Naples-set young adult series “The Sea Beyond,” which depicts the world of a juvenile jail in the crime-ridden Italian city, is scoring a slew of international sales prompted by its phenomenal ratings on pubcaster Rai.
Germany’s Beta Film, which is selling the show about kids behind bars produced by Rome-based Picomedia and Rai Fiction, has inked deals with WarnerMedia Latin America for HBO Max, Sweden’s free-to-air channel TV4, cabler Hot for Israel, and streamer Blu TV in Turkey.
The deals mark a rare case of an Italian young adult series traveling abroad.
Set in a youth detention center overlooking the bay of Naples, “The Sea Beyond” depicts a world populated by kids apparently without hope, “given that they mostly belong to [the Camorra] organized crime syndicate that Naples is known for,” said Picomedia chief Roberto Sessa, who added that the show also has “all the color and vitality of that city.
Germany’s Beta Film, which is selling the show about kids behind bars produced by Rome-based Picomedia and Rai Fiction, has inked deals with WarnerMedia Latin America for HBO Max, Sweden’s free-to-air channel TV4, cabler Hot for Israel, and streamer Blu TV in Turkey.
The deals mark a rare case of an Italian young adult series traveling abroad.
Set in a youth detention center overlooking the bay of Naples, “The Sea Beyond” depicts a world populated by kids apparently without hope, “given that they mostly belong to [the Camorra] organized crime syndicate that Naples is known for,” said Picomedia chief Roberto Sessa, who added that the show also has “all the color and vitality of that city.
- 1/27/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Voltage Pictures is launching international sales at the EFM on Italian romantic comedy “Per Tutta La Vita” (“For All Life”), from the writer-director team behind global hit “Perfect Strangers.”
“Strangers,” a dramedy involving cellphones and personal secrets, grossed over $31 million domestically and spawned remakes in a dozen territories including France, Germany, Spain, Greece and South Korea. In total, those remakes have grossed an estimated total $270 million worldwide. An Arabic adaptation is currently shooting.
“For All Life” turns on four couples who discover that their marriages are no longer valid because they were all performed by a fraudulent priest. “Are they going to say the big ‘yes’ once again, or will they use this excuse to run away from their marriage?,” reads the synopsis.
Paolo Costella, who co-wrote “Perfect Strangers,” directed this ensemble pic with “Strangers” director Paolo Genovese and Antonella Lattanzi. “For All Life” is co-produced by Marco Belardi via his Lotus Production,...
“Strangers,” a dramedy involving cellphones and personal secrets, grossed over $31 million domestically and spawned remakes in a dozen territories including France, Germany, Spain, Greece and South Korea. In total, those remakes have grossed an estimated total $270 million worldwide. An Arabic adaptation is currently shooting.
“For All Life” turns on four couples who discover that their marriages are no longer valid because they were all performed by a fraudulent priest. “Are they going to say the big ‘yes’ once again, or will they use this excuse to run away from their marriage?,” reads the synopsis.
Paolo Costella, who co-wrote “Perfect Strangers,” directed this ensemble pic with “Strangers” director Paolo Genovese and Antonella Lattanzi. “For All Life” is co-produced by Marco Belardi via his Lotus Production,...
- 3/2/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Actors Naomi Watts and Christoph Waltz and filmmaker Taika Waititi (“Thor: Ragnarok”) have joined the main jury of the Venice Film Festival, which will be presided over by director Guillermo del Toro, the winner of last year’s Golden Lion for “The Shape of Water.”
Also on the panel are Taiwan’s Sylvia Chang, director of “Love Education,” which opened last year’s Tokyo FILMeX fest; Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, who was in Venice last year as the star of “Nico, 1988”; French director-actor Nicole Garcia (“Place Vendome”); Italian director Paolo Genovese (“Perfect Strangers”); and Poland’s Malgorzata Szumowska, director of “Mug,” which won this year’s Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
Waltz was on the Lido last year as one of the stars of opener “Downsizing.” Watts was in Venice in 2016 with boxing drama “The Bleeder,” directed by Liev Schreiber. It will be Waititi’s first appearance on the Venice red carpet.
Also on the panel are Taiwan’s Sylvia Chang, director of “Love Education,” which opened last year’s Tokyo FILMeX fest; Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, who was in Venice last year as the star of “Nico, 1988”; French director-actor Nicole Garcia (“Place Vendome”); Italian director Paolo Genovese (“Perfect Strangers”); and Poland’s Malgorzata Szumowska, director of “Mug,” which won this year’s Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
Waltz was on the Lido last year as one of the stars of opener “Downsizing.” Watts was in Venice in 2016 with boxing drama “The Bleeder,” directed by Liev Schreiber. It will be Waititi’s first appearance on the Venice red carpet.
- 7/26/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Taika Waititi, Christoph Waltz and Naomi Watts are among the talent who will sit on the Venice Film Festival’s main jury beginning August 28. They are joining last year’s Golden Lion winner, Guillermo del Toro, who is president of the panel. Also on board are Taiwanese actress and filmmaker Sylvia Chang; Danish star Trine Dyrholm; French actress/director Nicole Garcia; Italian director/screenwriter Paolo Genovese; and Polish director filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska.
Watts was recently on the Lido with out of competition boxing drama Chuck (aka The Bleeder) while Waltz starred in last year’s Venice opener, Downsizing. Thor: Ragnarok‘s Waititi recently wrapped Fox Searchlight war comedy Jojo Rabbit in Prague.
On September 8, Del Toro’s jury will hand out the Golden Lion for Best Film, the Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize, Silver Lion for Best Director, Coppa Volpi for Best Actor, Coppa Volpi for Best Actress, Award for Best Screenplay,...
Watts was recently on the Lido with out of competition boxing drama Chuck (aka The Bleeder) while Waltz starred in last year’s Venice opener, Downsizing. Thor: Ragnarok‘s Waititi recently wrapped Fox Searchlight war comedy Jojo Rabbit in Prague.
On September 8, Del Toro’s jury will hand out the Golden Lion for Best Film, the Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize, Silver Lion for Best Director, Coppa Volpi for Best Actor, Coppa Volpi for Best Actress, Award for Best Screenplay,...
- 7/26/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Title: Maraviglioso Boccaccio Director: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Starring: Lello Arena, Paola Cortellesi, Carolina Crescentini, Flavio Parenti, Vittoria Puccini, Michele Riondino, Kim Rossi Stuart, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak, Jasmine Trinca and Josafat Vagni. The Taviani Brothers, have decided to tribute one of Italy’s greatest Renaissance humanist, Giovanni Boccaccio. The “Decameron” which has had many screen adaptations – the most memorable was by Pier Paolo Pasolini - lives again through the subtle direction of the Tuscan sibling filmmakers, who chose Giotto and Masaccio to inspire their cinematography, scenography and costume design. The book by Boccaccio is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales, told by a group of seven young [ Read More ]
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- 2/25/2015
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Rai Com boosts slate with Partly Cloudy, Probably Sunny and Latin Lover.
Rai Com is to handle sales on Partly Cloudy, Probably Sunny (Tempo instabile con probabili schiarite), the new film by Marco Pontecorvo.
The comedy stars John Turturro alongside Italian actors Luca Zingaretti, Lillo and Carolina Crescentini. Pontecorvo was recently director of photography on Fading Gigalo, which Turturro wrote, directed and starred.
The film is produced by Panorama Films in collaboration with Rai Cinema and will be distributed in Italy by Good Films.
Pontecorvo, who also wrote the film, described it as “a bittersweet comedy, a sarcastic metaphor for the vices and defects as well as the virtues of Italy today.”
Rai Com has also added Cristina Comencini’s Latin Lover to its slate. Comencini was nominated for a Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar in 2005 with Don’t Tell.
Latin Lover, currently in post-production, stars Italo-French actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (“Saint Laurent”), Spanish stars Candela Pena (“All About My Mother...
Rai Com is to handle sales on Partly Cloudy, Probably Sunny (Tempo instabile con probabili schiarite), the new film by Marco Pontecorvo.
The comedy stars John Turturro alongside Italian actors Luca Zingaretti, Lillo and Carolina Crescentini. Pontecorvo was recently director of photography on Fading Gigalo, which Turturro wrote, directed and starred.
The film is produced by Panorama Films in collaboration with Rai Cinema and will be distributed in Italy by Good Films.
Pontecorvo, who also wrote the film, described it as “a bittersweet comedy, a sarcastic metaphor for the vices and defects as well as the virtues of Italy today.”
Rai Com has also added Cristina Comencini’s Latin Lover to its slate. Comencini was nominated for a Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar in 2005 with Don’t Tell.
Latin Lover, currently in post-production, stars Italo-French actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (“Saint Laurent”), Spanish stars Candela Pena (“All About My Mother...
- 11/25/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Title: Fratelli Unici (Only Siblings) Director: Alessio Maria Federici Starring: Raul Bova, Luca Argentero, Carolina Crescentini, Miriam Leone. A couple of siblings, that is two brothers who have always led the lives of only children, will reconcile happily ever after, through a series of mishaps in a rhythmical Italian comedy. Director Alessio Maria Federici, accomplished in his home country for entertaining movies, delivers a bliss story through a majestic use of the camera and assemblage of the shots in the cutting room. Pietro (Raoul Bova) is an established surgeon who lives in solitude, divorced from Giulia (Carolina Crescentini), and is an absent father of their only daughter Stella (Eleonora Gaggero). [ Read More ]
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- 10/6/2014
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
The Venice Film Festival has an announcement to make and it's all the more delightful if the voice in your head that you read it with has an Italian accent: "The Controcampo Italiano Jury, chaired by Valerio Mastandrea and composed by Susanna Nicchiarelli and Dario Edoardo Viganò, has unanimously awarded the Controcampo Italiano Award to the film 20 sigarette by Aureliano Amadei, interpreted by Vinicio Marchioni, Carolina Crescentini and Giorgio Colangeli, with the following statement: 'The density of this story follows the rhythm of a truth that, beyond all prejudices, becomes a personal tale which blends the elements from the practice of freedom with intelligence and hints of irony. Freedom from one's own past to pursue a dream, freedom from own prejudices to meet people, freedom from own pain not to force the audience into predetermined views.'"...
- 9/9/2010
- MUBI
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- 9/6/2010
- by Michelle Wray
- Monsters and Critics
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