Venice Film Festival on Track For Physical Edition With Real Red Carpet, International Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)

BANGKOK -- If Hollywood is where dreams are made, Bangkok’s Scala theater for the past 51 years was where Thais immersed themselves in the old-fashioned blockbusters of war, the heart-felt romances and quirky comedies. Now only the memories will remain.

Teresa Giudice is making some adjustments to her house following her split from estranged husband Joe Giudice.Teresa, 48, recruited interior designer Jimmy DeLaurentis to help revamp her residence. He brightened up the place with new furniture from his line JAMES by Jimmy DeLaurentis.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has wreaked havoc across the globe, we’ve seen damn near every film festival from this spring and summer canceled, or at least, drastically altered. However, according to Venice Film Festival director, Alberto Barbera, this year’s Italian film event will be the first one since the pandemic shut everything down to closely adhere to the structure of previous editions.

BARCELONA — Women’s activists are urging Netflix to add specific content warnings to the hit film “365 Days” which they accuse of glamourizing rape and sex trafficking, after the streaming site dismissed calls to remove the film.

Muse and Metallica to Radiohead and The Last Shadow Puppets.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWhen I heard that Ennio Morricone had died, at 91, my first thought was that the cinema had lost one of the most romantic of all screen composers. Morricone, who worked with filmmakers from around the world but rarely left his native Rome (he insisted on not speaking in any language but Italian), wrote movie scores suffused with romance, with gorgeous waves of yearning and heartbreak and rapture and lyric melancholy.

Mark David Not quite as famous or grand as the drop-dead-gorgeous palazzo-lined canals of Italy’s Venice, the historic canals in Los Angeles’s Venice Beach, originally dug in 1905 by pioneering Venice Beach property developer and tobacco millionaire Abbot Kinney in order to drain marshland to make way for residential building, are picturesquely lined with charming and sometimes eye-catching homes built in a wide and fetching variety of architectural styles.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterCarlo Hintermann’s English-language drama The Book Of Vision will open the 2020 edition of Venice Critics’ Week, the independent sidebar of the Italian festival which is pressing on with plans for a physical edition in September.The film strs Charles Dance, Lotte Verbeek, Sverrir Gudnason, Isolda Dychauk and Filippo Nigro. Terrence Malick served as an executive producer on the project.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTerrence Malick-produced English-language costume drama “The Book of Vision,” directed by Italy’s Carlo Hintermann, will open the Venice Film Festival’s independently-run Critics’ Week section on Sept. 2.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefDerek Tsang’s youth drama “Better Days” was awarded the top prize, a Golden Mulberry, at the Festival of Far East Film in Udine, northern Italy. The festival was largely online, and the prizes selected by an audience which both viewed the films and voted electronically.Some 25,000 votes were cast for the audience award, by 3,000 accredited pass holders in 45 countries.

Hong Kong director Derek Tsang'sBetter Dayswon the top prizes at the first—and perhaps only—virtual edition of Italy's Far East Film Festival (FEFF). Tsang's romantic crime drama, starringZhou Dongyu and Jackson Yee, took the overall audience award, the Golden Mulberry, as well as the Black Mulberry, voted on by the Shogun pass holders.

Gerard Butler sits at an outdoor table while enjoying an early dinner on Thursday night (June 25) in Venice, Calif.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTop Italian film outfit RAI Cinema on Wednesday sounded an upbeat post-pandemic note as it unveiled a slate of 20 upcoming titles to exhibitors and press, comprising new works by prominent Italian directors such as Nanni Moretti, Gianfranco Rosi, and Susanna Nicchiarelli alongside their U.S.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Italian film and TV industry was on a roll when the pandemic hit the country particularly hard.

According to new reports, Teresa Giudice is planning on reuniting with her ex husband Joe this fall but not in Italy, as one might expect! The two are no longer in a romantic relationship but they do share four daughters together and are trying their best to have a great co-parenting relationship. Of course, the distance between them caused both by Joe’s deportation issues and the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown has made it impossible for the family to reunite.

Teresa Giudice and Joe Giudice may no longer be together romantically, but The Real Housewives of New Jersey star, 48, still has hopes of seeing her ex-husband, 48, soon. The international coronavirus crisis has made travel virtually impossible at the moment, considering both parties are located in two of the hardest hit areas (Italy and New Jersey). But, they’re planning on making a reunion happen by meeting up later this year, HollywoodLife has learned EXCLUSIVELY!

Teresa Giudice and Joe Giudice may no longer be together romantically, but The Real Housewives of New Jersey star, 48, still has hopes of seeing her ex-husband, 48, soon. The international coronavirus crisis has made travel virtually impossible at the moment, considering both parties are located in two of the hardest hit areas (Italy and New Jersey). But, they’re planning on making a reunion happen by meeting up later this year, HollywoodLife has learned EXCLUSIVELY!

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentPrior to the pandemic, British filmmaker Peter Chelsom (“Serendipity,” “Shall We Dance?,” “Hannah Montana”) shot an Italian-language movie titled “Security” based on the novel of the same name by U.S. author Stephen Amidon.

Real Housewives of New Jersey star Joe Giudice couldn’t be with his four daughters on Father’s Day because he was deported to his native Italy last October, but his family still showed him plenty of love on the holiday via social media. Joe shares daughters Gia, 19, Gabriella, 15, Milania, 14, and Audriana, 10 with his soon-to-be ex-wife, Teresa.