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‘The Last of Us’ Breaks HBO’s SVOD Ratings Records in Europe - variety.com - Britain - France - Italy - Germany - Hong Kong - Taiwan
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14.03.2023 / 13:11

‘The Last of Us’ Breaks HBO’s SVOD Ratings Records in Europe

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent “The Last of Us” has become the most-viewed title ever on HBO’s subscription streaming service in Europe. Warner Bros. Discovery announced on Tuesday that the first season of the nine-episode apocalyptic-drama has smashed HBO’s SVOD European viewer ratings. This result comes after the season one finale set another ratings high in the U.S. on Sunday night, delivering 8.2 million viewers across HBO Max and linear telecasts, based on Nielsen and first party data. The series, which is based on the critically acclaimed video game of the same name developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation, has been a hit from the get go. “The Last of Us” is now averaging 30.4 million viewers in the U.S. across its first six episodes, according to HBO, with the first episode approaching 40 million viewers in the U.S. Outside of the U.S.. The show is now also the most-watched show ever on HBO Max in Latin America.

Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Lodge Announces Saudi, Arab, and African Film Projects Selected For Development Funding – Global Bulletin - variety.com - Saudi Arabia - Berlin
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13.03.2023 / 17:37

Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Lodge Announces Saudi, Arab, and African Film Projects Selected For Development Funding – Global Bulletin

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival has announced a dozen projects from young filmmakers from Saudi, and the wider Arab and African region, selected for its development program, the Red Sea Lodge, in collaboration with TorinoFilmLab and sponsored by the Film AlUla film commission. The Lodge is a 10-month mentorship program that has now opened up to African works along with Saudi and Arab projects. Winners will take home a portion of the total $200,000 pot in prizes that will be awarded during the fest’s 2023 edition in December.  The selected projects from Saudi Arabia are:

Locarno Film Festival Launches Contest Offering Free Restoration Service to Winning Vintage Classic - variety.com - Portugal - Switzerland - Berlin
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08.03.2023 / 16:59

Locarno Film Festival Launches Contest Offering Free Restoration Service to Winning Vintage Classic

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The Locarno Film Festival is launching a first-of-its-kind contest, offering a free complete restoration service to a selected vintage cinema classic. The contest is part of The Swiss fest’s Heritage Online program that was launched in 2021 when its Locarno Pro industry side branched out into vintage cinema creating a platform that serves as a database of film titles that premiered prior to 2005. The goal of the fest dedicated to indie cinema is to play an active role in restoring older films to their former glory and also to become a business facilitator between rights holders and classic film distributors, streaming platforms and other outlets.

'We asked Alessia to stay alive more' - Marc Skinner on Russo after Man Utd hat-trick - www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk - Manchester - city Leicester - Beyond
manchestereveningnews.co.uk
06.03.2023 / 14:15

'We asked Alessia to stay alive more' - Marc Skinner on Russo after Man Utd hat-trick

Manchester United secured their Women’s Super League top spot with a 5-1 win over Leicester City on Sunday afternoon.

Tom Cruise Shooting ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ on U.S. Aircraft Carrier Off Italian Coast - variety.com - Italy - Norway - Indiana - Rome - city Venice - Croatia
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02.03.2023 / 19:53

Tom Cruise Shooting ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ on U.S. Aircraft Carrier Off Italian Coast

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie are shooting flight scenes for “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two” on a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Adriatic Sea, which Cruise reached by helicopter from the Italian port city of Bari, where he jetted into on Saturday. Confirming Italian press reports, the head of the Apulia Film Commission Antonio Parente told Variety on Thursday that Cruise flew into Bari, which is the Apulia region’s capital city, on Saturday Feb. 25. After spending the night in Bari’s 5-star Hotel Delle Nazioni, Cruise on Sunday hopped on a private helicopter from the Bari airport to go shoot scenes for the eighth “Mission Impossible” installment on an U.S. aircraft carrier “which is probably the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, but we are not sure,” Parente said.

Italian Star Giancarlo Giannini Talks Marlon Brando, Marcello Mastroianni, James Bond Ahead of Hollywood Walk of Fame Honor - variety.com - Los Angeles - Italy
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02.03.2023 / 14:32

Italian Star Giancarlo Giannini Talks Marlon Brando, Marcello Mastroianni, James Bond Ahead of Hollywood Walk of Fame Honor

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Prior to becoming an actor, Giancarlo Giannini, who on March 6 will be getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, studied electronic engineering, a skill he’s been known to put to good use even on movie sets. “I was meant to start working on the first artificial satellites, or on the first computers at IBM,” the Italian film and theater thesp recalls. But then Giannini enrolled in acting school and soon was given major roles, first by Franco Zeffirelli and then by Lina Wertmüller, with whom he went on to make nine movies that brought them both international fame. “I owe it to Lina that I will be getting the star. The only other Italian actor who has one is Rudolph Valentino,” he notes.

Bill Murray Holds Hands With 'Fabelmans' Star Jeannie Berlin at 2023 SAG Awards - www.etonline.com - Los Angeles - Berlin - county Murray
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01.03.2023 / 03:03

Bill Murray Holds Hands With 'Fabelmans' Star Jeannie Berlin at 2023 SAG Awards

Bill Murray and star Jeannie Berlin set foot on the red carpet of the 2023 SAG Awards holding hands.Murray and Berlin appeared quite close when they arrived together for Sunday's soiree at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The star wore a black tuxedo with a colorful bow tie, while Berlin sported an all-black suit and shades.Berlin, who portrayed Hadassah Fabelman in the Steven Spielberg film, was there for the film's nomination in the Best Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture category.

Director Mira Fornay Talks Berlinale Title ‘She-Hero,’ Supporting Charities Through Filmmaking (EXCLUSIVE) - variety.com - Berlin
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24.02.2023 / 20:59

Director Mira Fornay Talks Berlinale Title ‘She-Hero,’ Supporting Charities Through Filmmaking (EXCLUSIVE)

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor To director Mira Fornay, there are no three things more important in life than trees, water and children. And with “She-Hero,” playing as part of the Generation strand at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival, the Slovakian filmmaker gathers all three in telling the story of Romy (Rozmarína Willems), a young girl who embarks on a grand forest adventure in search of her lost budgie, Mimi. Fornay, who won the Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam Tiger Award in 2013 with her sophomore feature “My Dog Killer,” did not originally set out to make a children’s film, but was fascinated by the natural charisma of Willems. “I already knew Romy and she is immensely photogenic, but I didn’t know if she could act as well. So I tried working with her back when she was six, and she was just amazing. When COVID hit, I realized I had to shoot quickly otherwise she would grow. This is why I wrote a story for her.”

Andrea Di Stefano on the Unique Career Trajectory That’s Led Him to Berlin With Gritty Thriller ‘The Last Night of Amore’ - variety.com - New York - New York - Italy - Berlin
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24.02.2023 / 19:15

Andrea Di Stefano on the Unique Career Trajectory That’s Led Him to Berlin With Gritty Thriller ‘The Last Night of Amore’

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian actor-turned-director Andrea Di Stefano, whose gritty police drama “The Last Night of Amore” is launching from the Berlin Film Festival’s Berlinale Special Gala section, reps an Italian anomaly. “Amore,” which refers to a police lieutenant named Franco Amore, oddly marks Di Stefano debut directing an Italian-language film after helming well-received U.S. indie thrillers “Escobar: Paradise Lost,” with Benicio del Toro, and “The Informer.”  Sumptuosly shot in 35mm film and set in present-day Milan, “Last Night of Amore” harks back to Italian genre films of the 70s and 80s but has a fresh contemporary feel. The plot sees the good lieutenant, played by Italian A-lister Pierfrancesco Favino (“The Traitor,” “Nostalgia”) being called on the night before retirement to investigate a crime scene where his best friend and long-time partner Dino has been killed during a diamond heist. Complications ensue, things get very frantic, and we learn how his love for his wife Viviana, played by Linda Caridi (“The Ties”) will help Amore survive the longest and most challenging night of his existence.

Berlin Doc ‘Walls of Bergamo’ Depicts Italian City When it Became Epicenter of Pandemic in Europe – Watch Clip (EXCLUSIVE) - variety.com - Italy - Berlin
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23.02.2023 / 19:51

Berlin Doc ‘Walls of Bergamo’ Depicts Italian City When it Became Epicenter of Pandemic in Europe – Watch Clip (EXCLUSIVE)

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent In the first few months of 2020, huge swathes of Northern Italy were hit by the COVID-19 virus. Soon the death toll in the city of Bergamo reached such heights that an army convoy had to transport coffins out because its cemeteries and crematoriums were full. In his powerful doc “The Walls of Bergamo,” which world premieres on Friday in Berlin’s Encounters section, prominent Italian documentary director Stefano Savona – whose “Samouni Road” won the Golden Eye prize in 2018 at Cannes – and a team of student filmmakers take the pulse of the city when it is on the brink of collapse and, subsequently, as Bergamo begins its healing and recovery process.

Roddy Doyle Death-Themed Children’s Book ‘A Greyhound of a Girl’ Gets Delicate Adaption in Enzo D’Alò’s Berlin Animation Film – Watch Clip - variety.com - Italy - Ireland - Dublin - Berlin
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23.02.2023 / 17:59

Roddy Doyle Death-Themed Children’s Book ‘A Greyhound of a Girl’ Gets Delicate Adaption in Enzo D’Alò’s Berlin Animation Film – Watch Clip

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian animation auteur Enzo D’Alò – whose globally known works include “The Blue Arrow,” “Lucky and Zorba,” “Momo” and “Opopomoz” – is back with Roddy Doyle adaptation “A Greyhound Of a Girl” launching from the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation Kplus section. “Greyhound of a Girl,” which is D’Alò’s first English-language film, is about four generations of Irish women who embark on a car journey. One of them is dead, one of them is dying, one is driving, and the fourth is twelve-year old Dublin school girl Mary O’Hara. Mary shares her grandmother’s rebel spirit and love of cooking and is bravely dealing with the fact that her granny’s days are drawing to a close.

Disney+ Series ‘The Good Mothers,’ Real Story of Women Who Dare to Defy Italian Mob, Marks U.K. Italy Collaboration - variety.com - Italy - Rome
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21.02.2023 / 14:41

Disney+ Series ‘The Good Mothers,’ Real Story of Women Who Dare to Defy Italian Mob, Marks U.K. Italy Collaboration

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent New Disney+ original series “The Good Mothers,” which provides a fresh female take on the Calabrian mob, marks a case of truly organic collaboration between the U.K. and Italy to ensure that a great story didn’t risk losing an iota of authenticity.  The show, which is competing in the “Berlinale Series” section, depicts the Calabrian mob through the prism of three daring women inside the ‘Ndrangheta organized crime clan who collaborated with a female prosecutor and withstood the consequences of their attempt to escape its iron grip. It is produced produced by Juliette Howell, Tessa Ross and Harriet Spencer for London’s House Productions, which originated the project, and by Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Rome’s Wildside, a Fremantle company, which helped to firmly root the story in its Calabrian context.

Fresh Face: ‘Disco Boy’ Director Giacomo Abbruzzese On His Long Journey To Making The Berlin Competition Cut With His First Feature - variety.com - France - Italy - Germany - Berlin - Belarus - Niger - Beyond
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19.02.2023 / 10:55

Fresh Face: ‘Disco Boy’ Director Giacomo Abbruzzese On His Long Journey To Making The Berlin Competition Cut With His First Feature

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Paris-based Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese says making the Berlin Film Festival competition cut with his first feature, “Disco Boy,” which toplines German star Franz Rogowski (“Passages,” ”Undine”), is “certainly a dream come true.” But he also points out that his remarkable debut was a long time coming.  A graduate of several film schools, including France’s prestigious Le Fresnoy, Abbruzzese started developing “Disco Boy” in 2013 following an encounter in a French disco with a classical dancer who had been a soldier.  

Life of Famous Turkish Photographer Ara Guler Set For Biopic Directed by Aren Perdeci, Ela Alyamac (EXCLUSIVE) - variety.com - Berlin - Turkey - Armenia - city Istanbul - Ottoman
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19.02.2023 / 09:59

Life of Famous Turkish Photographer Ara Guler Set For Biopic Directed by Aren Perdeci, Ela Alyamac (EXCLUSIVE)

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The life of Turkey’s most famous photographer, Ara Guler, known globally for his portraits of scores of 20th century icons ranging from Pablo Picasso to Winston Churchill, is set to become a biopic directed by writer-director duo Aren Perdeci and Ela Almayanac (“Lost Birds”). Guler worked for many years for the photo agency Magnum, after its co-founder, celebrated photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, personally signed him up. Besides documenting top 20th century personalities, Guler, who died in 2018, gained fame for his images of a bygone Istanbul, which earned him the moniker “Istanbul’s Eye.” He established a long collaboration with Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. Guler’s photographs were included in the 2003 Pamuk book “Istanbul: Memories and the City.” He also directed the 1975 doc “End of the Hero,” about a World War I battle cruiser.

Megyn Kelly: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle ‘won’t recover’ from ‘South Park’ dig - nypost.com
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18.02.2023 / 21:31

Megyn Kelly: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle ‘won’t recover’ from ‘South Park’ dig

recent “South Park” episode that mocked the exiled royals.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s decision to move across the pond in a desperate bid for privacy was mercilessly ridiculed in the show’s latest episode, titled “The Worldwide Privacy Tour.”“I feel this is a pronouncement that they have jumped the shark, they are not beloved and her hopes of running for president, reported hopes, are all but dashed,” Kelly, 52, said on “The Megyn Kelly Show” released Friday.“That’s not happening.

Kristen Stewart Joins Berlin Film Festival Red Carpet Protest Against Iranian Regime - variety.com - Ukraine - Iran - Berlin
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18.02.2023 / 20:05

Kristen Stewart Joins Berlin Film Festival Red Carpet Protest Against Iranian Regime

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The Berlinale red carpet on Saturday became a protest platform against Iran’s repressive regime when a group of Iranian filmmakers and talents, joined by jury president Kristen Stewart, chanted “Women, Life, Freedom!” and demanded the release of imprisoned journalists and an Iranian rapper. Actress Golshifteh Farahani, who is also on the jury; “Holy Spider” actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi; and “The Siren” director Sepideh Farsi were among dozens of Iranian film professionals participating in the protests hosted by Berlinale co-directors Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian. Protesters with signs demanded freedom for female Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi who are behind bars, accused of “conspiring against national security” for being the first to report on Mahsa Amini’s death, and for the release of dissident Iranian hip hop artist Toomaj Salehi who has been accused of spreading propaganda and could face the death penalty.

Massimo Troisi Trailer: Paolo Sorrentino & Michael Radford Recall ‘Il Postino’ Star In Berlinale Doc ‘Somebody Down There Likes Me’ - deadline.com - Italy - Chile - Santa Monica
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18.02.2023 / 14:37

Massimo Troisi Trailer: Paolo Sorrentino & Michael Radford Recall ‘Il Postino’ Star In Berlinale Doc ‘Somebody Down There Likes Me’

EXCLUSIVE: Italian director Mario Martone, who has enjoyed prominence on the festival awards circuit over the past year with Oscar submission and Cannes title Nostalgia, is at the Berlinale this year with his passion project Somebody Down There Likes Me.

How the Filmmakers Behind Berlin Doc ‘Kiss the Future’ Went From Siege to Screen With U2’s Help - variety.com - Berlin - county Carter - Serbia - Croatia - city Sarajevo - county Rush - Bosnia And Hzegovina
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18.02.2023 / 10:15

How the Filmmakers Behind Berlin Doc ‘Kiss the Future’ Went From Siege to Screen With U2’s Help

Brent Simon There’s no shortage of movies that gauzily peddle the notion of art as a balm. Few, however, are as invested in the charged immediacy of art’s relationship to real-life pain as “Kiss the Future,” a documentary enjoying its world premiere Feb. 19 in the Berlinale Special slot, with Fifth Season and WME handling worldwide sales. Directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain, and based on American-born aid worker Bill Carter’s “Fools Rush in: A Memoir” (the pair share a screen story credit), the film is a savvy mélange of history and cultural portraiture that affectingly chronicles the struggle of Sarajevo’s besieged civilians during the Bosnian War of the 1990s.

‘The Klezmer Project’: Watch First Trailer for Jewish Cultural Heritage Berlin Doc Filmed Partly in Ukraine (EXCLUSIVE) - variety.com - Ukraine - Argentina - Berlin - Israel
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18.02.2023 / 10:15

‘The Klezmer Project’: Watch First Trailer for Jewish Cultural Heritage Berlin Doc Filmed Partly in Ukraine (EXCLUSIVE)

Naman Ramachandran A first trailer has been unveiled for Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann’s documentary “The Klezmer Project,” which will have its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival’s Encounters strand. The documentary follows Argentinian cameraman Leandro who makes a living from filming Jewish weddings. At one of his jobs, he falls in love with Paloma, the clarinetist of the Klezmer band. To seduce her he pretends to be shooting a documentary film about traditional Yiddish folk music. What Leandro does not know is that his “fake” film project will take him on an unscripted journey throughout Eastern Europe in search of the last remaining Klezmer melodies.

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