Italy’s storied Titanus studio, producers of myriad golden era Cinema Italiano works, is getting a reboot and reviving its production side with several projects in development, including a contempo…
Established in 1904 by Gustavo Lombardo, Titanus was a true Italian major, which during the 1960s forged a partnership with MGM. They slowed down considerably from the mid-1960s onwards after Luchino Visconti’s lavish Sicily-set costumer “The Leopard” , starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon, went way over budget. Since the mid-1980s the studio’s output has been on a much smaller scale, and primarily for TV.
On the legacy side, Titanus has teamed up with Los Angeles-based company The Exchange, founded and headed by veteran sales executive Brian O’Shea, to co-develop a U.S. film loosely based on “Phenomena,” the cult Argento chiller, which starred Jennifer Connelly as the daughter of a movie star who arrives in a country called Swiss Transylvania to attend an exclusive girls school where pupils are being targeted by a vicious killer.
Titanus has teamed up with Fremantle-owned Wildside and Sky Studios on the “Piedone” series, which is being penned by Peppe Fiore and “Gomorrah” star Salvatore Esposito, who is in advanced talks to star as the show’s lead.
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