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Franco-Tunisian film and TV entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar is expanding the scope of his Italian operations by buying local unscripted production outfit Blu Yazmine, while also entering talks to build a large studio complex in Rome.

Though Ben Ammar’s ambitious plans to build sprawling new filming facilities in the Italian capital are in advanced talks but not fully concrete, the purchase of a majority stake in Blu Yazmine via his Rome-based Eagle Pictures has been closed.

Eagle Pictures, which is headed by former Mediaset exec Andrea Goretti, is Italy’s top indie film distributor thanks to its deals with Paramount and Sony Pictures, whose titles they release exclusively in Italian cinemas. The Rome-based company is also becoming increasingly active in the TV sphere.

The deal that Eagle has with Sony also involves a partnership to co-produce six pictures, one of which is the upcoming Denzel Washington-starrer “The Equalizer 3,...

Franco-Tunisian film entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar’s Italian distribution and production outfit Eagle Pictures is beefing up its production side with the purchase of film and TV startup 302 Original Content.

The Milan-based 302 is headed by emerging producer Giuseppe Saccà who shepherded the 2020 Berlin-prizewinning drama “Bad Tales” by Italy’s Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo when he was working with his father, veteran producer and former Rai head of drama Agostino Sacca, under their Pepito Produzioni shingle.

Saccà, who left Pepito and joined 302 Original Content in July 2021, will stay on board as its managing director.

302, which was founded by veteran TV exec Piero Crispino — who has since exited — got traction in Italy’s kids’ space by producing shows for Disney that have travelled internationally, such as “Alex & Co” and “Penny on M.A.R.S.,” but also various types of content for local broadcasters Rai, Mediaset, Sky, Viacom and Discovery.

Under Saccà’s guidance, the...

Leading Italian theatrical distribution and production house Eagle Pictures has acquired a 100 stake in emerging independent film and TV production start-up 302 Original Content.

Giuseppe Saccà launched 302 Original Content in July 2021 and will stay on as its managing director.

Saccà previously produced alongside his father Agostino Sacca under the banner of Pepito Produzioni, the Rome-based company behind films such as Gianni Amelio’s Hammamet and Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo’s Bad Tales.

302 Original Content’s credits to date include Calabria-set romantic comedy My Brother And I about a brother and sister fighting for the love of the same woman, and the Marta & Eva teen series produced with Rai Ragazzi for Rai Gulp/RaiPlay.

“The acquisition of 302 further expands Eagle Pictures’ business in a constantly evolving audiovisual market,” said Eagle Pictures president and owner Tarak Ben Ammar.

Eagle Pictures was Italy’s top performing distributor in the second quarter of 2022 with a 22.5 share of the market,...

Italy’s 3zero2 shingle, which is a co-producer of Brendan Foley’s pan-European noir “Body of Water,” is ramping up and expanding into film after bringing on board producer Giuseppe Saccà who shepherded Berlin prizewinning drama “Bad Tales.”

The Milan-based outfit founded and headed by veteran TV exec Piero Crispino has been quietly gaining prominence in Italy in the kids’ space by producing shows for Disney that have travelled internationally, such as “Alex & Co” and “Penny on M.A.R.S.,” but also various types of content for local broadcasters Rai, Mediaset, Sky, Viacom and Discovery.

Now, 3zero2 is looking to grow and broaden its scope with the arrival of Saccà who in March was appointed director of content after he exited Pepito Production, the Rome-based company headed by his father, former Rai head of drama Agostino Saccà, which will be collaborating closely with 3zero2, Crispino said. Besides “Bad Tales,” by Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo,...

A panel of producers discussed the ways in which stories and narrative models will change in the wake of the pandemic in a webinar organised by Rome’s Mia Market. How will stories change? What forms will narrative and, therefore, production models take after the pandemic? It’s a question that’s often been asked during lockdown and it’s been talked about once again within the “Storytelling and Audiovisual Production in Post-Covid Italy” seminar, an event organised by the Mia, Rome’s International Audiovisual Market which brought together the CEO & Head of International Co-productions and Development at Fabula Pictures (part of the Federation Entertainment Group) Nicola De Angelis, Head of Development & Production at Rodeo Drive Francesca Di Donna, Giuseppe Saccà of Pepito Produzioni and CEO of Aurora TV Gian Andrea Pecorelli. The racial tensions which have flared in the wake of George Floyd’s death in America formed the basis of a reflection.

Italy’s Pepito Prods., at Berlin with competition drama “Bad Tales” by Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo, is emerging as a new home for the country’s auteurs.

The company, headed by former Rai head of drama Agostino Saccà in January, scored more than $6 million in Italian cinemas with veteran Gianni Amelio’s “Hammamet,” a biopic of disgraced late Italian prime minister Bettino Craxi that marks Amelio’s best box office result in a decade.

“Bad Tales,” which world premieres Feb. 25, is the D’Innocenzo brothers’ followup to their debut, “Boy’s Cry.” That bowed in Berlin’s Panorama in 2018.

Giuseppe Saccà, who is a partner in the family-run indie along with his father and sister Maria Grazia, said they were approached by the self-taught directorial duo, now aged 30, with the screenplay for “Boy’s Cry” and were awed by the writing. They decided to take the plunge “even though they had never directed anything before,...

Looking to add a bit of spice to your DVD collection this summer? Then you'll want to enter for a chance to win one of three copies of Gabriele Albanesi's Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show we have available for a giveaway. Read on for the details!

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Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show (formerly known as In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani) was written and directed by Albanesi and stars Giuseppe Soleri as Alessio Rinaldi, Paolo Sassanelli as Ubaldo Terzani, and Laura Gigante as Sara, Alessio’s girlfriend. It co-stars Stefano Fregni, Antonino Iuorio, Francesco Mastrorilli, and Zsuzsanna Ripli. The special effects are by Italian "Wizard of Gore" Sergio Stivaletti, who also collaborated with Albanesi on The Last House in the Woods, so you can be sure there...

Alessio (Giuseppe Soleri) is a struggling filmmaker trying to get a film greenlit, but his producer wants a more experienced writer involved in developing the script. Since Alessio wants to make a horror film, his producer sends him to stay with best-selling horror writer Ubaldo Terzani (Paolo Sassanelli) for a couple of weeks to co-write the script together. Ubaldo Terzani's claim to fame is that the murders in his books are so gritty and realistic that they haunt his readers, so of course, the question is whether he is a talented writer or a killer who writes about his exploits? (Hint: He's a killer. You can tell from the moment he walks on screen.)

Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show is a highly misleading title for this movie. Horrors, aside from the terrible acting and worse writing, are in short supply. Blood and guts are gross and will get an easy rise out of an audience,...

Alessio (Giuseppe Soleri) is a struggling filmmaker trying to get a film greenlit, but his producer wants a more experienced writer involved in developing the script. Since Alessio wants to make a horror film, his producer sends him to stay with best-selling horror writer Ubaldo Terzani (Paolo Sassanelli) for a couple of weeks to co-write the script together. Ubaldo Terzani's claim to fame is that the murders in his books are so gritty and realistic that they haunt his readers, so of course, the question is whether he is a talented writer or a killer who writes about his exploits? (Hint: He's a killer. You can tell from the moment he walks on screen.)

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Time to add some spice to your evening with the first news of the home video release of Italian director Gabriele Albanesi's Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show! Stick in your fork and twirl it up!

Rarovideo announced today that the flick will be hitting DVD on January 31st. Look for more as we get closer!

Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show (formerly known as In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani) was written and directed by Albanesi and stars Giuseppe Soleri as Alessio Rinaldi, Paolo Sassanelli as Ubaldo Terzani, and Laura Gigante as Sara, Alessio’s girlfriend. It co-stars Stefano Fregni, Antonino Iuorio, Francesco Mastrorilli, and Zsuzsanna Ripli. The special effects are by Italian "Wizard of Gore" Sergio Stivaletti, who also collaborated with Albanesi on The Last House in the Woods, so you can be sure there will be no shortage of the red stuff.

For more on the film visit the official...

The latest news from the frequently talked about "Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show" from writer/director Gabriele Albanesi is that the film will premiere in the Us at the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival in San Francisco this June. The latest horror spectacular from Gabriele Albanesi is being screened on both June 5th and June 14th. The film stars Giuseppe Soleri, Paolo Sassanelli and Laura Gigante Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets…...

Folks who are attending the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival in San Francisco this June have a chance to see the Us premiere of Italian director Gabriele Albanesi's Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show as it's being screened on both June 5th and June 14th.

Synopsis:

Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani’s house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani’s bestsellers are so frightening ... Alessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild, and he will have to fight hard to escape Ubaldo Terzani’s jaws.

Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show...

We've been talking about the Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show for some time now -- through title changes, trailer debuts, and more. So we're very happy to report release info is now available, at least for our Italian readers. The rest of us have to wait just a little longer.

From the Press Release:

Minerva Pictures Group is proud to announce the official release of Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show, the long-awaited second film by Gabriele Albanesi after The Last House in the Woods, the Italian cult film that was purchased and distributed in North America by horror guru Sam Raimi.

Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show tells the story of Alessio, a young director who is writing his first film together with Ubaldo Terzani, mephistopheles and charismatic writer of horror novels, which will drag the boy into a real spiral of nightmares and madness ...

Suspended between the literary horrors of Stephen King and...

The next feature film from Italian director Gabriele Albanesi, Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show, has finally gotten itself a poster and a premiere date! Read on for the details.

The film is going to have its Italian premiere on March 19th in the Rome Independent Film Festival, and it will be released in Italy in April. No word yet on a Stateside release, but as soon as we hear something, we'll let you know.

Before we get to the poster, how about a little plot crunch: Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani’s house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares.

The next feature film from Italian director Gabriele Albanesi has changed its title from In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani to the more simple Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show, and to celebrate the identity switch, a new trailer has found its way online!

Before we get to the trailer, how about a little plot crunch: Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani’s house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani’s bestsellers are so frightening ... Alessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild, and he will have to fight hard...

The Minerva Pictures Group has released several new behind-the-scenes images from Italian director Gabriele Albanesi's next feature length flick, In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani, and we have every blood-soaked pixel for your perusal.

In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani was written and directed by Albanesi and stars Giuseppe Soleri as Alessio Rinaldi, Paolo Sassanelli as Ubaldo Terzani, and Laura Gigante as Sara, Alessio’s girlfriend. The special effects are by Italian "Wizard of Gore" Sergio Stivaletti, who also collaborated with Albanesi on The Last House in the Woods, so you can be sure there will be no shortage of the red stuff. Check out a sampling below.

For more on the film visit the official In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani Facebook page

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Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels.

Minerva Pictures Group is proud to present the first behind-the-scenes photos from In The Mouth Of Ubaldo Terzani, the new horror flick by the enfant terrible of Italian Cinema Gabriele Albanesi (The Last House in the Woods) that stars Giuseppe Soleri as Alessio, Paolo Sassanelli as Ubaldo Terzani and Laura Gigante as Sara. In the below photos you can see Gabriele Albanesi supervising the impressive special effects made by Sergio Stivaletti (Demons, Creepers, Cemetery Man(!)) and directing the Italian well-know lead actor Paolo Sassanelli in the role of the evil Ubaldo Terzani and the beautiful young actress Laura Gigante. "Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzanis house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them..."...

Minerva Pictures Group has passed along a handful of behind-the-scenes pics from In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani the new horror flick by Italy's Gabriele Albanesi that stars Giuseppe Soleri as Alessio, Paolo Sassanelli as Ubaldo Terzani and Laura Gigante as Sara. In these photos you can see Gabriele Albanesi supervising the impressive special effects made by Sergio Stivaletti ( Demons , Cemetery Man ) and directing Sassanelli in the role of the evil Ubaldo Terzani and the beautiful young actress Laura Gigante. Synopsis: Alessio Rinaldi, a 25 years old director, is hired by a producer to write the script for his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani's house to start this collaboration and a strange relationship of...

The Minerva Pictures Group has sent over a new still and the first official trailer for In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani, the upcoming feature film from Italian director Gabriele Albanesi (The Last House in the Woods [review here]).

Before we get to the trailer, how about a little plot crunch: Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani’s house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani’s bestsellers are so frightening ... Alessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild, and he will have to fight hard to escape Ubaldo Terzani’s jaws.

From Gabriele Albanesi, the director of The Last House in the Woods, comes his latest blood-soaked slasher, In The Mouth Of Ubaldo Terzan, which stars Giuseppe Soleri, Paolo Sassanelli, Laura Gigante. In the film Alessio Rinaldi, a 25 years old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves in Terzanis house to start this collaboration and suddenly grows between them a strange relationship of psychological dependence: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side and Alessio falls in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzanis bestsellers are so frighteningAlessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild and he will have to fight hard to get rid of Ubaldo Terzanis jaws.

Italy's Gabriele Albanesi first came to international attention thanks to his hard edged horror flick The Last House In The Woods - available on these shores via Ghost House Underground - and now the young director is back with another slice of splattery horror ...

Albanesi is just going into post-production on his latest effort, In The Mouth Of Ubaldi Terzani, and the first stills are now available.  But before getting on to those, what's this all about?

"Alessio Rinaldi, a 25 years old director, get the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves then in Terzani's house to start this collaboration and suddenly grows between them a strange relationship of psychological dependence: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani's bestsellers are so frightening.

Minerva Pictures Group is proud to announce the end of shooting for In The Mouth Of Ubaldo Terzani, the new feature film from Italian director Gabriele Albanesi (The Last House in the Woods, part of Ghost House Underground Eight Box Set) now in post-production. Here the synopsis and some exclusive stills! In The Mouth Of Ubaldo Terzani was written by Gabriele Albanesi and stars Giuseppe Soleri as Alessio, Paolo Sassanelli as Ubaldo Terzani and Laura Gigante as Sara, Alessios girlfriend. The special effects were made by Italian Wizard of Gore Sergio Stivaletti, here at his second collaboration with Albanesi after The Last House in the Woods.

Here at Dread Central we're big fans of writer/director Gabriele Albanesi's The Last House in the Woods (review here). So we were pretty stoked to receive a fresh batch of stills from his latest feature, In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani.

Minerva Pictures Group has announced the end of shooting for In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani, which is now in post-production. Here's the synopsis:

Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani’s house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani’s bestsellers are so frightening ... Alessio will discover that reality can be...