Locarno Film Festival Names Giona A. Nazzaro As New Artistic Director

Dave McNary Film ReporterHanWay Films has closed multiple international sales for Phillip Noyce’s “Peggy Jo,” with Lily James attached to star as Peggy Jo Tallas, who robbed Texas banks in the early 1990s while posing as a man.A deal with Universal Pictures Content Group includes Benelux, German speaking Europe, Italy, Portugal, Scandinavia, and the UK.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorThe H Collective (Brightburn) is teaming with Breaking Bad exec producer and Rain Man producer Mark Johnson on coming-of-age film The Vineyard, which will be directed by Mark Steven Johnson (Love Guaranteed) from Tory Kamen’s script.“Foodie drama” The Vineyard will follow an American teenager whose life is uprooted when she unexpectedly moves to Italy to live with a grandfather she never knew existed. Pic is due to get underway in Italy in

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItalian director Valentina Pedicini, known on the festival circuit for observational 2019 doc “Faith,” about power dynamics within a reclusive spiritual sect of kung fu practitioners, as well as other female-centric works, died on Friday of liver cancer, her publicist said.

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentItaly-based sales outlet TVCO has acquired international rights to Jonas Kærup Hjort’s Danish black comedy “The Penultimate” ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Tallinn Black Night Film Festival.Described as a “Kafkaesque tale” by Tallinn festival, “The Penultimate” follows an insignificant clerk (Joen Højerslev), who gets trapped inside a secluded building facing an endless maze of obstacles.

They don't make heist movies like they used to. You used to be able to see films like The Killing, Rififi and The Italian Job and simply relish the fiendishly clever methods with which criminals executed their elaborate robberies.

link.The podcast with Lana, who plays for Fiorentina in Serie A, was recorded in Italy while Derek was over there.Derek said: “I met up with Lana when I was in Italy, and she showed me around the stadium and the club.“It was really good to go over and she has a really interesting story as well.“She has played for the national team at a few huge tournaments and is one of the best players in Serie A just now as well.”The ‘Great Scots’ series is released weekly and the best way to listen to the

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItalian state broadcaster RAI has announced the appointment of writer, journalist and top media industry executive Maria Pia Ammirati as its head of drama, ending the bureaucratic impasse hampering the local industry since her predecessor Eleonora Andreatta left to become vice president of Italian Original series at Netflix in June.RAI’s board has officially announced that Ammirati will replace Andreatta as head of RAI Fiction, the unit that produces

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEmmy-winning U.S. director and producer John Maggio is shooting “Milano,” a high-profile doc on the rise of the Italian fashion industry that is expected to feature many of Italy’s most iconic fashion designers.Maggio, who most recently directed HBO doc “The Perfect Weapon,” based on the best-selling book by David E.

Kaley Cuoco had a close call while in Italy, shooting her upcoming series “The Flight Attendant”.

Thomas Vinterberg's Danish crowd-pleaser Another Round, Burhan Qurbani's German epic Berlin Alexanderplatz and Jan Komasa's Oscar-nominated Polish drama Corpus Christi are among the nominees for best European film at the 2020 European Film Awards.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentNetflix has ordered a new Italian original series titled “Generation 56K” from Cattleya, the Italian “Gomorrah” producer, backed by the U.K.’s ITV Studios.The eight-episode show is made in collaboration with The Jackal, a collective of Italian comedians that launched on YouTube more than a decade ago and have since entered the mainstream having made several films and worked with public broadcaster RAI.The series, which targets thirty-somethings,

Dave McNary Film ReporterWith the COVID-19 pandemic persisting, the American Film Market is launching its 41st edition Monday — and its first as an online-only event — with a record 562 exhibitors registered from 48 countries.The United States leads the way with 259 companies followed by Italy (59), the United Kingdom (46), Russia (25), Germany (20), France (19), Canada (17), South Korea (14), Japan (12), and Thailand (11).AFM, usually held at beachside hotels in Santa Monica, Calif., is

Teresa Giudice has a mini me: her daughter Gia! The brunette beauty, 19, who is the eldest child of the Real Housewives of New Jersey star, has been reunited with her dad Joe Giudice for the first time in months, and is the spitting image of her mom in these new clips. Gia and her sister Milania flew to Italy this week to see their dad, who is living in room.