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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has landed movie authorities to New York Times bestselling writer Ali Hazelwood’s novel, Love, Theoretically.
It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover will nutrient pinch her Heartbones Entertainment partner Lauren Levine alongside Max Siemers and Tanner Anderson for Magic Hour Entertainment.
Along for nan Ride filmmaker Sofia Alvarez is directing nan romanticist drama and will accommodate nan screenplay. She’ll besides EP pinch Hazelwood.
The Berkley published Love, Theoretically follows rival physicists who collide successful a vortex of world feuds and mendacious identities. The task reps a reunion for Siemers and Alvarez aft nan brace collaborated connected nan first 2 films successful the To All nan Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy. The news comes successful beforehand of nan Sept. 23, 2026 Prime Video premiere of nan characteristic return of Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis which stars Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman. The movie was featured this past play astatine Prime Video’s all-day inaugural immersive arena Obsessed Fest which brought fans face-to-face pinch nan stars, creators, and worlds down nan astir buzzworthy YA titles.
Alvarez is simply a NY-based playwright and filmmaker. She is champion known for her movie adaptations of Jenny Han’s bestselling novels To All nan Boys I’ve Loved Before and To All nan Boys 2: P.S. I Still Love You, some for Netflix. Along For The Ride, her directorial debut, based connected nan caller by Sarah Dessen, was released connected Netflix successful May 2022. Currently Alvarez is adapting nan imagination romance epic, Divine Rivals, based connected nan book by Rebecca Ross. The task is group up astatine Paramount pinch Di Bonaventura Pictures producing. In television, she wrote for nan first 2 seasons of Simon Rich’s Man Seeking Woman (FXX). In theater, Alvarez’s plays include Kill Corp (Warehouse Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival), Nylon (BTP / Theaterlab), Friend Art (Second Stage), Panelists (Dorset Theater Festival Pipeline Series), The Fish Bowl (Juilliard), and Between Us Chickens (SCR / EST LA) among others. She is simply a postgraduate of nan Juilliard School and Bennington College. Alvarez is repped by UTA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.
Heartbones Entertainment is besides already successful business pinch Amazon MGM Studios. The banner is producing Verity, based connected Hoover’s bestselling novel, which stars Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett which will deed theaters connected Oct. 2. The company’s debut feature, Reminders of Him, played successful theaters backmost successful March via Universal wherever it made $89M worldwide disconnected a $25M accumulation cost.
Magic Hour Entertainment precocious completed accumulation connected nan feature Ded, from Oscar nominated head Carlos López Estrada. The characteristic is simply a silent movie starring Estrada, Camila Mendes and Eugenio Derbez. Siemers is known for producing the To All nan Boys I’ve Loved Before characteristic trilogy astatine Netflix, based connected nan celebrated book bid by Jenny Han. The films are wide credited for reigniting nan YA romanticist drama genre and proving that streaming platforms could build trilogies. His different erstwhile characteristic producing credits include Love astatine First Sight, Spontaneous, Hello Goodbye and Everything In Between and Before I Fall.
Hazelwood is simply a No. 1 New York Times and world bestselling author, known for specified titles as The Love Hypothesis, Deep End, Bride, among others. Her books person sold much than 7 cardinal copies worldwide. Hazelwood is represented by UTA and Thao Le astatine Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.
