Exclusive: Major European indie Federation Entertainment is getting into the American market by launching a Los Angeles-based management and production company with a trio of top-tier executives.
Animal Federation will act as a subsidiary of Paris-based group Federation, which has credits including The Bureau, Bad Banks and the upcoming Around the World in 80 Days starring David Tennant.
The offshoot will be spearheaded by producers Juan Solá and Nacho Manubens, alongside Talent Manager Adil Chamakh. Solá and Manubens first came into the Federation fold when they teamed with the Paris-based company to launch Federation Spain last year.
Animal Federation will have a global outlook bridging the U.S. market and the rest of the world, its executive team said. The outfit is developing original content and adaptations from Federation’s IP library for the Latam and U.S. market and is looking to highlight diverse,...
Animal Federation will act as a subsidiary of Paris-based group Federation, which has credits including The Bureau, Bad Banks and the upcoming Around the World in 80 Days starring David Tennant.
The offshoot will be spearheaded by producers Juan Solá and Nacho Manubens, alongside Talent Manager Adil Chamakh. Solá and Manubens first came into the Federation fold when they teamed with the Paris-based company to launch Federation Spain last year.
Animal Federation will have a global outlook bridging the U.S. market and the rest of the world, its executive team said. The outfit is developing original content and adaptations from Federation’s IP library for the Latam and U.S. market and is looking to highlight diverse,...
- 11/16/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Barbara Salabè, the top Warner Bros. executive in Italy, has been promoted to country manager Italy, Spain, and Portugal, Priya Dogra, president of WarnerMedia for Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific has announced.
Salabè joined Warner Bros. in 2011 in the top Italian role having previously launched European musical theater production giant Stage Entertainment in Italy and been entrusted with launching WarnerMedia’s Turner Broadcasting Italy channels in Italy, among other top management positions.
In Italy she has had general oversight of all WB Italian activities, including theatrical and home video production, marketing and distribution of studio and local-language films, TV distribution, consumer products, digital distribution and interactive entertainment. WB. also handles Sony theatrical releases in Italy.
Besides Italy she will now have similar oversight also in Spain and Portugal.
Salabè has “created great value for the company making it grow constantly,” Dogra said in a statement. Dogra underlined...
Salabè joined Warner Bros. in 2011 in the top Italian role having previously launched European musical theater production giant Stage Entertainment in Italy and been entrusted with launching WarnerMedia’s Turner Broadcasting Italy channels in Italy, among other top management positions.
In Italy she has had general oversight of all WB Italian activities, including theatrical and home video production, marketing and distribution of studio and local-language films, TV distribution, consumer products, digital distribution and interactive entertainment. WB. also handles Sony theatrical releases in Italy.
Besides Italy she will now have similar oversight also in Spain and Portugal.
Salabè has “created great value for the company making it grow constantly,” Dogra said in a statement. Dogra underlined...
- 11/9/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
While the Venice Film Festival is taking on strong symbolic significance as a catalyst to help restart Italy’s film industry, cameras are already rolling on sets across the country just as a fresh crop of completed movies is raring to make a splash by launching from the lagoon. Below is a compendium of standout Italian titles in various stages.
“The Hand of God” – Paolo Sorrentino in mid-September will start shooting this pic marking the Oscar-winner’s return to making a film in Naples, his hometown, 20 years after his dazzling debut “One Man Up.” Details are scarce about this pic being made for Netflix besides that it marks Sorrentino’s first intimate and personal feature. The title is believed to be a reference to Argentinian soccer icon Diego Maradona, who was the star scorer for S.S.C. Napoli and is known to be an idol for Sorrentino, an ardent Napoli fan.
“The Hand of God” – Paolo Sorrentino in mid-September will start shooting this pic marking the Oscar-winner’s return to making a film in Naples, his hometown, 20 years after his dazzling debut “One Man Up.” Details are scarce about this pic being made for Netflix besides that it marks Sorrentino’s first intimate and personal feature. The title is believed to be a reference to Argentinian soccer icon Diego Maradona, who was the star scorer for S.S.C. Napoli and is known to be an idol for Sorrentino, an ardent Napoli fan.
- 9/2/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
“Loro” is the definitive Paolo Sorrentino film to date. It’s brash, stylish, and silly. It oscillates back and forth between horny and human, profound and misguided. It’s a glorious mess. That it exists in the #MeToo era is a miracle. That it manages to evolve beyond a dick-swinging affair is even more miraculous.
In the vein of “The Great Beauty,” “Youth” and “The Young Pope,” the film is sprawling and idiosyncratic. This time Sorrentino centers his story on Silvio Berlusconi, the infamous medial mogul and former prime minister of Italy. But this is not your standard cradle-to-grave biopic.
The film toggles back and forth between Silvio and Sergio, a youthful businessman determined to impress Silvio. Sergio works primarily as a glorified pimp, trafficking escorts to bribe politicians for permits and favors. When he’s not knee-deep in a line of cocaine or anonymous women, he has ambition. The...
In the vein of “The Great Beauty,” “Youth” and “The Young Pope,” the film is sprawling and idiosyncratic. This time Sorrentino centers his story on Silvio Berlusconi, the infamous medial mogul and former prime minister of Italy. But this is not your standard cradle-to-grave biopic.
The film toggles back and forth between Silvio and Sergio, a youthful businessman determined to impress Silvio. Sergio works primarily as a glorified pimp, trafficking escorts to bribe politicians for permits and favors. When he’s not knee-deep in a line of cocaine or anonymous women, he has ambition. The...
- 9/18/2019
- by Sam Fragoso
- The Wrap
Sneak Peek Season 2 of the Italian teen drama series "Baby", based on a true story, following students at an elite high school in Rome who are forced into prostitution, premiering October 18, 2019 on Netflix:
Cast includes Alice Pagani as 'Ludovica', Riccardo Mandolini as 'Damiano Younes, Chabeli Sastre Gonzalez as 'Camilla Govender Rossi', Brando Pacitto as 'Fabio Fedeli', Lorenzo Zurzolo as 'Niccolo Govender Rossi', Galatea Ranzi as 'Elsa', Tommaso Ragno as 'Director Fedeli', Massimo Poggio as 'Arturo Altieri', Mehdì Nebbou as 'Khalid Younes', Giuseppe Maggio as 'Fiore', Mirko Trovato as 'Brando', Federica Lucaferri as 'Virginia', Beatrice Bartoni as 'Vanessa', Marjo Berasategui as 'Camilla's Mom', Isabella Ferrari as 'Simonetta', Claudia Pandolfi as 'Monica' and Paolo Calabresi as 'Saverio'.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Baby" - Season 2...
Cast includes Alice Pagani as 'Ludovica', Riccardo Mandolini as 'Damiano Younes, Chabeli Sastre Gonzalez as 'Camilla Govender Rossi', Brando Pacitto as 'Fabio Fedeli', Lorenzo Zurzolo as 'Niccolo Govender Rossi', Galatea Ranzi as 'Elsa', Tommaso Ragno as 'Director Fedeli', Massimo Poggio as 'Arturo Altieri', Mehdì Nebbou as 'Khalid Younes', Giuseppe Maggio as 'Fiore', Mirko Trovato as 'Brando', Federica Lucaferri as 'Virginia', Beatrice Bartoni as 'Vanessa', Marjo Berasategui as 'Camilla's Mom', Isabella Ferrari as 'Simonetta', Claudia Pandolfi as 'Monica' and Paolo Calabresi as 'Saverio'.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Baby" - Season 2...
- 9/16/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
At a preview Tuesday of “Baby,” its second Italian original scripted series, Netflix was eager to defuse the controversy over the show’s storyline, which involves teen prostitution and takes its cue from a real-life scandal in Rome.
Andrea De Sica (“Children of the Night”), one of the show’s two directors, called it “the story of how a group of youths can embark on an adventure in the labyrinths of transgression, at times even getting lost.” The series bows on Netflix globally on Friday.
“We tried to be as faithful as possible to their conflicts and their choices,” De Sica told reporters at a screening of two “Baby” episodes. He added that “what you’ve seen is not a chronicle of real life events” and “it’s up to you to draw your conclusions.”
The show is loosely based on the discovery in 2014 that two high school girls from...
Andrea De Sica (“Children of the Night”), one of the show’s two directors, called it “the story of how a group of youths can embark on an adventure in the labyrinths of transgression, at times even getting lost.” The series bows on Netflix globally on Friday.
“We tried to be as faithful as possible to their conflicts and their choices,” De Sica told reporters at a screening of two “Baby” episodes. He added that “what you’ve seen is not a chronicle of real life events” and “it’s up to you to draw your conclusions.”
The show is loosely based on the discovery in 2014 that two high school girls from...
- 11/27/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Sneak Peek "Baby", the new 'coming-of-age' TV series, inspired by a modern, teen prostitution scandal in Italy, exploring the unseen lives of Roman teenagers, starring Benedetta Porcaroli, Alice Pagani and Riccardo Mandolini. streaming exclusively on Netflix, November 30, 2018:
"..a group of teenagers defy society in their search for identity and independence...
"...against the backdrop of forbidden love, family pressures and shared secrets..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Baby"....
"..a group of teenagers defy society in their search for identity and independence...
"...against the backdrop of forbidden love, family pressures and shared secrets..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Baby"....
- 11/13/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Watching “Loro 2” is a peculiar experience, because it never shakes the sense of being hurriedly edited from a much longer and better film. In some ways that’s what this is: the second part of Paolo Sorrentino’s initial Italian-release version of his highly anticipated semi-fantasy biopic of Silvio Berlusconi. Yet even if the two parts were viewed close together – they were released on the peninsula one week apart – the lack of buildup for a masterful early scene in “2” proves just how ill-considered it was to divide the movie in this way. In addition, it seems clear that a great number of scenes have been so severely cut down that they barely register. Taken as a whole, the film is a classic Sorrentino-esque tapestry about hubris woven on a grand scale, but when it’s divided and edited in this manner one is constantly aware that the effect was meant to be much greater.
- 6/20/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety 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
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