Venice Film Festival to go ahead as planned in 2020

A Spanish foundation on Friday (May 5) awarded one of the country’s most prestigious awards to composers Ennio Morricone and John Williams for their film work.

Korean blockbuster Ashfallwill open this year's online-only Far East Film Festival (FEFF) withWilson Yip's Ip Man 4, Johnnie To’s musical and martial arts mash-upChasing Dream and Andrew Lau's action movie The Captainamong the big titles in the lineup. In total of 46 films from 8 countries feature in the lineup for the 22nd edition of FEFF that ordinarily takes place in thepicturesque northern Italian city of Udine but is moving online due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

MADRID -- A Spanish foundation on Friday awarded one of the country’s most prestigious awards to composers Ennio Morricone and John Williams for their film work.

The plot of the new James Bond movie No Time To Die has leaked online following the film's delay from April to November. The 25th installment of the James Bond franchise is now slated for November 25, 2020 release.

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Tom Cruise and his fellow Mission: Impossible 7 producers are reportedly taking over an old airbase in England so cast and crew can live there while filming the movie amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In late February, Paramount Pictures halted production on Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible 7," which was set to shoot in Venice, Italy, this spring as the coronavirus pandemic exploded.

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With most of the film festivals in the first half of 2020 either canceled or postponed already, the next big event on the calendar is the Venice Film Festival in early September. And up until now, the idea that the Italian event would continue as planned, even with COVID-19 still a major issue all around the world, was in doubt.

 Gianluca Vacchi  and Sharon Fonseca surprised the world on Mother’s Day with the unexpected, good news that they will become parents for the first time! The special holiday inspired the Italian businessman and the Venezuelan model to post on their social media networks from their Miami penthouse, where they had been quarantining for two months. Shortly after, they both flew to Italy to celebrate the good news in Ginaluca’s home country.

With the U.S. celebrating Memorial Day on May 25, Andrea Bocelli is paying tribute to the fallen heroes of the country’s military.

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ROME — The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as scheduled at the beginning of September, Luca Zaia, the governor of the region around the Italian city said on Sunday as the spread of the new coronavirus in the country slows.