Model new gross sales company Neo Artwork Worldwide has picked up worldwide gross sales rights outdoors Italy to Claudio Amendola’s black comedy movie trilogy “Cassamortari” (“Funeral Household”).

The movie trilogy narrates the story of The Pasti Household, a Roman household who work within the funeral enterprise.

The three titles of the saga are arrange at Rome-based firm Paco Cinematografica, and co-produced with Antonia Nava’s Neo Artwork Producciones in Barcelona.

“I Cassamortari,” the primary title of the saga, was streamed in 2022 in Italy by Amazon Prime Video, described as an Amazon Unique manufacturing.

Written by Mary Estella Brugiati and Alessandro Bosi, “Ari-Cassamortari” (“Funeral Household 2”), the second supply, is at present in put up. 

This time the movie tells how the Pasti Brothers have created a reputation for themselves as VIP gravediggers, together with an eccentric half-sister that they had no thought that they had.

“Funeral Household 2” solid absorb lots of the stars of “I Cassamortari,” corresponding to Massimo Ghini, Gian Marco Tognazzi, Lucia Ocone and Alessandro Sperduti.

The producers plan to begin by the tip of the 12 months principal images on “Cassamortary 3” (“Funeral Household 3”), at present in improvement. 

The trilogy additionally counts on the help of Mediaset in Italy.

Paco Cinematografica co-founders Isabella Cocuzza and Arturo Paglia produce the saga through their Roma-based outfit, which beforehand produced high-profile worldwide tasks corresponding to Giuseppe Tornatore’s “The Greatest Supply,” starring Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess and Donald Sutherland.

After its current launch as a gross sales division at Berlin’s European Movie Market, Neo Artwork Intl., a partnership between Antonia Nava and Spain-based gross sales agent Liliana Bravo, is bringing the “Cassamortari” trilogy onto the market at this week’s Málaga Movie Competition.

The Swedish-born Natalia Villalón has additionally joined Neo Artwork to steer promoting and branding, providers and co-productions for Scandinavia.

Neo Artwork Intl. represents Nava’s return to the worldwide gross sales enviornment. A producer and gross sales chief on Brad Anderson’s “The Machinist” and “Transsiberian,” when she headed up Filmax Int. for over 10 years, Nava’s Neo Artwork Producciones has been quickly diversifying. 

Past the gross sales operation, Neo Artwork has opened a manufacturing providers division to leverage Spain’s muscular shoot incentives, which provide a up-to-60% deduction charge within the Basque Nation’s Bizkaia and €18 million ($19.2 million) rebates per TV episode shot within the Canary Islands.

“After 11 years as an organization devoted to worldwide manufacturing and co-production, we’ve felt enlargement and diversification as one thing pure, each when representing our personal tasks and people of different producers,” Nava defined.

“Though the plan has been maturing for a while, the time has come to place it into motion and it’s certainly going shortly. It was being conceived,” she stated.

“I believe that extra gross sales brokers with intensive worldwide expertise are wanted. The market all the time modifications, we by no means appear pleased, however the fact is that they’re nonetheless there, as is viewers consumption, though in a better range of codecs,” she added.

Neo Artwork Intl. exercise will deal with completely different fronts, having Italy, Latin America, Spain and Scandinavia as its favourite territories for co-production.

“The vocation of each Neo Artwork and my very own has all the time been worldwide and we’ve constructed an necessary community because the starting of the corporate. We’re prepared,” Nava commented.

Neo Artwork can also be presenting at Malaga “I’m the Boss,” a household comedy directed by Federico Moccia, the creator behind Italian and Spanish blockbusters, “Three Steps Above Heaven” and “I Need You.”

Fruit of Neo Artwork’s market enlargement is the TV trilogy mission “The Depraved Sport,” which the corporate can also be discussing with potential companions and consumers at Málaga.

Designed as a Nordic noir thriller, the place Spain (Neo Artwork) and Scandinavia would be the filming territories, “The Depraved Sport” represents two new milestones for the corporate: its first collaboration with the Scandinavian market and likewise its first TV sequence mission.