ROME – Versatile Cuban-American-Italian actor Tomas Milian, known for the intensity he brought to disparate roles, whether in dramas by directors like Bernardo Bertolucci and Steven Soderbergh or as…
ROME – Italy's Rai Com has closed sales to eight territories on Italian comedy "Let Yourself Go," starring Toni Servillo ("The Great Beauty"). L.A.-based Menemsha Films has acquired North American…
ROME – As Europe's neo-fascists re-emerge and right-wing populism sweeps through the West, a documentary about a black Italian boxer who discredited Benito Mussolini's racist ideology by winning a…
ROME – After opening a Turkish production outpost in January, Red Arrow Entertainment Group's Karga Seven Pictures is preparing to shoot an English-language TV series in Turkey based on British…
French director Bruno Dumont early in his career made dour naturalistic dramas "La Vie de Jesus" and "L'Umanité," set in the Opal Coast in Northern France, and more recently broadened his palette to…
Netflix has taken global rights outside Italy to Italian director Andrea Molaioli's teen pregnancy pic "Slam," which is based on the novel by the same title by British writer Nick Hornby, known for…
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi gave a master class Tuesday at the Doha Film Institute's Qumra event and subsequently also spoke to a small group of journalists, all via Skype from Madrid where he is…
Multiple Emmy Award-winning U.S. writer and producer Mike Reiss was one of the first members of the original "The Simpsons" writing team in 1989 and still works on the show, now in its 29th series…
The narrative of HBO's "The Young Pope," in which Jude Law plays aggressively despotic American pontiff Lenny Belardo, demands a suspension of belief. But the drama series' striking visuals of the…
ROME – Iran rejoiced Monday at news of "The Salesman’s" Oscar victory for best foreign language film, but political reverberations risk undermining the artistic accomplishment of director Asghar…
ROME – Vivendi chairman Vincent Bolloré and managing director Arnaud De Puyfontaine are under investigation by Milan prosecutors for alleged stock market manipulation in connection with the French…
