Italy’s entry at the Oscar’s this year, Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire at Sea, is also being submitted in the feature documentary category.
The film is largely seen through the eyes of 12-year old Samuele Puccilo, whose eight-square-mile home island of Lampedusa, located between Libya and Sicily, has become a crossroads for…
Cannes got a dose of REAL movie star glamour over the past two days when the legendary Sophia Loren came to town for a special screening of her new film, The Human Voice Tuesday night at Salle du Soixantieme and a two hour “Master Class” at the Bunuel on Wednesday afternoon. The film, based on the Jean Cocteau play…
In a category that sometimes seemed like a two-horse race between The Great Beauty and The Hunt, with the possible squeaker of The Broken Circle Breakdown, it was ultimately Paolo Sorrentino’s love letter to Rome that triumphed. Great Beauty is the 11th win for Italy at the Oscars and the first time since Roberto…
UPDATE, 12:50 PM:Italy’s Supreme Court has upheld the tax fraud verdict and one-year prison sentence for billionaire Italian politician/media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, but because of his age (he’s 76) it’s unlikely he’ll go to jail, the BBC reports. The court did order a review of a five-year ban on public office that…
Following France and India, this is the latest installment in Deadline's series of reports on the people, projects and polemics that have folks buzzing in various overseas territories.
Italy's movie business continues to get slammed harder and harder as part of the country’s overall economic crisis. Lately, a…
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 12, 2012 — Universal Pictures, one of the world’s leading producers and distributors of filmed entertainment, has acquired distribution rights in Italy to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the next installment of Lionsgate’s blockbuster Hunger Games franchise, it was announced today by…
Silvio Berlusconi’s rivals in the media industry for years have accused him of massive conflicts of interest running the government that regulates Italy’s media industry, of which he is such a big part. Lawsuits, scandals, and plenty of brash talk from the outspoken mogul who defied every controversy were normal…
EXCLUSIVE: I’ve just learned that Oscar’s ever-growing Foreign-Language Film lineup has received shockers from Spain and Italy. Spain didn’t select the presumed favorite, two-time Oscar winner Pedro Almodovar with hisThe Skin I Live In starring frequent Almodovar collaborator Antonio Banderas. Instead, Spain chose…
