The Housemaid is heading to the stage, and given the story’s track record, it’s hard to bet against it.

Lionsgate has announced it is developing a stage adaptation of the psychological thriller, based on Freida McFadden’s best-selling novel and the hit film of the same name. 

British production company Melting Pot, led by Simon Friend and Hanna Osmolska, the team behind the stage versions of Life of Pi and Paranormal Activity, will produce, with playwright Bekah Brunstetter, best known for Broadway’s The Notebook, writing the script. 

A production timeline has not yet been confirmed.

The move makes considerable commercial sense. 

The film, directed by Paul Feig and starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, quietly became one of the more remarkable box office stories in recent memory, grossing $400 million worldwide on a production budget of just $35 million. 

A sequel, The Housemaid’s Secret, is already in the pipeline, with production expected to begin later this year ahead of a planned theatrical release on 17 December 2027.

The stage version will draw on both the novel and the film, which tell broadly the same story, a young woman with a hidden past takes a live-in housekeeping position with a wealthy family whose seemingly perfect life conceals some very dark secrets. 

The endings of the book and film differ slightly, though the core story remains the same.

For Friend, the material is a natural fit for theatre. 

“When I first read The Housemaid, it was exhilarating,” he said. 

“What occurred to me is how truly theatrical the story is, not only happening largely in a single, claustrophobic location, but the twisty elements which contemporize what has long worked in potboiler stage thrillers.” 

He has spoken of wanting to “heighten its intensity” for live audiences, a logical ambition given that much of the film’s appeal came from experiencing its campier moments and jump-scares in a crowd.

Brunstetter is equally enthused. 

“I’m so thrilled to be bringing this gripping, emotional, strange, and even funny story to the stage,” she said. 

“I’m extremely excited to dig into The Housemaid’s incredibly universal themes of jealousy, the pain of desire, and the traumas that connect us.”

The Housemaid joins a growing slate of Lionsgate properties making the leap from screen to stage. 

Productions based on Dirty Dancing, La La Land and Wonder are all in development, while a stage version of The Hunger Games is currently running on London’s West End. 

It is, by any measure, an ambitious expansion, and The Housemaid, with its built-in audience and proven commercial appeal, looks like one of the stronger bets in the bunch.

Andrej Karpathy, cofounder and member of OpenAI and former head of AI at Tesla, announced that he joined rival artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic.

This marks a major AI talent shakeup among Silicon Valley’s leaders.

Writing on X (formerly known as Twitter), Karpathy wrote: “I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here (Anthropic) and get back to R&D.”

Anthropic also confirmed Karpathy’s joining, stating that he will start working this week and build a team focused on using Claude, Anthropic’s flagship AI model, to accelerate pertinent research.

This development comes at a time when Anthropic is expected to hit a valuation of $1 trillion and keep gaining on its main competitor, OpenAI. Just last month, Anthropic recruited Ross Nordeen, one of the co-founders of Elon Musk’s xAI.

Karpathy has a phenomenal academic and professional history. Karpathy was one of the co-founders of OpenAI in 2015. 

Two years later, Elon Musk hired him to head the Autopilot vision team at Tesla. 

According to emails uncovered in a recent court case, Musk considered Karpathy “arguably the #2 guy in the world in computer vision” after Ilya Sutskever.

At Tesla, Karpathy stayed for five years as director of AI and contributed to building the computer vision systems that power the company’s self-driving technologies.

In 2022, he left Tesla and briefly returned to OpenAI in 2023, and then departed again in 2024 to dedicatedly work on his own AI education company, Eureka Labs.

Aside from his employment background, Karpathy is known for influencing the way the world teaches AI. 

He developed and taught CS231n, the first deep learning class with a focus on computer vision, at Stanford. The course went from having 150 to 750 students within two years.

He came up with the term “vibe coding” in February 2025, which refers to using AI tools to develop programs through prompts without knowing how to code. It became the Word of the Year according to Collins Dictionary.

Karpathy earned a PhD from Stanford, mentored by Fei-Fei Li, a master’s degree from the University of British Columbia, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto. Before any of those achievements, he got recognised for publishing Rubik’s Cube tutorials on YouTube under the name “badmephisto.”

Angelina Jolie proudly supported her daughter Zahara Marley Jolie at her Spelman College graduation ceremony over the weekend.

The two were joined by Jolie’s sons Pax (22) and Knox (17).

The actress was photographed in a floor-length gray coat and black boots as she walked alongside her children on campus.

The 21-year-old graduate wore a traditional black cap and gown with a white dress underneath, completing her milestone moment with a blue Spelman College stole.

Zahara received her Bachelor of Arts in psychology.

Notably, Zahara was announced to the crowd as Zahara Marley Jolie, dropping her father Brad Pitt’s surname.

The move echoed her 2023 Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority introduction, where she also omitted Pitt’s name.

Her siblings Vivienne and Shiloh have made similar choices in recent years, with Shiloh legally changing her name in 2024.

Brad Pitt did not attend the ceremony. Jolie and Pitt divorced in 2016.

A source told Page Six that it was “a shame people feel the need to cast a shadow over this celebration by taking a dig at a father who has already been separated from his family.”