Matteo Garrone’s “Io Capitano” aka “The Captain” has been nominated by Italy as its candidate for Best International Film at the 96th Academy Awards ceremony slated for March 10, 2024. The nomination was made by a committee of eleven under the auspices of Attica, an Italian cinema body, which praised the film for the way it…
The the worst in cinema were celebrated Saturday with the announcement of the winners of the 43rd Annual Razzie Awards. Razzies aren’t a girl’s best friend. The film, “Blonde,” Netflix’s exploitative drama about Marilyn Monroe, is the “winner” of worst movie at the 43rd annual Golden Rasberry Awards (aka the Razzies), which honors the year’s most unpleasant performances…
The 43rd Annual Golden Raspberry Awards for the film industry’s worst clinkers have just been announced, and Marilyn Monroe and Pinocchio would not be amused to find movies about them heading the list. Also known as the Razzies, the awards are designed to point out the less-than-stellar performances by faded stars. The final “losers” are…
There are some stories that have become immortalized in time, made famous by a particular adaptation but remade numerous times nonetheless. The 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi was the inspiration for the 1940 animated film that won two Oscars, for its score and for the now-classic song “When You Wish Upon…
In the small Tuscan town of Pescia, at end of the 19th century, a writer called Carlo Collodi published the story about a marionette, in serial form for the Giornale per i bambini. This story eventually became a book: The Adventures of Pinocchio. Little did this Italian author foresee that his fairytale would become the…
Walt Disney Studios has released a full trailer for the live-action film, “Pinocchio,” directed by Robert Zemeckis, which is an adaptation of its own classic 1940 cartoon feature of the same name based on the book by Carlo Collodi. The story sees an old Italian wood carver named Geppetto who carves a wooden puppet named…
DISNEY+ DAY RETURNS ON SEPTEMBER 8 WITH NEW EXPERIENCES AND CONTENT, INCLUDING THE PREMIERE OF DISNEY’S LIVE-ACTION “PINOCCHIO,” ALL LEADING INTO D23 EXPO: THE ULTIMATE DISNEY FAN EVENT The global celebration of Disney+ Day will return on Thursday, September 8, 2022, leading into D23 Expo: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event presented by Visa in Anaheim,…
The three top people behind the beloved Oscar-winning 1994 film Forrest Gump are reteaming for the first time since that project, as reported by Variety. Actor Tom Hanks, director Robert Zemeckis, and writer Eric Roth are working on an adaptation of Richard McGuire’s 2014 graphic novel Here, which is set in one room and follows…
Academy Award winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is making his animated feature film directorial debut at Netflix with his lifelong passion project, Pinocchio, which he will write and produce as a stop motion musical. Del Toro has set his retelling of the classic tale of Pinocchio in Italy during the 1930s. This marks an expansion…
Cate Blanchett will star in A Manual for Cleaning Women, the first English-language feature by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. The film, now in the early stages of development, is based on Lucia Berlin’s 2015 short-story collection about women working in subservient jobs, such as laundresses, switchboard operators, and housecleaners. During her career, Blanchett captured two…
Academy Award-nominated actress-singer, Cynthia Erivo has been cast in the upcoming remake of the 1979 musical drama, The Rose, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The performer will be taking over the tile character of Mary Rose “The Rose” Foster from Bette Midler, who starred in the original 20th Century Fox film from 1979. The movie’s…
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