Penélope Cruz is taking on an Elena Ferrante adaptation.
IndieWire can confirm the “Ferrari” actress is reuniting with “Elegy” director Isabel Coixet for the adaptation of Ferrante’s 2002 “The Days of Abandonment,” which followed Olga, an Italian woman, who loses her grasp on reality after her husband of 15 years abruptly leaves her for another woman.
The big screen adaptation will instead be set in America, as Variety reported, with the script penned by Laurence Coriat (“Summer in Genoa”). “The Days of Abandonment” will be produced by Lotus, a unit of Raffaella and Andrea Leone’s Leone Film Group, and Cruz’s production banner Moonlyon. Cruz’s brother Edu Cruz will also produce along with Marco Perego through their Nimoa Entertainment company.
Director Coixet has recently helmed “Un Amor,” “My Life Without Me,” and “The Secret Life of Words.”
Author Ferrante’s novels have been adapted for the big and small screens,...
IndieWire can confirm the “Ferrari” actress is reuniting with “Elegy” director Isabel Coixet for the adaptation of Ferrante’s 2002 “The Days of Abandonment,” which followed Olga, an Italian woman, who loses her grasp on reality after her husband of 15 years abruptly leaves her for another woman.
The big screen adaptation will instead be set in America, as Variety reported, with the script penned by Laurence Coriat (“Summer in Genoa”). “The Days of Abandonment” will be produced by Lotus, a unit of Raffaella and Andrea Leone’s Leone Film Group, and Cruz’s production banner Moonlyon. Cruz’s brother Edu Cruz will also produce along with Marco Perego through their Nimoa Entertainment company.
Director Coixet has recently helmed “Un Amor,” “My Life Without Me,” and “The Secret Life of Words.”
Author Ferrante’s novels have been adapted for the big and small screens,...
- 9/6/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Penélope Cruz is set to star as Olga, a writer forced to give up her artistic ambitions when her husband suddenly leaves her and their two young daughters, in Isabel Coixet’s English-language adaptation of Italian author Elena Ferrante’s “The Days of Abandonment.”
The deal to make the film, which is now in development, was signed before the SAG-AFTRA strike. While Cruz did not attend the Venice Film Festival, she elicited raves from critics on the Lido for her performance in Michael Mann’s “Ferrari” as the angry, lonely, grief-ravaged Laura Ferrari, emotionally estranged from her husband Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver).
“The Days of Abandonment,” which will transpose the novel’s original Italian setting to America, reunites the two top Spanish talents following their collaboration on another U.S.-set film, the 2008 drama “Elegy” an adaptation of Philip Roth’s novella “The Dying Animal,” about an affair between a...
The deal to make the film, which is now in development, was signed before the SAG-AFTRA strike. While Cruz did not attend the Venice Film Festival, she elicited raves from critics on the Lido for her performance in Michael Mann’s “Ferrari” as the angry, lonely, grief-ravaged Laura Ferrari, emotionally estranged from her husband Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver).
“The Days of Abandonment,” which will transpose the novel’s original Italian setting to America, reunites the two top Spanish talents following their collaboration on another U.S.-set film, the 2008 drama “Elegy” an adaptation of Philip Roth’s novella “The Dying Animal,” about an affair between a...
- 9/6/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Wattpad Webtoon Studios, the entertainment arm of the user-generated fiction and comics entertainment outfit, and Italy’s Leone Film Group have announced two new adaptations based on hit young-adult Wattpad novels.
Taiwan-based author Ann Rae’s romantic mystery “The Locker Exchange,” which is set in a U.S. high school and has over 26 million reads globally on the Wattpad platform, is set to become an English and Italian-language feature film. And “Love Me, Love Me” by Italian writer Stefania S, which has scored 12 million reads in Italy, is to be adapted into an Italian-language series by Leone’s Lotus Production unit.
The two new adaptations expand on an existing deal that Leone inked last year to co-develop a slate of films for the Italian and international marketplace based on original fiction stories from Wattpad. That pact came after the two companies partnered to make a movie based on Blair Holden...
Taiwan-based author Ann Rae’s romantic mystery “The Locker Exchange,” which is set in a U.S. high school and has over 26 million reads globally on the Wattpad platform, is set to become an English and Italian-language feature film. And “Love Me, Love Me” by Italian writer Stefania S, which has scored 12 million reads in Italy, is to be adapted into an Italian-language series by Leone’s Lotus Production unit.
The two new adaptations expand on an existing deal that Leone inked last year to co-develop a slate of films for the Italian and international marketplace based on original fiction stories from Wattpad. That pact came after the two companies partnered to make a movie based on Blair Holden...
- 4/26/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Efm: The Los Angeles-based sales, financing and production company has reported a roaring trade on its marquee sales title here.
Mel Gibson will direct Hacksaw Ridge and Andrew Garfield will star as Desmond Doss, the real-life WWII medic who became the first conscientious objector to receive a Congressional Medal Of Honor.
Cross Creek Pictures is financing the $40-50m project and produces alongside Pandemonium Films.
Rights have gone in Germany (Universum), Italy (Andrea Leone), Spain (Dea Planeta), Scandinavia (Mis Label), South Korea (Pancinema), Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, central America and Latin America pay-tv (Sun), Switzerland (Impuls) and Taiwan (Applause).
Deals also closed in South Africa (M-Net), Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and former Yugoslavia (Freeman Entertainment), Hong Kong (Bravos), Indonesia (Cinema 21), Czech/Slovak (Aqs), Greece (Spentzos), Turkey (Pinema), Indonesia (Cinema 21) and Israel (United King).
Apsara handles the film in Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Asia pay-tv. Entertainment In Motion...
Mel Gibson will direct Hacksaw Ridge and Andrew Garfield will star as Desmond Doss, the real-life WWII medic who became the first conscientious objector to receive a Congressional Medal Of Honor.
Cross Creek Pictures is financing the $40-50m project and produces alongside Pandemonium Films.
Rights have gone in Germany (Universum), Italy (Andrea Leone), Spain (Dea Planeta), Scandinavia (Mis Label), South Korea (Pancinema), Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, central America and Latin America pay-tv (Sun), Switzerland (Impuls) and Taiwan (Applause).
Deals also closed in South Africa (M-Net), Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and former Yugoslavia (Freeman Entertainment), Hong Kong (Bravos), Indonesia (Cinema 21), Czech/Slovak (Aqs), Greece (Spentzos), Turkey (Pinema), Indonesia (Cinema 21) and Israel (United King).
Apsara handles the film in Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Asia pay-tv. Entertainment In Motion...
- 2/9/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Stuart Ford’s sales and finance powerhouse Im Global has closed a slew of deals on the Andrew Garfield-starring and Mel Gibson-directed Hacksaw Ridge, confirming its pre-market status as one of the hottest titles at this year’s Efm.
Universum has bought the project from Germany, Andrea Leone for Italy, Dea Planeta for Spain, Mis Label for Scandinavia, Pancinema for Korea, Sun Distribution for Latin America, Entertainment in Motion for Airlines, M-net for South Africa, Cinema 21 for Indonesia, Impuls for Switzerland, Freeman Entertainment for Poland, Spentzos for Greece, Pinema for Turkey, Applause for Taiwan, Aqs for Czech/Slovak, Bravos for Hong Kong, Freeman Entertainment for selected East European territories, Apsara for Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Asia pay TV, United King for Israel.
The epic film tells the true story of Desmond T Doss, the first conscientious objector in U.S. history to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Universum has bought the project from Germany, Andrea Leone for Italy, Dea Planeta for Spain, Mis Label for Scandinavia, Pancinema for Korea, Sun Distribution for Latin America, Entertainment in Motion for Airlines, M-net for South Africa, Cinema 21 for Indonesia, Impuls for Switzerland, Freeman Entertainment for Poland, Spentzos for Greece, Pinema for Turkey, Applause for Taiwan, Aqs for Czech/Slovak, Bravos for Hong Kong, Freeman Entertainment for selected East European territories, Apsara for Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Asia pay TV, United King for Israel.
The epic film tells the true story of Desmond T Doss, the first conscientious objector in U.S. history to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.
- 2/9/2015
- by Ali Jaafar
- Deadline
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