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Wattpad Webtoon and Italy’s Leone Film Group to Adapt Hit Teen Novels ‘The Locker Exchange,’ ‘Love Me, Love Me’
Wattpad Webtoon Studios, the entertainment arm of the user-generated fiction and comics entertainment outfit, and Italy’s Leone Film Group have announced two new adaptations based on hit young-adult Wattpad novels. Taiwan-based author Ann Rae’s romantic mystery “The Locker Exchange,” which is set in a U.S. high school and has over 26 million reads globally
Review: ‘The Eight Mountains’ is a luminous, gentle stunner
Seasons and years blow through the high Alpine peaks of the decades-spanning “The Eight Mountains.”
THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS Review: Of Men and Friendship
Based on Paolo Gognetti’s book of the same title, Belgian filmmakers duo Felix van Gronigen and Charlotte Vandermeersch ( The Broken Circle Breakdown )’s The Eight Mountains is an affecting epic tale of male friendship that is quite rare to see in films these days.
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The Eight Mountains The Eight Mountains opens in select theaters on April 28.
The Eight Mountains Review: A Lucid Coming-of-Age Story About the Power of Friendship
The film is a meditative, slow crescendo of wounded feelings and quiet epiphanies.
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The Eight Mountains Everett Collection Watching Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch ’s vivid, sweeping film about male friendship is like reading a satisfying novel.
The Eight Mountains Review: A Gorgeous And Soaring Epic About Friendship, Aging, And Regrets
Italy Earmarks €20M For Summer Film Promotion, Will Slash Ticket Prices For Local & European Titles
An oft-heard lament on the part of international distribution is that Italy is impossible to program in the summer. In 2019, there was an effort on the part of the studios and the local industry to steer the season in a different direction resulting in record results, but the pandemic halted momentum.
The Eight Mountains – Time Out London review
This heartfelt tribute to platonic friendship soars on incredible performances and breathtaking cinematography
‘Queer’: Drew Starkey Joins Daniel Craig In Luca Guadagnino’s Latest, Filming Begins In Rome This Month
Variety reports that Luca Guadagnino will start shooting “Queer ,” his next feature, in Rome this month now that he’s wrapped post-production on “ Challengers ,” in theaters this September. This marks the most rapid creative pace for Guadagnino in his whole career: three films in as many years.