Veteran Italian movie govt Claudio Rapino, outstanding producer Andrea Iervolino and entrepreneur Pietro Peligra have teamed to kind movie and TV distribution and improvement firm Maestro Distribution, which is able to launch from the upcoming European Movie Market in Berlin.

Rapino (pictured heart), a former head of acquisitions and gross sales at high Italian corporations together with Leone Movie Group, Infamous Footage and Koch Media Italian, will head Maestro, which plans to purchase and theatrically distribute as much as 10 worldwide function movies a yr. The brand new firm can even act as a world gross sales agent and an incubator, creating movie and TV content material and promoting authentic IPs to producers and worldwide companions. 

“The concept is to deal with 50% completed product and 50% product that we develop,” Rapino mentioned, including that he can be “creating content material principally in non-Italian languages corresponding to French, German or English to then promote the IP.” Maestro, which is working with a staff of writers to develop these IPs, is not going to be concerned in bodily manufacturing.

On the completed product aspect, Maestro can be looking for to purchase full-rights on principally U.S. and European indie titles that they may launch theatrically by an outdoor service, however will do their very own advertising.

“We’re very comfortable to determine this new firm, which for us is one other manner of approaching the Italian market with even larger power, whereas persevering with to work together with the worldwide market as we now have all the time carried out,” mentioned Iervolino (pictured left), whose manufacturing credit embody Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” Johnny Depp-starrer “Ready for the Barbarians” and “Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend” through his ILBE Group, through which he’s partnered with Monika Bacardi.

Whereas ILBE has its personal in-house gross sales construction for completed product, Maestro will serve the aim of offering Iervolino and Bacardi with a further supply of financing from pre-sales, Rapino mentioned.

“With Maestro Distribution, we intention to enhance and redefine the best way contents are conceived, developed and distributed in Italy and from Italy,” mentioned Peligra, CEO of RS Productions (pictured proper), a small however increasing Italian indie and media group that co-owns the publishing imprint that has the native license for Rolling Stone journal in Italy.

“We’re tackling what’s clearly an untapped market alternative within the film trade,” he added. “RS Productions, all through its community and experience, will assist Maestro Distribution aiming to offer actual advantages to Italian and worldwide film producers.”