Submarine Entertainment is launching sales at Berlin’s European Film Market on high-profile doc “Milano — The Inside Story of Italian Fashion,” directed by John Maggio (“The Perfect Weapon”).
Billed as the definitive story of the explosion of Italian fashion in the 1970s and 80s, as told by the insiders, the star-studded doc extensively features Giorgio Armani and delves into his life story, but also reveals unknown details about the Gucci and Versace fashion houses. “Milano” also features appearances and commentary by former Gucci creative director Tom Ford, Gianni Versace’s brother Santo Versace and Hollywood stars including Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson and Frances McDormand, all of whom have close ties to the Italian fashion milieu. Watch clip.
“Every once in a while something comes along that’s a little unexpected, in that I often feel that a film about a topic, a broader topic, doesn’t always resonate with me,...
Billed as the definitive story of the explosion of Italian fashion in the 1970s and 80s, as told by the insiders, the star-studded doc extensively features Giorgio Armani and delves into his life story, but also reveals unknown details about the Gucci and Versace fashion houses. “Milano” also features appearances and commentary by former Gucci creative director Tom Ford, Gianni Versace’s brother Santo Versace and Hollywood stars including Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson and Frances McDormand, all of whom have close ties to the Italian fashion milieu. Watch clip.
“Every once in a while something comes along that’s a little unexpected, in that I often feel that a film about a topic, a broader topic, doesn’t always resonate with me,...
- 2/15/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italian sales company Intramovies has scored some fresh sales on Israeli writer-director Ruthy Pribar’s mother-daughter drama “Asia,” winner of the Nora Ephron award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and Israel’s candidate for the International Oscar.
The pic starring Shira Haas, who previously gained notice in Netflix mini-series “Unorthodox,” has been sold to Italy (Lucky Red), Eastern Europe (HBO Europe), Spain (Alfa Pictures) and Australia (Moving Story), on top of previously announced deals to Menemsha Films for North America and Curzon for U.K. where “Asia” was released online in November.
Further deals for Cis, Baltics and Latin America are being finalized during the Cannes-backed Ventana Sur market that is currently underway.
“Asia,” in which a single Russian immigrant mother, played by Alena Yiv, who works as a nurse in a Jerusalem hospital and her 17-year-old daughter Vika, played by Haas, are forced into an especially tight...
The pic starring Shira Haas, who previously gained notice in Netflix mini-series “Unorthodox,” has been sold to Italy (Lucky Red), Eastern Europe (HBO Europe), Spain (Alfa Pictures) and Australia (Moving Story), on top of previously announced deals to Menemsha Films for North America and Curzon for U.K. where “Asia” was released online in November.
Further deals for Cis, Baltics and Latin America are being finalized during the Cannes-backed Ventana Sur market that is currently underway.
“Asia,” in which a single Russian immigrant mother, played by Alena Yiv, who works as a nurse in a Jerusalem hospital and her 17-year-old daughter Vika, played by Haas, are forced into an especially tight...
- 12/2/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
When the Italian selection committee meets early this week to determine which film it will submit to the Oscar race for Best International Feature Film, it might well be the most consequential decision any country in the race will have made this year — and probably the only one that has the potential to give the category a genuine frontrunner.
That possibility exists because one of the 25 (!) films that the committee has said are in contention is Edoardo Ponti’s “The Life Ahead,” a drama that contains the first screen performance in a decade from Ponti’s mother, Sophia Loren. Not only was Loren the first actor to win an Oscar for a performance not in English, which she did in 1961 for “Two Women,” she’s considered a strong contender in this year’s Best Actress category for her affecting role as a retired prostitute who cares for the children of...
That possibility exists because one of the 25 (!) films that the committee has said are in contention is Edoardo Ponti’s “The Life Ahead,” a drama that contains the first screen performance in a decade from Ponti’s mother, Sophia Loren. Not only was Loren the first actor to win an Oscar for a performance not in English, which she did in 1961 for “Two Women,” she’s considered a strong contender in this year’s Best Actress category for her affecting role as a retired prostitute who cares for the children of...
- 11/22/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Emmy-winning U.S. director and producer John Maggio is shooting “Milano,” a high-profile doc on the rise of the Italian fashion industry that is expected to feature many of Italy’s most iconic fashion designers.
Maggio, who most recently directed HBO doc “The Perfect Weapon,” based on the best-selling book by David E. Sanger about the rise of cyber conflict, has been in production on location on the new project since late October, which was written and developed by Italy-based American journalist Alan Friedman.
“There have been plenty of films about individual fashion houses,” Friedman — who is a former Milan correspondent for the Financial Times — told Variety. “But there’s never been an independent, fair and balanced look at the extraordinary story of the birth of Italian fashion in the 1970s and ’80s and how it’s so influenced American lifestyle and world lifestyle.”
“Milano” is being produced by Friedman...
Maggio, who most recently directed HBO doc “The Perfect Weapon,” based on the best-selling book by David E. Sanger about the rise of cyber conflict, has been in production on location on the new project since late October, which was written and developed by Italy-based American journalist Alan Friedman.
“There have been plenty of films about individual fashion houses,” Friedman — who is a former Milan correspondent for the Financial Times — told Variety. “But there’s never been an independent, fair and balanced look at the extraordinary story of the birth of Italian fashion in the 1970s and ’80s and how it’s so influenced American lifestyle and world lifestyle.”
“Milano” is being produced by Friedman...
- 11/11/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Wife of a SpyThe programme for the 2020 edition of the Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and includes new films from Gia Coppola, Lav Diaz, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alice Rohrwacher, Gianfranco Rosi, Frederick Wiseman, Chloé Zhao, and more.COMPETITIONIn Between Dying (Hilal Baydarov)Le sorelle Macluso (Emma Dante)The World to Come (Mona Fastvold)Nuevo Orden (Michel Franco)Lovers (Nicole Garcia)Laila in Haifa (Amos Gitai)Dear Comrades (Andrei Konchalovsky)Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)Sun Children (Majid Majidi)Pieces of a Woman (Kornél Mundruczó)Miss Marx (Susanna Nicchiarelli)Padrenostro (Claudio Noce)Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)Never Gonna Snow AgainThe Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)And Tomorrow The Entire World (Julia Von Heinz)Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic)Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)Out Of COMPETITIONFeaturesThe Ties (Daniele Luchetti)Lasciami Andare (Stefano Mordini)Mandibules (Quentin Dupieux)Love After Love (Ann Hui)Assandria (Salvatore Mereu)The Duke (Roger Michell)Night in Paradise (Park Hoon-jung)Mosquito...
- 8/3/2020
- MUBI
This year’s pandemic-altered Venice Film Festival will include a record number of competition films directed by women, festival organizers announced on Tuesday. And two of those are also the only Hollywood studio films to make the competition lineup — Mona Fastvold’s “The World to Come” and Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland.”
In all, eight of the 18 competition features have a female director — an improvement from last year, when just two made the cut.
“Nomadland,” a drama starring Frances McDormand released by Searchlight Pictures, will simultaneously premiere through the Toronto Film Festival as well as through the New York Film Festival and the now-canceled Telluride fest (at a special drive-in screening in Southern California). Sony’s “The World to Come” stars Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston.
Also Read: Frances McDormand's 'Nomadland' to Get Joint World Premiere From Venice and Toronto Film Festivals
Other top titles screening out...
In all, eight of the 18 competition features have a female director — an improvement from last year, when just two made the cut.
“Nomadland,” a drama starring Frances McDormand released by Searchlight Pictures, will simultaneously premiere through the Toronto Film Festival as well as through the New York Film Festival and the now-canceled Telluride fest (at a special drive-in screening in Southern California). Sony’s “The World to Come” stars Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston.
Also Read: Frances McDormand's 'Nomadland' to Get Joint World Premiere From Venice and Toronto Film Festivals
Other top titles screening out...
- 7/28/2020
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
With Telluride Film Festival forced to cancel their yearly event, what is now the first of the major fall festivals, Venice, has announced their complete lineup. Along with Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, which was revealed yesterday, the lineup includes more of our most-anticipated films of the year, including Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, Gia Coppola’s Mainstream, Abel Ferrara’s Sportin’ Life, Lav Diaz’s Genus Pan, Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come, Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman, Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno, and more.
There were also a few surprises in the lineup. Luca Guadagnino has directed a new documentary titled Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, while Alice Rohrwacher and Jr have teamed for the new short film, Omelia Contadina. Quentin Dupieux’s Mandibules will also premiere out of competition.
In perhaps the best surprise of all, a new, recently uncovered film by Orson Welles,...
There were also a few surprises in the lineup. Luca Guadagnino has directed a new documentary titled Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, while Alice Rohrwacher and Jr have teamed for the new short film, Omelia Contadina. Quentin Dupieux’s Mandibules will also premiere out of competition.
In perhaps the best surprise of all, a new, recently uncovered film by Orson Welles,...
- 7/28/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Venice Film Festival is unveiling the lineup of its 77th edition, which, barring complications, will be the first major international film event to hold a physical edition following the coronavirus crisis.
Previously announced titles include Chloé Zhao’s road drama “Nomadland,” starring Frances McDormand, which will screen at Venice and Toronto simultaneously on Sept. 11, in both cases preceded by virtual introductions.
The out-of-competition opener will be Italian director Daniele Luchetti’s anatomy of a marriage drama “Lacci” (“The Ties”) (pictured) starring Alba Rohrwacher (“Happy as Lazzaro”) and Luigi Lo Cascio (“The Traitor”) as the couple at the film’s center.
The virtual press conference is scheduled to begin at 11am Cet. This post will be updated live as films are revealed.
Venice Film Festival Lineup
In Competition
“In Between Dying,” Hilal Baydarov
“Le Sorelle Macaluso,” Emma Dante (Italy)
“The World to Come,” Mona Fastvold (U.S.)
“Nuevo Orden,” Michel Franco
“Lovers,...
Previously announced titles include Chloé Zhao’s road drama “Nomadland,” starring Frances McDormand, which will screen at Venice and Toronto simultaneously on Sept. 11, in both cases preceded by virtual introductions.
The out-of-competition opener will be Italian director Daniele Luchetti’s anatomy of a marriage drama “Lacci” (“The Ties”) (pictured) starring Alba Rohrwacher (“Happy as Lazzaro”) and Luigi Lo Cascio (“The Traitor”) as the couple at the film’s center.
The virtual press conference is scheduled to begin at 11am Cet. This post will be updated live as films are revealed.
Venice Film Festival Lineup
In Competition
“In Between Dying,” Hilal Baydarov
“Le Sorelle Macaluso,” Emma Dante (Italy)
“The World to Come,” Mona Fastvold (U.S.)
“Nuevo Orden,” Michel Franco
“Lovers,...
- 7/28/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Competition line-up includes films by Chloe Zhao, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Kornel Mandruczo and Andrei Konchalovsky.
The line-up of the 77th Venice Film Festival (September 2-12) has been announced.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The big talking points from this year’s selection include an improved gender split, with eight women selected for the competition section (compared to two last year), and a lack of major US projects. Venice will be one of the first major film festivals to take place as a physical event following the Covid-19 outbreak.
Among the big-name auteurs selected are Chloe Zhao (Nomadland), Michel Franco (Nuevo...
The line-up of the 77th Venice Film Festival (September 2-12) has been announced.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The big talking points from this year’s selection include an improved gender split, with eight women selected for the competition section (compared to two last year), and a lack of major US projects. Venice will be one of the first major film festivals to take place as a physical event following the Covid-19 outbreak.
Among the big-name auteurs selected are Chloe Zhao (Nomadland), Michel Franco (Nuevo...
- 7/28/2020
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
Teen-centric supernatural thriller The Healer marks Giorgio Serafini and Giuseppe Pedersoli’s third collaboration – dramatic thriller Johnny’s Gone will premiere at the upcoming Hollywood Film Festival, and they recently wrapped the family drama Eye of the Hurricane (written/directed by Jesse Wolfe) along with Susan Johnson as the part of production team (The Healer, Eye of [...]
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- 1/2/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Last Friday, we told you about the building cast of the indie supernatural thriller, The Healer by Giorgio Serafini, with the casting the young stars of Super 8, The Hunger Games, and Unicorns with Joel Courtney, Isabelle Fuhrman, and Natalia Dyer respectively.
According to THR, writer/critic/actor/director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Sopranos) has been cast to play a character based on the Greek character of Charon, the ferryman of the River Styx to the land of the dead.
Giuseppe Pedersoli and Susan Johnson are producing the project under the Italian company, Smile Productions. Production will begin this week in North Carolina.
Synopsis:
An ailing father (James LeGros), who is about to undergo a potentially life-threatening surgery, takes his teenage kids (Joel Courtney and Isabelle Fuhrman) into the woods to try and recapture their early closeness, before he and his wife divorced and everything changed. But the...
According to THR, writer/critic/actor/director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Sopranos) has been cast to play a character based on the Greek character of Charon, the ferryman of the River Styx to the land of the dead.
Giuseppe Pedersoli and Susan Johnson are producing the project under the Italian company, Smile Productions. Production will begin this week in North Carolina.
Synopsis:
An ailing father (James LeGros), who is about to undergo a potentially life-threatening surgery, takes his teenage kids (Joel Courtney and Isabelle Fuhrman) into the woods to try and recapture their early closeness, before he and his wife divorced and everything changed. But the...
- 9/12/2011
- by Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
- ScifiMafia
Natalia Dyer is in final negotiations to join the cast of Giorgio Serafini's supernatural thriller "The Healer" at Smile Productions says Variety.
Joel Courtney ("Super 8") and Isabelle Fuhrman ("Orphan") star as teen twins who go on a camping trip with their ailing father (James Le Gros), only to become lost in a haunted forest. Dyer will play a mysterious being sent to protect Courtney's character from the various creatures that are out to destroy him.
Serafini wrote the script while Giuseppe Pedersoli and Susan Johnson are producing. Shooting starts next week in North Carolina.
Joel Courtney ("Super 8") and Isabelle Fuhrman ("Orphan") star as teen twins who go on a camping trip with their ailing father (James Le Gros), only to become lost in a haunted forest. Dyer will play a mysterious being sent to protect Courtney's character from the various creatures that are out to destroy him.
Serafini wrote the script while Giuseppe Pedersoli and Susan Johnson are producing. Shooting starts next week in North Carolina.
- 9/9/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Forests seem to always have a darker side to their natural beauty. The broken family in the indie flick The Healer by Giorgio Serafini goes out for some good old-fashioned bonding time in the wilderness when they become lost in a forest amongst its supernatural denizens.
Variety reports that Joel Courtney (Super 8, Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn) and Isabelle Fuhrman (The Hunger Games, Orphan) have been cast as the teenage twins who go with their father, played by James LeGros (Mildred Pierce, Point Break) on a camping trip, and Natalia Dyer (Unicorns, Hanna Montana) has been cast as “the mysterious being sent to protect Courtney’s character from the various creatures that are out to destroy him.”
[Above: James LeGros, plays the father of the twins]
Giuseppe Pedersoli and Susan Johnson are producing the project under the Italian company, Smile Productions. Production will begin next week in North Carolina.
Synopsis:
An ailing father, who is about to undergo a potentially life-threatening surgery,...
Variety reports that Joel Courtney (Super 8, Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn) and Isabelle Fuhrman (The Hunger Games, Orphan) have been cast as the teenage twins who go with their father, played by James LeGros (Mildred Pierce, Point Break) on a camping trip, and Natalia Dyer (Unicorns, Hanna Montana) has been cast as “the mysterious being sent to protect Courtney’s character from the various creatures that are out to destroy him.”
[Above: James LeGros, plays the father of the twins]
Giuseppe Pedersoli and Susan Johnson are producing the project under the Italian company, Smile Productions. Production will begin next week in North Carolina.
Synopsis:
An ailing father, who is about to undergo a potentially life-threatening surgery,...
- 9/9/2011
- by Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
- ScifiMafia
Variety reports that Natalia Dyer ("Hannah Montana") is set to join Giorgio Serafini's supernatural thriller The Healer with is already starring Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Joel Courtney (Super 8) and James Le Gros ("Justified"). The picture is set to begin filming next week in North Carolina. Per Variety, Courtney and Fuhrman "star as teenage twins who go on a camping trip with their ailing father (Le Gros), only to become lost in a haunted forest. Dyer will play a mysterious being sent to protect Courtney's character from the various creatures that are out to destroy him." The film is being produced by Giuseppe Pedersoli and Susan Johnson through Perdersoli's Italy-based Smile Prods. I'm just surprised this thing is an original script and not based on a book of any kind! Doesn't this sound like something that would be based on a pre-existing property?...
- 9/9/2011
- bloody-disgusting.com
If Orphan taught us anything other than to never adopt a child who sounds like Dracula, it was that its young star, Isabelle Fuhrman, could act her tiny little ass off! Well, she's back with another horror flick, and we've got the scoop for you right here!
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Giorgio Serafini’s supernatural thriller The Healer, starring Fuhrman (pictured right), Joel Courtney and James Le Gros, is set to begin filming September 14th in North Carolina.
Furhman, who is one of the stars of the upcoming The Hunger Games, and Courtney, who most recently appeared in Super 8, will play teenage twins who go on a camping trip with their father only to become lost in a haunted forest.
The film is being produced by Giuseppe Pedersoli and Susan Johnson through Pedersoli’s Italy-based Smile Prods.
Serafini, who wrote the screenplay he is directing, previously collaborated with...
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Giorgio Serafini’s supernatural thriller The Healer, starring Fuhrman (pictured right), Joel Courtney and James Le Gros, is set to begin filming September 14th in North Carolina.
Furhman, who is one of the stars of the upcoming The Hunger Games, and Courtney, who most recently appeared in Super 8, will play teenage twins who go on a camping trip with their father only to become lost in a haunted forest.
The film is being produced by Giuseppe Pedersoli and Susan Johnson through Pedersoli’s Italy-based Smile Prods.
Serafini, who wrote the screenplay he is directing, previously collaborated with...
- 9/7/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
THR writes that Giorgio Serafini's supernatural thriller The Healer, starring Isabelle Fuhrman (The Orphan), Joel Courtney (Super 8) and James Le Gros, is set to begin filming Sept. 14 in North Carolina. Furhman, who is one of the stars of the upcoming The Hunger Games, and Courtney, who most recently appeared in Super 8, will play teenage twins who go on a camping trip with their father only to become lost in a haunted forest. The film is being produced by Giuseppe Pedersoli and Susan Johnson through Perdersoli's Italy-based Smile Prods. Serafini, who wrote the screenplay he is directing, previously collaborated with Pedersoli on the dramatic thriller Johnnys Gone, which will premiere at the upcoming Hollywood Film Festival. Johnson and Pedersoli aldo recently wrapped the family drama Eye of the Hurricane, directed by Jesse Wolfe and starring Campbell Scott and Melanie Lynskey.
- 9/6/2011
- bloody-disgusting.com
Following his success in J.J. Abrams' sci-fi flick "Super 8", Joel Courtney could land more adventurous roles in new films. The young star is said in negotiations for two forthcoming movies, "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" and "The Healer".
Variety reports that the 15-year-old thespian will tackle the role of Tom Sawyer in "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn". Based on a classic novel written by Mark Twain, this movie will be directed by Jo Kastner. The shooting will be kicked off in August in Bulgaria, which is "the one place in the world that looks exactly like 1850's Missouri."
Meanwhile, Courtney will take the role of one of the two kids in "The Healer". Directed and written by Giorgio Serafini, the upcoming flick will tell a story of "an ailing father who takes his two teenage kids into the woods to renew the bond they shared before a divorce.
Variety reports that the 15-year-old thespian will tackle the role of Tom Sawyer in "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn". Based on a classic novel written by Mark Twain, this movie will be directed by Jo Kastner. The shooting will be kicked off in August in Bulgaria, which is "the one place in the world that looks exactly like 1850's Missouri."
Meanwhile, Courtney will take the role of one of the two kids in "The Healer". Directed and written by Giorgio Serafini, the upcoming flick will tell a story of "an ailing father who takes his two teenage kids into the woods to renew the bond they shared before a divorce.
- 6/24/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Joel Courtney made his acting debut in J.J. Abrams' Super 8, and is now in negotiations for two independent films, Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn and The Healer. He really did a wonderful job in the lead role opposite Elle Fanning in the Super 8 so I am interested in seeing how far his range can go.
Variety reports, that Jo Kastner is writing and directing the adaptation of Mark Twain's classic story, in which Courtney is set to play Tom Sawyer, "a mischievous troublemaker in search of endless adventures in 1850s Missouri." The film will be produced by Kastner and Marcus Weinhart, which is scheduled to shoot this August in Bulgaria. That makes no sense for something that is supposed to take place in my home state of Missouri!?
After that wraps, Courtney will move on to star in The Healer, which will be written and directed by...
Variety reports, that Jo Kastner is writing and directing the adaptation of Mark Twain's classic story, in which Courtney is set to play Tom Sawyer, "a mischievous troublemaker in search of endless adventures in 1850s Missouri." The film will be produced by Kastner and Marcus Weinhart, which is scheduled to shoot this August in Bulgaria. That makes no sense for something that is supposed to take place in my home state of Missouri!?
After that wraps, Courtney will move on to star in The Healer, which will be written and directed by...
- 6/23/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
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