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Massimo Dallamano may be best known to some as the cinematographer of Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965), credited under the pseudonym Jack Dalmas. Following his collaborations with Leone, Dallamano would only serve as cinematographer twice more (his last credit being French director Michel Deville’s 1966 comedy The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen starring George Chakiris and Marina Vlady). The explosive popularity of the spaghetti western would allow Dallamano to begin his own career as a director, with 1967 debut Bandidos (credited under another pseudonym, Max Dillman), but he’d soon after turn to the bread and butter of more exploitative genre fare. The director of eleven features, up until his death in 1976, Dallamano’s enduring, fascinating masterpiece stands as the 1972 title What Have You Done to Solange? Credited as a giallo staple, Dallamano’s film is more of a hybrid of subgenres, a mixed giallo and poliziotteschi film.

Bob Hoskins dead at 71: Hoskins’ best movies included ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit,’ ‘Mona Lisa’ (photo: Bob Hoskins in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ with Jessica Rabbit, voiced by Kathleen Turner) Bob Hoskins, who died at age 71 in London yesterday, April 29, 2014, from pneumonia (initially reported as “complications of Parkinson’s disease”), was featured in nearly 70 movies over the course of his four-decade film career. Hoskins was never a major box office draw — "I don’t think I’m the sort of material movie stars are made of — I’m five-foot-six-inches and cubic. My own mum wouldn’t call me pretty." Yet, this performer with attributes similar to those of Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, and Lon Chaney had the lead in one of the biggest hits of the late ’80s. In 1988, Robert Zemeckis’ groundbreaking Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which seamlessly blended animated and live action footage, starred Hoskins as gumshoe Eddie Valiant,...

Nu Image/Millennium Films is producing "My Friend Anne Frank," a feature adaptation of Jacqueline van Maarsen's best-selling memoir.

Alberto Negrin is attached to direct the film. Van Maarsen was described as Frank's best friend Jopie in "The Diary of Anne Frank."

The author went to school with Frank and spoke with her father Otto after World War II. The film's plot will follow the young friends' separate internments in concentration camps.

An English translation of van Maarsen's Dutch memoirs, "My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank," was published by Arcadia Books last year. The producers are repping presales at Afm.

Negrin knows the terrain well. He helmed the Italian biopic "Perlasca," based on the man who posed as a Spanish official to save Hungarian Jews from the Nazis.

Castle Hill Prods. has acquired the U.S. rights to Perlasca, Alberto Negrin's drama about Giorgio Perlasca. Perlasca was an Italian businessman who passed himself off as the Spanish Consul in Budapest, Hungary, in an effort to save more than 5,000 Jews from Nazi extermination near the end of World War II. The movie is a co-production between Rai Fiction, France 2 and Focus Film.