HBO wants another high-end Italian series.
After Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Young Pope,” the cable network has sought out “My Brilliant Friend,” an eight-episode drama series that will be directed by Saverio Costanzo, HBO announced on Thursday. Production will begin this summer in Naples.
Read More: ’The Young Pope’: Paolo Sorrentino on Lenny’s Fate and Hopeful Plans for a Second Season
“My Brilliant Friend” is based on the Elena Ferrante bestselling novel of the same name that is the first part of a quartet of books known as the “Neapolitan Novels.” The others in the series are “The Story of a New Name,” “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay” and “The Story of the Lost Child.”
The series will trace six decades of the friendship between Elena Greco and Raffaela Cerullo, whom she has always called Lila. They first met in primary school in 1950 in a small...
After Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Young Pope,” the cable network has sought out “My Brilliant Friend,” an eight-episode drama series that will be directed by Saverio Costanzo, HBO announced on Thursday. Production will begin this summer in Naples.
Read More: ’The Young Pope’: Paolo Sorrentino on Lenny’s Fate and Hopeful Plans for a Second Season
“My Brilliant Friend” is based on the Elena Ferrante bestselling novel of the same name that is the first part of a quartet of books known as the “Neapolitan Novels.” The others in the series are “The Story of a New Name,” “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay” and “The Story of the Lost Child.”
The series will trace six decades of the friendship between Elena Greco and Raffaela Cerullo, whom she has always called Lila. They first met in primary school in 1950 in a small...
- 3/30/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
United Talent Agency has signed Italian director Saverio Costanzo days after IFC snapped up Us rights to his acclaimed psychodrama Hungry Hearts.
The film, which earned Coppa Volpi awards for leads Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher, screened at the Afm this week where Radiant Films International handles non-us sales.
Rome-born Costanzo’s previous feature The Solitude Of Prime Numbers was nominated for a Golden Lion at Venice 2010 and earned Rohrwacher that year’s Pasinetti Award.
His first film Private won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival in 2004.
He has also directed the Italian TV series In Treatment for Sky Cinema.
The film, which earned Coppa Volpi awards for leads Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher, screened at the Afm this week where Radiant Films International handles non-us sales.
Rome-born Costanzo’s previous feature The Solitude Of Prime Numbers was nominated for a Golden Lion at Venice 2010 and earned Rohrwacher that year’s Pasinetti Award.
His first film Private won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival in 2004.
He has also directed the Italian TV series In Treatment for Sky Cinema.
- 11/7/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Writer-director Ruth Borgobello is casting her debut feature, a cross-cultural romantic drama set in northern Italy.
Remarkably, The Space Between will be the first official co-production between Italy and Australia since the two countries signed a treaty in 1996.
.We.ve worked really hard to develop this relationship and have created a very strong network here that we hope to carry into further projects,. the Melbourne-based Borgobello told If via email from Italy, where she is scouting locations.
Flavio Parenti (To Rome with Love, I am Love ) will play the lead, Marco, a 35-year-old who has a dispiriting job at a factory in Udine despite his skill as a chef, amid the deepening economic crisis in Italy.
Eschewing real love, he passes his time in an empty relationship. After his best friend Claudio is killed in a car accident, he tries to keep Claudio.s struggling bookshop business alive. Then he encounters Olivia,...
Remarkably, The Space Between will be the first official co-production between Italy and Australia since the two countries signed a treaty in 1996.
.We.ve worked really hard to develop this relationship and have created a very strong network here that we hope to carry into further projects,. the Melbourne-based Borgobello told If via email from Italy, where she is scouting locations.
Flavio Parenti (To Rome with Love, I am Love ) will play the lead, Marco, a 35-year-old who has a dispiriting job at a factory in Udine despite his skill as a chef, amid the deepening economic crisis in Italy.
Eschewing real love, he passes his time in an empty relationship. After his best friend Claudio is killed in a car accident, he tries to keep Claudio.s struggling bookshop business alive. Then he encounters Olivia,...
- 10/22/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Italian outfit sets new film and TV production divisions.
Rome-based production outfit Wildside has launched new production divisions Wildside Series and Wildside Cinema in order to differentiate and grow its TV output.
According to the company, the aim is to produce and acquire more formats with international and local appeal.
Current Wildside Series TV projects include The Miracle, based on a story written by Niccolo’ Ammanniti, Tomorrow Is A Big Day, made in collaboration with Mediaset – and with discussions on-going around an English-language redo - and The Young Pope, Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino’s anticipated first foray into TV directing, which will be broadcast locally by Sky Italia.
To date, Wildside has produced an Italian version of In Treatment, and crime-series 1992, about the large-scale criminal investigation in the early 1990s into widespread corruption and bribery in Italian administrative, political, and business circles.
Directed by Giuseppe Gagliardi and Gianluca Iodice, the latter will be broadcast by Sky Italia this autumn...
Rome-based production outfit Wildside has launched new production divisions Wildside Series and Wildside Cinema in order to differentiate and grow its TV output.
According to the company, the aim is to produce and acquire more formats with international and local appeal.
Current Wildside Series TV projects include The Miracle, based on a story written by Niccolo’ Ammanniti, Tomorrow Is A Big Day, made in collaboration with Mediaset – and with discussions on-going around an English-language redo - and The Young Pope, Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino’s anticipated first foray into TV directing, which will be broadcast locally by Sky Italia.
To date, Wildside has produced an Italian version of In Treatment, and crime-series 1992, about the large-scale criminal investigation in the early 1990s into widespread corruption and bribery in Italian administrative, political, and business circles.
Directed by Giuseppe Gagliardi and Gianluca Iodice, the latter will be broadcast by Sky Italia this autumn...
- 7/17/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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