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Sony Pictures International Productions and Italy’s Colorado Film have teamed up on Italian comedy/road movie “50km per Hour” which has started shooting with multi-hyphenate Fabio De Luigi directing and starring.

The film is an Italian remake of Sony’s 2018 German box office hit “25 Km/h,” written by Oliver Ziegenbalg and directed by Markus Goller about two estranged siblings who reunite at their father’s funeral and make a spur of the moment decision to fulfill their childhood dream of driving across the country on their old motorbikes. It has also recently been remade in Mexico with the title “A Todas Partes” (“All the Places”).

De Luigi, who is among Italy’s most bankable talents, recently starred in “The Worse Week of My Life” and “When Mom is Away,” which was Italy’s top grossing local title during pandemic-stricken 2019. De Luigi on this film is pairing up with another top local box office draw,...

Caravaggio’s Shadow

For his 14th feature, Italy’s Michele Placido embarks on a project four years in the making with Caravaggio’s Shadow, shot during the Covid-19 pandemic across Naples, Rome, Viterbo, Ariccia, Frascati and Malta. Penned with Sandra Petraglia and Fidel Signorile, the Italian-French co-production features a stellar cast, including Riccardo Scamarcio in the lead, supported by Louis Garrel, Micaela Ramazzotti, Vinicio Marchioni, Lolita Chammah, Alessandro Haber, Moni Ovadia, Lorenzo Lavia, Brenno Placido and Isabelle Huppert. Produced by Federica Vincenti (who also produced his 2016 film 7 Minutes), the project was lensed by Michele D’Attanasio.…...

Exclusive: Principal photography has wrapped in Naples on writer-director Michele Placido’s fourteenth film as a director, Caravaggio’s Shadow (L’Ombra Di Caravaggio), about the enigmatic and genius Renaissance painter.

Today we can reveal three striking production stills from the Italian-language movie, which stars Riccardo Scamarcio (John Wick Chapter 2) as Caravaggio, Louis Garrel (Little Women) as the mysterious Shadow, Isabelle Huppert (Elle) as the Marquise Costanza Colonna, Micaela Ramazzotti (Like Crazy) as Lena and Placido in the role of Cardinal del Monte. French star Huppert will be dubbed for the film.

Veteran Italian filmmaker Placido, who also directed Scamarcio in hit 2005 crime drama Romanzo Criminale, has spent four years working and preparing for the film, which will focus on the adventurous and controversial life of the great painter from the 1600s. The movie will show the artist as a rebel without a cause, a man of huge talent but...

Giallos run hot and cold, but this one has plenty to recommend it — a serious outlook, a focus on elements other than gore, beautiful cinematography on terrific locations in Venice, and committed performances from Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi and an unusual choice, ex- 007 George Lazenby. Director Aldo Lado takes this one in a different direction than Giallo maestro Dario Argento — with a humanistic bent and a compelling performance by child actress Nicoletta Elmi. Plus a piercing music score by Ennio Morricone, sung by a children’s choir.

Who Saw Her Die?

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1972 / Color / 2:35 widescreen Techniscope / 94 min. / Chi l’ha vista morire? / Street Date September 17, 2019 / 39.95

Starring: George Lazenby, Anita Strinderg, Nicoletta Elmi, Adolfo Celi, Dominique Boschero, José Quaglio, Alessandro Haber, Rosmarie Lindt.

Cinematography: Franco Di Giacomo

Film Editor: Angelo Curi

Original Music: Ennio Morricone

Written by Francesco Barilli, Massimo D’Avak in collaboration with Aldo Lado, Ruediger Von...

Cannes — Loic Magneron’s Paris-based Wide, a production-distribution boutique, has acquired international sales rights to “Il Signor Diavalo,” the latest -and 40th – feature from Italian horror icon Papi Avati,

Avati is best known for 1976’s “The House with Laughing Windows” and 1983’s “Zeder” which crowned him as a master of Italian giallo horror-thriller cinema.

Starring Gabriel Lo Giudice and Alessandro Haber, produced by Duea Films and Rai Cinema, and framed as a tribute to horror classics from the ‘70s and ‘80s, “Il Signor Daivalo” adapts Avati’s own novel. Set in 1950s Italy, it turns on a 14-year-old boy, Carlo, who kills Emilio, a special needs ward of the local priest. “Il Signor Diavalo” asks why. It receives a Cannes Film Market screening on Sunday.

A well-known sales agent, Wide has moved into production. It is bringing two own productions onto the Cannes market: “Negative Numbers,” which receives a private market screening,...

YouTopia centres a young woman who makes money through videochat stripping shows.

Italian sales company Tvco has announced two additions to its line-up: the long-gestating Gianni Versace biopic that Billie August will direct, and Youtopia.

August was preparing to direct the film about the murdered Italian fashion icon with Antonio Banderas before the star dropped out last year. Oberon Productions and Tvco are producing and casting is underway.

“To me, as an outsider – a non-Italian – Versace seemed to capture everything I admire about Italy,” August said. “Its warmth and colour. Its culture and history. Its drama and gutsy zest for life. That ineffable ‘thing’ that is Italy seemed to be bound up in everything that was the Versace persona. But Versace is also an enigma. And enigmas make the best stories.”

Tvco is also kicking off sales on Youtopia, a drama centered on this year’s Berlinale Shooting Star Matilda De Angelis (Italian Race) that stars Donatella Finocchiaro (The Wedding...

#4. The Cardboard Village Director: Ermanno Olmi Cast: Michael Lonsdale, Rutger Hauer, Massimo De Francovich, Alessandro Haber Distributor: Rights Available Buzz: With his origins and legacy primarily dating back to the latter years of Italian Neorealism, Olmi has gone on to further iconic status via a Palme d'Or for The Tree of Wooden Clogs and his Golden Lion for The Legend of the Holy Drinker. He vowed that his 2007 film One Hundred Nails would be his final fictional feature, but lo and behold, here he is again. Playing modestly out of competition in Venice a few days prior to Tiff. The Gist: Confronting the recent surge in North African immigration that is rampant in Italy, Olmi's narrartive concerns a priest whose church-in-crisis become a shelter for illegal immigrants. Extracting great emotional power from the simplest of scenario's, this new film promises to be another strong entry in the aging maestro's personal...