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Italian director Nanni Moretti has cast Louis Garrel and Jasmine Trinca in his next film, love story Succederà Questa Notte (It Will Happen Tonight), and is set to start filming this September.

The Palme d’Or winning director has adapted a book of short stories, Legami, by Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo. Moretti previously adapted a Nevo novel for his 2021 film Three Floors. He has collaborated with Federica Pontremoli and Valia Santella on the script. It marks his first feature since suffering a heart attack in April.

“We have intertwined some stories from the book to create a unique story,” said...

Recovering from his health scare back in April, Nanni Moretti is moving back into the director’s chair for Succederà questa notte (“It Will Happen Tonight”). Variety reports that production will begin sometimes this autumn with the backdrops of Spain and Italy and the good news is he managed to lasso the likes of Louis Garrel and Jasmine Trinca (who was part of 2001’s The Son’s Room and 2006’s The Caiman). Angela Finocchiaro, Elena Lietti, Antonio De Matteo, Andrea Lattanzi, Hippolyte Girardot, Pietro Ragusa, and Paolo Sassanelli are also cast. Despite his recent output – 2023’s A Brighter Tomorrow bombed as a competition film in Cannes (read review), Moretti will likely return to the Croisette and likely be aiming for a competition slot.…...

Palme d’Or-winning Italian auteur Nanni Moretti (“The Son’s Room”) is set to soon return behind camera on the romantic drama “Succederà questa notte” (“It Will Happen Tonight”), starring French star Louis Garrel and Italian A-lister Jasmine Trinca.

The 71-year-old idiosyncratic director, actor and screenwriter, who suffered a heart attack in April but rapidly recovered, is expected to shoot the film in Spain and Italy this fall. “It Will Happen Tonight” is loosely based on the short story collection “Hungry Heart” (Lev Raev) by Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Moretti adapted Nevo’s short story collection together with frequent co-screenwriters Federica Pontremoli and Valia Santella.

Moretti previously adapted Nevo’s novel “Three Floors Up” in the 2021 film “Three Floors.”

Trinca, who was on the Cannes jury in 2023, made her feature debut in Moretti’s “The Son’s Room” in 2001. This will be their first collaboration...

Palme d’Or-winning Italian director Nanni Moretti (The Son’s Room, We Have a Pope) is teaming up with French star Louis Garrel (Little Women, The Dreamers) and Italian actress Jasmine Trinca (The Gunman) for his new film, the romantic drama Succederà questa notte (It Will Happen Tonight).

The feature, loosely based on the short story collection Hungry Heart (Lev Raev) by Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo, is set to begin shooting in Spain and Italy this fall. Moretti adapted Nevo’s novel Three Floors Up as the 2021 film Three Floors.

Trinca made her feature debut in Moretti’s The Son’s Room in 2001, but this will be their first collaboration since The Caiman in 2006. The Italian actress has been splitting her time between features, including Léa Todorov’s Maria Montessori and Ildikó Enyedi’s The Story of My Wife (2021), and TV work, appearing in acclaimed Italian series La Storia and The Art of Joy...

Beta Film has struck a major deal on the Mafia series “Cold Summer” with Walter Presents for the U.S. and Canada, ahead of its linear premiere in the U.K. on Channel 4 on April 13, with the boxset also made available on its streaming service. It was sold to Sbs Australia earlier this year.

The series broke records on its home turf on Rai Italy, premiering with peak viewership hitting 4.6 million and a remarkable 23% market share, surpassing by far the channel’s median. It was nominated for two Italian Film Awards, known as the Nastri d’Argento, in the best crime series and leading actor categories.

The eight-part series, which was adapted from the novel by former anti-Mafia prosecutor Gianrico Carofiglio, is set in the early 90s in southern Italy and looks at an uneasy alliance between a small-time Mafia boss and an upright police sergeant, Pietro Fenoglio.

Fenoglio...

Two different generations clash in the new film by the director of In un posto bellissimo, which is being shot in and around Lecce; the cast includes Claudia Gerini and Lucia Sardo. The shoot for Sulla giostra (lit. “On the Merry-go-round”), the new film by Giorgia Cecere, has begun in and around Alessano (Lecce). The movie stars Claudia Gerini, Lucia Sardo and Alessio Vassallo, and features a special guest appearance by Paolo Sassanelli. The movie revolves around two fundamentally different women and a clash between two generations of ladies who, after spending years apart, find themselves thrown together again in an elegant old country house in deepest Salento. Day after day, almost without realising it, they transform this accidental encounter into the starting point for an unexpected new life. The cast and crew are spending four weeks on set to create this female-centred comedy with ironic and light-hearted overtones, about.

Main Competition

Golden Marc.Aurelio for Best Film: "Marfa Girl" by Larry Clark

Best Director Award: Paolo Franchi, "And They Call It Summer" ("E la Chiamano Estate")

Special Jury Prize: "Ali Has Blue Eyes" ("Alì ha gli occhi azzurri") by Claudio Giovannesi

Best Actor Award: Jérémie Elkaïm, "Hand in Hand" ("Main dans la main")

Best Actress Award: Isabella Ferrari, "And They Call It Summer" ("E la Chiamano Estate")

Best Emerging Actor Award: Marilyne Fontaine, "A Child With You" ("Un enfant de toi")

Best Technical Contribution: Arnau Valls Colomer, for the cinematography of "Never Die" ("Mai morire")

Best Screenplay Award: Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue for "The Motel Life"

Cinemaxxi Competition

The International Jury, chaired by Douglas Gordon and composed of Hans Hurch, Ed Lachman, Andrea Lissoni and Emily Jacir, awarded:

CinemaXXI Award (for feature-length films): "Avanti Popolo" by Michael Wahrmann

Special Jury Prize . CinemaXXI (for feature-length films): "Picas...

Looking to add a bit of spice to your DVD collection this summer? Then you'll want to enter for a chance to win one of three copies of Gabriele Albanesi's Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show we have available for a giveaway. Read on for the details!

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Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show (formerly known as In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani) was written and directed by Albanesi and stars Giuseppe Soleri as Alessio Rinaldi, Paolo Sassanelli as Ubaldo Terzani, and Laura Gigante as Sara, Alessio’s girlfriend. It co-stars Stefano Fregni, Antonino Iuorio, Francesco Mastrorilli, and Zsuzsanna Ripli. The special effects are by Italian "Wizard of Gore" Sergio Stivaletti, who also collaborated with Albanesi on The Last House in the Woods, so you can be sure there...

Alessio (Giuseppe Soleri) is a struggling filmmaker trying to get a film greenlit, but his producer wants a more experienced writer involved in developing the script. Since Alessio wants to make a horror film, his producer sends him to stay with best-selling horror writer Ubaldo Terzani (Paolo Sassanelli) for a couple of weeks to co-write the script together. Ubaldo Terzani's claim to fame is that the murders in his books are so gritty and realistic that they haunt his readers, so of course, the question is whether he is a talented writer or a killer who writes about his exploits? (Hint: He's a killer. You can tell from the moment he walks on screen.)

Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show is a highly misleading title for this movie. Horrors, aside from the terrible acting and worse writing, are in short supply. Blood and guts are gross and will get an easy rise out of an audience,...

Alessio (Giuseppe Soleri) is a struggling filmmaker trying to get a film greenlit, but his producer wants a more experienced writer involved in developing the script. Since Alessio wants to make a horror film, his producer sends him to stay with best-selling horror writer Ubaldo Terzani (Paolo Sassanelli) for a couple of weeks to co-write the script together. Ubaldo Terzani's claim to fame is that the murders in his books are so gritty and realistic that they haunt his readers, so of course, the question is whether he is a talented writer or a killer who writes about his exploits? (Hint: He's a killer. You can tell from the moment he walks on screen.)

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Time to add some spice to your evening with the first news of the home video release of Italian director Gabriele Albanesi's Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show! Stick in your fork and twirl it up!

Rarovideo announced today that the flick will be hitting DVD on January 31st. Look for more as we get closer!

Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show (formerly known as In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani) was written and directed by Albanesi and stars Giuseppe Soleri as Alessio Rinaldi, Paolo Sassanelli as Ubaldo Terzani, and Laura Gigante as Sara, Alessio’s girlfriend. It co-stars Stefano Fregni, Antonino Iuorio, Francesco Mastrorilli, and Zsuzsanna Ripli. The special effects are by Italian "Wizard of Gore" Sergio Stivaletti, who also collaborated with Albanesi on The Last House in the Woods, so you can be sure there will be no shortage of the red stuff.

For more on the film visit the official...

The latest news from the frequently talked about "Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show" from writer/director Gabriele Albanesi is that the film will premiere in the Us at the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival in San Francisco this June. The latest horror spectacular from Gabriele Albanesi is being screened on both June 5th and June 14th. The film stars Giuseppe Soleri, Paolo Sassanelli and Laura Gigante Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets…...

Folks who are attending the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival in San Francisco this June have a chance to see the Us premiere of Italian director Gabriele Albanesi's Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show as it's being screened on both June 5th and June 14th.

Synopsis:

Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani’s house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani’s bestsellers are so frightening ... Alessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild, and he will have to fight hard to escape Ubaldo Terzani’s jaws.

Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show...

We've been talking about the Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show for some time now -- through title changes, trailer debuts, and more. So we're very happy to report release info is now available, at least for our Italian readers. The rest of us have to wait just a little longer.

From the Press Release:

Minerva Pictures Group is proud to announce the official release of Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show, the long-awaited second film by Gabriele Albanesi after The Last House in the Woods, the Italian cult film that was purchased and distributed in North America by horror guru Sam Raimi.

Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show tells the story of Alessio, a young director who is writing his first film together with Ubaldo Terzani, mephistopheles and charismatic writer of horror novels, which will drag the boy into a real spiral of nightmares and madness ...

Suspended between the literary horrors of Stephen King and...

The next feature film from Italian director Gabriele Albanesi, Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show, has finally gotten itself a poster and a premiere date! Read on for the details.

The film is going to have its Italian premiere on March 19th in the Rome Independent Film Festival, and it will be released in Italy in April. No word yet on a Stateside release, but as soon as we hear something, we'll let you know.

Before we get to the poster, how about a little plot crunch: Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani’s house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares.

The next feature film from Italian director Gabriele Albanesi has changed its title from In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani to the more simple Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show, and to celebrate the identity switch, a new trailer has found its way online!

Before we get to the trailer, how about a little plot crunch: Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani’s house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani’s bestsellers are so frightening ... Alessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild, and he will have to fight hard...

Jacques Bonnavent's "The Gold Mine," the story of a spinster who meets her dream man online, scored jury three awards, including the best of the festival prize, at the Palm Springs International ShortFest & Short Film Festival.

The fest, which announced winners Sunday at the Camelot Theatre in Palm Springs, handed its future filmmaker award to Pierre Ferriere for "The Story of My Life."

The Panavision Grand Jury Award went to Jonathan van Tulleken's "Off Season." The festival, which concludes today, screened 314 short films.

Award winners that received a first-place prize in four categories are eligible for Oscar consideration.

A complete list of winners follows.

Jury Awards

Best Of Festival Award

The Gold Mine (La Mina de Oro) (Mexico), Jacques Bonnavent

Future Filmmaker Award

Pierre Ferriere, The Story of My Life (Toute ma Vie) (France)

Panavision Grand Jury Award

Off Season (Canada/USA), Jonathan van Tulleken

Jury Special Citation...

The Minerva Pictures Group has released several new behind-the-scenes images from Italian director Gabriele Albanesi's next feature length flick, In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani, and we have every blood-soaked pixel for your perusal.

In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani was written and directed by Albanesi and stars Giuseppe Soleri as Alessio Rinaldi, Paolo Sassanelli as Ubaldo Terzani, and Laura Gigante as Sara, Alessio’s girlfriend. The special effects are by Italian "Wizard of Gore" Sergio Stivaletti, who also collaborated with Albanesi on The Last House in the Woods, so you can be sure there will be no shortage of the red stuff. Check out a sampling below.

For more on the film visit the official In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani Facebook page

Synopsis

Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels.

Minerva Pictures Group is proud to present the first behind-the-scenes photos from In The Mouth Of Ubaldo Terzani, the new horror flick by the enfant terrible of Italian Cinema Gabriele Albanesi (The Last House in the Woods) that stars Giuseppe Soleri as Alessio, Paolo Sassanelli as Ubaldo Terzani and Laura Gigante as Sara. In the below photos you can see Gabriele Albanesi supervising the impressive special effects made by Sergio Stivaletti (Demons, Creepers, Cemetery Man(!)) and directing the Italian well-know lead actor Paolo Sassanelli in the role of the evil Ubaldo Terzani and the beautiful young actress Laura Gigante. "Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzanis house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them..."...

Minerva Pictures Group has passed along a handful of behind-the-scenes pics from In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani the new horror flick by Italy's Gabriele Albanesi that stars Giuseppe Soleri as Alessio, Paolo Sassanelli as Ubaldo Terzani and Laura Gigante as Sara. In these photos you can see Gabriele Albanesi supervising the impressive special effects made by Sergio Stivaletti ( Demons , Cemetery Man ) and directing Sassanelli in the role of the evil Ubaldo Terzani and the beautiful young actress Laura Gigante. Synopsis: Alessio Rinaldi, a 25 years old director, is hired by a producer to write the script for his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani's house to start this collaboration and a strange relationship of...

The Minerva Pictures Group has sent over a new still and the first official trailer for In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani, the upcoming feature film from Italian director Gabriele Albanesi (The Last House in the Woods [review here]).

Before we get to the trailer, how about a little plot crunch: Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani’s house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani’s bestsellers are so frightening ... Alessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild, and he will have to fight hard to escape Ubaldo Terzani’s jaws.

From Gabriele Albanesi, the director of The Last House in the Woods, comes his latest blood-soaked slasher, In The Mouth Of Ubaldo Terzan, which stars Giuseppe Soleri, Paolo Sassanelli, Laura Gigante. In the film Alessio Rinaldi, a 25 years old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves in Terzanis house to start this collaboration and suddenly grows between them a strange relationship of psychological dependence: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side and Alessio falls in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzanis bestsellers are so frighteningAlessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild and he will have to fight hard to get rid of Ubaldo Terzanis jaws.

Italy's Gabriele Albanesi first came to international attention thanks to his hard edged horror flick The Last House In The Woods - available on these shores via Ghost House Underground - and now the young director is back with another slice of splattery horror ...

Albanesi is just going into post-production on his latest effort, In The Mouth Of Ubaldi Terzani, and the first stills are now available.  But before getting on to those, what's this all about?

"Alessio Rinaldi, a 25 years old director, get the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves then in Terzani's house to start this collaboration and suddenly grows between them a strange relationship of psychological dependence: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani's bestsellers are so frightening.

Minerva Pictures Group is proud to announce the end of shooting for In The Mouth Of Ubaldo Terzani, the new feature film from Italian director Gabriele Albanesi (The Last House in the Woods, part of Ghost House Underground Eight Box Set) now in post-production. Here the synopsis and some exclusive stills! In The Mouth Of Ubaldo Terzani was written by Gabriele Albanesi and stars Giuseppe Soleri as Alessio, Paolo Sassanelli as Ubaldo Terzani and Laura Gigante as Sara, Alessios girlfriend. The special effects were made by Italian Wizard of Gore Sergio Stivaletti, here at his second collaboration with Albanesi after The Last House in the Woods.

Here at Dread Central we're big fans of writer/director Gabriele Albanesi's The Last House in the Woods (review here). So we were pretty stoked to receive a fresh batch of stills from his latest feature, In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani.

Minerva Pictures Group has announced the end of shooting for In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani, which is now in post-production. Here's the synopsis:

Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani’s house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani’s bestsellers are so frightening ... Alessio will discover that reality can be...