK, DAVE MCNARY
Warner Bros. Pictures has bought the film rights to Melissa de la Cruz's steamy young-adult book series "The Au Pairs," setting up the first tome to be adapted and produced by Drew Barrymore's Flower Films.
Alloy Entertainment also will produce.
Three books have been published in the "Au Pair" series, with the fourth due out next spring.
The first, "The Au Pairs," takes up as three teenage girls learn how the other half lives when they take summer jobs as au pairs for a wealthy family with a home in the Hamptons.
Like Cecily von Ziegesar's "Gossip Girl" series and Zoe Dean's "The A-List" series, de la Cruz's series offers plenty of juicy fun and teen sex for the millions of girls who are gravitating to such titles. ("Gossip Girl" is being developed into a TV skein for the CW by Josh Schwartz.)
"Au Pairs" producers are Barrymore and Flower Film partner Nancy Juvonen, along with Alloy prexy Leslie Morgenstein. Alloy's Bob Levy will exec produce.
Flower Films has a first-look deal with Warners.
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Isn't that awesome??? Our girls, on the big screen? I have absolutely NO say in any casting or even script development, all I'm going to do, hopefully, is get to hang out on the set one day (with my dad, who is DYING to see a real movie being filmed) and meet Drew (AHMYGODILOVEDREW) Barrymore and maybe even walk the red carpet at the premiere. (Oh, an author can dream!)
Anyway, working hard on the AU PAIRS 4 outline right now... I've got to deliver that book before I deliver my baby! Lots of juicy, fabulous fun in store!!!
The book (which is still untitled) comes out next May!
xoxo
Mel
On October 5, 2006 at 6:37 pm, Cassie E. had this to say:
OMG! How marvelous! I come home from the worst day of my entire life, and this news just lifted me from rock bottom to the shores of pardise!
Yay!
Thank you!
Yours,
Cass xox
On October 5, 2006 at 9:20 pm, jennifer had this to say:
omg this is terrific i love your books, and so will the movie 
On October 11, 2006 at 4:07 pm, Sarah had this to say:
OMG! Exciting much?
Hehe,I’m jumping out of my seat.
I just hope that they don’t tear it to pieces like they did the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It was a good movie, just not like the book. The storyline was different in some places.
Hmmm.... I wonder if maybe I’m a book purist? HA!
Either way I’ll be there opening day.
On October 20, 2006 at 5:54 pm, Alex had this to say:
I LOVE YOUR BOOKS!!! they are mvery good and i am going to start reading The Au Pairs to as soon as i get my hands on the books because i love to read
On October 21, 2006 at 9:45 am, Anna had this to say:
okay, how DARE you not mention this at dinner??? OMG, congratulations. i am just not catching up on blog reading now…
On October 30, 2006 at 11:41 am, Cara had this to say:
Finally! .... I was just thinking how great it would be to have an Au Pairs movie, how ironic!! I can’t !!
Cara
On January 22, 2008 at 3:04 am, Melissa (yes we have the same name :)) had this to say:
I just read the second book again and like Cara I can just picture an Au Pairs film. This is so great, I can’t wait!
On October 5, 2006 at 10:12 am, Jen had this to say:
That is ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS news! So, so exciting! Especially since it’s DREW!!! I can’t wait…