CURRENTLY
IN DEVELOPMENT:
"Passione: The
Life of Enrico Caruso"
Peter
Rosen Productions, Inc. has purchased the rights to the non-fiction
book, Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family, by
Enrico Caruso, Jr., and Andrew Farkas (Amadeus Press) for a television
movie based on Peter Rosen's documentary on Caruso for the A&E
Biography series which gained much critical acclaim when aired
in October, 1998. The project is currently being set up with
development funds from sources in Great Britain, Sweden, and
Italy. This development project was among the four chosen as
most promising from hundreds of submissions at the recent MIPCOM
television market in Cannes. In the US, we are in the midst of
talks with Francis Ford Coppola's American Zeotrope Television.
"The Bridge"
Peter
Rosen Productions, Inc. has signed a deal with Joseph E. Levine
Presents ( Richard Levine) and Gay Talese, the author of the
1961 non-fiction book Fame and Obscurity (Random
House), for the production of a drama based on Talese's story
about the building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The script
treatment, developed by Rosen and Talese, is now being taken
to market by Wardlow Associates in Hollywood.
"Peeper"
Peter
Rosen Productions, Inc. optioned the 1981 novel by William
Brinkley. Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. held a previous option
in the early 90's for the book, and financed the packaging and
development of several screenplays, working closely with William
Brinkley, a personal friend.
In 2000,
Peter Rosen made a deal for the further development
and eventual production of a feature motion picture with Mirage Entertainment
(Sidney Pollack). Anne Rapp ("Cookie's Fortune",
"Dr. T and The Women." is writing the screenplay. The
film will be financed by Intermedia.