Sean Baker is headed to Warner Bros. with his next film, Ti Amo!, a follow-up to his Best Picture Oscar winner, Anora. However, this will be a different kind of rollout for the studio as it will be the first under its new specialty label, Clockwork.
Set to open in 2027, Ti Amo! was announced as part of the WB presentation at CinemaCon yesterday. The film will be written, directed, edited, and cast by Baker, who had previously described it as a love letter to the Italian sex comedies of the ’60s and ’70s.
This is a big deal, not only because Baker has set an extremely high bar with Anora’s success, but because Ti Amo! will be the movie that defines Clockwork. The label will be overseen by former NEON executive Christian Parkes.
Parkes said about the news, “Sean Baker is an artist who embodies everything we believe in at Clockwork, and TI AMO! will be another gift to Cinema. Plus, his poster game is on point.”
Can’t argue with that.
Ti Amo! sounds like it fits with Baker’s storytelling sensibilities. Along with Anora, his films such as Tangerine, Red Rocket, and The Florida Project highlight sex workers and other people on society’s fringes.
