In Italy, Pierfrancesco Favino needs no introduction. At this year’s David di Donatello awards ceremony — Italy’s equivalent of the Oscars — a Favino film was nominated in every major category. A shortlist of the directors he’s worked with — Gabriele Salvatores, Giuseppe Tornatore, Marco Bellocchio, Gianni Amelio, Gabriele Muccino, Ferzan Ozpetek, Mario Martone — reads like a who’s who of Italian cinema.
Internationally, Favino has carved out a second career as a supporting player in Hollywood productions. In Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna, Ron Howard’s Rush and Angels and Demons, or Mark Forster’s World War Z. But his most recent U.S. visit — to this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York — was for an Italian film: Andrea Di Stefano’s Last Night of Amore, which screened in competition.
In the gritty police drama, Favino plays the titular Franco Amore, a good cop called...
Internationally, Favino has carved out a second career as a supporting player in Hollywood productions. In Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna, Ron Howard’s Rush and Angels and Demons, or Mark Forster’s World War Z. But his most recent U.S. visit — to this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York — was for an Italian film: Andrea Di Stefano’s Last Night of Amore, which screened in competition.
In the gritty police drama, Favino plays the titular Franco Amore, a good cop called...
- 7/2/2023
- by Pino Gagliardi
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As the WGA overwhelmingly voted to approve its pattern of demands in advance of a possible writers’ strike, Warner Bros. is committed to not putting films into production until they are truly ready — even if the industry careens to a halt.
On March 7, the WGA announced that 98.4% of its members voted in favor of the “pattern of demands” ahead of the March 20 bargaining date. On March 3, Michael De Luca, co-chair and CEO along with Pamela Abdy of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, spoke at the Texas Film Awards press conference about how the studio will respond if strikes follow the expiration of WGA, DGA, and SAG-AFTRA’s current contracts with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).
Warner Bros.’ strategy? Not to scramble.
“It’s talked about [by others] like, ‘Gee, we need to stockpile material and prepare,'” De Luca said. “Pam and I, our attitude is it should be...
On March 7, the WGA announced that 98.4% of its members voted in favor of the “pattern of demands” ahead of the March 20 bargaining date. On March 3, Michael De Luca, co-chair and CEO along with Pamela Abdy of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, spoke at the Texas Film Awards press conference about how the studio will respond if strikes follow the expiration of WGA, DGA, and SAG-AFTRA’s current contracts with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).
Warner Bros.’ strategy? Not to scramble.
“It’s talked about [by others] like, ‘Gee, we need to stockpile material and prepare,'” De Luca said. “Pam and I, our attitude is it should be...
- 3/7/2023
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Tom Hanks is Otto Anderson in Columbia Pictures A Man Called Otto. Photo by: Niko Tavernise Director Marc Forster has worked on plenty of high-profile films in the last couple of decades. He directed Halle Berry’s Oscar-winning performance in Monster’s Ball, he directed the seven-time Oscar-nominated film Finding Neverland, and he was the youngest director ever to make a James Bond movie (Quantum of Solace). His latest film is A Man Called Otto, starring Tom Hanks. And, after working with Hanks for the first time, Forster told us he’s 100% deserving of the title “living legend.” (Click on the media bar below to hear Marc Forster) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Marc_Foster_Tom_Hanks_A_Man_Called_Otto_.mp3 A Man Called Otto is now playing in theaters.
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- 2/8/2023
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Alcarràs, winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin, opens on five screens in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, presented by Mubi; Quiver Distribution releases Candy Land in nine theaters; and Sony’s Tom Hanks-starring A Man Called Otto, Uar’s Women Talking and IFC Films’ Corsage move into moderate expansions as the broader specialty market barrels into Oscar nominations and a new year of reckoning with adult audiences.
The conversation about what ails the arthouse market is still treading water. Some major arthouses are Mia in a key market. With rare exceptions, audiences are failing to embrace indie titles with the gusto they’ve shown in the past. Everything Everywhere All At Once cleaned up but that’s feelgood, versus downbeat, which an emotionally exhausted moviegoing public may be avoiding. It’s not clear awards kudos will change that.
“The marketplace needs to listen to...
The conversation about what ails the arthouse market is still treading water. Some major arthouses are Mia in a key market. With rare exceptions, audiences are failing to embrace indie titles with the gusto they’ve shown in the past. Everything Everywhere All At Once cleaned up but that’s feelgood, versus downbeat, which an emotionally exhausted moviegoing public may be avoiding. It’s not clear awards kudos will change that.
“The marketplace needs to listen to...
- 1/6/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Tom Hanks is Otto Anderson in Columbia Pictures A Man Called Otto. Photo by: Niko Tavernise
So, we’re almost a week into 2023 and all that holiday cheer is so…last year. What a perfect time for a film centering around an older fella’ who’s…well, a human version of the grinch, sans green fur and the larceny. And who’s taken on this role? It’s none other than the movie’s “Mr. Nice Guy’ himself, “America’s dad” (perhaps grandpa; now), and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks. Hey. we all need to “shake things up” a bit, and get out of our “comfort zone”. But are his filmgoing fans ready to accept him as a real grouch Aka A Man Called Otto? Btw, this has no connection to A Fish Called Wanda or The Man Called Flintstone, in case you’re wondering.
When we first encounter Otto...
So, we’re almost a week into 2023 and all that holiday cheer is so…last year. What a perfect time for a film centering around an older fella’ who’s…well, a human version of the grinch, sans green fur and the larceny. And who’s taken on this role? It’s none other than the movie’s “Mr. Nice Guy’ himself, “America’s dad” (perhaps grandpa; now), and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks. Hey. we all need to “shake things up” a bit, and get out of our “comfort zone”. But are his filmgoing fans ready to accept him as a real grouch Aka A Man Called Otto? Btw, this has no connection to A Fish Called Wanda or The Man Called Flintstone, in case you’re wondering.
When we first encounter Otto...
- 1/4/2023
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Specialty film closes the book on a mixed 2022 this weekend with the limited release by Sony of Tom Hanks-starring A Man Called Otto; a literary doc by Lizzie Gottlieb from Sony Pictures Classics and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest from Neon via Cannes.
Otto, by Mark Forster, is a remake of a Swedish film based on a New York Times bestseller. It debuts on four screens in NY and LA. Sony had some early shows starting at 2pm Thursday. The film opens wide Jan. 13.
Otto’s screenplay is by David Magee. Also stars Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Truman Hanks and Mike Birbiglia. Hanks plays Otto Anderson, a grump who no longer sees purpose in his life following the loss of his wife. He’s ready to end it all but turns it around when a lively young family moves in next door.
Otto, by Mark Forster, is a remake of a Swedish film based on a New York Times bestseller. It debuts on four screens in NY and LA. Sony had some early shows starting at 2pm Thursday. The film opens wide Jan. 13.
Otto’s screenplay is by David Magee. Also stars Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Truman Hanks and Mike Birbiglia. Hanks plays Otto Anderson, a grump who no longer sees purpose in his life following the loss of his wife. He’s ready to end it all but turns it around when a lively young family moves in next door.
- 12/30/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s signature Contenders event hits downtown Los Angeles on Saturday for a hybrid in-person/virtual edition, partnering with the inaugural LA3C, the cultural festival developed by Deadline parent company Pmc.
Contenders Film LA3C: Conversations with Contenders, taking place at the Jw Marriott at L.A. Live, begins with a brunch at 10 a.m. Pt, followed by 12 panel discussions with the casts and creatives of the awards season’s buzziest films.
Talent scheduled to participate either on site or virtually include Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Baz Luhrmann, Ryan Coogler, Antoine Fuqua, Guillermo del Toro, Kerry Condon, Eddie Redmayne, Tobias Lindholm, Scott Cooper, Viola Davis, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Thuso Mbedo, Cathy Schulman, Ron Howard, Joel Edgerton, Chinonye Chukwu, Jerry Bruckheimer and Joseph Kosinski.
They will represent several films not highlighted at our previous Los Angeles and New York outings earlier in the fall including Sony Pictures’ A Man Called Otto and The Woman King,...
Contenders Film LA3C: Conversations with Contenders, taking place at the Jw Marriott at L.A. Live, begins with a brunch at 10 a.m. Pt, followed by 12 panel discussions with the casts and creatives of the awards season’s buzziest films.
Talent scheduled to participate either on site or virtually include Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Baz Luhrmann, Ryan Coogler, Antoine Fuqua, Guillermo del Toro, Kerry Condon, Eddie Redmayne, Tobias Lindholm, Scott Cooper, Viola Davis, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Thuso Mbedo, Cathy Schulman, Ron Howard, Joel Edgerton, Chinonye Chukwu, Jerry Bruckheimer and Joseph Kosinski.
They will represent several films not highlighted at our previous Los Angeles and New York outings earlier in the fall including Sony Pictures’ A Man Called Otto and The Woman King,...
- 12/10/2022
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony has acquired the worldwide rights to “A Man Called Otto,” a comedy starring Tom Hanks that’s an English-language remake based on the Swedish book and film “A Man Called Ove,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
A source says the film sold in the range of a $60 million deal, which would rank it among the highest deals ever out of the European Film Market.
Marc Forster is attached to direct the film, and David Magee is writing the script based on Fredrik Backman’s book. Ove has been renamed Otto for the Americanized film version of the story.
Hanks plays the title character Otto, who is a grumpy isolated widower with staunch principles, strict routines and a short fuse, and who gives everyone in his neighborhood a hard time as he watches over it like a hawk. Just as it seems like he’s finally given up on life,...
A source says the film sold in the range of a $60 million deal, which would rank it among the highest deals ever out of the European Film Market.
Marc Forster is attached to direct the film, and David Magee is writing the script based on Fredrik Backman’s book. Ove has been renamed Otto for the Americanized film version of the story.
Hanks plays the title character Otto, who is a grumpy isolated widower with staunch principles, strict routines and a short fuse, and who gives everyone in his neighborhood a hard time as he watches over it like a hawk. Just as it seems like he’s finally given up on life,...
- 2/11/2022
- by Brian Welk and Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
The Sf Studios comedy “A Man Called Otto,” starring Tom Hanks, has been acquired by Sony Pictures for $60 million.
The sale marks the largest deal to date at the virtual European Film Market, surpassing Netflix’s $55 million acquisition of “The Pale Blue Eye” last year. Directed by Marc Forster, “A Man Called Otto” sparked a fierce bidding war with Sony ultimately coming out on top with the film’s worldwide rights. It will be released in theaters.
Based on Fredrik Backman’s bestselling novel “A Man Called Ove,” the film tells the story of Otto (Hanks), a grumpy and strict widower who holds the rest of his neighborhood to his staunch rules. But just as Otto is about to give up on his life, he sparks a new friendship with his neighbors, prompting him to undergo a transformation.
Production on the film is set to begin this month in Pittsburgh,...
The sale marks the largest deal to date at the virtual European Film Market, surpassing Netflix’s $55 million acquisition of “The Pale Blue Eye” last year. Directed by Marc Forster, “A Man Called Otto” sparked a fierce bidding war with Sony ultimately coming out on top with the film’s worldwide rights. It will be released in theaters.
Based on Fredrik Backman’s bestselling novel “A Man Called Ove,” the film tells the story of Otto (Hanks), a grumpy and strict widower who holds the rest of his neighborhood to his staunch rules. But just as Otto is about to give up on his life, he sparks a new friendship with his neighbors, prompting him to undergo a transformation.
Production on the film is set to begin this month in Pittsburgh,...
- 2/11/2022
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: We told you two nights ago that buyers were circling. Now the eagle has landed. Tom Hanks comedy A Man Called Otto has sold to Sony in a record EFM worldwide rights deal pegged around $60M.
Sony has taken global rights to the red-hot package from CAA Media Finance and is lining up a wide domestic theatrical release this Christmas, we understand.
Buyers have been clamouring for this one heading into the virtual EFM. There were multiple big offers on the table from studios, indies and a couple of streamers but it ultimately came down to Sony vs international buyers in a close run thing. In terms of EFM records, the deal moves past the $55M Netflix paid last year for Christian Bale thriller The Pale Blue Eye. A big reason Sony got the film is its continuing commitment to theatrical. The film will open year end in around 2000 screens.
Sony has taken global rights to the red-hot package from CAA Media Finance and is lining up a wide domestic theatrical release this Christmas, we understand.
Buyers have been clamouring for this one heading into the virtual EFM. There were multiple big offers on the table from studios, indies and a couple of streamers but it ultimately came down to Sony vs international buyers in a close run thing. In terms of EFM records, the deal moves past the $55M Netflix paid last year for Christian Bale thriller The Pale Blue Eye. A big reason Sony got the film is its continuing commitment to theatrical. The film will open year end in around 2000 screens.
- 2/11/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman and Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
If the mischievous Peter Pan could find a way to grow up, it only makes sense that the well-mannered Christopher Robin could find one, too. Like Steven Spielberg’s Hook did for Pan, Mark Forster’s Christopher Robin asks what would happen if the human hero of A.A. Milne’s beloved children’s tales grew up and forgot about his times in the 100-Acre Wood. It seems that in both cases, family and fun take the back seat to a dispassionate desk job. But what brings the humbug Robin (Ewan McGregor) back in touch with his younger self is not an old rivalry, but a silly old friend who misses his playmate.
A quick little prologue sees the young Christopher part ways from his stuffed pals. “I’m not going to do nothing anymore,” he tells Winnie the Pooh, who’s famous for doing nothing. But before he goes, he...
A quick little prologue sees the young Christopher part ways from his stuffed pals. “I’m not going to do nothing anymore,” he tells Winnie the Pooh, who’s famous for doing nothing. But before he goes, he...
- 8/3/2018
- by Luke Parker
- We Got This Covered
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