Future Films
Mavex Films invites select partners to participate in the production of a slate of upcoming feature films. Join us in experiencing the artistry of filmmaking in the United States and Italy and become part of an extraordinary creative journey. To explore partnership opportunities, contact us today.
There Goes D’Arcangelo
Set in the 1980’s and filled with the popular music of that era, this is a uniquely personal coming of age story, built for a cast of breakout young stars. Part Good Will Hunting, part Animal House and with a touch of Goodfellas, it is a never-before-seen look at Harvard University through the eyes of a group of football players/students from working class backgrounds struggling to navigate the unfamiliar world of wealth and privilege.
“There Goes D’Arcangelo offers a fabulous sense of specificity and detail, providing an unexpected and immersive look at Harvard life that will wildly subvert most readers' preconceived notions. Anyone familiar with the Boston area will be astonished by the verisimilitude on display in these pages.” — The Blacklist (coverage service)
Status: Completed Script
Introducing an action hero for today’s complex world…
The Ranger Jones Series
Hubris
After discovering widespread corruption at a secretive private bank in New York that manages money for the world’s wealthiest families, Ranger Jones, a principled Co-CEO, takes justice into his own hands when his colleague is murdered for threatening to expose the criminal enterprise run by his corrupt counterpart.
Status: Completed Script.
The Hedge Fund
When a mysterious hedge fund’s unusual trades raise red flags at an international bank in London, resulting in the murder of the bank’s trader before he can blow the whistle, Ranger Jones, a retired finance executive with CIA training and help from the Mossad, goes undercover to expose a Russian FSB operation using insider trading profits to fund its war in Ukraine.
Status: Completed Script.
Miracle of Ferragosto
In the mid-nineties, the number of Italians who returned to Italy equaled the number who left for the first time since the great wave of emigration before the war. The question however on Gene Capone’s mind is “why did they leave in the first place?”
At the close of the millennium, the third generation Italian-American has come back to Italy in search of his romantic destiny. Like Michael Corleone in The Godfather his dream is to meet his “Apollonia”. However, after a two-week tour through Italy his romantic illusions are dashed and he resolves to return to his uninspiring life in America... but not before visiting the village his grandparents left under mysterious circumstances some sixty years earlier.
On the eve of Ferragosto, a miracle sends him back in time to Fascist Italy under the rule of Benito Mussolini where he meets his grandparents just as they ponder their departure for America. In the past Gene finds himself in the unique position to change the outcome of history — his own if not that of the world — until he meets the woman of his dreams.
Based on a family legend and set in Italy of days gone by, Miracle of Ferragosto is a sweeping historical drama and a romantic homage to the era of great Italian cinema.
Status: Completed Script
Crossing The Rubicon
The year is 1985. An army of young Americans are kicking around Europe during the Reagan years. There is no war. No Left Bank. In fact, there’s no reason for them to be there at all. But they are looking for something - no one knows what. A lost generation on travelers checks.
In the sleepy northern Italian town of Ferrara, two college football players have come in search of conquest and glory, but quickly run out of field. Sensing their playing days are coming to an end, they seize the opportunity for one last adventure, picking up a “grey market” BMW in Germany and racing it the length of Italy where they find they are delivering more than just a car.
From the Alps to the Apennines, to the wild coast of Rimini, to Rome, Naples and the volcanic island of Ischia, Crossing the Rubicon is a modern day road movie and tale of yearning and wanderlust in the cinematic tradition of Easy Rider.
Status: Completed Script