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EXCLUSIVE: Call Me By Your Name Oscar winner James Ivory is behind a new biopic about Italian American pop singer Jimmy Roselli, who was a competitive voice at a time when Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Dean Martin were dominating. J.D. Zeik, screenwriter of Robert De Niro pic Ronin, has penned the…

The Rome Film Festival has unveiled its first line-up under the new management team of former Rai executive Paola Malanga as artistic director and Cineteca di Bologna director Gian Luca Farinelli as president, who were both appointed to their roles last March. "Putting together a festival in five months was a big…

EXCLUSIVE: The 26th Annual Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference is putting some shine on the often unsung and overlooked heroes of film: the writer. This year, the fest revealed that they will be honoring Oscar-winning screenwriters James Ivory with the "Extraordinary Contribution to Film" Award and Ron Bass with…

EXCLUSIVE: Months after becoming the Oscars’ oldest winner for adapting Call Me By Your Name, James Ivory has found a follow-up. He’ll adapt for director Alexander Payne and Fox Searchlight The Judge’s Will, based on an article in the New Yorker. It is a special assignment, given that the article was written by Ruth…

UPDATED with video and quotes: This is the fourth Academy Award nomination for James Ivory and his first win, landing the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Call Me By Your Name. He also is the oldest overall Oscar winner in Academy Award history. He was previously nominated in the directing category for The Remains…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Even though we are just days away from final Oscar voting, which starts for a week on February 20, talk of this year’s contenders is overshadowed by today’s debut of Black Panther, which threatens to be one of the biggest openings of all time, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Clive Owen has boarded Andorra, a romantic thriller based on Peter Cameron’s novel which has Roxanne helmer Fred Schepisi directing. This is a reteam for Owen and Schepisi who previously collaborated on 2013’s Words And Pictures. Jamie Bialkower is producing for Melbourne-based Jump Street Films and…

EXCLUSIVE: The big screen adaptation of Peter Cameron’s 1997 thriller/dark comic novel Andorra has been percolating since 2013 when Jamie Bialkower's Melbourne-based Jump Street Films first took the option. It’s now moving closer to a start with Roxanne helmer Fred Schepisi attached to direct and James Ivory attached…