EXCLUSIVE: Wattpad Webtoon Studios has promoted Jason Goldberg to Head of World Movie, additionally elevating Alessandra Ferreri to Vice President of Content material, Brennan Loftus to Director of Growth, Animation, and Jess Brinder to Director, Head of Leisure Enterprise Growth.
Becoming a member of Wattpad Webtoon in 2022, as Director of Movie for North America, Goldberg will now proceed producing and increasing the studio’s strong movie slate in North America and key worldwide markets. He studies to Head of World Leisure, David Madden. Initiatives he’s overseeing at current embody variations of the hit Webtoon comedian Love Recommendation from the Nice Duke of Hell with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Think about Leisure, Wattpad romance Chasing Purple with Stampede Ventures, and the Wattpad thriller What Occurred That Night time with Kids of Males scribe David Arata, to call a couple of.
Alessandra Ferreri, Brennan Loftus and Jess Brinder
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“Jason’s experience and understanding of storytelling and movie tradition have been a vital asset to the studio,” Madden instructed Deadline. “He has enthusiastically leapt into the difference course of on some extraordinary titles from WEBTOON and Wattpad that film followers will embrace with the identical ardour that they do on our platforms. As we proceed to develop our footprint in Hollywood, we’re thrilled to have him lead our international movie division, offering the steering and management we have to create unbelievable content material for audiences world wide.”
Previous to his time at Wattpad Webtoon Studios, Goldberg was Vice President of Scripted Movie & TV at Gunpowder & Sky, the place he supervised all scripted improvement and managed the corporate’s comedy take care of Paramount. He has additionally held government roles at MTV Studios and VH1, along with positions at HBO and Lee Daniels Leisure.
Since becoming a member of Wattpad in 2015, Ferreri’s focus has been on managing the studio’s IP technique, figuring out international hits on Webtoon and Wattpad that may seize new audiences in TV, movie, and publishing. In her new function, she is going to proceed to handle the stream of webnovels and webcomics to leisure, publishing and merchandising alternatives.
Most not too long ago serving as a improvement government on the animation facet, Loftus will proceed to report back to Sydney Vibrant, the studio’s Head of World Animation, the place he’ll assist creator relationships, establish writing expertise, and assist handle inventive improvement for the studio’s animation slate. Going ahead, he’ll proceed to work on key initiatives such because the Lore Olympus collection with The Jim Henson Firm, based mostly on Rachel Smythe’s 1.5 billion-viewed Webtoon sensation, in addition to the collection Hawk with MCU screenwriter Christopher Yost.
With Wattpad Webtoon for just a little over two years, Brinder will proceed to handle the corporate’s worldwide presence with leisure partnerships and productions throughout Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Based in 2019, Wattpad Webtoon Studios is a fan-driven studio harnessing standard IP from the net publishers Wattpad and Webtoon to create content material for movie and TV with a built-in viewers. Current and upcoming releases embody Float, starring Robbie Amell and Andrea Bang; By means of My Window: Taking a look at You, the ultimate movie in Netflix’s By means of My Window trilogy based mostly on Ariana Godoy’s Wattpad webnovel, which has now spent greater than a month within the streamer’s World Non-English Movies Prime 10; and the upcoming movie Boot Camp, an adaptation of Gina Musa’s Wattpad webnovel, starring Riverdale alum Drew Ray Tanner.
