‘Purple Hearts’ Producer Alloy Leisure Unveils Movie Growth Slate – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Scorching off the success of its record-breaking Netflix movie Purple Hearts, Alloy Leisure has unveiled 4 new options in growth, three of that are based mostly on books that the corporate has developed in-house.

The primary movie, Getting Rid of Matthew, based mostly on the bestselling novel by Jane Fallon, follows Helen, who lastly will get her want after years of begging her lover Matthew to depart his spouse. And instantly involves remorse it. Hernán Jiménez (Love Onerous, Elsewhere) will direct from his personal script.

The second function, to be written and directed by Chris Hazzard & Michael Fontana (Undercover, Adulting), is an adaptation of Chris Archer’s e-book sequence Pyrates, which watches as a gaggle of children searches for Captain Kidd’s misplaced treasure in modern Manhattan.

Third on the docket is Kisses & Croissants, which writer-producer Elspeth Keller (Catching Infants) will adapt from the same-name Alloy novel by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau. That title follows 16-year-old American Mia, who joins an elite summer time ballet program in Paris and has six weeks to realize her goals: to snag an audition with one of many world’s greatest ballet firms.

In 99 Days, based mostly on Alloy’s New York Occasions bestselling novel from writer Katie Cotugno,  a teenage lady returns dwelling for her final summer time earlier than faculty, after being shamed out of city for hooking up along with her boyfriend’s brother. Shannon Bradley-Colleary and Martha Stephens (To the Stars) are scripting the movie adaptation, with Stephens to function director.

Alloy’s romance Purple Hearts, starring Sofia Carson and Nicolas Galitzine, simply grew to become the seventh most-watched film in Netflix historical past. The movie from director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum follows struggling singer-songwriter Cassie (Carson) and troubled Marine Luke (Galitzine) as they comply with marry solely for army advantages, regardless of their many variations. However when tragedy strikes, the road between actual and faux begins to blur.

The pic launched on the streamer July 29 within the No. 1 place, knocking the Russo Brothers’ tentpole The Grey Man off the highest perch and setting different Netflix data alongside the best way together with being watched greater than 102.59 million hours for the largest week of the 12 months for a Netflix movie, with its second-week progress of 112.7% marking the largest bounce ever at Netflix.

A e-book packaging and TV manufacturing unit of Warner Bros Tv Studios, Alloy’s movie enterprise is overseen by president Leslie Morgenstein and Head of Movie Elysa Koplovitz Dutton. The corporate at the moment has two movies in manufacturing: the Adam Sandler-starrer You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah! with Netflix, and Sony/Display screen Gems’ style image Horrorscope. On the tv facet, Alloy simply launched Fairly Little Liars: Unique Sin on HBO Max. The corporate additionally has You, starring Penn Badgley, at Netflix, and Gossip Woman at HBO Max.

Jiménez is repped by UTA, Writ Massive and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; Hazzard and Fontana by CAA and Nameless Content material; Keller by Gersh and Gang, Tyre, Ramer; Bradley-Colleary by Gersh and Granderson Des Rochers; and Stephens by UTA, Cinetic Media and Granderson Des Rochers.