Exclusive: Darker Than Midnight producer to shoot feature in October.
Rising Italian actress Angela Fontana, co-star of Venice 2016 hit Indivisible (Indivisibili), is to play the lead role in Italian featureLucania, a magical realist drama about a young mute girl caught in the middle of a clash between her farmer father and those who want to poison his fields.
Fontana will star alongside Maia Morgenstern (The Passion Of The Christ), Pippo Delbono (I Am Love), Christo Jivkov (The Passion Of The Christ) and actor-producer Joe Capalbo (At A Glance), who will play the role of the father.
Babylon Sisters filmmaker Gigi Roccati will direct the €1m-budgeted feature, which is due to shoot in southern Italy from October.
The Italian and Romanian-language project is produced by Federico Saraceni and Pilar Saavedra’s Moliwood Films together with Capalbo’s Fabrique Entertainment (Nightlife) in collaboration with Rai Cinema, which has taken TV rights.
The film has production support from Italy’s culture...
Rising Italian actress Angela Fontana, co-star of Venice 2016 hit Indivisible (Indivisibili), is to play the lead role in Italian featureLucania, a magical realist drama about a young mute girl caught in the middle of a clash between her farmer father and those who want to poison his fields.
Fontana will star alongside Maia Morgenstern (The Passion Of The Christ), Pippo Delbono (I Am Love), Christo Jivkov (The Passion Of The Christ) and actor-producer Joe Capalbo (At A Glance), who will play the role of the father.
Babylon Sisters filmmaker Gigi Roccati will direct the €1m-budgeted feature, which is due to shoot in southern Italy from October.
The Italian and Romanian-language project is produced by Federico Saraceni and Pilar Saavedra’s Moliwood Films together with Capalbo’s Fabrique Entertainment (Nightlife) in collaboration with Rai Cinema, which has taken TV rights.
The film has production support from Italy’s culture...
- 8/9/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Distributor plots move into genre and family movies, beginning with Asghar Farhadi’s upcoming thriller.
Italian distribution company Lucky Red is planning to ramp up its production operation, with a focus on genre and family movies.
At an event held in Rome yesterday (June 26) to mark the company’s 30th anniversary, founder and CEO Andrea Occhipinti said: “Distribution will remain our core business, but we want to become one of the most important production companies in Italy.”
“Production may be a good way not to be too dependent on acquisitions, since it’s becoming harder to get the good movies. Instead a good Italian film can make a big difference at the box office”.
One of the most prestigious projects that Lucky Red is co-producing is Asghar Farhadi’s untitled Spanish-language thriller starring Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Ricardo Darin (pictured, top).
As Screen announced during Cannes, the $12-13m project is a French-Spanish-Italian co-production with Lucky Red...
Italian distribution company Lucky Red is planning to ramp up its production operation, with a focus on genre and family movies.
At an event held in Rome yesterday (June 26) to mark the company’s 30th anniversary, founder and CEO Andrea Occhipinti said: “Distribution will remain our core business, but we want to become one of the most important production companies in Italy.”
“Production may be a good way not to be too dependent on acquisitions, since it’s becoming harder to get the good movies. Instead a good Italian film can make a big difference at the box office”.
One of the most prestigious projects that Lucky Red is co-producing is Asghar Farhadi’s untitled Spanish-language thriller starring Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Ricardo Darin (pictured, top).
As Screen announced during Cannes, the $12-13m project is a French-Spanish-Italian co-production with Lucky Red...
- 6/27/2017
- ScreenDaily
Distributor plots move into genre and family movies, beginning with Asghar Farhadi’s upcoming thriller.
Italian distribution company Lucky Red is planning to ramp up its production operation, with a focus on genre and family movies.
At an event held in Rome yesterday (June 26) to mark the company’s 30th anniversary, founder and CEO Andrea Occhipinti said: “Distribution will remain our core business, but we want to become one of the most important production companies in Italy.”
“Production may be a good way not to be too dependent on acquisitions, since it’s becoming harder to get the good movies. Instead a good Italian film can make a big difference at the box office”.
One of the most prestigious projects that Lucky Red is co-producing is Asghar Farhadi’s untitled Spanish-language thriller starring Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Ricardo Darin (pictured, top).
As Screen announced during Cannes, the $12-13m project is a French-Spanish-Italian co-production with Lucky Red...
Italian distribution company Lucky Red is planning to ramp up its production operation, with a focus on genre and family movies.
At an event held in Rome yesterday (June 26) to mark the company’s 30th anniversary, founder and CEO Andrea Occhipinti said: “Distribution will remain our core business, but we want to become one of the most important production companies in Italy.”
“Production may be a good way not to be too dependent on acquisitions, since it’s becoming harder to get the good movies. Instead a good Italian film can make a big difference at the box office”.
One of the most prestigious projects that Lucky Red is co-producing is Asghar Farhadi’s untitled Spanish-language thriller starring Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Ricardo Darin (pictured, top).
As Screen announced during Cannes, the $12-13m project is a French-Spanish-Italian co-production with Lucky Red...
- 6/27/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Italian sales company scores deals on multiple titles.
Italian sales outfit True Colours has scored a series of deals for titles on its Cannes slate.
Among those are Sergio Castellitto’s Un Certain Regard drama Fortunata [pictured], which stars Jasmie Trinca as a young mother fighting for her dream to open a hair salon.
True Colours inked deals for the film in eight territories: France (Paname Distribution), Latin America (Fenix Distribuidora), former-Yugoslavia (Stars Media), Greece (Seven Films), China (Times Vision), Hungary (Mozinet), Bulgaria (Bulgaria Film Vision) and Australia (Palace Films). Negotiations are ongoing for Spain.
The company also signed multiple deals for Simone Godano’s body-swapping comedy Wife & Husband (Moglie e Marito), which stars Pierfrancesco Favino and Kasia Smutniak.
The film has been sold to Swallow Wings (Taiwan), Estin Film (Estonia), Times Vision (China), Film Medya (Turkey) and New People Film Company (Russia) and Palace Films (Australia).
More deals
At this year’s Cannes Marchè, True Colours also kicked...
Italian sales outfit True Colours has scored a series of deals for titles on its Cannes slate.
Among those are Sergio Castellitto’s Un Certain Regard drama Fortunata [pictured], which stars Jasmie Trinca as a young mother fighting for her dream to open a hair salon.
True Colours inked deals for the film in eight territories: France (Paname Distribution), Latin America (Fenix Distribuidora), former-Yugoslavia (Stars Media), Greece (Seven Films), China (Times Vision), Hungary (Mozinet), Bulgaria (Bulgaria Film Vision) and Australia (Palace Films). Negotiations are ongoing for Spain.
The company also signed multiple deals for Simone Godano’s body-swapping comedy Wife & Husband (Moglie e Marito), which stars Pierfrancesco Favino and Kasia Smutniak.
The film has been sold to Swallow Wings (Taiwan), Estin Film (Estonia), Times Vision (China), Film Medya (Turkey) and New People Film Company (Russia) and Palace Films (Australia).
More deals
At this year’s Cannes Marchè, True Colours also kicked...
- 5/25/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sales for the film, which started shooting this month, will commence in Cannes.
True Colours has acquired the worldwide sales rights to Ferzan Ozpetek’s next project, Naples In Veils.
Ozpetek co-wrote the script with Gianni Romoli, who is producing with Tilde Corsi, Faros Film and Warner Bros Entertainment Italia.
Set in the titular city, the film revolves around a woman who is overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime; Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Alessandro Borghi star.
It’s the second film in a row from the Turkish-born filmmaker dedicated to a city after previous feature Istanbul Red.
The film’s Naples-set shoot kicked off on May 13, with an Italian release date pencilled for early 2018. True Colours kicks off sales on the project here in Cannes.
The company has also acquired sales rights to previous Ozpetek films including Ignorant Fairies and Facing Widow.
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The latest Cannes news, reviews and features...
True Colours has acquired the worldwide sales rights to Ferzan Ozpetek’s next project, Naples In Veils.
Ozpetek co-wrote the script with Gianni Romoli, who is producing with Tilde Corsi, Faros Film and Warner Bros Entertainment Italia.
Set in the titular city, the film revolves around a woman who is overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime; Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Alessandro Borghi star.
It’s the second film in a row from the Turkish-born filmmaker dedicated to a city after previous feature Istanbul Red.
The film’s Naples-set shoot kicked off on May 13, with an Italian release date pencilled for early 2018. True Colours kicks off sales on the project here in Cannes.
The company has also acquired sales rights to previous Ozpetek films including Ignorant Fairies and Facing Widow.
Read more:
The latest Cannes news, reviews and features...
- 5/19/2017
- ScreenDaily
Back in December, BollySpice interviewed Naomi Lloyd, author of fantasy/romance book series: “The Tandro Connections” and “Our Diamond Connections: a journey of diamonds and people.”
We last spoke to Naomi when she was just about to embark upon India to shoot a photo story high-lighting the lives of women who have been rescued from human trafficking through the charity, “YouCanFree.Us”.
In this interview Naomi describes what it was like doing the photo story and she shares with us the pearls of wisdom she picked up along the way. She also describes how her experiences in India gave her a new-found clarity: both as an author exploring themes of connections (in both of her upcoming books: “Our Diamond Connections: A journey of Diamonds and People” and her Fantasy/Romance book series, “The Tandro Connections”); and as a photographer and ambassador for the charity YouCanFree.Us – working to end human trafficking.
We last spoke to Naomi when she was just about to embark upon India to shoot a photo story high-lighting the lives of women who have been rescued from human trafficking through the charity, “YouCanFree.Us”.
In this interview Naomi describes what it was like doing the photo story and she shares with us the pearls of wisdom she picked up along the way. She also describes how her experiences in India gave her a new-found clarity: both as an author exploring themes of connections (in both of her upcoming books: “Our Diamond Connections: A journey of Diamonds and People” and her Fantasy/Romance book series, “The Tandro Connections”); and as a photographer and ambassador for the charity YouCanFree.Us – working to end human trafficking.
- 3/14/2017
- by Aashi Gahlot
- Bollyspice
Exclusive: Brisk business for Italian sales outfit at Efm.
Rome-based sales company True Colours struck multiple deals at this year’s European Film Market (Efm) for It’s The Law (pictured), One Kiss and Monolith.
Comedy duo Ficarra and Picone’s hit It’s The Law, about a village in Sicily that elects a straight-arrow professor as mayor, will be distributed in Latin America by Sun Distribution, in China by Hy Media, in Greece by Seven Films and in Bulgaria by Film Vision.
True Colours is also handling international remake rights for the film, which was produced by Tramp Limited and distributed in Italy by Medusa Film.
Ivan Cotroneo’s adult dramedy One Kiss, about three high school outsiders, was sold to Japan Italy Films and to Portugal’s Il Sorpasso. There were already deals in place for USA, UK (Tla), France (Optimale) and Germany (Pro-fun).
True Colours has also inked deals for English-language Italian thriller [link=tt...
Rome-based sales company True Colours struck multiple deals at this year’s European Film Market (Efm) for It’s The Law (pictured), One Kiss and Monolith.
Comedy duo Ficarra and Picone’s hit It’s The Law, about a village in Sicily that elects a straight-arrow professor as mayor, will be distributed in Latin America by Sun Distribution, in China by Hy Media, in Greece by Seven Films and in Bulgaria by Film Vision.
True Colours is also handling international remake rights for the film, which was produced by Tramp Limited and distributed in Italy by Medusa Film.
Ivan Cotroneo’s adult dramedy One Kiss, about three high school outsiders, was sold to Japan Italy Films and to Portugal’s Il Sorpasso. There were already deals in place for USA, UK (Tla), France (Optimale) and Germany (Pro-fun).
True Colours has also inked deals for English-language Italian thriller [link=tt...
- 2/21/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Italian sales outfit picks up Ride, It’s The Law, and Two Irenes.
Rome-based sales company True Colours has added English-language extreme sports drama Ride, Italian box office hit It’s The Law and Generation Kplus title Two Irenes (As Duas Irenes) to its Efm slate.
Brazilian filmmaker Fabio Meira’s Two Irenes - about two girls with the same name and an unexpected connection – marks the first non-Italian production for Rome-based True Colours since it launched in 2015.
Ride is a horror thriller about extreme sports shot entirely on GoPro cameras by writing and directing duo Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro. It follows their military thriller Mine, starring Armie Hammer, which was picked up by Well Go USA Entertainment for North America.
The company has acquired sales on comedy duo Ficarra and Picone’s new hit It’s The Law (L’Ora Legale) about a village in Sicily that elects a straight-arrow professor as mayor. The film...
Rome-based sales company True Colours has added English-language extreme sports drama Ride, Italian box office hit It’s The Law and Generation Kplus title Two Irenes (As Duas Irenes) to its Efm slate.
Brazilian filmmaker Fabio Meira’s Two Irenes - about two girls with the same name and an unexpected connection – marks the first non-Italian production for Rome-based True Colours since it launched in 2015.
Ride is a horror thriller about extreme sports shot entirely on GoPro cameras by writing and directing duo Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro. It follows their military thriller Mine, starring Armie Hammer, which was picked up by Well Go USA Entertainment for North America.
The company has acquired sales on comedy duo Ficarra and Picone’s new hit It’s The Law (L’Ora Legale) about a village in Sicily that elects a straight-arrow professor as mayor. The film...
- 2/11/2017
- ScreenDaily
Kesha is opening up about Dr. Luke for the first time since dropping her case against the controversial music figure in August of 2016. Sitting down with the New York Times Magazine’s culture issue, the “True Colours” singer reveals some of the darkest moments of her years working alongside the Grammy-nominated pop producer. In the months […]...
- 10/26/2016
- by Sylvia Ogweng
- ET Canada
Experts on Mia/Europa Distribution panel also discussed the importance of territoriality in European deals and need for diversification to mitigate risk.
With the European film business proving ever risky, diversification can be key to mitigating risk, experts said at the Rome Mia Market panel organized with Europa Distribution entitled “Everything you always wanted to know about distribution but were afraid to ask.”
Andrea Occhipinti, president of Italy’s Lucky Red, said: “What we find healthy is to diversify in all directions, we do a little bit of everything.”
Lucky Red started as an arthouse distributor, eventually also moving into more commercial films, while also working in exhibition, increasingly in production, and now partnering on sales company True Colours.
“It’s an advantage if you have a foot in exhibition. I think also it’s very important to produce more and more, because to acquire good films is very difficult [and very competitive],” Occhipinti added.
Room producer...
With the European film business proving ever risky, diversification can be key to mitigating risk, experts said at the Rome Mia Market panel organized with Europa Distribution entitled “Everything you always wanted to know about distribution but were afraid to ask.”
Andrea Occhipinti, president of Italy’s Lucky Red, said: “What we find healthy is to diversify in all directions, we do a little bit of everything.”
Lucky Red started as an arthouse distributor, eventually also moving into more commercial films, while also working in exhibition, increasingly in production, and now partnering on sales company True Colours.
“It’s an advantage if you have a foot in exhibition. I think also it’s very important to produce more and more, because to acquire good films is very difficult [and very competitive],” Occhipinti added.
Room producer...
- 10/24/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Experts on Mia/Europa Distribution panel also discussed the importance of territoriality in European deals and need for diversification to mitigate risk.
With the European film business proving ever risky, diversification can be key to mitigating risk, experts said at the Rome Mia Market panel organized with Europa Distribution entitled “Everything you always wanted to know about distribution but were afraid to ask.”
Andrea Occhipinti, president of Italy’s Lucky Red, said: “What we find healthy is to diversify in all directions, we do a little bit of everything.”
Lucky Red started as an arthouse distributor, eventually also moving into more commercial films, while also working in exhibition, increasingly in production, and now partnering on sales company True Colours.
“It’s an advantage if you have a foot in exhibition. I think also it’s very important to produce more and more, because to acquire good films is very difficult [and very competitive],” Occhipinti added.
Room producer...
With the European film business proving ever risky, diversification can be key to mitigating risk, experts said at the Rome Mia Market panel organized with Europa Distribution entitled “Everything you always wanted to know about distribution but were afraid to ask.”
Andrea Occhipinti, president of Italy’s Lucky Red, said: “What we find healthy is to diversify in all directions, we do a little bit of everything.”
Lucky Red started as an arthouse distributor, eventually also moving into more commercial films, while also working in exhibition, increasingly in production, and now partnering on sales company True Colours.
“It’s an advantage if you have a foot in exhibition. I think also it’s very important to produce more and more, because to acquire good films is very difficult [and very competitive],” Occhipinti added.
Room producer...
- 10/24/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Gary Alazraki’s new feature finds international sales and co-production partner at Rome’s Mia market.
Mexican director Gary Alazraki’s next feature Almost Paradise (Casi El Paraiso) has locked a coproduction partner and international sales company during the last day of Rome Film Festival’s Mia market.
True Colours – the new sales company that is a partnership between Italian powerhouses Lucky Red distribution and Indigo Film — will handle sales for all territories except for North and Latin America, where Fox International Pictures has already secured rights.
Indigo Film, whose credits include The Great Beauty, has also boarded as a co-producer, alongside Film Tank and Ivanhoe Pictures.
The film will shoot in both Mexico and Italy, and it marks the director’s first movie since 2013 smash comedy hit The Noble Family (Nosotros Los Nobles). That film earned more than $340m at the global box office and was remade in Italy by Colorado Film Production as Daddy’s Girl...
Mexican director Gary Alazraki’s next feature Almost Paradise (Casi El Paraiso) has locked a coproduction partner and international sales company during the last day of Rome Film Festival’s Mia market.
True Colours – the new sales company that is a partnership between Italian powerhouses Lucky Red distribution and Indigo Film — will handle sales for all territories except for North and Latin America, where Fox International Pictures has already secured rights.
Indigo Film, whose credits include The Great Beauty, has also boarded as a co-producer, alongside Film Tank and Ivanhoe Pictures.
The film will shoot in both Mexico and Italy, and it marks the director’s first movie since 2013 smash comedy hit The Noble Family (Nosotros Los Nobles). That film earned more than $340m at the global box office and was remade in Italy by Colorado Film Production as Daddy’s Girl...
- 10/24/2016
- ScreenDaily
Gary Alazraki’s new feature finds international sales and co-production partner at Rome’s Mia market.
Mexican director Gary Alazraki’s next feature Almost Paradise (Casi El Paraiso) has locked a coproduction partner and international sales company during the last day of Rome Film Festival’s Mia market.
True Colours – the new sales company that is a partnership between Italian powerhouses Lucky Red distribution and Indigo Film — will handle sales for all territories except for North and Latin America, where Fox International Pictures has already secured rights.
Indigo Film, whose credits include The Great Beauty, has also boarded as a co-producer, alongside Film Tank and Ivanhoe Pictures.
The film will shoot in both Mexico and Italy, and it marks the director’s first movie since 2013 smash comedy hit The Noble Family (Nosotros Los Nobles). That film earned more than $340m at the global box office and was remade in Italy by Colorado Film Production as Daddy’s Girl...
Mexican director Gary Alazraki’s next feature Almost Paradise (Casi El Paraiso) has locked a coproduction partner and international sales company during the last day of Rome Film Festival’s Mia market.
True Colours – the new sales company that is a partnership between Italian powerhouses Lucky Red distribution and Indigo Film — will handle sales for all territories except for North and Latin America, where Fox International Pictures has already secured rights.
Indigo Film, whose credits include The Great Beauty, has also boarded as a co-producer, alongside Film Tank and Ivanhoe Pictures.
The film will shoot in both Mexico and Italy, and it marks the director’s first movie since 2013 smash comedy hit The Noble Family (Nosotros Los Nobles). That film earned more than $340m at the global box office and was remade in Italy by Colorado Film Production as Daddy’s Girl...
- 10/24/2016
- ScreenDaily
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