Exclusive: Shout! Studios has snapped up North American rights to the holiday family comedy A Sudden Case of Christmas, starring Danny DeVito (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and Andie MacDowell (Four Weddings and a Funeral), from Notorious Pictures and Riverstone Pictures in association with WME Independent. The film will roll out across multiple entertainment platforms later this year.
As we were first to report, Vmi Worldwide holds international sales rights and is currently presenting the film to buyers at Cannes.
Directed by Peter Chelsom (The Space Between Us), A Sudden Case of Christmas centers on Lawrence (DeVito), who runs a grand hotel in the mountains of Italy. Every winter, he hosts the extended family for Christmas — but this year, his daughter (Lucy DeVito) and her husband (Wilmer Valderrama) are bringing their 10-year-old, Claire (Antonella Rose), to visit in August.
The young couple comes with shocking news: They are divorcing and...
As we were first to report, Vmi Worldwide holds international sales rights and is currently presenting the film to buyers at Cannes.
Directed by Peter Chelsom (The Space Between Us), A Sudden Case of Christmas centers on Lawrence (DeVito), who runs a grand hotel in the mountains of Italy. Every winter, he hosts the extended family for Christmas — but this year, his daughter (Lucy DeVito) and her husband (Wilmer Valderrama) are bringing their 10-year-old, Claire (Antonella Rose), to visit in August.
The young couple comes with shocking news: They are divorcing and...
- 5/16/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Danny DeVito and Andie MacDowell have made a festive movie.Vmi Worldwide have scooped the international sales rights to 'A Sudden Case of Christmas' and are set to present the holiday film - which also stars Wilmer Valderrama and the 'Twins' star's daughter Lucy - to buyers at this week's Cannes Market, Deadline reports.'The Space Between Us' filmmaker Peter Chelsom is directing the picture from a screenplay he co-wrote with Tinker Lindsay, Gianluca Bomprezzi, Neri Parenti, Dederico Baccomo and Francesco Patierno.'A Sudden Case of Christmas' follows Lawrence (Danny DeVito), who runs a grand hotel in the mountains of Italy, where he hosts his extended family for Christmas. However, he's shocked in August when his daughter (Lucy DeVito) and her husband (Valderrama) bring their 10-year-old daughter Claire (Antonella Rose) to visit, only to task him with the task of telling the youngster her parents are divorcing.When...
- 5/13/2024
- by Viki Waters
- Bang Showbiz
Exclusive: Vmi Worldwide has taken international sales rights to A Sudden Case of Christmas and will present the holiday flick starring Danny DeVito, Andie MacDowell, Wilmer Valderrama, and Lucy DeVito buyers at this week’s Cannes Market.
The pic is from director Peter Chelsom (The Space Between Us) with a screenplay penned by Chelsom, Tinker Lindsay, Gianluca Bomprezzi, Neri Parenti, Dederico Baccomo, and Francesco Patierno.
The film follows Lawrence (DeVito), who runs a grand hotel in the mountains of Italy. Every winter, he hosts the extended family for Christmas – but this year, his daughter (Lucy DeVito) and her husband (Valderrama) are bringing their 10-year-old, Claire (Antonella Rose), to visit in August. The young couple comes with shocking news, they are divorcing and tasked Lawrence with being the bearer of bad news to Claire. When Claire realizes her soon-to-be broken family won’t be returning in December, she insists on having...
The pic is from director Peter Chelsom (The Space Between Us) with a screenplay penned by Chelsom, Tinker Lindsay, Gianluca Bomprezzi, Neri Parenti, Dederico Baccomo, and Francesco Patierno.
The film follows Lawrence (DeVito), who runs a grand hotel in the mountains of Italy. Every winter, he hosts the extended family for Christmas – but this year, his daughter (Lucy DeVito) and her husband (Valderrama) are bringing their 10-year-old, Claire (Antonella Rose), to visit in August. The young couple comes with shocking news, they are divorcing and tasked Lawrence with being the bearer of bad news to Claire. When Claire realizes her soon-to-be broken family won’t be returning in December, she insists on having...
- 5/13/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Italian distribution and production company Notorious Pictures is expanding into the TV series sphere by snapping up rights to buzzy literary property “Forbidden Notebook,” a 1952 novel by Italian-Cuban writer Alba de Céspedes that has been recently rediscovered and successfully republished in English.
De Céspedes has been described by the New York Times as “a bestselling novelist and political activist in her native Italy” admired for her sensitive depictions of women whose recently rediscovered work “has lost none of its subversive force.” She is considered a source of inspiration for Elena Ferrante, the Italian writer with legions of fervent fans around the world and whose four “Neapolitan Novels” have been adapted into the long-running “My Brilliant Friend” TV series by Italy’s Rai and HBO.
“We are pleased to announce the ambitious and important serial development of de Céspedes’ ‘Forbidden Notebook,’ said Notorious Pictures CEO Stefano Bethlen, who added that “we...
De Céspedes has been described by the New York Times as “a bestselling novelist and political activist in her native Italy” admired for her sensitive depictions of women whose recently rediscovered work “has lost none of its subversive force.” She is considered a source of inspiration for Elena Ferrante, the Italian writer with legions of fervent fans around the world and whose four “Neapolitan Novels” have been adapted into the long-running “My Brilliant Friend” TV series by Italy’s Rai and HBO.
“We are pleased to announce the ambitious and important serial development of de Céspedes’ ‘Forbidden Notebook,’ said Notorious Pictures CEO Stefano Bethlen, who added that “we...
- 10/11/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Jorge Vazquez, a former managing director of Entertainment One in Spain, has joined Italy’s Notorious Pictures to head the company’s fledgling Madrid-based division as it gears up to become a prominent Spanish theatrical distributor.
A veteran Spanish film executive, Vazquez rose through the ranks at Spanish indie Aurum Producciones, where he led the company’s theatrical division to box-office success, overseeing the launch of titles such as “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy – as part of the company’s agreement with New Line Cinema – and subsequently bringing “The Twilight Saga” to Spain and securing a prosperous output deal with Summit/Lionsgate in the country.
Aurum, which is a top Spanish indie film distributor, is owned by Entertainment One.
Notorious Pictures – whose name pays homage to both the Hitchcock film and the rock band Duran Duran – has been gaining traction in Italy since its 2012 launch, steadily rising to become...
A veteran Spanish film executive, Vazquez rose through the ranks at Spanish indie Aurum Producciones, where he led the company’s theatrical division to box-office success, overseeing the launch of titles such as “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy – as part of the company’s agreement with New Line Cinema – and subsequently bringing “The Twilight Saga” to Spain and securing a prosperous output deal with Summit/Lionsgate in the country.
Aurum, which is a top Spanish indie film distributor, is owned by Entertainment One.
Notorious Pictures – whose name pays homage to both the Hitchcock film and the rock band Duran Duran – has been gaining traction in Italy since its 2012 launch, steadily rising to become...
- 10/25/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Indian government is in talks with France’s Annecy Animation Film Festival to hold a local version of the festival in the country.
Senior Indian bureaucrat Ravinder Bhakar, who serves as CEO of India’s Central Board of Film Certification and Children Films Society of India, MD of the National Film Development Corporation and director general of Films Division, revealed the development while speaking at a Focus on India panel discussion at the Venice Production Bridge on Saturday.
When panelist Cristian Jezdic, VP Cartoon Italia and CEO of beQ entertainment, hoped for a strong animation film festival in India, Bhakar said, “Definitely, we have good news about this. Talks are ongoing with Annecy and we will announce it very soon.”
The focus of the panel was building a common audience for Italy and India. Moderated by producer, festival programmer and Indian cinema veteran Paolo Bertolin, panelists also included actor Hrishitaa Bhatt,...
Senior Indian bureaucrat Ravinder Bhakar, who serves as CEO of India’s Central Board of Film Certification and Children Films Society of India, MD of the National Film Development Corporation and director general of Films Division, revealed the development while speaking at a Focus on India panel discussion at the Venice Production Bridge on Saturday.
When panelist Cristian Jezdic, VP Cartoon Italia and CEO of beQ entertainment, hoped for a strong animation film festival in India, Bhakar said, “Definitely, we have good news about this. Talks are ongoing with Annecy and we will announce it very soon.”
The focus of the panel was building a common audience for Italy and India. Moderated by producer, festival programmer and Indian cinema veteran Paolo Bertolin, panelists also included actor Hrishitaa Bhatt,...
- 9/3/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Prime Video has acquired rights to the adventure comedy The Honeymoon for the UK, France, Germany, Benelux, Nordics and Eastern Europe, with Grindstone Entertainment Group locking them down for the U.S. and Canada, and Notorious Pictures claiming them for Italy and Spain.
The film follows newlyweds Adam (Pico Alexander) and Sarah (Maria Bakalova), who are about to embark on the romantic honeymoon of a lifetime in Venice, Italy. Their trip is gatecrashed by Adam’s excessively needy best friend, Bav (Asim Chaudhry), and it inadvertently turns their perfect lovers’ holiday into a complete disaster. Lucas Bravo also stars in the pic written and directed by Death at a Funeral scribe Dean Craig. Guglielmo Marchetti produced on behalf of Notorious Pictures, with Piers Tempest on behalf of Tempo Productions, and Bakalova.
The Honeymoon marks Craig’s second feature as a director on the heels of 2020’s Love Wedding Repeat—an Italo-British comedy with Sam Claflin,...
The film follows newlyweds Adam (Pico Alexander) and Sarah (Maria Bakalova), who are about to embark on the romantic honeymoon of a lifetime in Venice, Italy. Their trip is gatecrashed by Adam’s excessively needy best friend, Bav (Asim Chaudhry), and it inadvertently turns their perfect lovers’ holiday into a complete disaster. Lucas Bravo also stars in the pic written and directed by Death at a Funeral scribe Dean Craig. Guglielmo Marchetti produced on behalf of Notorious Pictures, with Piers Tempest on behalf of Tempo Productions, and Bakalova.
The Honeymoon marks Craig’s second feature as a director on the heels of 2020’s Love Wedding Repeat—an Italo-British comedy with Sam Claflin,...
- 7/21/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
UK, France, Germany, North America among territories licensed.
Prime Video has acquired the UK, France and a raft of territories and Grindstone Entertainment Group has taken North America on adventure comedy The Honeymoon starring Maria Bakalova from Borat 2.
The streaming platform has also picked up the film for Germany, Benelux, Nordics and Eastern Europe. Notorious Pictures will handle rights for Italy and Spain.
Pico Alexander, Asim Chaudhry and Lucas Bravo also star in the story about newlyweds whose planned romantic getaway in Venice, Italy, is gatecrashed by a needy best friend.
Dean Craig wrote and directed The Honeymoon and...
Prime Video has acquired the UK, France and a raft of territories and Grindstone Entertainment Group has taken North America on adventure comedy The Honeymoon starring Maria Bakalova from Borat 2.
The streaming platform has also picked up the film for Germany, Benelux, Nordics and Eastern Europe. Notorious Pictures will handle rights for Italy and Spain.
Pico Alexander, Asim Chaudhry and Lucas Bravo also star in the story about newlyweds whose planned romantic getaway in Venice, Italy, is gatecrashed by a needy best friend.
Dean Craig wrote and directed The Honeymoon and...
- 7/21/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
“The Honeymoon,” an adventure-comedy film headlined and produced by “Borat” star Maria Bakalova, will release worldwide through multiple distributors with Grindstone Entertainment set up for the U.S. and Canada.
Prime Video will handle the U.K. and selected European territories, while Notorious Pictures will distribute the film in Italy and Spain.
“The Honeymoon” is billed as the outrageous tale of a freshly married couple played by Bakalova and Pico Alexander whose Venetian honeymoon is derailed by the groom’s needy best friend. Asim Chaudhry and Lucas Bravo also star.
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Dean Craig wrote and directed the film. In addition to Bakalova, “The Honeymoon” is produced by Guglielmo Marchetti on behalf of Notorious Pictures and Piers Tempest on behalf of Tempo Productions.
Also in the works for Craig is farcical comedy “The Estate,” produced by Sarah Jessica Parker and starring Toni Collette,...
Prime Video will handle the U.K. and selected European territories, while Notorious Pictures will distribute the film in Italy and Spain.
“The Honeymoon” is billed as the outrageous tale of a freshly married couple played by Bakalova and Pico Alexander whose Venetian honeymoon is derailed by the groom’s needy best friend. Asim Chaudhry and Lucas Bravo also star.
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Dean Craig wrote and directed the film. In addition to Bakalova, “The Honeymoon” is produced by Guglielmo Marchetti on behalf of Notorious Pictures and Piers Tempest on behalf of Tempo Productions.
Also in the works for Craig is farcical comedy “The Estate,” produced by Sarah Jessica Parker and starring Toni Collette,...
- 7/21/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm ), Pico Alexander (Home Again), Asim Chaudhry (People Just Do Nothing) and Lucas Bravo (Emily in Paris) are set to star in Italy-uk rom-com The Honeymoon.
Filming is underway in Rome and Venice on the movie, which heralds from Italian firm Notorious Pictures and the UK’s Tempo Productions. Endeavor Content is repping world sales with CAA co-repping domestic.
In the film, Englishman Adam and his American bride Sarah are about to embark on the romantic honeymoon of a lifetime in Venice, Italy. But when the newlyweds’ trip is gatecrashed by Adam’s excessively needy best friend, Ed, it inadvertently turns their perfect lovers’ holiday into a complete disaster.
Pic is written and will be directed by Dean Craig. Producers are Guglielmo Marchetti and Piers Tempest.
Bakalova commented: “This film intrigued me because it’s an escapist comedy that put a twist on the...
Filming is underway in Rome and Venice on the movie, which heralds from Italian firm Notorious Pictures and the UK’s Tempo Productions. Endeavor Content is repping world sales with CAA co-repping domestic.
In the film, Englishman Adam and his American bride Sarah are about to embark on the romantic honeymoon of a lifetime in Venice, Italy. But when the newlyweds’ trip is gatecrashed by Adam’s excessively needy best friend, Ed, it inadvertently turns their perfect lovers’ holiday into a complete disaster.
Pic is written and will be directed by Dean Craig. Producers are Guglielmo Marchetti and Piers Tempest.
Bakalova commented: “This film intrigued me because it’s an escapist comedy that put a twist on the...
- 8/31/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon Studios has revealed its first Italian original film, the young adult comedy “Anni da cane” (Dog Years), directed by Fabio Mollo, whose Mafia drama “South is Nothing” went to Berlin.
The film, which has just started production, is written by Mary Stella Brugiati and Alessandro Bosi, and produced by Notorious Pictures. It will launch exclusively on Amazon Prime Video this autumn in 240 countries and territories worldwide.
“Dog Years” tells the story of Stella, a clumsy, cynical, imaginative and tormented teenage girl. “After a life-changing car accident involving a dog, she convinces herself she must count her age in dog years: one year of her life counts for seven, and now that she’s turning sixteen, she is a centennial. For this reason, Stella thinks she has not much time left to live and pens a bucket list of all the things she would like to achieve before she dies,...
The film, which has just started production, is written by Mary Stella Brugiati and Alessandro Bosi, and produced by Notorious Pictures. It will launch exclusively on Amazon Prime Video this autumn in 240 countries and territories worldwide.
“Dog Years” tells the story of Stella, a clumsy, cynical, imaginative and tormented teenage girl. “After a life-changing car accident involving a dog, she convinces herself she must count her age in dog years: one year of her life counts for seven, and now that she’s turning sixteen, she is a centennial. For this reason, Stella thinks she has not much time left to live and pens a bucket list of all the things she would like to achieve before she dies,...
- 3/16/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italian distribution, production, and exhibition company Notorious Pictures is on a buying spree at the Cannes Film Market where they’ve acquired four high-profile titles, including Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots sci-fi-fier “Vivarium,” which world-premiered in Critics’ Week.
On the production side the expanding outfit has teamed up with Belgium’s Tarantula Productions on Islamic terrorism thriller “The Shift” after the announced pre-sale last week of global rights to Netflix of their upcoming English-language romcom “Love. Wedding. Repeat,” which is co-produced with the U.K.’s Tempo Productions and currently shooting in Rome.
In Cannes Notorious – whose name pays homage to both the Hitchcock film and the rock band Duran Duran – acquired Italian rights to “Vivarium” from Xyz Films.
From the U.K.’s Independent Film Company they’ve taken “One Thousand Paper Cranes” in which Evan Rachel Wood will star alongside Jim Sturgess and Shinobu Terajima; while from The...
On the production side the expanding outfit has teamed up with Belgium’s Tarantula Productions on Islamic terrorism thriller “The Shift” after the announced pre-sale last week of global rights to Netflix of their upcoming English-language romcom “Love. Wedding. Repeat,” which is co-produced with the U.K.’s Tempo Productions and currently shooting in Rome.
In Cannes Notorious – whose name pays homage to both the Hitchcock film and the rock band Duran Duran – acquired Italian rights to “Vivarium” from Xyz Films.
From the U.K.’s Independent Film Company they’ve taken “One Thousand Paper Cranes” in which Evan Rachel Wood will star alongside Jim Sturgess and Shinobu Terajima; while from The...
- 5/22/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has taken worldwide rights on romantic comedy “Love. Wedding. Repeat,” the streaming giant announced Tuesday. The film, which stars Sam Claflin (pictured), Olivia Munn and Eleanor Tomlinson is a remake of 2012 French romantic comedy “Plan de Table.”
The U.K.-Italy co-production, which is currently in production in Rome, sees “Death At a Funeral” writer Dean Craig make his feature directorial debut. Craig also wrote the adapted screenplay.
The premise shows three alternate versions of the same wedding unfold as Claflin’s Jack attempts to ensure his little sister has the perfect wedding day. But he must juggle an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest harboring a secret, a misplaced sleeping pill, and his unexpected reunion with the girl of his dreams (Munn). Freida Pinto, Aisling Bea, Joel Fry, Jack Farthing, Tim Key, and Allan Mustafa also star.
“Love. Wedding. Repeat” is produced by Guglielmo Marchetti for Notorious Pictures and Piers Tempest for Tempo Productions.
The U.K.-Italy co-production, which is currently in production in Rome, sees “Death At a Funeral” writer Dean Craig make his feature directorial debut. Craig also wrote the adapted screenplay.
The premise shows three alternate versions of the same wedding unfold as Claflin’s Jack attempts to ensure his little sister has the perfect wedding day. But he must juggle an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest harboring a secret, a misplaced sleeping pill, and his unexpected reunion with the girl of his dreams (Munn). Freida Pinto, Aisling Bea, Joel Fry, Jack Farthing, Tim Key, and Allan Mustafa also star.
“Love. Wedding. Repeat” is produced by Guglielmo Marchetti for Notorious Pictures and Piers Tempest for Tempo Productions.
- 5/14/2019
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
In its first Cannes deal this year, Netflix has taken global rights to Love. Wedding. Repeat. The romantic comedy from director Dean Craig stars Sam Claflin, Olivia Munn, Eleanor Tomlinson, Joel Fry, Jack Farthing, Tim Key, Allan Mustafa, Aisling Bea and Freida Pinto.
Currently in production in Rome, the story sees three alternate versions of the same wedding unfold as Jack (Claflin) tries to make sure his little sister has the perfect day. At the same time, he has to juggle an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest with a secret, a misplaced sleeping pill and unexpectedly reuniting with the girl of his dreams who got away, Dina (Munn). If he succeeds, Jack might find a happy ending of his own.
Craig, who penned Neil Labute’s Death At A Funeral, wrote the script. Claflin is next up in Sony’s Charlie’s Angels reboot and BBC One’s Peaky Blinders...
Currently in production in Rome, the story sees three alternate versions of the same wedding unfold as Jack (Claflin) tries to make sure his little sister has the perfect day. At the same time, he has to juggle an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest with a secret, a misplaced sleeping pill and unexpectedly reuniting with the girl of his dreams who got away, Dina (Munn). If he succeeds, Jack might find a happy ending of his own.
Craig, who penned Neil Labute’s Death At A Funeral, wrote the script. Claflin is next up in Sony’s Charlie’s Angels reboot and BBC One’s Peaky Blinders...
- 5/14/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Production underway in Rome on Dean Craig’s romantic comedy.
Netflix has taken global rights to Love. Wedding. Repeat, Dean Craig’s Italy-set romantic drama starring Sam Claflin and Olivia Munn.
Production is underway in Rome on the project, which is a UK-Italy co-production between Piers Tempest of Tempo Productions and Guglielmo Marchetti of Notorious Pictures.
The film follows three alternate versions of the same wedding, as Jack (Claflin) tries to make sure his little sister has the perfect wedding day.
Eleanor Tomlinson, Joel Fry, Jack Farthing, Tim Key, Allan Mustafa, Aisling Bea and Freida Pinto are also in the cast.
Netflix has taken global rights to Love. Wedding. Repeat, Dean Craig’s Italy-set romantic drama starring Sam Claflin and Olivia Munn.
Production is underway in Rome on the project, which is a UK-Italy co-production between Piers Tempest of Tempo Productions and Guglielmo Marchetti of Notorious Pictures.
The film follows three alternate versions of the same wedding, as Jack (Claflin) tries to make sure his little sister has the perfect wedding day.
Eleanor Tomlinson, Joel Fry, Jack Farthing, Tim Key, Allan Mustafa, Aisling Bea and Freida Pinto are also in the cast.
- 5/14/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Olivia Munn also among cast of project set to shoot in Rome; Endeavor handling sales.
UK-Italy romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Repeat has added Sam Claflin, Olivia Munn and Freida Pinto to its cast ahead of filming in May.
Dean Craig (Death At A Funeral) has written the screenplay and will direct the project, which follows a wedding where the table seating is rearranged with disastrous and humorous consequences. The film is a remake of 2012 French comedy Plan De Table.
Producers on the project are Guglielmo Marchetti (Black Butterfly) of Notorious Pictures and Piers Tempest (The Wife) of Tempo Productions. Jo Bamford...
UK-Italy romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Repeat has added Sam Claflin, Olivia Munn and Freida Pinto to its cast ahead of filming in May.
Dean Craig (Death At A Funeral) has written the screenplay and will direct the project, which follows a wedding where the table seating is rearranged with disastrous and humorous consequences. The film is a remake of 2012 French comedy Plan De Table.
Producers on the project are Guglielmo Marchetti (Black Butterfly) of Notorious Pictures and Piers Tempest (The Wife) of Tempo Productions. Jo Bamford...
- 4/18/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Sam Claflin, Freida Pinto and Poldark star Eleanor Tomlinson are set to join Olivia Munn in writer-director Dean Craig’s romantic-comedy Love, Wedding, Repeat, we can reveal.
Joel Fry (Game Of Thrones), Allan Mustafa (People Just Do Nothing), Jack Farthing (Official Secrets), Aisling Bea (Living With Yourself) and Tim Key (This Time With Alan Partridge) are also set to appear in the film. Shoot is due to get underway in Rome in early May.
Guglielmo Marchetti (Black Butterfly) of Notorious Pictures and Piers Tempest (The Wife) of Tempo Productions are producing the UK and Italian co-production. Jo Bamford (The Wife) and Andrea Borella (The Truth About Love Is…) are serving as executive producers. Endeavor Content is handling world sales.
The feature centers on Jack who finds himself juggling brotherly duties to ensure his sister Hayley has the wedding of her dreams while unexpectedly being reunited with Dina (Munn), the woman...
Joel Fry (Game Of Thrones), Allan Mustafa (People Just Do Nothing), Jack Farthing (Official Secrets), Aisling Bea (Living With Yourself) and Tim Key (This Time With Alan Partridge) are also set to appear in the film. Shoot is due to get underway in Rome in early May.
Guglielmo Marchetti (Black Butterfly) of Notorious Pictures and Piers Tempest (The Wife) of Tempo Productions are producing the UK and Italian co-production. Jo Bamford (The Wife) and Andrea Borella (The Truth About Love Is…) are serving as executive producers. Endeavor Content is handling world sales.
The feature centers on Jack who finds himself juggling brotherly duties to ensure his sister Hayley has the wedding of her dreams while unexpectedly being reunited with Dina (Munn), the woman...
- 4/18/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Olivia Munn also among cast of project set to shoot in Rome; Endeavor Content handling sales.
UK-Italy romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Repeat has added Sam Claflin, Olivia Munn and Freida Pinto to its cast ahead of filming in May.
Dean Craig (Death At A Funeral) has written the screenplay and will direct the project, which follows a wedding where the table seating is rearranged with disastrous and humorous consequences. The film is a remake of 2012 French comedy Plan De Table.
Producers on the project are Guglielmo Marchetti (Black Butterfly) of Notorious Pictures and Piers Tempest (The Wife) of Tempo Productions.
UK-Italy romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Repeat has added Sam Claflin, Olivia Munn and Freida Pinto to its cast ahead of filming in May.
Dean Craig (Death At A Funeral) has written the screenplay and will direct the project, which follows a wedding where the table seating is rearranged with disastrous and humorous consequences. The film is a remake of 2012 French comedy Plan De Table.
Producers on the project are Guglielmo Marchetti (Black Butterfly) of Notorious Pictures and Piers Tempest (The Wife) of Tempo Productions.
- 4/18/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Box office returns in Italy suffered their worst result in a decade last year dropping about 5% to €555 million ($631 million), but the market is reacting and 2019 looks set for a turnaround.
Several remedies are considered crucial to getting local audiences back into movie theaters, the main ones being filling the gap in strong releases during summer which has historically been left wide open disrupting regular moviegoing and also causing a glut of titles the rest of the year; upgrading the country’s screens; and providing more really gripping Italian product which in 2018 made up a healthy 22% of total grosses even though no homegrown pics made it into the country’s top ten chart.
Though exhibitors have been hurting, the year kicked off with distribution and production company Notorious Pictures — the name is a homage to both the Hitchcock film and rock band Duran Duran — announcing it is branching out into exhibition...
Several remedies are considered crucial to getting local audiences back into movie theaters, the main ones being filling the gap in strong releases during summer which has historically been left wide open disrupting regular moviegoing and also causing a glut of titles the rest of the year; upgrading the country’s screens; and providing more really gripping Italian product which in 2018 made up a healthy 22% of total grosses even though no homegrown pics made it into the country’s top ten chart.
Though exhibitors have been hurting, the year kicked off with distribution and production company Notorious Pictures — the name is a homage to both the Hitchcock film and rock band Duran Duran — announcing it is branching out into exhibition...
- 2/8/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italian distribution and production company Notorious Pictures is branching out into exhibition, aiming to have 20 multiplexes up and running within the next five years. The company has appointed former Uci Italy chief Andrea Stratta to head up a new Notorious Cinemas unit.
The company said it was already in the process of taking out a lease on a 10-screen hardtop in a mall outside Milan, which it will upgrade. Details of further facilities are being kept under wraps. The goal is to operate about 200 screens in Italy by 2023, and reach 5 million admissions that year.
Last year, admissions in Italy sank to 85.7 million, the lowest in a decade. But the market is now expected to grow.
Uci is currently Italy’s top exhibitor with 50 multiplexes and 503 screens. Stratta, who exited Uci last April, oversaw the company’s growth for 18 years.
“We leaped at the opportunity of bringing on board a great...
The company said it was already in the process of taking out a lease on a 10-screen hardtop in a mall outside Milan, which it will upgrade. Details of further facilities are being kept under wraps. The goal is to operate about 200 screens in Italy by 2023, and reach 5 million admissions that year.
Last year, admissions in Italy sank to 85.7 million, the lowest in a decade. But the market is now expected to grow.
Uci is currently Italy’s top exhibitor with 50 multiplexes and 503 screens. Stratta, who exited Uci last April, oversaw the company’s growth for 18 years.
“We leaped at the opportunity of bringing on board a great...
- 1/23/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Company’s increased acquisition drive includes post Cannes purchase of boxing drama Bleed For This.
Rome-based distributor Notorious Pictures made its debut today on the Italian Aim market, the country’s alternative capital market for small and medium-sized companies.
Founded in 2012, the company has seen rapid growth over the last 18 months, climbing to number four in Italy’s distributor rankings for the first three months of 2014, from number 10 in 2013.
Notorious Pictures CEO and founder Guglielmo Marchetti told ScreenDaily in an exclusive interview that the €7.5m ($10m) raised through the move would be used to increase acquisitions and enter production.
The €7.5m ($10m) represents roughly 10.3% of the company’s total capital, said Marchetti, who controls the remaining 89.7%.
“Becoming a public quoted company is an important step for Notorious,” said Marchetti. “It gives us access to new sources of finance which will enable us to further expand.
“There are two poles of growth we want to pursue. Firstly...
Rome-based distributor Notorious Pictures made its debut today on the Italian Aim market, the country’s alternative capital market for small and medium-sized companies.
Founded in 2012, the company has seen rapid growth over the last 18 months, climbing to number four in Italy’s distributor rankings for the first three months of 2014, from number 10 in 2013.
Notorious Pictures CEO and founder Guglielmo Marchetti told ScreenDaily in an exclusive interview that the €7.5m ($10m) raised through the move would be used to increase acquisitions and enter production.
The €7.5m ($10m) represents roughly 10.3% of the company’s total capital, said Marchetti, who controls the remaining 89.7%.
“Becoming a public quoted company is an important step for Notorious,” said Marchetti. “It gives us access to new sources of finance which will enable us to further expand.
“There are two poles of growth we want to pursue. Firstly...
- 6/23/2014
- ScreenDaily
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