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Prime Video has been on a YA tear with the Culpables movies and Maxton Hall – and is now placing an international bet on Italian project Love Me, Love Me. Speaking at Series Mania, Nicole Morganti, Head of Originals, Southern Europe at Amazon Studios said: “Right now we are shooting Love Me, Love Me, which is an IP from Stefania S. It’s really a movie that can resonate with a global audience.”

The film an adaptation of the first novel in a trilogy from Stefania S., published on Wattpad and which has notched 19 million reads. The movie will be written by Veronica Galli and Serena Tateo. Lotus Production is co-producing with Amazon MGM Studios.

Morganti spoke about how Prime Video approaches its YA adaptations and said they often make big changes to the source material and they also tune-in to what the fans are saying.

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Wattpad Webtoon Studios, the entertainment arm of the user-generated fiction and comics entertainment outfit, and Italy’s Leone Film Group have announced two new adaptations based on hit young-adult Wattpad novels.

Taiwan-based author Ann Rae’s romantic mystery “The Locker Exchange,” which is set in a U.S. high school and has over 26 million reads globally on the Wattpad platform, is set to become an English and Italian-language feature film. And “Love Me, Love Me” by Italian writer Stefania S, which has scored 12 million reads in Italy, is to be adapted into an Italian-language series by Leone’s Lotus Production unit.

The two new adaptations expand on an existing deal that Leone inked last year to co-develop a slate of films for the Italian and international marketplace based on original fiction stories from Wattpad. That pact came after the two companies partnered to make a movie based on Blair Holden...