Bleecker Street has acquired North American rights to Catherine Hardwicke’s action-comedy Mafia Mamma starring Toni Collette, Monica Bellucci and Rob Huebel.
Mafia Mamma tells of a suburban American woman who inherits her grandfather’s Mafia empire and, guided by the Firm’s trusted consigliere, defies expectations as the new head of the family business.
Debbie Jhoon and Michael J. Feldman wrote the screenplay based on an original idea by French novellist, screenwriter and filmmaker Amanda Sthers. Cornerstone handles all international sales.
Principal photography on Mafia Mamma is set to begin in May in Italy on the Vocab Films, IDEA(L) and New Sparta Production. Producers are Collette through her Vocab Films together with Sthers through IDEA(L) and New Sparta’s Christopher Simon. Bleecker Street’s Andrew Karpen and Kent Sanderson will serve as executive producers.
Sanderson and Avy Eschenasy of Bleecker Street brokered the deal with CAA Media Finance. Hardwicke, Collette and Simon worked together on the comedy Miss You Already with Drew Barrymore.
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