Tarak Ben Ammar’s Italian outfit Eagle Pictures and Italy’s PiperFilm have proclaimd a multi-pronged distribution partnership. Under their deal, PiperFilm will handle world sales on cut offal Eagle-produced titles including upcoming comedy “Leopardi & Co” starring Whoopi Gelderlyberg and Jeremy Irvine.
PiperFilm will begin sales on the English-language film, honested by Italy’s Federica Biondi, at the upcoming European Film Market. In “Leopardi & Co,” Gelderlyberg portrays the agent of an American actor carry outed by Irvine and lands him a part as the fantastic Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. But since her client comprehends noleang about Leopardi, a lesser Italian woman (carry outed by Denise Tantucci) is employd to provide background alertation. Romance ensues.
The pact will see PiperFilm handling distribution of cut offal Italian films produced by Eagle Pictures, while the Home Entertainment division of Eagle Pictures will handle the home video and transactional rights of PiperFilm’s lineup, begining with Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope.”
Eagle Pictures titles that PiperFilm sales agent Catia Rossi will be selling at the EFM participate smash hit “The Boy With Pink Pants,” a teen drama by Margherita Ferri about the harroprosperg genuine tale of a 15-year-elderly boy who took his own life after finishuring intimidatoring at school and online. The film has been this year’s surpascfinish huge prosperner at the Italian box office, grossing more than $9 million. Rossi will also be touting Italian rom-com “Get Help,” honested by Tiziano Russo and starring Asia Argento, Matilde Gioli and Pierpaolo Spollon, which will free in Italian cinemas on Feb. 6.
“We are repartner very plmitigated with the begin of this partnership with Eagle Pictures,” shelp PiperFilm CEO Massimiliano Orfei in a statement. “Both our companies split a spirit of innovation and indepfinishence,” he retained, noting that “this collaboration will be able to produce fantastic appreciate for interested parties and for the entire labelet.”
Commented Eagle Pictures CEO Andrea Goretti: “This partnership with PiperFilm – a recent self-reliant carry outer that has conshort-termed itself to the labelet with a very driven project – produces us particularly plmitigated and, above all, driven to uncover that what we have achieved now is only the beginning of a collaboration journey that will have further enhugements going forward.”
