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It's been eight years since Italy's key film and TV market MIA kicked off in Rome and each year its popular co-production market and pitching forum seems to go from strength to strength. This year the strand, which is already established in drama, documentary and feature film sections, has spread its tentacles to…

Vortex — which opened this weekend to a full house at NYC’s IFC Center — has an unusual star, Dario Argento. Here’s how the film’s helmer Gaspar Noe convinced the iconic Italian horror movie director into his first lead acting role. "There were three reasons" he said yes, Noe told Deadline. "The first one, he said…

Dario Argento's Berlin Film Festival Special Gala entry Dark Glasses plays out almost like a parody of his earlier work. Co-written with Franco Ferrini, it's a lurid giallo about a killer slaughtering women in contemporary Rome. It lacks the suspense and style of Argento's work in the 70s and 80s, while repeating…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the gory and energetic first full trailer for Dario Argento’s Berlin Film Festival horror Dark Glasses (Occhiali Neri), the filmmaker’s first directorial outing in a decade. Getting its world premiere tomorrow as a Special Screening, the Italian-language movie stars Ilenia Pastorelli (They Call Me Jee…

EXCLUSIVE: Horror legend Dario Argento (Suspiria) is joining Charlotte Colbert's debut feature She Will as an executive producer. Argento, who saw the film around the time of the Locarno Film Festival where he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from John Landis, said: “There was excitement about She Will and I…

Daria Nicolodi, the Italian actress and screenwriter, has died at the age of 70. Her daughter Asia Argento confirmed the news in an Instagram post, writing in Italian: "Rest in peace beloved mother. Now you can fly free with your great spirit and you won’t have to suffer anymore. I will try to go on for your beloved…

Horror icon Dario Argento (Suspiria) is lining up his first TV series in decades in the shape of Italian production Longinus. The episodic drama, created by Argento, has been announced by Italian firms Publispei, whose Verdiana Bixio will produce, and recently launched BIM Production, which is part of the Wild Bunch…

In editing Luca Guadagnino's sun-drenched love story Call Me by Your Name, Walter Fasano faced the same challenges he's confronted consistently in his two decades working with the director, ever since cutting his first short film on the Moviola—supporting the “fact behind the image” while finding ways to surprise the…

France’s Atlantique Productions and Italy’s Cattleya have entered a co-development and co-production agreement to fashion English-language drama series out of Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 Western Django and Thomas De Quincey’s 1845 psychological fantasy essays Suspiria De Profundis. Django, to which Quentin Tarantino paid…

BREAKING: The Dario Argento 1977 horror thriller Suspiria has been set for a remake that will be directed by Pineapple Express helmer David Gordon Green from a script he wrote with Chris Gebert. The search is on for Suzie, the young protagonist who travels to Europe to attend a world renowned school. After a series of…