U.S. Producers Noam Baram, Mark Lipinsky Forge Joint Venture to Shoot Movies in Italy (EXCLUSIVE)

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorSales agency Taskovski Films has acquired Susanna della Sala’s “Last Stop Before Chocolate Mountain,” produced by Marco Visalberghi, who won Venice’s Golden Lion for “Sacro Gra.” The film will have its world premiere Tuesday at the Locarno Film Festival as part of the Critics’ Week section.The feature documentary is set in a small Californian town called Bombay Beach, in the midst of a desert and next to a toxic lake. The town had become rundown and almost a ghost town until an influx of artists led to its rejuvenation.

Love Island winner Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has shared her reunion with 'her king' Davide Sanclimenti after the pair went their separate ways after winning the ITV2 dating show and attending the pre-recorded reunion show earlier this week.

William Earl MRC leaders Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu and Todd Boehly’s Eldridge holding company have reached a deal to carve up their jointly owned assets into separate business entities.Wiczyk and Satchu will retain the MRC production entity, home to TV series including Netflix’s “Ozark” and Hulu “The Great,” and MRC’s investments in content shops Civic Center Media and T-Street.Eldridge will retain Dick Clark Productions and investments in hot indie studio A24, James Corden and Ben Winston’s Fulwell 73, Michael Sugar’s Sugar 23 and audience data firm Luminate. Eldridge also holds on toits minority stake in the PMRC joint venture established in 2020 that is the parent company of Variety, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Vibe, The Hollywood Reporter, Music Business Worldwide, the annual Life is Beautiful music festival and an investment in the SXSW festival franchise that is expanding beyond its Austin, Texas roots next year with an edition in Sydney, Australia.

Jennifer Lopez is hitting the sea for a new photo shoot!

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe mob in Italy, besides being an endemic plague, has always been grist for the film and TV mill, with gritty Naples-set show “Gomorrah,” the country’s top TV export, being one recent example.But a major change is underway in how Italian producers and talents are tackling organized crime tropes that were once exclusively imbued in patriarchal pathos. Mob stories coming out of Italy are primarily a woman’s thing these days.

Leona Lewis has announced the arrival of her first child and revealed her adorable name on Instagram. The 37 year old welcomed her first child, a baby girl, with her husband Dennis Jauch on 22 July, and publicly revealed the happy news on 3 August on social media. Leona and Dennis, who tied the knot back in 2019, shared a sweet snap of their new arrival wearing a pink baby grow alongside the caption: "And then there were three.

Jennifer Lopez has been living her best life in Europe during her honeymoon with Ben Affleck.MORE: Jennifer Lopez opens up about intimate Las Vegas wedding to Ben AffleckThe award-winning singer and actor have moved on from Paris and are now in Capri, Italy, with J-Lo's twins Emme and Max, who she shares with ex-husband Marc Anthony.The doting mom was spotted enjoying some quality time on Thursday evening with just her children too ahead of her performance at the Luisa Via Roma x Unicef gala on Saturday night.VIDEO: Jennifer Lopez teases exciting newsA source exclusively told HELLO! that J-Lo and Emme and Max were out late on Thursday having dinner at Villa Verde.MORE: Alex Rodriguez cheered on by fans who think he deserves recogntionMORE: Jennifer Garner breaks silence following Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez's weddingThe Hustlers star looked "incredibly glamorous" with her hair in a slicked high bun, and wearing a long silk-like kimono.Ever the doting mom, J-Lo was spotted holding her twins' hands leading them out for the late dinner, looking incredibly happy and glowing. Jennifer Lopez was spotted out in Italy with her twins on Thursday nightOn Saturday, meanwhile, Jennifer's brother-in-law Casey Affleck was out to support her, hosting the auction at the star-studded Luisa Via Roma x Unicef gala.MORE: Jennifer Garner shares crypic post during time apart from her childrenMORE: Alex Rodriguez breaks silence amidst ex Jennifer Lopez's wedding newsJennifer looked as radiant as ever on stage, performing for almost an hour and even did a disco medley that went down a treat with the celebrity-filled audience.Luisa Via Roma were the hosts of the event, and raised a staggering 8M euros for UNICEF.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentGiuseppe Tornatore’s Oscar-winning film “Cinema Paradiso,” about a marvellous Sicilian cinema where a boy nicknamed Toto embarks on a lifelong love affair with the movies, is being spun off into a high-profile TV series that Tornatore will write and direct.The six-episode “Paradiso” show is being developed by prominent Rome-based producer Marco Belardi (“Perfect Strangers”) through his new shingle Bamboo Production, which he launched in February. Belardi said he’s in advanced talks with an unspecified U.S. streamer to come on board.

By the shore! Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are beating the summer heat with a vacation to Sardinia, Italy.

Italian-Uruguayan producer and actor Luca Barbareschi is developing a six-part series about the life of Bank of America founder and early Hollywood financier Amadeo Peter Giannini.

Naman Ramachandran The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved the joint venture between Warner Bros. Discovery and telco giant BT.The entities had revealed a premium sports venture in May, for the U.K.

Manchester United completed their second signing of the summer transfer window last week, landing former Brentford midfielder Christian Eriksen on a free transfer.