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deadline.comAfternoon Insiders, glad to have you back during what’s been a busy old week. Max Goldbart here bringing you the latest. Sign up for the newsletter here. Mamma MIA! A trip to the Barberini: Deadline was in Italy this week, as top players from European and North American film and TV descended on the annual MIA Market conference.
October is a busy month for Rome, with the film festival also kicking off on Wednesday with a premiere screening of Andrea Segre’s La Grande Ambizione at the Auditorium della Musica.
Over at the Cinema Barberini, MIA got underway on Monday with Jesse interviewing Among Us showrunner Owen Dennis on stage about the creative process of turning the Covid-19 pandemic’s favorite mobile game into a comedy-horror animation for CBS Studios. “The game can be unsettling,” Dennis told us in a pre-interview. “You’re walking around what is mostly an empty spaceship with the knowledge that at least one person on the crew is an alien and wants to kill you.
It’s creepy in the best way. At the same time, it’s funny and tongue-in-cheek, clearly echoing Alien, Star Trek, and The Thing.” With the tenth edition of MIA in equal parts a rumination on the creative endeavors, the business of film and TV, and the state of the local industry, Owen’s appearance was warmly received by a knowledgable audience.
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