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Variety’s International Achievement in Film Honoree Tarak Ben Ammar Soars With Italy’s Eagle Pictures Pacts and Local Hits Like ‘Boy With Pink Trousers’
Variety’s International Achievement in Film Honoree Tarak Ben Ammar soars with Italy’s Eagle Pictures Pacts and local hit ‘Boy With Pink Trousers’.
It co-owns France’s Studios de Paris, home of “Emily in Paris.” Eagle is also a shareholder along with Warner Bros. Pictures in Spyglass Media Group, which acquired the Weinstein Co.’s film and TV library in a bankruptcy sale alongside Andy Mitchell’s Lantern Asset Management. The Italian banner has pacts with such indie distributors as MadRiver, DeAPlaneta (Spain), IDC Distribution (Latin America), Italia Film (Middle East), Leonine Studios (Germany and Austria), Shochiku (Japan), SND (France) and Unicorn Media (Eastern Europe). The true tale has grossed more than $10 million and “made a statement that we’re in business to make good Italian movies that also move the needle socially, culturally, emotionally,” says Ben Ammar, using words that evoke Rossellini’s spirit.
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