Italy’s Indiana Production – which is part of pan-European studio Vuelta Group – is making a significant move into the comedy space by forging a multi-picture deal and a creative collaboration pact with multihyphenate Gennaro Nunziante who has directed top local hits including “Quo Vado” that is the country’s all-time highest grosser.
Nunziante – who is a writer/director and sometimes actor – and Indiana are jointly mounting a pipeline of theatrical movies with smart storylines rooted in present-day social issues that, at least in some cases, will seek to travel outside Italy.
The Indiana comedies strand being shepherded by Nunziante, has two lines of development. One dedicated to established talents, the other to discovering and nurturing up-and-coming comics, including from the stand-up sphere, as well as young comedy writers and creators.
New Italian comedy talents they have recruited comprise the Milan-based comedy group Contenuti Zero who have a broad TV and social media fanbase.
Nunziante – who is a writer/director and sometimes actor – and Indiana are jointly mounting a pipeline of theatrical movies with smart storylines rooted in present-day social issues that, at least in some cases, will seek to travel outside Italy.
The Indiana comedies strand being shepherded by Nunziante, has two lines of development. One dedicated to established talents, the other to discovering and nurturing up-and-coming comics, including from the stand-up sphere, as well as young comedy writers and creators.
New Italian comedy talents they have recruited comprise the Milan-based comedy group Contenuti Zero who have a broad TV and social media fanbase.
- 3/28/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Marina Roberti is the costume designer of the Italian box office hit Sole a Catinelle. She has worked in the Us with the likes of Milena Canonero, Sandy Powell and Dante Ferretti…
How did you become a costume designer?
When I was a kid I was a bumbler at school. I spent all the time drawing and reading. My parents were kind of worried so they decided to enroll me at a fashion college in Turin, my home town. During my last school year they took us to Rome to visit the National Film School. Next year I decided to try and join the school. I thought I could never make it but I did and so I started attending the costume course.
Piero Tosi (costume designer of Il Gattopardo) was one of your teachers in Rome. What did you learn from him?
The most important thing he taught me...
How did you become a costume designer?
When I was a kid I was a bumbler at school. I spent all the time drawing and reading. My parents were kind of worried so they decided to enroll me at a fashion college in Turin, my home town. During my last school year they took us to Rome to visit the National Film School. Next year I decided to try and join the school. I thought I could never make it but I did and so I started attending the costume course.
Piero Tosi (costume designer of Il Gattopardo) was one of your teachers in Rome. What did you learn from him?
The most important thing he taught me...
- 2/28/2014
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Wildly successful Italian producer Pietro Valsecchi says he's eager for Antonio Banderas to star in biopic about the pontiff's younger years
Antonio Banderas is being tapped by one of Italy's most successful film producers to star as a young Pope Francis in a new biopic.
Pietro Valsecchi, the man behind popular comedies Sun in Buckets (Sole a catinelle) from this year and What a Beautiful Day (Che bella giornata) from 2011, broke the news in a television interview. The proposed film would most likely debut on the small screen in Italy.
Valsecchi's popular films, which star musician and standup comic Checco Zalone and are often directed by Gennaro Nunziante, are lowbrow comedies. But the producer certainly has the financial clout to get the biopic made, with his last two movies currently standing as the highest grossing films of all time in Italy, ahead of Roberto Benigni's 1997 Oscar winner Life is Beautiful.
Antonio Banderas is being tapped by one of Italy's most successful film producers to star as a young Pope Francis in a new biopic.
Pietro Valsecchi, the man behind popular comedies Sun in Buckets (Sole a catinelle) from this year and What a Beautiful Day (Che bella giornata) from 2011, broke the news in a television interview. The proposed film would most likely debut on the small screen in Italy.
Valsecchi's popular films, which star musician and standup comic Checco Zalone and are often directed by Gennaro Nunziante, are lowbrow comedies. But the producer certainly has the financial clout to get the biopic made, with his last two movies currently standing as the highest grossing films of all time in Italy, ahead of Roberto Benigni's 1997 Oscar winner Life is Beautiful.
- 12/11/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Thor: The Dark World powered to an estimated $109.4m launch from 36 territories through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International to register the fourth biggest international launch of the year-to-date.
The superhero sequel starring Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston is believed to have opened number one in every market and let the way in the UK on $13.4m, followed by France on $9.4m, Mexico on $8.2m, Brazil on $8.1m, Germany on $7.9m and Russia on $7.8m.
South Korea led a string of mighty Asian debuts on $7.6m, while the Philippines generated $4.7m, Taiwan $4.1m, Malaysia $3.6m and Singapore $3m.
Elsewhere the warrior of Asgard plundered $6.9m in Australia and $4.1m in Spain. Thor: The Dark World arrives in China on November 8, Argentina on November 14, Italy on November 20 and Japan on February 1 2014.
Playing on 136 IMAX screens in 27 countries the film delivered $5.2m for an impressive $40,000 per-screen average. France and Hong Kong each generated $69,000 per screen while the Netherlands produced...
The superhero sequel starring Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston is believed to have opened number one in every market and let the way in the UK on $13.4m, followed by France on $9.4m, Mexico on $8.2m, Brazil on $8.1m, Germany on $7.9m and Russia on $7.8m.
South Korea led a string of mighty Asian debuts on $7.6m, while the Philippines generated $4.7m, Taiwan $4.1m, Malaysia $3.6m and Singapore $3m.
Elsewhere the warrior of Asgard plundered $6.9m in Australia and $4.1m in Spain. Thor: The Dark World arrives in China on November 8, Argentina on November 14, Italy on November 20 and Japan on February 1 2014.
Playing on 136 IMAX screens in 27 countries the film delivered $5.2m for an impressive $40,000 per-screen average. France and Hong Kong each generated $69,000 per screen while the Netherlands produced...
- 11/3/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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