Paolo Sorrentino ready to shoot La grazia
- MUBI acquires global rights, excluding Italy, for the new film the Italian Oscar-winning director will shoot next spring, starring Toni Servillo
UPDATE (28 February 2025): MUBI will handle the international distribution for Paolo Sorrentino’s next film, La grazia. The streaming service, production house and global distributor that recently released The Substance [+see also:
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Paolo Sorrentino has announced his new project, titled La grazia (lit. “The Grace”), the shoot for which will begin in Italy in spring 2025.
Meanwhile, his latest film Parthenope [+see also:
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The star of the new film will be Toni Servillo, who is collaborating with the helmer for the seventh time. They first worked together on One Man Up [+see also:
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The movie, written by Sorrentino himself, will be a love story, but this is all we know about the plot, which is being kept strictly under wraps.
La grazia is being produced by Annamaria Morelli for The Apartment, a Fremantle group company, and by Sorrentino’s own firm, Numero 10, in conjunction with PiperFilm, which will distribute it in Italy, as it is doing at present with Parthenope.
(Translated from Italian)
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