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Morten Steingrimsen Guest ContributorPeter Mullan (“Westworld,” “Top of the Lake”) and Charles Dance (“Mank,” “The Crown”) have joined the cast of “The Hanging Sun,” based on Jo Nesbø’s bestselling novel “Midnight Sun.”Frederick Schmidt (“Angel Has Fallen”) and Raphael Vicas (“Grantchester”) are also boarding the production.The Sky Original film is a U.K.-Italian co-production from Sky, ITV Studios’ Cattleya and Groenlandia.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Buenos Aires-based sales and production company FilmSharks International has scored a number of deals with South Korea, France and Italy in recent days.South Korean indie film distributor Bluelable Pictures picked up all rights to erotic thriller “Bandit Love” and plans a wide theatrical release.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentViacomCBS’ Pluto TV, the fast-growing, free, ad-supported, linear TV-style streaming service, is set to launch in Italy on Oct. 28 with 40 thematic channels spanning multiple genres.Pluto TV’s Italy launch will expand the service’s European footprint, segueing from successful bows in the U.K., Germany, France and Spain.

Bella Thorne is getting married and she has some fun surprises in store for her over the top wedding, including a potential reunion with her co-stars. ET spoke with Thorne and her fiancé, Benjamin Mascolo, about their upcoming nuptials and the Italian star's sweet proposal to his bride-to-be.«It's going to be, we think that'd be next year, next summer.

Bella Thorne is getting married and she has some fun surprises in store for her over the top wedding, including a potential reunion with her co-stars. ET spoke with Thorne and her fiancé, Benjamin Mascolo, about their upcoming nuptials and the Italian star's sweet proposal to his bride-to-be.«It's going to be, we think that'd be next year, next summer.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBeijing-based distributor Hugoeast Media has acquired Chinese distribution rights to Cannes Directors’ Fortnight player ‘The Tale of King Crab,’ the first feature venture into narrative fiction of Italian filmmakers Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis.Hugoeast Media plans a limited theatrical release in Chinese theaters in the course of 2022.The deal with Hugoeast Media was closed by the international sales arm of France’s Shellac.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 's explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey missed out on an Emmy at the award show on Sunday, to a series about Italian food and culture. The two-hour sit down interview with the former royal couple caused commotion throughout the British monarchy after Meghan revealed a member of the royal family raising concerns about how dark Archie's skin would be.

Ed Meza @edmezavarFollowing its acclaimed 2020 drama “To the Unknown God,” Italy’s Kineofilm is developing a feature about an aging countess who sets up a new type of school with a group of disenfranchised yet gifted children in her spacious 16th-century villa.Kineofilm’s Rodolfo Bisatti, who co-wrote and helmed “To the Unknown God,” will direct the new film from a screenplay he his writing with actress-producer Laura Pellicciari.The film follows Olimpia, a woman in her sixties who lives alone

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentIn Italian director Francesco Lettieri’s “Lovely Boy,” which is the closing film of Venice’s independently run Venice Days section, a rising star of Rome’s never before depicted trap music scene gets sucked into a spiral of self-destruction.“Lovely Boy” is the sophomore feature by Lettieri, who made his debut with “Ultras,” a drama about Neapolitan soccer hooligans that plays worldwide on Netflix.Both “Ultras” and “Lovely Boy” were lead produced by

restaurant worker has won an £11,000 pay out after a tribunal found he was racially abused and grabbed by the throat by a head chef. Kitchen porter Vasilis Kodra took La Vita - a family-run business which has five Italian eateries in and around Glasgow - to an employment tribunal, claiming he was attacked and told “Albanians are f**king trouble” during a rammy with ex colleague Robbie Syme at the city’s Byres Road branch.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent“Ennio,” the hotly anticipated Ennio Morricone doc by Oscar-winning Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore has sold to a slew of territories ahead of its world premiere Friday at the Venice Film FestivalBlock 2 Distribution, which is the sales arm of Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai’s Jet Tone films, has announced sales of the doc to Germany and Austria (Koch Media), Benelux (Periscope), France (Le Pacte), Scandinavia and Baltics (Non Stop Entertainment),

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentFilm Movement has acquired U.S.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentFrench sales and co-production company Charades has forged an alliance with Italy’s I Wonder Pictures to jointly seek out projects by under-the-radar Italian cinema directors that they can board as co-producers and distribute in Italy and around the world.The pact between Charades, a prominent Paris-based indie outfit headed by veteran sales agent and former Wild Bunch exec Carole Baraton, and I Wonder, a growing niche Italian distributor owned and

Naman Ramachandran Italian powerhouse Medusa has acquired Pan Nalin’s “Last Film Show,” which is being sold worldwide by Orange Studio.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentRising Italian star Michele Riondino, who is on the Lido with Venice Days pic “I Nostri Fantasmi,” is set to play a priest sent by the Vatican to Holland to investigate a crying statue of the Virgin Mary in “The Man From Rome,” from Dutch director Jaap van Heusden (“In Blue”).This English, Dutch and Italian-language pic blending thriller and comedy elements is set to start shooting this month on location in the southern Dutch province of Limburg and in