{"id":871961,"date":"2026-10-05T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871961\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:00:09","slug":"italian-horror-filmmaker-paolo-strippoli-signs-with-wme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871961\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Horror Filmmaker Paolo Strippoli Signs with WME"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFresh off the fall festival debut of his psychological horror film The Spiral, Italian filmmaker Paolo Strippoli has signed with WME<\/a> for representation in all areas.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpiral is about a mother who makes a Faustian bargain to save her daughter\u2019s life. The movie premiered at the 2026 Venice Film Festival, where it received a nine-minute standing ovation and favorable reviews. WME began circling before the premiere based on early buzz.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpiral then headed to Canada where it screened at TIFF\u2019s Midnight Madness sidebar. The movie hits Italian theaters October although its North American rights are still up for grabs.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is also known that he is already developing his next project which has caused studios to line up for a chance to work with him. <\/p>\n

\n\tStrippoli is as a rising voice in the horror scene thanks to a series of short films then a duo of talked about features. He established an international festival presence through short films selected for Rome Film Fest, the Venice Film Festival and Camerimage. In 2019, he won the Franco Solinas Award for L\u2019Angelo Infelice.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis solo feature debut was Piove (Flowing), which premiered at 2022 Fantastic Fest before screening at the 2022 Sitges Film Festival. He followed it with The Holy Boy, based on his earlier short L\u2019Angelo Infelice. It premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival and went on to win the festival\u2019s Audience Award and Next Wave Best Director at Fantastic Fest.<\/p>\n

\n\tWME will work with Strippoli to build on his international profile and shape the next chapter of his career as a distinctive and emerging voice in movies.<\/p>\n

\n\tStrippoli continues to be represented by Marc Manus at Persistent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off the fall festival debut of his psychological horror film The Spiral, Italian filmmaker Paolo Strippoli has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,106209,55194],"class_list":["post-871961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-signings","tag-wme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}