New Madoff Biography Optioned for Cinemax Movie (Exclusive)

Cinemax is learning much more about Bernie Madoff.our editor recommendsMadoff TV Interviews Spur Great Rankings, Lousy Book SalesBernie Madoff's Boy, Wife Open to '60 Minutes' (Video) The pay cable network has optionedTruth and Effects: Existence Within the Madoff Family by Laurie Sandell. It will function as a source material adjunct towards the Diane Henriques' NY Occasions best-selling book The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and also the Dying of Trust which a formerly-introduced Madoff movieis based. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Greatest Blunders The project, which Tribeca Productions is creating using its principals Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal as executive producers, focuses on the storyline of Bernie Madoff and the $65 billion Ponzi plan. John Burnham Schwartz(Reservation Road) signed onto pen the script, withDe Niro attachedto star because the disgraced financier. VIDEO: Bernie Madoff's Boy, Wife Open to ླྀ Minutes' The most recent news comes mere days following the recently launched book, anauthorized family biographywith the cooperation from the charged Wall Street Ponzi-schemer's boy Andrew,was peddeled by Andrew and the mother Ruth on CBSླྀ Minutes.As the episode, which featured exclusive interviews with Andrew and Ruth, came particularly impressive rankings, it seems to beunderperforming. REPORT: Bernie Madoff's Future Daughter-in-Law Only Person to learn From New Book Recently, Cinemax finds critical success with ripped-from-the-head lines movies. Its Too Large to Fail produced 11 Emmy nominations this season and it is 2008 movie Recount, concerning the questionable 2000 presidential election, won the statue for the best designed for TV movie. Email: Lacey.Rose@THR.com Twitter: @LaceyVRose Related Subjects Robert P Niro Cinemax