Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA) is an Italian film production company founded in 1962 by Alberto Grimaldi to produce international co-productions.[1] It released its first feature film The Shadow of Zorro (L'ombra di Zorro) in December that year. Its next production was its first Spaghetti Western: Texas Ranger (I due violenti) released in 1964.
After the immense success of A Fistful of Dollars (1964) in popularizing the genre, United Artists financed the rest of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy films—For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)—and signed a contract to distribute PEA films.[2]
In 1976, due to the growing popularity of the cinema of the United States, PEA lost vitality (as well as viewers) and eventually limited its work solely to productions in Europe.[3] In 2002 it produced Gangs of New York by the name of Alberto Grimaldi Productions.[4][5]
References
- Burke, Frank (13 April 2017). A Companion to Italian Cinema. John Wiley & Sons. p. 91.
- Balio, Tino (1987). United Artists : The Company That Changed the Film Industry. The University of Wisconsin Press. p. 285-301. ISBN 0-299-11440-6.
- "ANICA's Chairman Has Plans". Variety.com. 20 October 1976. p. 74.
- Ribera, Robert, ed. (5 January 2017). Martin Scorsese. Interviews, Revised and Updated. University Press of Mississippi. p. 34. ISBN 9781496809247.
- de la Prida, Rubén (14 November 2024). Sánchez Noriega, José Luis (ed.). Los diez mandamientos de Martin Scorsese. Alianza Editorial. ISBN 9788411488365.