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Leone Film Group Celebrates 35 Years With a Big Boost in International Pic Production
SEO DEK: Leone Film Group Celebrates 35 Years With a Big Boost in International Pic Production.
Filmmaker Gabriele Muccino — whose Hollywood credits include Will Smith-starrer “The Pursuit of Happyness” — will direct this English-language adaptation of Delia Ephron’s novel “Siracusa.” The source material follows two couples and a child who take a vacation on the sun-drenched coast of the Ionian Sea in Sicily, and becomes “a thriller” of sorts, says Raffaella. Paolo Genovese (“Perfect Strangers”) will direct this reconstruction of the love triangle involving director Ingrid Bergman, neo-realism master Roberto Rossellini and actor Anna Magnani, based on the book “Gli amanti del vulcano” (“The Volcano Lovers”) by Italian journalist Marcello Sorgi. During the ensuing years, two of his three children, Raffaella and Andrea, go into business selling TV movies as Leone Film Group after cutting their teeth managing rights of two Westerns they inherited from their father: “Once Upon a Time in the West” and “Duck, You Sucker!”
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