Adam Driver is sharing his “terrifying” experience getting behind the wheel of a vintage racecar on the set of his new movie!
28.09.2023 - 12:41 / variety.com
Anna Marie de la Fuente Italy’s Roberto Stabile, head of special projects, Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual-Ministry of Culture at Cinecittà, breezed through the San Sebastian Film Festival on Tuesday to tout Italy’s drive to amp up the distribution of Italian movies around the world. In a brief presentation at the city’s Museo de San Telmo, he held forth about the plan to increase the presence of Italian audiovisual content not only in cinemas, but also on streaming platforms, online distribution and television, among others.
Backing Italy’s drive is its newish €1.2 million ($1.27 million) fund, established some years ago by the Italian Ministry of Culture with Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Agency, to boost theatrical distribution of Italian feature films around the world, and which will double to more than €2 million in order to also cover streaming and television. The goal of the Italian film distribution fund is to push local producers to make more movies that are congenial for play on foreign markets, including through co-productions that allow film producers to share risk.
Stabile pointed out that over the past three years, Italy’s film distribution fund has been extending to buyers of Italian films the amount of €50,000 ($530,000) for their theatrical releases and €15,000 ($15,900) for their platform distribution, leading to a 112% jump in the circulation of Italian films. He also spoke of the drive to increase Italy’s co-production efforts with the Ibero-American market.
“We’d like to recover our cooperation with Latin American countries with which we stopped co-producing these past years, with perhaps the exception of Argentina,” he said. “The exchange of ideas, culture and also financing can
.Adam Driver is sharing his “terrifying” experience getting behind the wheel of a vintage racecar on the set of his new movie!
Michaela Zee Although Adam Driver portrays legendary sports-car magnate Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann‘s biographical drama, the actor didn’t get to drive one of the 1950s-era replicas for “Ferrari.” Instead, he drove an “open-wheel single seater” that was modified to connect a camera to it. Asked how it was getting behind the wheel of that particular vintage sports car, Driver simply replied, “Terrifying.” “It teleports you back to the time and you realize if you turn left or right the wrong way, then you’re dead,” Driver told Variety at the “Ferrari” North American premiere at the New York Film Festival Friday night.
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