"The Greatest Showman" director Michael Gracey is set to make a stage musical about Luciano Pavarotti. The Australian director, producer and visual effects artist " who more recently executi…
A planned classical music concert in Italy, featuring a Russian conductor known to be an old friend and vocal supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is sparking furor after the wife …
"Aladdin" star Mena Massoud, who is a Canadian actor of Egyptian heritage, recently starred in " and produced " his first Arabic-language film "In Broad Daylight." In the action mov…
Oscar-winning U.S. director Jessica Yu ("Quiz Lady," "Fosse/Verdon) is set to direct new Prime Video Italy original series "Italian Postcards" about a spoiled young New York heiress who is s…
Wagner Moura has finally been able to get his hands on the Cannes best actor award he won earlier this year for his lead role in Kleber Mendonça Filho's "The Secret Agent." Cannes jury pr…
Paolo Sorrentino's "La Grazia," a love story that re-teams the Oscar-winning director with "The Great Beauty" actor Toni Servillo, has been set as opening film of the upcoming Venice Film Fe…
Italy is celebrating scoring a rare double whammy in the selection for the Hollywood Walk of Fame class of 2026 list. Along with Timothée Chalamet, Demi Moore, and Miley Cyrus, the 35-name …
The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate multi-Oscar-winning Italian costume designer Milena Canonero, who is admired for her work with Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola…
"The Chosen" star Jonathan Roumie met briefly with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday during a general audience at the Vatican, where a Season 5 episode of the hit biblical series had streamed on Mon…
Emma Thompson will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival where her latest film, Brian Kirk's action thriller "The Dead of Winter" " which she executive produced " will have its world pr…
"Theatre is Body " Body is Poetry" is the title chosen by Willem Dafoe for his first edition as artistic director of the Venice Biennale's International Theatre Festival, which kicks off May…
Willem Dafoe is at the Venice Film Festival with two hats: he's among the stars playing in the fest's opener, Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice." But he's also busy at work as recently a…
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 Francesc…
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 Italy's …
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 Poppi…
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 interruption du…
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 based on g…
ROME –Â 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, the …
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 untappe…
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 Statio…
In another instance of Chinese capital flowing into Hollywood, the newly established Culture China "Â Image Nation Content Fund will co-finance and executive produce Sony Pictures Entertai…
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 broadened his p…
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 …
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's titular…
LYON, France —Â 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 Franc…