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For three decades, actress Monica Bellucci has appeared in movies ranging from low-budget arthouse titles to major blockbuster flicks, and now she’s appearing in one of the most hotly-anticipated films of the year: the long-awaited Beetlejuice sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Alongside fellow franchise newbies Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe and Justin...

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What would Italian cinema be without the iconic actresses of the Dolce Vita Era? Sophia Loren! Monica Vitti! Claudia Cardinale! Their glamor graced international screens during the 1960s, not only creating a whole new definition for the word glamor but paving roads and breaking glass ceilings for generations of female actresses to come. In recent y...

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Get ready, Andrea Bocelli fans! The Italian tenor's highly anticipated concert film is almost here: watch the trailer for Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration. In the the opening of the trailer, a little boy appears onstage and he turns on a record player as a voice in the background announces, "ladies and gentlemen, Andrea Bocelli." Then, the traile...

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Join us for an engaging and heartfelt journey through Italian American heritage and filmmaking. We were lucky to have this fascinating discussion with filmmakers Mary Lou and Jerome Bongiorno. In this podcast, they each shared their rich Italian roots, tracing back to the Veneto region and connections to Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” The conver...

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Hollywood icon and action movie superstar Sylvester Stallone is now working on bringing back one of his most iconic creations, Rocky, in a prequel project. The actor revealed that he is now writing the project while appearing on the Inspire Me podcast, saying that the script “seems to write itself.” "The Rocky prequel is very near and dear to my he...

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With head bowed, over clasped hands, Italian director Maura Delpero‘s quietly breathtaking “Vermiglio” unfolds from tiny tactile details of furnishings and fabrics and the hide of a dairy cow, into a momentous vision of everyday rural existence in the high Italian Alps. ar away, the Second World War is ending — an earthshaking event felt here only...

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The story of Giancarlo Parretti, the flamboyant Italian waiter-turned-financier who bought MGM in 1990 and was ousted and indicted when his takeover deal for the Hollywood studio collapsed, is in early stages of getting the big screen treatment. Independent Los-Angeles-based film producer Niels Juul (“Ferrari,” “Killers of the Flower Moon”) has tra...

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The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia) got underway this week, unofficially signaling the end of summer and the first murmurings of il rientro. The festival kicked off with the premiere of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to director Tim Burton’s campy cult classic, bri...

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Pozzuoli, a small town near Naples, is about as far from Hollywood as you can get. There is no glitz, no glamor, and its residents have been historically impoverished. Back in the 1940s, this was even more so the case. But, it was here, among the rubble of bomb sites and the blares of sirens, that a star was born.   Sophia Loren’s childhood was def...

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The Italian government will this week announce major changes to its film and TV tax credit system aimed at boosting local productions and producers and ensuring more Italian stories get told on screen. The changes come after a year of uncertainty that has left many productions in limbo. Under the new rules, international co-productions will face an...

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