Writing on Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island in 2010, Anthony Lane whipped a quote from Umberto Eco: “Two cliches make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.” Eco’s words resonate even stronger in Christmas Eve at Miller’s Point, a fascinating simulacrum of festive movies in which references to annual favorites are thrust together with about as much delicacy as the family it tenderly depicts. The island isn’t Shutter but Long, specifically a small town in Suffolk County where we meet four generations of the Bolsanos, a blue-collar family going through the motions and rituals of their annual get-together, adoring and enduring each other as best they can in what might be their last year in the family home. The filmmaker behind this delicate, strange, reflective bauble is Tyler Taormina, co-founder of the...
- 5/18/2024
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Hermann Vaske with 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on the journey to interview Cate Blanchett for Can Creativity Save the World?: “It started when Cate was shooting The Monuments Men [in 2013] in Berlin with George Clooney. And the Dp was a friend of mine, Phedon Papamichael who works with James Mangold.”
Hermann Vaske’s evermore timely Can Creativity Save The World? (with a lively score by Mark Reeder and Micha Adam) features on-camera interviews with Cate Blanchett, Golshifteh Farahani, Isabella Rossellini, Angelina Jolie, Willem Dafoe, Umberto Eco, Shirin Neshat, Garry Kasparov, Marina Abramović, John Cleese, Salman Rushdie, Luisa Neubauer (of Pussy Riot), Bono (of U2), Oscar Niemeyer, David Bowie, Marlene Knobloch, Sean Penn, Radu Jude, Amos Oz, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Oliviero Toscani, Björk, Campino (of Die Toten Hosen fame), Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Lakshmi Thevasagayam, and Lia Mizrahi Goldfarb (co-editor and production designer of the documentary).
Hermann...
Hermann Vaske’s evermore timely Can Creativity Save The World? (with a lively score by Mark Reeder and Micha Adam) features on-camera interviews with Cate Blanchett, Golshifteh Farahani, Isabella Rossellini, Angelina Jolie, Willem Dafoe, Umberto Eco, Shirin Neshat, Garry Kasparov, Marina Abramović, John Cleese, Salman Rushdie, Luisa Neubauer (of Pussy Riot), Bono (of U2), Oscar Niemeyer, David Bowie, Marlene Knobloch, Sean Penn, Radu Jude, Amos Oz, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Oliviero Toscani, Björk, Campino (of Die Toten Hosen fame), Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Lakshmi Thevasagayam, and Lia Mizrahi Goldfarb (co-editor and production designer of the documentary).
Hermann...
- 4/17/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World is Radu Jude's deepest inquiry yet into our modern, image-saturated world. TikToks, a proto-feminist film from socialist Romania, a would-be Uwe Boll movie, and gritty black-and-white 16mm shots of a crowded city all coagulate into (another) grim satire about the the state of current-day Romania—and, inevitably, the state of the world, which, of course, seems to be ending. As we follow Angela (Ilinca Manolache), an overworked film production assistant, the window of her car, much like a cinema screen, gives us a unique vantage point on a cacophonous Bucharest. Swearing in traffic, absurd arguments, work accidents: Jude throws us into a world of society-wide exhaustion, exacerbated by the tribulations of late capitalism. Yet who’s at fault? No one and everyone, all at once. Exploitation further...
- 10/19/2023
- MUBI
Fans of The Name of The Rose author Umberto Eco turned out in NYC, boosting the documentary on medieval scholar turned novelist and social commentator to over $9.1k on one screen – a nice showing by The Cinema Guild for a foreign language documentary on a solid weekend for some indie and arthouse fare.
Umberto Eco: A Library Of The World explores the life and work of the famed Italian writer and semiotics professor, whose bestselling novel was turned into a 1986 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater as a medieval monk detective and his apprentice.
Director Davide Ferrario, who worked with Eco a year before the writer’s death on a video project for the 2015 Venice Biennale, gained access to his Milanese library of more than 30,000 contemporary books and 1,500 rare and antique volumes. In the doc, the prolific author and original thinker, who has waxed eloquent on blue jeans and comic books,...
Umberto Eco: A Library Of The World explores the life and work of the famed Italian writer and semiotics professor, whose bestselling novel was turned into a 1986 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater as a medieval monk detective and his apprentice.
Director Davide Ferrario, who worked with Eco a year before the writer’s death on a video project for the 2015 Venice Biennale, gained access to his Milanese library of more than 30,000 contemporary books and 1,500 rare and antique volumes. In the doc, the prolific author and original thinker, who has waxed eloquent on blue jeans and comic books,...
- 7/2/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Around the time of the death of the acclaimed writer, bibliophile and intellectual adventurer Umberto Eco, a video appeared on the internet of him walking around his personal library, inspiring awe and no small measure of envy in those who watched it. One of Eco’s great talents was to sweep people up in his adventures due to his infectious sense of wonder, so he never gave the impression of hoarding treasure, rather of accumulating what was necessary to become a treasure. The opening of Davide Ferrario’s documentary picks up where that video left off and takes us further, much further, into a labyrinthine structure which might have left Borges dizzy. The Argentine’s metaphor is also extended here. We are invited to imagine the library as an aspect of God, and God as the ultimate library.
Though we will spend much of the film in this particular library,...
Though we will spend much of the film in this particular library,...
- 6/28/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
At the height of Umberto Eco’s popularity, it may have been tempting to dismiss the Italian scholar and novelist as too representative of his own time, a purveyor of entertainments for hip intellectuals with a poststructuralist bent. His obsessions with semiotics and fakes, conspiracy theories and heretical Christian sects of the late Middle Ages, seemed quirky, meta, and all in good fun. But in the years since his death in 2016, they’ve turned out to be uncannily prescient, as Davide Ferrario’s Umberto Eco: A Library of the World aims to prove.
This biographical documentary isn’t a peek behind the curtain into a public intellectual’s private life. Rather, it’s a reframing of the preoccupations of a thinker who’s no longer very fashionable. In the process, it becomes a timely epistemological rumination on the difference between knowledge and information, the relationship between memory and technology.
In...
This biographical documentary isn’t a peek behind the curtain into a public intellectual’s private life. Rather, it’s a reframing of the preoccupations of a thinker who’s no longer very fashionable. In the process, it becomes a timely epistemological rumination on the difference between knowledge and information, the relationship between memory and technology.
In...
- 6/25/2023
- by William Repass
- Slant Magazine
Jean-Jacques Annaud directs Sean Connery in The Name of the Rose (Der Name Der Rose), the film version of the novel by Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose is a great adaptation of the most important work by Umberto Eco. A mystery story set in an era of supersitions (Fourteenth century) with the Inquisition in the middle.
Orson Welles said that one should adapt lesser literary works. This time, the director and the entire team do a great job by focusing on the detective story part of the literary work.
Story line
Brother William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) and his disciple Adso de Melk (Christian Slater) arrive at an abbey where one of the monks died recently, where the abbot hopes that Brother William will be able to solve the crimes.
Our erudite friend is a man far removed from superstition and he tries to find a logical explanation for everything,...
The Name of the Rose is a great adaptation of the most important work by Umberto Eco. A mystery story set in an era of supersitions (Fourteenth century) with the Inquisition in the middle.
Orson Welles said that one should adapt lesser literary works. This time, the director and the entire team do a great job by focusing on the detective story part of the literary work.
Story line
Brother William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) and his disciple Adso de Melk (Christian Slater) arrive at an abbey where one of the monks died recently, where the abbot hopes that Brother William will be able to solve the crimes.
Our erudite friend is a man far removed from superstition and he tries to find a logical explanation for everything,...
- 1/2/2023
- by Martin Cid
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
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Gianni Amelio’s chronicle of the persecution of Aldo Braibanti, Lord of the Ants (Il Signore delle Formiche), doesn’t avoid the propensity of many Italian period dramas for dense verbosity, with characters spouting great gobs of manicured prose. That’s perhaps especially the case since the protagonist was a poet, playwright and philosopher. But Amelio’s classical approach, and the dignified refusal of martyrdom in Luigi Lo Cascio’s lead performance, make this account of Braibanti’s controversial imprisonment for homosexuality in 1968 after a four-year trial a quietly stirring portrait of institutional intolerance.
The Braibanti case drew international attention in the wake of his conviction due to the number of influential public figures who spoke out against the travesty of justice — Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Marco Bellocchio and Umberto Eco among them.
What’s striking now about the courtroom...
Gianni Amelio’s chronicle of the persecution of Aldo Braibanti, Lord of the Ants (Il Signore delle Formiche), doesn’t avoid the propensity of many Italian period dramas for dense verbosity, with characters spouting great gobs of manicured prose. That’s perhaps especially the case since the protagonist was a poet, playwright and philosopher. But Amelio’s classical approach, and the dignified refusal of martyrdom in Luigi Lo Cascio’s lead performance, make this account of Braibanti’s controversial imprisonment for homosexuality in 1968 after a four-year trial a quietly stirring portrait of institutional intolerance.
The Braibanti case drew international attention in the wake of his conviction due to the number of influential public figures who spoke out against the travesty of justice — Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Marco Bellocchio and Umberto Eco among them.
What’s striking now about the courtroom...
- 9/6/2022
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Slovak director Robert Kirchhoff is in postproduction with his documentary “All Men Become Brothers,” which follows the life of Czechoslovak politician Alexander Dubček (1921-1992), Film New Europe reports.
Dubček was leader of Czechoslovakia from January 1968 to April 1969. He attempted to reform the communist government during the Prague Spring, but was forced to resign following the Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968.
The film is produced by Kirchhoff’s Atelier.doc and coproduced by Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech Republic’s Endorfilm and Czech Television.
Kirchhoff’s past titles include “Normalization,” which received a Special Mention from the Between the Seas jury at Jihlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival.
Production took place from 2018 to 2021 on locations in Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Turkey and Slovakia. Well-known figures from Czechoslovak and international politics and culture, such as Italian politician Romano Prodi, Italian novelist Umberto Eco, Czech novelist and playwright Pavel Kohout, and Czech director...
Dubček was leader of Czechoslovakia from January 1968 to April 1969. He attempted to reform the communist government during the Prague Spring, but was forced to resign following the Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968.
The film is produced by Kirchhoff’s Atelier.doc and coproduced by Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech Republic’s Endorfilm and Czech Television.
Kirchhoff’s past titles include “Normalization,” which received a Special Mention from the Between the Seas jury at Jihlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival.
Production took place from 2018 to 2021 on locations in Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Turkey and Slovakia. Well-known figures from Czechoslovak and international politics and culture, such as Italian politician Romano Prodi, Italian novelist Umberto Eco, Czech novelist and playwright Pavel Kohout, and Czech director...
- 7/10/2022
- by Zuzana Točíková Vojteková
- Variety Film + TV
It’s early days at the Cannes Film Festival, so awards prognostication might seem a little premature, but still, it’s hard to imagine that the phenomenal performance given by Swedish-Lebanese actor Fares Fares in Tarik Saleh’s searing political thriller Boy from Heaven will go entirely unnoticed by this year’s jury. Topping the work he did in Saleh’s 2017 Sundance hit The Nile Hilton Incident, Fares commands the screen from the moment he arrives, playing a character whose disheveled appearance conceals a ruthless efficiency, a laser-focused mind and an entirely pragmatic concept of morality.
It’s funny that Boy from Heaven should premiere after James Gray’s Armageddon Time, another film about a young man’s rude awakening and another film that ruminates on the way fate is shaped — or dictated — by race and class. But Saleh’s film throws religion into that already-volatile mix, and while it...
It’s funny that Boy from Heaven should premiere after James Gray’s Armageddon Time, another film about a young man’s rude awakening and another film that ruminates on the way fate is shaped — or dictated — by race and class. But Saleh’s film throws religion into that already-volatile mix, and while it...
- 5/20/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is in early stage development on a satire about the creation of Netflix’s Squid Game, which became a global hit overnight, provisionally titled The Best Show on the Planet.
The Korean auteur revealed the news exclusively during an interview for Deadline’s Disruptors Magazine, which you can read here.
Hwang stressed that the project is in its infancy, with few details available to share, but said the satirical comedy would be a reflection on Squid Game’s overnight success, based on his personal experience of being thrust into the limelight.
Squid Game was undoubtedly the hit of 2021, reaching more than 100M households faster than any other show and, at its peak, sitting atop Netflix’s most-watched list in 94 countries.
Hwang is focusing on developing three shows at the moment: The Best Show on the Planet, a feature inspired by a novel by revered...
The Korean auteur revealed the news exclusively during an interview for Deadline’s Disruptors Magazine, which you can read here.
Hwang stressed that the project is in its infancy, with few details available to share, but said the satirical comedy would be a reflection on Squid Game’s overnight success, based on his personal experience of being thrust into the limelight.
Squid Game was undoubtedly the hit of 2021, reaching more than 100M households faster than any other show and, at its peak, sitting atop Netflix’s most-watched list in 94 countries.
Hwang is focusing on developing three shows at the moment: The Best Show on the Planet, a feature inspired by a novel by revered...
- 5/19/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
While everyone has been pestering "Squid Game" writer, director, and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk about his plans for a second season, he's been off prepping a new way to both fascinate and traumatize the masses: His newest feature film, "Killing Old People Club," which has the working title "K.O. Club." Fortunately, this is a work of fiction, not a terrifying group of heathens banding together to commit crimes. Planned as his next movie, the title is adapted from the book by Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco.
During a session with MipTV (via Variety), Dong-hyuk shared that he has already written a 25-page...
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During a session with MipTV (via Variety), Dong-hyuk shared that he has already written a 25-page...
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- 4/4/2022
- by Shania Russell
- Slash Film
Director Hwang Dong-hyuk is writing a film that is "more violent" than even Squid Game. Dong-hyuk discussed his plans for a movie tentatively titled Killing Old People Club, during a panel at MipTV trade fair on April 4. According to Variety, he predicted it will be "another controversial project," joking that he may need to hide from elderly people when it's released. The director said he's already written a 25-page treatment for the feature, which is based on the work of late Italian novelist Umberto Eco. In addition to Killing Old People Club, the director is due to return to South Korea, where he will finish writing the second...
- 4/4/2022
- E! Online
“Squid Game” director Hwang Dong-hyuk is developing a feature film called “Killing Old People Club,” which he says is inspired by a novel by Umberto Eco (author of "The Name of the Rose").
Speaking during a session at MipTV Dong-hyuk revealed he has already penned a 25-page treatment about the project which will surely be “another controversial film,” he said.
“It will be more violent than ‘Squid Game,'” teased Dong-hyuk, adding that he might have to hide from old people after the film comes out. The project has the working title “K.O. Club.”
The critically acclaimed creator said he will now return home to South Korea to write the second season of “Squid Game&rd...
Speaking during a session at MipTV Dong-hyuk revealed he has already penned a 25-page treatment about the project which will surely be “another controversial film,” he said.
“It will be more violent than ‘Squid Game,'” teased Dong-hyuk, adding that he might have to hide from old people after the film comes out. The project has the working title “K.O. Club.”
The critically acclaimed creator said he will now return home to South Korea to write the second season of “Squid Game&rd...
- 4/4/2022
- QuietEarth.us
‘Squid Game’ director Hwang Dong-hyuk has announced that he’s developing ‘Killing Old People Club’, a new film inspired by a novel penned by Umberto Eco, the revered Italian intellectual and essayist, reports ‘Variety’. Speaking during a session at MipTV along with his producer Jun Young Jang at February Films, Dong-hyuk revealed he had already penned […]...
- 4/4/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
If you loved Squid Game and hate old people, director Hwang Dong-hyuk has something in the works that should utterly delight. As reported by Variety, the filmmaker has already written a 25-page treatment for an adaptation of a novel supposedly written by Umberto Eco, who's best known to movie fans for writing The Name of the Rose, the historical mystery that Jean-Jacques Annaud turned into a Sean Connery toplining, featuring a teenage Christian Slater and a very severe haircut. I say "supposedly" only because I know very little about Umberto Eco, and his Wikipedia page doesn't mention it, not that I can see. In any event, per Variety, "Dong-hyuk revealed he has already penned a 25-page treatment about the project which will surely be 'another...
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- 4/4/2022
- Screen Anarchy
‘Squid Game’ Director Hwang Dong-hyuk Sets ‘Killing Old People’ as Next Film, Will Be ‘More Violent’
“Squid Game” director Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed during a session at MipTV, as reported by Variety, that his next film will be titled “Killing Old People Club” and will be adapted from the work of mind-bending Italian novelist Umberto Eco. Hwang said he has already written a 25-page treatment, and the feature will be “another controversial film” and “more violent than ‘Squid Game.'”
The director joked that he may have to hide from the elderly after the film is released. In the meantime, Hwang is returning to South Korea to pen “Squid Game” Season 2 for Netflix, with an estimated release date at the end of 2024.
And Hwang counts his favorite compliment as something Steven Spielberg told him at the AFI Awards luncheon. “Steven Spielberg told me, ‘I watched your whole show in three days and now I want to steal your brain!'” the Netflix showrunner said. “It was like...
The director joked that he may have to hide from the elderly after the film is released. In the meantime, Hwang is returning to South Korea to pen “Squid Game” Season 2 for Netflix, with an estimated release date at the end of 2024.
And Hwang counts his favorite compliment as something Steven Spielberg told him at the AFI Awards luncheon. “Steven Spielberg told me, ‘I watched your whole show in three days and now I want to steal your brain!'” the Netflix showrunner said. “It was like...
- 4/4/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
“Squid Game” director Hwang Dong-hyuk said he’s developing “Killing Old People Club,” a new film inspired by a novel penned by Umberto Eco, the revered Italian intellectual and essayist.
Speaking during a session at MipTV along with his producer Jun Young Jang at February Films, Dong-hyuk revealed he has already penned a 25-page treatment about the project which will surely be “another controversial film,” he said.
“It will be more violent than ‘Squid Game,'” teased Dong-hyuk, adding that he might have to hide from old people after the film comes out. The project has the working title “K.O. Club.”
The critically acclaimed creator said he will now return home to South Korea to write the second season of “Squid Game” and hopes to have the show stream on Netflix by the end of 2024.
Rolling off the awards season, Dong-hyuk said the biggest praise he got about his...
Speaking during a session at MipTV along with his producer Jun Young Jang at February Films, Dong-hyuk revealed he has already penned a 25-page treatment about the project which will surely be “another controversial film,” he said.
“It will be more violent than ‘Squid Game,'” teased Dong-hyuk, adding that he might have to hide from old people after the film comes out. The project has the working title “K.O. Club.”
The critically acclaimed creator said he will now return home to South Korea to write the second season of “Squid Game” and hopes to have the show stream on Netflix by the end of 2024.
Rolling off the awards season, Dong-hyuk said the biggest praise he got about his...
- 4/4/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Ivana Miloš, In the Flower Basket (2022), monotype on paper, 33 x 24 cmTHE Sex Of ROSESFlower boy T, n*gga that's meRooted from the bottom, bloomed into a treeTook a little while, n*gga making leavesKeep 'em in the branches so my family can eat—"Where This Flower Blooms," Tyler, the Creator A long time ago somebody messed with people’s minds and put into their heads the idea that women, and especially female sexual organs, look like flowers. Botanists, anatomists, and pornographers stand no chance against decades of the birds and the bees and all the metaphorical, flowery language that conceals bodily realities to the point of alienation where the flower really somehow looks like a vulva to those that have either never really looked at a flower (which flower anyway?) nor at a female body. Probably neither. But then, are we not all blind? This is not Charlie Chaplin’s fault,...
- 3/21/2022
- MUBI
Moretti has just announced the selection for 53rd edition after last year’s pandemic hiatus.
Italian-born Paolo Moretti was appointed artistic director of Directors’ Fortnight in 2018, after a decade of programming across Europe at institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Spanish Cinematheque in Madrid as well as festivals including Venice, Rome, FIDMarseille and Leeds.
After last year’s pandemic hiatus, he announced his second selection at the helm on Tuesday (June 8), comprising 24 features and nine shorts by established and emerging filmmakers.
Is 2021 the 52nd or 53rd edition?
We counted last year as the 52nd edition because...
Italian-born Paolo Moretti was appointed artistic director of Directors’ Fortnight in 2018, after a decade of programming across Europe at institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Spanish Cinematheque in Madrid as well as festivals including Venice, Rome, FIDMarseille and Leeds.
After last year’s pandemic hiatus, he announced his second selection at the helm on Tuesday (June 8), comprising 24 features and nine shorts by established and emerging filmmakers.
Is 2021 the 52nd or 53rd edition?
We counted last year as the 52nd edition because...
- 6/9/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Moretti has just announced the selection for 53rd edition after last year’s pandemic hiatus.
Italian-born Paolo Moretti was appointed artistic director of Directors’ Fortnight in 2018, after a decade of programming across Europe at institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Spanish Cinematheque in Madrid as well as festivals including Venice, Rome, FIDMarseille and Leeds.
After last year’s pandemic hiatus, he announced his second selection at the helm on Tuesday (June 8), comprising 24 features and nine shorts by established and emerging filmmakers.
Is 2021 the 52nd or 53rd edition?
We counted last year as the 52nd edition because...
Italian-born Paolo Moretti was appointed artistic director of Directors’ Fortnight in 2018, after a decade of programming across Europe at institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Spanish Cinematheque in Madrid as well as festivals including Venice, Rome, FIDMarseille and Leeds.
After last year’s pandemic hiatus, he announced his second selection at the helm on Tuesday (June 8), comprising 24 features and nine shorts by established and emerging filmmakers.
Is 2021 the 52nd or 53rd edition?
We counted last year as the 52nd edition because...
- 6/9/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Full Bloom is a series, written by Patrick Holzapfel and illustrated by Ivana Miloš, that reconsiders plants in cinema. Directors have given certain flowers, trees or herbs special attention for many different reasons. It’s time to give them the credit they deserve and highlight their contributions to cinema, in full bloom.Illustration: Ivana Miloš, All My Life (2021), monotype, collage and gouache on paper, 33 x 24 cmIt never will rain roses: when we wantTo have more roses we must plant more trees. —George Eliot, "The Spanish Gypsy"A pan, a landscape, a song: this is all cinema needs. At least one is inclined to believe in such an assessment when confronted with the lush beauty of Bruce Baillie’s All My Life (1966). Recorded in a rush of inspiration at the side of a road in Caspar, California, the short consists of one continuous moving shot accompanied by Ella Fitzgerald singing “All My Life” on the soundtrack.
- 5/14/2021
- MUBI
In the course of his nearly 50-year career on the screen, the late Sean Connery portrayed many famous characters, both fictional and non-fictional. Among those were, of course, Ian Fleming’s suave spy James Bond in seven films; Daniel Druvot in 1975’s The Man Who Would Be King; King Arthur in 1995’s First Knight, Robin Hood in 1976’s Robin and Marian; Dr. Henry Jones Sr. in 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and many more.
One role Connery never got to play was Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes. But he did come close, playing a character who was based at least in part on Holmes, in the 1986 movie The Name of the Rose.
Based on the best-selling 1980 novel by Italian historian, philosopher and author Umberto Eco, the book and the film are set in 1327, as a Franciscan monk named William of Baskerville (Connery) and his young...
One role Connery never got to play was Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes. But he did come close, playing a character who was based at least in part on Holmes, in the 1986 movie The Name of the Rose.
Based on the best-selling 1980 novel by Italian historian, philosopher and author Umberto Eco, the book and the film are set in 1327, as a Franciscan monk named William of Baskerville (Connery) and his young...
- 11/3/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
“Darby O’Gill and the Little People” (1959) Sean Connery’s first major Hollywood role came in this Disney film about a wily Irishman battling local leprechauns. The New York Times dismissed his performance, as a Dubliner who woos Darby’s daughter as “merely tall, dark and handsome.”
“Marnie” (1964)
After breaking out big time as James Bond in 1962’s “Dr. No” and the 1963 sequel “From Russia With Love,” Connery snuck in a role in this Alfred Hitchcock thriller as a wealthy widower who both falls for a mysterious woman with a checkered past played by Tippi Hedren.
“The Hill” (1965)
In this BAFTA Award-winning Sidney Lumet drama, Connery starred as a former squadron leader who bucks against authority in a British Army prison during World War II.
“Murder on the Orient Express” (1974)
Connery is one of many standouts in this star-studded ensemble mystery based on Agatha Christie’s classic novel.
“The Man Who Would Be King...
“Marnie” (1964)
After breaking out big time as James Bond in 1962’s “Dr. No” and the 1963 sequel “From Russia With Love,” Connery snuck in a role in this Alfred Hitchcock thriller as a wealthy widower who both falls for a mysterious woman with a checkered past played by Tippi Hedren.
“The Hill” (1965)
In this BAFTA Award-winning Sidney Lumet drama, Connery starred as a former squadron leader who bucks against authority in a British Army prison during World War II.
“Murder on the Orient Express” (1974)
Connery is one of many standouts in this star-studded ensemble mystery based on Agatha Christie’s classic novel.
“The Man Who Would Be King...
- 8/25/2020
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Be sure to tune into AMC Networks this weekend for all-new episodes of “NOS4A2,” “Fear the Walking Dead,” “The Name of the Rose” and “The Son,” set to air this week!
“The Name of the Rose,” Sundance TV’s limited series based on Umberto Eco’s highly acclaimed novel, finales with two back-to-back all-new episodes on Thursday, June 13th at 10:00 p.m. Et/Pt. In episode seven, after an intense witch-hunt and trial, Bernard is convinced he has found the killer. However, the death of another monk may prove him wrong.
The series concludes with its season finale at 11:00 p.m. Et/Pt. With the murderer still on the loose and the summit coming to a close, William and Adso are in a race against time to find the real culprit.
Set in Italy in 1327, the series follows the Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (John Turturro) and his...
“The Name of the Rose,” Sundance TV’s limited series based on Umberto Eco’s highly acclaimed novel, finales with two back-to-back all-new episodes on Thursday, June 13th at 10:00 p.m. Et/Pt. In episode seven, after an intense witch-hunt and trial, Bernard is convinced he has found the killer. However, the death of another monk may prove him wrong.
The series concludes with its season finale at 11:00 p.m. Et/Pt. With the murderer still on the loose and the summit coming to a close, William and Adso are in a race against time to find the real culprit.
Set in Italy in 1327, the series follows the Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (John Turturro) and his...
- 6/13/2019
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
Yes, we’re all going to be busy saying goodbye to Game of Thrones this month. But May will also bring us an older HBO classic that’s back for a long-delayed proper wrap-up. (How we’ve missed you, Al Swearengen.) Meanwhile, the greatest athlete of the 20th century gets an essential two-part doc — and the Wu-Tang get a four-parter! — while Archer has one last parody-scenario up its sleeve and Jordan Klepper gets another shot at Comedy Central. Here’s what you need to set your DVR for over the next 30 days.
- 5/2/2019
- by Charles Bramesco
- Rollingstone.com
HBO has set its lead cast as production begins on The Plot Against America, its six-part miniseries based on the 2004 novel by the late Philip Roth. Stranger Things‘ Winona Ryder, Zoe Kazan (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Morgan Spector (Homeland), Anthony Boyle (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Azhy Robertson (Untitled Noah Baumbach Project), newcomer Caleb Malis and John Turturro (The Night Of) star in the mini, which hails from Annapurna Pictures and Joe Roth.
Written and executive produced by frequent collaborators David Simon and Ed Burns, The Plot Against America imagines an alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.
Kazan is Elizabeth “Bess” Levin, an insightful mother and homemaker, fears for the future as she tries to protect...
Written and executive produced by frequent collaborators David Simon and Ed Burns, The Plot Against America imagines an alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.
Kazan is Elizabeth “Bess” Levin, an insightful mother and homemaker, fears for the future as she tries to protect...
- 4/10/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
SundanceTV has an excited new summer lineup. The network just announced the premiere dates for their new TV shows: The Name of the Rose, Rosehaven, Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter, and No One Saw a Thing.
Based on the novel by Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (May 23rd at 10 p.m. Et/Pt) "follows the Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (John Turturro) and his novice Adso von Melk (Damian Hardung) as they arrive at a secluded monastery in the Alps. There they become witnesses to a series of mysterious murders."
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Based on the novel by Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (May 23rd at 10 p.m. Et/Pt) "follows the Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (John Turturro) and his novice Adso von Melk (Damian Hardung) as they arrive at a secluded monastery in the Alps. There they become witnesses to a series of mysterious murders."
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- 4/10/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
AMC Networks announced today the premiere dates for several new and returning original series, including second seasons of AMC’s mystic modern-day fable Lodge 49 and horror-infused anthology The Terror: Infamy, IFC’s new musical variety sketch comedy Sherman’s Showcase and SundanceTV’s Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter, quirky comedy Rosehaven Season 3 and the new true crime thriller No One Saw A Thing.
Premiere date and series information is below (by network):
AMC
The Terror: Infamy
Monday, August 12 at 9:00 p.m. Et/8:00 p.m. Ct
Set during World War II, the haunting and suspenseful, second season of the horror-infused anthology, The Terror: Infamy, centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community, and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.
The series stars Derek Mio as Chester Nakayama; Kiki Sukezane (Lost in Space) as Yuko, a...
Premiere date and series information is below (by network):
AMC
The Terror: Infamy
Monday, August 12 at 9:00 p.m. Et/8:00 p.m. Ct
Set during World War II, the haunting and suspenseful, second season of the horror-infused anthology, The Terror: Infamy, centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community, and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.
The series stars Derek Mio as Chester Nakayama; Kiki Sukezane (Lost in Space) as Yuko, a...
- 4/9/2019
- by Andrew Wendowski
- Age of the Nerd
AMC Networks has set premiere dates for several new and returning series including season 2 of Lodge 49 and The Terror: Infamy, the second installment of the horror anthology series.
The Terror: Infamy will debut Monday, August 12 at at 9 Pm Et/8 Pm Ct, and will be followed by Season 2 of Lodge 49 at 10 Pm Et/ 9 Pm Ct.
Set during World War II, Season 2 of The Terror: Infamy centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community, and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.
The Terror: Infamy is an AMC Studios production produced by Scott Free, Emaj Productions and Entertainment 360.
Created by Jim Gavin, Lodge 49 is a modern fable set in Long Beach, CA that centers on likable “Squire” and ex-surfer Sean “Dud” Dudley (Wyatt Russell), whose beloved fraternal order — the Ancient and Benevolent Order of the Lynx — is suffering under...
The Terror: Infamy will debut Monday, August 12 at at 9 Pm Et/8 Pm Ct, and will be followed by Season 2 of Lodge 49 at 10 Pm Et/ 9 Pm Ct.
Set during World War II, Season 2 of The Terror: Infamy centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community, and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.
The Terror: Infamy is an AMC Studios production produced by Scott Free, Emaj Productions and Entertainment 360.
Created by Jim Gavin, Lodge 49 is a modern fable set in Long Beach, CA that centers on likable “Squire” and ex-surfer Sean “Dud” Dudley (Wyatt Russell), whose beloved fraternal order — the Ancient and Benevolent Order of the Lynx — is suffering under...
- 4/8/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
John Turturro and the producers of “The Name of the Rose” unveiled their ambitious English-language TV adaptation of Umberto Eco’s murder mystery in Rome on Thursday ahead of its global rollout, which will kick off March 4 on Italy’s Rai.
Producers and the Italian pubcaster have high hopes the show will expand the international footprint of Italy’s high-end dramas following “My Brilliant Friend,” based on a more recent bestseller. The $30 million, eight-episode series is produced by Rome-based companies 11 Marzo and Palomar and Rai Fiction, and will go out in the U.S. via AMC on May 1.
John Turturro, who plays the central character of Franciscan monk William of Baskerville, said that Eco’s novel, which has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide since first being published in 1980, was very relevant today.
“There is a power structure – the church – which also represents the government or politics,” he said. “Then there is suppression of women.
Producers and the Italian pubcaster have high hopes the show will expand the international footprint of Italy’s high-end dramas following “My Brilliant Friend,” based on a more recent bestseller. The $30 million, eight-episode series is produced by Rome-based companies 11 Marzo and Palomar and Rai Fiction, and will go out in the U.S. via AMC on May 1.
John Turturro, who plays the central character of Franciscan monk William of Baskerville, said that Eco’s novel, which has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide since first being published in 1980, was very relevant today.
“There is a power structure – the church – which also represents the government or politics,” he said. “Then there is suppression of women.
- 2/28/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Author Umberto Eco's 14th century-set, mystery novel, "The Name of the Rose", previously adapted by director Jean-Jacques Annaud for the 1986 feature "The Name Of The Rose", is being developed into a $27 million budgeted, 8-part TV miniseries from 11 Marzo, Palomar and Tele München Group (Tmg) in association with Rai Fiction, to be directed by Giacomo Battiato :
"...'Franciscan' friar 'William of Baskerville' and 'Adso of Melk', a 'Benedictine' novice travelling under his protection, arrive at a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy to attend a theological disputation.
"Upon arrival, the monastery is disturbed by a suicide. Then several other monks die under mysterious circumstances. William is tasked by the monastery's abbot to investigate the deaths, and fresh clues with each murder victim lead William to dead ends and new clues.
"The protagonists explore a labyrinthine medieval library, discuss the subversive power of laughter, and come face to face with the 'Inquisition'...
"...'Franciscan' friar 'William of Baskerville' and 'Adso of Melk', a 'Benedictine' novice travelling under his protection, arrive at a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy to attend a theological disputation.
"Upon arrival, the monastery is disturbed by a suicide. Then several other monks die under mysterious circumstances. William is tasked by the monastery's abbot to investigate the deaths, and fresh clues with each murder victim lead William to dead ends and new clues.
"The protagonists explore a labyrinthine medieval library, discuss the subversive power of laughter, and come face to face with the 'Inquisition'...
- 11/25/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
John Turturro hadn’t read Umberto Eco’s thriller “The Name of the Rose” or seen the 1986 movie when he was approached in spring of last year about a new TV adaptation. After reading the novel, one of the best-selling of all time, Turturro agreed to sign on – if the producers agreed to honor the original, he says.
“I read the book and I loved it. I started writing to [director] Giacomo [Battiato] to say, ‘Why isn’t there more Eco, this is eight hours, you don’t have to reduce it,” Turturro says. “I said, ‘If you put more of Eco in, then I’m interested.’”
Turturro takes the role played by Sean Connery in the film, that of William Baskerville, the Franciscan monk investigating a series of mysterious murders in a 14th-century Italian monastery. Rupert Everett plays merciless inquisitor Bernard Gui, and Michael Emerson is the abbot among an international cast.
“I read the book and I loved it. I started writing to [director] Giacomo [Battiato] to say, ‘Why isn’t there more Eco, this is eight hours, you don’t have to reduce it,” Turturro says. “I said, ‘If you put more of Eco in, then I’m interested.’”
Turturro takes the role played by Sean Connery in the film, that of William Baskerville, the Franciscan monk investigating a series of mysterious murders in a 14th-century Italian monastery. Rupert Everett plays merciless inquisitor Bernard Gui, and Michael Emerson is the abbot among an international cast.
- 11/15/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Italy’s state broadcaster Rai is leading the way in the country’s international TV boom.
Though pay-tv Sky Italia and Netflix are churning out some edgier Italian shows for the international marketplace, the bold Italian pubcaster is now riding high after making a splash at the Venice Film Festival with the world premiere of HBO/Rai’s powerful female friendship saga “My Brilliant Friend,” based on the first of Elena Ferrante’s globally best-selling novels.
Next up are its buzzed-about “The Name of the Rose” series, starring John Turturro, and the third season of Frank Spotnitz’s hit “Medici” saga, currently shooting in Italy.
“My Brilliant Friend,” which Rai fiction chief Eleonora Andreatta started developing before the book’s big success, marks a milestone for Italy’s TV industry because unlike Sky’s crimer “Gomorrah” and Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Young Pope,” it’s classic highbrow TV of the...
Though pay-tv Sky Italia and Netflix are churning out some edgier Italian shows for the international marketplace, the bold Italian pubcaster is now riding high after making a splash at the Venice Film Festival with the world premiere of HBO/Rai’s powerful female friendship saga “My Brilliant Friend,” based on the first of Elena Ferrante’s globally best-selling novels.
Next up are its buzzed-about “The Name of the Rose” series, starring John Turturro, and the third season of Frank Spotnitz’s hit “Medici” saga, currently shooting in Italy.
“My Brilliant Friend,” which Rai fiction chief Eleonora Andreatta started developing before the book’s big success, marks a milestone for Italy’s TV industry because unlike Sky’s crimer “Gomorrah” and Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Young Pope,” it’s classic highbrow TV of the...
- 10/17/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Tele München Group’s world sales unit, Tm International, has sold its high-end television series “The Name of the Rose,” starring John Turturro, to multiple territories, including the BBC in the U.K., Sky in Germany and Ocs in France.
Additionally it has been acquired by Yle in Finland, Nrk in Norway, Dr in Denmark, Sbs in Australia, Vrt in Belgium, Rtp in Portugal, Ceska TV in Czech Republic, Sky in New Zealand, and Iti in Poland. As previously announced, AMC’s SundanceTV holds the rights for the U.S. and Canada, and Rai will air the show in Italy.
As well as Turturro, the cast of the eight-hour series includes Michael Emerson, Rupert Everett (“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”), Damian Hardung (“Red Band Society”), Sebastian Koch (“Homeland”), James Cosmo (“Game of Thrones”), Richard Sammel (“Inglourious Basterds”), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (“Human Capital”) and Greta Scarano (“In Treatment”).
The series...
Additionally it has been acquired by Yle in Finland, Nrk in Norway, Dr in Denmark, Sbs in Australia, Vrt in Belgium, Rtp in Portugal, Ceska TV in Czech Republic, Sky in New Zealand, and Iti in Poland. As previously announced, AMC’s SundanceTV holds the rights for the U.S. and Canada, and Rai will air the show in Italy.
As well as Turturro, the cast of the eight-hour series includes Michael Emerson, Rupert Everett (“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”), Damian Hardung (“Red Band Society”), Sebastian Koch (“Homeland”), James Cosmo (“Game of Thrones”), Richard Sammel (“Inglourious Basterds”), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (“Human Capital”) and Greta Scarano (“In Treatment”).
The series...
- 10/15/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The BBC has picked up period miniseries The Name of the Rose starring John Turturro, Rupert Everett and Michael Emerson, which will go out in North America on Sundance TV.
Tm International, the world sales division of German mini-major Tele-Munchen Group, closed multiple territories for the eight-part miniseries, an adaptation of Umberto Eco’s best-selling medieval crime thriller.
German pay-tv outfit Sky Deutschland, part of Comcast's Sky, Ocs in France and Sbs in Australia, along with European public channels Vrt (Belgium), Rtp (Portugal), Yle (Finland), Nrk (Norway) and DRtv (Denmark) are among the networks that have taken regional rights for the ...
Tm International, the world sales division of German mini-major Tele-Munchen Group, closed multiple territories for the eight-part miniseries, an adaptation of Umberto Eco’s best-selling medieval crime thriller.
German pay-tv outfit Sky Deutschland, part of Comcast's Sky, Ocs in France and Sbs in Australia, along with European public channels Vrt (Belgium), Rtp (Portugal), Yle (Finland), Nrk (Norway) and DRtv (Denmark) are among the networks that have taken regional rights for the ...
- 10/15/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Outlander has enlisted a resident of Middle Earth for Season 4: Billy Boyd (aka The Lord of the Rings‘ Pippin) has joined the Starz drama as Gerald Forbes, a wealthy lawyer in Cross Creek who is friends with his prominent client, Jocasta Cameron (Maria Doyle Kennedy), EW.com reports.
Additionally, the show has cast the following actors: Natalie Simpson (the Les Misérables miniseries) as Jocasta’s maid Phaedre, Tim Downie (Paddington) as Governor William Tryon, Simona Brown (Guilt) as Brianna’s best friend/college roommate Gayle and newcomer Caitlin O’Ryan as Lizzie Wemyss, a Scottish woman who goes on a big adventure with Brianna.
Additionally, the show has cast the following actors: Natalie Simpson (the Les Misérables miniseries) as Jocasta’s maid Phaedre, Tim Downie (Paddington) as Governor William Tryon, Simona Brown (Guilt) as Brianna’s best friend/college roommate Gayle and newcomer Caitlin O’Ryan as Lizzie Wemyss, a Scottish woman who goes on a big adventure with Brianna.
- 5/22/2018
- TVLine.com
SundanceTV has boarded The Name of the Rose, a limited international drama series based on Umberto Eco’s acclaimed novel, that stars John Turturro (The Night Of), Michael Emerson and Rupert Everett (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children).
AMC Networks’ cable network as well as Sundance Now have joined the series, which will also air on Rai in Italy in 2019 and is produced by 11 Marzo Film, Palomar and Tele München Group. Damian Hardung (Red Band Society), Sebastian Koch (Homeland), James Cosmo (Game of Thrones), Richard Sammel (Inglourious Basterds), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Human Capital) and Greta Scarano (In Treatment) also star in the series, which is currently in production in Italy.
Set in Italy in 1327, The Name of the Rose follows the Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (Turturro) and his novice Adso von Melk (Hardung) as they arrive at a secluded monastery in the Alps. There...
AMC Networks’ cable network as well as Sundance Now have joined the series, which will also air on Rai in Italy in 2019 and is produced by 11 Marzo Film, Palomar and Tele München Group. Damian Hardung (Red Band Society), Sebastian Koch (Homeland), James Cosmo (Game of Thrones), Richard Sammel (Inglourious Basterds), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Human Capital) and Greta Scarano (In Treatment) also star in the series, which is currently in production in Italy.
Set in Italy in 1327, The Name of the Rose follows the Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (Turturro) and his novice Adso von Melk (Hardung) as they arrive at a secluded monastery in the Alps. There...
- 5/21/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Days after Sundance canceled its critically acclaimed drama Hap and Leonard, the cabler has acquired a new series.
The AMC-owned basic cable network has acquired The Name of the Rose, an Italian limited series based on Umberto Eco's acclaimed novel.
John Turturro (The Night Of), Michael Emerson (Lost) and Rupert Everett (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children) star in the series, which is set in Italy in 1327. The drama follows Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (Turturro) and his novice Adso von Melk (Damian Hardung) as they arrive at a secluded monastery in the Alps. There they become witnesses ...
The AMC-owned basic cable network has acquired The Name of the Rose, an Italian limited series based on Umberto Eco's acclaimed novel.
John Turturro (The Night Of), Michael Emerson (Lost) and Rupert Everett (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children) star in the series, which is set in Italy in 1327. The drama follows Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (Turturro) and his novice Adso von Melk (Damian Hardung) as they arrive at a secluded monastery in the Alps. There they become witnesses ...
- 5/21/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Following the inaugural Canneseries festival and with the MipTV trade fare coming to a close, Variety looks back at some of the key television deals and announcements impacting the Croisette:
Scripted
*In the biggest production news of the market, “The Wire’s” David Simon and Spain’s Mediapro announced they are in co-development on a new Simon series project, “A Dry Run,” about Abraham Lincoln Battalion members fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
*In Canneseries’ highest-profile sales deal, France’s Canal Plus announced it had acquired Phoebe Waller Bridge’s Canneseries’ competition favorite “Killing Eve.” HBO Europe also snapped up the show across Central and Eastern Europe, Iberia, and Scandinavia.
*One of the biggest drama announcements of the week saw Beta Film and Red Bull Media House announce they were teaming to develop a five-season, high-end soccer drama called “The Net.” Inspired by true events, each season will comprise...
Scripted
*In the biggest production news of the market, “The Wire’s” David Simon and Spain’s Mediapro announced they are in co-development on a new Simon series project, “A Dry Run,” about Abraham Lincoln Battalion members fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
*In Canneseries’ highest-profile sales deal, France’s Canal Plus announced it had acquired Phoebe Waller Bridge’s Canneseries’ competition favorite “Killing Eve.” HBO Europe also snapped up the show across Central and Eastern Europe, Iberia, and Scandinavia.
*One of the biggest drama announcements of the week saw Beta Film and Red Bull Media House announce they were teaming to develop a five-season, high-end soccer drama called “The Net.” Inspired by true events, each season will comprise...
- 4/12/2018
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
Germany’s Tele München Group has secured a host of international deals for its television adaptation of Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose.” Sky has taken the high-end English-language Italian production for German-speaking Europe, while Orange has acquired rights in France. Sales have also been secured across most of Scandinavia with DRtv taking it for Denmark; Yle for Finland; and Nrk in Norway.
Tele München boarded the project as co-producer and international sales agent in November last year. The 8-part series, which is budgeted at €26 million ($30 million), stars John Turturro (pictured) as 14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville, who investigates a series of grisly murders. Rupert Everett co-stars as antagonist Inquisitor Bernard Gui, with German actor Damien Hardung as Baskerville’s apprentice Adso.
The novel, which has sold over 50 million copies worldwide since it was first publiched in 1980, was previously adapted as a 1986 movie by Jean-Jacques Annaud, which starred Sean Connery,...
Tele München boarded the project as co-producer and international sales agent in November last year. The 8-part series, which is budgeted at €26 million ($30 million), stars John Turturro (pictured) as 14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville, who investigates a series of grisly murders. Rupert Everett co-stars as antagonist Inquisitor Bernard Gui, with German actor Damien Hardung as Baskerville’s apprentice Adso.
The novel, which has sold over 50 million copies worldwide since it was first publiched in 1980, was previously adapted as a 1986 movie by Jean-Jacques Annaud, which starred Sean Connery,...
- 4/9/2018
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
The adaptation of Umberto Eco’s book has distribution in German-speaking Europe amongst others.
Tele München Group (Tmg) has announced a range of sales on its series The Name Of The Rose, the adaptation of Umberto Eco’s novel about monks investigating a slew of murders.
Deals include German-speaking Europe (Sky), France (Orange), Finland (Yle), Norway (Nrk) and Denmark (DRtv).
Produced by 11 Marzo Film, Palomar and Tele München Group in association with Rai Fiction, the series has a 19-week shoot currently underway in Italy and is set for a world premiere in spring 2019. Tmg’S world sales unit Tm International is handling worldwide distribution.
Tele München Group (Tmg) has announced a range of sales on its series The Name Of The Rose, the adaptation of Umberto Eco’s novel about monks investigating a slew of murders.
Deals include German-speaking Europe (Sky), France (Orange), Finland (Yle), Norway (Nrk) and Denmark (DRtv).
Produced by 11 Marzo Film, Palomar and Tele München Group in association with Rai Fiction, the series has a 19-week shoot currently underway in Italy and is set for a world premiere in spring 2019. Tmg’S world sales unit Tm International is handling worldwide distribution.
- 4/9/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The adaptation of Umberto Eco’s book has distribution in German-speaking Europe amongst others.
Tele München Group (Tmg) has announced a range of sales on its series The Name Of The Rose, the adaptation of Umberto Eco’s novel about monks investigating a slew of murders.
Deals include German-speaking Europe (Sky), France (Orange), Finland (Yle), Norway (Nrk) and Denmark (DRtv).
Produced by 11 Marzo Film, Palomar and Tele München Group in association with Rai Fiction, the series has a 19-week shoot currently underway in Italy and is set for a world premiere in spring 2019. Tmg’S world sales unit Tm International is handling worldwide distribution.
Tele München Group (Tmg) has announced a range of sales on its series The Name Of The Rose, the adaptation of Umberto Eco’s novel about monks investigating a slew of murders.
Deals include German-speaking Europe (Sky), France (Orange), Finland (Yle), Norway (Nrk) and Denmark (DRtv).
Produced by 11 Marzo Film, Palomar and Tele München Group in association with Rai Fiction, the series has a 19-week shoot currently underway in Italy and is set for a world premiere in spring 2019. Tmg’S world sales unit Tm International is handling worldwide distribution.
- 4/9/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The global rise of Italian TV series is now in full swing, riding the wake of hits such as “Gomorrah,” “The Young Pope” and “Medici: Masters of Florence.”
A wave of new high-end shows that mine iconic aspects of Italy’s past and present, but also venture into the supernatural and tap into the vibrant reinvention of classic genres — such as spaghetti Westerns and horror that Italian cinema is historically known for — is about to roll out around the world.
But besides shows sparked by the rekindled love affair between long-form narratives and the country’s cinematic past, there is also “Winx Club,” the animated franchise featuring six trendy teenage fairies designed with a style mashing Japanese manga and classic Western animation that has bewitched millions of tween girls in more than 100 countries.
In March, Netflix announced it will adapt “Winx” into a live-action series for young adults in tandem with its creator,...
A wave of new high-end shows that mine iconic aspects of Italy’s past and present, but also venture into the supernatural and tap into the vibrant reinvention of classic genres — such as spaghetti Westerns and horror that Italian cinema is historically known for — is about to roll out around the world.
But besides shows sparked by the rekindled love affair between long-form narratives and the country’s cinematic past, there is also “Winx Club,” the animated franchise featuring six trendy teenage fairies designed with a style mashing Japanese manga and classic Western animation that has bewitched millions of tween girls in more than 100 countries.
In March, Netflix announced it will adapt “Winx” into a live-action series for young adults in tandem with its creator,...
- 4/8/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
In today's booming global market for TV drama, everything old is new again. Fueled by the seemingly insatiable hunger for high-end TV among international broadcasters, cable outlets and streaming platforms, producers are dusting off decades-old novels and films and turning them into limited series.
AMC and the BBC are adapting the John le Carre 1983 thriller <em>The Little Drummer Girl</em> as a six-part series featuring Michael Shannon and directed by Korean auteur Park Chan-wook (<em>Oldboy</em>). Italy's 11 Marzo Film and Palomar, together with Tmg in Germany, is rebooting Umberto Eco's 1980 medieval crime drama <em>The Name of the ...</em>...
AMC and the BBC are adapting the John le Carre 1983 thriller <em>The Little Drummer Girl</em> as a six-part series featuring Michael Shannon and directed by Korean auteur Park Chan-wook (<em>Oldboy</em>). Italy's 11 Marzo Film and Palomar, together with Tmg in Germany, is rebooting Umberto Eco's 1980 medieval crime drama <em>The Name of the ...</em>...
According to new reports, author Umberto Eco's 14th century-set, mystery novel, "The Name of the Rose", previously adapted by director Jean-Jacques Annaud for the 1986 feature "The Name Of The Rose", will be developed into a $27 miilion budgeted, 8-part TV miniseries from Wild Bunch TV, to be directed by Giacomo Battiato :
"...'Franciscan' friar 'William of Baskerville' and 'Adso of Melk', a 'Benedictine' novice travelling under his protection, arrive at a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy to attend a theological disputation.
"Upon arrival, the monastery is disturbed by a suicide. Then several other monks die under mysterious circumstances. William is tasked by the monastery's abbot to investigate the deaths, and fresh clues with each murder victim lead William to dead ends and new clues.
"The protagonists explore a labyrinthine medieval library, discuss the subversive power of laughter, and come face to face with the 'Inquisition' a path that William had previously forsworn.
"...'Franciscan' friar 'William of Baskerville' and 'Adso of Melk', a 'Benedictine' novice travelling under his protection, arrive at a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy to attend a theological disputation.
"Upon arrival, the monastery is disturbed by a suicide. Then several other monks die under mysterious circumstances. William is tasked by the monastery's abbot to investigate the deaths, and fresh clues with each murder victim lead William to dead ends and new clues.
"The protagonists explore a labyrinthine medieval library, discuss the subversive power of laughter, and come face to face with the 'Inquisition' a path that William had previously forsworn.
- 2/19/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Lost star Michael Emerson will star in the Italian TV adaptation of Umberto Eco's crime novel The Name of the Rose. Emerson, who is currently starring in the CW's superhero series Arrow and Amazon's Mozart In The Jungle, will play The Abbot, an ambiguous, greedy, oversensitive and irritable prince of the Abbey, alongside My Best Friend's Wedding star Rupert Everett and The Night Of's John Turturro's in the eight-part drama, which was commissioned by Italian broadcaster…...
- 2/7/2018
- Deadline
Lost star Michael Emerson will star in the Italian TV adaptation of Umberto Eco's crime novel The Name of the Rose. Emerson, who is currently starring in the CW's superhero series Arrow and Amazon's Mozart In The Jungle, will play The Abbot, an ambiguous, greedy, oversensitive and irritable prince of the Abbey, alongside My Best Friend's Wedding star Rupert Everett and The Night Of's John Turturro's in the eight-part drama, which was commissioned by Italian broadcaster…...
- 2/7/2018
- Deadline TV
Tele München Group has signed on to co-produce eight-part series The Name Of The Rose, based on Umberto Eco's bestseller, with 11 Marzo, Palomar and Rai Fiction. John Turturro and Rupert Everett lead the principal cast of the crime thriller set in the Middle Ages — Turturro as William of Baskerville and Everett as the the merciless inquisitor Bernardo Gui. The Name of the Rose was originally adapted as a feature in 1986 with Sean Connery and Christian Slater in the lead…...
- 11/3/2017
- Deadline TV
My Best Friend's Wedding star Rupert Everett and The Night Of's John Turturro’s Italian TV adaptation of Umberto Eco's crime novel The Name of the Rose has found an international distributor. Germany’s Tele Munchen Group has acquired international rights outside of Italy for the eight-part series, commissioned by Italian public broadcaster Rai. It had been thought Wild Bunch would distribute when the project was announced this month. The €26m ($30 million) series is…...
- 11/2/2017
- Deadline TV
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