Aron Levitz ( who launched Wattpad Studios) will be the president of Wattpad Webtoon Studios. Eric Lehrman will take over the Wattpad section of the company while Taylor Grant will oversee the Webtoon entertainment. Dexter Ong will handle the international side of the business while Ashleigh Gardner will handle all aspects of publishing. There are plans on publishing Wattpad Webtoon Studios entertainment projects as books. For instance, Eisner Award-nominated Webtoon graphic novel series titled "Lore Olympus" will be published as a book (Publishing company: Penguin Random House).
Here are previous properties that were launched by both Wattpad and Webtoon:
1. Netflix’s Webtoon-originated Sweet Home; Noblesse, an anime co-production between Webtoon and Crunchyroll.
2. upcoming Netflix original film A Traves de Mi Ventana from Nostromo Pictures, based on the global Wattpad hit of the same name.
3. Netflix and Komixx Entertainment adaptation of The Kissing Booth, the story Beth Reekles first wrote on Wattpad.
4. Hit Webtoon comics include Tower of God. Webtoon and Crunchyroll recently co-produced a hit anime adaptation now available on Crunchyroll and HBO Max.
5. Teen hit After (first released on Wattpad before Simon & Schuster published it). In 2019, The film won a People’s Choice Award and Three Teen Choice Awards. It also produced five additional films in the franchise.
6. Hulu’s Light as a Feather, produced by AwesomenessTV, Wattpad Studios, and Grammnet, was nominated for 10 Daytime Emmy Awards over two seasons.
You can read the early version of House Trap at Wattpad by clicking HERE.
Source material: Deadline.com