Audrey Hepburn TV Series to Be Penned By ‘Good Wife’ Writer Jacqueline Hoyt (EXCLUSIVE)

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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentRoberto Rossellini, besides being Italian Neorealism’s most acclaimed film director, was also the father of a nonconformist, cosmopolitan and slightly crazy family that includes Hollywood stars such as Isabella Rossellini, another daughter who converted to Islam, and a son who has chosen to live on a desert island in Sweden. The Rossellini family also comprises the revered maestro’s Rome-based grandson Alessandro (pictured as a child behind the camera)

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If fate has cruelly robbed us of the chance to see the late Chadwick Boseman play the African samurai known in history’s annals as Yasuke, then hearing Lakeith Stanfield give him a voice and a mood makes for a good consolation prize. Granted, the Boseman film, in stasis after his passing, sounded more factually inclined on paper, telling of how Yasuke went from serving Italian Jesuit Alessandro Valignano to serving Japanese Daimyo Oda Nobunaga.

Manori Ravindran International EditorITV Studios is growing its sizeable global footprint with a new Spanish scripted production company that extends one of the super-indie’s most recognizable banners.Leading Italian producer Cattleya, the makers of “Gomorrah,” “Suburra” and “ZeroZeroZero,” will expand into Spain with Cattleya Producciones.

One of our most anticipated films of the year? “Italian Studies,” the collaboration between Academy Award-nominated actress Vanessa Kirby “Pieces of A Woman“) and Adam Leon, the indie filmmaker behind the American indie writer/director behind acclaimed films like “Gimmie The Loot” and “Tramps.” And we’re fortunate enough to unveil the exclusive first-look image from the film.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItaly’s Leone Film Group has teamed up with Wattpad, the user-generated fiction entertainment company, to develop a feature film based on “The Bad Boy’s Girl,” which is among the most popular stories on the storytelling platform.Leone Film Group, a leading Italian production and distribution company, has also optioned the full series of novels in author Blair Holden’s “The Bad Boy’s Girl” saga, which is touted as having more than 220 million online

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentBritish actor Emilia Fox (“Silent Witness”) is set to star as a disillusioned U.K.

If a “Baywatch” revival ever does happen, Donna D’Errico is ready to hit the beach.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItalian directors Alice Rohrwacher (“Happy as Lazzaro”), Pietro Marcello (“Martin Eden”) and Francesco Munzi (“Black Souls”) have teamed up on high-profile doc “Futura,” a portrait of how Italy’s adolescents look at the future.“Futura,” which is being co-produced by pubcaster RAI’s RAI Cinema film unit with Marcello’s own Avventurosa shingle, is billed as a “collective investigation” by the three auteurs “on the different expectations and prospects for

Just not in the cards. Even if he hadn’t been ordered to leave New Jersey, Joe Giudice doesn’t think his marriage to Teresa Giudice would have lasted.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentRoberto Rossellini, besides being Italian Neorealism’s most acclaimed film director, was also the father of a nonconformist, cosmopolitan and slightly crazy family that includes Hollywood stars such as Isabella Rossellini, another daughter who converted to Islam, and a son who has chosen to live on a desert island in Sweden. The Rossellini family also comprises the revered maestro’s Rome-based grandson Alessandro (pictured as a child behind the camera)

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentMaximo Ibarra and Nicola Maccanico, respectively managing director and programming chief at Comcast-owned Sky Italia, are exiting the pay-TV operation following its failure to secure a rights deal for Italy’s Serie A soccer league.Ibarra, a Colombian-Italian executive with extensive telecoms experience, had been leading Sky Italia since October 2019.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentSky Italia executive Nicola Maccanico is stepping down from his post at the Comcast-owned pay-TV to become managing director of Italy’s Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, the state film entity that operates Rome’s expanding Cinecittà Studios.Maccanico’s sudden career move comes as Italy’s Culture Minister Enrico Franceschini is implementing an ambitious relaunch of the iconic studios.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItalian author Antonio Dikele Distefano, who grew up in the northern Italian city of Ravenna, is the originator of new Netflix Original series “Zero,” which marks the first series centered around the present-day lives of Black Italian youth.

Audrey Hepburn ranks in the Hollywood pantheon as one of film’s all-time biggest stars, and a new TV series will delve into the life of the legendary actress.

A television series based on the life of Audrey Hepburn is in the works.