The final episode of The Detectives shows the cold and violent nature of one of Greater Manchester’s most notorious gangsters.
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EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood vet Gianni Nunnari, producer on movies including the 300 franchise, Immortals, and From Dusk Til Dawn, is teaming with producer Simon Horsman (Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers, Magazine Dreams) to launch Euro Gang Entertainment.
The company plans to develop, finance and produce movies, scripted and unscripted TV series, stage productions and other live events.
The outfit will have offices in London, Rome and Madrid, while keeping a base in Los Angeles, and is affiliated to Nunnari’s long-time label Hollywood Gang Productions, which will continue to develop and service legacy projects.
Euro Gang says it has more than 30 projects in development across various genres, formats, and budget ranges, and this week it sealed a co-development agreement with Warner Music Group’s film and TV division Warner Music Entertainment, headed by Charlie Cohen.
Under terms of the pact, the companies will co-develop nine scripted projects, which include original concepts, remakes of European films, and book adaptations. Five of the projects are due to be in shot in either Italian, French, or Spanish.
Italy-born Nunnari, who was an exec producer on The Departed and Se7en and head of Cecchi Gori Pictures in the U.S., is currently in production in Rome on Roland Emmerich’s $150M-budgeted gladiator series, Those About to Die.
Horsman, a UK and California qualified lawyer, who previously co-founded and for ten years ran the Los Angeles Film Fund as co-CEO, recently was a producer on Hulu series, Legacy: The True Story Of The LA Lakers, and movies such as Sundance winner Magazine Dreams, and, Rob Peace, directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor.
As their first collaboration, Nunnari and Horsman are currently producing a documentary
The final episode of The Detectives shows the cold and violent nature of one of Greater Manchester’s most notorious gangsters.
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