"The Greatest Showman" director Michael Gracey is set to make a stage musical about Luciano Pavarotti. The Australian director, producer and visual effects artist " who more recently executi…
"Theatre is Body " Body is Poetry" is the title chosen by Willem Dafoe for his first edition as artistic director of the Venice Biennale's International Theatre Festival, which kicks off May…
Willem Dafoe is at the Venice Film Festival with two hats: he's among the stars playing in the fest's opener, Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice." But he's also busy at work as recently a…
The announcement of a London stage musical titled "Berlusconi," depicting the turbulent life of Silvio Berlusconi through a feminist prism and produced by British "Fleabag" producer Francesc…
Italian playwright Stefano Massini's "The Lehman Trilogy," which just won five Tony Awards including the prize for best play, is set to become a high-end TV series to be produced by Italy's …
Oscar-winning actress and singer Julie Andrews will be honored by the Venice Film Festival with its Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement. Best known for her iconic roles in "Mary Poppi…
The world premiere of "A Star Is Born" received a warm 8-minute ovation at the Venice Film Festival after the musical drama's gala screening was marred by a roughly 15-minute interruption du…
Five years after opening Venice with 3D space thriller "Gravity," Alfonso Cuaron was back on the Lido Thursday with "Roma," his much more personal film shot in black and white and based on g…
ROME –Â Plans are underway for "Universal Judgment: Michelangelo and the Secrets of the Sistine Chapel" – a surround-sound live show that boasts a theme composed by Sting, the …
Saudi Arabia's removal of its 35-year-old ban on cinemas is prompting theater chains including AMC, Vue International, and Dubai-based VOX Cinemas to announce moves to enter the last untappe…
ROME – Oscar winner Kevin Spacey is playing writer Gore Vidal in a new Netflix original biopic, "Gore," which is in production in Italy. U.S. director Michael Hoffman ("The Last Statio…
In another instance of Chinese capital flowing into Hollywood, the newly established Culture China "Â Image Nation Content Fund will co-finance and executive produce Sony Pictures Entertai…
French director Bruno Dumont early in his career made dour naturalistic dramas "La Vie de Jesus" and "L'Umanité," set in the Opal Coast in Northern France, and more recently broadened his p…
ROME – Fox Italy has announced that Paul Zonderland, a former head of Disney in Italy, has been appointed its managing director just as Osvaldo De Santis is retiring after 33 years as …
ROME – Disney's "Moana" will soon roll out across Italy – but under a new name, "Oceania," a change widely believed to be prompted by the fact that the name of the film's titular…
LYON, France —Â Walt Disney's "Alice Comedies," a series of cartoons made before Disney went to Hollywood, have been freshly restored and re-packaged for global distribution by Franc…
VENICE, Italy — Emma Stone has won the Venice Film Festival’s best actress prize for her role as Mia, an aspiring actress and playwright who's deep into the magic of the…
VENICE —Â The 73rd Venice Film Festival kicked off on a decidedly positive note Wednesday with U.S. director Damien Chazelle's Los Angeles-set musical “La La Land” premie…
ROME —Â Giorgio Albertazzi, the lionlike actor and director who was a leading light of the Italian stage for more than six decades but is best known to global French film lovers for …
ROME —Â British film and stage director Sam Mendes will head the jury of the 73rd Venice Film Festival. Mendes' rapport with the Lido dates back to 2002 when he was in the Venice com…
ROME —Â Did Roman emperor Nero get a bad rap? "Divo Nerone," a rock opera with international ambitions being staged in the real Roman Forum by multiple Oscar-winning production desig…
ROME – Helen Mirren and husband Taylor Hackford, star tenor Andrea Bocelli, and Jimmy Kimmel are the latest showbiz personalities set to be feted by Italy's upcoming Ischia Global Film…
ROME – Liza Minelli will be feted by the 10th Los Angeles-Italia Festival with its Jack Valenti – Los Angeles, Italia Legend Award. The annual pre-Oscars event comprising movies …