Over the past few years Italian cinema has been making strides in the global arena and 2024 looks likely to bolster its international standing. New works by top auteurs Paolo Sorrentino and Luca Guadagnino will be launching from the festival circuit just as a fresh crop of directors comes to fore, starting with Margherita Vicario, whose first film “Gloria!” scored a Berlin competition slot.
Below is a compendium of new Italian movies set to hit this year’s fest circuit.
“Another End” – Gael García Bernal and Renate Reinsve (“The Worse Person in the World”) star as lovers caught in an unusual bind in Italian director Piero Messina’s sci-fi film “Another End” which is competing in Berlin. This second feature by Messina – whose first feature, “The Wait,” launched with a splash in the 2015 Venice competition – is set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of...
Below is a compendium of new Italian movies set to hit this year’s fest circuit.
“Another End” – Gael García Bernal and Renate Reinsve (“The Worse Person in the World”) star as lovers caught in an unusual bind in Italian director Piero Messina’s sci-fi film “Another End” which is competing in Berlin. This second feature by Messina – whose first feature, “The Wait,” launched with a splash in the 2015 Venice competition – is set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of...
- 2/17/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italian producer Domenico Procacci, whose Fandango shingle is developing Elena Ferrante’s “The Lying Life of Adults” for Netflix, has several new films in the pipeline, including chiller “Pantafa” toplining Kasia Smutniak (“Devils”) as a strong-willed mother trying to protect her haunted young daughter.
“Pantafa,” which takes its cue from an ancient Italian legend involving an evil spirit that stifles women in their sleep, has just ended principal photography. Pic is directed by Emanuele Scaringi, who has long worked with Fandango in various guises: as writer, creative producer (“Bangla”), and director of graphic novel adaptation “The Armadillo’s Prophecy,” Scaringi’s feature film debut that went to Venice. He also directed TV crime series “L’Alligatore” for Rai.
“Fandango has never made a horror film in 30 years [of our existence] because I’m personally neither a big fan [of this genre] nor an expert,” Procacci tells Variety. But Scarigni “really believed in this project, so I went with it,...
“Pantafa,” which takes its cue from an ancient Italian legend involving an evil spirit that stifles women in their sleep, has just ended principal photography. Pic is directed by Emanuele Scaringi, who has long worked with Fandango in various guises: as writer, creative producer (“Bangla”), and director of graphic novel adaptation “The Armadillo’s Prophecy,” Scaringi’s feature film debut that went to Venice. He also directed TV crime series “L’Alligatore” for Rai.
“Fandango has never made a horror film in 30 years [of our existence] because I’m personally neither a big fan [of this genre] nor an expert,” Procacci tells Variety. But Scarigni “really believed in this project, so I went with it,...
- 3/31/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
International buyers can view the trailer at the virtual Cannes market.
Italian sales outfit True Colours has picked up Edoardo Falcone’s I Am Santa Claus and is screening a trailer to international buyers at this week’s virtual Cannes market.
I Am Santa Claus is a comedy starring veteran Italian comedian Gigi Proietti as Santa Claus and Marco Giallini as a thief just out of jail. The two go on a journey of self discovery together. The film is now in post production and will be distributed in Italy by Lucky Red around Christmas 2020.
It is produced by Lucky...
Italian sales outfit True Colours has picked up Edoardo Falcone’s I Am Santa Claus and is screening a trailer to international buyers at this week’s virtual Cannes market.
I Am Santa Claus is a comedy starring veteran Italian comedian Gigi Proietti as Santa Claus and Marco Giallini as a thief just out of jail. The two go on a journey of self discovery together. The film is now in post production and will be distributed in Italy by Lucky Red around Christmas 2020.
It is produced by Lucky...
- 6/23/2020
- by 1101325¦Gabriele Niola¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Barcelona’s Filmax is handling international sales rights to “Tomorrow’s A New Day,” the Italian remake of Cesc Gay’s acclaimed friendship dramedy “Truman.”
Iván Díaz, head of international sales at Filmax, is introducing the film to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin.
A production by Rome-based Baires Produzioni in collaboration with Medusa Film, the remake is directed by Simone Spada (“Hotel Gagarin”), boasting a heavyweight local cast led by Valerio Mastandrea (“Perfect Strangers”), Marco Giallini (“A Flat For Three”) and Anna Ferzetti (“Emma”).
The film opens on Feb. 28 in Italy, distributed by Medusa, under the original title “Domani è un altro giorno.”
It tells the story of two, lifelong friends, Giuliano and Tommaso, who come together for four unforgettable days in Rome.
Giuliano, a vivacious, seductive actor, who loves life, has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. After a year-long fight, he’s decided to forgo his treatment.
Iván Díaz, head of international sales at Filmax, is introducing the film to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin.
A production by Rome-based Baires Produzioni in collaboration with Medusa Film, the remake is directed by Simone Spada (“Hotel Gagarin”), boasting a heavyweight local cast led by Valerio Mastandrea (“Perfect Strangers”), Marco Giallini (“A Flat For Three”) and Anna Ferzetti (“Emma”).
The film opens on Feb. 28 in Italy, distributed by Medusa, under the original title “Domani è un altro giorno.”
It tells the story of two, lifelong friends, Giuliano and Tommaso, who come together for four unforgettable days in Rome.
Giuliano, a vivacious, seductive actor, who loves life, has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. After a year-long fight, he’s decided to forgo his treatment.
- 2/12/2019
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Villeta con ospiti
Director Ivano De Matteo has commenced on an Italian-French co-production with sixth feature Villeta conospiti (House with Guests). Produced by Marco Poccioni and Marco Valsania, the Rai Films and Les Films d’Ici project will also be co-produced by Rodeo Drive with a cast consisting of Marco Giallini, Michela Cescon and Massimiliano Gallo with lensing by Dp Maurizio Calvesi. De Matteo’s 2012 feature Balancing Act premiered out of Venice Horizons, but his 2014 feature The Dinner won a Special Mention out of Venice.…...
Director Ivano De Matteo has commenced on an Italian-French co-production with sixth feature Villeta conospiti (House with Guests). Produced by Marco Poccioni and Marco Valsania, the Rai Films and Les Films d’Ici project will also be co-produced by Rodeo Drive with a cast consisting of Marco Giallini, Michela Cescon and Massimiliano Gallo with lensing by Dp Maurizio Calvesi. De Matteo’s 2012 feature Balancing Act premiered out of Venice Horizons, but his 2014 feature The Dinner won a Special Mention out of Venice.…...
- 1/2/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Netflix rolled out the red carpet at Rome’s Villa Miani on Wednesday to unveil new projects and expound on its international ambitions. CEO Reed Hastings and Cco Ted Sarandos made brief appearances high above the Eternal City introducing a series of panels and announcements that revealed details of such upcoming offerings as a continuation of the Peabody Award winning true crime mini The Staircase; a documentary about the November 2013 Paris Attacks; a Julian Fellowes-penned origins of soccer drama; German event series The Wave; Idris Elba-starrer Turn Up Charlie; its first Italian original film; and still more.
In 2018, Netflix is nearly doubling the number of produced shows and investment since 2017 overseas. It has over 35,000 people working on local productions and this year, says subscribers will have access to over 100 projects in 16 languages from 16 countries, including for the first time the Middle East and Africa.
The service said it is committed to local-language shows,...
In 2018, Netflix is nearly doubling the number of produced shows and investment since 2017 overseas. It has over 35,000 people working on local productions and this year, says subscribers will have access to over 100 projects in 16 languages from 16 countries, including for the first time the Middle East and Africa.
The service said it is committed to local-language shows,...
- 4/18/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Actors Cary Elwes and Jake Busey will join the “Stranger Things” cast in the show’s third season, Netflix announced Wednesday.
Elwes, known for “The Princess Bride,” will play a character named Mayor Kline, while Busey, from “Starship Troopers,” will play Bruce.
Mayor Kline is being described by Netflix promotional materials as “handsome, slick, and sleazy.” “Your classic ’80s politician – more concerned with his own image than with the people of the small town he governs.” The Bruce character played by Busey is “a journalist for the The Hawkins Post, with questionable morals and a sick sense of humor.”
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos made the new casting announcement at Netflix’s See What’s Next event in Rome, where the streaming giant announced a slew of new productions from Europe and elsewhere around the world.
As previously announced, Maya Hawke will be one of the new leads in “Stranger Things,...
Elwes, known for “The Princess Bride,” will play a character named Mayor Kline, while Busey, from “Starship Troopers,” will play Bruce.
Mayor Kline is being described by Netflix promotional materials as “handsome, slick, and sleazy.” “Your classic ’80s politician – more concerned with his own image than with the people of the small town he governs.” The Bruce character played by Busey is “a journalist for the The Hawkins Post, with questionable morals and a sick sense of humor.”
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos made the new casting announcement at Netflix’s See What’s Next event in Rome, where the streaming giant announced a slew of new productions from Europe and elsewhere around the world.
As previously announced, Maya Hawke will be one of the new leads in “Stranger Things,...
- 4/18/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Streaming giant also announces shows from France, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands.
Netflix has announced a new batch of European original dramas at press event in Rome.
These include a six-part drama from Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes and an eight-part comedy created by and starring Idris Elba.
UK indie 42 (Watership Down) is producing Fellowes’ series The English Game, which Netflix VP of international originals Eric Barmack said was about “the invention of modern football and how its creation reached across the class divide”.
He added that the series would be “part-Etonians, part-factory workers”.
The drama was one of a...
Netflix has announced a new batch of European original dramas at press event in Rome.
These include a six-part drama from Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes and an eight-part comedy created by and starring Idris Elba.
UK indie 42 (Watership Down) is producing Fellowes’ series The English Game, which Netflix VP of international originals Eric Barmack said was about “the invention of modern football and how its creation reached across the class divide”.
He added that the series would be “part-Etonians, part-factory workers”.
The drama was one of a...
- 4/18/2018
- by Broadcast staff
- ScreenDaily
True Colours continues to sell comedy-drama.
Source: True Colours
The Place
Italian sales outfit True Colours has inked additional deals on Paolo Genovese’s (Perfect Strangers) comedy-drama The Place, which has already sold to markets including Russia, China, Latin America and Spain.
Seven more territories were closed at the recent Ventana Sur market in Argentina: Bodega Films have picked the film up for France, Paradiso Entertainment will handle in Belgium and The Netherlands, FilmBazar bought for Denmark, Strada Films in Greece, Il Sorpasso in Portugal and Indepenta Films took rights for Romania.
After the huge success of Perfect Strangers Genovese returns with the adaptation of hit FX series The Booth At the End. The film follows the fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure in a bar who they believe possesses the power to grant them any wish. In return...
Source: True Colours
The Place
Italian sales outfit True Colours has inked additional deals on Paolo Genovese’s (Perfect Strangers) comedy-drama The Place, which has already sold to markets including Russia, China, Latin America and Spain.
Seven more territories were closed at the recent Ventana Sur market in Argentina: Bodega Films have picked the film up for France, Paradiso Entertainment will handle in Belgium and The Netherlands, FilmBazar bought for Denmark, Strada Films in Greece, Il Sorpasso in Portugal and Indepenta Films took rights for Romania.
After the huge success of Perfect Strangers Genovese returns with the adaptation of hit FX series The Booth At the End. The film follows the fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure in a bar who they believe possesses the power to grant them any wish. In return...
- 12/18/2017
- by Gabriele Niola
- Screen Daily Test
True Colours continues to sell comedy-drama.
Source: True Colours
The Place
Italian sales outfit True Colours has inked additional deals on Paolo Genovese’s (Perfect Strangers) comedy-drama The Place, which has already sold to markets including Russia, China, Latin America and Spain.
Seven more territories were closed at the recent Ventana Sur market in Argentina: Bodega Films have picked the film up for France, Paradiso Entertainment will handle in Belgium and The Netherlands, FilmBazar bought for Denmark, Strada Films in Greece, Il Sorpasso in Portugal and Indepenta Films took rights for Romania.
After the huge success of Perfect Strangers Genovese returns with the adaptation of hit FX series The Booth At the End. The film follows the fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure in a bar who they believe possesses the power to grant them any wish. In return they must carry out a task he assigns...
Source: True Colours
The Place
Italian sales outfit True Colours has inked additional deals on Paolo Genovese’s (Perfect Strangers) comedy-drama The Place, which has already sold to markets including Russia, China, Latin America and Spain.
Seven more territories were closed at the recent Ventana Sur market in Argentina: Bodega Films have picked the film up for France, Paradiso Entertainment will handle in Belgium and The Netherlands, FilmBazar bought for Denmark, Strada Films in Greece, Il Sorpasso in Portugal and Indepenta Films took rights for Romania.
After the huge success of Perfect Strangers Genovese returns with the adaptation of hit FX series The Booth At the End. The film follows the fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure in a bar who they believe possesses the power to grant them any wish. In return they must carry out a task he assigns...
- 12/18/2017
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth received fourteen nominations while Matteo Garrone’s Tale Of Tales received twelve and Berlin-winner Fuocoammare received four.
Claudio Caligari’s last film, Don’t Be Bad, and superhero film They Call Me Jeeg led the nominations at this year’s David di Donatello awards with sixteen nominations each.
Arthouse crime drama Don’t Be Bad, first seen at last year’s Venice Film Festival, secured nominations including best film, director (Claudio Caligari), screenplay (Claudio Caligari, Francesca Serafini and Giordano Meacci), supporting actress (Elisabetta De Vito) and leading actors (Luca Marinelli and Lorenzo Borghi).
They Call Me Jeeg was nominated for its leading actor (Claudio Santamaria), leading actress (Ilenia Pastorelli), supporting actor (Luca Marinelli), supporting actress (Antonia Truppo) and screenplay (Nicola Guaglianone, Menotti).
In the best film category Don’t Be Bad will compete against Berlin-winner Fuocoammare, Tale of Tales, Youth and the box office hit Perfetti Sconosciuti.
In the best...
Claudio Caligari’s last film, Don’t Be Bad, and superhero film They Call Me Jeeg led the nominations at this year’s David di Donatello awards with sixteen nominations each.
Arthouse crime drama Don’t Be Bad, first seen at last year’s Venice Film Festival, secured nominations including best film, director (Claudio Caligari), screenplay (Claudio Caligari, Francesca Serafini and Giordano Meacci), supporting actress (Elisabetta De Vito) and leading actors (Luca Marinelli and Lorenzo Borghi).
They Call Me Jeeg was nominated for its leading actor (Claudio Santamaria), leading actress (Ilenia Pastorelli), supporting actor (Luca Marinelli), supporting actress (Antonia Truppo) and screenplay (Nicola Guaglianone, Menotti).
In the best film category Don’t Be Bad will compete against Berlin-winner Fuocoammare, Tale of Tales, Youth and the box office hit Perfetti Sconosciuti.
In the best...
- 3/22/2016
- ScreenDaily
Name and focus changes for every section, which are now all competitive, resulting in the festival’s structure being “slimmer’.
The ninth Rome Film Festival (Oct 16-25) has revealed a diverse line-up including the Italian premieres for potential awards contenders including David Fincher’s Gone Girl. the world premiere of Takashi Miike’s As the Gods Will and Burhan Qurbani’s We are Young, We are Strong and European premiere of Oren Moverman’s Time Out of Mind, Toronto hit Still Alice and Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet.
This year for the first time the award-winners in each section of the programme will be decided by the audience on the basis of votes cast after the screenings.
Each section has changed name and focus for 2014 and are all competitive, resulting in the festival’s structure being “slimmer’.
Italian comedies Soap Opera and Andiamo a Quel Paese bookend the line-up.
Full line-up
Cinema D’Oggi
World premiere
• Angely...
The ninth Rome Film Festival (Oct 16-25) has revealed a diverse line-up including the Italian premieres for potential awards contenders including David Fincher’s Gone Girl. the world premiere of Takashi Miike’s As the Gods Will and Burhan Qurbani’s We are Young, We are Strong and European premiere of Oren Moverman’s Time Out of Mind, Toronto hit Still Alice and Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet.
This year for the first time the award-winners in each section of the programme will be decided by the audience on the basis of votes cast after the screenings.
Each section has changed name and focus for 2014 and are all competitive, resulting in the festival’s structure being “slimmer’.
Italian comedies Soap Opera and Andiamo a Quel Paese bookend the line-up.
Full line-up
Cinema D’Oggi
World premiere
• Angely...
- 9/29/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Pictures is producing.
The ensemble cast of Tre Tocchi will feature Marco Giallini, Francesca Inaudi, Luca Argentero, Massimiliano Benvenuto, Leandro Amato, Ida Di Benedetto, Vincenzo De Michele, Gilles Rocca, Antonio Folletto and Emiliano Ragno.
Marco Risi is directing the Italian dramedy, which is being produced by Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s new Ambi Pictures.
Shooting starts this month in Rome.
Tre Tocchi weaves together the stories of six friends who are united by two of their greatest passions – soccer and acting.
The ensemble cast of Tre Tocchi will feature Marco Giallini, Francesca Inaudi, Luca Argentero, Massimiliano Benvenuto, Leandro Amato, Ida Di Benedetto, Vincenzo De Michele, Gilles Rocca, Antonio Folletto and Emiliano Ragno.
Marco Risi is directing the Italian dramedy, which is being produced by Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s new Ambi Pictures.
Shooting starts this month in Rome.
Tre Tocchi weaves together the stories of six friends who are united by two of their greatest passions – soccer and acting.
- 10/10/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Director Marco Tulio Giordana's Romanzo Di Una Strage has landed 16 nominations for Italy's David di Donatello Awards just two weeks after the film's release.
The stirring movie, which chronicles the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, picked up Best Film, Best Director and Best Producer nods, while leading man Valerio Mastandrea was nominated among the Best Actor hopefuls.
The film was released in Italy on 30 March to huge national acclaim.
Close behind Giordana's film among the nominees announced on Thursday, were Nanni Moretti's comedy Habemus Papam (15 nods) and Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place (14 nods), which features Sean Penn as a fallen rock star.
Also up for Best Film: Cesare deve moriere and Terraferma, while Mastandrea will fight it out with Frenchman Michel Piccoli (Habemus Papam), Elio Germano (Magnifica presenza), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Scialla!) and Marco Giallini (Posti in piedi in paradiso) for the Best Actor award.
The Best Actress nominees are: Donatella Finocchiaro (Terraferma), Micaela Ramazzoti (Posti in piedi in paradiso), Claudia Gerini (Il mio domani), Valeria Golino (La kryptonite nella borsa) and Chinese actress Zhao Tao (Io sono Li).
Roman Polanski’s Carnage, Melancholia, Le Havre, Oscar winner The Artist and Intouchables are all up for the Best European Union film trophy, while Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, Ides of March, The Tree of Life and Asghar Farhadi’s Best Foreign Film Oscar winner A Separation will compete for the Best Foreign Film prize.
The awards will be announced on 4 May.
The stirring movie, which chronicles the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, picked up Best Film, Best Director and Best Producer nods, while leading man Valerio Mastandrea was nominated among the Best Actor hopefuls.
The film was released in Italy on 30 March to huge national acclaim.
Close behind Giordana's film among the nominees announced on Thursday, were Nanni Moretti's comedy Habemus Papam (15 nods) and Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place (14 nods), which features Sean Penn as a fallen rock star.
Also up for Best Film: Cesare deve moriere and Terraferma, while Mastandrea will fight it out with Frenchman Michel Piccoli (Habemus Papam), Elio Germano (Magnifica presenza), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Scialla!) and Marco Giallini (Posti in piedi in paradiso) for the Best Actor award.
The Best Actress nominees are: Donatella Finocchiaro (Terraferma), Micaela Ramazzoti (Posti in piedi in paradiso), Claudia Gerini (Il mio domani), Valeria Golino (La kryptonite nella borsa) and Chinese actress Zhao Tao (Io sono Li).
Roman Polanski’s Carnage, Melancholia, Le Havre, Oscar winner The Artist and Intouchables are all up for the Best European Union film trophy, while Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, Ides of March, The Tree of Life and Asghar Farhadi’s Best Foreign Film Oscar winner A Separation will compete for the Best Foreign Film prize.
The awards will be announced on 4 May.
- 4/13/2012
- WENN
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