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John Turturro, Melissa Leo, ‘24’s’ Evan Katz, ‘Mafia Spies’ Director Tom Donahue, Juan José Campanella on the Mediapro Studio’s First U.S. Slate
Presented at Mipcom by Laura Fernández Espeso, Juan ‘JC’ Acosta, Ran Tellem, the slate also features Anthony Carbone, Juliet McDaniel.
John Turturro is writing and set to direct and star in the film “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?”adapting Susan Sheehan’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize reportage about a family whose daughter battles schizophrenia. Oscar-winning director Juan José Campanella (“The Secret in Their Eyes”) is set to adapt as an English-language series his Academy Award-nominated movie“The Son of the Bride,”hailed by Variety in 2001 as “unflaggingly genial and universally funny.” “A thought-making exploration of family and a reminder that all human beings are always coming of age,” said Acosta. and Mrs. American Pie” became the Apple TV+ hit series “Palm Home Royale.” “Screaming Balls…” is described by Acosta as “an unexpected Bonnie and Clyde with cults, male strippers and a little bit of Neil Diamond.” A fun, female-led comedy about a chaotic woman’s bank-robbing spree, it speaks to the tenor of The Mediapro Studio: “Big characters, iconic hooks, stories that will maintain and continue for many seasons.”
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