“The Sea Beyond,” the Naples-set prison drama that has become a pop culture phenomenon in Italy, has been bought by U.S. streamer MHz Choice for North America.
Represented in international markets by Beta Film, all four seasons of the drama will premiere exclusively on MHz Choice, with the first season premiering this fall in the U.S. and Canada.
“The Sea Beyond,” which airs on public broadcaster Rai’s Rai Play streaming platform, follows Filippo (Nicolas Maupas) and Carmine (Massimiliano Caiazzo) as their resilience and loyalties are tested while serving time in a juvenile detention center on the Gulf of Naples. As Variety reported earlier this year, the third season of the show scored record-breaking ratings just as previous installments played in more than 20 international territories. Rai Play is believed to have gained roughly 300,000 new subscribers as Season 3 kicked off. The series was created by Cristiana Farina, who co-wrote the script with Maurizio Careddu.
Represented in international markets by Beta Film, all four seasons of the drama will premiere exclusively on MHz Choice, with the first season premiering this fall in the U.S. and Canada.
“The Sea Beyond,” which airs on public broadcaster Rai’s Rai Play streaming platform, follows Filippo (Nicolas Maupas) and Carmine (Massimiliano Caiazzo) as their resilience and loyalties are tested while serving time in a juvenile detention center on the Gulf of Naples. As Variety reported earlier this year, the third season of the show scored record-breaking ratings just as previous installments played in more than 20 international territories. Rai Play is believed to have gained roughly 300,000 new subscribers as Season 3 kicked off. The series was created by Cristiana Farina, who co-wrote the script with Maurizio Careddu.
- 8/31/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The first few notes of “Nieve” take listeners back to the Edm songs bumping at the club in the early 2010s. On Thursday, Feid and Sky Rompiendo dropped their latest collaboration, a dance-ready banger.
The song came about as a surprise for Feid and Sky while they worked on “a song that had nothing to do with this one.” “As soon as I put on the headphones I knew I wanted to hop on this track because I had been looking for something in this sort of vibe for my live show,...
The song came about as a surprise for Feid and Sky while they worked on “a song that had nothing to do with this one.” “As soon as I put on the headphones I knew I wanted to hop on this track because I had been looking for something in this sort of vibe for my live show,...
- 3/4/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
On Feid’s recent single “Fumeteo,” the Colombian singer demonstrated his knack for polished, radio-ready reggaeton — the track was succinct, percussive, and easily chantable.
Feid draws from this well again on “El Padrino,” a cut from his new album Inter Shibuya – La Mafia. This one is more leisurely, opening with more than 50 seconds of Feid singing accompanied only by plaintive acoustic guitar. His voice is very closely mic’d, so the sound of each gulp of oxygen surges through the track — “Teníamo’ ganas de vernos, un afán de conocernos,” sharp...
Feid draws from this well again on “El Padrino,” a cut from his new album Inter Shibuya – La Mafia. This one is more leisurely, opening with more than 50 seconds of Feid singing accompanied only by plaintive acoustic guitar. His voice is very closely mic’d, so the sound of each gulp of oxygen surges through the track — “Teníamo’ ganas de vernos, un afán de conocernos,” sharp...
- 8/30/2021
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Lionsgate has landed the rights to Steven Rowley’s new novel The Guncle with an eye to a movie adaptation.
Rowley has two previous novels also in development for feature adaptations: Lily and The Octopus at Amazon Studios and The Editor at 20th Century Fox. He will adapt and executive produce The Guncle movie treatment for Lionsgate.
Rowley’s latest novel, from the Putnam imprint of Penguin Random House, follows a reclusive, once-famous gay television star who takes his young niece and nephew into his Palm Springs home after their mother dies suddenly, introducing them to his outsize life and unique wisdom and bringing about healing for all three.
Kristin ...
Rowley has two previous novels also in development for feature adaptations: Lily and The Octopus at Amazon Studios and The Editor at 20th Century Fox. He will adapt and executive produce The Guncle movie treatment for Lionsgate.
Rowley’s latest novel, from the Putnam imprint of Penguin Random House, follows a reclusive, once-famous gay television star who takes his young niece and nephew into his Palm Springs home after their mother dies suddenly, introducing them to his outsize life and unique wisdom and bringing about healing for all three.
Kristin ...
Lionsgate has landed the rights to Steven Rowley’s new novel The Guncle with an eye to a movie adaptation.
Rowley has two previous novels also in development for feature adaptations: Lily and The Octopus at Amazon Studios and The Editor at 20th Century Fox. He will adapt and executive produce The Guncle movie treatment for Lionsgate.
Rowley’s latest novel, from the Putnam imprint of Penguin Random House, follows a reclusive, once-famous gay television star who takes his young niece and nephew into his Palm Springs home after their mother dies suddenly, introducing them to his outsize life and unique wisdom and bringing about healing for all three.
Kristin ...
Rowley has two previous novels also in development for feature adaptations: Lily and The Octopus at Amazon Studios and The Editor at 20th Century Fox. He will adapt and executive produce The Guncle movie treatment for Lionsgate.
Rowley’s latest novel, from the Putnam imprint of Penguin Random House, follows a reclusive, once-famous gay television star who takes his young niece and nephew into his Palm Springs home after their mother dies suddenly, introducing them to his outsize life and unique wisdom and bringing about healing for all three.
Kristin ...
The Latin Grammy Awards took place on Thursday, Nov. 19 awarding the year’s top artists in Latin music. Featuring mostly video acceptances and a limited red carpet, performers did take the stage and wowed. Among the highlights: J Balvin (pictured) performing “Rojo” under a sculpture of two hands coming together (the piece weighed 2.6 tons and required two trucks to transport); Karol G delivering “Tusa” backed by al all-female band; Sebastián Yatra, joined by Guaynaa, performing “Chica Ideal” and Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds”; Bad Bunny beamed in from San Juan, Puerto Rico to sing “Bichiyal” and “Si Veo A Tu Mamá”; and Anitta putting her spin on Sergio Mendes’ “Mas Que Nada” from her home city of Río de Janeiro, followed by her own “Me Gusta.”
Winners include Spanish singer Rosalía, who took home album of the year last year, and picked up a trio of trophies on Thursday...
Winners include Spanish singer Rosalía, who took home album of the year last year, and picked up a trio of trophies on Thursday...
- 11/20/2020
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Italian director whose 1966 film A Bullet for the General, set in revolutionary Mexico, began a wave of 'tortilla westerns'
Damiano Damiani, who has died aged 90, was a director of Italian popular films and television. He was best known for La Piovra (The Octopus, 1984), an internationally successful TV series about the mafia, and made several mafia-themed films and TV movies, but his range was much wider.
Born in Pordenone, north-east Italy, he began his career in the 1940s, working in the art department and directing documentaries. As popular Italian cinema boomed in the 1960s, he began to make personal pictures, westerns, comedies, political thrillers and horror films. If you have only seen Amityville II: The Possession (1982), his one American movie, you have seen Damiani at his least inspired. In that film, the camera followed potential victims around a haunted house in a style made tedious four years earlier by John Carpenter's Halloween.
Damiano Damiani, who has died aged 90, was a director of Italian popular films and television. He was best known for La Piovra (The Octopus, 1984), an internationally successful TV series about the mafia, and made several mafia-themed films and TV movies, but his range was much wider.
Born in Pordenone, north-east Italy, he began his career in the 1940s, working in the art department and directing documentaries. As popular Italian cinema boomed in the 1960s, he began to make personal pictures, westerns, comedies, political thrillers and horror films. If you have only seen Amityville II: The Possession (1982), his one American movie, you have seen Damiani at his least inspired. In that film, the camera followed potential victims around a haunted house in a style made tedious four years earlier by John Carpenter's Halloween.
- 3/12/2013
- by Alex Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
Michele Placido, director of Angels of Evil (2010), is one of Italy’s most well known directors. An acclaimed actor first of all (particularly well remembered is his performance in successful Italian miniseries La Piovra, which vividly depicted the fight against organised crime and mafia), Placido has been nurturing his talent for directing for some time now, involving himself with brave productions and proving on more than one occasion that he’s not afraid to represent the truth as it is.Read more »...
- 6/5/2011
- by Matt Groizard
- CineVue
CANNES -- German production-distribution group EOS has teamed with Italy's RAI Fiction and Sergio Silvia Fiction for Venetian Conspiracy, a high-end miniseries set in the world of the Italian drug Mafia, the companies said Wednesday at MIPCOM. The project reteams EOS head Jan Mojto with Italy's Sergio Silvia, who co-produced the hit European Mafia-themed mini The Octopus in 1984. The three companies have committed to four 90-minute episodes of Venetian, with plans for a full rollout should the show sell well abroad. RAI has picked up Italian broadcast rights for the series, and EOS subsidiary Beta Film, which is handling worldwide sales, expects to close a deal for Germany, with pubcaster ZDF the most likely buyer.
- 10/6/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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