Producer Lorenzo Mieli, who has brought to the screen top Italian TV series such as “The Young Pope” and “My Brilliant Friend,” is launching two new crime shows with innovative elements: “The King” and “Bang Bang Baby.”
Both stem from his bent to push boundaries of genre storytelling that is “borne from authenticity,” he says.
“The King,” which is Italy’s first prison drama, recently bowed positively in Italy on Comcast-owned Sky’s pay-tv service and also premiered internationally at the Series Mania fest.
The dark show stars Luca Zingaretti, best known as the titular character in Italy’s widely exported “Inspector Montalbano” series. He plays Bruno Testori the sometimes psychopathic director of a maximum security penitentiary located on an unspecified Italian border territory that is not subject to Italian law. There Testori, who is a mixture of good and evil, can apply his totally personal idea of justice.
Both stem from his bent to push boundaries of genre storytelling that is “borne from authenticity,” he says.
“The King,” which is Italy’s first prison drama, recently bowed positively in Italy on Comcast-owned Sky’s pay-tv service and also premiered internationally at the Series Mania fest.
The dark show stars Luca Zingaretti, best known as the titular character in Italy’s widely exported “Inspector Montalbano” series. He plays Bruno Testori the sometimes psychopathic director of a maximum security penitentiary located on an unspecified Italian border territory that is not subject to Italian law. There Testori, who is a mixture of good and evil, can apply his totally personal idea of justice.
- 4/1/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The fifth edition will see the TV festival return to its original springtime slot to run alongside MipTV.
French Oscar-winning director Xavier De Lestrade’s investigative thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath and Danish bio-series The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen are among the 10 new series selected for competition in the upcoming edition of French TV festival Canneseries (April 1-6).
The fifth edition sees the event return its traditional springtime slot coinciding with the MipTV content market (April 4-6), after the festival moved to September in 2021 due to the Covid-pandemic.
Political thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath stars Alix Poisson...
French Oscar-winning director Xavier De Lestrade’s investigative thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath and Danish bio-series The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen are among the 10 new series selected for competition in the upcoming edition of French TV festival Canneseries (April 1-6).
The fifth edition sees the event return its traditional springtime slot coinciding with the MipTV content market (April 4-6), after the festival moved to September in 2021 due to the Covid-pandemic.
Political thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath stars Alix Poisson...
- 3/8/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Amazon Prime Video is stepping up scripted production in Italy with green lights for two new original series: dark Mafia comedy “The Bad Guy,” and young adult coming-of-age drama “Prisma,” which is about twin brothers who go against gender norms in different ways.
The new Italian Amazon Original skeins were announced at a Prime Video Presents Italy 2021 showcase event held in Rome, but attended online by journalists.
With these new shows, Amazon is reaching a presence in Italy comparable to Netflix in terms of volume of original productions.
Prime Video also announced A-list actor Kim Rossi Stuart (pictured) as the lead in their previously announced heist series “Everybody Loves Diamonds” and Arianna Becheroni, Adriano Giannini (“The Ties”), Lucia Mascino and Dora Romano as the ensemble cast of crime drama “Bang Bang Baby,” their first Italian original. These Amazon shows are being produced by Fremantle units Wildside and The Apartment.
Rising...
The new Italian Amazon Original skeins were announced at a Prime Video Presents Italy 2021 showcase event held in Rome, but attended online by journalists.
With these new shows, Amazon is reaching a presence in Italy comparable to Netflix in terms of volume of original productions.
Prime Video also announced A-list actor Kim Rossi Stuart (pictured) as the lead in their previously announced heist series “Everybody Loves Diamonds” and Arianna Becheroni, Adriano Giannini (“The Ties”), Lucia Mascino and Dora Romano as the ensemble cast of crime drama “Bang Bang Baby,” their first Italian original. These Amazon shows are being produced by Fremantle units Wildside and The Apartment.
Rising...
- 5/27/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
From 6 to 12 December, the annual literature and cinema event will be returning to Como and Milan once more, offering up a tribute to Batman and a selection of recent genre films. The 29th edition of the Noir in Festival, scheduled to run from 6 to 12 December in Como and Milan under the stewardship of Giorgio Gosetti, Marina Fabbri and Gianni Canova (representative of the Iulm – the University of Communications and Languages), will open with a trip down memory lane: the festival will be paying tribute to 80 years of Batman, the black knight who started life in graphic novel form and went on to become a huge cinematic icon. As regards the six films competing in the cinema line-up of the event - works which are set to be deliberated over by a jury composed of actress Lucia Mascino, director Patricia Mazuy and producer and festival...
- 11/27/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Title: Amori Che Non Sanno Stare Al Mondo (Stories of Love that Cannot Belong to this World) Director: Francesca Comencini Cast: Lucia Mascino, Thomas Trabacchi, Carlotta Natoli, Valentina Bellè, Laia Forte, Francesca Manieri. Francesca Comencini is an Italian film director and writer, sister of filmmaker Cristina Comencini and daughter of the legendary Luigi Comencini (who […]
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- 11/26/2017
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Producer of Cannes award-winner The Wonders takes on first UK production.
Italian London-based producer Carlo Cresto-Dina has boarded British writer and director Cathy Brady’s debut feature Wildfire.
The feature is the first UK-based production for Cresto-Dina, whose recent credits include Alice Rohrwacher’s Cannes Grand Prix-winner The Wonders (Le Meraviglie).
Up until now, he has focused on Italian filmmakers, which he produces through his Bologna-based company Tempesta Italy.
His recently launched twin company Tempesta UK will produce Wildfire with London-based production company Cowboy Films with development support from the Irish Film Board and the Wellcome Trust, which funded research for the film.
Northern Ireland-born Brady, a Bfts graduate whose award-winning shorts include Small Change, Morning and Wasted, was a Screen International UK Stars of Tomorrow in 2013.
Nika Mcguigan and Nora-Jane Noone are set to star in the film revolving around the relationship between two sisters.
“The script will come out of a long process of work-shopping...
Italian London-based producer Carlo Cresto-Dina has boarded British writer and director Cathy Brady’s debut feature Wildfire.
The feature is the first UK-based production for Cresto-Dina, whose recent credits include Alice Rohrwacher’s Cannes Grand Prix-winner The Wonders (Le Meraviglie).
Up until now, he has focused on Italian filmmakers, which he produces through his Bologna-based company Tempesta Italy.
His recently launched twin company Tempesta UK will produce Wildfire with London-based production company Cowboy Films with development support from the Irish Film Board and the Wellcome Trust, which funded research for the film.
Northern Ireland-born Brady, a Bfts graduate whose award-winning shorts include Small Change, Morning and Wasted, was a Screen International UK Stars of Tomorrow in 2013.
Nika Mcguigan and Nora-Jane Noone are set to star in the film revolving around the relationship between two sisters.
“The script will come out of a long process of work-shopping...
- 1/25/2015
- ScreenDaily
U.S. Dramatic Competition
This year's 16 films were selected from 1,026 submissions. Each film is a world premiere.
Adam (Director-screenwriter: Max Mayer)
A strange and lyrical love story between a somewhat socially dysfunctional young man and the woman of his dreams. Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison.
Amreeka (Director-screenwriter: Cherien Dabis)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois at the outset of the Iraq war, they find their new lives replete with challenges. Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Alia Shawkat.
Big Fan (Director-screenwriter: Robert Siegel)
The world of a parking garage attendant who happens to be the New York Giants' biggest fan is turned upside down after an altercation with his favorite player. Cast: Patton Oswalt, Michael Rapaport, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Matt Servitto.
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Director-screenwriter: John Krasinski)
When her boyfriend leaves with little explanation,...
This year's 16 films were selected from 1,026 submissions. Each film is a world premiere.
Adam (Director-screenwriter: Max Mayer)
A strange and lyrical love story between a somewhat socially dysfunctional young man and the woman of his dreams. Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison.
Amreeka (Director-screenwriter: Cherien Dabis)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois at the outset of the Iraq war, they find their new lives replete with challenges. Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Alia Shawkat.
Big Fan (Director-screenwriter: Robert Siegel)
The world of a parking garage attendant who happens to be the New York Giants' biggest fan is turned upside down after an altercation with his favorite player. Cast: Patton Oswalt, Michael Rapaport, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Matt Servitto.
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Director-screenwriter: John Krasinski)
When her boyfriend leaves with little explanation,...
- 12/3/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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