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Wattpad Webtoon Studios, the fan-driven entertainment and publishing site that has sparked...

South Korean and Italian Publishers Hold a Bilateral Rights Exchange Running through Wednesday, this week’s program of online rights meetings bring together 36 South Korean and Italian publishers. In Seoul’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza, June 23. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Prangkul Ruangsri Following Bilateral Events with Australia, Spain, and France In June, a three-day bilateral rights program for the French and Italian markets was organized by the Italian Trade Agency, called “ICE” in Italy, with a goal of “keeping alive a fundamental exchange for the two countries.” Today (July 5...

. While the platform has had first-look deals and television and film development projects with some of the largest companies in the world, including Sony, this is its first such arrangement with Netflix. This is a timely demonstration of what has made Wattpad—and what can make Kindle Vella—such a valuable property in terms of books-to-film/words-to-screen development. The timing of this announcement shows Wattpad to be the current dominant player in the serialization field, and Toronto today has illustrated what eventually may be one of the key advantages to Amazon in its new Vella devel...

Intellectual property is the lifeblood of entertainment, and Hollywood badly needs a transfusion. Stuck recycling the same ideas and producing the same franchises, Hollywood is now looking to podcasts, news articles, and even songs and paintings to dredge up stories that could be hits with global audiences. Finding the right stories—and developing them into things that actually exist on screen—can be an arduous, money-draining process. One company thinks it has found an efficient new way to sift through millions of user-generated stories to find the next Hollywood hits: artificial intelli...

Flash, was interested in adapting her book into a feature film he would produce and star in. For Marchant, a recent graduate of the University of Southern California who got her start writing Harry Potter fanfiction, learning that Amell wanted to adapt something she wrote was a dream come true. Her novel, Float, a teen romance set in a beach town, had been released chapter by chapter online over the course of seven years — far from the traditional process of writing a manuscript and hoping it finds its way into an editor’s hands. She had started it when she was just 15.