Will Ryan Dies: Emmy-Nominated Disney Voice Actor, Former ASIFA President Was 72

ROME -- Italian director Lina Wertmueller, the first woman to receive an Oscar nomination for directing, has died, news reports and the Italian Culture Ministry said Thursday.

Lina Wertmüller, the Italian filmmaker who made history in 1977 when she became the first woman to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar, has died at the age of 93.

K.J. Yossman Lina Wertmüller, the first woman to score a Best Director nomination at the Academy Awards, died on Thursday in Italy.

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Performing on the main stage of the Nottara Theatre in downtown Bucharest is a dream of every aspiring artist in Romania, where hundreds of prison inmates have gotten that lucky break.A drama festival organized by the National Penitentiary Administration of Romania gives prisoners the opportunity to appear in theater productions overseen by professional directors.

Jonshel Alexander, a supporting child actor in the Academy Award-nominated film “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” was fatally shot Saturday night in New Orleans’ 7th Ward, according to multiple reports. She was 22.

ROME -- A villa in the heart of Rome that features the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio is being put up for auction by court order after the home was restored by its last occupants: a Texas-born princess and her late husband, a member of one of Rome’s aristocratic families.The Casino dell’Aurora, also known as Villa Ludovisi, was built in 1570 and has been in the Ludovisi family since the early 1600s.

Holly Humberstone, Bree Runway and Lola Young have been shortlisted for next year’s BRITs Rising Star award.As was the case in 2018 and 2020, all three nominees for the prize (fka the Critics’ Choice award) are female solo artists.

No Rome has shared an intimate, cinematic new video for his recent single ‘I Want U’ – check it out below.‘I Want U’ was released earlier this month as the second preview of the Dirty Hit signee’s forthcoming debut album, ‘It’s All Smiles’, which is set to arrive on Friday (December 3).Discussing creating the track with producer BJ Burton, who has worked with Kanye West, Bon Iver, Charli XCX and more, Rome said: “This is the first song me and BJ worked on – that’s when we knew we were gonna make

NEW YORK -- Peter Aykroyd, an Emmy-nominated actor and writer on “Saturday Night Live” for the 1979-80 season who later worked with older brother, Dan, on everything from a TV show about the paranormal to such films as “Dragnet” and “Coneheads,” has died at age 66.In a brief statement Monday to The Associated Press, Dan Aykroyd cited the medical examiner in Spokane, Washington, and said that his brother "succumbed to septicemia from an internal infection precipitated by an untreated abdominal

Will Ryan was a voice actor known for roles in movies including “The Land Before Time” and TV shows including “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.”Ryan often worked for Disney, beginning with his earliest voice credits on “Welcome to Pooh Corner” and “Mickey’s Christmas Carol.” Among the voices he provided for “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” was Willie the Giant, which he’d later reprise for TV shows including “Disney’s House of Mouse,” “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse,” and “Mickey Mouse Funhouse.” In 1988’s “The Land

Kate Upton, 29, and her husband Justin Verlander, 38, are flaunting their love in one of the most magical cities in the world: Rome! The gorgeous model and her MLB star hubby were pictured in the historic Italian city on Nov. 20 sharing a kiss during dinner with a few friends at the restaurant Pierluigi. Kate and Justin couldn’t look more in love as they both leaned in mid-dinner for the romantic smooch, which was captured by nearby paparazzi.

After garnering awards recognition for its first season, receiving Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy nominations, Netflix’s hit comedy series, “Emily in Paris” is ready for round 2 next month. READ MORE: Disney+ Picks Up ‘Wedding Season’ From Writer Oliver Lyttelton & ‘Emily In Paris’ Producer As seen in the trailer for “Emily in Paris” Season 2, Lily Collins returns as the title character in the title city.

Veteran Marketing and Public Relations executive and former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been named to serve as Founding Director of The Sidney Poitier New American Film School. Boone Isaacs who is currently an adjunct professor at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts will begin as director the new three-campus  film school at ASU  starting on January 1, 2022.

Sidney Poitier New American Film School, the university announced on Tuesday. Boone Isaacs, also a former film marketing and public relations executive, will take the reins as director of the three-campus film school on Jan 1, 2022.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe fifth and final season of Neapolitan mob series “Gomorrah” was unveiled Monday during an emotionally charged Rome event saluting the end of the gritty, groundbreaking show.As Nils Hartmann, senior director of Sky Italia original productions, put it during the press conference, in Italian TV “there is a before and after ‘Gomorrah.’”The hyper-realistic crime skein is Italy’s greatest TV export, having sold to 190 territories since its 2014 launch,