Netflix is developing a film adaptation of Lynn Painter’s bestselling young-adult romantic comedy Better Than The Movies. The project has not begun production and has no release date, but it marks another book-based romantic comedy for the streaming service and brings together emerging young actors with filmmakers previously associated with Netflix.

Beatrice Kitsos will play Liz Buxbaum, opposite David Iacono as Wes Bennett. Julia Hart will direct from a script by Heather Flanders, with Hart and Jordan Horowitz producing through Original Headquarters alongside Shauna Phelan and Melanie Krauss; Painter’s related novel Fake Skating is also being adapted separately by Sony for a planned 16 July 2027 cinema release.