Netflix Italian Original ‘Fedeltà,’ About Love and Betrayal, Starts Shooting in Milan

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentNetflix is on track to open its Italian base in Rome in the second quarter of 2021, and is committing to doubling down on its output of local original series by 2022.The streaming giant revealed plans to open a Rome office one year ago, just prior to the pandemic, but the crisis slowed down the opening. Now, the company has taken a lease on a large, classy neoclassic building in central Rome, called Villino Rattazzi, located near the U.S.

Giuseppe Rotunno, the cinematographer highly regarded for his collaborations with Federico Fellini, has died at the age of 97. Italian news agency ANSA reported that he passed away at his home in Rome yesterday, February 7.

Also Read: Magnolia Pictures Acquires French Love Story 'Two of Us'Madeleine and Nina have planned to sell their apartments and retire together to Italy, but Madeleine has two children, Anne (Léa Drucker) and Frédéric (Jérôme Varanfrain), and she has never managed to tell them that she is in a relationship with Nina.

Farmison & Co offers incredible quality products which certainly look worth the price. Here is what they have to offer.This romantic Italian-themed Valentine’s Day box features a take on the famous Milanese special of Osso Bucco.The far from basic meat and pasta dish is everything we think you truly need on Valentines Day- a succulent piece of meat and pasta and a bottle of Cianti to share for the occasion.

George Clooney can still vividly recall his terrifying crash in Italy – and how the world reacted. In 2018, the actor slammed his motorbike into an oncoming car that turned suddenly into his lane and was thrown several yards in the air on the Italian island of Sardinia, according to video footage of the accident.

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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentPioneer Italian documentary director Cecilia Mangini, whose political works exploring hot-button topics such as youth contending with Italy’s postwar poverty, the condition of women, and the roots of fascism made her a legendary figure on the international film festival circuit, died on Jan. 21.

POMPEII, Italy -- Decades after suffering bombing and earthquake damage, Pompeii’s museum has been reborn, showing off exquisite finds from excavations of the ancient Roman city.Officials of the archeological park of the ruins of the city destroyed in 79 A.D. by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius inaugurated the museum on Monday.Known as the Antiquarium, the museum gives Pompeii a permanent exhibition space.

Liev Schreiber leans in to give a kiss to co-star Matilda De Angelis as they continue to film their movie, Across The River and Into The Trees, in Venice, Italy on Monday (January 25).

Sophia Loren recently returned to acting for the first time in a decade to star in Netflix film The Life Ahead, which debuted in November. MORE: Sophia Loren reveals she would love to meet Kate Middleton in rare interviewThe iconic actress' movie return was extra-special, as the film was directed by her son, acclaimed Italian director Edoardo Ponti.While the mother-son duo are incredibly private about family life, they are set to appear on The Today Show on Monday for a very rare interview. It's

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAs Italy’s government wobbles, the country’s struggling film and TV industry is staying afloat thanks to beefed-up funding that in 2021 will provide a €640 million ($775 million) safety net for local exhibitors, distributors and producers.Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte survived a crucial Senate confidence vote on Tuesday evening by a razor thin margin of just 16 votes (the vote went 156-140 in his favor), averting a crisis sparked by differences over

ROME -- Italian police have recovered a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century “Salvator Mundi” painting of Jesus Christ that was stolen from a Naples church during the pandemic without the priests even realizing it was gone.The discovery was made when Naples police working on a bigger operation found the painting hidden in an apartment.

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Manori Ravindran International EditorNetflix’s French original “Lupin” is the streamer’s latest international hit.The SVOD giant projects that the clever Omar Sy-fronted crime caper will be watched by 70 million members within its first 28 days on the service.

Matilda De Angelis wears a pretty yellow dress underneath a warm vest on the set of her new movie, Across The River and Into The Trees in Venice, Italy earlier in the week.