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EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off its world premiere in the Berlin International Film Festival’s competition program, where it won the Silver Bear Jury Prize, Maria Speth’s feature documentary Mr Bachmann And His Class has sold into multiple territories.

Mister Smith Entertainment has inked a series of international deals on its comedy-horror Werewolves Within following the culmination of last week’s virtual European Film Market.

Amazon Studios has started production on its debut Italian original movie, the young adult comedy Dog Years (Annie Da Cane), which is being directed by Fabio Mollo (South is Nothing).

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAmazon Studios has revealed its first Italian original film, the young adult comedy “Anni da cane” (Dog Years), directed by Fabio Mollo, whose Mafia drama “South is Nothing” went to Berlin. The film, which has just started production, is written and produced by Mary Stella Brugiati and Alessandro Bosi, and produced by Notorious Pictures.

Irvine teenage actor is excited for his first major movie to be released this weekend.Jude Shedden, 13, is starring in the upcoming rom-com A Little Italian Vacation, directed by Ron Howard's protégé, Felipe Torres Urso.The ambitious child actor from Girdle Toll has been working since he was three-years-old and starred in Harry Styles' music video 'Adore You' in 2019.For the new blockbuster, the St Matthew's pupil played the role of Schmae and filmed his scenes in London and Italy when he was

EXCLUSIVE: Rocket Science has scored a raft of international pre-sales on Michael Gracey’s (The Greatest Showman) Better Man, based on the life of singer Robbie Williams.

House of Gucci is looking to be very, very Gucci. In just two days, the biopic, which is based upon the 2000 true crime book of the same name by Sara Gay Forden, has opened the shutters on a production that has been largely under wraps thus far, dressing its stars Lady Gaga and Adam Driver like Davos oligarchs one moment, and la dolce vita veterans on smoky Italian streets the next.

Lady Gaga and Adam Driver are indulging in the finer foods Italy has to offer while filming House of Gucci. The Academy Award-nominated actors — who play Patrizia Reggiani (Gaga) and Maurizio Gucci (Driver) in the anticipated drama based on a true story about the heir of the Gucci fashion house — were photographed filming on location at La casa di Gucci Piazza Duomo on March 11.

Patrizia Reggiani has a million reasons why she is not thrilled about Lady Gaga portraying her in the upcoming movie House of Gucci.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItaly’s Nexo Digital, the company known internationally for co-producing and distributing theatrical event content for the global market, is launching an innovative subscription streaming platform in Italy dedicated to a mix of content comprising movies, opera, ballet and theater with long-term ambitions to expand the service beyond national confines.“We have acquired more than 1,500 hours of content to create nine worlds,” Nexo CEO Franco di Sarro told

Lady Gaga is in Italy filming the true-crime thriller “House of Gucci”, and now fans have a first look at Mother Monster in her latest movie role.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterLady Gaga, an Italian girl from New York, has revealed the first look at her transformation into Patrizia Reggiani, Maurizio Gucci’s ex-wife, in the upcoming movie about his assassination.“House of Gucci,” directed by Ridley Scott, depicts the true story of the downfall of the Gucci family dynasty.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItaly is among the first countries in the world where film and TV production restarted after the peak of the pandemic and the country is now trying to become among the first in Europe to reopen movie theaters.Culture Minister Dario Franceschini in late February announced tentative plans to reopen Italian cinemas on March 27 in areas with lower COVID-19 infection and death rates, using new stricter social distancing norms.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The man who was shot while caring for Lady Gaga's French Bulldogs said on Monday he was recovering after nearly dying from the attack by assailants who kidnapped two of the pop singer's pets. Ryan Fischer, in his first public comments since the incident last Wednesday evening in Hollywood, detailed his recollections from that night and thanked family, friends, first responders and Gaga, who has been in Italy to shoot a movie.

Buyers across Europe and Latin America have boarded the upcoming Norwegian disaster film The North Sea, from director John Andreas Andersen.

EXCLUSIVE: Eros STX and Amazon Prime Video have closed a multi-year first window output deal in the Nordics effective immediately.

 Lady Gaga ’s missing dogs have been found! Two days after the 34-year-old superstar’s French bulldogs were stolen, LAPD’s Olympic Community Police Station has confirmed that they are safe and sound. Police Captain Jonathan Tippet told Associated Press that the pups were brought to the station by a woman around 6 p.m.

Lady Gaga has called her dogwalker a “hero” as she breaks her silence on his shooting and the theft of two of her dogs.The star is currently in Italy filming Ridley Scott’s Gucci and is believed to have left her three French bulldogs in the care of dogwalker Ryan Fischer.On Wednesday night (February 24), Fischer was shot while walking Gaga’s dogs in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles and two of her pets, Koji and Gustav, were stolen.