Brand new sales agency Neo Art International has picked up worldwide sales rights outside Italy to Claudio Amendola’s black comedy film trilogy “Cassamortari” (“Funeral Family”).
The film trilogy narrates the story of The Pasti Family, a Roman family who work in the funeral business.
The three titles of the saga are set up at Rome-based company Paco Cinematografica, and co-produced with Antonia Nava’s Neo Art Producciones in Barcelona.
“I Cassamortari,” the first title of the saga, was streamed in 2022 in Italy by Amazon Prime Video, described as an Amazon Exclusive production.
Written by Mary Estella Brugiati and Alessandro Bosi, “Ari-Cassamortari” (“Funeral Family 2”), the second delivery, is currently in post.
This time the film tells how the Pasti Brothers have created a name for themselves as VIP gravediggers, along with an eccentric half-sister they had no idea they had.
“Funeral Family 2” cast take in many of the stars of “I Cassamortari,...
The film trilogy narrates the story of The Pasti Family, a Roman family who work in the funeral business.
The three titles of the saga are set up at Rome-based company Paco Cinematografica, and co-produced with Antonia Nava’s Neo Art Producciones in Barcelona.
“I Cassamortari,” the first title of the saga, was streamed in 2022 in Italy by Amazon Prime Video, described as an Amazon Exclusive production.
Written by Mary Estella Brugiati and Alessandro Bosi, “Ari-Cassamortari” (“Funeral Family 2”), the second delivery, is currently in post.
This time the film tells how the Pasti Brothers have created a name for themselves as VIP gravediggers, along with an eccentric half-sister they had no idea they had.
“Funeral Family 2” cast take in many of the stars of “I Cassamortari,...
- 3/5/2024
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Gangster drama features stars of Gomorrah, The Young Montalbano and Suburra.
Italian outfit Minerva Pictures is launching sales on Toni D’Angelo’s [pictured] Naples-set gangster melodrama Falchi, taking inspiration from the Southern Italian city’s real-life special police unit known as the “falchi”, or falcons, which is focused on fighting organised crime.
“It’s a powerful gangster-crime melodrama which we’re describing as Johnnie To meets Michael Mann. It mixes an auteur element with action,” said Minerva Pictures chief Gianluca Curti who is producing the film alongside Gaetano Di Vaio of Bronx Film.
Fortunato Cerlino, best-known internationally for his role as mafia clan chief Pietro Savastano in Stefano Sollima’s Gomorrah, and Michele Riondino, of The Young Montalbano fame, will play Peppe and Francesco, two flawed but dedicated officers who work closely in the falcon squad.
Other cast members include Claudio Amendola, seen most recently in Sollima’s Suburra, who will play...
Italian outfit Minerva Pictures is launching sales on Toni D’Angelo’s [pictured] Naples-set gangster melodrama Falchi, taking inspiration from the Southern Italian city’s real-life special police unit known as the “falchi”, or falcons, which is focused on fighting organised crime.
“It’s a powerful gangster-crime melodrama which we’re describing as Johnnie To meets Michael Mann. It mixes an auteur element with action,” said Minerva Pictures chief Gianluca Curti who is producing the film alongside Gaetano Di Vaio of Bronx Film.
Fortunato Cerlino, best-known internationally for his role as mafia clan chief Pietro Savastano in Stefano Sollima’s Gomorrah, and Michele Riondino, of The Young Montalbano fame, will play Peppe and Francesco, two flawed but dedicated officers who work closely in the falcon squad.
Other cast members include Claudio Amendola, seen most recently in Sollima’s Suburra, who will play...
- 2/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Film to market premiere at Toronto.
Paris-based Indie Sales has secured sales on Stefano Sollima’s Rome-set organised crime thriller Suburra.
The film has sold to Benelux (Lumiere), Germany and Austria (Koch Films) and Switzerland (Praesens Films).
Sollima previously directed most of the episodes of hit TV series Gomorrah, which sold to more than 100 territories including the Us, where it was acquired by The Weinstein Company.
Other credits include the 2012 film A.C.A.B., about a squad of riot police in Rome, and TV series Romanzo Criminale.
Indie Sales, which will market premiere the high-octane Suburra at a private screening today (Sept 12), is also reporting strong interest from Australia and the UK.
“Stefano Sollima is an amazing director and the actors are great” said Indie Sales chief Nicolas Eschbach.
The film is based on a novel of the same name by Giancarlo De Cataldo and Carlo Bonini, painting a nebulous web of corruption interlinking politicians, the Vatican...
Paris-based Indie Sales has secured sales on Stefano Sollima’s Rome-set organised crime thriller Suburra.
The film has sold to Benelux (Lumiere), Germany and Austria (Koch Films) and Switzerland (Praesens Films).
Sollima previously directed most of the episodes of hit TV series Gomorrah, which sold to more than 100 territories including the Us, where it was acquired by The Weinstein Company.
Other credits include the 2012 film A.C.A.B., about a squad of riot police in Rome, and TV series Romanzo Criminale.
Indie Sales, which will market premiere the high-octane Suburra at a private screening today (Sept 12), is also reporting strong interest from Australia and the UK.
“Stefano Sollima is an amazing director and the actors are great” said Indie Sales chief Nicolas Eschbach.
The film is based on a novel of the same name by Giancarlo De Cataldo and Carlo Bonini, painting a nebulous web of corruption interlinking politicians, the Vatican...
- 9/12/2015
- ScreenDaily
Title: Noi e la Giulia (Giulia and us) Director: Edoardo Leo Starring: Edoardo Leo, Luca Argentero, Claudio Amendola, Anna Foglietta, Stefano Fresi, Carlo Buccirosso. Giulia is one of the most popular female baby names in Italy, but it is also the name of a charming old fashioned car made by Alfa Romeo in the 60s and 70s; which in this flick will become the emblem of the pursuit of dreams during the mature stage of life. ‘Noi e la Giulia’ is the story of fully grown men who finally take the guts to stick to their Plan B: letting go of the profession they despised, to start anew by building [ Read More ]
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- 2/18/2015
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
The Italian entry in the 1996 foreign-language Academy Award competition, the political drama "My Generation" (La Mia Generazione) is set during one long day in 1983 and concentrates on a quartet of characters, one of whom is a leftist terrorist serving a 30-year prison term.
Wilma Labate's second feature recently showed at the AFI and Palm Springs film festivals. Its commercial prospects on the domestic front are unpromising given the film's lack of major stars and challenging but often unengaging agenda.
Despite a realistic approach and good performances from leads Silvio Orlando and Claudio Amendola, "My Generation" moves at too slow a pace and fails overall to make the cagey characters as fascinating as they could be.
A dispirited subversive (Amendola) is suddenly given a "month's leave" from prison to see his girlfriend. A cheerful, seemingly sympathetic captain (Orlando) rides with the prisoner and the film becomes the story of their journey, and several interruptions, such as a prison riot and a few tense moments with an anti-terrorist mob bent on revenge.
Francesca Neri, employing many forlorn looks and quizzical expressions reminiscent of Michelle Pfeiffer, has the impossible task of playing the girlfriend. She's seen in several sequences en route to the rendezvous with her old flame, but there's no real effort to get inside her head.
From Alessandro Pesci's stark cinematography to Nicola Piovani's overbearingly somber score, "My Generation" does succeed in showing the courageousness and genuine shame of the terrorist, while the captain believably represents an Italy that is "rotten."
Indeed, the gloomy atmosphere of the film evokes the era, but "My Generation" is frustratingly bereft of fireworks, emotional or otherwise. Deceptive acts of the captain almost crack Amendola's character, but the latter sticks to his principles and maintains loyalty to old comrades for a heavy price.
MY GENERATION
A Compact production
in collaboration with Rai Radiotelevisioner Italiana
and Dania Film
Presented by Maurizio Tini
Director:Wilma Labate
Producer:Maurizio Tini
Writers:Wilma Labate, Paolo Lapponi, Andrea Leoni, Sandro Petraglia
Director of photography:Alessandro Pesci
Art director:Marta Maffucci
Editor:Enzo Meniconi
Costume designer:Metella Raboni
Music:Nicola Piovani
Color/stereo
Cast:
Captain:Silvio Orlando
Braccio:Claudio Amendola
Giulia:Francesca Neri
Concilio:Vincenzo Peluso
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Wilma Labate's second feature recently showed at the AFI and Palm Springs film festivals. Its commercial prospects on the domestic front are unpromising given the film's lack of major stars and challenging but often unengaging agenda.
Despite a realistic approach and good performances from leads Silvio Orlando and Claudio Amendola, "My Generation" moves at too slow a pace and fails overall to make the cagey characters as fascinating as they could be.
A dispirited subversive (Amendola) is suddenly given a "month's leave" from prison to see his girlfriend. A cheerful, seemingly sympathetic captain (Orlando) rides with the prisoner and the film becomes the story of their journey, and several interruptions, such as a prison riot and a few tense moments with an anti-terrorist mob bent on revenge.
Francesca Neri, employing many forlorn looks and quizzical expressions reminiscent of Michelle Pfeiffer, has the impossible task of playing the girlfriend. She's seen in several sequences en route to the rendezvous with her old flame, but there's no real effort to get inside her head.
From Alessandro Pesci's stark cinematography to Nicola Piovani's overbearingly somber score, "My Generation" does succeed in showing the courageousness and genuine shame of the terrorist, while the captain believably represents an Italy that is "rotten."
Indeed, the gloomy atmosphere of the film evokes the era, but "My Generation" is frustratingly bereft of fireworks, emotional or otherwise. Deceptive acts of the captain almost crack Amendola's character, but the latter sticks to his principles and maintains loyalty to old comrades for a heavy price.
MY GENERATION
A Compact production
in collaboration with Rai Radiotelevisioner Italiana
and Dania Film
Presented by Maurizio Tini
Director:Wilma Labate
Producer:Maurizio Tini
Writers:Wilma Labate, Paolo Lapponi, Andrea Leoni, Sandro Petraglia
Director of photography:Alessandro Pesci
Art director:Marta Maffucci
Editor:Enzo Meniconi
Costume designer:Metella Raboni
Music:Nicola Piovani
Color/stereo
Cast:
Captain:Silvio Orlando
Braccio:Claudio Amendola
Giulia:Francesca Neri
Concilio:Vincenzo Peluso
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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