Rahel Romahn Is The 11th Heath Ledger Scholarship Recipient

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentIn spite of a disastrous box office situation, the Italian film industry is staying buoyant thanks to increased exports, a friendly rapport with streaming giants and support from the government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi that is pumping money into a revamp of Rome’s Cinecittà Studios.“Production never stopped and ailing movie theaters have been able to get subsidies,” says Francesco Rutelli, the former Rome mayor who heads Italy’s motion picture association, Anica. The org recently broadened its member base to include executives from Amazon Prime Video, Disney and ViacomCBS, after Netflix had joined.This move — which is unique in Europe — indicates the level of friendly dialogue between film producers and streaming platforms in Italy, best encapsulated by Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God,” Italy’s international Oscar nominee.

Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of Courtney Love and the late rocker Kurt Cobain, is dating Riley Hawk, the son of pro skateboarder Tony Hawk!

Women In Animation today set students Anya Butler, Laura Alejandra, Anna Dinh, Elena Fazio, Bekka Goldstein, Meghan Graham, Yulong Jones, Jennifer Nie, Nomin Ochir, Chelsea Ortega, Daphne Reynolds, Vanessa Schneider, Lou Thoby, Jennifer Wu, Kaiyun Yang, Olli Yao, Irida Zhonga and Joy Zhou as the recipients of its 2022 WIA Scholarships, with another, unnamed set of 18 coming in as Honorable Mentions.

Tom Holland hangs out with director Francesco Totti for an interview in Rome, Italy on Thursday afternoon (February 10).

Tom Holland looks so handsome while stepping out for an Uncharted photo call!

Zack Sharf The rollercoaster journey of casting the title role in George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” is documented in Kyle Buchanan’s upcoming oral history book “Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road.” An excerpt published by Vulture reveals that casting Max Rockatansky boiled down to Tom Hardy, Armie Hammer and Jeremy Renner after an exhaustive search that also included Michael Fassbender, Joel Kinnaman, Heath Ledger, Eric Bana and more.Buchanan, who is also the awards season columnist for the New York Times, reports: “Near the end of the process, Hardy emerged as a front-runner alongside Jeremy Renner and Armie Hammer. Hardy and Hammer even read together as part of their audition, and when Hardy gnashed his teeth and spat at his scene partner, Hammer told Miller that Hardy needed to be Max more than he did.” Audition cameraman Todd Matthew Grossman told Buchanan, “Jeremy and Armie were equally wonderful, but there was something about Tom in the room where it felt like that was Max, without a doubt.

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Maksim Goldenshteyn recounts a story his grandmother once told him about how, as a 4-year-old child, she snuck out of a Jewish ghetto during World War II to retrieve her favorite dolls that had been left behind when her family was forcibly evicted from their home in occupied Soviet Ukraine.“She knew, even at that age, that because she had lighter hair and blue eyes, she could pass for a local Ukrainian girl,” said Goldenshteyn. “She put on a kerchief and slipped out of the ghetto.”It's one of the stories that Seattle native Goldenshteyn tells in his book, “ So They Remember,” which recounts — with a blend of intimate family memoir and historical research — the Holocaust in Transnistria, a territory in occupied southern Ukraine that was controlled by Romania, a close ally to Nazi Germany for most of the war.In that territory, where around 150 camps and ghettos operated, there played out a lesser-known but equally sinister chapter of the Holocaust, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were brutalized, exploited, and murdered.

Netflix trailer showing its forthcoming big movies of 2022 has revealed a first look at the cast of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out 2.The clip, which you view below, sees the star studded line-up which includes Daniel Craig, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Madelyn Cline, Jessica Henwick and Ethan Hawke boarding a yacht.The streaming service has acquired the rights to the next two Knives Out films in a deal reportedly worth $450 million (£327 million).Johnson’s original 2019 film was a massive box office success, earning $311.4 million (£226 million) on a $40 million (£29 million) budget.The trailer also features the Russo brothers’ The Gray Man starring Ryan Gosling and the Jamie Foxx vampire movie Day Shift.The clip includes actors directly addressing the camera while in character.

Twitter by a former culture minister, Walter Veltroni, who said he had been asked to communicate her death by her husband, the photographer Roberto Russo.Vitti had been out of the public spotlight for years, living quietly in Rome with her husband. She reportedly suffered from dementia.In her glamour days in the 1960s, when she was best known for her starring roles in “L’Avventura,” “La Notte,” “Eclisse" ("Eclipse") and “Red Desert,” all films directed by Antonioni, her lover at that time.

The director of a new movie inspired by the death of Heath Ledger has revealed how Michelle Williams almost starred in the lead role.

Reopening old wounds. Michelle Williams‘ real-life tragedy with Heath Ledger inspired the movie Blood, but she decided she couldn’t play the leading lady in the Sundance Film Festival award winner.

Bridget Fonda), Goodwin stars as Monica who, following the death of her father and a nasty breakup, tries to land a job hosting an afternoon talk show. She hires a new assistant, Simone (Riley), and they become close friends. But after Simone moves in next door and immerses herself in Monica’s life, her creepy side starts to emerge — with tragic consequences and a revelation of her deep, dark secret.