Gaumont, the venerable French film and television group behind “The Intouchables” and “Lupin,” is launching in Italy with Marco Rosi, an industry veteran joining from Lux Vide, and a bullish first slate.
The company is already well-established in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany. Its expansion in Italy represents a logical step in Gaumont’s global strategy since the country ranks as a key European market and boasts a fertile ground for content creation.
Rosi, who was Lux Vide’s head of international co-productions and worked on prestige Italian series such as “Medici,” “Devils” and “Leonardo,” has been appointed general manager of Gaumont’s Italian operation. As such, he will lead a dedicated team across development and production and will report directly to Christophe Riandee, vice CEO of Gaumont. The banner will be headquartered in Rome, and will be focused on Italian-language TV series. Gaumont suggested that it...
The company is already well-established in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany. Its expansion in Italy represents a logical step in Gaumont’s global strategy since the country ranks as a key European market and boasts a fertile ground for content creation.
Rosi, who was Lux Vide’s head of international co-productions and worked on prestige Italian series such as “Medici,” “Devils” and “Leonardo,” has been appointed general manager of Gaumont’s Italian operation. As such, he will lead a dedicated team across development and production and will report directly to Christophe Riandee, vice CEO of Gaumont. The banner will be headquartered in Rome, and will be focused on Italian-language TV series. Gaumont suggested that it...
- 1/25/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Is it possible to stand out and disappear at the same time? Matt Damon makes a convincing case study in Stillwater. As roughneck Bill Baker, he wears the signifiers of a blue-collar Oklahoman—a thick goatee, a camo-colored baseball cap, an eagle-clutched skull tattoo, a sturdy pair of jeans. He strides with a cowboy’s gait and talks in muttery, southern tones. After a long day of working construction, cleaning up houses wrecked by tornadoes, he chews on a cigarette and pulls his pickup into the local Sonic drive-thru. At home, he says a small prayer, quietly eats his hot dog, and falls asleep on the couch.
It’s a transformation—in look and presence—that occurs so immediately and comprehensively that it seems like an optical illusion. At first glance, he comes across as a Middle America cosplayer, treading close to the edge of parody. But the intrigue of...
It’s a transformation—in look and presence—that occurs so immediately and comprehensively that it seems like an optical illusion. At first glance, he comes across as a Middle America cosplayer, treading close to the edge of parody. But the intrigue of...
- 7/27/2021
- by Jake Kring-Schreifels
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Titles include The Mercury Factor, Neverlake, L’Intrepido and Song e’ Napule.
Italy’s Rai Trade has racked up sales on paranormal genre debut Neverlake and Hong Kong-set thriller The Mercury Factor, after market premiering the titles at the Afm.
Miami-based Alebrije Entertainment acquired all Latin America rights for Riccardo Paoletti’s English-language, genre debut Neverlake. Uncork’d Entertainment picked up Us rights and Los Banditos bought the film for Germany and Austria.
Set against the backdrop of Tuscany, the film stars British actress Daisy Keeping as a young girl who uncovers a terrifying secret when she visits her estranged archaeologist father who is obsessed with ancient Etruscans.
Luca Barbareschi’s The Mercury Factor, starring the director opposite rising Chinese star Zhang Jingchu, sold to Media Asia for China. The company said deals on the film were also imminent for the Us, Canada and Korea.
The storyline is loosely inspired by the Italian bestseller I Trust...
Italy’s Rai Trade has racked up sales on paranormal genre debut Neverlake and Hong Kong-set thriller The Mercury Factor, after market premiering the titles at the Afm.
Miami-based Alebrije Entertainment acquired all Latin America rights for Riccardo Paoletti’s English-language, genre debut Neverlake. Uncork’d Entertainment picked up Us rights and Los Banditos bought the film for Germany and Austria.
Set against the backdrop of Tuscany, the film stars British actress Daisy Keeping as a young girl who uncovers a terrifying secret when she visits her estranged archaeologist father who is obsessed with ancient Etruscans.
Luca Barbareschi’s The Mercury Factor, starring the director opposite rising Chinese star Zhang Jingchu, sold to Media Asia for China. The company said deals on the film were also imminent for the Us, Canada and Korea.
The storyline is loosely inspired by the Italian bestseller I Trust...
- 11/19/2013
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Titles include The Mercury Factor, Neverlake, L’Intrepido and Song e’ Napule.
Italy’s Rai Trade has racked up sales on paranormal genre debut Neverlake and Hong Kong-set thriller The Mercury Factor, after market premiering the titles at the Afm.
Miami-based Alebrije Entertainment acquired all Latin America rights for Riccardo Paoletti’s English-language, genre debut Neverlake. Uncork’d Entertainment picked up Us rights and Los Banditos bought the film for Germany and Austria.
Set against the backdrop of Tuscany, the film stars British actress Daisy Keeping as a young girl who uncovers a terrifying secret when she visits her estranged archaeologist father who is obsessed with ancient Etruscans.
Luca Barbareschi’s The Mercury Factor, starring the director opposite rising Chinese star Zhang Jingchu, sold to Media Asia for China. The company said deals on the film were also imminent for the Us, Canada and Korea.
The storyline is loosely inspired by the Italian bestseller I Trust...
Italy’s Rai Trade has racked up sales on paranormal genre debut Neverlake and Hong Kong-set thriller The Mercury Factor, after market premiering the titles at the Afm.
Miami-based Alebrije Entertainment acquired all Latin America rights for Riccardo Paoletti’s English-language, genre debut Neverlake. Uncork’d Entertainment picked up Us rights and Los Banditos bought the film for Germany and Austria.
Set against the backdrop of Tuscany, the film stars British actress Daisy Keeping as a young girl who uncovers a terrifying secret when she visits her estranged archaeologist father who is obsessed with ancient Etruscans.
Luca Barbareschi’s The Mercury Factor, starring the director opposite rising Chinese star Zhang Jingchu, sold to Media Asia for China. The company said deals on the film were also imminent for the Us, Canada and Korea.
The storyline is loosely inspired by the Italian bestseller I Trust...
- 11/19/2013
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Titles incldue The Mercury Factor, Neverlake, L’Intrepido and Song e’ Napule.
Italy’s Rai Trade has racked up sales on paranormal genre debut Neverlake and Hong Kong-set thriller The Mercury Factor, after market premiering the titles at the Afm.
Miami-based Alebrije Entertainment acquired all Latin America rights for Riccardo Paoletti’s English-language, genre debut Neverlake. Uncork’d Entertainment picked up Us rights and Los Banditos bought the film for Germany and Austria.
Set against the backdrop of Tuscany, the film stars British actress Daisy Keeping as a young girl who uncovers a terrifying secret when she visits her estranged archaeologist father who is obsessed with ancient Etruscans.
Luca Barbareschi’s The Mercury Factor, starring the director opposite rising Chinese star Zhang Jingchu, sold to Media Asia for China. The company said deals on the film were also imminent for the Us, Canada and Korea.
The storyline is loosely inspired by the Italian bestseller I Trust...
Italy’s Rai Trade has racked up sales on paranormal genre debut Neverlake and Hong Kong-set thriller The Mercury Factor, after market premiering the titles at the Afm.
Miami-based Alebrije Entertainment acquired all Latin America rights for Riccardo Paoletti’s English-language, genre debut Neverlake. Uncork’d Entertainment picked up Us rights and Los Banditos bought the film for Germany and Austria.
Set against the backdrop of Tuscany, the film stars British actress Daisy Keeping as a young girl who uncovers a terrifying secret when she visits her estranged archaeologist father who is obsessed with ancient Etruscans.
Luca Barbareschi’s The Mercury Factor, starring the director opposite rising Chinese star Zhang Jingchu, sold to Media Asia for China. The company said deals on the film were also imminent for the Us, Canada and Korea.
The storyline is loosely inspired by the Italian bestseller I Trust...
- 11/19/2013
- ScreenDaily
Thriller inspired by China’s 2008 milk scandal stars Luca Barbareschi and Zhang Jingchu.
Italy’s Rai Trade will launch sales on Italian actor and director Luca Barbareschi’s Hong Kong-set thriller The Mercury Factor (fka Something Good) at the American Film Market (Afm) next week.
The film, which will receive its market premiere, stars Barbareschi as unscrupulous, Hong Kong-based Italian businessman Matteo, who is involved in the trade of adulterated food goods. He has been forced to leave his native Italy due to shady dealings back home.
Chinese actress Zhang Jingchu, seen this summer in mainland China blockbuster Switch, plays a young woman whose only child died as a result of eating contaminated food. She unwittingly falls for Matteo, unaware of his criminal activities.
The storyline is loosely inspired by the Italian bestseller I Trust You – a joint work by journalist Francesco Abate and top crime writer Massimo Carlotto – as well as the 2008 China milk scandal in which...
Italy’s Rai Trade will launch sales on Italian actor and director Luca Barbareschi’s Hong Kong-set thriller The Mercury Factor (fka Something Good) at the American Film Market (Afm) next week.
The film, which will receive its market premiere, stars Barbareschi as unscrupulous, Hong Kong-based Italian businessman Matteo, who is involved in the trade of adulterated food goods. He has been forced to leave his native Italy due to shady dealings back home.
Chinese actress Zhang Jingchu, seen this summer in mainland China blockbuster Switch, plays a young woman whose only child died as a result of eating contaminated food. She unwittingly falls for Matteo, unaware of his criminal activities.
The storyline is loosely inspired by the Italian bestseller I Trust You – a joint work by journalist Francesco Abate and top crime writer Massimo Carlotto – as well as the 2008 China milk scandal in which...
- 10/31/2013
- ScreenDaily
LOCARNO -- Dismayed by the prospect of a lifetime spent toiling at the local oil refinery, the teenaged rebel in Enrico Pau's cautionary tale Jimmy della Collina (Jimmy from the Hill) discovers that armed robbery only leads to a worse kind of imprisonment.
Enjoying a world premiere in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival, the Italian movie offers some impressive performances, especially from Nicola Adamo, as the fiery Jimmy, and Valentina Carnelutti, as a woman who works with young offenders. The bright acting gives the film its best chance of standing out from the pack; however, it lacks any real spark that would enliven a familiar tale of a restless youngster, who sees crime as a quick way to escape the tedium of a dead-end job. Boxoffice is unlikely to be exceptional even in Italy.
His father's acceptance of work amid the grim furnaces and stacks at the refinery condemns Jimmy to a gloomy future. While petty crimes offer distraction at first, he quickly aims higher. Director and co-writer Pau, working from a novel by Massimo Carlotto, quickly sketches the young man's disenchantment, which is fed by tall tales of past crimes by blowhards in the local bars.
Bored with his girlfriend and even the local hooker, Jimmy urges his buddies on from burglary to robbing banks but they chicken out and he is caught and incarcerated. Narrowly avoiding adult imprisonment, he is sentenced to serve three years at a juvenile detention center. There he meets fellow inmates Simone (Federico Carta), who has a creative mind but who giggles incessantly, and Salvo (Giovanni Cantarella), a tattooed body-builder with a quick temper.
Simone offers something like friendship but Salvo's thin skin brings out the worst in Jimmy and leads to a violent episode. As a result, Jimmy is a transferred to the Collina, a halfway house run by a kindly deacon, Don Ettore (Francesco Origo). The place offers a modicum of freedom but it also requires discipline and hard work from its inmates.
The compassionate Claudia (Carnelutti) intrigues him, but Jimmy's inarticulate desire to escape a humdrum life drives him to reject the opportunity to take a different path in life.
Pau evidently wishes to present the young man's dilemma as a universally defining moment. Some hard truths are delivered effectively but the picture is not dynamic enough to make an ordinary tale memorable.
JIMMY DELLA COLLINA
XFilm Rome
Credits:
Director: Enrico Pau
Screenwriters: Antonia Iaccarino & Enrico Pau
Producer: Guido Servino
Director of photography: Gian Enrico Bianchi
Music: Sikitikis, Gaetano Mastroiaco
Editor: Johannes Hiroshi Nakajima.
Cast:
Jimmy: Nicola Adamo
Claudia: Valentina Carnelutti
Don Ettore: Francesco Origo
Burattinaio: Massimiliano Medda
Salvo: Giovanni Cantarella
Simone: Federico Carta
Mohammed: Mohammed El Gahilassi
Tonio: Andrea Diomedi
Pietro: Riccardo Sanvido
Fidanzata: Eleonora Usala
Padre: Giovanni Carroni
Madre: Gisella Vacca
Prostitute: Caterina Silva
Penitentiary agent: Sergio Piano
Malavitoso: Silvano Portoghese
Psychologist: Antonio Murru
Institution director: Gabor Pinna
Francesco: Corrado Licheri
Tore: Pino Corda
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 90 minutes...
Enjoying a world premiere in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival, the Italian movie offers some impressive performances, especially from Nicola Adamo, as the fiery Jimmy, and Valentina Carnelutti, as a woman who works with young offenders. The bright acting gives the film its best chance of standing out from the pack; however, it lacks any real spark that would enliven a familiar tale of a restless youngster, who sees crime as a quick way to escape the tedium of a dead-end job. Boxoffice is unlikely to be exceptional even in Italy.
His father's acceptance of work amid the grim furnaces and stacks at the refinery condemns Jimmy to a gloomy future. While petty crimes offer distraction at first, he quickly aims higher. Director and co-writer Pau, working from a novel by Massimo Carlotto, quickly sketches the young man's disenchantment, which is fed by tall tales of past crimes by blowhards in the local bars.
Bored with his girlfriend and even the local hooker, Jimmy urges his buddies on from burglary to robbing banks but they chicken out and he is caught and incarcerated. Narrowly avoiding adult imprisonment, he is sentenced to serve three years at a juvenile detention center. There he meets fellow inmates Simone (Federico Carta), who has a creative mind but who giggles incessantly, and Salvo (Giovanni Cantarella), a tattooed body-builder with a quick temper.
Simone offers something like friendship but Salvo's thin skin brings out the worst in Jimmy and leads to a violent episode. As a result, Jimmy is a transferred to the Collina, a halfway house run by a kindly deacon, Don Ettore (Francesco Origo). The place offers a modicum of freedom but it also requires discipline and hard work from its inmates.
The compassionate Claudia (Carnelutti) intrigues him, but Jimmy's inarticulate desire to escape a humdrum life drives him to reject the opportunity to take a different path in life.
Pau evidently wishes to present the young man's dilemma as a universally defining moment. Some hard truths are delivered effectively but the picture is not dynamic enough to make an ordinary tale memorable.
JIMMY DELLA COLLINA
XFilm Rome
Credits:
Director: Enrico Pau
Screenwriters: Antonia Iaccarino & Enrico Pau
Producer: Guido Servino
Director of photography: Gian Enrico Bianchi
Music: Sikitikis, Gaetano Mastroiaco
Editor: Johannes Hiroshi Nakajima.
Cast:
Jimmy: Nicola Adamo
Claudia: Valentina Carnelutti
Don Ettore: Francesco Origo
Burattinaio: Massimiliano Medda
Salvo: Giovanni Cantarella
Simone: Federico Carta
Mohammed: Mohammed El Gahilassi
Tonio: Andrea Diomedi
Pietro: Riccardo Sanvido
Fidanzata: Eleonora Usala
Padre: Giovanni Carroni
Madre: Gisella Vacca
Prostitute: Caterina Silva
Penitentiary agent: Sergio Piano
Malavitoso: Silvano Portoghese
Psychologist: Antonio Murru
Institution director: Gabor Pinna
Francesco: Corrado Licheri
Tore: Pino Corda
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 90 minutes...
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