Italy Earmarks €20M For Summer Film Promotion, Will Slash Ticket Prices For Local & European Titles

Italy Earmarks €20M For Summer Film Promotion, Will Slash Ticket Prices For Local & European Titles

An oft-heard lament on the part of international distribution is that Italy is impossible to program in the summer. In 2019, there was an effort on the part of the studios and the local industry to steer the season in a different direction resulting in record results, but the pandemic halted momentum.

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‘Queer’: Drew Starkey Joins Daniel Craig In Luca Guadagnino’s Latest, Filming Begins In Rome This Month

‘Queer’: Drew Starkey Joins Daniel Craig In Luca Guadagnino’s Latest, Filming Begins In Rome This Month

Variety reports that  Luca Guadagnino  will start shooting “Queer ,” his next feature, in Rome this month now that he’s wrapped post-production on “ Challengers ,” in theaters this September. This marks the most rapid creative pace for Guadagnino in his whole career: three films in as many years.

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A teenage girl takes on the Italian mob in tense coming-of-ager

A teenage girl takes on the Italian mob in tense coming-of-ager

The idea of a teenage girl discovering her father is in the mob gave us one of the great moments in television history, when Meadow in The Sopranos asked her dad Tony: “Are you in the mafia?” Now the Italian film-maker Jonas Carpignano has made this the central plank in this gripping and unnerving drama, effectively the third in his neo-neorealist “Calabrian” movies, after Mediterranea in 2015.

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‘La Storia’ Trailer Displays Dazzling Visuals for Fascist-Era Saga That Is RAI’s Top 2023 Event Series

‘La Storia’ Trailer Displays Dazzling Visuals for Fascist-Era Saga That Is RAI’s Top 2023 Event Series

Beta at MipTV has unveiled a visually dazzling first trailer for period drama “ La Storia ” that will be Italian pubcaster RAI’s biggest event show this year. The sweeping eight-episode saga is based on a globally bestselling novel by the late great Elsa Morante – whom “My Brilliant Friend” author Elena Ferrante often cites as her primary literary reference – set during the final years of World War…

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