Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNetflix has optioned the rights to Annie Barrows’ illustrated children’s book series “Ivy & Bean” and plans to make them into movies.The hour-long live-action films will geared toward family audiences.
Kathy Waugh (“Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer,” “Molly of Denali”) is writing the screenplay.“With a 1-hour run-time, the ‘Ivy & Bean’ film series will still very much be movies the whole family can enjoy,” said Netflix’s director of family features Naketha Mattocks.
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