{"id":517264,"date":"2026-06-29T22:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517264\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T22:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:22:10","slug":"love-theoretically-movie-in-works-at-amazon-collen-hoover-producing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517264\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Love, Theoretically’ Movie In Works At Amazon, Collen Hoover Producing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios<\/a> has landed film rights to\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling author Ali Hazelwood<\/a>\u2019s novel,\u00a0Love, Theoretically.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover will produce with her Heartbones Entertainment partner Lauren Levine<\/a> alongside Max Siemers and Tanner Anderson for Magic Hour Entertainment. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlong for the Ride filmmaker Sofia Alvarez<\/a> is directing the romantic comedy and will adapt the screenplay. She\u2019ll also EP with Hazelwood. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Berkley published Love, Theoretically follows\u00a0rival physicists who collide in a vortex of academic feuds and false identities.\u00a0The project reps a reunion for Siemers and Alvarez after the pair collaborated on the first two films in the\u00a0To All the Boys I\u2019ve Loved Before\u00a0trilogy.\u00a0The news comes in advance of the Sept. 23, 2026 Prime Video premiere of the feature take of Hazelwood\u2019s The Love Hypothesis which stars Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman. The movie was featured this past weekend at Prime Video\u2019s all-day inaugural immersive event Obsessed Fest<\/a> which brought fans face-to-face with the stars, creators, and worlds behind the most buzzworthy YA, romance and book adaptation titles. <\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Everything We Know About \u2018The Love Hypothesis\u2019 Movie So Far<\/a><\/p>\n

Alvarez is a NY-based playwright and filmmaker. She is best known for her film adaptations of Jenny Han\u2019s bestselling novels\u00a0To All the Boys I\u2019ve Loved Before\u00a0and\u00a0To All the Boys 2: P.S. I Still Love You, both for Netflix.\u00a0Along For The Ride, her directorial debut, based on the novel by Sarah Dessen, was released on Netflix in May 2022. Currently Alvarez is adapting the fantasy romance epic, Divine Rivals, based on the book by Rebecca Ross<\/a>. The project is set up at Paramount with Di Bonaventura Pictures producing. In television, she wrote for the first two seasons of Simon Rich\u2019s\u00a0Man Seeking Woman\u00a0(FXX).<\/p>\n

\n\tIn theater, Alvarez\u2019s plays include\u00a0Kill Corp\u00a0(Warehouse Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival),\u00a0Nylon\u00a0(BTP\/Theaterlab),\u00a0Friend Art\u00a0(Second Stage),\u00a0Panelists\u00a0(Dorset Theater Festival Pipeline Series),\u00a0The Fish Bowl\u00a0(Juilliard), and\u00a0Between Us Chickens\u00a0(SCR\/EST LA) among others. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School and Bennington College. Alvarez is repped by UTA, Kaplan Perrone and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHeartbones Entertainment is also already in business with Amazon MGM Studios. The banner is producing\u00a0Verity, based on Hoover\u2019s bestselling novel, which stars Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett which will hit theaters on Oct. 2. The company\u2019s debut feature,\u00a0Reminders of Him, played in theaters back in March via Universal where it made $89M worldwide off a $25M production cost. <\/p>\n

\n\tMagic Hour Entertainment recently completed production on the feature\u00a0Ded, from Oscar nominated director Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada. The feature is a silent film starring Estrada, Camila Mendes and Eugenio Derbez. Siemers is known for producing the\u00a0To All the Boys I\u2019ve Loved Before feature trilogy at Netflix, based on the popular book series by Jenny Han. The films are widely credited for reigniting the YA romantic comedy genre and proving that streaming platforms could build trilogies. His other previous feature producing credits include\u00a0Love at First Sight, Spontaneous, Hello Goodbye and Everything In Between\u00a0and\u00a0Before I Fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHazelwood is a No. 1 New York Times and global bestselling author, known for such titles as\u00a0The Love Hypothesis,\u00a0Deep End,\u00a0Bride, among others. Her books have sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. Hazelwood is represented by UTA and Thao Le at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018The Love Hypothesis\u2019 Trailer Teases Bond Between Lili Reinhart\u2019s Olive Smith And Tom Bateman\u2019s Adam Carlsen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has landed film rights to\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling author Ali Hazelwood\u2019s novel,\u00a0Love, Theoretically.\u00a0 It Ends…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[235773,5877,236937,146,85,46,236938,236939,236940],"class_list":["post-517264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ali-hazelwood","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-collen-hoover","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lauren-levine","tag-love-theoretically","tag-sofia-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}