Exclusive: Palomar, Elle Driver join forces on adaptation of bestseller.
Elle Driver is launching sales on Roberto Saviano’s big screen adaptation of his Italian bestseller La Paranza Dei Bambini capturing the ferocious world of budding teenage crime bosses in Naples jockeying for power in the backstreets of the city.
Carlo Degli Esposti and Nicola Serra at Rome-based Palomar are producing. Wild Bunch and Elle Driver are on board as French co-producers. Wild Bunch Distribution has taken French rights.
“Elle Driver has always sought strong stories. Working with Saviano offers the perfect combination of one of the world’s most talented writers and an explosive story which is at once local and universal,” Elle Driver chief Adeline Fontan Tessaur said.
Saviano is working with long-time collaborator Maurizio Braucci on the screenplay. Claudio Giovannesi, who was in Cannes Critics’ Week last year with gritty jail-set romance Fiore, is attached to direct. The shoot will...
Elle Driver is launching sales on Roberto Saviano’s big screen adaptation of his Italian bestseller La Paranza Dei Bambini capturing the ferocious world of budding teenage crime bosses in Naples jockeying for power in the backstreets of the city.
Carlo Degli Esposti and Nicola Serra at Rome-based Palomar are producing. Wild Bunch and Elle Driver are on board as French co-producers. Wild Bunch Distribution has taken French rights.
“Elle Driver has always sought strong stories. Working with Saviano offers the perfect combination of one of the world’s most talented writers and an explosive story which is at once local and universal,” Elle Driver chief Adeline Fontan Tessaur said.
Saviano is working with long-time collaborator Maurizio Braucci on the screenplay. Claudio Giovannesi, who was in Cannes Critics’ Week last year with gritty jail-set romance Fiore, is attached to direct. The shoot will...
- 5/22/2017
- ScreenDaily
Trio dominates Italian film awards on Monday night.
Paolo Virzi’s Like Crazy (pictured) won five awards, including best picture, best director and best leading actress for Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Indivisible by Edoardo De Angelis won six, among them best screenplay and best supporting actress for Antonia Truppo.
Matteo Rovere’s Italian Race also won six mostly technical awards, although it claimed best leading actor for Stefano Accorsi.
Like Crazy from Lotus Productions (Perfect Strangers) and Manny films (7 Minutes) premiered in last year’s Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and began the night on 17 nominations.
The story of two fun-seeking, mentally disturbed women on the run from their clinic was the most successful of the three films at the box office, earning $6.5m to become one of the biggest local hits of 2016. Its five di Donatello wins included best production design and best hairstyling.
Indivisible also also earned 17 nominations and is the pulp story of two conjoined sisters exploited...
Paolo Virzi’s Like Crazy (pictured) won five awards, including best picture, best director and best leading actress for Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Indivisible by Edoardo De Angelis won six, among them best screenplay and best supporting actress for Antonia Truppo.
Matteo Rovere’s Italian Race also won six mostly technical awards, although it claimed best leading actor for Stefano Accorsi.
Like Crazy from Lotus Productions (Perfect Strangers) and Manny films (7 Minutes) premiered in last year’s Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and began the night on 17 nominations.
The story of two fun-seeking, mentally disturbed women on the run from their clinic was the most successful of the three films at the box office, earning $6.5m to become one of the biggest local hits of 2016. Its five di Donatello wins included best production design and best hairstyling.
Indivisible also also earned 17 nominations and is the pulp story of two conjoined sisters exploited...
- 3/27/2017
- ScreenDaily
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