The Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, the songwriter and perennial Oscar bridesmaid Diane Warren and Matteo Garrone, the director of this year’s best international feature Oscar-nominated Italian film Io Capitano, will all be honored on Sunday night during the opening ceremony of the 19th Los Angeles, Italia Film, Fashion and Art Festival at Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theatres, exactly one week before the 96th Academy Awards take place just down the street.
The festival, which is backed by Italy’s Ministry of Culture, will run through Saturday, March 9, and feature 112 film screenings (47 in movie theaters and 65 on the online platform eventive.org). This year’s edition will be hosted by one Italian screen legend, Franco Nero (as well as Italian actress/model Antonella Salvucci), and is dedicated to another, the late Marcello Mastroianni, whose centenary it coincides with, as well as the late Italian playwright Eduardo de Filippo.
Notable guests...
The festival, which is backed by Italy’s Ministry of Culture, will run through Saturday, March 9, and feature 112 film screenings (47 in movie theaters and 65 on the online platform eventive.org). This year’s edition will be hosted by one Italian screen legend, Franco Nero (as well as Italian actress/model Antonella Salvucci), and is dedicated to another, the late Marcello Mastroianni, whose centenary it coincides with, as well as the late Italian playwright Eduardo de Filippo.
Notable guests...
- 3/3/2024
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Two American actor/filmmakers who have enjoyed career-best years at the movies will be celebrated from afar — specifically, in Italy — over the holiday break.
Italy’s Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival will fete Maestro co-writer/director/lead actor Bradley Cooper will its annual Visionary Award and Barbie co-writer/director Greta Gerwig with its inaugural Lina Wertmüller Award, fest director Pascal Vicedomini announced Monday.
The Italian filmmaker Micaela Ramazzotti will also receive the Wertmüller Award, which is named after the trailblazing Italian filmmaker who died in 2012, and which was created to celebrate outstanding female filmmakers.
The 28th edition of Capri, Hollywood will run Dec. 27 through Jan. 1. Dedicated to the memory of Marcello Mastroianni, it is being chaired by the Oscar-winning filmmaker Bobby Moresco and will open with a screening of All of Us Strangers. Maestro will screen Dec. 30.
The fest previously announced that filmmaker Matteo Garrone and actors Seydou Sarr and...
Italy’s Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival will fete Maestro co-writer/director/lead actor Bradley Cooper will its annual Visionary Award and Barbie co-writer/director Greta Gerwig with its inaugural Lina Wertmüller Award, fest director Pascal Vicedomini announced Monday.
The Italian filmmaker Micaela Ramazzotti will also receive the Wertmüller Award, which is named after the trailblazing Italian filmmaker who died in 2012, and which was created to celebrate outstanding female filmmakers.
The 28th edition of Capri, Hollywood will run Dec. 27 through Jan. 1. Dedicated to the memory of Marcello Mastroianni, it is being chaired by the Oscar-winning filmmaker Bobby Moresco and will open with a screening of All of Us Strangers. Maestro will screen Dec. 30.
The fest previously announced that filmmaker Matteo Garrone and actors Seydou Sarr and...
- 12/19/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano (Me Captain in English), which was recently chosen as Italy’s entry for this season’s best international feature Oscar competition, will be celebrated with the Humanitarian Award at the 28th Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival later this year, the fest announced Sunday. The award will be accepted in-person by Garrone and the film’s stars, Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall.
The film — which premiered in September at the Venice International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Silver Lion for the direction by Garrone (2008’s Gomorrah) and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for the performance by Sarr — tells the story of a Senegalese teenager’s desperate quest to get from Dakar to Europe.
“Io Capitano is well deserving of the Capri Humanitarian Award, as it is an important work of art encouraging inclusion and solidarity among human beings and shows the utmost respect for individuality and cultural diversity,...
The film — which premiered in September at the Venice International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Silver Lion for the direction by Garrone (2008’s Gomorrah) and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for the performance by Sarr — tells the story of a Senegalese teenager’s desperate quest to get from Dakar to Europe.
“Io Capitano is well deserving of the Capri Humanitarian Award, as it is an important work of art encouraging inclusion and solidarity among human beings and shows the utmost respect for individuality and cultural diversity,...
- 10/9/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Newly minted best actor Oscar winner Brendan Fraser is headed to the Gulf of Naples, Italy, for the Ischia Global Film & Music Festival, where he will be honored as Global Actor of the Year, the fest announced on Saturday.
“We are proud to welcome to Ischia Brendan Fraser, a great artist and man who symbolizes rebirth and redemption,” festival founder and producer Pascal Vicedomini said in a statement.
Fraser, who garnered career-best reviews last year for The Whale and is associated with another awards hopeful this year, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, will be feted on July 15.
On that same date, the fest will present Rob Marshall, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker most recently behind this year’s live-action version of The Little Mermaid, with its Luchino Visconti Legend Award. Diane Warren, the hit-machine songwriter who collected an honorary Oscar last year and hopes to finally be awarded a...
“We are proud to welcome to Ischia Brendan Fraser, a great artist and man who symbolizes rebirth and redemption,” festival founder and producer Pascal Vicedomini said in a statement.
Fraser, who garnered career-best reviews last year for The Whale and is associated with another awards hopeful this year, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, will be feted on July 15.
On that same date, the fest will present Rob Marshall, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker most recently behind this year’s live-action version of The Little Mermaid, with its Luchino Visconti Legend Award. Diane Warren, the hit-machine songwriter who collected an honorary Oscar last year and hopes to finally be awarded a...
- 7/1/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bobby Moresco, who won an Oscar as co-writer of “Crash,” and more recently directed “Lamborghini – The Man Behind the Legend,” is set to direct the biopic “Maserati: A Racing Life” about the family that in 1914 started making the high-performance Maserati automobiles in a garage in Bologna.
Like “Lamborghini,” the Maserati origins movie is being produced by Andrea Iervolino’s Ilbe Group, in which he is partnered with Monika Bacardi. Ilbe has taken a liking for films about Italy’s iconic automakers. They are also among producers of Micheal Mann’s upcoming “Ferrari” with Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Shailene Woodley.
“Maserati” is the story of three brothers Alfieri, Ettore and Ernesto who started out making spark plugs and devices for aircraft engines and, driven by a passion for fast cars, entered the auto racing world. Maserati’s first Grand Prix racing car, called “Type 26,” is the vehicle that Alfieri Maserati...
Like “Lamborghini,” the Maserati origins movie is being produced by Andrea Iervolino’s Ilbe Group, in which he is partnered with Monika Bacardi. Ilbe has taken a liking for films about Italy’s iconic automakers. They are also among producers of Micheal Mann’s upcoming “Ferrari” with Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Shailene Woodley.
“Maserati” is the story of three brothers Alfieri, Ettore and Ernesto who started out making spark plugs and devices for aircraft engines and, driven by a passion for fast cars, entered the auto racing world. Maserati’s first Grand Prix racing car, called “Type 26,” is the vehicle that Alfieri Maserati...
- 3/31/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italian producer Andrea Iervolino is planning to bring to the big screen “Maserati: a Racing Life,” an English-language biopic about the family behind the high-performance automobiles that, along with Ferrari and Lamborghini, Italy is known for.
Iervolino’s Ilbe Group – in which he is partnered with Monika Bacardi – previously produced the Bobby Moresco-directed biopic “Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend” and is also among producers of Micheal Mann’s upcoming “Ferrari” with Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Shailene Woodley. He told Variety he sees “Maserati” as a natural segue to those films about Italy’s iconic automakers.
“I want to celebrate the entrepreneurial genius of Italians, their history and humanity,” he said.
“Italy isn’t just pizza, mandolins, pasta and the mob,” Iervolino added. “It’s a country of many geniuses who left a huge legacy. When it comes to the auto making sector these families were pioneers, way ahead of the curve.
Iervolino’s Ilbe Group – in which he is partnered with Monika Bacardi – previously produced the Bobby Moresco-directed biopic “Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend” and is also among producers of Micheal Mann’s upcoming “Ferrari” with Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Shailene Woodley. He told Variety he sees “Maserati” as a natural segue to those films about Italy’s iconic automakers.
“I want to celebrate the entrepreneurial genius of Italians, their history and humanity,” he said.
“Italy isn’t just pizza, mandolins, pasta and the mob,” Iervolino added. “It’s a country of many geniuses who left a huge legacy. When it comes to the auto making sector these families were pioneers, way ahead of the curve.
- 3/8/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italian producer Andrea Iervolino has been officially tapped to help promote film and TV production investment opportunities in the West Indies, specifically in the twin island state of Antigua and Barbuda.
Iervolino, whose Iervolino and Lady Bacardi Entertainment (Ilbe) shingle produces feature films such as Bobby Moresco’s just released “Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend” and Micheal Mann’s upcoming “Ferrari” feature, has been tapped to work with Dario Item, who is ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to Spain, to the Principality of Monaco, the Principality of Liechtenstein and to the World Tourism Organization is the United Nations (Unwto). The producer has been given a mandate to help foster strategic entertainment partnerships between Antigua and Barbuda and Europe and North America, according to an Ilbe statement.
“It’s an honor to be tasked with building valuable, long-lasting culture and business bridges between the West Indies, Europe and North America,...
Iervolino, whose Iervolino and Lady Bacardi Entertainment (Ilbe) shingle produces feature films such as Bobby Moresco’s just released “Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend” and Micheal Mann’s upcoming “Ferrari” feature, has been tapped to work with Dario Item, who is ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to Spain, to the Principality of Monaco, the Principality of Liechtenstein and to the World Tourism Organization is the United Nations (Unwto). The producer has been given a mandate to help foster strategic entertainment partnerships between Antigua and Barbuda and Europe and North America, according to an Ilbe statement.
“It’s an honor to be tasked with building valuable, long-lasting culture and business bridges between the West Indies, Europe and North America,...
- 11/23/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Frank Grillo is fantastic as Ferruccio Lamborghini, the man behind the legend, in the new biopic from Lionsgate. From writer-director Robert Moresco (he wrote the Oscar-winning script for “Crash”), the film tells the story of how Lamborghini created his legacy. I spent some time with the actor to talk about his interest in starring
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- 11/23/2022
- by manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend is a movie written and directed by Robert Moresco, starring Frank Grillo and Mira Sorvino.
A standard biopic that, true enough, revitalizes an era, but does not give us much more than a glimpse of the 50’s and 60’s Italy.
Frank Grillo does, though, offer us a very good portrayal in a role that fits him like a glove.
Premise
Ferruccio Lamborghini start was in tractor manufacturing. Once World War II started, he turned to the manufacture of military vehicles, which ultimately led him to become the designer of the high end Lamborghini cars. The company took another turn in 1963 dedicating its capacities to the manufacture of sports cars Automobili Lamborghini.
Movie Review
Most of us know the Brand, and now we are offered a chronicle of the history behind high end sports cars. It is interesting, but does not shine on a dramatic and artistic level.
A standard biopic that, true enough, revitalizes an era, but does not give us much more than a glimpse of the 50’s and 60’s Italy.
Frank Grillo does, though, offer us a very good portrayal in a role that fits him like a glove.
Premise
Ferruccio Lamborghini start was in tractor manufacturing. Once World War II started, he turned to the manufacture of military vehicles, which ultimately led him to become the designer of the high end Lamborghini cars. The company took another turn in 1963 dedicating its capacities to the manufacture of sports cars Automobili Lamborghini.
Movie Review
Most of us know the Brand, and now we are offered a chronicle of the history behind high end sports cars. It is interesting, but does not shine on a dramatic and artistic level.
- 11/21/2022
- by Martin Cid
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
The cars are the stars in “Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend,” a pamphletized biopic that does the easy thing — beautifying Italy and vintage automobiles — but stalls with everything involving humans.
Starring Frank Grillo as the titular engineer and carmaker in middle age, writer-director Bobby Moresco’s admiring portrait is a gauzy, stuffy showroom piece that romanticizes everything from piazzas and vineyards to factory floors and car engines but never gets out of first gear in dramatizing a dreamer’s achievement or — when it came to upsetting the dominance of Ferrari in the auto world — a competitor’s drive.
The latter element is tritely illustrated by the recurring use of an imagined nighttime drag race in which Grillo, behind the wheel of his character’s famous ‘70s Countach design, squares off on a lonely road against Ferrari (Gabriel Byrne) in one of his ‘80s-era models. But no matter how many...
Starring Frank Grillo as the titular engineer and carmaker in middle age, writer-director Bobby Moresco’s admiring portrait is a gauzy, stuffy showroom piece that romanticizes everything from piazzas and vineyards to factory floors and car engines but never gets out of first gear in dramatizing a dreamer’s achievement or — when it came to upsetting the dominance of Ferrari in the auto world — a competitor’s drive.
The latter element is tritely illustrated by the recurring use of an imagined nighttime drag race in which Grillo, behind the wheel of his character’s famous ‘70s Countach design, squares off on a lonely road against Ferrari (Gabriel Byrne) in one of his ‘80s-era models. But no matter how many...
- 11/16/2022
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Lamborghini: The Man Behind The Legend Trailer — Bobby Moresco‘s Lamborghini: The Man Behind The Legend (2022) movie trailer has been released by Lionsgate. The Lamborghini: The Man Behind The Legend trailer stars Frank Grillo, Mira Sorvino, Eliana Jones, Francesca De Martini, Luca Riemma, Giorgio Cantarini, and Gabriel Byrne. Crew Bobby Moresco wrote the screenplay for [...]
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- 11/5/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
The Napa Valley Film Festival announced its 2022 Film, Food and Wine Showcase programming and honors, to take place at The Culinary Institute of America at Copia on Nov. 10-13 featuring a curated group of films and honoree tributes that celebrate artistic achievement.
Leading the honorees is Laura Dern, who will be honored with the Legend Award. Additional honorees include rising director Cooper Raiff, actor Stephanie Hsu, actor and musician Janelle Monáe, actor Regina Hall and others. The showcase will also include CIA-curated culinary events to go along with four special screenings, which aims to celebrate the food and wine culture from each film presented.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled about the 2022 Nvff Film, Food and Wine Showcase nor prouder of our team of dedicated board directors, our partners at The CIA at Copia, and our showcase team. This marks our post-covid return to multi-day events that connect our...
Leading the honorees is Laura Dern, who will be honored with the Legend Award. Additional honorees include rising director Cooper Raiff, actor Stephanie Hsu, actor and musician Janelle Monáe, actor Regina Hall and others. The showcase will also include CIA-curated culinary events to go along with four special screenings, which aims to celebrate the food and wine culture from each film presented.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled about the 2022 Nvff Film, Food and Wine Showcase nor prouder of our team of dedicated board directors, our partners at The CIA at Copia, and our showcase team. This marks our post-covid return to multi-day events that connect our...
- 10/24/2022
- by EJ Panaligan
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: George Gallo (The Comeback Trail) is teaming with Green Book Oscar winner Nick Vallelonga to produce The Accidental Gangster, a new thriller based on reformed gangster Orlando ‘Ori’ Spado’s bestselling autobiography of the same name. The former will also direct from a script by the author’s son Anthony Spado and David Steenhoek.
Prior to leaving the mob, Ori Spado was an associate of NYC Colombo Crime Family underboss Sonny Franzese, as well as Los Angeles Family underboss Jimmy Caci, and Joey Pyle, who led the London-based criminal organization known as The Firm. He worked as a fixer in both Hollywood and New York and went on to pull off numerous jobs and heists during his time with the mafia, after working for a time as an insurance salesman. In 1997, one particular FBI Agent told Spado, “I will see the day you are chained, shackled and put on...
Prior to leaving the mob, Ori Spado was an associate of NYC Colombo Crime Family underboss Sonny Franzese, as well as Los Angeles Family underboss Jimmy Caci, and Joey Pyle, who led the London-based criminal organization known as The Firm. He worked as a fixer in both Hollywood and New York and went on to pull off numerous jobs and heists during his time with the mafia, after working for a time as an insurance salesman. In 1997, one particular FBI Agent told Spado, “I will see the day you are chained, shackled and put on...
- 10/20/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Frank Grillo — he of the six-pack abs at age 55 and action roles in the MCU and movies like Boss Level — has recently been turning his attention to investing and company building.
In recent years, Grillo has become a partner in Village Pizzeria, a beloved pie spot in Los Angeles’ Larchmont Village. “The goal is to kind of expand out, just in the L.A. region,” he says. He’s an investor in Caliwater (co-founded by Vanessa Hudgens) along with the likes of Gerard Butler, Glen Powell, Ross Butler and Brooke Burke. And he tells THR, he’s “getting involved in a couple of different exercise equipment companies. It’s part of the whole being in your fifties, being fit and staying healthy — it all works into that.”
“Look, I’m not Brad Pitt,” he shares, “but I have a certain brand and I...
Frank Grillo — he of the six-pack abs at age 55 and action roles in the MCU and movies like Boss Level — has recently been turning his attention to investing and company building.
In recent years, Grillo has become a partner in Village Pizzeria, a beloved pie spot in Los Angeles’ Larchmont Village. “The goal is to kind of expand out, just in the L.A. region,” he says. He’s an investor in Caliwater (co-founded by Vanessa Hudgens) along with the likes of Gerard Butler, Glen Powell, Ross Butler and Brooke Burke. And he tells THR, he’s “getting involved in a couple of different exercise equipment companies. It’s part of the whole being in your fifties, being fit and staying healthy — it all works into that.”
“Look, I’m not Brad Pitt,” he shares, “but I have a certain brand and I...
- 9/12/2022
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Oscar-winning screenwriters Bobby Moresco (Crash) and Nick Vallelonga (Green Book) have partnered with Midnight Run scribe George Gallo and John Gotti Jr. to develop the series Betrayal examining John Gotti and the Fall of La Cosa Notra.
The New York gangster—otherwise known as the Teflon Don, the Dapper Don—was a Caesar, an Emperor… a King. His flamboyant lifestyle and frequent public trials as the head of the Gambino crime family, which controlled New York’s largest organized-crime syndicates, made him not only a prominent figure in the 1980s and ’90s, but also one of the most well-known organized crime bosses in American history. Gotti’s rise from a loyal soldier to Boss of Bosses, and ultimately to his sentencing to life imprisonment after being betrayed by his underboss, Sammy Gravano, is legendary.
The story being packaged as a limited series will differ from past incarnations of Gotti...
The New York gangster—otherwise known as the Teflon Don, the Dapper Don—was a Caesar, an Emperor… a King. His flamboyant lifestyle and frequent public trials as the head of the Gambino crime family, which controlled New York’s largest organized-crime syndicates, made him not only a prominent figure in the 1980s and ’90s, but also one of the most well-known organized crime bosses in American history. Gotti’s rise from a loyal soldier to Boss of Bosses, and ultimately to his sentencing to life imprisonment after being betrayed by his underboss, Sammy Gravano, is legendary.
The story being packaged as a limited series will differ from past incarnations of Gotti...
- 7/29/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
“The show must go on,” Silvia Bizio told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday, speaking by phone from the town of Ostuni in southern Italy, where Allora Fest, a new film festival led by the veteran Italian journalist in partnership with the Italian art critic Sol Costales Doulton, had just wrapped its first day.
Roughly 48 hours earlier, Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis, a key collaborator in the planning of Allora Fest, was arrested in Ostuni after a British woman told authorities that Haggis had sexually assaulted her. (The writer-director-producer has previously faced four other accusations of sexual assault in the United States.) Haggis’ Italian lawyer, Michele Laforgia, has declared that Haggis is “completely innocent.”
Haggis helped to recruit a number of Hollywood A-listers to Allora Fest — Edward Norton and Alfre Woodard honored their commitments to participate in master classes Tuesday, and others set to attend the fest,...
“The show must go on,” Silvia Bizio told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday, speaking by phone from the town of Ostuni in southern Italy, where Allora Fest, a new film festival led by the veteran Italian journalist in partnership with the Italian art critic Sol Costales Doulton, had just wrapped its first day.
Roughly 48 hours earlier, Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis, a key collaborator in the planning of Allora Fest, was arrested in Ostuni after a British woman told authorities that Haggis had sexually assaulted her. (The writer-director-producer has previously faced four other accusations of sexual assault in the United States.) Haggis’ Italian lawyer, Michele Laforgia, has declared that Haggis is “completely innocent.”
Haggis helped to recruit a number of Hollywood A-listers to Allora Fest — Edward Norton and Alfre Woodard honored their commitments to participate in master classes Tuesday, and others set to attend the fest,...
- 6/21/2022
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Canadian was in Italy to deliver festival masterclass.
Paul Haggis, the Oscar-winning director of Crash, was detained in southern Italy on Sunday (June 19) charged with sexual assault and aggravated personal injury.
According to reports a young non-Italian woman brought charges against the Canadian filmmaker, who was in Ostuni to attend the Allora Fest this week where he was scheduled to present a masterclass. Reports said the alleged incidents took place over two days in Ostuni.
Reports cited Haggis’s lawyer Priya Chaudhry who said the filmmaker was “totally innocent” and was cooperating with authorities.
In 2017/18 Haggis was sued by publicist...
Paul Haggis, the Oscar-winning director of Crash, was detained in southern Italy on Sunday (June 19) charged with sexual assault and aggravated personal injury.
According to reports a young non-Italian woman brought charges against the Canadian filmmaker, who was in Ostuni to attend the Allora Fest this week where he was scheduled to present a masterclass. Reports said the alleged incidents took place over two days in Ostuni.
Reports cited Haggis’s lawyer Priya Chaudhry who said the filmmaker was “totally innocent” and was cooperating with authorities.
In 2017/18 Haggis was sued by publicist...
- 6/19/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Frank Grillo will star in Man’s Son, a modern horror thriller from director Remy Grillo.
The story centers around a young couple hoping to create an aesthetically pleasing audition tape for an up-and-coming Charles Manson film. But when the couple chooses an eclectic desert Airbnb as the perfect backdrop, the dark events of the audition material slowly slip into their reality. Eventually, they find themselves
intertwined in the sinister plot of an occult leader (played by Grillo).
Josh Plasse and Brev Moss wrote the screenplay, which is inspired by Occult activity in the California desert. Cameras are schedule to roll in March in Yucca Valley, California.
Dare Angel will produce in partnership with Mi Nene. Producers include Plasse, Shakira Barrera, Conor Allyn, and Johnny James Fiore. Bobby McMichael, Chido Nwokocha, and Dennis Echelberger will serve as EPs. The film is casted by Lisa Zagoria, CSA.
Grillo is best...
The story centers around a young couple hoping to create an aesthetically pleasing audition tape for an up-and-coming Charles Manson film. But when the couple chooses an eclectic desert Airbnb as the perfect backdrop, the dark events of the audition material slowly slip into their reality. Eventually, they find themselves
intertwined in the sinister plot of an occult leader (played by Grillo).
Josh Plasse and Brev Moss wrote the screenplay, which is inspired by Occult activity in the California desert. Cameras are schedule to roll in March in Yucca Valley, California.
Dare Angel will produce in partnership with Mi Nene. Producers include Plasse, Shakira Barrera, Conor Allyn, and Johnny James Fiore. Bobby McMichael, Chido Nwokocha, and Dennis Echelberger will serve as EPs. The film is casted by Lisa Zagoria, CSA.
Grillo is best...
- 2/22/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Late great Italian actor Vittorio Gassman, who is best known to U.S. audiences as the star of classics such as “Big Deal on Madonna Street” and “Il Sorpasso” (“The Easy Life”), will be celebrated by the Los Angeles-Italia Film Fashion and Art Festival, which will run March 20-26 at Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theater.
The annual pre-Oscars event comprising movies and music and celebrating showbiz ties between Italy and Hollywood, now at its 17th edition, will pay tribute to the centennial of Gassman’s birth with a mini-retro honoring the memory of the iconic thesp who, among other accolades, won the best actor prize at Cannes in 1975 for his performance as a blind man in Dino Risi’s ”Profumo di Donna,” later remade in English as ”Scent of a Woman” with Al Pacino.
“We are honored and extremely pleased to pay a well-deserved tribute to an Italian genius whose...
The annual pre-Oscars event comprising movies and music and celebrating showbiz ties between Italy and Hollywood, now at its 17th edition, will pay tribute to the centennial of Gassman’s birth with a mini-retro honoring the memory of the iconic thesp who, among other accolades, won the best actor prize at Cannes in 1975 for his performance as a blind man in Dino Risi’s ”Profumo di Donna,” later remade in English as ”Scent of a Woman” with Al Pacino.
“We are honored and extremely pleased to pay a well-deserved tribute to an Italian genius whose...
- 1/11/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
For its upcoming 26th edition the Capri Hollywood Intl. Film Festival, dedicated to launching Oscar hopefuls and establishing a creative and business bridgehead between Hollywood and Italy’s film and showbiz communities, is countering the Omicron variant by expanding its venues beyond the “blue island” off the coast of Naples.
For sanitary safety reasons, the small picturesque town of Sorrento, overlooking the bay of Naples, will become the main hub where guests, most of whom this year will be flying from Europe for the Dec. 26-Jan. 2 shindig, will congregate.
Expected international attendees include directors Michael Radford and Terry Gilliam, who are fest regulars, coming from the U.K. Also from the Blighty, actor Sadie Frost making the trek to promote British director Kirsty Bell’s Covid-19 debut feature lockdown drama “A Bird Flew In,” having its international premiere. Bell will be receiving the fest’s European Breakout Director of the Year award.
For sanitary safety reasons, the small picturesque town of Sorrento, overlooking the bay of Naples, will become the main hub where guests, most of whom this year will be flying from Europe for the Dec. 26-Jan. 2 shindig, will congregate.
Expected international attendees include directors Michael Radford and Terry Gilliam, who are fest regulars, coming from the U.K. Also from the Blighty, actor Sadie Frost making the trek to promote British director Kirsty Bell’s Covid-19 debut feature lockdown drama “A Bird Flew In,” having its international premiere. Bell will be receiving the fest’s European Breakout Director of the Year award.
- 12/24/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Biopic Lamborghini has added Northern Rescue actress Eliana Jones.
Frank Grillo (Captain America), Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary), Mira Sorvino (Impeachment: American Crime Story), Giorgio Cantarini (Life Is Beautiful) and Fortunato Cerlino (Gomorrah) lead cast in the movie about Italian sports car founder Ferruccio Lamborghini.
Oscar winner Bobby Moresco (Crash) wrote the screenplay for the long-gestating project and is directing. Filming has been taking place in Emilia Romagna and Rome, Italy.
The film is based on Tonino Lamborghini’s biography of his dad Ferruccio Lamborghini: La Storia Ufficiale (The Official Story). It will chart the long life of the celebrated entrepreneur from the manufacturing of tractors at the start of his career to creating military vehicles during World War II and then on to designing and building the iconic Lamborghini luxury sports cars that ultimately defined his legacy. One the wealthiest men in Italy, Lamborghini had a different car for each...
Frank Grillo (Captain America), Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary), Mira Sorvino (Impeachment: American Crime Story), Giorgio Cantarini (Life Is Beautiful) and Fortunato Cerlino (Gomorrah) lead cast in the movie about Italian sports car founder Ferruccio Lamborghini.
Oscar winner Bobby Moresco (Crash) wrote the screenplay for the long-gestating project and is directing. Filming has been taking place in Emilia Romagna and Rome, Italy.
The film is based on Tonino Lamborghini’s biography of his dad Ferruccio Lamborghini: La Storia Ufficiale (The Official Story). It will chart the long life of the celebrated entrepreneur from the manufacturing of tractors at the start of his career to creating military vehicles during World War II and then on to designing and building the iconic Lamborghini luxury sports cars that ultimately defined his legacy. One the wealthiest men in Italy, Lamborghini had a different car for each...
- 10/12/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary) and Oscar winner Mira Sorvino (Impeachment: American Crime Story) have joined feature biopic Lamborghini, about Italian sports car founder Ferruccio Lamborghini.
Filming is underway in Italy on the movie, which will star Frank Grillo (Captain America) as Lamborghini. Byrne will play Enzo Ferrari, Lamborghini’s rival. Sorvino plays Annita, Lamborghini’s second wife.
Oscar winner Bobby Moresco (Crash) wrote the screenplay for the long-gestating project and is directing. Filming is underway in Emilia Romagna and Rome.
Supporting cast includes Giorgio Cantarini (Life Is Beautiful) and Fortunato Cerlino (Gomorrah).
The film, which is based on Ferruccio Lamborghini: La Storia Ufficiale (The Official Story), the biography written by his son Tonino Lamborghini, will chart the long life of the celebrated entrepreneur from the manufacturing of tractors at the start of his career to creating military vehicles during World War II and then on to designing and building the...
Filming is underway in Italy on the movie, which will star Frank Grillo (Captain America) as Lamborghini. Byrne will play Enzo Ferrari, Lamborghini’s rival. Sorvino plays Annita, Lamborghini’s second wife.
Oscar winner Bobby Moresco (Crash) wrote the screenplay for the long-gestating project and is directing. Filming is underway in Emilia Romagna and Rome.
Supporting cast includes Giorgio Cantarini (Life Is Beautiful) and Fortunato Cerlino (Gomorrah).
The film, which is based on Ferruccio Lamborghini: La Storia Ufficiale (The Official Story), the biography written by his son Tonino Lamborghini, will chart the long life of the celebrated entrepreneur from the manufacturing of tractors at the start of his career to creating military vehicles during World War II and then on to designing and building the...
- 9/22/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Frank Grillo said Tuesday he will star as Ferruccio Lamborghini in a biopic about the Italian car maker’s life, replacing Antonio Banderas in the role.
Grillo broke the news on “The Adam Corolla Show” Tuesday, adding that in addition to replacing Banderas in the film, Alec Baldwin, who was meant to play Enzo Ferrari in the movie, is also no longer attached due to scheduling conflicts. Grillo says Banderas dropped out because another project he’s currently filming ran long.
Bobby Moresco, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind “Crash,” is directing and writing the film titled “Lamborghini,” which was first announced with Banderas and Baldwin set to star as far back as 2017.
Grillo added that he’ll be traveling to Rome on Wednesday to begin filming. But he did not share or was unaware who will be starring alongside him as Ferrari (though Corolla joked that it’d be Jonah Hill).
Reps for Grillo,...
Grillo broke the news on “The Adam Corolla Show” Tuesday, adding that in addition to replacing Banderas in the film, Alec Baldwin, who was meant to play Enzo Ferrari in the movie, is also no longer attached due to scheduling conflicts. Grillo says Banderas dropped out because another project he’s currently filming ran long.
Bobby Moresco, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind “Crash,” is directing and writing the film titled “Lamborghini,” which was first announced with Banderas and Baldwin set to star as far back as 2017.
Grillo added that he’ll be traveling to Rome on Wednesday to begin filming. But he did not share or was unaware who will be starring alongside him as Ferrari (though Corolla joked that it’d be Jonah Hill).
Reps for Grillo,...
- 9/14/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
The all-virtual 25th Capri, Hollywood – The International Film Festival wound to a close this week, culminating with the presentation of awards recognizing 2020 films that played at the fest and that didn’t.
The Trial of the Chicago 7, Netflix’s top awards contender, was chosen for a field-leading four honors, including best picture, by a jury of prominent industry friends of the Italian fest — among them Tony Renis, Mark Canton, Bobby Moresco, Dante Ferretti, Francesco Lo Schiavo and Alessandro Bertolazzi.
The Aaron Sorkin film was also recognized with prizes for best supporting actor (Sacha Baron Cohen), best film editing and a special honor, Capri Italian-American ...
The Trial of the Chicago 7, Netflix’s top awards contender, was chosen for a field-leading four honors, including best picture, by a jury of prominent industry friends of the Italian fest — among them Tony Renis, Mark Canton, Bobby Moresco, Dante Ferretti, Francesco Lo Schiavo and Alessandro Bertolazzi.
The Aaron Sorkin film was also recognized with prizes for best supporting actor (Sacha Baron Cohen), best film editing and a special honor, Capri Italian-American ...
The all-virtual 25th Capri, Hollywood – The International Film Festival wound to a close this week, culminating with the presentation of awards recognizing 2020 films that played at the fest and that didn’t.
The Trial of the Chicago 7, Netflix’s top awards contender, was chosen for a field-leading four honors, including best picture, by a jury of prominent industry friends of the Italian fest — among them Tony Renis, Mark Canton, Bobby Moresco, Dante Ferretti, Francesco Lo Schiavo and Alessandro Bertolazzi.
The Aaron Sorkin film was also recognized with prizes for best supporting actor (Sacha Baron Cohen), best film editing and a special honor, Capri Italian-American ...
The Trial of the Chicago 7, Netflix’s top awards contender, was chosen for a field-leading four honors, including best picture, by a jury of prominent industry friends of the Italian fest — among them Tony Renis, Mark Canton, Bobby Moresco, Dante Ferretti, Francesco Lo Schiavo and Alessandro Bertolazzi.
The Aaron Sorkin film was also recognized with prizes for best supporting actor (Sacha Baron Cohen), best film editing and a special honor, Capri Italian-American ...
Aaron Sorkin’s acclaimed and increasingly relevant political drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, which revolves around the raucous trial of a group of protesters accused of disrupting the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, took a leading four awards including best picture at the just concluded 25th annual Capri, Hollywood – The International Film Festival. If past winners at this Italian fest are any indication, the victories should give the Netflix film a boost stateside during Oscar season.
The DreamWorks production, originally put in motion 14 years ago by Steven Spielberg and written and directed by Sorkin, was originally set to be released by Paramount before the coronavirus pandemic turned the exhibition business on its heels and shut theaters — especially in key cities like New York and Los Angeles. It premiered on Netflix in October.
The film also took Capri awards for Sacha Baron Cohen as best supporting actor, film editing and a...
The DreamWorks production, originally put in motion 14 years ago by Steven Spielberg and written and directed by Sorkin, was originally set to be released by Paramount before the coronavirus pandemic turned the exhibition business on its heels and shut theaters — especially in key cities like New York and Los Angeles. It premiered on Netflix in October.
The film also took Capri awards for Sacha Baron Cohen as best supporting actor, film editing and a...
- 1/4/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
While the Venice Film Festival is poised to lead the way among top-tier film events a trio of smaller Italian summer fests with international standing is now also set to hold physical editions prior to September when the Lido plans to take its post-pandemic plunge.
Restrictions are rapidly lifting in Italy, where the coronavirus curve is finally flattening after the longest lockdown in Europe. Starting Wednesday Italy is allowing travelers from the 25 other members of the Schengen visa-free travel area that covers much of Europe to enter the country with no restrictions.
And, along with Venice topper Alberto Barbera, several other Italian fest chiefs are busy trying to rise to the challenge of not cancelling their events or making them go entirely digital.
Italy’s first post-lockdown shindig, barring complications, will be the annual Ischia Global Film and Music Fest, renamed “Ischia Smart 2020” this year, and set to be held...
Restrictions are rapidly lifting in Italy, where the coronavirus curve is finally flattening after the longest lockdown in Europe. Starting Wednesday Italy is allowing travelers from the 25 other members of the Schengen visa-free travel area that covers much of Europe to enter the country with no restrictions.
And, along with Venice topper Alberto Barbera, several other Italian fest chiefs are busy trying to rise to the challenge of not cancelling their events or making them go entirely digital.
Italy’s first post-lockdown shindig, barring complications, will be the annual Ischia Global Film and Music Fest, renamed “Ischia Smart 2020” this year, and set to be held...
- 6/3/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
CNN is pulling some funny business with Colin Quinn.
The cable network has set “Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State,” as its first-ever comedy special. Written by and starring the stand-up comedian, the event is an-hour long presentation of Quinn’s Off-Broadway show of the same name that ran in New York earlier this year. “Red State Blue State” tackles “the absurdities, hypocrisies and calamities on both sides of the political divide.”
“We are always looking for new ways to engage our viewers by exploring the issues that are most important to them,” Amy Entelis, CNN Worldwide’s Evp for Talent & Content Development, said. “Colin Quinn’s show is a smart political satire that speaks to what is dividing our country.”
“Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State” is directed by Bobby Moresco with Tony Hernandez, Brian Stern, Amy Entelis and Lizzie Fox serving as executive producers.
Also Read: John...
The cable network has set “Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State,” as its first-ever comedy special. Written by and starring the stand-up comedian, the event is an-hour long presentation of Quinn’s Off-Broadway show of the same name that ran in New York earlier this year. “Red State Blue State” tackles “the absurdities, hypocrisies and calamities on both sides of the political divide.”
“We are always looking for new ways to engage our viewers by exploring the issues that are most important to them,” Amy Entelis, CNN Worldwide’s Evp for Talent & Content Development, said. “Colin Quinn’s show is a smart political satire that speaks to what is dividing our country.”
“Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State” is directed by Bobby Moresco with Tony Hernandez, Brian Stern, Amy Entelis and Lizzie Fox serving as executive producers.
Also Read: John...
- 5/9/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State is set to open at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village on January 5 with an official opening night on January 22. The new comedy written by and starring the titular Quinn will play March 3.
In Red State Blue State, Quinn lays bare the absurdities, hypocrisies and calamities on both sides of the political divide. No one is safe from Colin’s satirical crossfire as he will come after the liberals just as much as much as the conservatives and everyone in between.
“We all know I don’t owe this country anything,” said Quinn. “In fact it probably owes me. You, however, owe the country a visit to my show to give it a proper send off before it implodes.”
The play will be directed by Bobby Moresco, who last directed Colin Quinn on Broadway in An Irish Wake.
In Red State Blue State, Quinn lays bare the absurdities, hypocrisies and calamities on both sides of the political divide. No one is safe from Colin’s satirical crossfire as he will come after the liberals just as much as much as the conservatives and everyone in between.
“We all know I don’t owe this country anything,” said Quinn. “In fact it probably owes me. You, however, owe the country a visit to my show to give it a proper send off before it implodes.”
The play will be directed by Bobby Moresco, who last directed Colin Quinn on Broadway in An Irish Wake.
- 12/20/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Network: Wgn America.
Episodes: 12 (hour).
Seasons: One.
TV show dates: May 29, 2018 — August 1, 2018.
Series status: Cancelled.
Performers include: Dominic Monaghan, Michael Nyqvist, Felice Jankell, Charlotta Jonsson, Danilo Bejarano, Kristoffer Berglund, Peter Eggers, Hedda Stiernstedt, Roisin Murphy, Cecilia Hall, Martin Wallström, and Christian Svensson.
TV show description:
From Ken Bruen and Bobby Moresco, the 100 Code TV show is a Swedish crime thriller, which originally aired in 2015 on Germany's Sky Krimi. The story unfolds in Stockholm, as the authorities investigate the connection between area killings and murders in New York City. Over the past year, a series of young, blue-eyed, blonde women have been found dead in fields of flowers.
NYPD Detective...
Episodes: 12 (hour).
Seasons: One.
TV show dates: May 29, 2018 — August 1, 2018.
Series status: Cancelled.
Performers include: Dominic Monaghan, Michael Nyqvist, Felice Jankell, Charlotta Jonsson, Danilo Bejarano, Kristoffer Berglund, Peter Eggers, Hedda Stiernstedt, Roisin Murphy, Cecilia Hall, Martin Wallström, and Christian Svensson.
TV show description:
From Ken Bruen and Bobby Moresco, the 100 Code TV show is a Swedish crime thriller, which originally aired in 2015 on Germany's Sky Krimi. The story unfolds in Stockholm, as the authorities investigate the connection between area killings and murders in New York City. Over the past year, a series of young, blue-eyed, blonde women have been found dead in fields of flowers.
NYPD Detective...
- 8/2/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The upcoming Lamborghini biopic, starring Antonio Banderas as the famed car designer Ferruccio Lamborghini and Alec Baldwin as rival Enzo Ferrari, is set to become one of the first high-profile projects to be backed by new blockchain technologies.
The film, coming from Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi's Ambi Media Group, will be co-financed and co-produced by TaTaTu, a newly launched blockchain-based social entertainment platform.
Written and to be directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Bobby Moresco (Crash, Million Dollar Baby) and with a working title of Lamboghini – The Legend, the pic is based on the biography Ferruccio Lamborghini. La storia ufficiale...
The film, coming from Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi's Ambi Media Group, will be co-financed and co-produced by TaTaTu, a newly launched blockchain-based social entertainment platform.
Written and to be directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Bobby Moresco (Crash, Million Dollar Baby) and with a working title of Lamboghini – The Legend, the pic is based on the biography Ferruccio Lamborghini. La storia ufficiale...
- 5/14/2018
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The upcoming Lamborghini biopic, starring Antonio Banderas as the famed car designer Ferruccio Lamborghini and Alec Baldwin as rival Enzo Ferrari, is set to become one of the first high-profile projects to be backed by new blockchain technologies.
The film, coming from Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi's Ambi Media Group, will be co-financed and co-produced by TaTaTu, a newly launched blockchain-based social entertainment platform.
Written and to be directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Bobby Moresco (<em>Crash</em>, <i>Million Dollar Baby</i>) and with a working title of <i>Lamboghini – The Legend</i>, the pic is based on the biography <i>Ferruccio Lamborghini. La storia ufficiale ...</i>...
The film, coming from Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi's Ambi Media Group, will be co-financed and co-produced by TaTaTu, a newly launched blockchain-based social entertainment platform.
Written and to be directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Bobby Moresco (<em>Crash</em>, <i>Million Dollar Baby</i>) and with a working title of <i>Lamboghini – The Legend</i>, the pic is based on the biography <i>Ferruccio Lamborghini. La storia ufficiale ...</i>...
- 5/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Percy Bysshe Shelley's classic poem "Good-Night" is the backdrop for a chilling new trailer for Wgn America's series 100 Code, a new crime drama about a sinister serial killer who leaves his victims submerged in flower fields. With the series premiering this May, we've been given the opportunity to exclusively unveil the new video for the crime drama starring Dominic Monaghan and the late, great Michael Nyqvist.
A 12-episode series, 100 Code will premiere on Wgn America on Tuesday, May 29th. We have the official press release with more details on the series below, as well as the exclusive poetry trailer:
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Wgn America announced today that its much-anticipated crime drama “100 Code” will premiere on Tuesday, May 29 at 10/9c. Starring Dominic Monaghan (Lost, Lord of the Rings Trilogy) as New York Detective Tommy Conley and the late Michael Nyqvist (John Wick, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...
A 12-episode series, 100 Code will premiere on Wgn America on Tuesday, May 29th. We have the official press release with more details on the series below, as well as the exclusive poetry trailer:
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Wgn America announced today that its much-anticipated crime drama “100 Code” will premiere on Tuesday, May 29 at 10/9c. Starring Dominic Monaghan (Lost, Lord of the Rings Trilogy) as New York Detective Tommy Conley and the late Michael Nyqvist (John Wick, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...
- 4/6/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Bobby Moresco is stepping in to direct the new Lamborghini biopic after Michael Radford dropped out.
Moresco, who won an Oscar for best original screenplay for Crash, had already penned the script for the new biopic which Michael Radford was attached to direct for Ambi pictures.
A representative for Radford told The Hollywood Reporter that the picture was originally slated to start shooting last November, but production delays moved it to this year, which conflicted with his prior commitments. Radford recently directed The Music of Silence, a biopic on Andrea Bocelli for Ambi. He is currently attached to...
Moresco, who won an Oscar for best original screenplay for Crash, had already penned the script for the new biopic which Michael Radford was attached to direct for Ambi pictures.
A representative for Radford told The Hollywood Reporter that the picture was originally slated to start shooting last November, but production delays moved it to this year, which conflicted with his prior commitments. Radford recently directed The Music of Silence, a biopic on Andrea Bocelli for Ambi. He is currently attached to...
- 3/9/2018
- by Ariston Anderson
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Earlier this afternoon, our own Paul Shirey sat down for an exclusive fireside chat with Thor: Ragnarok and Acts Of Vengeance actor Karl Urban. During that time, Urban spoke with us about his upcoming role as Danny Gallagher in the Bobby Moresco-directed crime thriller Bent. In addition to learning some new details about his new movie, Urban also touched upon the status of seeing him... Read More...
- 3/6/2018
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Crime drama series 100 Code, starring Dominic Monaghan and the late Michael Nyqvist, will premiere Tuesday May 29 at 10/9c on Wgn America. The Swedish-American thriller, created by Oscar winner Bobby Moresco (Crash, Million Dollar Baby), and picked up by Wgn America last year, follows the hunt for a serial killer who targets young, blonde and blue-eyed women, found dead in fields of flowers. Through a special arrangement with the NYPD, Detective Tommy Conley (Monaghan) is…...
- 2/20/2018
- Deadline TV
"You want to make them pay for what they did to you?" Lionsgate has debuted the first official trailer for a new crime thriller titled Bent, from NYC-raised director Bobby Moresco, based on the novel titled "Deadly Codes". Bent stars Karl Urban as a shamed former cop now working as a private investigator. He ends up in over his head following a government conspiracy involving rogue agents from a top spy agency. The full cast includes Sofía Vergara, Andy Garcia, Vincent Spano, John Finn, Grace Byers, Tonya Cornelisse, and Patrick Brennan. As cool as this sounds, it looks like pretty much every other gritty ex-cop crime thriller, which is a shame, because Urban deserves better roles than this. Not sure it's going to be any good. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Bobby Moresco's Bent, originally from Collider: When a drug bust goes wrong, ex-cop Danny Gallagher's (Karl...
- 2/12/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Wgn America continues to stock up on “cost effective” scripted originals. On the heels of its recent pickup of the Anna Paquin-starring Canadian detective drama series Bellevue, Wgn America has acquired three more international drama series in the crime/thriller genre. They include the 2015 Swedish-American thriller 100 Code, from Oscar winner Bobby Moresco (Crash) and starring Dominic Monaghan (Lost) and the late Michael Nyqvist (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo); 2016…...
- 8/8/2017
- Deadline TV
Antonio Banderas is set to star in the Lamborghini biopic currently being developed by director Michael Radford (The Merchant of Venice, The Postman). Banderas will take on the role of Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of the famous car and he will star alongside Alec Baldwin, who plays his rival Enzo Ferrari.
The film is based on the biography Ferruccio Lamborghini: La storia ufficiale (The official story), which was written by his son Tonino Lamborghini. Here are some story details that were shared in the press release:
The Lamborghini biopic spans the long life of the iconic entrepreneur, from the manufacturing of tractors (Lamborghini Tractors) at the start of his career, to creating military vehicles during World War II, and then on to designing and building the Lamborghini cars that ultimately defined his profound legacy.The film aims to tell an extraordinary multi-layered story of a man who helped an entire...
The film is based on the biography Ferruccio Lamborghini: La storia ufficiale (The official story), which was written by his son Tonino Lamborghini. Here are some story details that were shared in the press release:
The Lamborghini biopic spans the long life of the iconic entrepreneur, from the manufacturing of tractors (Lamborghini Tractors) at the start of his career, to creating military vehicles during World War II, and then on to designing and building the Lamborghini cars that ultimately defined his profound legacy.The film aims to tell an extraordinary multi-layered story of a man who helped an entire...
- 5/12/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Ambi Distribution to launch sales in Cannes.
Antonio Banderas and Alec Baldwin have signed on to star in the Lamborghini biopic from Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Media Group.
Ambi Distribution, the worldwide sales arm of the Ambi Group, is handling global sales and will introduce the project to buyers in Cannes.
The film has a working title of Lamborghini – The Legend and tells a multi-layered story of a man who helped Italy get back on its feet after the horrors of the Second World War, designing a car that revolutionised the global automotive industry and injected lustre to the country at a pivotal juncture.
Banderas will star as Ferruccio Lamborghini, while Alec Baldwin will co-star as rival Enzo Ferrari.
Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Group optioned the rights to Ferruccio Lamborghini. La Storia Ufficiale (The Official Story) – the biography written by Ferruccio’s son Tonino Lamborghini – and are financing and producing the project...
Antonio Banderas and Alec Baldwin have signed on to star in the Lamborghini biopic from Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Media Group.
Ambi Distribution, the worldwide sales arm of the Ambi Group, is handling global sales and will introduce the project to buyers in Cannes.
The film has a working title of Lamborghini – The Legend and tells a multi-layered story of a man who helped Italy get back on its feet after the horrors of the Second World War, designing a car that revolutionised the global automotive industry and injected lustre to the country at a pivotal juncture.
Banderas will star as Ferruccio Lamborghini, while Alec Baldwin will co-star as rival Enzo Ferrari.
Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Group optioned the rights to Ferruccio Lamborghini. La Storia Ufficiale (The Official Story) – the biography written by Ferruccio’s son Tonino Lamborghini – and are financing and producing the project...
- 5/11/2017
- ScreenDaily
Antonio Banderas and Alec Baldwin will star in a Lamborghini biopic that Michael Radford, the Oscar-nominated director of Il Postino, will direct.
Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi's Ambi Media Group is producing and financing the project, which will be introduced to buyers in Cannes.
Crash scribe Bobby Moresco is writing the script based on Ferruccio Lamborghini: La storia ufficiale (The official story), the biography written by his son, Tonino Lamborghini. The biopic has a working title of Lamborghini — The Legend.
Banderas will play Lamborghini, while Baldwin will portray his rival, Enzo Ferrari.
By optioning the book, Ambi has the backing...
Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi's Ambi Media Group is producing and financing the project, which will be introduced to buyers in Cannes.
Crash scribe Bobby Moresco is writing the script based on Ferruccio Lamborghini: La storia ufficiale (The official story), the biography written by his son, Tonino Lamborghini. The biopic has a working title of Lamborghini — The Legend.
Banderas will play Lamborghini, while Baldwin will portray his rival, Enzo Ferrari.
By optioning the book, Ambi has the backing...
- 5/11/2017
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sofia Vergara has found a bright side to being sick.
The Modern Family star took to Instagram on Tuesday to show off her rosy cheeks, courtesy of a 102-degree fever that she caught while shooting in the rain in Rome, Italy.
Related: Joe Manganiello Got Sofia Vergara the Sweetest Anniversary Present -- See What It Is!
"I just [realized] that 102 fever gives u the perfect shades of pink. I need this colors @covergirl," Vergara captioned a bed selfie with the hilarious hashtags #Imawimp, #thatswhatigetforshootingintherain and #iwouldntmakeitpast2daysonNakedandAfraid.
It didn't take long for Vergara to find the ideal remedy to help her get better. The Colombian beauty followed up her snap with a photo of a bowl of soup.
News: Sofia Vergara Shares Sweet Photos With 'Modern Family' Co-Stars on Last Day of Shooting Season 8
On Wednesday, Vergara shared another update, and it looks like her appetite is already coming back.
"I must be...
The Modern Family star took to Instagram on Tuesday to show off her rosy cheeks, courtesy of a 102-degree fever that she caught while shooting in the rain in Rome, Italy.
Related: Joe Manganiello Got Sofia Vergara the Sweetest Anniversary Present -- See What It Is!
"I just [realized] that 102 fever gives u the perfect shades of pink. I need this colors @covergirl," Vergara captioned a bed selfie with the hilarious hashtags #Imawimp, #thatswhatigetforshootingintherain and #iwouldntmakeitpast2daysonNakedandAfraid.
It didn't take long for Vergara to find the ideal remedy to help her get better. The Colombian beauty followed up her snap with a photo of a bowl of soup.
News: Sofia Vergara Shares Sweet Photos With 'Modern Family' Co-Stars on Last Day of Shooting Season 8
On Wednesday, Vergara shared another update, and it looks like her appetite is already coming back.
"I must be...
- 4/12/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Production on revenge thriller set to commence this month in Rome.
Ambi Media Group co-heads Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi announced the development on Thursday and are producing with Joseph O’Donnell’s Deadly Codes Productions.
Bobby Moresco, who produced Crash, will direct from his screenplay based on characters created by O’Donnell.
The revenge thriller centres on a disgraced narcotics detective who is released from prison and discovers a high-stakes treason plot when he sets out to find the person who framed him and killed his partner.
Vergara will play a seductive government agent, while Garcia is a retired police officer and the protagonist’s mentor. Joe Pacheco also stars.
“Bent delivers on the best of film noirs – a main character driven by revenge, who is forced to choose between the truth he knows, the evidence against that truth, and the woman he loves most in the world,” Iervolino said.
“Karl, Sofia...
Ambi Media Group co-heads Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi announced the development on Thursday and are producing with Joseph O’Donnell’s Deadly Codes Productions.
Bobby Moresco, who produced Crash, will direct from his screenplay based on characters created by O’Donnell.
The revenge thriller centres on a disgraced narcotics detective who is released from prison and discovers a high-stakes treason plot when he sets out to find the person who framed him and killed his partner.
Vergara will play a seductive government agent, while Garcia is a retired police officer and the protagonist’s mentor. Joe Pacheco also stars.
“Bent delivers on the best of film noirs – a main character driven by revenge, who is forced to choose between the truth he knows, the evidence against that truth, and the woman he loves most in the world,” Iervolino said.
“Karl, Sofia...
- 3/23/2017
- ScreenDaily
Ambi Media Group/ Deadly Codes Productions’ revenge thriller Bent has tapped Karl Urban, Sofia Vergara, and Andy Garcia as leads in the film, written and directed by Bobby Moresco. Based on characters created by Joseph O'Donnell, the pic is set to begin filming in Rome this month. It's follows Danny Gallagher (Urban), a shamed and discredited narcotics detective who, upon his release from prison, makes plans to seek revenge on the accuser who framed him and killed his…...
- 3/23/2017
- Deadline
Karl Urban, Sofia Vergara and Andy Garcia will star in the revenge thriller Bent.
Bobby Moresco, who won the Oscar for co-writing the screenplay for Crash, will direct the film from a screenplay he wrote himself, based on characters created by Joseph O'Donnell.
The story follows Danny Gallagher (Urban), a shamed and discredited narcotics detective who, upon his release from prison, makes plans to seek revenge on the accuser who framed him and killed his partner. In seeking out the truth of what happened, Gallagher investigates the mysterious car-bomb murder of a local bookie's sister. Gallagher soon discovers that the...
Bobby Moresco, who won the Oscar for co-writing the screenplay for Crash, will direct the film from a screenplay he wrote himself, based on characters created by Joseph O'Donnell.
The story follows Danny Gallagher (Urban), a shamed and discredited narcotics detective who, upon his release from prison, makes plans to seek revenge on the accuser who framed him and killed his partner. In seeking out the truth of what happened, Gallagher investigates the mysterious car-bomb murder of a local bookie's sister. Gallagher soon discovers that the...
- 3/23/2017
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A version of this article originally appeared on EW.com.
The casts of two popular ’80s television series are reuniting at Atx Television Festival next year.
On Thursday, the Austin-based festival announced the cast and creator of CBS’ Designing Women will reunite for a special 30th anniversary panel. Stars Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Gerald McRaney, Hal Holbrook and Douglas Barr will join creator and executive producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason for the event. The festival is also planning retrospectives for Bloodworth-Thomason’s Evening Shade and Hearts Afire.
The cast of the quirky CBS comedy-drama Northern Exposure will also get together at Atx next year.
The casts of two popular ’80s television series are reuniting at Atx Television Festival next year.
On Thursday, the Austin-based festival announced the cast and creator of CBS’ Designing Women will reunite for a special 30th anniversary panel. Stars Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Gerald McRaney, Hal Holbrook and Douglas Barr will join creator and executive producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason for the event. The festival is also planning retrospectives for Bloodworth-Thomason’s Evening Shade and Hearts Afire.
The cast of the quirky CBS comedy-drama Northern Exposure will also get together at Atx next year.
- 11/17/2016
- by Lanford Beard
- PEOPLE.com
2nd Annual Asian World Film Festival Opens in Culver City October 24: Best of Asian World CinemaExecutive Director, Georges N. Chamchoum
This is the first festival of its kind to play in the United States, giving audiences the unique opportunity to see films from Japan and Turkey and everywhere in-between. The festival is held at the height of the awards season to give these Asian filmmakers maximum exposure. The festival’s Executive Director, Georges N. Chamchoum is announcing films from 51 countries which are eligible. Greater recognition to the region’s wealth of filmmakers will strengthen ties between the Asian and Hollywood film industries.
All films selected by their countries as Oscar® or Golden Globes® contenders are automatically invited. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizes these showings as the required official screenings for their members who vote on the Golden Globes®. At last year’s inaugural event some 30 films from 27 countries participated.
This is the first festival of its kind to play in the United States, giving audiences the unique opportunity to see films from Japan and Turkey and everywhere in-between. The festival is held at the height of the awards season to give these Asian filmmakers maximum exposure. The festival’s Executive Director, Georges N. Chamchoum is announcing films from 51 countries which are eligible. Greater recognition to the region’s wealth of filmmakers will strengthen ties between the Asian and Hollywood film industries.
All films selected by their countries as Oscar® or Golden Globes® contenders are automatically invited. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizes these showings as the required official screenings for their members who vote on the Golden Globes®. At last year’s inaugural event some 30 films from 27 countries participated.
- 10/18/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Plus: to Bobby Moresco to write Lamborghini – The Legend for Ambi; Uwe Boll prepares final film… for a while; and more…
Andrew Rodgers has been appointed executive director of the Denver Film Society after serving since 2005 as executive director of the RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Rodgers holds an Mba and a degree in journalism. He worked for the Chicago Tribune before serving as a publicist for the Sundance Film Festival and Chicago International Film Festival.
During his tenure at RiverRun he grew the event’s annual income by nearly 200% and secured support from Fortune 500 companies.
Bob Clasen, chair of the search committee for Denver Film Society and chair-elect of the Society’s board of directors, said: “Andrew was far and above the most outstanding candidate we reviewed and interviewed.
Crash screenwriter producer Bobby Moresco will write the screenplay for Ambi’s biopic Lamborghini – The Legend based on the Life of Ferruccio Lamborghini. Principal...
Andrew Rodgers has been appointed executive director of the Denver Film Society after serving since 2005 as executive director of the RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Rodgers holds an Mba and a degree in journalism. He worked for the Chicago Tribune before serving as a publicist for the Sundance Film Festival and Chicago International Film Festival.
During his tenure at RiverRun he grew the event’s annual income by nearly 200% and secured support from Fortune 500 companies.
Bob Clasen, chair of the search committee for Denver Film Society and chair-elect of the Society’s board of directors, said: “Andrew was far and above the most outstanding candidate we reviewed and interviewed.
Crash screenwriter producer Bobby Moresco will write the screenplay for Ambi’s biopic Lamborghini – The Legend based on the Life of Ferruccio Lamborghini. Principal...
- 1/6/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
'Crash' movie: Ryan Phillippe. 'Crash' movie review: California tossin' and turnin' Screenwriter Paul Haggis' multiple award-winning directorial debut, Crash, is set in a Los Angeles that is part Quentin Tarantino, part Paul Thomas Anderson, part Spike Lee, part Bret Easton Ellis. Haggis' L.A. also happens to be a place with precious little in common with the Southern California metropolis located on Planet Earth. In the film, Haggis and co-screenwriter Robert Moresco tell us – or rather, scream at us – that the Angeleno boiling (definitely not melting) pot is about to explode at any moment, as Los Angeles denizens spend all their spare time hating, fearing, misunderstanding, and cheating on one another. And perhaps much of that is true, except that most of that hate, fear, misunderstanding, and cheating have absolutely nothing to do with ethnic or national differences. But not in this particular L.A., situated in some warped La...
- 12/17/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
ScreenCraft has secured three Oscar-winning screenwriters as mentors for its third annual screenwriting fellowship, the platform announced Thursday. Geoffrey Fletcher (“Precious”), Diana Ossana (“Brokeback Mountain”) and Robert Moresco (“Crash”) are three of the mentors for this years fellowship winners. Other mentors include producer Lawrence Grey, literary manager Ari Lubet and writing instructor Robert McKee. These Hollywood veterans will meet with the recipients of the $1,000 writing grant for one-on-one screenplay development and mentorship. Winners will also receive an all-expenses paid trip to Los Angeles for the meetings. Also Read: ScreenCraft, Celtx Launch New Screenwriting Fellowship The annual fellowship is designed to advance the careers.
- 10/1/2015
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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