{"id":2395,"date":"2016-03-25T03:12:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/25\/the-ya-genre-isnt-dead-its-digital\/"},"modified":"2016-03-25T03:12:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:12:24","slug":"the-ya-genre-isnt-dead-its-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/25\/the-ya-genre-isnt-dead-its-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"The YA genre isn't dead. It's digital"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0Who says YA adaptions are dead? Oh right, everyone who saw \u2014 or rather, didn’t see \u2014\u00a0<\/span>The Divergent Series: Allegiant <\/i>in theaters last weekend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But sorry haters: The YA trend is far from over.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if studios are<\/i> struggling to attract audiences for these types of films, the young adult book genre will live on \u2014 if not in theaters, than certainly in the digital space.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are already a handful of YA-to-digital projects in the works (including Lauren Oliver’s Before I Fall<\/i> and Replica from Awesomeness Films<\/a>)<\/p>\n

And more digital studios are doubling down their efforts to take popular books and turn them into series or movies for young consumers: This week alone, two digital companies made announcements regarding new slates with YA projects on deck. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0Who says YA adaptions are dead? Oh right, everyone who saw \u2014 or rather, didn’t see \u2014\u00a0The Divergent Series: Allegiant in theaters last weekend.\u00a0 But sorry haters: The YA trend is far from over. Even if studios are … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1648,1647,1650,1649,742],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-digital-entertainment","tag-digital-studios","tag-ya","tag-young-adult-novels","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}