EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a big one out of Australia.

Former Binge content chief Alison Hurbert-Burns, who commissioned Colin From Accounts, is teaming with Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky‘s Made Up Stories to launch a production business.

Respected Australian commissioner Hurbert-Burns will be CEO of The Set Up, with Papandrea and Hutensky joining her as co-founders, we can reveal. Made Up Stories execs Casey Haver, Jeanne Snow and Katie Amos will round out the leadership team.

The plan is for The Set Up to package premium series with IP, talent and financing out of Australia and sell them to broadcasters and streamers in the country and internationally.

The new-look management team already has a close-knit relationship. Papandrea produced record-setting drama Strife and Liane Moriarty adaptation The Last Anniversary for Hurbert-Burns when she was leading Aussie streamer Binge.

Made Up Stories will continue to build a slate of TV and film projects in the U.S. and internationally, while Sydney-based label The Set Up will focus purely on Australian titles, “pairing a commissioner’s eye for what audiences want with world-class producing at the source of some of the most distinctive stories, talent and locations in the world,” the founders said in a statement.

Hurbert-Burns is known for launching Foxtel SVoD Binge and overseeing its slate, commissioning the likes of Colin From Accounts, Mix Tape and The Twelve. She exited the DAZN-owned Foxtel in 2025 after six years at the helm as Executive Director for Commissioning and Content, during which time she ordered 25 original series. Further back, she worked in content acquisitions for Nine Network and its streamers 9Now and Stan.

“Alison is that rare combination — a true tastemaker and a brilliant operator — and one of the most highly regarded people in the Australian TV industry. Teaming up with her is a dream,” said Papandrea and Hutensky. “Australian creatives and stories are world-class, and the opportunity to produce a slate of shows that resonate both locally and globally is incredibly exciting. We’re passionate about bringing top Australian television to audiences everywhere.”

Made Up Stories is one of the better known production companies born out of Australia, and is behind the likes of HBO’s Big Little Lies and The Undoing, Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers, Prime Video Australia’s The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and Peacock’s The Good Daughter. On the film front, it produced The Dry, which is one of Australia’s highest-grossing pics, its sequel The Dry 2 and Addition, which released this year.

Hurbert-Burns added: “Bruna, Steve and the Made Up Stories team are simply the best in the business at making television the world wants to watch — and this new company is a business and creative partnership in every sense.

“We’re bringing a commissioner’s lens and a targeted approach to our slate, finding stories that travel across borders and appeal to broad audiences. Having been on the buying side, I appreciate that streamers and broadcasters need reliable, consistent access to highly engaging, premium-quality content in a landscape that’s changing fast.”

A sequel to Paul Feig’s The Housemaid will hit the big screen in 2027.

The film started coming together at the beginning of 2026 when it was greenlit by Lionsgate. Several faces both in front of and behind the camera in the first film will return to reprise their roles for the second, titled The Housemaid’s Secret.

Read on for everything we know about The Housemaid’s Secret movie adaptation below:

When will The Housemaid’s Secret movie come out?

The film has set its sights on Dec. 17, 2027 to bow in theaters, exactly two years after the first film arrived in 2025. Production is set to take place this fall, as Paul Feig told Deadline at the Oscars.

Who will be in the cast of The Housemaid’s Secret movie? Who is coming back from the first film?

Sydney Sweeney will reprise her role of Millie Calloway, who nannied and kept house for Nina Winchester (Amanda Seyfried) in the first film. Neither Seyfried’s Winchester nor Brandon Sklenar’s Andrew Winchester will be in the second film, with the latter meeting a fatal end in The Housemaid (2025). Michele Morrone will reprise his role of Enzo, the gardener.

As for new faces, Kirsten Dunst will star opposite Sweeney this second time around as Wendy Garrick. Paul Anthony Kelly (Love Story) will make his film debut as Wendy’s billionaire husband, Douglas Garrick. Brittany Snow has also joined the film as Marybeth.

What is The Housemaid’s Secret about?

Sweeney’s Mille Calloway will take on a new housekeeping job for a woman she’s never allowed to see. Another locked door threatens to explore secrets much darker than Millie’s. The film will be based on Frieda McFadden’s sequel novel of the same name, which published in 2023.

Who else is behind The Housemaid’s Secret?

Sweeney will also executive produce. Paul Feig is returning to direct from a script by Rebecca Sonnenshine, who adapted The Housemaid.

Producers will include Todd Lieberman of Hidden Pictures, Feig and Laura Fischer of Feig’s Pretty Dangerous Pictures, and Hidden Pictures’ Carly Elter and Alex Young. Author McFadden will also serve as an executive producer. 

The film will be overseen by Lionsgate’s Chelsea Kujawa, who also oversaw the first film and brought the project into the studio, alongside Maria Ascanio. Robert Melnik negotiated deals for the studio.

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As Chris Hansen gets the A24 treatment with Primetime, he’s keeping an open mind.

The former host of To Catch a Predator recently confirmed he’s “going to see” the Lance Oppenheim-helmed thriller, which stars Robert Pattinson as Hansen, after the film’s team invited him to a private screening.

“We had heard that this was in the works. A couple months ago, they came out and said, ‘Hey, look, we’re doing this. We’d like you to have some sort of consideration in terms of helping us with this.’ I haven’t seen it,” he said on the Serialously podcast. “I’m going to get a private screening in the next week or so and then I’ll be able to tell you whether I like it or don’t like it, and how dramatized it is.”

Hansen added, “My suspicion is that they used my name because it helps in a commercial enterprise. And until I see the full movie, I as a reporter—it’s sort of silly for me to talk about something that I haven’t seen yet. So, I’m going to see it.”

Noting he’s “seen the trailer” for the Ajon Singh-penned film, Hansen said it “looks very dramatic.”

“But again, I’ve been busy being the real Chris Hansen, so I don’t have a lot of time to focus on the fake Chris Hansen,” he said of Pattinson. “I know that he’s a very popular actor. I know that the director is a popular guy, but I also have some questions. What’s Hollywood’s motive here? We don’t know, but I’ll find out and I’ll promise I’ll let you know.”

With Pattinson playing him, Hansen explained he “didn’t get to choose my own guy here,” revealing who he had in mind. “I had discussions years ago—I had crafted a script, and I thought Dennis Leary would be a good guy to play me, depending on the age of it all,” he said.

Premiering Sept. 25 in theaters, Primetime follows Chris Hansen (Pattinson) as he attempts to make television history with NBC’s To Catch a Predator (2004-’07), a hidden camera show that set up stings for adult men seeking sex from minors online.