Thursday, November 24, 2022
The announcement of a London stage musical titled “Berlusconi,” depicting the turbulent life of Silvio Berlusconi through a feminist prism and produced by British “Fleabag” producer …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:16AMMonday, June 13, 2022
Italian playwright Stefano Massini’s “The Lehman Trilogy,” which just won five Tony Awards including the prize for best play, is set to become a high-end TV series to be produced by It…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:13AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Oscar-winning actress and singer Julie Andrews will be honored by the Venice Film Festival with its Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement. Best known for her iconic roles in “Mary Pop…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:16AMFriday, August 31, 2018
The world premiere of “A Star Is Born” received a warm 8-minute ovation at the Venice Film Festival after the musical drama’s gala screening was marred by a roughly 15-minute interrupt…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:52PMThursday, August 30, 2018
Five years after opening Venice with 3D space thriller “Gravity,” Alfonso Cuaron was back on the Lido Thursday with “Roma,” his much more personal film shot in black and white and ba…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:45AMMonday, January 22, 2018
ROME – Plans are underway for “Universal Judgment: Michelangelo and the Secrets of the Sistine Chapel” – a surround-sound live show that boasts a theme composed by Sting, th…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:37AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Saudi Arabia’s removal of its 35-year-old ban on cinemas is prompting theater chains including AMC, Vue International, and Dubai-based VOX Cinemas to announce moves to enter the last untap…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:09PMFriday, July 21, 2017
ROME – Oscar winner Kevin Spacey is playing writer Gore Vidal in a new Netflix original biopic, “Gore,” which is in production in Italy. U.S. director Michael Hoffman (“The Last …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15AMSunday, May 21, 2017
In another instance of Chinese capital flowing into Hollywood, the newly established Culture China — Image Nation Content Fund will co-finance and executive produce Sony Pictures Entertai…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMFriday, March 10, 2017
French director Bruno Dumont early in his career made dour naturalistic dramas “La Vie de Jesus” and “L’Umanité,” set in the Opal Coast in Northern France, and more recently broad…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:16AMWednesday, November 30, 2016
ROME – Fox Italy has announced that Paul Zonderland, a former head of Disney in Italy, has been appointed its managing director just as Osvaldo De Santis is retiring after 33 years as …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:50PMFriday, November 18, 2016
ROME – Disney’s “Moana” will soon roll out across Italy – but under a new name, “Oceania,” a change widely believed to be prompted by the fact that the name of the film…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:33AMFriday, October 14, 2016
LYON, France — Walt Disney’s “Alice Comedies,” a series of cartoons made before Disney went to Hollywood, have been freshly restored and re-packaged for global distribution by F…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PMSaturday, September 10, 2016
VENICE, Italy — Emma Stone has won the Venice Film Festival’s best actress prize for her role as Mia, an aspiring actress and playwright who’s deep into the magic of the old…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05PMWednesday, August 31, 2016
VENICE — The 73rd Venice Film Festival kicked off on a decidedly positive note Wednesday with U.S. director Damien Chazelle’s Los Angeles-set musical “La La Land” premie…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:58PMSunday, May 29, 2016
ROME — Giorgio Albertazzi, the lionlike actor and director who was a leading light of the Italian stage for more than six decades but is best known to global French film lovers for pl…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:52AMWednesday, April 27, 2016
ROME — British film and stage director Sam Mendes will head the jury of the 73rd Venice Film Festival. Mendes’ rapport with the Lido dates back to 2002 when he was in the Venice com…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:26PMSunday, March 13, 2016
ROME — Did Roman emperor Nero get a bad rap? “Divo Nerone,” a rock opera with international ambitions being staged in the real Roman Forum by multiple Oscar-winning production des…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PMMonday, June 22, 2015
ROME – Helen Mirren and husband Taylor Hackford, star tenor Andrea Bocelli, and Jimmy Kimmel are the latest showbiz personalities set to be feted by Italy’s upcoming Ischia Global Fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:46PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
ROME – Liza Minelli will be feted by the 10th Los Angeles-Italia Festival with its Jack Valenti – Los Angeles, Italia Legend Award. The annual pre-Oscars event comprising movies …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:22AM 
