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Ennio Morricone: Seven Timeless Film Compositions – Photo Gallery & Video
Oscar-winning film composer Ennio Morricone, who died Monday at 91, scored more than 400 movies and TV shows, as well as more than 100 classical pieces. The legendary orchestrator’s score for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966), one of his successful collaborations with director Sergio Leone, is considered one of…
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Pulse Films Expands Into Italy, Plans Sergio Leone Doc
EXCLUSIVE: London-based production studio Pulse Films is expanding its global footprint with the addition of an office in Milan, Italy.
The move is part of a larger partnership with local indie Indiana Production, which has recent credits including Liam Neeson pic Made In Italy and The Burnt Orange Heresy. The…
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Cannes: Quentin Tarantino To Host Closing-Night Screening Of Sergio Leone’s ‘A Fistful Of Dollars’
It’s been a long time coming, but the Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off tomorrow, has now officially outlined its closing-night festivities. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Spaghetti Western in 1964, the festival will screen a newly restored 4K version of Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars…
Cannes Classics: Sophia Loren Guest Of Honor; Leone, De Sica, Hitchcock, Capra Films Among Restorations To Screen
The Cannes Film Festival is firming up plans for the 67th edition at a rapid clip this week, announcing jury members on Monday, followed by new Official Selection titles this morning and now the Cannes Classics sidebar lineup. Sophia Loren has been named the Cannes Classics guest of honor this year. Winner of the 1961…
Global Showbiz Briefs: Prix Louis Delluc To ‘Blue Is The Warmest Color’; Sergio Leone Heirs Launch Leone Film Group IPO; More
‘Blue Is The Warmest Color’ Nabs France's Prix Louis Delluc
France's prestigious Prix Louis Delluc has gone to Blue Is The Warmest Color. The Cannes Palme d'Or winner directed by Abdellatif Kechiche is famously not France's Oscar entry this year due to the timing of its release, but just nabbed a Golden Globe nominatio…
R.I.P. Screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni
The Italian scribe who had a long-running collaboration with Dino De Laurentiis and co-wrote two classic Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns died Sunday of cancer in Rome at 87. Luciano Vincenzoni is best known stateside for providing quotable lines for the Man With No Name, played by Clint Eastwood in Leone’s mid-’60s…
Kevin Costner Exits Mandingo Trainer Role In Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’
EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Costner has dropped out of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, an exit I’m told is due to a combination of scheduling and personal reasons. Costner had agreed to play the supporting role of Ace Woody in the Sergio Leone-style Spaghetti Western. The problem was it would have tied up about two months…
Leonardo DiCaprio In Early Talks For Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained'
EXCLUSIVE: Talks are about to get underway for Leonardo DiCaprio to play the role of villainous ranch owner Calvin Candie in Django Unchained, the Sergio Leone-style spaghetti Western that Quentin Tarantino wrote and will direct as his next film. DiCaprio is being courted to play a charming but ruthless proprietor of…
Foreign For Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' Goes To Will Smith's Home Studio Sony (Though Universal Tried Hard)
EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell me that international on Quentin Tarantino’s new Spaghetti Western Django Unchained is going to Sony to co-finance production later this year and distribute sometime in 2012. This after the filmmakers met with every major studio except Warner Bros. Of course, The Weinstein Company is taking…
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Quentin Tarantino Saddles Up For Spaghetti Western 'Django Unchained'
Back when I saw him in late February at Harvey Weinstein’s Oscar night party for The King’s Speech, Quentin Tarantino told me that his script for a Western was just pouring out of him easily, that he’d finished a draft and expected to turn in a final version within two months. As a web leak of the cover page of his…
Javier Bardem Closing ‘Dark Tower’ Deal
EXCLUSIVE: Javier Bardem is close to sealing his deal with Universal Pictures to play gunslinger Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower, the mammoth adaptation of the Stephen King 7-novel series that'll span three movies and a limited run TV series in between each film. Director Ron Howard begins production on the first…
Javier Bardem Wanted For 'The Dark Tower'
EXCLUSIVE: After Javier Bardem’s terrifying Oscar-winning turn as the assassin in No Country For Old Men, is there any doubt he’d fit as the gunslinger Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower, the mammoth adaptation of the Stephen King 7-novel series that'll span three movies and a limited run TV series in between?
I’m told…
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