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With Shefali (Mini Mathur) and Rishabh (Cyrus Sahukar) back with crazy problems and crazier solutions, ‘Mind The Malhotras Season 2’ has been garnering the attention of viewers. All the new elements of Season 2 seem to make it more relatable to people.

Talking about adding more characters and fun elements to the show, Cyrus said: “It was crazy, fun and very revealing. I mean, ‘Mind The Malhotras’ has always been a really fun experience because I’m also working with so many friends. This season, we have even more friends! We have my childhood buddy, Sameer Kochchar, Maria Goretti, and Dalip Tahil, all in very special and interesting roles.”

He further adds: “It was a lot of hard work and this season really opens up the Malhotras’ lives and their stories. I think this is the season of transitions where everything opens up. While the first season was very much about the home,...

Global SVOD Amazon Prime Video has signed up for a second season of Spanish-language psychological thriller “La Jauria.” The show is the streamer’s first local Original series from Chile, produced by Fremantle and Fabula, run by writer-director Pablo Larraín (“Jacky”) and brother Juan de Díos Larraín (“Gloria Bell”).

Starring breakout superstar Daniela Vega (“A Fantasic Woman”), “La Jauria” is showrun by award-winning filmmaker Lucia Puenzo (“Xxy”).

“For Fabula it is important to tell our stories from Chile to the rest of the world. A second season of ‘La Jauria’ is also a recognition of the talent of our actors and actresses, our technicians, writers, directors and all the professionals involved in the process,” said Angela Poblete, regional head of TV at Fabula.

Set at a private Catholic school in Santiago de Chile, “La Jauría” follows the case of a Catholic school student who stages a protest and becomes the...

Revered Italian director and screenwriter behind A Special Day has died in Rome.

Ettore Scola, the Italian director and screenwriter, has died in Rome aged 84.

During a career that lasted more than three decades and garnered a slew of festival accolades Scola will be remembered for titles including Ugly, Dirty And Bad, which won him best director at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, as well as 1987’s The Family, 1977’s Viva Italia!, and 1983’s Le Bal, all of which were nominated for Best Foreign Language film at the Oscars.

A Special Day, the 1977 Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni drama, was nominated for two Academy Awards and won three Golden Globes.

After entering the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953, Scola made his debut as a director in 1964 on Let’s Talk About Women, in which Vittorio Gassman plays different characters who seduce women.

Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi paid tribute to Scola on Twitter, saying he was...

"Ettore Scola, a leading figure in Italian cinema for more than three decades, died Tuesday at the age of 84," reports the Afp. "Scola's work included A Special Day, a 1977 Oscar-nominated movie featuring Marcello Mastroianni as a persecuted radio journalist and Sophia Loren as a sentimental housewife, meeting against a backdrop of rising fascism in 1930s Italy." Lillian Schiff: "While Scola's fascination with political attitude and social change dictated by purely personal psychology never varies, he skips the light fantastic through such specialties as historical epic (La Nuit de Varennes), the musical (Le Bal), screwball comedy (A Drama of Jealousy), domestic drama (The Family), and grand romance (Passione d'Amore)." We're collecting remembrances. » - David Hudson...

"Ettore Scola, a leading figure in Italian cinema for more than three decades, died Tuesday at the age of 84," reports the Afp. "Scola's work included A Special Day, a 1977 Oscar-nominated movie featuring Marcello Mastroianni as a persecuted radio journalist and Sophia Loren as a sentimental housewife, meeting against a backdrop of rising fascism in 1930s Italy." Lillian Schiff: "While Scola's fascination with political attitude and social change dictated by purely personal psychology never varies, he skips the light fantastic through such specialties as historical epic (La Nuit de Varennes), the musical (Le Bal), screwball comedy (A Drama of Jealousy), domestic drama (The Family), and grand romance (Passione d'Amore)." We're collecting remembrances. » - David Hudson...

Italian director to receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2013 prize at the 70th Venice Film Festival (Aug 28 - Sept 7).

The Venice Biennale has announced that Italian director Ettore Scola is to receive this year’s Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2013 prize, “dedicated to a personality who has brought major innovation to contemporary cinema”.

Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera said: “Scola has earned recognition as one of the most important authors of Italian cinema. He has contributed significantly to its greatness and to the appreciation it enjoys around the world, first as a screenwriter and then as a director.

“This prize is a way to acknowledge our debt for the many gifts he has given us over the course of a lengthy and exemplary artistic career”.

The director, aged 82, will receive the prize at an awards ceremony held on Sept 6 in the Sala Grande.

The prize has previously been awarded to Takeshi Kitano (2007), Abbas Kiarostami (2008), Agnès Varda...

Scola comes out of retirement for first film in 10 years, How Strange to be Called Federico!.

Italian director Ettore Scola has unveiled more details of his upcoming tribute to his friend and fellow filmmaker Federico Fellini, which is due for release in Italy this autumn to mark the 20th anniversary of the La Dolce Vita director’s death.

Entitled How Strange to be Called Federico!, the hybrid work combining archive footage and re-enactments of Scola’s memories of Fellini is currently in post-production.

The original Italian title - Che Strano Chiamarsi Federico! - is an allusion to a line in a poem by Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca.

“I don’t know what will come out of this. I am as curious as you are to discover it. The intentions and emotions are all there but it’s not ready yet,” Scola told a packed news conference in Rome’s Cinecittà film studios on Tuesday.

The $2.6m (€2m...

Actress Jo Champa has joined the pack of Good Boy! with Matthew Broderick, Carl Reiner, Brittany Murphy, Molly Shannon, Kevin Nealon and Liam Aiken for MGM and Jim Henson Pictures. John Hoffman is directing the project from his own script based on original material by Zeke Richardson. Good Boy! revolves around the adventures of an alien dog who comes to Earth and becomes the pet and good friend of a young boy (Aiken). Henson's Lisa Henson and Kristine Belson are producing with executive producer Stephanie Allain. At the studio, Elizabeth Cantillon and Stephanie Palmer are overseeing. Champa gained notice in Italy for her starring turn in the Academy Award-nominated film La Familia, directed by Ettore Scola, and La Vie Del Signore Sono Finite, directed by Massimo Troisi. She is repped by WMA and the Bauer Co.'s Rob Marsala.