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Italian big-screen diva Gina Lollobrigida was due to be laid to rest in her native hilltop town of Subiaco, after a televised funeral ceremony on Thursday at the Church of the Artists in nearby Rome. The actress's only son Milko Skofic, grandson Dimitri and Spanish ex-husband Javier Rigau were among…

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey made an emotional return to the public eye on Monday night with a special honorary event organized by Italy’s National Cinema Museum in the northern Italian city of Turin, attended by Deadline. For the actor, who has been keeping a low profile since a string of sexual…

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has denied he has been keeping a low profile since a string of sexual misconduct accusations brought his stellar career to a halt in 2017, in a rare meeting with the press ahead of an awards ceremony in northern Italy on Monday evening. "I live my life every day, I go…

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has been keeping a low profile since a string of sexual misconduct accusations brought derailed his stellar career in 2017. The actor will be back in the headlines over the coming week, however, with a court hearing in London, followed by an honorary awards event in It…

EXCLUSIVE: Italian director and producer Michela Scolari's English-language fiction feature debut Sicilian Holiday has wrapped shooting and is now headed into post-production. The film stars rising acting talents Lilly Englert (Quantico, Little Women) and Francesco Leone (A Bigger Splash, Fosca Innoce…

Italian writer, journalist and political commentator Roberto Saviano is due to head to court in Rome on Tuesday (November 15) for the first hearing in a defamation trial brought against him by Italy's newly installed, right-wing prime minister Giorgia Meloni. The case is related to an incident that took…

Publispei is one of the oldest TV and film production companies in Italy and creator of some of the country's most beloved, long-running series such as Un Medico In Famiglia and I Cesaroni. Until now, the company's renown has been confined to Italy but company president Verdiana Bixio wants to change…

There have been reports over the last 24 hours of a drugs raid implicating production staff involved in the Italian shoot of The Equalizer 3 on Italy’s Amalfi Coast.  Deadline is hearing from close sources, however, that the arrested parties worked for a catering company which was an independent…

Citing 19th Century patriotic poetry and Mussolini-era writers and philosophers, the freshly appointed culture minister of Italy's new right-wing government has promised a new era for the country's cultural sector and revealed he wants to reform state funding for the performances arts. Gennaro Sangiu…

The historic Barberini Cinema in Rome reopens its doors to the public this Thursday for the first time in two-and-a-half years after an ambitious multi-million-euro refurbishment. Situated in the former carriage house and stables of the 17th Century Barberini Palace, the theatre was built in 1930 by…

Original Italian film and TV shows drew a record €1.4b ($1.38b) in investment in 2021, according to a new study by local producer body APA. The report, which was unveiled at Italy’s MIA Market last week, suggested there was between €1.42b to €1.47b ($1.38b-$1.43b) in investment in original Italian…

The number of Italian feature films finding a home outside of Italy doubled between 2017 to 2021, according to a new landmark study commissioned by local cinema body Anica. Extracts of the research, conducted by Emilio Pucci at eMedia for Anica, were unveiled in a presentation at Rome’s MIA market on…