Netflix inaugurates its headquarters in Italy and announces upcoming new products in Italy

Netflix today officially inaugurated its Italian office in Rome, proving an important and lasting commitment to the country, the creative community and Italian consumers.

Located in the heart of the Roman “Dolce Vita”, Netflix’s Italian office now has one seventy of people holding various roles and responsibilities and dedicated to Italy.

“It’s a great pleasure to take root in Italy, a country with cultural history and cinematographic importance.”, declared Reed Hastings, Founder and Co-CEO of Netflix.

Diversity, quality and local authenticity are at the heart of the offering of Italian titles announced today, from movies to non-fiction content to scripted series, and where Netflix will be made available starting this year. Stories that touch was not published different themes and genres, providing space for established talent but also for new voices, and showcasing the vitality and richness of Italian storytelling that Netflix wants to tell and bring to its Italian and international audience.

The new series is announced today:

• The serial transposition of the novel The Leopard -(Indiana Production and Moonage Pictures) – the series inspired by the novel by Tomasi di Lampedusa in which Visconti drew a masterpiece of our cinematography. Director Tom Shankland will rediscover all the modernity of a story, of the Prince of Salina and his family, who were of Italy yesterday and today, giving space to the characters and stories scarce in the book. explore.
• Deception (title in the meantime) (Cattleya, part of ITV Studios) – a sentimental thriller that plays suspense, taboo and uncomfortable facts about love. The intense relationship, not without shadows, between an adult woman and a boy half her age, destroys social conventions and family balance, destroying the intangible. topos of motherhood of culture Mediterranean.
• The new animated project of Zerocalcare (Movements Production in collaboration with Bao Publishing) – returns the world of narration, the unique language and the unmistakable characters of the universe of the great Roman cartoonist.o. Project new items include: the format, including six episodes lasting about half an hour that goes even deeper into the themes the author loves.
• Lotto Gang (provisory title) (BIM Production and Feltrinelli Originals) – Lincredible adventure independently inspired by the true story of the biggest and most imaginative lotto scam ever. Set in the hinterland Milanese in the mid-90s, he proposed a heist with memorable anti-heroes and anti-heroines that combined action and Italian comedy.
• I don’t like Christmas (Lux Vide, a Fremantle Group company) – Pilar Fogliati is the protagonist of Netflix’s first Italian Christmas series that tells of finding love using the key to comedy.

Tinny Andreatta, Vice President of the original Italian series: “The Italian serial projects announced today and which will see the light in the next few years, reflect our willingness to work with our Italian production partners and raise the level of our ambition. Together we want to deliver live broad and diverse storytelling, pluralistic in terms of creative perspective and voice, rooted in the present, capable dare, from the visual language to the freshness of the characters and the bold choices made even within the stories belonging to the cultural tradition and to the taste of the Italian public, violation of the taboo e touching on themes not included in our story. We want to say on the other side of Italy, the mysterious, the forbidden, the brave who can think and fly in the imagination. “

ANG new non-fiction projects announced today and will be released in 2022:

• Gusto (Fremantle Italy)-a crime docu-series with pop touches that reconstructs and tells the known but mainly the lesser known aspects of a woman and a story that also pictures a historical moment and of the television era in Italy.
• The Alex Schwazer Case (Indigo Film) – an unfiltered story about the rise, fall and search for redemption of a sportsman, against the backdrop of a complex sporting and judicial affair.
• Summer work (Banijay Italy) – the first Italian Netflix original reality show: What begins as a heavenly vacation soon becomes the first work experience for the ten men and women who make up the cast. Performing, for the first time in this role, is Matilde Gioli.

Giovanni Bossetti, Manager for Italian non-fiction content: “It’s exciting to see how non-fiction projects are proliferatingI’m in between contents made in Italy. Our goal is to contribute to the composition of a richer and clearer Italian offer, suggesting genres with range from the docu series in reality shows, and as their common denominator the desire to find new points of view to tell more and more incredible, funny, exciting Italian stories ”

Movies announced today and will be released in 2022:

• We robbed Duce (Bibi Film) – an ambitious “heist movie” full of action and humor directed by Renato de Maria and starring Pietro Castellitto, Matilda De Angelis and Isabella Ferrari, among the stars.
• my name this is Vendetta (Colorado Film) – a fast -paced action, survival and revenge film set in Northern Italy. Written and directed by Cosimo Gomez and with Alessandro Gassman as the star.
• Love and Gelato (HT Film) – the adventures and misadventures – with lots of ice cream! – from Lina, a young American who seeks out herself and her origins in a glowing Rome. Written and directed by Brandon Camp.
• Under the Amalfi Sun (Lucky Red) – friendship and romance in a magical summer in the stunning setting of the Amalfi coast in the next film by Under the sun of Riccione. Directed by Martina Pastori, in her directorial debut, with Lorenzo Zurzolo, Ludovica Martino, Isabella Ferrari and Luca Ward among the stars.
• To Launch From the Stars (Lotus Film) – inspired by the novel of the same name, the exciting story of Sole, first young woman who, after the death of her best friend, will try to face and overcome all her greatest fears. Directed by Andrea Jublin, it features Federica Torchetti, Lorenzo Richelmy, Cristiano Caccamo, Celeste Savino, Anna Ferruzzo and Massimiliano Gallo.

Sara Furio, Director of films for Italy at Netflix: “Our intent is to bring ai our members around the world there are many different stories and all are truly Made in Italy. We’re excited about the variety of our offerings this year, ranging from action films to drama, from coming-of-age stories to love stories and friendships. We want to continue to work with our Italian creative partners and always find new keys to deliver ambitious Italian stories to the world.“.

Projects announced today they were added to the Italian serial productions already announced and at various stages of production including Lidia Poet, Thieves, The Lying Lives of the Elders, Everyone is asking for salvation and where the first pictures are now seenwith them second season of stuck, the fifth season of SKAM Italia and Di4ri.

To seal the opening of the Italian office, in the evocative setting of Piazza di Fontana di Trevi, the launch of Marqueea special billboard reminiscent of the facades of cinemas in the 1970s, which began with Marcello! Here we are! a declaration of love for the history of cinema and the Italian creative community. In Rome, the marquee will tell the news of the Netflix world through the service’s iconic style and tone of voice.

Source: Press release