Dakota Fanning and Danielle Macdonald have joined Diane Lane and Elizabeth Banks on Amy Berg’s Every Secret Thing. Hyde Park International in talks with EFM buyers.

Likely Story, Merced Media Partners and Palmstar Media Capital’s story centres on two 18-year-old girls who are released from prison after they were convicted seven years earlier for murdering a baby. Upon their release, children start to go missing and the original mystery returns to the fore.

Principal photography is set to begin on Mar 25 in New York.

Berg directs from a screenplay Nicole Holofcener adapted from Laura Lippman’s 2004 novel.

Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman is producing with Frances McDormand. Executive producers are Palmstar’s Kevin Frakes, Merced Media’s Raj Singh and Stuart Brown, Hyde Park’s Ashok Amritraj, Likely Story’s Stefanie Azpiazu, and Michael Bederman.