The Code 8 team at Collective Pictures is partnering with Wattpad to adapt story ‘Float’ by Kate Marchant, with more than 25 million reads, into film.
Spain’s Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial and Canada’s Wattpad Strike Rights Deal
PRH Grupo Editorial gets translation rights to English-language titles from Wattpad Book, a world Spanish exclusive.
Germany’s Constantin Film Acquires a ‘Rocky-esque’ Story From Canada’s Wattpad
As Canada’s Wattpad Books buys a ‘lockdown romance’ for 2022, Constantin Film acquires a Wattpad story with more than 80 million reads.
Wattpad Says It’s Resetting Passwords Following Reported Data Breach
Wattpad officials say they can detect no theft of users’ ‘financial information, stories, private messages, or phone numbers’ in a data breach.
During Cannes: Australia’s Screen Queensland Enters a New Wattpad Partnership
Not a normal first-look deal, Wattpad announces a partnership with a state-owned film development company in Australia, Screen Queensland.
Wattpad’s Verticalization: Now Making Its Own International Adaptations
Taking a more aggressive stance in development of its properties, Wattpad Studios announces projects and writers for new film and television adaptations.
Industry Notes: Sony Makes Wattpad Projects; Business Remembers Alice Mayhew
The Sony Pictures Television deal for Wattpad has two projects in development. And a stalwart of nonfiction, Simon & Schuster’s Alice Mayhew, is remembered.
Wattpad Studios’ Aron Levitz: Words to Screen in the Year Ahead
As streaming entertainment makes ‘all content global,’ says Wattpad’s Aron Levitz, the most successful studios will listen to their audiences.
Mediacorp Series Based on Wattpad’s ‘Slow Dancing’ Announced in Singapore
Announced at the 20th anniversary Asia TV Forum and Market, ‘Slow Dancing’ is the Wattpad-Mediacorp partnership’s first green-lighted production.
Industry Notes: Jesseca Salky Opens New Agency; Wattpad Partners in Latin America
Literary Agent Jesseca Salky opens her own literary management company in New York, and Toronto’s Wattpad announces a deal with Wise in Rio.