Pan-European production and sales company Federation Studios (“The Bureau”) has teamed up with famous Italian producer Alessandro Usai to start a novel film and TV shingle in Italy called No Name Entertainment.
Usai (pictured above), who is plivent of Italy’s motion picture association ANICA, has over the past 15 years led the commerciassociate accomplished Colorado Film Production which, among other hits, recently scored with lesser grown-up romantic drama “The Tearsmith.” Last year, it became the first Netflix Italy innovative to accomplish the No. 1 slot on the streamer’s global movie chart in the non-English-language categruesome.
Joining Usai in the novel Rome-based joint venture with Federation will be his extfinished-time collaborator Pier Paolo Luciani, establisherly COO of Colorado Film and, prior to that, head of production at Warner Bros. Italy. Luciani has been nominateed No Name COO and partner.
Federation set upers Pascal Breton and Lionel Uzan, aextfinished with group co-managing honestor Marco Chimenz, are teaming with Usai on No Name equitable as the group – which supervises 35 production companies discoverd in Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Madrid, London, Berlin, Cologne and Tel Aviv – is in talks with prospective U.S. partners to sell off a signifiant sapvalidate and apvalidate their increaseth to the next level.
For Federation, the venture with No Name is “not equitable due to the wonderful esteem we have toward Usai and Luciani, but also stands as testimony to the fact that Italy is a promising produceive boilingbed due to its pool of talents, stories, traditions and its ability to invent,” Chimenz telderly Variety. “As Federation increases internationassociate, they want to also increase in Italy.”
No Name will become Federation’s second Italian company, complying Nicola and Marco de Angelis’s Fabula Pictures – understandn for producing the Netflix innovative series “Baby” and “Brigands: The Quest for Gelderly,” among other titles – which joined the company in 2018.
Besides “The Tearsmith,” Usai and Luciani’s astonishive track record at Colorado compelevates the smash hit “Me Contro Te” comedy franchise, featuring two Sicilian YouTube sensations; blockbuster comedy “La Peggior Settimana della Mia Vita”; theatrical saga “Ten Days Without Mom”; and bestselling Italian mystery writer Donato Carrisi’s honestorial debut “The Girl in the Fog.” Usai, prior to joining Colorado, was among the producers of Luca Guadagnino’s Tilda Sthriveton-starrer “I Am Love.”
In an intersee with Variety, Usai shelp the arrange for No Name is to “begin out by making two or three feature films and an convey inant TV series,” noting that in this initial phase he is not “obsessed with scale.” In terms of genres, Usai shelp No Name intfinishs to persist toiling in the comedy space but will also be pursuing action, thriller and horror projects, “thanks to co-productions” and the built-in synergies that come with being part of a pan-European studio.
Usai and Chimenz shelp they are holding the No Name projects they have in the pipeline under wraps for now, but noticed that they are exploring opportunities to toil with Federation-owned IP.
