{"id":113729,"date":"2025-09-02T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113729\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:53:12","slug":"hbo-max-takes-u-s-rights-to-julien-temples-johnny-pigozzi-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113729\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max Takes U.S. Rights To Julien Temple\u2019s Johnny Pigozzi Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Under-the-radar documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/i-am-curious-johnny\/\" id=\"auto-tag_i-am-curious-johnny\" data-tag=\"i-am-curious-johnny\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I Am Curious Johnny<\/a>, about industrial heir and larger-than-life personality Johnny Pigozzi, has been picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo-max\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo-max\" data-tag=\"hbo-max\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO Max<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDirected by music documentary filmmaker Julien Temple (The Filth and the Fury), the film was produced by Oscar winner Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor) under his Recorded Picture Company banner, together with Temple via his company Nitrate Film, and P.J. van Sandwijk (Ferrari) at Storyteller Productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Lord Rothschild and Marie Savare amongst the executive producers. Submarine Entertainment are handling international sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFrench-born Italian Pigozzi, heir to the CEO of the automobile brand Simca, is known as a photographer, conservationist, philanthropist, venture capitalist, art collector and selfie proponent before it became commonplace, capturing celebrity moments from Studio 54 to the Polo Lounge in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPigozzi\u2019s mentors included Gianni Agnelli and Jimmy Goldsmith, while Mick Jagger and Michael Douglas are said to be among his best friends. The film features appearances from Douglas, Martha Stewart, Jagger, Diane von Furstenberg and Graydon Carter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe deal was negotiated by Dan Braun of Submarine with HBO Max\u2019s Tiffany Tulba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJeremy Thomas said: \u201cWho can resist the world and fun of being with Johnny Pigozzi? I was fascinated by a world none of us know about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJulien Temple added: \u201cWith I Am Curious Johnny, I wanted to explore whether substantial wealth and connections can ever truly buy happiness, or will shadows always follow us \u2014 no matter how far we run?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Under-the-radar documentary I Am Curious Johnny, about industrial heir and larger-than-life personality Johnny Pigozzi, has been picked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,17300,81030,344],"class_list":["post-113729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo-max","tag-i-am-curious-johnny","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}