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Angelina Jolie has struck a three-year international agreement with Fremantle to produce a slate of films, TV series and documentaries. The Oscar-winning Girl, Interrupted, Mr & Mrs Smith and Changeling actress, who is a Special Envoy for the UN refugee agency, will produce, direct or star in each on a case-by-case…

Fremantle has acquired 70% of Lux Vide, the 30-year-old Italian producer of Medici, Leonardo and Coco Chanel. Under the deal, which forms part of Fremantle’s growth plan to invest in global scripted indies, the founding Bernabei family will retain the remaining 30%. Luca Bernabei will continue as CEO and Fremantle…

EXCLUSIVE: The Shield exec producer Scott Rosenbaum is developing an adaptation of Italian drama series Sandokan with Devils producer Lux Vide. Rosenbaum, who was also an EP on NBC's Chuck, is set as showrunner for the project, which will refocus the popular European pirate story with a female focus. It is part of a…

Lux Vide, the Italian producer behind Sky series Devils and the upcoming Leonardo, is rebooting the pirate story Sandokan and is launching a podcast unit. The Luca Bernabei-led company plans to reimagine Emilio Salgari’s novels, on which a 1976 Sandokan TV series was based, for a modern audience. The story chronicles…

EXCLUSIVE: In March, Italy was the global epicenter of the coronavirus crisis. The world looked on in horror as the nation was ravaged by the disease and life ground to a halt. More than 35,000 people have died in the country. The rest of the world would soon know Italy’s pain. Amid the destruction wrought by the…

International drama series Leonardo, starring Aidan Turner as Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci, has wrapped after being one of the first major productions to resume during the Covid-19 crisis. The high-end drama re-started on June 15 after a three-month hiatus. Today we can reveal drone footage, set to the show’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Sky’s London-set financial thriller Devils is set to journey to 160 territories internationally after NBCUniversal Global Distribution closed a raft of deals for the Patrick Dempsey series. Produced by Italy’s Lux Vide in association with Orange Studio for Sky Italia, Devils premiered at Mipcom last year…

EXCLUSIVE: Reign's Toby Regbo is to star in the third and final season of Italian drama Medici. The series will air over four nights in a primetime slot on Italian broadcaster Rai from December 2 with Netflix airing it after its domestic launch in early 2020. It will be branded an original Netflix series in the U.S.…