‘Purple Hearts’ Producer Alloy Entertainment Unveils Film Development Slate; Includes Book Adaptations Of ‘Getting Rid Of Matthew’, ‘Pyrates’, ‘Kisses & Croissants’ And ‘99 Days’

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EXCLUSIVE: Hot off the success of its record-breaking Netflix film Purple Hearts, Alloy Entertainment has unveiled four new features in development, three of which are based on books that the company has developed in-house.The first film, Getting Rid of Matthew, based on the bestselling novel by Jane Fallon, follows Helen, who finally gets her wish after years of begging her lover Matthew to leave his wife.

And immediately comes to regret it. Hernán Jiménez (Love Hard, Elsewhere) will direct from his own script.The second feature, to be written and directed by Chris Hazzard & Michael Fontana (Undercover, Adulting), is an adaptation of Chris Archer’s book series Pyrates, which watches as a group of kids searches for Captain Kidd’s lost treasure in contemporary Manhattan.Third on the docket is Kisses & Croissants, which writer-producer Elspeth Keller (Catching Babies) 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 ballet program in Paris and has six weeks to achieve her dreams: to snag an audition with one of the world’s best ballet companies.In 99 Days, based on Alloy’s New York Times bestselling novel from author Katie Cotugno,  a teenage girl returns home for her last summer before college, after being shamed out of town for hooking up with her boyfriend’s brother.

Shannon Bradley-Colleary and Martha Stephens (To the Stars) are scripting the film adaptation, with Stephens to serve as director.Alloy’s romance Purple Hearts, starring Sofia Carson and Nicolas Galitzine, just became the seventh most-watched movie in Netflix history.