Mediawan has made it official that their majority stake in Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani‘s OUR Movies has closed because the Venice Movie Pageant will get underway. Information of each events’ union started to emerge out of Cannes.
The funding is according to Mediawan’s technique of making a Pan-European studio, house to greater than 80 manufacturing firms. The Paris-based studio made a majority funding in Brad Pitt’s Plan B again in December 2022 with 4 of that shingle’s initiatives premiering on the Lido: Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the Apple Jon Watts directed Pitt-George Clooney comedy noir Wolfs, and documentaries One to One: John & Yoko, directed by Kevin Macdonald, and Apocalypse within the Tropics directed by Petra Costa.
Mieli and Gianani departed as CEOs of their respective Fremantle labels, Wildside and The Condominium, in January, and launched their Rome, Italy-based OUR Movies earlier this yr. The duo have established a repute for making high-class fare together with movies, documentaries, TV collection and extra for world audiences. Moreover, they’re identified for his or her deep relationships with content material creators and expertise, coupled with their sharp unbiased financing sensibilities in accessing mushy cash and forging co-productions.
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Elisabeth d’Arvieu, CEO of Mediawan Photos, tells Deadline that the partnership with OUR Movies is one which’s a “frequent DNA by way of style, ambition, technique and imaginative and prescient.”
Gianani known as the brand new teaming with Mediawan an “Evolution.”
“We wanted a associate that was able to adapting itself to {the marketplace}. It’s not simple for giant firms to adapt themselves to the ever-changing market circumstances,” he added.
OUR Movies will unveil their full slate within the close to future.
Mediawan and OUR Movies share comparable visions: Investing, nurturing and proudly owning content material improvement early on, whereas with the ability to pivot in a disrupted market dominated by analytics. Mediawan’s presence now spans 13 nations together with France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Benelux, and the UK in Europe, alongside operations in Africa, Asia, and the US. Of the initiatives that Mediawan has been concerned with are Name My Agent, Three Physique Drawback, Bob Marley: One Love, Miraculous Ladybug, Rhythm and Movement France, The Company, The Depend of Montecristo, Tremendous/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, HIP/Excessive Potential, and One Day.
“We couldn’t be extra excited to reunite beneath our new OUR Movies banner and be part of forces with the sensible and passionate Mediawan group,” exclaimed Mieli and Gianani, collectively. “Collectively, we’re constructing a brand new inventive hub to help the world’s greatest filmmakers in telling daring and brave tales that elevate our lives and the artform by means of shared cinematic excellence. That is the aim for OUR Movies.”
The duo added, “’OUR’ symbolizes our partnership with artists, as we stand alongside them to champion their imaginative and prescient and initiatives from the very starting to the distribution stage. By our efforts and monetary sources, we decide to defending and sharing with our creatives the management, empowerment, and freedom essential to uphold the integrity of their artwork. That is the mission of OUR Movies.”
At current each Mediawan and Mieli and Gianani come armed to the autumn movie festivals with a mess of initiatives.
Along with the Plan B function initiatives at Venice, Mediawan has And their youngsters after them (in Official Competitors) directed by Zoran and Ludovic Boukherma and produced by CHI FOU MI.
On the 2024 Venice Movie Pageant, Mieli will current three initiatives produced by means of his former Fremantle-owned The Condominium Photos: Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, based mostly on the ebook by William Burroughs, starring Daniel Craig; Pablo Larrain’s Maria, starring Angelina Jolie; and Joe Wright’s eight-episode restricted collection M, in regards to the lifetime of Mussolini.
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“We’re delighted to welcome Lorenzo and Mario, two of the trade’s most achieved producers of internationally acclaimed movies and collection, who encourage us with their style and trendy inventive edge. By OUR Movies, we’re reinforcing our ambition to convey collectively the best expertise behind the very best content material worldwide,” mentioned Pierre-Antoine Capton, Co-founder and CEO of The Mediawan Group, and Elisabeth d’Arvieu, CEO of Mediawan Photos, collectively.
Of the initiatives Mieli, former CEO of Fremantle Italia, has made beneath The Condominium Photos are the Oscar nominated The Hand of God (Silver Lion on the 2021 Venice Movie Pageant), Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All (Silver Lion on the 2022 Venice Movie Pageant), Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla (Coppa Volpi award for Cailee Spaeny on the 2023 Venice Movie Pageant) and Paolo Sorrentino’s newest Parthenope (in competitors on the 2024 Cannes Movie Pageant) which is getting a stateside launch through A24.
Gianani’s function canon contains La mafia uccide solo d’property directed by Pif (European Movie Awards for Greatest Comedy in 2014), The Eight Mountains directed by Felix Von Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch (Cannes Movie Pageant Jury Prize, 4 David di Donatello and a pair of Silver Ribbons), the Italian field workplace smash There Is Nonetheless Tomorrow directed by Paola Cortellesi (19 nominations on the David di Donatello Awards in 2024) and Kirill Serebrennikov’s Limonov: The Ballad (official competitors on the 2024 Cannes Movie Pageant), in co-production with Chapter 2 (Mediawan).
Collectively, Gianani and Mieli have made such world productions because the HBO Sorrentino collection The Younger Pope and The New Pope, Guadagnino’s We Are Who We Are for HBO, and HBO’s My Sensible Pal, directed by Saverio Costanzo and tailored from the best-selling novels written by Elena Ferrante; that collection about to premiere its closing season.
