The film follows the antics of Bandit as he takes a bet from “Big Enos” and “Little Enos” Burdette ( Pat McCormick and Paul Williams) to transport a truckload of Coors from Texarkana to Atlanta in just 28 hours. The solution? Create entertainment that looked contemporary in terms of the anti-establishment vibe of cooler films, but which suited the hypermasculine style of certain stars and slyly pandered to traditional values. Hollywood consequently had a problem placing tough guy stars like Reynolds who were never going to fit into stories like Marathon Man or Three Days of the Condorwhich required the male lead to show emotional vulnerability. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.RELATED: The 20 Best Car Movies of All Time
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Son of the Century,” which traces the birth of Mussolini’s ascent in Italy and is being made into a series for Sky, produced by Fremantle’s The Apartment.Įverything Coming to Netflix in August 2022įrom 'Eragon' to 'Blonde': Books Being Made Into Movies and TV Series That You Should Read Scurati is the author of bestselling novel “M. Banditi a Milano,” which Bamboo is developing with Mia Film, the company that made the docuseries and a timely show titled “Generazione Z,” about “present-day neo-Nazism and Fascism,” said Belardi, written by Italian historian and author Antonio Scurati. Other projects percolating in Bamboo’s development pipeline include a TV series for Italian public broadcaster RAI on late Italian pop singer-songwriter, actor,and “bad boy” Franco Califano a series on the Milanese mob in the ’70s, for Sky, which is a spin-off of Sky docuseries “La Mala. Separately, his Netflix deal also comprises the acquisition of streaming rights for three other movies that Bamboo will produce. But the rapport with Leone recently soured, so Belardi parted ways with them to set up Bamboo.īelardi said Bamboo recently inked a multi-picture deal with Netflix to produce two or three unspecified Italian original films for the streamer. Leone Film Group in 2014 acquired a majority stake in Lotus, where Belardi remained in charge. They will provide a cross-section of Italy’s post-World War II generation and their drive to restart, intertwined with a postwar passion for the movies.Ĭoncurrently, to help launch the series, Belardi said he would like to produce a doc about how “Cinema Paradiso” germinated, both creatively and from a production standpoint, though this project is not yet greenlit.īelardi until recently headed the film and TV company Lotus Production, which besides producing Italian megahit “Perfect Strangers,” also spawned a steady stream of other hits such as Gabriele Muccino’s “There Is No Place Like Home,” which in 2018 pulled in more than $10 million locally, and has been spun off recently into a successful TV series for Sky. He added that Tornatore is currently writing the treatment and the pilot, with plans for the show to be shot imminently and delivered in 2023.Įlements being weaved into the “Paradiso” series include “the strength of a mother, the solidarity of a friend, sex as a taboo, forced relocations, eloping, and marked social differences,” according to materials cited by Belardi.Įffectively, the backstories of main characters of the fictional Sicilian village of Giancaldo, where “Cinema Paradiso” is set, are being spun out.
The “Paradiso” series “will be the same story of the film, but in expanded form with various different narrative strands,” said Belardi. The pic, which has since gained cult status globally, was re-released in the U.K. “Cinema Paradiso” won a Special Jury Prize at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival before going on to win the Oscar for best foreign language film in 1990 and earning more than $12 million at the U.S.
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