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Italy’s Leone Movie Group is taking the legacy of its founder, spaghetti Western grasp Sergio Leone, to the following stage.

Because the Rome-based firm run by the maestro’s youngsters, Raffaella and Andrea, celebrates its thirty fifth anniversary, it continues to consolidate its standing because the preeminent provider of U.S. indie product to Italy. The Leone’s movie and TV manufacturing aspect has been lately rising with a sturdy slate of high-end content material for the worldwide market.

Having grow to be the highest distribution companion in Italy for U.S. indies corresponding to Lionsgate, STX Leisure, Voltage and Black Bear Footage, the Leone Movie Group is now centered on what Raffaella Leone calls the “harder process” of “laying the groundwork for our manufacturing aspect within the worldwide area.”
The group’s Lotus Manufacturing label, which is now run immediately by Raffaella, has a slew of initiatives in varied phases, with new movies by James Grey, Isabel Coixet and Gabriele Muccino. Because it ramps up its manufacturing division, LFG is busy forging shut ties with a galaxy of manufacturing companions, from Spain’s Mediapro to Ridley Scott’s Scott Free, to Rodrigo Teixeira’s Brazil-based RT Options and “The White Lotus” producer David Bernad.

“We’re pushed by a powerful need to work as producers with worldwide corporations on an equal footing,” says Raffaella, who’s the corporate’s co-owner and CEO.

This increase to Leone’s manufacturing aspect is going down towards a backdrop of upheavals in Hollywood attributable to strikes and mergers. And LFG’s ambitions are unfolding amid consolidation within the Italian market the place, following a number of international buyouts of their rivals, LFG is now one of many few totally Italian-owned corporations left standing.

All of the uncertainty and exercise is opening doorways for non-U.S. gamers within the world content material area.
“Our objective is it to stay an Italian firm, and really do the alternative: purchase or merge with a world firm that might be Spanish or presumably American,” say Raffaella and Andrea. This need to broaden is just not dictated by “delusions of grandeur,” they add, however as a result of “that’s the place the market goes and in addition because of the scale of initiatives we wish to produce.”

A have a look at the LFG manufacturing pipeline:

Untitled James Grey mission

Produced by LFG in tandem with Teixeira (“Armageddon Time”), who stated in an announcement: “It’s such an honor to work on a movie with the Leone household. I began my profession within the movie business partly due to Sergio Leone’s legacy. When the chance to co-produce a brand new movie by James Grey with Raffaella and Andrea Leone got here, it was a dream come true.” Particulars of the mission, which will likely be Grey’s subsequent movie, are being stored underneath wraps.

Days of Abandonment

Penelope Cruz will star in Coixet’s English-language adaptation of Italian writer Elena Ferrante’s novel of the identical title, and a screenplay by “The Affair” co-creator Sarah Treem. “Abandonment” is about to reunite the 2 high Spanish skills following their collaboration on one other U.S.-set movie, the 2008 drama “Elegy.” That movie is an adaptation of Philip Roth’s novella “The Dying Animal,” about an affair between a professor (performed by Ben Kingsley) and his scholar (Cruz).

Deep Crimson remake

LFG has teamed up with “White Lotus” producer Bernad on a recent remake of Dario Argento’s 1975 horror basic.

Siracusa

Filmmaker Gabriele Muccino — whose Hollywood credit embody Will Smith-starrer “The Pursuit of Happyness” — will direct this English-language adaptation of Delia Ephron’s novel “Siracusa.” The supply materials follows two {couples} and a baby who take a trip on the sun-drenched coast of the Ionian Sea in Sicily, and turns into “a thriller” of kinds, says Raffaella. Muccino’s Sicily-set romantic thriller “Right here Now,” starring Elena Kampouris (“My Huge Fats Greek Wedding ceremony 3”), additionally produced by LFG, will likely be launched in Italy in October.

Scandalo

Paolo Genovese (“Excellent Strangers”) will direct this reconstruction of the love triangle involving director Ingrid Bergman, neo-realism grasp Roberto Rossellini and actor Anna Magnani, primarily based on the e book “Gli amanti del vulcano” (“The Volcano Lovers”) by Italian journalist Marcello Sorgi. The screenplay is by Francesco Piccolo (“My Sensible Good friend”) and Genovese.

Joan of Arc mission

LFG and Scott Free are creating this mission, promising a brand new tackle the French icon. It’s an adaptation of a chapter of a bestselling e book by Italian historian Alessandro Barbero, who describes Joan as a girl “who headed a military dressed as a person and paid along with her life for that problem to the principles of her time.”

Love Me, Love Me

American director Roger Kumble (“Merciless Intentions”) will direct the primary instalment of the phenomenally profitable Wattpad novels trilogy by Stefania S. “Love Me, Love Me” facilities on 16-year-old June, who turns into entangled in a love triangle with two boys who’re greatest associates and uncovers hidden truths. Lotus is producing with Amazon MGM Studios in collaboration with Wattpad Webtoon Studios. Prime Video will launch globally.

Leone Movie Group “perceive the significance of viewers engagement and fandom, which is crucial to our studio,” says Aron Levitz, president of Wattpad Webtoon Studios. “We take nice satisfaction in partnering with such a legendary studio and are excited to proceed making content material with Leone Movie Group and the gifted crew at Lotus Manufacturing,” he provides.

The Leone Movie Group milestones:

1989

Sergio Leone units up an organization to assist make “Leningrad,” his long-gestating dream mission, however he died that yr. In the course of the ensuing years, two of his three youngsters, Raffaella and Andrea, go into enterprise promoting TV films as Leone Movie Group after chopping their enamel managing rights of two Westerns they inherited from their father: “As soon as Upon a Time within the West” and “Duck, You Sucker!”  

2001

After a decade throughout which they cast relationships with U.S. indies and equipped product to most Italian broadcasters, accu-mulating a considerable library, Raffaella and Andrea make the leap into theatrical with Steven Soderbergh’s “Site visitors.” In addition they begin broadening their market exercise from TV to extra platforms, together with pay TV and residential video.  

2009

LFG strikes into native manufacturing with youth comedy “Generazione 1,000 Euro.”  

2012

LFG indicators its first multi-year output deal for theatrical with DreamWorks (Amblin/Storyteller). 

2013

Shingle inks a multi-year output cope with Summit Leisure and, by extension, Lionsgate. Pacts with FilmNation and different U.S. gamers observe.

Begin of shut collaboration with RAI Cinema’s 01 Distribution. First key titles are “Rush” and “The Wolf of Wall Avenue.”  

LFG flotation kicks off on Dec. 19 as Ennio Morricone’s rating for “As soon as Upon a Time within the West” performs inside Milan inventory alternate.

2014

LFG acquires manufacturing firm Lotus.

2015

Lionsgate provides LFG a mandate to grow to be their govt producer on “John Wick 2,” the primary of a number of large U.S. productions they’ve serviced in Italy.

2016

Lotus produces its first TV sequence, “Immaturi,” and begins creating worldwide exhibits. Its newer TV sequence embody Disney+’s “The Lions of Sicily” (2023) and upcoming Naples-set present “Uonderbois,” about children who roam town’s underbelly led by a Robin Hood-like character, additionally for Disney+.  

2018

Lionsgate’s household drama “Surprise” scores its greatest European haul in Italy with $13.8 million. Gabriele Muccino’s ensemble dramedy “A Casa Tutti Bene” (“There Is No Place Like Dwelling”) is Italy’s high native hit.  

2019

LFG sees success in Italy with “Mia and the White Lion,” “Vice,” “Inexperienced Guide” and “After.” 

Shingle inks unique first-window 30-month cope with Amazon. Sky has second window.

2020

Muccino’s “Gli Anni Più Belli” (“The Greatest Years”) sees its high-grossing launch lower brief by the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021

LFG-produced teen romancer “Time Is Up” starring Bella Thorne is the highest-grossing limited-event launch of the yr in Italian cinemas.

Partnership with Amazon prolonged because of stellar outcomes achieved by LFG-distributed product on the Prime Video platform, espe-cially with the “After” movie franchise. “They’re the gold commonplace in distribution,” says “After” producer Nicolas Chartier, head of Voltage Footage. “And their father is my favourite director!”

The Prime Video partnership expands with the launch of a curated Leone “As soon as Upon a Time” channel of high Italian titles from LFG’s library.

2022

Raffaella Leone takes the reins at Lotus.

2023

LFG releases 11 titles theatrically, 4 of which self-produced, amongst them Micaela Ramazzotti’s “Felicità” (“Happiness”), which premieres on the Venice Movie Competition.

2024

Italian billionaire Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio buys a 13.78% of LFG by means of his LMDV Capital, “pushed by a need to assist the group keep in Italian palms and develop,” says Raffaella Leone.

Raffaella Leone is awarded the Cavaliere del Lavoro (Order of Benefit for Labour) medal in recognition of the prominence she has attained as an Italian entrepreneur.