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Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian director Francesca Archibugi (“La Storia,” “The Hummingbird”) will direct sex-trafficking drama “Illusion” toplining Jasmine Trinca (“La Storia,” “Supersex”) as an intrepid magistrate investigating a prostitution ring with links to the European parliament. Shooting is set to start next month in central Italy on the roughly $8 million film that will reunite Archibugi with Trinca who played the lead in the director’s feminist fascist-era saga “La Storia” that was Italy’s biggest TV event of 2023. Italy’s Fandango is co-producing “Illusion” with RAI Cinema and Belgium’s Tarantula.

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‘Perfect Strangers’ Director Scores Smash Hit With New Comedy ‘Madly’ With Raft of Remake Deals to Close at Cannes Market (EXCLUSIVE)

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent ‘Perfect Strangers’ director Paolo Genovese has done it again with a new concept comedy titled “Madness” that is set to hit the global market after scoring mightily in Italy. “Madness” – which is titled “FolleMente” in Italy – depicts a first date between a man and a woman in Rome and features all the voices that live in their brains which oscillate between embarrassment and laughter, each played by a different actor.

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‘Homejacking’, French Thriller From ‘Lupin’ Writers, And Young Adult Series ‘Prisma’ & ‘Rumors’ Sell To Italy’s RAI

EXCLUSIVE: Homejacking, the French series created by Lupin writers Tigran Rosine and Florent Meyer in collaboration with Emmanuelle Faguer, has sold to Italian broadcast giant RAI. Beta Film is distributing and sealed the deal for the drama, which played in the French Competition at Series Mania last year.

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Karlovy Vary Winner Saurav Rai Brings Psychological Drama ‘Lanka’ to Hong Kong Film Financing Forum

Naman Ramachandran Acclaimed Indian filmmaker Saurav Rai is set to present his new project “Lanka” at this year’s Hong Kong — Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), the project market running alongside Hong Kong FilMart. The Hindi-language drama follows 12-year-old Shiv, who faces bullying due to his family’s old van used for school transportation.

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‘White Tiger’ Star Adarsh Gourav, Shanaya Kapoor to Headline Genre-Bending ‘Tu Yaa Main,’ Teaser Unveiled (EXCLUSIVE)

Naman Ramachandran India’s Colour Yellow continues its streak of unconventional storytelling with “Tu Yaa Main,” a new thriller pairing BAFTA nominee Adarsh Gourav (“The White Tiger,” “Superboys of Malegaon”) with newcomer Shanaya Kapoor in what the filmmakers describe as an “ultimate date fright film.” The project marks the first collaboration between producers Aanand L. Rai and director Bejoy Nambiar, known for his atmospheric thriller “Shaitan.” The teaser unfolds in what’s described as “hauntingly atmospheric backwaters,” offering glimpses of a narrative that oscillates between romance and pulse-pounding suspense.

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Roschdy Zem Set for Psychodrama ‘Elisa — I Wanted to Kill Her’ Directed by Leonardo Di Costanzo (EXCLUSIVE)

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent French-Moroccan multi-hyphenate Roschdy Zem (“Days of Glory,” “The Innocent”) and Italy’s Barbara Ronchi (“Kidnapped”) are set to star in psychological drama “Elisa — Io la volevo uccidere” by Italian director Leonardo Di Costanzo (“The Inner Cage,” “The Intruder”). Zem, who is one of France’s most bankable actors, will play a compassionate criminologist named Alaoui, whose life intersects with a young woman named Elisa, played by Ronchi. Elisa comes from a middle class family and has been in prison for 10 years for brutally killing her sister.

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Kriti Sanon Officially Cast Opposite Dhanush In ‘Raanjhanaa’ Universe Epic ‘Tere Ishk Mein’

EXCLUSIVE: The rumors are true: Kriti Sanon has been cast opposite Dhanush to star in Tere Ishk Mein.

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Bille August Series ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ Starring ‘Peaky Blinders’ Actor Sam Claflin Draws Top Ratings in Italy

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Bille August-directed TV series “The Count of Monte Cristo,” featuring an international cast led by Sam Claflin (“Peaky Blinders”) is reaping stellar ratings in Italy, scoring on average a whopping 26% primetime share on the country’s state broadcaster RAI. The first episode of August’s high-end adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic, which the two-time Palme d’Or winning director of “Pelle the Conqueror” and “Smilla’s Sense Of Snow” shot in Paris, Torino, Rome and Malta, drew more than 5 million viewers Monday on RAI’s RAI-1 flagship station, reaching peaks of more than 32% of the country’s total TV audience and marking RAI’s best ratings for a TV series in nearly a year.

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French TV Shows ‘Sambre,’ ‘Bardot,’ ‘Marie-Antoinette’ Are Top Non-English Language Exports in 2024

Ben Croll Supported in no small part by European sales, France emerged as the third largest audiovisual producer for the international TV market last year, claiming a 7.3% market share and standing behind the U.S. (with a 65.9% share) and the U.K.

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John C. Reilly Set to Play Buffalo Bill in Surreal Italian Western ‘Heads or Tails?’ From ‘Tale of King Crab’ Directors (EXCLUSIVE)

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent John C. Reilly will soon appear on the big screen as Buffalo Bill in “Heads or Tails?” a surreal Western by Italian directorial duo Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis (“The Tale of King Crab“). The film is inspired by a true event that took place during Buffalo Bill’s stay in Italy.

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Rai Adapting Mario Tobino’s Tuscan World War Two Novel; Unifrance TV Export Winners; Beta SBS Deal; Banff Board – Global Briefs

Rai Adapting Mario Tobino‘s Tuscan World War Two Novel

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‘La Storia,’ ‘Operation Sabre,’ ’30 Days of Lust’ Sold by Beta Film to SBS Australia (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent TV powerhouse Beta Film has closed a weighty deal with Australian public broadcaster Special Broadcasting Service. (SBS) Totalling nearly 200 hours of entertainment, the deal is led by RAI 2023 event series “Elsa Morante’s La Storia,” recently sold to the U.S.

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Triptii Dimri Tops IMDb’s 2024 Most Popular Indian Stars List (EXCLUSIVE)

Naman Ramachandran Rising star Triptii Dimri has secured the No. 1 spot on IMDb‘s Most Popular Indian Stars of 2024 ranking, with Deepika Padukone following at No. 2.

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Marrakech: Gangster Western ‘The Last Beast of Atlas’ to Be Launched by Walid Messnaoui, Caestus Films (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Having made a splash with tense and brutal petty crime caper short “No Key,” an Indie Short Fest winner that also screened at Fantastic Fest, Casablanca-born director Walid Messnaoui and fast-building Moroccan production house Caestus Films are preparing Messnaoiu’s first feature, “The Last Beast of Atlas,” described as a twilight Western and drama. “The Last Beast” rates as one of the buzzy debuts to be presented at the Marrakech Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops, which promises a dazzling array of titles from usually young talent from Africa and the Arab World which embrace a huge variety of genres.

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‘Kurinji,’ ‘Hunter’s Moon’ and ‘Shape of Momo’ Claim Project and Work-in-Progress Awards at Film Bazaar

“Kurinji” (aka “The Disappearing Flower”) was Sunday named as the first prize winner of the projects at the Film Bazaar in Goa, India. It earned a $10,000 cash prize. The project explores the theme of “Gulf Wife” syndrome and follows a Kerala housewife whose migrant worker husband in the Gulf region suddenly stops calling home after years of separation.

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Film Bazaar Work-in-Progress ‘Shape of Momo’ Aims to Reshape Women’s Position in Society

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Female director Tribeny Rai once took on hard labor in her native Sikkim, India, in order to prove that women are not weak. But she found that even those drastic efforts did not solve the problems of patriarchy and long-standing traditions that favor male decision-making, male children and even how women view their own roles in society. Rai’s new film “The Shape of Momo” attempts to tackle the issue with a different, soft-power approach.The film tells the tale of a woman who resigns from her job and returns to her family that is apparently cursed by the death of several of its male members.

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Italy’s Lux Vide Celebrates Three Decades of Production as It Looks to Global Expansion with ‘Sandokan’ and ‘Costiera’

John Bleasdale Guest Contributor The year was 1992 when Ettore Bernabei, a former chief of Italian public broadcaster RAI, founded Lux Vide, first as an advertising company before moving into television production. Over 30 years and 1,300 hours of television later, the production house with its expanded studio space now has one of the largest, most sustainable and technologically advanced production spaces in Europe.

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Thriller ‘The Couple Next Door’ Sells to More than 55 Territories (EXCLUSIVE)

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Beta Film’s thriller series “The Couple Next Door,” commissioned by the U.K.’s Channel 4 and Starz in North America, has taken the global market by storm. Beta Film secured major deals in more than 55 territories across the world, including RTL in Germany, RAI in Italy, Amazon in the Netherlands (first window) and RTL in the Netherlands (second window), as well as VTM in Belgium, and YES in Israel.

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Anurag Kashyap Boards Venice, Busan, Mumbai Title ‘Pooja, Sir’ as Executive Producer, Channel 4 Buys for U.K. and Ireland (EXCLUSIVE)

Naman Ramachandran Indian auteur Anurag Kashyap has boarded Deepak Rauniyar‘s “Pooja, Sir” as an executive producer, while Channel 4 has snapped up the film for the U.K. and Ireland. The film debuted in the Venice Film Festival‘s Horizons strand competition earlier this year, and has subsequently played Hamburg and Busan, with the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival up next.

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Rome MIA Market: True Colours Founders Talk Move Into TV Sales Under New Managing Director Elliot Gustin-Hollman, Announce Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Nearly 10 years after its launch, Italian sales company True Colours is branching out from feature films into the TV content space under the new management of Elliot Gustin-Hollman, formerly with Paris-based distribution powerhouse Newen Connect. The move into TV sales is being made by True Colours – which is co-owned by Italy’s Indigo Film and Lucky Red – after these companies increasingly ventured into scripted dramas over the past decade.

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Europe’s Top TV Commissioners Explain What They’re Looking for in Projects, Partnerships

Jamie Lang Commissioners from four of Europe’s top public broadcasters assembled in Madrid on Tuesday for a roundtable discussion about what they’re looking for in potential scripted projects. Hosted by the Iberseries & Platino Industria forum and emceed by María Valenzuela, the panel included speakers Morad Koufane, France Télévisions’ director of international and young adult series; José Pastor, director of cinema and fiction at RTVE in Spain; Michele Zatta, commissioning editor in charge of international co-productions for Italy’s RAI; and Laura Mae Harding, commissioning editor for international co-productions at ZDF in Germany.

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