Sunday, November 23, 2025
'James Bond' franchise producer Barbara Broccoli's Eon Productions and Qatar's newly launched Film Committee are jointly producing a film adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Othello" direct…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Iconic Italian actor Franco Nero, who gained worldwide fame in Sergio Corbucci's 1966 classic Spaghetti Western "Django," will be the top honoree of the upcoming 11th edition of Filming I…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Antonio Banderas will be honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Torino Film Festival in Turin, Italy, where the Oscar-nominated actor will present a special screening of Pedro Almo…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08AM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
Swedish actor Björn Andrésen, best known for his breakout role as Tadzio in Italian director Luchino Visconti's 1971 drama "Death in Venice," has died. He was 70. Andrésen's death was a…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2025
In the latest twist of how generative AIÂ is impacting the film world, Romanian auteur Radu Jude ("Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn") is making a short based on vintage porn reels found in t…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
Vintage movies and soundtracks buff Nicolas Winding Refn, Oscar-winning "The Brutalist" composer Daniel Blumberg and music supervisor Mary Ramos " known for her long-standing collaboration w…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2025
Vanessa Redgrave will be honored with a lifetime achievement award from Italy's Torino Film Festival, where the Oscar-winning British actress will present the world premiere of her latest fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Dubai-based distributor and producer Front Row Filmed Entertainment is branching out into the comedy content space by producing a TV special covering prominent Lebanese comedian John Achkar'…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2025
Liv Ullmann will be honored during the upcoming European Film Awards with a career award celebrating her body of work as an actress, director and screenwriter. Ullmann has been an internatio…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 27, 2025
Four years after Ridley Scott's "House of Gucci" angered members of the Gucci family and a large part of Italy's film community for what they claimed was a crass and inaccurate portrayal of …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2025
Saudi Arabia's upcoming Riyadh Comedy Festival is drawing controversy with several U.S. comedians blasting the star-studded event and Human Rights Watch asking participating artists to "requ…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2025
Early in her illustrious career, Spanish director Isabel Coixet broke out internationally with "My Life Without Me," in which Sarah Polley plays a young mother who conceals the fact that she…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:47AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2025
"BornStars," a catchy comedy about five cash-strapped students who start making porn movies in Beirut, is set to premiere in the Lebanese capital today followed by a theatrical rollout acros…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
Independent Los Angeles-based film producer Niels Juul ("Ferrari," "Killers of the Flower Moon") is setting up an outpost in Italy and has acquired the rights to make a feature film about It…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:27AM[SHARE]For Italian auteur Pietro Marcello, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was the only actress who could play Eleonora Duse in his biopic of the legendary stage diva, which just launched in competition at …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2025
In Marco Bellocchio's HBO show "Portobello," which just launched from the Venice Film Festival, the revered Italian auteur reconstructs one of Italy's most clamorous travesties of just…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:13AM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2025
Italian director Laura Samani, after making a splash in 2021 with her first feature, the feminist magical realist fable "Small Body," has just scored a prize at the Venice Film Festival with…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:52AM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2025
British director Oscar Hudson's feature debut "Straight Circle," an absurdist anti-war satire starring twins Elliott and Luke Tittensor as two soldiers of equal rank in opposing armies, is t…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Paolo Sorrentino re-teams with "The Great Beauty" star Toni Servillo on his latest film "La Grazia," which opens the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday night. In the multi-layered moral drama…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2025
Sunrise Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Italian director Piero Messina's unconventional sci-fi film "Another End" starring Gael GarcÃa Bernal and Renate Reinsve ("The Wo…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2025
"The Greatest Showman" director Michael Gracey is set to make a stage musical about Luciano Pavarotti. The Australian director, producer and visual effects artist " who more recently executi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2025
A planned classical music concert in Italy, featuring a Russian conductor known to be an old friend and vocal supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is sparking furor after the wife …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2025
"Aladdin" star Mena Massoud, who is a Canadian actor of Egyptian heritage, recently starred in " and produced " his first Arabic-language film "In Broad Daylight." In the action mov…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2025
Oscar-winning U.S. director Jessica Yu ("Quiz Lady," "Fosse/Verdon) is set to direct new Prime Video Italy original series "Italian Postcards" about a spoiled young New York heiress who is s…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2025
Wagner Moura has finally been able to get his hands on the Cannes best actor award he won earlier this year for his lead role in Kleber Mendonça Filho's "The Secret Agent." Cannes jury pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:55AM[SHARE]Friday, July 4, 2025
Paolo Sorrentino's "La Grazia," a love story that re-teams the Oscar-winning director with "The Great Beauty" actor Toni Servillo, has been set as opening film of the upcoming Venice Film Fe…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 3, 2025
Italy is celebrating scoring a rare double whammy in the selection for the Hollywood Walk of Fame class of 2026 list. Along with Timothée Chalamet, Demi Moore, and Miley Cyrus, the 35-name …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2025
The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate multi-Oscar-winning Italian costume designer Milena Canonero, who is admired for her work with Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2025
"The Chosen" star Jonathan Roumie met briefly with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday during a general audience at the Vatican, where a Season 5 episode of the hit biblical series had streamed on Mon…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Emma Thompson will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival where her latest film, Brian Kirk's action thriller "The Dead of Winter" " which she executive produced " will have its world pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30AM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2025
"Theatre is Body " Body is Poetry" is the title chosen by Willem Dafoe for his first edition as artistic director of the Venice Biennale's International Theatre Festival, which kicks off May…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:28AM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
