Former Rai CEO Fabrizio Salini – who prior to running the Italian pubcaster held top posts at Sky, Fox International Channels, and Discovery Italy – has joined Italy’s Minerva Pictures, which is stepping up its expansion from film into the realms of TV and streaming content.
The veteran TV exec will become a board member at Rome-based Minerva, the production, digital publishing and distribution company headed by Gianluca Curti. Minerva has been branching out into TV since 2019 when Santo Versace, who is the older brother of Gianni and Donatella Versace, decided to invest in the company, becoming chairman of its board.
Salini, besides joining the Minerva board, will be in charge of the company’s “business activities with broadcasters and streamers,” said Curti, who added that the exec has a mandate to explore opportunities that go beyond film, TV series and docs.
“Historically we’ve never entered the field of premium TV shows and formats,...
The veteran TV exec will become a board member at Rome-based Minerva, the production, digital publishing and distribution company headed by Gianluca Curti. Minerva has been branching out into TV since 2019 when Santo Versace, who is the older brother of Gianni and Donatella Versace, decided to invest in the company, becoming chairman of its board.
Salini, besides joining the Minerva board, will be in charge of the company’s “business activities with broadcasters and streamers,” said Curti, who added that the exec has a mandate to explore opportunities that go beyond film, TV series and docs.
“Historically we’ve never entered the field of premium TV shows and formats,...
- 10/12/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
ViacomCBS International Studios and Italy’s expanding Minerva Pictures have teamed up on “Miss Fallaci Takes America, a high-profile TV series about the 1958 journey to the U.S. of iconic Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci.
The show, which is the first Italian original produced for Paramount Plus, will portray Fallaci’s early years in Hollywood before she became a legendary war correspondent known for her explosive personality, is set to be the first Paramount Plus Original set for the ViacomCBS-owned premium streaming service, following its Italian launch in 2022.
“What we loved the most was the fact that the story we are going to tell is based on Oriana’s early years which are probably the least known in her career,” said ViacomCBS International Studios (Vis) senior vice president Laura Abril who is head of Vis Emea and Asia, speaking at Rome’s Mia Market. “And how her charm as a...
The show, which is the first Italian original produced for Paramount Plus, will portray Fallaci’s early years in Hollywood before she became a legendary war correspondent known for her explosive personality, is set to be the first Paramount Plus Original set for the ViacomCBS-owned premium streaming service, following its Italian launch in 2022.
“What we loved the most was the fact that the story we are going to tell is based on Oriana’s early years which are probably the least known in her career,” said ViacomCBS International Studios (Vis) senior vice president Laura Abril who is head of Vis Emea and Asia, speaking at Rome’s Mia Market. “And how her charm as a...
- 10/15/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Rome’s Mia Market for TV series, feature films and documentaries wrapped Sunday after four days of dealmaking, project presentations and panels done both in person and online. Given coronavirus constraints it constituted a minor miracle.
On the final day of the Oct. 14-18 event organizers announced a total 1,800 industry executives from 50 countries who registered for the new concept market, 700 of which on average physically attended the Rome market each day, they said.
About one-third of participants were non-Italian. Roughly 300 international execs made the trek.
Though last year’s Mia edition gathered 2,600 physical participants, this year’s widely-expected decrease in onsite attendees was counterbalanced by intense activity on the Mia digital platform, organizers said.
Mia director Lucia Milazzotto pointed out that this year saw a significant rise in industry exec accreditations taking place during the event. This means that, as Mia got underway, it was generating buzz, she noted.
Mia...
On the final day of the Oct. 14-18 event organizers announced a total 1,800 industry executives from 50 countries who registered for the new concept market, 700 of which on average physically attended the Rome market each day, they said.
About one-third of participants were non-Italian. Roughly 300 international execs made the trek.
Though last year’s Mia edition gathered 2,600 physical participants, this year’s widely-expected decrease in onsite attendees was counterbalanced by intense activity on the Mia digital platform, organizers said.
Mia director Lucia Milazzotto pointed out that this year saw a significant rise in industry exec accreditations taking place during the event. This means that, as Mia got underway, it was generating buzz, she noted.
Mia...
- 10/18/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
L.A. Italia Fest is set to open with the world premiere of Amazing Leonardo, a new biopic about Leonardo Da Vinci, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death (May 2, 1519).
Luca Argentero (Eat Pray Love) stars as Da Vinci in the film, a Sky original production with Progetto Immagine.
Director Jesus Garces Lambert will introduce Amazing Leonardo at the festival’s opening night on Feb. 17 at the TLC Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, which is organized in association with Intensa Sanpaolo. Angela Fontana, who plays Cecilia Gallerani in the pic, and producer Cosetta Lagani will ...
Luca Argentero (Eat Pray Love) stars as Da Vinci in the film, a Sky original production with Progetto Immagine.
Director Jesus Garces Lambert will introduce Amazing Leonardo at the festival’s opening night on Feb. 17 at the TLC Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, which is organized in association with Intensa Sanpaolo. Angela Fontana, who plays Cecilia Gallerani in the pic, and producer Cosetta Lagani will ...
- 1/31/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
L.A. Italia Fest is set to open with the world premiere of Amazing Leonardo, a new biopic about Leonardo Da Vinci, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death (May 2, 1519).
Luca Argentero (Eat Pray Love) stars as Da Vinci in the film, a Sky original production with Progetto Immagine.
Director Jesus Garces Lambert will introduce Amazing Leonardo at the festival’s opening night on Feb. 17 at the TLC Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, which is organized in association with Intensa Sanpaolo. Angela Fontana, who plays Cecilia Gallerani in the pic, and producer Cosetta Lagani will ...
Luca Argentero (Eat Pray Love) stars as Da Vinci in the film, a Sky original production with Progetto Immagine.
Director Jesus Garces Lambert will introduce Amazing Leonardo at the festival’s opening night on Feb. 17 at the TLC Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, which is organized in association with Intensa Sanpaolo. Angela Fontana, who plays Cecilia Gallerani in the pic, and producer Cosetta Lagani will ...
- 1/31/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Italian sales company True Colours has taken world sales on high-end biopic “Amazing Leonardo,” directed by Mexican helmer Jesus Garces Lambert and produced by Comcast-owned paybox Sky for play on both TV and theatrical in 2019, which will mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death.
The “Leonardo” biopic, toplining Italian A-lister Luca Argentero (“Eat Pray Love”) as the artist, scientist and inventor is being touted as going beyond the common stereotypes about the life of the quintessential Renaissance man who painted the Mona Lisa.
Art historian Pietro C. Marano, a member of Italy’s national panel of da Vinci experts, is in charge of the research, while Cosetta Lagani, who is in charge of Sky’s theatrical productions of the arts, is supervising the visuals.
Shooting on the biopic started in September in locations that include da Vinci’s native Tuscan town of Vinci and the region’s countryside,...
The “Leonardo” biopic, toplining Italian A-lister Luca Argentero (“Eat Pray Love”) as the artist, scientist and inventor is being touted as going beyond the common stereotypes about the life of the quintessential Renaissance man who painted the Mona Lisa.
Art historian Pietro C. Marano, a member of Italy’s national panel of da Vinci experts, is in charge of the research, while Cosetta Lagani, who is in charge of Sky’s theatrical productions of the arts, is supervising the visuals.
Shooting on the biopic started in September in locations that include da Vinci’s native Tuscan town of Vinci and the region’s countryside,...
- 11/1/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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