Leone Film Group Boards Steven Spielberg-Directed 'The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara'

EXCLUSIVE: The Leone Film Group S.P.A. has come aboard as a production partner on The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, the drama that Steven Spielberg will direct for Amblin Partners with production to begin February in Italy. LFG will distribute the film in Italy, an extension of its deal with the former DreamWorks Studios, now Amblin Partners. Spielberg will direct a script by Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright with whom the director previously teamed on M…