The latest from “The Platform” co-producers Mr Miyagi and rising shock meister Hugo Cardozo will be sneak peeked as pix-in-post at this year’s Ventana Sur Blood Window Screenings.
Both are sold, and Cardozo’s “Do Not Enter” produced by Guido Rud’s FilmSharks as sales agents, as this week’s American Film Market attests, are driving ever more into horror genre.
Unlike action thrillers and romantic comedies, the other go-to movie types in a market ever more attuned to streamer tastes, that could be that horror doesn’t need name actors. Mister Smith Ent.’s David Garrett said before the AFM.
Latin American genre is not so much as fitting into market trends as a push-phenomenon driven by genre fanboys and girls. Two at least make the cut, with Argentina’s Jose María Cicala, who will introduce his “Charming,” and Peru’s young Farid Rodríguez, who multi-tasks as a film and fest director,...
Both are sold, and Cardozo’s “Do Not Enter” produced by Guido Rud’s FilmSharks as sales agents, as this week’s American Film Market attests, are driving ever more into horror genre.
Unlike action thrillers and romantic comedies, the other go-to movie types in a market ever more attuned to streamer tastes, that could be that horror doesn’t need name actors. Mister Smith Ent.’s David Garrett said before the AFM.
Latin American genre is not so much as fitting into market trends as a push-phenomenon driven by genre fanboys and girls. Two at least make the cut, with Argentina’s Jose María Cicala, who will introduce his “Charming,” and Peru’s young Farid Rodríguez, who multi-tasks as a film and fest director,...
- 11/1/2023
- by John Hopewell and Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
ABC is teaming with Daniel Cerone for an American version of the Argentinean sibling crime drama "Brothers & Detectives."
The network has handed out a put pilot to the project, which will be produced by ABC Studios, where Cerone has an overall deal.
"Brothers," which ran on Telefe in 2006, was one of several formats the Argentinean network recently shopped to U.S. outlets. Barry Sonnenfeld already has come on board to develop another one, "The Pretenders." (Argentinean writer Damian Szifron is behind both shows.)
"Brothers" sparked heated bidding before landing at ABC.
Cerone heard about the format last month when he was looking for development ideas following his exit from "Dirty Sexy Money." He had sampled a number of Latin American shows before.
"Most of them were stripped soaps, wild and whacky and not of interest to me, but this one was a weekly show, and I found it immediately compelling," Cerone said.
"Brothers" centers on a low-level paper-pusher in a homicide division who, following the death of his estranged father, finds out that he has a brilliant 11-year-old brother who loves solving puzzles.
"When the boy helps his detective brother solve a homicide case, a strange partnership is born," Cerone said.
With forensic shows dominating the crime drama genre, Cerone said he loves the idea of doing a cop show that solves crimes through deduction rather than science.
Also appealing was exploring the world through the eyes of a young prodigy, he said.
For Cerone, casting the young lead poses the biggest challenge.
In Argentina, the role was played by Rodrigo Noya, who also played the part on a Spanish version of the series, one of several international adaptations.
"Clubhouse" creator Cerone, whose resume includes showrunner duties on "Dexter," is repped by Wma, which also reps Telefe. Cerone is also with Insight management.
The network has handed out a put pilot to the project, which will be produced by ABC Studios, where Cerone has an overall deal.
"Brothers," which ran on Telefe in 2006, was one of several formats the Argentinean network recently shopped to U.S. outlets. Barry Sonnenfeld already has come on board to develop another one, "The Pretenders." (Argentinean writer Damian Szifron is behind both shows.)
"Brothers" sparked heated bidding before landing at ABC.
Cerone heard about the format last month when he was looking for development ideas following his exit from "Dirty Sexy Money." He had sampled a number of Latin American shows before.
"Most of them were stripped soaps, wild and whacky and not of interest to me, but this one was a weekly show, and I found it immediately compelling," Cerone said.
"Brothers" centers on a low-level paper-pusher in a homicide division who, following the death of his estranged father, finds out that he has a brilliant 11-year-old brother who loves solving puzzles.
"When the boy helps his detective brother solve a homicide case, a strange partnership is born," Cerone said.
With forensic shows dominating the crime drama genre, Cerone said he loves the idea of doing a cop show that solves crimes through deduction rather than science.
Also appealing was exploring the world through the eyes of a young prodigy, he said.
For Cerone, casting the young lead poses the biggest challenge.
In Argentina, the role was played by Rodrigo Noya, who also played the part on a Spanish version of the series, one of several international adaptations.
"Clubhouse" creator Cerone, whose resume includes showrunner duties on "Dexter," is repped by Wma, which also reps Telefe. Cerone is also with Insight management.
- 7/23/2008
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
Argentine filmmaker Alejandro Agresti plumbs his Buenos Aires childhood for this late-'60s memory piece, which centers on the coming of age of an 8-year-old already wise beyond his years. With charm to spare, "Valentin" fuses nostalgia and humor in an episodic story whose ultimate focus is the birth of a writer. Having reaped nods on the international fest circuit, the Argentine-Euro co-production, which opened the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival on Friday, should prove an art house performer in the States when Miramax releases it in the spring.
In his second screen role, the adorably no-nonsense Rodrigo Noya plays the title character, a perceptive, precocious youngster whose divorced parents have left him with his grandmother (Spanish film vet Carmen Maura), a cheerless woman who has nothing good to say about anyone except her late husband. Although she depends on Valentin's company, she's not amused by his random observations, penetrating questions or diligent rehearsals for a career as an astronaut -- he holds out hope that by the time he's old enough to man a rocket, Argentina will have developed a space program. The boy's father, a narcissistic jerk played by Agresti, visits occasionally to apprise his mother and son of the latest in a series of failed relationships.
Valentin may have crossed eyes and thick, oversize glasses, but he sees quite clearly through his father's weak character, his grandmother's neediness and the foibles of most of the grown-ups around him, and he never hesitates to give them a bit of lip. With awe-inspiring confidence and resilience, the third-grader forges friendships with adults who show him kindness: a hangdog musician neighbor (Mex Urtizberea) who gives him piano lessons and his first taste of whiskey as well as lovely, sad-eyed Leticia, his father's new girlfriend (Julieta Cardinale, whose film debut was Agresti's "A Night With Sabrina Love").
All the performances reflect the boy's view of the characters, and the chemistry between him and angelic Leticia is especially touching. Still nursing a child's bewildered ache for the mother he barely remembers, Valentin courts the young woman, hoping his considerable powers of persuasion will convince her to marry his dad.
Set against a turbulent time, "Valentin" does not directly address the stirrings of cultural and political change but presents them from a child's point of view: the excitement of such startling innovations as audiocassettes and portable recorders
the despairing news, delivered by a priest, of Che's murder in Bolivia. Faded greens and blues predominate, conveying the weathered European-style grandeur of Buenos Aires' public and private spaces, held in retrospect's tender regard.
VALENTIN
Miramax
First Floor Features/RWA/Patagonik Film Group/DMVB Films/Duque y Castelao Prods./Surf Film
Credits:
Director-writer: Alejandro Agresti
Producer: Laurens Geels
Director of photography: Jose Luis Cajaraville
Production designer: Floris Vos
Music: Paul M. van Bruggen
Costume designer: Marisa Urruti
Editor: Alejandro Brodersohn
Cast:
Grandmother: Carmen Maura
Valentin: Rodrigo Noya
Leticia: Julieta Cardinale
Uncle Chiche: Jean Pierre Noher
Rufo: Mex Urtizberea
Father: Alejandro Agresti
Dr. Galaburri: Carlos Roffe
Priest: Fabian Vena
Running time -- 83 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Argentine filmmaker Alejandro Agresti plumbs his Buenos Aires childhood for this late-'60s memory piece, which centers on the coming of age of an 8-year-old already wise beyond his years. With charm to spare, "Valentin" fuses nostalgia and humor in an episodic story whose ultimate focus is the birth of a writer. Having reaped nods on the international fest circuit, the Argentine-Euro co-production, which opened the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival on Friday, should prove an art house performer in the States when Miramax releases it in the spring.
In his second screen role, the adorably no-nonsense Rodrigo Noya plays the title character, a perceptive, precocious youngster whose divorced parents have left him with his grandmother (Spanish film vet Carmen Maura), a cheerless woman who has nothing good to say about anyone except her late husband. Although she depends on Valentin's company, she's not amused by his random observations, penetrating questions or diligent rehearsals for a career as an astronaut -- he holds out hope that by the time he's old enough to man a rocket, Argentina will have developed a space program. The boy's father, a narcissistic jerk played by Agresti, visits occasionally to apprise his mother and son of the latest in a series of failed relationships.
Valentin may have crossed eyes and thick, oversize glasses, but he sees quite clearly through his father's weak character, his grandmother's neediness and the foibles of most of the grown-ups around him, and he never hesitates to give them a bit of lip. With awe-inspiring confidence and resilience, the third-grader forges friendships with adults who show him kindness: a hangdog musician neighbor (Mex Urtizberea) who gives him piano lessons and his first taste of whiskey as well as lovely, sad-eyed Leticia, his father's new girlfriend (Julieta Cardinale, whose film debut was Agresti's "A Night With Sabrina Love").
All the performances reflect the boy's view of the characters, and the chemistry between him and angelic Leticia is especially touching. Still nursing a child's bewildered ache for the mother he barely remembers, Valentin courts the young woman, hoping his considerable powers of persuasion will convince her to marry his dad.
Set against a turbulent time, "Valentin" does not directly address the stirrings of cultural and political change but presents them from a child's point of view: the excitement of such startling innovations as audiocassettes and portable recorders
the despairing news, delivered by a priest, of Che's murder in Bolivia. Faded greens and blues predominate, conveying the weathered European-style grandeur of Buenos Aires' public and private spaces, held in retrospect's tender regard.
VALENTIN
Miramax
First Floor Features/RWA/Patagonik Film Group/DMVB Films/Duque y Castelao Prods./Surf Film
Credits:
Director-writer: Alejandro Agresti
Producer: Laurens Geels
Director of photography: Jose Luis Cajaraville
Production designer: Floris Vos
Music: Paul M. van Bruggen
Costume designer: Marisa Urruti
Editor: Alejandro Brodersohn
Cast:
Grandmother: Carmen Maura
Valentin: Rodrigo Noya
Leticia: Julieta Cardinale
Uncle Chiche: Jean Pierre Noher
Rufo: Mex Urtizberea
Father: Alejandro Agresti
Dr. Galaburri: Carlos Roffe
Priest: Fabian Vena
Running time -- 83 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
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