Gomorrah producer Cattleya is making a TV drama about Romulus, the founder and first king of Rome, in archaic Latin for Sky Italia. The ITV-owned producer is producing Romulus, created by Matteo Rovere, who directed The First King feature. It marks Rovere's television debut. The ten-part series is co-produced by…

Escort In Love and Do You See Me? star Paola Cortellesi is to front Sky's latest Italian original Petra, based on Alicia Giménez-Bartlett's novels. The European pay giant has commissioned the series from ITV-owned Gomorrah producer Cattleya and it will be directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi. The series, which is produced…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's some welcome news for fans of hit mafia crime series Gomorrah: producers of the small-screen drama are lining up an origins story feature film based on cult character Ciro Di Marzio, aka 'l'Immortale'. Marco D'Amore, who plays Di Marzio in the series, will star in and direct the Cattleya-produced…

EXCLUSIVE (with season 3 spoilers): It's dark. It's beautiful. It's addictive. It's Gomorrah. Fans of the acclaimed Italian crime series will be glad to hear that with three seasons under the belt and a fourth currently shooting, producers aren’t putting a hit out on the show just yet. Why would they, considering it…

The team behind hit Euro crime-drama Gomorrah are underway on new series ZeroZeroZero, which will star Andrea Riseborough (Battle Of The Sexes) — as we broke last month — Dane DeHaan (Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets) and Gabryel Byrne (The Usual Suspects). The Cattleya epic for Sky, Canal+ and Amazon will…

EXCLUSIVE (with season 3 spoiler alert): Following the blockbuster ratings and box office performance in Italy of the third season of scintillating mafia crime-drama Gomorrah, I can reveal some key updates about season 4. First off, start of shoot on the next installment in the Sky original hit, which is produced by…

In its latest acquisition, ITV Studios has taken a majority stake in Italian indie Cattleya, the production company behind Gomorrah and Romanzo Criminale. Based in Rome, Cattleya was launched in 1997 by founder Riccardo Tozzi who was joined by President and Co-CEO Giovanni Stabilini and Co-CEO Marco Chimenz. Cattleya…

EXCLUSIVE: Italian producer Cattleya has set Emmy-nominated docu filmmaker Francesco Carrozzini to direct Midnight Sun, an adaption of the bestselling Jo Nesbo novel. Cattleya, the production company behind the superb Italian language mob TV series Gomorra and Romanzo Criminale, acquired the Nesbo novel and intends to…

Suburra is planned as a 10-episode drama made in partnership with Italy’s RAI. While Netflix has embarked on originals in France (Marseille), and elsewhere, this is the first time it’s moving into the space in Italy. A worldwide debut is set for 2017. Described as a dark and gripping organized crime series set on the…

France’s Atlantique Productions and Italy’s Cattleya have entered a co-development and co-production agreement to fashion English-language drama series out of Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 Western Django and Thomas De Quincey’s 1845 psychological fantasy essays Suspiria De Profundis. Django, to which Quentin Tarantino paid…

Here’s another in the trend towards ambitous international co-productions coming out of Europe. France’s Canal Plus Création Originale and Italian indie film and TV producer Cattleya have set eight-part drama series ZeroZeroZero based on the book by Roberto Saviano. Saviano, who is the author of the controversial 2006…

Rome-based Cattleya, which Universal Pictures owns 20% of, is sifting through the studio's library looking for titles to remake in Italian. Cattleya's remake of French comedy Welcome to the Sticks, Benvenuti Al Sud, opens on October 1 in Italy. It's moved the action to Naples, associated in most Italian minds with the…