The drama revolves around the exploits of polish boxer Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowsk.
Paris-based Loco Films has boarded sales on biopic The Champion about the real-life Polish figure of Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, a pre-World War Two boxing champion who was sent to Auschwitz, where he joined the camp’s resistance movement.
Pietrzykowski was on one of the first transports to Auschwitz in 1940 after being arrested in Hungary while on route to France to join the Polish army.
When SS camp guards learned about his boxing career they started organising fights between other prisoners and members of the SS. Pietrzykowski only lost one fight and,...
Paris-based Loco Films has boarded sales on biopic The Champion about the real-life Polish figure of Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, a pre-World War Two boxing champion who was sent to Auschwitz, where he joined the camp’s resistance movement.
Pietrzykowski was on one of the first transports to Auschwitz in 1940 after being arrested in Hungary while on route to France to join the Polish army.
When SS camp guards learned about his boxing career they started organising fights between other prisoners and members of the SS. Pietrzykowski only lost one fight and,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Italy’s expanding production company Groenlandia — the shingle behind ITV’s “Romulus” skein and recent Netflix Italian original film “The Incredible Story of Rose Island” — is launching a groundbreaking new unit dedicated to women directors and writers.
Called Lynn, the new female-driven label is a first for Italy. They have partnered on a feature film with Amazon Studios and on another movie with Rai Cinema.
Projects in various stages in the Lynn pipeline comprise romantic comedy “Blackout Love” (pictured), toplining rising Italian star Anna Foglietta, who served as master of ceremonies at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
In “Blackout Love,” which is being directed by first-timer Francesca Marino, Foglietta (“Perfect Strangers”) plays the coach of a female volleyball team whose love life is disrupted by the arrival of an old flame. Shooting started in December on the pic, which is being produced by Lynn with financing from Amazon Studios.
Lynn has...
Called Lynn, the new female-driven label is a first for Italy. They have partnered on a feature film with Amazon Studios and on another movie with Rai Cinema.
Projects in various stages in the Lynn pipeline comprise romantic comedy “Blackout Love” (pictured), toplining rising Italian star Anna Foglietta, who served as master of ceremonies at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
In “Blackout Love,” which is being directed by first-timer Francesca Marino, Foglietta (“Perfect Strangers”) plays the coach of a female volleyball team whose love life is disrupted by the arrival of an old flame. Shooting started in December on the pic, which is being produced by Lynn with financing from Amazon Studios.
Lynn has...
- 2/1/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The screenwriter’s debut film starring Barbara Ronchi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio and Thony is produced by Lynn, Groenlandia’s new division dedicated to projects directed by women. Filming wrapped last week on Settembre, the first feature film to be directed by Giulia Steigerwalt, which has now entered into post-production. Based upon the 2019 short film of the same name which was written and directed by Steigerwalt herself, the film stars Barbara Ronchi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio and Thony in lead roles and tells the ironic and emotional tale of an adolescent’s sentimental education. Penned in its entirety by the director, Settembre tells the story of 14-year-old Maria who comes to the attention of Cristian, a boy she’s always had a crush on, following the school summer holidays. Via...
Alessia Polli, head of project development at Groenlandia, will supervise the diversion alongside renowned novelist and essayist Eleonora Marangoni.
Matteo Rovere and Sydney Sibilia’s Italian production company Groenlandia has launched Lynn, a division dedicated to producing features, series and shorts directed by established and emerging female writers and directors.
Alessia Polli, head of project development at Groenlandia, will supervise the diversion alongside renowned novelist and essayist Eleonora Marangoni. Fabia Fleri, who has worked in production at Italian TV and film giant Taodue, will coordinate the line-up.
”We know we live in the best moment for women to have a spotlight and be creative,...
Matteo Rovere and Sydney Sibilia’s Italian production company Groenlandia has launched Lynn, a division dedicated to producing features, series and shorts directed by established and emerging female writers and directors.
Alessia Polli, head of project development at Groenlandia, will supervise the diversion alongside renowned novelist and essayist Eleonora Marangoni. Fabia Fleri, who has worked in production at Italian TV and film giant Taodue, will coordinate the line-up.
”We know we live in the best moment for women to have a spotlight and be creative,...
- 1/29/2021
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
Netflix has partnered with a whole bunch of Singapore creators and companies to bring a motherload of Singapore-made content to the streaming platform (*on certain parts of Asia), including several by director Eric Khoo that we have featured in our #TheEricKhooProject, the titles of which you can see in the following image:
Eric Khoo movies coming up to Netflix
A total of 106 classic and nostalgic TV shows and movies that will be coming to Netflix include Growing Up, Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, Under One Roof, The Unbeatables, The Golden Pillow, Return Of The Condor Heroes, Ilo Ilo, 881, 12 Storeys, and I Not Stupid.
Three seasons of ’90s drama Growing Up are coming to Netflix beginning from 8 August 2020
Besides English and Chinese content, there will also be Malay titles such as Bunga Tanjong and Aduh Bibikku, and Tamil titles Vettai and Gurushetram – 24 Hours of Anger.
These shows, to be released in...
Eric Khoo movies coming up to Netflix
A total of 106 classic and nostalgic TV shows and movies that will be coming to Netflix include Growing Up, Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, Under One Roof, The Unbeatables, The Golden Pillow, Return Of The Condor Heroes, Ilo Ilo, 881, 12 Storeys, and I Not Stupid.
Three seasons of ’90s drama Growing Up are coming to Netflix beginning from 8 August 2020
Besides English and Chinese content, there will also be Malay titles such as Bunga Tanjong and Aduh Bibikku, and Tamil titles Vettai and Gurushetram – 24 Hours of Anger.
These shows, to be released in...
- 8/1/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Jakub Piątek’s ’Prime Time; won the Screen International Best Pitch award
Jakub Piątek’s feature debut Prime Time was the winner of the second annual Screen International Best Pitch award presented as part of this week’s Polish Film Days which ran as a virtual event from July 27-29.
Prime Time is based on the true story of a hostage-taking in a TV studio in front of live cameras. The screenplay is written by Piątek and Lukasz Czapski and was developed at Torino Film Lab Extended and New Horizons Studio+ last year.
The €1m project is a co-production between...
Jakub Piątek’s feature debut Prime Time was the winner of the second annual Screen International Best Pitch award presented as part of this week’s Polish Film Days which ran as a virtual event from July 27-29.
Prime Time is based on the true story of a hostage-taking in a TV studio in front of live cameras. The screenplay is written by Piątek and Lukasz Czapski and was developed at Torino Film Lab Extended and New Horizons Studio+ last year.
The €1m project is a co-production between...
- 7/30/2020
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
Colette Mann and producer Natalie Lynch.
With nearly 50 years experience under her belt, Neighbours star Colette Mann figured she would quickly grasp the new health and safety guidelines when filming resumed.
What the actress, who plays meddlesome barmaid Sheila Canning, hadn’t counted on was her tactile instinct.
So the instant she grabbed the arm of Bonnie Anderson, who plays Bea Nilsson, she knew that was a no-no. “It was just muscle memory,” Mann, a regular on the Fremantle/10 Peach show since 2012, tells If.
“When you’re in the moment, that’s what you would normally do. But we are getting so used to the safe-distancing rules.
“The directors and all the young actors are being amazing about it. Viewers will notice we don’t sit close to each other any more but the integrity of the script is there.”
Mann credits series producer Natalie Lynch with ensuring cast and...
With nearly 50 years experience under her belt, Neighbours star Colette Mann figured she would quickly grasp the new health and safety guidelines when filming resumed.
What the actress, who plays meddlesome barmaid Sheila Canning, hadn’t counted on was her tactile instinct.
So the instant she grabbed the arm of Bonnie Anderson, who plays Bea Nilsson, she knew that was a no-no. “It was just muscle memory,” Mann, a regular on the Fremantle/10 Peach show since 2012, tells If.
“When you’re in the moment, that’s what you would normally do. But we are getting so used to the safe-distancing rules.
“The directors and all the young actors are being amazing about it. Viewers will notice we don’t sit close to each other any more but the integrity of the script is there.”
Mann credits series producer Natalie Lynch with ensuring cast and...
- 6/1/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Piera Detassis, who heads the Italian Film Academy that runs the David Awards, is no longer anxious about how the no-frills ceremony for the country’s top prizes will play out.
Ever since the coronavirus outbreak, Detassis had been “tormented” about whether to go forward with the prizes, originally scheduled for April 3. But now that it’s been decided, in tandem with pubcaster Rai, to hold them on May 8, with no red carpet, no live audience, with live web platform hookups conducted by star host Carlo Conti in a studio, she’s just “curious to see how it goes,” she says.
“It will be an experiment…to see how much emotion we can transmit with this technology,” says Detassis. The 97-minute Davids ceremony is about half as long as the average Oscars one.
What this year’s Davids won’t be, she says, is a “celebration”. Detassis doesn’t like...
Ever since the coronavirus outbreak, Detassis had been “tormented” about whether to go forward with the prizes, originally scheduled for April 3. But now that it’s been decided, in tandem with pubcaster Rai, to hold them on May 8, with no red carpet, no live audience, with live web platform hookups conducted by star host Carlo Conti in a studio, she’s just “curious to see how it goes,” she says.
“It will be an experiment…to see how much emotion we can transmit with this technology,” says Detassis. The 97-minute Davids ceremony is about half as long as the average Oscars one.
What this year’s Davids won’t be, she says, is a “celebration”. Detassis doesn’t like...
- 5/8/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Cinema Italiano was thriving prior to the pandemic so Italy’s David di Donatello Awards, the country’s top film prizes, will serve as a collective rebirth rite just when coronavirus lockdown restrictions slowly begin to lift.
The ceremony marking the Davids’ 65th anniversary to be aired May 8 on pubcaster Rai in primetime obviously sans red carpet and with stars linked-in by remote, is timed shortly after May 4 when Italy entered “Phase Two” of its lockdown as local producers are busy drafting safety protocols and planning the road map for shoots to restart, hopefully in June.
Meanwhile the David academy’s 1,600 voters and, hopefully, millions of Rai viewers will be cheering a pack of nominees that is led by veteran auteur Marco Bellocchio’s elegant mob drama “The Traitor” – released by Sony stateside in January – and Matteo Garrone’s live-action “Pinocchio” alongside edgier titles by up-and-comers such as Matteo Rovere...
The ceremony marking the Davids’ 65th anniversary to be aired May 8 on pubcaster Rai in primetime obviously sans red carpet and with stars linked-in by remote, is timed shortly after May 4 when Italy entered “Phase Two” of its lockdown as local producers are busy drafting safety protocols and planning the road map for shoots to restart, hopefully in June.
Meanwhile the David academy’s 1,600 voters and, hopefully, millions of Rai viewers will be cheering a pack of nominees that is led by veteran auteur Marco Bellocchio’s elegant mob drama “The Traitor” – released by Sony stateside in January – and Matteo Garrone’s live-action “Pinocchio” alongside edgier titles by up-and-comers such as Matteo Rovere...
- 5/8/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italian sales company True Colours has scored multiple sales at the Efm on several titles including Christmas comedy “Once Upon a Time in Bethlehem,” which was Italy’s top-grossing domestic title in 2019.
“Bethlehem,” which scored roughly $17 million domestically, toplines comic duo Ficarra and Picone as a thief and a priest who time-travel to Palestine in the year of Jesus’ birth. It has sold to Hungarian distributor Rtl, to Russian company Pilotkino and to Palace Film for Australia and New Zealand.
Palace Film also picked up director Guido Chiesa’s comedy “Say It Loud,” about a severely stressed 40-year-old named Giulia, who gets a life coach and starts venting her anger incessantly. Pic will be released in Italy by Medusa in March.
True Colours also sold rom-com “A Bookshop in Paris,” directed by Sergio Castellitto — who also stars alongside Berenice Bejo — to Stars Media for former Yugoslavia territories and to Andrews Film for Taiwan.
“Bethlehem,” which scored roughly $17 million domestically, toplines comic duo Ficarra and Picone as a thief and a priest who time-travel to Palestine in the year of Jesus’ birth. It has sold to Hungarian distributor Rtl, to Russian company Pilotkino and to Palace Film for Australia and New Zealand.
Palace Film also picked up director Guido Chiesa’s comedy “Say It Loud,” about a severely stressed 40-year-old named Giulia, who gets a life coach and starts venting her anger incessantly. Pic will be released in Italy by Medusa in March.
True Colours also sold rom-com “A Bookshop in Paris,” directed by Sergio Castellitto — who also stars alongside Berenice Bejo — to Stars Media for former Yugoslavia territories and to Andrews Film for Taiwan.
- 2/23/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
With a focus on Italian films accompanying a large selection of international features, most of which are competing for Oscars, the 31st annual Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival will run Jan. 3-12.
“An Almost Ordinary Summer,” directed by Simone Godano, will kick off the festival on Jan. 3. Other Italian films to unspool are “The Champion,” “Simple Women,” “The Disappearance of My Mother,” “A Soul Journey,” “Martin Eden,” “Sole” and “The Traitor.”
The festival will close Jan. 12 with “Military Wives,” directed by Peter Cattaneo.
Last year, Psiff attracted more than 136,000 attendees and festival organizers anticipate just as many in 2020.
“Some of our guests get a chance to see 40 movies in 10 days,” says festival chairman Harold Matzner. “I don’t know how they do it, but they do, and it’s an incredible cultural experience.”
For her inaugural year, artistic director Lili Rodriguez added big awards season contenders including “Pain and Glory,...
“An Almost Ordinary Summer,” directed by Simone Godano, will kick off the festival on Jan. 3. Other Italian films to unspool are “The Champion,” “Simple Women,” “The Disappearance of My Mother,” “A Soul Journey,” “Martin Eden,” “Sole” and “The Traitor.”
The festival will close Jan. 12 with “Military Wives,” directed by Peter Cattaneo.
Last year, Psiff attracted more than 136,000 attendees and festival organizers anticipate just as many in 2020.
“Some of our guests get a chance to see 40 movies in 10 days,” says festival chairman Harold Matzner. “I don’t know how they do it, but they do, and it’s an incredible cultural experience.”
For her inaugural year, artistic director Lili Rodriguez added big awards season contenders including “Pain and Glory,...
- 12/20/2019
- by Nick Clement
- Variety Film + TV
French distributor Destiny Films has acquired rights for France to Italian soccer dramedy “The Champion” from Italy’s True Colours in the runup to the De Rome a Paris festival and confab, which kicks off Friday.
Produced by Matteo Rovere’s Groenlandia (“Romulus”), “The Champion” turns on the uneasy relationship between a young male soccer star and a shy academic, also male, who becomes his tutor. This rare representation of the soccer world’s money-crazed star system recently won several Silver Ribbon prizes from Italy’s film journalists’ union, including best producer and best feature debut for director Leonardo D’Agostini.
Destiny Film’s David Chhouy said he hopes “The Champion” will resonate in France, where the plan is for a summer 2020 release in local multiplexes. “We need French audiences to perceive it not as an Italian arthouse movie, but something more mainstream,” he noted.
That said, two Italian arthouse titles,...
Produced by Matteo Rovere’s Groenlandia (“Romulus”), “The Champion” turns on the uneasy relationship between a young male soccer star and a shy academic, also male, who becomes his tutor. This rare representation of the soccer world’s money-crazed star system recently won several Silver Ribbon prizes from Italy’s film journalists’ union, including best producer and best feature debut for director Leonardo D’Agostini.
Destiny Film’s David Chhouy said he hopes “The Champion” will resonate in France, where the plan is for a summer 2020 release in local multiplexes. “We need French audiences to perceive it not as an Italian arthouse movie, but something more mainstream,” he noted.
That said, two Italian arthouse titles,...
- 12/11/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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