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Sports car biopic Maserati: The Brothers, which gets underway this month, has booked into Rome’s iconic Cinecittà studios. Filming will also take place in Modena and Bologna, and the production will use VR and VFX technology from Tuscany Film Studio. Michele Morrone, Anthony Hopkins, Andy Garcia and Jessica Alba are starring in the film about the b...

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Viale Francis Ford Coppola was unveiled yesterday ahead of Rome Film Festival. Francis Ford Coppola, the celebrated Italian-American director best known for The Godfather trilogy, was honoured at Rome's legendary Cinecittà film studios on Monday. Coppola, 85, received two special tributes: the naming of a street after him and the gift of the honora...

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Studio 5 at Cinecittà is firing on all cylinders. In its day, it was Federico Fellini’s favorite, in which he filmed La Dolce Vita, Amarcord and Eight and a Half. The director’s association with the studio was so strong that a funeral chapel was built on the lot for his memorial service in 1993. This summer, a filmmaker of a different nature, Rolan...

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As the Writers Guild of America (WGA) approaches its fifth month on strike, with the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) right behind it, few moments have been so significant in the history of American film and television. While the United States does have its own proud history of protest, few nat...

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Walk through the 1930s-built, dusty pink gates of Cinecittà, the legendary film studios in Rome, and the magic of its golden era is immediately palpable. This is where Charlton Heston rode to victory in his chariot race in Ben Hur, which went on to win 11 Oscars. It is where the real-life love affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton play...

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Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà announce the complete lineup for the 22nd edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, running from June 1 to 8. Open Roads: New Italian Cinema is the only screening series to offer North American audiences a diverse and extensive lineup of contemporary Italian films. This year’s edition again strikes a balance b...

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A €1.2 million ($1.27 million) Italian fund established to boost theatrical distribution of feature films around the world is set to double to more than €2 million and expand its scope to cover streaming and television. “What we would like to do is increase the distribution of Italian movies all around the world,” Roberto Stabile, head of special p...

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Visitors to the Rome Film Festival and MIA Market last month couldn’t have avoided them. They were everywhere in the eternal city: bright red billboards celebrating Cinecittà, the city’s legendary film studio. They weren’t promoting any new film or TV series shooting at the fame backlot. Instead the ads were part of a campaign, call it Cinecittà re...

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Some call it “the factory of dreams”. Federico Fellini described it as his “ideal place, the cosmic void before the Big Bang”. Through moments of glory, international fame and deep crisis, Cinecittà–the City of Italian Cinema–has shaped the perception of Italy around the world. And like many other modern cultural institutions in this country, its b...

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Beyond Los Angeles, few cities hum with the memory of cinema’s golden age as loudly as Rome. In the 1950s and ’60s, the Italian capital had more cool per capita than anywhere on the planet. Both responsible for and synonymous with the fashion, music, nightlife – and, of course – cinema of the day, Rome was at the centre of it all, with the biggest...

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