By Nick Vivarelli
20.04.2020 - 15:37 / variety.com
By Nick Vivarelli
International Correspondent
Plans are underway for the Venice Film festival to take place on the Lido in the event’s customary early September slot.
Roberto Cicutto, president of the Venice Biennale, the fest’s parent organization, said Monday in an interview with Italian news agency ANSA that the September 2-12 dates of the 77th edition of Venice are confirmed.
Cicutto in the interview with ANSA — the details of which have been confirmed by a Venice spokesman — downplayed
By Nick Vivarelli
By Nick Vivarelli
Through a trippy circumstance, a young woman learns to cherish the yearly gifts from her deceased mom in this Italian sobfest.
Pablo Zabaleta says he might be forced to retire this summer if fans are banned from stadiums next season.
Firefighters across Ayrshire have joined a national day of remembrance for their fallen colleagues.
Film and television production in Italy's region of Lazio will go forward under heightened safety measures including testing, face masks and distancing. Rome's film industry is set to reopen on Monday, but under heightened safety conditions.
Daft Punk are to score legendary filmmaker Dario Argento’s new movie, Occhiali Neri.
Daft Punk is back -- kind of.The French icons are working on the soundtrack to a forthcoming film by legendary Italian director Dario Argento, who in an interview with Italian newspaper La Reppublica said the duo called to say they were fans of his work and wanted to contribute to the movie."They are my admirers, they know all my cinema," Argento said.
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Tom Cruise expected to spend his summer in Italy, hanging onto the sides of planes, dodging bullets and engaging in elaborate car chases. The arrival of COVID-19 spoiled those plans, indefinitely postponing the shooting of “Mission: Impossible 7,” the latest installment of the globe-trotting espionage franchise.
The Venice International Film Festival has "a concrete will" to collaborate with Cannes this year, in what Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera says would be a "sign of solidarity towards the cinema world" during the coronavirus crisis. In an interview with Italian news agency ANSA on Tuesday, Barbera said he was open to an idea, first floated by Cannes boss Thierry Frémaux, that the two European festivals collaborate on this 2020 editions.