Ambi Pictures acquires English-language remake rights to Princess.
Ambi Pictures Group has acquired the English-language remake rights to Arto Halonen’s Finnish feature Princess, based on the true story of cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen.
Ambi’s Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi are financing and producing the remake with an eye toward aligning with A-list female talent for the picture.
Sales arm Ambi Distribution is handling worldwide sales.
Ambi’s president of worldwide sales and acquisitions, Julie Sultan, brought the project to Ambi and will develop and produce with Iervolino and Bacardi.
Produced by Art Films, Princess starred many of Finland’s leading actors including Katja Kuttner, Samuli Edelmann, Krista Kosonen and Peter Franzen, and was the fiction debut of documentary filmmaker Halonen, director of Shadow of the Holy Book, Pavlov’s Dogs and The Magnetic Man.
Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen’s redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked...
Ambi Pictures Group has acquired the English-language remake rights to Arto Halonen’s Finnish feature Princess, based on the true story of cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen.
Ambi’s Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi are financing and producing the remake with an eye toward aligning with A-list female talent for the picture.
Sales arm Ambi Distribution is handling worldwide sales.
Ambi’s president of worldwide sales and acquisitions, Julie Sultan, brought the project to Ambi and will develop and produce with Iervolino and Bacardi.
Produced by Art Films, Princess starred many of Finland’s leading actors including Katja Kuttner, Samuli Edelmann, Krista Kosonen and Peter Franzen, and was the fiction debut of documentary filmmaker Halonen, director of Shadow of the Holy Book, Pavlov’s Dogs and The Magnetic Man.
Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen’s redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked...
- 10/16/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Ambi Distribution, the international sales arm of Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Group, has hired Jj Nugent to work in acquisitions and international sales.
Based in the Beverly Hills office, the new hire will report to Ambi Distribution president Julie Sultan.
The Ambi Pictures slate includes action-thriller 2047 – Sights Of Death starring Danny Glover, thriller Hope Lost starring Danny Trejo, animated feature East End and Italian dramedy Tre Tocchi.
Most recently, Ambi optioned Martina Stella’s debut screenplay O.O.B.I, a psychological thriller that the company will next produce.
Nugent previsouly worked at Voltage Pictures, where he served as Nicolas Chartier’s executive assistant.
Based in the Beverly Hills office, the new hire will report to Ambi Distribution president Julie Sultan.
The Ambi Pictures slate includes action-thriller 2047 – Sights Of Death starring Danny Glover, thriller Hope Lost starring Danny Trejo, animated feature East End and Italian dramedy Tre Tocchi.
Most recently, Ambi optioned Martina Stella’s debut screenplay O.O.B.I, a psychological thriller that the company will next produce.
Nugent previsouly worked at Voltage Pictures, where he served as Nicolas Chartier’s executive assistant.
- 7/31/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Martina Stella’s debut screenplay is set to enter principal photography in early 2015.
Ambi Group, owned and run by Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi, has optioned the rights to psychological thriller O.O.B.I.
Actress Martina Stella’s debut screenplay revolves around a powerful drug that allows those who take it the ability to travel through time, transforming a scientific researcher’s life into a nightmare.
Iervolino and Lady Bacardi are targeting a first quarter 2015 start date for principal photography and will shoot in Canada and Italy.
“Monika and I are excited to be working with young Italian talent Martina Stella on her first screenplay, which we were instantly drawn to. Martina has crafted a unique and electrifying thriller that we cannot wait to bring life to on the big screen for moviegoers,” commented Iervolino.
Lady Bacardi added: “We are continuously searching for projects that are commercially appealing on a global level and viable from a...
Ambi Group, owned and run by Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi, has optioned the rights to psychological thriller O.O.B.I.
Actress Martina Stella’s debut screenplay revolves around a powerful drug that allows those who take it the ability to travel through time, transforming a scientific researcher’s life into a nightmare.
Iervolino and Lady Bacardi are targeting a first quarter 2015 start date for principal photography and will shoot in Canada and Italy.
“Monika and I are excited to be working with young Italian talent Martina Stella on her first screenplay, which we were instantly drawn to. Martina has crafted a unique and electrifying thriller that we cannot wait to bring life to on the big screen for moviegoers,” commented Iervolino.
Lady Bacardi added: “We are continuously searching for projects that are commercially appealing on a global level and viable from a...
- 7/8/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The Weinstein Company (Twc) is pleased to announce that principal photography has commenced on the film version of
the Tony Award winning musical, "Nine," directed by Academy Award nominated director Rob Marshall ("Memoirs of a Geisha," "Chicago").
{sidebar id=1}Heading the stellar cast are Academy Award winners Daniel Day-Lewis ("There Will Be Blood," "My Left Foot"), Nicole Kidman ("The Hours"), Marion Cotillard ("La Vie en Rose"), Judi Dench ("Shakespeare in Love"), and Sophia Loren ("Two Women"); Academy Award nominees Penelope Cruz ("Volver") and Kate Hudson ("Almost Famous"); and Grammy Award winner Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson. The international cast also includes Ricky Tognazzi, Giuseppe Cederna, Valerio Mastandrea, and Martina Stella.
"Nine" tells the story of world famous film director Guido Contini, who faces a personal and professional crisis as he struggles to prepare his latest picture, while balancing the numerous women in his life -- his wife, his mistress, his movie star muse,...
the Tony Award winning musical, "Nine," directed by Academy Award nominated director Rob Marshall ("Memoirs of a Geisha," "Chicago").
{sidebar id=1}Heading the stellar cast are Academy Award winners Daniel Day-Lewis ("There Will Be Blood," "My Left Foot"), Nicole Kidman ("The Hours"), Marion Cotillard ("La Vie en Rose"), Judi Dench ("Shakespeare in Love"), and Sophia Loren ("Two Women"); Academy Award nominees Penelope Cruz ("Volver") and Kate Hudson ("Almost Famous"); and Grammy Award winner Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson. The international cast also includes Ricky Tognazzi, Giuseppe Cederna, Valerio Mastandrea, and Martina Stella.
"Nine" tells the story of world famous film director Guido Contini, who faces a personal and professional crisis as he struggles to prepare his latest picture, while balancing the numerous women in his life -- his wife, his mistress, his movie star muse,...
- 11/7/2008
- by IESB Staff <alyson@iesb.net>
- IESB.net
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