Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro are offering fans the opportunity to win a walk-on role in their upcoming film "Killers of the Flower Moon" if they donate funds through the "All in Challenge," which supports DiCaprio's "America's Food Fund," "Meals on Wheels" and "No Kid Hungry." "Bob (De Niro) and I are going to be starring in a film called '...

Italy looks at new ways of sharing Italian culture with the world. Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini said his ministry is discussing the creation of an Italian online platform that gives paid access to Italian culture, describing it as "a sort of Netflix of culture", according to news agency ANSA. Franceschini said the proposed platform c...

With Cannes and Venice both up in the air due to the coronavirus pandemic, Italy’s film promotion org. Filmitalia has teamed up with festival streaming platform Festival Scope Pro to launch its annual Italian Screenings market online in July. Filmitalia, a unit of Italian national film entity Luce-Cinecittà, “is the first of Europe’s roughly 30 fil...

Attore, cantante, sceneggiatore, regista e doppiatore italiano, dopo avere esordito in varie trasmissioni radiofoniche, in riviste di varietà nei teatri, Alberto Sordi nei suoi films ha fatto conoscere l’Italia e gli Italiani nel mondo, la loro cultura, il loro carattere, la loro cucina, raccontando storie di vita quotidiana nei quartieri di belle...

During these enervating hours of isolation, where uncertainty toward the future seems to be the unwanted companion of us all, we are called to make ethical choices to protect our own and other people’s safety and health. In this regard, major crises have always turned out to be the most significant opportunities to grow by practicing the fundamenta...

A Support Fund for TV and Film during the COVID-19 Crisis, aimed at providing urgent, short-term support to workers and crews in the Italian audiovisual industry who are directly affected by the nationwide shutdown of production due to Coronavirus, has been announced by the online streaming and entertainment giant Netflix and the Italian Film Commi...

Growing up in an Italian family means that there is a very specific set of films we have on repeat through holidays. From my mother continually saying she won’t rewatch movies and yet always sitting down when The Godfather was on to my brother quoting Joe Pesci’s lines from Goodfellas, there were plenty of iconic films in our rotation. But the one...

Leonardo DiCaprio has pledged support to America's Food Fund amidst the coronavirus pandemic. The 'Once Upon A Time ... In Hollywood' star has joined forces with Apple's CEO Tim Cook and Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple's Steve Jobs, to pledge a whopping $12 million to help supply food to those who need it most. He said in a statement: "In t...

John Travolta has had his fair share of highs and lows over the last five decades in Hollywood. After toiling away in television for a few years in the early 70s, Travolta finally landed a breakout movie role in Brian De Palma's horror classic, Carrie in 1976. In the meantime, he became a household name for his role as Vinny Barbarino in the classi...

Oscar-winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores (“Mediterraneo”) is making documentary “Voyage in Italy” using material from social media and other sources chronicling life in lockdown in the country that, at present, has suffered the most deaths due to coronavirus. The veteran helmer, who in 2014 made user-generated doc “Italy in a Day” based o...