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Sylvester Stallone has always maintained a deep respect for the importance of the Rocky franchise and what it did for his own life as well as his professional trajectory. However, Stallone has recently taken to social media to express his disappointment about the ownership dispute with Rocky producer Irwin Winkler. Talking about Winkler’s son David...

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Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams tells the story of Salvatore Ferragamo’s beginnings, starring Luca Guadagnino. Unveiling how the modest Italian shoemaker rose to fame in Hollywood as a master of comfort and design, a new teaser for the documentary teases us with The picture, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020, is anticipated to debu...

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Apple TV+ has picked up a drama from Peaky Blinders‘ scribe Steven Knight that tracks the life of driver and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari. The drama, to be titled Ferrari, is being directed by Suburra’s Stefano Sollima and is being produced by Lorenzo Mieli for Fremantle’s The Apartment Pictures, in co-production with Nicola Giuliano for Indigo Film....

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Joe and Anthony Russo, a pair of Italian American brothers and filmmakers from Cleveland, Ohio, continue their meteoric ascent fueled by groundbreaking storytelling, big-budget spending and good old Hollywood stardust. The Russo Brothers, who are lifelong members of Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA), are down-to-earth directors who lean...

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MovieItaly, a streaming service aimed at Italian film lovers, has launched in North America. The subscription video-on-demand channel from Italy’s Minerva Pictures is dedicated to Italian cinema and will cost $7.99 a month, $19.99 quarterly and $67.99 for the year. “It’s a price that’s affordable for a large part of our audience. It’s not too big,...

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Fans of The Sopranos were recently hit with sad news about the death of Tony Sirico, who played Paulie Walnuts, a humorous capo in the fictional DiMeo crime family. Sirico—the third most featured actor on the critically acclaimed HBO series—passed away on July 8 at an assisted living facility. Though fans best know him for his role as Paulie, Siric...

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Swamy Rotolo was nine years old when she was cast as the 15-year-old protagonist of Jonas Carpignano’s engrossing coming-of-age thriller A Chiara. Not that she knew it at the time. In 2014, Rotolo was auditioning for the blink-and-you-miss-it role of Chiara in Carpignano’s second feature, A Ciambra; in private, though, the Italian-American director...

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Move over, Brad Pitt/George Clooney, Ryan Gosling/Emma Stone, and dare I even say Al Pacino/Robert De Niro. Make way for the unstoppable force that is the Alison Brie and Aubrey Plaza team-up. We've had the pleasure of watching both talented actors play off one another in 2017's "The Little Hours," the irreverent little comedy that put a hilariousl...

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Disney+ has commenced production on Italian original series “The Lions of Sicily,” a family saga based on Stefania Auci’s bestseller “The Florios of Sicily.” Principal photography has started in Rome and will take place between there and Sicily. It is directed by Paolo Genovese (“Superheroes”). Set between 1800 and 1861, the eight-part series follo...

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The Italian Studies program (Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) and the Film and Media Studies program (Dodge College of Film and Media Arts) joined efforts to develop a unique educational experience in Bologna, Italy, a travel course that will become a staple of both programs and Chapman University in the future. Under the...

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