Emmy-winning “The Crown” star Josh O’Connor will be the protagonist of Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher’s next film “La Chimera,” which is set in the world of archeological looting and is currently shooting in and around Southern Tuscany.
O’Connor, who in “The Crown” played the young Prince Charles, in “La Chimera” is playing a young British archeologist named Arthur who gets involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts during the 1980s.
Also starring in “La Chimera,” which can be loosely translated as “The Unrealizable Dream,” are Isabella Rossellini as a retired opera singer; Brazilian actor Carole Duarte (“The Invisible Life”) who plays another non-Italian woman who intersects with Arthur; Alba Rohrwacher as an international artifacts trafficker; and Vincenzo Nemolato (“Martin Eden”) who plays one of the “tombaroli,” literally grave robbers, as artifacts thieves are known in Italy.
“‘La Chimera’ is the story of a young English archaeologist...
O’Connor, who in “The Crown” played the young Prince Charles, in “La Chimera” is playing a young British archeologist named Arthur who gets involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts during the 1980s.
Also starring in “La Chimera,” which can be loosely translated as “The Unrealizable Dream,” are Isabella Rossellini as a retired opera singer; Brazilian actor Carole Duarte (“The Invisible Life”) who plays another non-Italian woman who intersects with Arthur; Alba Rohrwacher as an international artifacts trafficker; and Vincenzo Nemolato (“Martin Eden”) who plays one of the “tombaroli,” literally grave robbers, as artifacts thieves are known in Italy.
“‘La Chimera’ is the story of a young English archaeologist...
- 2/14/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Director Paolo Sorrentino and his wife, Daniela D’Antonio, know how to celebrate his Oscar-buzzy film “The Hand of God.”
By throwing parties.
They recently hosted two dinners for friends at their Los Angeles Airbnb. And it’s not just any rental. Netflix has put up the couple, along with the movie’s young star Filippo Scotti and others from the “Hand of God” team, in a six-bedroom home that once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor, who lived there in the 1950s with then-husband Michael Wilding.
D’Antonio prepared the poolside meals for guests using old family recipes for pasta e patate con la provola, paccheri al ragù, parmigiana di melanzane, timballo di maccheroni con melanzane and pasta e ceci. Desserts included pandoro farcito, zeppole fritte and sfogliatelle.
Among the guests were David O. Russell, Craig Gillespie, Julianne Nicholson, Sorrentino’s UTA agent Rich Klubeck and Silvia Chiave, consul general of Italy in Los Angeles.
By throwing parties.
They recently hosted two dinners for friends at their Los Angeles Airbnb. And it’s not just any rental. Netflix has put up the couple, along with the movie’s young star Filippo Scotti and others from the “Hand of God” team, in a six-bedroom home that once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor, who lived there in the 1950s with then-husband Michael Wilding.
D’Antonio prepared the poolside meals for guests using old family recipes for pasta e patate con la provola, paccheri al ragù, parmigiana di melanzane, timballo di maccheroni con melanzane and pasta e ceci. Desserts included pandoro farcito, zeppole fritte and sfogliatelle.
Among the guests were David O. Russell, Craig Gillespie, Julianne Nicholson, Sorrentino’s UTA agent Rich Klubeck and Silvia Chiave, consul general of Italy in Los Angeles.
- 12/21/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Despite the growing trend towards self-distribution, Afm is still a hugely important event in the industry, and something to which we should all pay attention. I spoke with Afm’s Managing Director Jonathan Wolf on Wednesday about his opinions about the show and the general state of the industry. Here’s what you need to know as a producer
1. Asia’s importance as a territory is growing.
This should come as a surprise to precisely no one; at least no one who has been paying attention to industry trends. However by the numbers, buyers from Asia represented 30.7% of total buyers, and 28.3% of total buyer companies attending Afm. This is more than any other continent, with the exception of Europe. However Europe is generally broken into EU and non-eu territories, and when taken individually those are both less than Asia.
China had particularly strong growth in attendance, with a 40% growth in...
1. Asia’s importance as a territory is growing.
This should come as a surprise to precisely no one; at least no one who has been paying attention to industry trends. However by the numbers, buyers from Asia represented 30.7% of total buyers, and 28.3% of total buyer companies attending Afm. This is more than any other continent, with the exception of Europe. However Europe is generally broken into EU and non-eu territories, and when taken individually those are both less than Asia.
China had particularly strong growth in attendance, with a 40% growth in...
- 11/19/2014
- by Ben Yennie
- Hope for Film
Joining a brand new agency to represent her definitive acting career, the mysteriously lovely Angelina Jolie is to be represented by talent agency United Talent Agency for acting, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Previously represented by Ifa for acting, the 38-year-old reportedly had to find a new agent when her own Ilene Feldman decided to become a manager earlier in November.
Angelina is already represented by UTA for directing, and she will now join the team led by her partner Richard Klubeck.
In career news, the "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" beauty is getting wicked for her upcoming action-adventure flick, "Maleficent," set to hit theaters on May 30, 2014.
According to the synopsis, "The "Sleeping Beauty" tale is told from the perspective of the villainous Maleficent and looks at the events that hardened her heart and drove her to curse young Princess Aurora."...
Previously represented by Ifa for acting, the 38-year-old reportedly had to find a new agent when her own Ilene Feldman decided to become a manager earlier in November.
Angelina is already represented by UTA for directing, and she will now join the team led by her partner Richard Klubeck.
In career news, the "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" beauty is getting wicked for her upcoming action-adventure flick, "Maleficent," set to hit theaters on May 30, 2014.
According to the synopsis, "The "Sleeping Beauty" tale is told from the perspective of the villainous Maleficent and looks at the events that hardened her heart and drove her to curse young Princess Aurora."...
- 11/14/2013
- GossipCenter
The actress-filmmaker is currently directing World War II drama "Unbroken."
Angelina Jolie has signed with UTA for representation in acting, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
Photos: The New A-List: 23 Salaries From Angelina Jolie to Robert Downey Jr. Revealed
The move expands Jolie’s ties to the agency, which has been repping her on the directing front since March 2011.
Jolie was previously at Ifa but was in play when her agent, Ifa's founder Ilene Feldman, decided to shutter her shop and become a manager earlier this month. When Jolie joined Ifa in November 2011, it was the first time she had acting representation since 2006, when she left CAA.
At UTA, Jolie will be repped by a team led by partner Richard Klubeck. She continues to repped by Media Talent Group and Sloane Offer.
Photos: They Stand with Angelina: 12 Courageous Celebrities Who Battled Breast Cancer
Jolie is currently directing the World War II drama Unbroken for Universal,...
Angelina Jolie has signed with UTA for representation in acting, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
Photos: The New A-List: 23 Salaries From Angelina Jolie to Robert Downey Jr. Revealed
The move expands Jolie’s ties to the agency, which has been repping her on the directing front since March 2011.
Jolie was previously at Ifa but was in play when her agent, Ifa's founder Ilene Feldman, decided to shutter her shop and become a manager earlier this month. When Jolie joined Ifa in November 2011, it was the first time she had acting representation since 2006, when she left CAA.
At UTA, Jolie will be repped by a team led by partner Richard Klubeck. She continues to repped by Media Talent Group and Sloane Offer.
Photos: They Stand with Angelina: 12 Courageous Celebrities Who Battled Breast Cancer
Jolie is currently directing the World War II drama Unbroken for Universal,...
- 11/13/2013
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This story first appeared in the Sept. 13 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Will the level of dealmaking at this year's Toronto Film Festival match 2012's flurry of activity? UTA's veteran indie agent Richard Klubeck is betting on it. "This is the high-water mark in terms of available [finished] films," says Klubeck. And buyers already are poring over the jam-packed schedule. Additionally, Toronto has turned into a growing film market where sales agents sell off foreign rights to unfinished films. One of the hottest sales titles is sure to be Jon Stewart's political drama, Rosewater. Sierra/Affinity
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- 9/4/2013
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HollywoodNews.com: Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula announced today that the company has acquired worldwide rights to the suspenseful drama Martha Marcy May Marlene. Written and directed by Sean Durkin, Martha Marcy May Marlene stars Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes and Hugh Dancy. Maybach Cunningham and FilmHaven entertainment present a Borderline Films Production in association with This Is that. The film was produced by Josh Mond, Antonio Campos, Chris Maybach and Patrick Cunningham. Ted Hope, Matt Palmieri, Saerom Kim, Saemi Kim and Alexander Schepsman are executive producers with Andrew Corkin as co-producer. The film is scheduled to be released in 2011.
?We were all captivated by the compelling performances and the expert craftsmanship of Sean Durkin,? said Gilula and Utley. ?We are excited to bring this gripping drama to audiences everywhere.?
?Sean Durkin has crafted a riveting first feature,? said Claudia Lewis, President of Production. ?We...
?We were all captivated by the compelling performances and the expert craftsmanship of Sean Durkin,? said Gilula and Utley. ?We are excited to bring this gripping drama to audiences everywhere.?
?Sean Durkin has crafted a riveting first feature,? said Claudia Lewis, President of Production. ?We...
- 1/24/2011
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Film Independent has rounded up such panelists as John August, Michael London and Cathy Schulman to take part in its fifth annual Filmmaker Forum, which will be held Oct. 9-11 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles.
The three-day forum includes panel discussions, case studies and networking with filmmakers and industry leaders.
Speakers will include: Richard Abramowitz, Abramorama Entertainment; Claire Aguilar, Itvs; writer-director August; Peter Broderick, Paradigm Consulting; producer Seth Caplan; journalist Michael Cieply; director Laura Gabbert; director Alex Holdridge; Kevin Iwashina, IP Advisors/Hunting Lane Films; director Scott Kennedy; Richard Klubeck, UTA; producer Ted Kroeber; producer London; Rena Ronson; producer Cathy Schulman; director Matt Tyrnauer; and president Laurie Woodrow.
The three-day forum includes panel discussions, case studies and networking with filmmakers and industry leaders.
Speakers will include: Richard Abramowitz, Abramorama Entertainment; Claire Aguilar, Itvs; writer-director August; Peter Broderick, Paradigm Consulting; producer Seth Caplan; journalist Michael Cieply; director Laura Gabbert; director Alex Holdridge; Kevin Iwashina, IP Advisors/Hunting Lane Films; director Scott Kennedy; Richard Klubeck, UTA; producer Ted Kroeber; producer London; Rena Ronson; producer Cathy Schulman; director Matt Tyrnauer; and president Laurie Woodrow.
Film Independent's third annual Filmmaker Forum will kick off Oct. 19 with a screening of Marc Forster's The Kite Runner at the Director's Guild of America in West Hollywood. The presentation of the Afghanistan-set drama will be followed by a Q&A with the film's producers Bill Horberg, Bennett Walsh, Rebecca Yeldham, Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, followed by a reception in the DGA atrium.
The forum, which runs through Oct. 21, will include panel discussions at the DGA on such topics as: The Filmmaker: Mapping and Sustaining a Career in Film; Money: Where It Is and How to Get It; The Nuts and Bolts of Production; The Deals: Demystifying Contracts; Getting Your Foot in the Door and Your Film Off the Ground; The Marketplace: Distribution Today; Your Sales Team: Filmmakers Off-the-Record; The Sales: Deconstructing a Contract; The Professionals' Advice: Positioning Your Film For Success.
Panelists scheduled to participate include Josh Braun, Peter Broderick, Eugene Hernandez, Richard Klubeck, Linda Lichter, Mark Pogachevsy, Rena Ronson, John Sloss, Stephanie Allain, Gina Kwon and Rosanne Korenberg.
The forum, which runs through Oct. 21, will include panel discussions at the DGA on such topics as: The Filmmaker: Mapping and Sustaining a Career in Film; Money: Where It Is and How to Get It; The Nuts and Bolts of Production; The Deals: Demystifying Contracts; Getting Your Foot in the Door and Your Film Off the Ground; The Marketplace: Distribution Today; Your Sales Team: Filmmakers Off-the-Record; The Sales: Deconstructing a Contract; The Professionals' Advice: Positioning Your Film For Success.
Panelists scheduled to participate include Josh Braun, Peter Broderick, Eugene Hernandez, Richard Klubeck, Linda Lichter, Mark Pogachevsy, Rena Ronson, John Sloss, Stephanie Allain, Gina Kwon and Rosanne Korenberg.
- 9/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Former Jersey Films CEO Richard Klubeck has joined UTA to head up the agency's business affairs activities in the motion picture department. In his new post, Klubeck will be charged with making deals for UTA's high-level literary and talent clients as well as developing financing strategies for UTA-packaged film projects. Business affairs for UTA's television division will continue to be managed by Gary Gradinger.
- 11/18/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screened
IFP Los Angeles Film Festival
Inspired by his stint as a camper and then a counselor at the upstate New York theater camp Stagedoor Manor (not to mention a certain 1980 movie set at New York's High School for Performing Arts), screenwriter Todd Graff makes his directorial debut with "Camp", a film that, intentionally or not, succinctly reflects the title's various connotations.
Although certainly not the smoothest run of operations, the clunky transitions and less than fluidly staged musical numbers aren't the deal breakers they might have been thanks to the picture's genuine affection for its milieu and its committed ensemble of fresh-faced teen talent.
But even with the on-camera endorsement of musical theater deity Stephen Sondheim, backing from Jersey Films and specialty pros Killer Films ("Boys Don't Cry", "Far From Heaven") and the marketing savvy of IFC ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding", "Y Tu Mama Tambien"), the closing-night selection of this year's IFP Los Angeles Film Festival isn't exactly sleeper material.
With its arsenal of in-jokes, the picture will likely have to settle for an audience demographic limited to musical theater buffs overlapping with those who felt they never fit into a more traditional summer camp setting.
Shot on the actual site of Stagedoor Manor, whose campers have included Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and an 8-year-old Robert Downey Jr., "Camp" introduces the current fictional crop after a dispensable opening musical number.
Among those arriving for an artistically expressive summer at Camp Ovation: newbie Vlad (Daniel Letterle), a certified player with boy-band looks who wastes no time in seducing several female campers -- including sweet but insecure Ellen (Joanna Chilcoat), her bunkmate Dee (Sasha Allen) and the conniving seductress Jill (Alana Allen) -- while managing to find a little time to flirt with sensitive Michael (Robin De Jesus), who still bears the physical and emotional bruises of being beaten up when he attended his high school prom in drag.
Unlike regular summer camps, which might mount one major production at the end of each month, Camp Ovation puts the kids through the rigorous task of putting on a new show every two weeks, complete with costumes, sets and a resident house band.
Adding to that challenge is the arrival of this year's guest director, the cynical, hard-drinking Bert Hanley (musician Don Dixon), who had a hit show on Broadway a decade ago but hasn't been able to finish anything since.
Will Bert ever put down the bottle and get those creative juices flowing anew?
Will Vlad ever learn to stop playing people like they were strings on his guitar?
Will the evil Jill get her well-deserved comeuppance?
Will everybody get their encore?
Actually, in Graff's hands, nothing feels quite like a sure thing. The awkwardness experienced by the group of adolescents also extends to the construction of sequences and the uneasy juggling of characters, which keeps throwing the film out of balance.
And while the script has no shortage of tart, knowing wit, too often scenes seem set up solely to pay off some sight gag, undercutting key emotional credibility in the process.
But Graff, whose writing credits include "Coyote Ugly" and "Dangerous Minds", at least has his heart in the right place, and those expressive, talented kids are the real deal.
Mr. Sondheim aside, Graff also manages to round up some heavyweight support in the persons of composer Stephen Trask ("Hedwig and the Angry Inch"), musical director Tim Weil ("Rent"), songwriter Michael Gore ("Fame") and lyricist Lynn Ahrens ("Ragtime"), but somehow, rather than summoning "Fame", many of the group performance pieces end up having all the infectious energy of a musical interlude on "The Partridge Family".
Camp
IFC Films
An IFC production A Jersey Films/Killer Films/Laughlin Park Pictures production
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Todd Graff
Producers: Todd Graff, Katie Roumel, Christine Vachon
Pamela Koffler, Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Jonathan Weisgal
Executive producers: John Wells, Richard Klubeck, Holly Becker, Caroline Kaplan, Jonathan Sehring
Director of photography: Kip Bogdahn
Production designer: Dina Goldman
Editor: Myron Kerstein
Costume designer: Dawn Weisberg
Music: Stephen Trask
Music supervisor: Linda Cohen
Cast:
Vlad: Daniel Letterle
Ellen: Joanna Chilcoat
Michael: Robin De Jesus
Shaun: Steven Cutts
Spitzer: Vince Rimoldi
Petie: Kahiry Bess
Jenna: Tiffany Taylor
Dee: Sasha Allen
Jill: Alana Allen
Fritzi: Anna Kendrick
Bert: Don Dixon
Running time -- 110 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
IFP Los Angeles Film Festival
Inspired by his stint as a camper and then a counselor at the upstate New York theater camp Stagedoor Manor (not to mention a certain 1980 movie set at New York's High School for Performing Arts), screenwriter Todd Graff makes his directorial debut with "Camp", a film that, intentionally or not, succinctly reflects the title's various connotations.
Although certainly not the smoothest run of operations, the clunky transitions and less than fluidly staged musical numbers aren't the deal breakers they might have been thanks to the picture's genuine affection for its milieu and its committed ensemble of fresh-faced teen talent.
But even with the on-camera endorsement of musical theater deity Stephen Sondheim, backing from Jersey Films and specialty pros Killer Films ("Boys Don't Cry", "Far From Heaven") and the marketing savvy of IFC ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding", "Y Tu Mama Tambien"), the closing-night selection of this year's IFP Los Angeles Film Festival isn't exactly sleeper material.
With its arsenal of in-jokes, the picture will likely have to settle for an audience demographic limited to musical theater buffs overlapping with those who felt they never fit into a more traditional summer camp setting.
Shot on the actual site of Stagedoor Manor, whose campers have included Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and an 8-year-old Robert Downey Jr., "Camp" introduces the current fictional crop after a dispensable opening musical number.
Among those arriving for an artistically expressive summer at Camp Ovation: newbie Vlad (Daniel Letterle), a certified player with boy-band looks who wastes no time in seducing several female campers -- including sweet but insecure Ellen (Joanna Chilcoat), her bunkmate Dee (Sasha Allen) and the conniving seductress Jill (Alana Allen) -- while managing to find a little time to flirt with sensitive Michael (Robin De Jesus), who still bears the physical and emotional bruises of being beaten up when he attended his high school prom in drag.
Unlike regular summer camps, which might mount one major production at the end of each month, Camp Ovation puts the kids through the rigorous task of putting on a new show every two weeks, complete with costumes, sets and a resident house band.
Adding to that challenge is the arrival of this year's guest director, the cynical, hard-drinking Bert Hanley (musician Don Dixon), who had a hit show on Broadway a decade ago but hasn't been able to finish anything since.
Will Bert ever put down the bottle and get those creative juices flowing anew?
Will Vlad ever learn to stop playing people like they were strings on his guitar?
Will the evil Jill get her well-deserved comeuppance?
Will everybody get their encore?
Actually, in Graff's hands, nothing feels quite like a sure thing. The awkwardness experienced by the group of adolescents also extends to the construction of sequences and the uneasy juggling of characters, which keeps throwing the film out of balance.
And while the script has no shortage of tart, knowing wit, too often scenes seem set up solely to pay off some sight gag, undercutting key emotional credibility in the process.
But Graff, whose writing credits include "Coyote Ugly" and "Dangerous Minds", at least has his heart in the right place, and those expressive, talented kids are the real deal.
Mr. Sondheim aside, Graff also manages to round up some heavyweight support in the persons of composer Stephen Trask ("Hedwig and the Angry Inch"), musical director Tim Weil ("Rent"), songwriter Michael Gore ("Fame") and lyricist Lynn Ahrens ("Ragtime"), but somehow, rather than summoning "Fame", many of the group performance pieces end up having all the infectious energy of a musical interlude on "The Partridge Family".
Camp
IFC Films
An IFC production A Jersey Films/Killer Films/Laughlin Park Pictures production
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Todd Graff
Producers: Todd Graff, Katie Roumel, Christine Vachon
Pamela Koffler, Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Jonathan Weisgal
Executive producers: John Wells, Richard Klubeck, Holly Becker, Caroline Kaplan, Jonathan Sehring
Director of photography: Kip Bogdahn
Production designer: Dina Goldman
Editor: Myron Kerstein
Costume designer: Dawn Weisberg
Music: Stephen Trask
Music supervisor: Linda Cohen
Cast:
Vlad: Daniel Letterle
Ellen: Joanna Chilcoat
Michael: Robin De Jesus
Shaun: Steven Cutts
Spitzer: Vince Rimoldi
Petie: Kahiry Bess
Jenna: Tiffany Taylor
Dee: Sasha Allen
Jill: Alana Allen
Fritzi: Anna Kendrick
Bert: Don Dixon
Running time -- 110 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
The partnership between Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher in their Jersey Films is officially dissolving June 30, concurrently with the end of Jersey's first-look production deal with Universal Pictures. As of July 1, Jersey will be run exclusively by DeVito, who will be the sole proprietor of the company. He will also retain the name to the company's specialty label Jersey Shore. DeVito, Shamberg and Sher will continue to function as partners in Jersey TV until their deal with Sony Pictures Television expires in 2004. At that point, DeVito will remain the sole proprietor of the television division. Shamberg and Sher are expected to start their own production company, though no formal decisions have been made. Shamberg and Sher could not be reached for comment. All existing Jersey projects on the Universal slate will automatically become co-productions between Jersey and the new entity, or entities, by Shamberg and Sher. It is unclear what will happen to the 20 or so staff members -- including CEO Richard Klubeck and production president Pamela Abdy -- currently at Jersey.
- 5/19/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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