ROME — Paolo Sorrentino’s hotly anticipated TV series “The Young Pope,” toplining Jude Law as conservative cigarette-smoking American pontiff Pius XIII, will world premiere at the upcoming Venice…
ROME — French auteur Robert Guediguian (“Marius et Jeannette,” “La ville est tranquille”) and Italian actor/director Kim Rossi Stuart have been recruited for jury duty at the upcoming Venice Film…
ROME — A new film by Scottish video artist Douglas Gordon about American avant-garde pioneer Jonas Mekas will world-premiere at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival as the opener of the Swiss fest's…
ROME — Cattleya, the prominent Italian indie production company behind widely exported mob TV series "Gomorrah" has appointed former Cinecittà Studios executive Cristina Giubbetti to spearhead its…
Al Jazeera on June 16 announced the launch of a new digital division headed by Yaser Bishr who is in charge of taking the Doha-based broadcaster's digital push to the next level following the launch…
ROME — The three suicide attacks at Istanbul's Ataturk airport, which killed at least 41 people and wounded more than 200 Tuesday night, sparked fresh fears in the Turkish film and TV community…
ROME — Bud Spencer, the burly Italian actor who starred in dozens of genre movies including many widely exported Spaghetti Westerns such as "Trinity Is Still My Name," which is among Italy's all-time…
ROME — Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" can still draw a massive crowd after 80 years. An estimated 7,000 spectators packed Bologna's Piazza Maggiore square to catch the 1936 classic starring Chaplin…
ROME — The German-American duo known as Siegfried and Roy, whose magic show with its trademark white tigers was one of the oldest and most popular in Las Vegas for more than two decades, will be…
ROME — AMC Global has announced the acquisition for exclusive distribution across Europe and Latin America of its new scripted anthology series "The Terror," which it plans to air in 2017. The…
UPDATE: ROME — The Brexit vote rattled European markets Friday, with media stocks among the hardest hit and the pound plunging to its lowest level in 30 years. London's FTSE 100, which was down…
