ROME – U.S. director Anna Rose Holmer’s feature film debut “The Fits” is among winners of the second edition of the Venice Film Festival’s Biennale College initiative, which will shepherd three…
ROME – The Italo preem of “The Imitation Game” will open the 19th edition of the Capri-Hollywood film festival dedicated to launching Oscar hopefuls and establishing a creative and business…
ROME – Rome’s Cinecitta Studios is boasting a burst of biz prompted by tax incentives which are luring back Hollywood majors, including Paramount and MGM with their “Ben Hur” remake more than five…
Endemol is expanding into the booming Turkish TV market with its first primetime scripted projects, including Endemol Turkey’s first scripted drama, titled “Broken Pieces,” for which sales company…
ROME — U.S. thriller writer Jeffrey Deaver will be feted by Italy's Noir in Festival, dedicated to movies and books broadly belonging to the noir genre and held in the Alpine resort of Courmayeur…
ROME – The Black List has forged a link with Italy’s Writers Guild Italia (WGI), marking the first non English-language writers’ org whose members’ scripts will have the opportunity to appear on the…
ROME – Robert De Niro has confirmed he will re-team with Jennifer Lawrence and director David O. Russell on “Joy,” the biopic about Joy Mangano, inventor of the Miracle Mop. “Joy” is being produced…
The Abu Dhabi Media Summit, which runs Nov. 18-20, is tackling some timely subjects just as extremists in the region are making headlines with their social-media skills. There is a session, in tandem…
Turkish Culture Minister Omer Celik was in Los Angeles during the American Film Market recently to tubthump his country's tax incentives, soon to be implemented, for foreign producers as part of a…
While Turkish cinema is unquestionably making huge strides, it's still perceived internationally as strictly arthouse, spawned by an industry seen as rigidly polarized between auteurs making art…
