Italian playwright Stefano Massini’s sweeping saga of family and finance “The Lehman Trilogy,” which is a hot ticket on Broadway in a Sam Mendes-directed adaptation, is being developed as a TV series for the international market by Italy’s Fandango, the prominent shingle behind Elena Ferrante skein “The Lying Life of Adults” for Netflix.
Fandango chief Domenico Procacci said he has acquired an option for TV rights to Massini’s “Lehman Trilogy,” which follows the three Lehman brothers, from their arrival from Germany in New York in 1844 to the 2008 bankruptcy of the global financial services company they founded.
Procacci, who is known to have a sharp eye for Italian IP that can travel –– having previously optioned Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels besides “Adults,” and Roberto Saviano’s “Gomorrah” mob saga –– said he is now developing the TV version of “Lehman Brothers” with Massini on board to oversee the series adaptation.
Fandango chief Domenico Procacci said he has acquired an option for TV rights to Massini’s “Lehman Trilogy,” which follows the three Lehman brothers, from their arrival from Germany in New York in 1844 to the 2008 bankruptcy of the global financial services company they founded.
Procacci, who is known to have a sharp eye for Italian IP that can travel –– having previously optioned Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels besides “Adults,” and Roberto Saviano’s “Gomorrah” mob saga –– said he is now developing the TV version of “Lehman Brothers” with Massini on board to oversee the series adaptation.
- 11/29/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Fans loved the new Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play (as to be expected), but what do the critics think? The reviews are here, and critics say the highly anticipated production is nothing short of magical. Preview audiences have been pressed to "keep the secrets," but now word is out on how extraordinary the two-act play, set 19 years after the final book in the Harry Potter saga by J.K. Rowling, really is. Here's what the critics are raving: • Ben Brantley, The New York Times"This eagerly anticipated, two-part, five-hour-plus sequel to J.K. Rowling's best-selling, seven-volume series of Harry Potter...
- 7/26/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit_
- PEOPLE.com
Fans loved the new Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play (as to be expected), but what do the critics think? The reviews are here, and critics say the highly anticipated production is nothing short of magical. Preview audiences have been pressed to "keep the secrets," but now word is out on how extraordinary the two-act play, set 19 years after the final book in the Harry Potter saga by J.K. Rowling, really is. Here's what the critics are raving: • Ben Brantley, The New York Times"This eagerly anticipated, two-part, five-hour-plus sequel to J.K. Rowling's best-selling, seven-volume series of Harry Potter...
- 7/26/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit_
- PEOPLE.com
Cleese and crew in 'secret talks', with a press conference imminent. Plus: is legendary comic Andy Kaufman really dead?
• Monty Python: five favourite sketches – video
This week's comedy news
The stars of Monty Python have announced a press conference this Thursday amid rumours of a reunion. They last worked as a team back in 1983, on the film The Meaning of Life. The Sun reports that the five surviving Pythons (John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Michael Palin) have spent months in "secret talks". Previous rumoured projects have come to nothing, with Idle once joking: "We would only do a reunion if [Graham] Chapman came back from the dead. So we're negotiating with his agent." The press conference is scheduled for midday 21 November at London's Playhouse Theatre. Meanwhile, as the British Comedy Guide report, ex-Pythons Palin and Jones have been filming new material together for the DVD release of...
• Monty Python: five favourite sketches – video
This week's comedy news
The stars of Monty Python have announced a press conference this Thursday amid rumours of a reunion. They last worked as a team back in 1983, on the film The Meaning of Life. The Sun reports that the five surviving Pythons (John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Michael Palin) have spent months in "secret talks". Previous rumoured projects have come to nothing, with Idle once joking: "We would only do a reunion if [Graham] Chapman came back from the dead. So we're negotiating with his agent." The press conference is scheduled for midday 21 November at London's Playhouse Theatre. Meanwhile, as the British Comedy Guide report, ex-Pythons Palin and Jones have been filming new material together for the DVD release of...
- 11/19/2013
- by Brian Logan
- The Guardian - Film News
Ricky Gervais's Office character will strut his stuff on stage with the big boys, Lee Evans just wants to sit and paint, and we enjoy some scientific one-liners from our readers
This week's comedy news
Some detail has been added to recent reports that Ricky Gervais is to take David Brent and his guitar on the road, with the news – as reported in the Sun – that Brent is to support Coldplay on their next tour. According to the tabloid: "Ricky has already got a date booked in to support Coldplay at Hammersmith Apollo when they start to test new material on fans." Gervais has previous with the band, of course. In series 2 of Extras, his character from faux-sitcom When the Whistle Blows duets with Coldplay crooner Chris Martin on the band's ballad Fix You – a song that Gervais also uses on the soundtrack to his C4 series Derek. Now...
This week's comedy news
Some detail has been added to recent reports that Ricky Gervais is to take David Brent and his guitar on the road, with the news – as reported in the Sun – that Brent is to support Coldplay on their next tour. According to the tabloid: "Ricky has already got a date booked in to support Coldplay at Hammersmith Apollo when they start to test new material on fans." Gervais has previous with the band, of course. In series 2 of Extras, his character from faux-sitcom When the Whistle Blows duets with Coldplay crooner Chris Martin on the band's ballad Fix You – a song that Gervais also uses on the soundtrack to his C4 series Derek. Now...
- 9/3/2013
- by Brian Logan
- The Guardian - Film News
Nobody expected theatre relayed to cinemas would work – until National Theatre Live became a hit. Matt Trueman watches one show come together
Gunnar Cauthery is building up to his big moment. He's on stage at the National Theatre, playing a Conservative MP in a drama called This House. Despite hoping for a safe home-counties seat with haystacks and hillocks, his character has just been elected MP for the Worcestershire town of Redditch. "You can't find a haystack in Redditch," he bellows, "because of all the fucking needles!"
Ninety-five miles away, in Redditch, a huge cheer goes up at the local Vue cinema. In Sheffield, there's applause when another Tory MP snootily suggests Manchester "either needs a good clean or a good fire", while at the Covent Garden Odeon in London, the man next to me almost chokes on his noodles from laughing so hard. "I hope people cheered like a...
Gunnar Cauthery is building up to his big moment. He's on stage at the National Theatre, playing a Conservative MP in a drama called This House. Despite hoping for a safe home-counties seat with haystacks and hillocks, his character has just been elected MP for the Worcestershire town of Redditch. "You can't find a haystack in Redditch," he bellows, "because of all the fucking needles!"
Ninety-five miles away, in Redditch, a huge cheer goes up at the local Vue cinema. In Sheffield, there's applause when another Tory MP snootily suggests Manchester "either needs a good clean or a good fire", while at the Covent Garden Odeon in London, the man next to me almost chokes on his noodles from laughing so hard. "I hope people cheered like a...
- 6/10/2013
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
Big names will take part in venture with Comedy Central, BBC sketch had over 2,000 complaints, plus Ian McKellen's sitcom
This week's comedy news
Can't get to Edinburgh? Kilkenny just that bit too far away? Never fear. The cable channel Comedy Central is teaming up with Twitter to launch the first 140-character comedy festival. The festival will commence on 29 April and run for five days, featuring a host of comedy names tweeting jokes and posting six second videos using Twitter's new video app Vine. Next Monday, Twitter will stream the only live #ComedyFest event, a panel discussion featuring Mel Brooks and Judd Apatow. The New York Times has more on the story, including the lowdown on a new app Comedy Central is developing to help users discover their favourite new comedians.
Back in the world of real festivals, veteran Anglo-American standup Rich Hall has won the Barry award at the Melbourne comedy festival,...
This week's comedy news
Can't get to Edinburgh? Kilkenny just that bit too far away? Never fear. The cable channel Comedy Central is teaming up with Twitter to launch the first 140-character comedy festival. The festival will commence on 29 April and run for five days, featuring a host of comedy names tweeting jokes and posting six second videos using Twitter's new video app Vine. Next Monday, Twitter will stream the only live #ComedyFest event, a panel discussion featuring Mel Brooks and Judd Apatow. The New York Times has more on the story, including the lowdown on a new app Comedy Central is developing to help users discover their favourite new comedians.
Back in the world of real festivals, veteran Anglo-American standup Rich Hall has won the Barry award at the Melbourne comedy festival,...
- 4/23/2013
- by Brian Logan
- The Guardian - Film News
"Released in 1938 and now available in a remastered edition from the Warner Archive Collection, The Great Waltz was one of Louis B Mayer's frequent attempts to bring culture to the American masses by buying up wholesale lots of European talent," writes Dave Kehr in the New York Times. It's a "biographical fantasy woven, with no particular concern for the truth, around the figure of the Austrian composer Johann Strauss." And now out from New Yorker Video, "the 1975 film adaptation of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet stands in roughly the same relation to The Great Waltz as Schoenberg's dissonant, 12-tone compositions do to Strauss's infectious oom-pah-pahs. Schoenberg's unfinished opera is a work of the utmost sobriety and seriousness — a philosophical assertion of monotheism that confirmed Schoenberg's reconversion to Judaism — and it is presented by Straub and Huillet in a form that avoids any theatrical effects (or,...
- 2/4/2012
- MUBI
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