Prolific Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen (Riders of Justice, Adams Apples, Men & Chicken), is dipping back into his deep well of dark comedy for his upcoming film, Back to Reality.
The film is described as a drama/crime comedy mashup involving a bank robbery, Anker, who gets released after a jail stint for a heist from which the money was never recovered. The only one who knows where the loot is buried is Anker’s brother Manfred, but the shock of his childhood trauma has sent him fleeing to an alter ego who has no recollection of the money. Hoping to unlock Manfred’s memory, the brothers travel to their childhood home and start digging, physically and psychologically. Back to Reality is currently in preproduction and in the final phase of financing.
No cast has been confirmed but Jensen is a frequent collaboration with Danish star Mads Mikkelsen, the...
The film is described as a drama/crime comedy mashup involving a bank robbery, Anker, who gets released after a jail stint for a heist from which the money was never recovered. The only one who knows where the loot is buried is Anker’s brother Manfred, but the shock of his childhood trauma has sent him fleeing to an alter ego who has no recollection of the money. Hoping to unlock Manfred’s memory, the brothers travel to their childhood home and start digging, physically and psychologically. Back to Reality is currently in preproduction and in the final phase of financing.
No cast has been confirmed but Jensen is a frequent collaboration with Danish star Mads Mikkelsen, the...
- 5/19/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Back To Reality’ is a dark comedy from writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen.
TrustNordisk has acquired international sales rights to two upcoming features from Denmark’s Zentropa, including a new film from acclaimed comedy filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen.
Jensen’s Back To Reality (working title) is a dark comedy, about a bank robber recently released from jail, who must unlock his traumatised brother’s memory to recover stolen loot.
Zentropa is producing the title, which is at script stage with no cast yet attached; Nordisk Film Distribution will release the film in Scandinavia. Producers are Sisse Graum Jorgensen and Sidsel Hybschmann for Zentropa,...
TrustNordisk has acquired international sales rights to two upcoming features from Denmark’s Zentropa, including a new film from acclaimed comedy filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen.
Jensen’s Back To Reality (working title) is a dark comedy, about a bank robber recently released from jail, who must unlock his traumatised brother’s memory to recover stolen loot.
Zentropa is producing the title, which is at script stage with no cast yet attached; Nordisk Film Distribution will release the film in Scandinavia. Producers are Sisse Graum Jorgensen and Sidsel Hybschmann for Zentropa,...
- 5/19/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
In Italian director Francesco Lettieri’s “Lovely Boy,” which is the closing film of Venice’s independently run Venice Days section, a rising star of Rome’s never before depicted trap music scene gets sucked into a spiral of self-destruction.
“Lovely Boy” is the sophomore feature by Lettieri, who made his debut with “Ultras,” a drama about Neapolitan soccer hooligans that plays worldwide on Netflix.
Both “Ultras” and “Lovely Boy” were lead produced by Rome’s Indigo Film, best known as the shingle behind Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar-winning “The Great Beauty.”
The Rome-set pic tells the story of Nic, aka Lovely Boy, a talented trapper who has a tattoo on his face and performs in tandem with his friend Borneo la Xxg. As their popularity rises he gets sucked into a spiral of drugs and self-destruction and swiftly reaches breaking point. The only way he can come to terms with...
“Lovely Boy” is the sophomore feature by Lettieri, who made his debut with “Ultras,” a drama about Neapolitan soccer hooligans that plays worldwide on Netflix.
Both “Ultras” and “Lovely Boy” were lead produced by Rome’s Indigo Film, best known as the shingle behind Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar-winning “The Great Beauty.”
The Rome-set pic tells the story of Nic, aka Lovely Boy, a talented trapper who has a tattoo on his face and performs in tandem with his friend Borneo la Xxg. As their popularity rises he gets sucked into a spiral of drugs and self-destruction and swiftly reaches breaking point. The only way he can come to terms with...
- 9/9/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon unveiled its slate at its Prime Video Presents Italy event.
Indigo Films’ Bad Guy, a modern mafia take on The Count Of Monte Cristo, was among the new Italian original productions unveiled by Amazon Studios at its Prime Video Presents Italy event on Wednesday (May 27).
The series starts shooting in July and will be directed by Giuseppe Stasi and Giancarlo Fontana (Put Grandma In The Freezer). Writers are Davide Serino and Ludovica Rampoldi. Previous Indigo productions include Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty and Netflix series Ultras.
Also unveiled was Prisma, a young adult drama from Ludovico Bessegato (Skam...
Indigo Films’ Bad Guy, a modern mafia take on The Count Of Monte Cristo, was among the new Italian original productions unveiled by Amazon Studios at its Prime Video Presents Italy event on Wednesday (May 27).
The series starts shooting in July and will be directed by Giuseppe Stasi and Giancarlo Fontana (Put Grandma In The Freezer). Writers are Davide Serino and Ludovica Rampoldi. Previous Indigo productions include Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty and Netflix series Ultras.
Also unveiled was Prisma, a young adult drama from Ludovico Bessegato (Skam...
- 5/28/2021
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
Amazon unveiled its slate at its Prime Video Presents Italy event.
Indigo Films’ Bad Guy, a modern mafia take on The Count Of Monte Cristo, was among the new batch of Italian original productions unveiled by Amazon Studios at its Prime Video Presents Italy event on Wednesday (May 27).
The series starts shooting in July and will be directed by Giuseppe Stasi and Giancarlo Fontana (Welcome Back Mr. President). Writers are Davide Serino and Ludovica Rampoldi. Previous Indigo productions include Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty and Netflix series Ultras.
Also unveiled was Prisma, a young adult drama from Ludovico Bessegato...
Indigo Films’ Bad Guy, a modern mafia take on The Count Of Monte Cristo, was among the new batch of Italian original productions unveiled by Amazon Studios at its Prime Video Presents Italy event on Wednesday (May 27).
The series starts shooting in July and will be directed by Giuseppe Stasi and Giancarlo Fontana (Welcome Back Mr. President). Writers are Davide Serino and Ludovica Rampoldi. Previous Indigo productions include Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty and Netflix series Ultras.
Also unveiled was Prisma, a young adult drama from Ludovico Bessegato...
- 5/28/2021
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
Andrea Carpenzano plays a trap music star sucked into a spiral of self-destruction in the second film from the Italian director. Sky has announced the beginning of filming, between Rome and the Trentino-Alto Adige region, on Lovely Boy, the second film from Francesco Lettieri after Ultras, which was released on Netflix in March 2020. The new Sky Original film is produced by Indigo Film in co-production with Vision Distribution and Sky, with support from the Alto Adige Film Commission, and will premiere on Sky and Now. A director of music videos for artists such as Liberato, Calcutta and Thegiornalisti, in Lovely Boy, Francesco Lettieri tells the story of the rise and fall of a star of trap music. The lead actor is Andrea Carpenzano, who was noted in 2018 for his appearance in Boys Cry, the debut from the brothers Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo, and who later confirmed his talent...
Italy’s Indigo Film, the production company behind Oscar-winner “The Great Beauty,” is in advanced stages on a TV series for the global marketplace titled “A Marriage” that intends to put the narrative of a painful divorce involving custody of a child under a microscope.
The six-episode series depicting an Italian couple named Anna and Enrico from multiple angles over the course of twelve years – starting when they first intersect to the bitter legal battle for custody of their son – is among projects to be pitched during the Series Mania Digital Forum set up following cancellation of the event’s 2020 physical edition in Lille, France, due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Indigo partner Francesca Cima underlined that “A Marriage” is “totally different” from Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story,” and was conceived by young Italian writer Giacomo Bendotti prior to the Netflix drama being on anyone’s radar.
“When I saw ‘Marriage Story’ in Venice,...
The six-episode series depicting an Italian couple named Anna and Enrico from multiple angles over the course of twelve years – starting when they first intersect to the bitter legal battle for custody of their son – is among projects to be pitched during the Series Mania Digital Forum set up following cancellation of the event’s 2020 physical edition in Lille, France, due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Indigo partner Francesca Cima underlined that “A Marriage” is “totally different” from Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story,” and was conceived by young Italian writer Giacomo Bendotti prior to the Netflix drama being on anyone’s radar.
“When I saw ‘Marriage Story’ in Venice,...
- 3/23/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix is ready to kick off March by adding a number of new movies and TV shows.
Original films that will be added to the streaming service throughout the month include Spenser Confidential, I Am Jonas, Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City, Sitara: Let Girls Dream, Lost Girls, Go Karts, The Platform, Ultras and The Decline.
On the TV side, Netflix original series set to debut new seasons include Ozark, Elite, Castlevania, On My Block, The Boss Baby: Back in Business, Archibald's Next Big Thing, The Protector, Kingdom and Greenhouse Academy.
Meanwhile, new original shows The Circle Brazil, 100 Humans,...
Original films that will be added to the streaming service throughout the month include Spenser Confidential, I Am Jonas, Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City, Sitara: Let Girls Dream, Lost Girls, Go Karts, The Platform, Ultras and The Decline.
On the TV side, Netflix original series set to debut new seasons include Ozark, Elite, Castlevania, On My Block, The Boss Baby: Back in Business, Archibald's Next Big Thing, The Protector, Kingdom and Greenhouse Academy.
Meanwhile, new original shows The Circle Brazil, 100 Humans,...
Netflix is ready to kick off March by adding a number of new movies and TV shows.
Original films that will be added to the streaming service throughout the month include Spenser Confidential, I Am Jonas, Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City, Sitara: Let Girls Dream, Lost Girls, Go Karts, The Platform, Ultras and The Decline.
On the TV side, Netflix original series set to debut new seasons include Ozark, Elite, Castlevania, On My Block, The Boss Baby: Back in Business, Archibald's Next Big Thing, The Protector, Kingdom and Greenhouse Academy.
Meanwhile, new original shows The Circle Brazil, 100 Humans,...
Original films that will be added to the streaming service throughout the month include Spenser Confidential, I Am Jonas, Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City, Sitara: Let Girls Dream, Lost Girls, Go Karts, The Platform, Ultras and The Decline.
On the TV side, Netflix original series set to debut new seasons include Ozark, Elite, Castlevania, On My Block, The Boss Baby: Back in Business, Archibald's Next Big Thing, The Protector, Kingdom and Greenhouse Academy.
Meanwhile, new original shows The Circle Brazil, 100 Humans,...
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