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As an audience-driven IP powerhouse, Wattpad WEBTOON Studios unlocks the full potential of WEBTOON and Wattpad’s global IP libraries, growing roster of superstar creators, and fandoms in every genre.

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Wattpad WEBTOON Studios unites WEBTOON Studios’ expertise and growing slate of adaptations from some of the world’s most-popular digital comics, with Wattpad Studios’ data-backed, audience-driven approach to finding and producing hit TV shows, films, and books. By merging Wattpad and WEBTOON’s entertainment divisions, Wattpad WEBTOON Studios strengthens Naver’s global leadership in IP, digital comics, and webnovels. The move aligned Wattpad with Naver’s WEBTOON, two leading comics, entertainment, and storytelling companies. South Korea’s internet conglomerate Naver recently acquired Wattpad in a transaction estimated to be more than USD $600M. Taylor Grant will lead the WEBTOON entertainment portfolio, Eric Lehrman will lead the Wattpad entertainment portfolio, Ashleigh Gardner will continue to lead all aspects of publishing, and Dexter Ong will lead international business. Naver, parent company to both WEBTOON and Wattpad, will commit USD $100M to Wattpad WEBTOON Studios for development and production financing.Īfter launching and building the Wattpad Studios brand since 2017, Aron Levitz will step into the role of President of Wattpad WEBTOON Studios. Leveraging the passionate global fandoms from WEBTOON and Wattpad’s combined audience of more than 166 million people, Wattpad WEBTOON Studios will create the world’s most innovative multi-format studio making global fan and data-driven TV shows, films, and books. TORONTO AND LOS ANGELES - J- Wattpad, the global multi-platform entertainment company for original stories and leading social storytelling platform, and WEBTOON, the world’s largest digital comics platform, today announced that the companies will merge their studio divisions to create Wattpad WEBTOON Studios. Wattpad WEBTOON Studios has more than 100 TV and film projects in development or production with partners around the world, hits on screens everywhere, and a growing slate of books and international imprints Under the leadership of Aron Levitz as President, Wattpad WEBTOON Studios unites WEBTOON and Wattpad’s unmatched IP catalogues, international audiences, and expertise in building global fandoms under a single global studio umbrella 24 by Wattpad’s Spanish-language publishing partner Penguin Random House Spain.Naver will commit USD $100M to Wattpad WEBTOON Studios for development and production financing

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“Perfectos Mentirosos” is part of a trilogy series published by Penguin Random House in Spain, where it has been a two-time best-seller and reprinted 17 times, and “Boulevard” will be published on Feb. “Boulevard” centers around a forbidden romance between Halsey Weigel and self-proclaimed misfit Luke Howland.

“Perfectos Mentirosos” follows Jude, a grant student at an Ivy League school who finds herself in the company of an irresistible trio of rich brothers that she hopes to tear down.

“Perfectos Mentirosos” and “Boulevard” will be the first Spanish-language projects entirely self-financed through Wattpad Webtoon Studios’ Development Fund, which was designed to fast-track development for Webtoon and Wattpad content with a budding built-in audience. Godoy’s webtoon has more than 325 million reads on Wattpad and an English-language novelized version was published by Wattpad Books in Jan. The streamer greenlit two additional sequels for the franchise almost as soon as the film premiered on the service. 1 in 22 regions on Netflix and at the Top 10 charts in 85 regions, generating more than 33 million viewing hours in its first weekend on Netflix (Feb.

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Godoy’s “A través de mi ventana” was given the Netflix movie treatment and the Wattpad-to-screen adaptation paid off. By investing in these projects and many more from our platforms, we’re going to give fans a new way to experience their stories from creators across the Spanish-speaking world.” “Alex, Flor, and an entirely new generation of Spanish-language creators are building entire fandoms for their work on Wattpad and Webtoon. “Perfectos Mentirosos and Boulevard are massively popular Wattpad stories with millions of reads and have deeply engaged fans in Spanish language markets around the world,” said Levitz, President of Wattpad Webtoon Studios, in a statement.

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