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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino knows how to make a goddamn movie. That was clear to fans of his earlier works, like the sumptuous "I Am Love," more than a decade ago. It was clear to most other people about five years ago when the bold one-two punch of "Call Me By Your Name" and "Suspiria" made moviegoers sit up and pay attention. And it's more clear than ever now, with the release of the director's latest (and reportedly biggest-budgeted) effort, the endlessly thrilling Zendaya-led sports drama "Challengers." Film after film, Guadagnino manages to tap into some hidden corners of our hearts by telling stories that are evocative and colorful, musical and sensual, messy and true.

Though Guadagnino has gained more attention in recent years, the filmmaker has actually been working since the '90s and has by now made eight narrative (or meta-narrative) features, a TV show, and several documentaries and shorts.

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A great historical genius, accused of murder. Has the Leonardo TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on The CW? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Leonardo, season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?

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Airing on The CW television network, the Leonardo TV show stars Aidan Turner, Matilda de Angelis, Giancarlo Giannini, Freddie Highmore, James D’Arcy, Carlos Cuevas, Alessandro Sperduti, Robin Renucci, Flavio Parenti, Miriam Dalmazio and Antonio de Matteo. The story explores the secrets and drama behind the genius of Leonardo da Vinci (Turner) -- his life, his work, and his personal struggles set against the backdrop of...

The CW licenses the Leonardo series so it doesn't cost the network as much to air as its own original dramas. In addition, it's also already been renewed for a second season internationally. Will The CW air the new episodes of Leonardo, or cancel the series instead? Stay tuned.

A historical drama series, the Leonardo TV show stars Aidan Turner, Matilda de Angelis, Giancarlo Giannini, Freddie Highmore, James D’Arcy, Carlos Cuevas, Alessandro Sperduti, Robin Renucci, Flavio Parenti, Miriam Dalmazio and Antonio de Matteo. The story explores the secrets and drama behind the genius of Leonardo da Vinci (Turner) -- his life, his work, and his personal struggles set against the backdrop of Renaissance Italy. In the year 1506, da Vinci is accused of the murder of Caterina da Cremona (De Angelis), his friend and...

A genius' secrets are revealed in the first season of the Leonardo TV show on The CW. As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Leonardo is cancelled or renewed for season two (it's already been renewed internationally). Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the first season episodes of Leonardo here.

A historical drama series airing on The CW in the U.S., the Leonardo TV show stars Aidan Turner, Matilda de Angelis, Giancarlo Giannini, Freddie Highmore, James D’Arcy, Carlos Cuevas, Alessandro Sperduti, Robin Renucci, Flavio Parenti, Miriam Dalmazio and Antonio de Matteo. The story explores the secrets and drama behind the genius of...

Network: The CW

Episodes: Ongoing (hour)

Seasons: Ongoing

TV show dates: August 16, 2022 -- present

Series status: Has not been cancelled

Performers include: Aidan Turner, Matilda de Angelis, Giancarlo Giannini, Freddie Highmore, James D’Arcy, Carlos Cuevas, Alessandro Sperduti, Robin Renucci, Flavio Parenti, Miriam Dalmazio and Antonio de Matteo.

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A historical drama series, the Leonardo TV show was created by Frank Spotnitz and Steve Thompson.

The story explores the secrets and drama behind the genius of Leonardo da Vinci (Turner) -- his life, his work, and his personal struggles set against the backdrop of Renaissance Italy.

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It took nearly 20 years from the signing of Italy’s co-production treaty with Australia to yield a feature. But after a lengthy and sometimes fraught process, writer-director Ruth Borgobello’s 2016 drama, The Space Between became the first official film produced between the two nations. Now Borgobello’s semi-autobiographical debut is representing Australia in the Oscar Academy best foreign language-film category.

Filmed in Udine in northern Italy, the gentle love story centers on 35-year-old former chef-turned-factory worker Marco (Flavio Parenti), and Australian traveler Olivia (Maeve Dermody), who meet on the day of a life-changing tragedy for Marco. Set against the...

The Space Between.

The co-production treaty between Australia and Italy entered into force 20 years ago. However, somewhat remarkably, writer-director Ruth Borgobello.s debut feature The Space Between - which had its world premiere at the Lavazza Italian Film Festival last week -. is the first official film to result from it.

The Space Between is a cross-cultural romance set in Friuli Venezia Giulia, a region in north-east Italy. It charts the story of Marco, played by Italian actor Flavio Parenti (To Rome with Love, I am Love), a former chef who has been drawn back to his hometown of Udine to look after his father and is stuck working a dispiriting factory job.

Marco.s life is shaken early in the film by the death of someone close to him. The tragedy coincides with his meeting the intriguing Australian visitor Olivia (Maeve Dermody, Beautiful Kate, Pawno), whose life is also at a crossroads.

Odyssey

The timeless fairy tale Cinderella is given a stylish update set against the glamorous backdrop of ‘La Dolce Vita’ in an enchanting mini series, which comes to DVD courtesy of Odyssey and we have 5 copies to give away.

Basking in the glamorous world of Cinecittà, life couldn’t seem more perfect for the beautiful Aurora (Vanessa Hessler – Asterix at the Olympic Games, a gifted young pianist whose life seems full of promise as she grows up in post War Rome and falls madly in love with Sebastian, the handsome, wealthy boy next door (Flavio Parenti – To Rome With Love).

But Aurora’s life changes dramatically when her beloved father dies and her wicked stepmother Irene (Natalia Wörner – The Pillars of the Earth turns the family villa into a hotel and forces Aurora to work as a maid and lose contact with Sebastian, while swindling her out of her inheritance.

Maeve Dermody will play Olivia, a free-spirited Aussie girl living in Italy, in romantic drama The Space Between.

The debut feature from writer-director Ruth Borgobello is in pre-production and the shoot will start in northern Italy on May 7

Flavio Parenti (To Rome with Love, I am Love ) is the lead, Marco, a 35-year-old who has a dispiriting job as a factory worker in Udine despite his skill as a chef amid the deepening economic crisis in Italy.

He passes his time in an empty relationship and after his best friend Claudio is killed in a car accident he tries to keep Claudio.s struggling bookshop business alive. Then he encounters Olivia, an aspiring furniture designer who is visiting Italy, the land of her father and grandparents.

Dermody recently finished shooting Paul Currie.s romantic thriller 2.22, playing the ex-girlfriend of an air traffic controller in New York (Game of Thrones. Michiel Huisman...

Title: Maraviglioso Boccaccio Director: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Starring: Lello Arena, Paola Cortellesi, Carolina Crescentini, Flavio Parenti, Vittoria Puccini, Michele Riondino, Kim Rossi Stuart, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak, Jasmine Trinca and Josafat Vagni. The Taviani Brothers, have decided to tribute one of Italy’s greatest Renaissance humanist, Giovanni Boccaccio. The “Decameron” which has had many screen adaptations – the most memorable was by Pier Paolo Pasolini - lives again through the subtle direction of the Tuscan sibling filmmakers, who chose Giotto and Masaccio to inspire their cinematography, scenography and costume design. The book by Boccaccio is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales, told by a group of seven young [ Read More ]

The post Maraviglioso Boccaccio Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.

Writer-director Ruth Borgobello is casting her debut feature, a cross-cultural romantic drama set in northern Italy.

Remarkably, The Space Between will be the first official co-production between Italy and Australia since the two countries signed a treaty in 1996.

.We.ve worked really hard to develop this relationship and have created a very strong network here that we hope to carry into further projects,. the Melbourne-based Borgobello told If via email from Italy, where she is scouting locations.

Flavio Parenti (To Rome with Love, I am Love ) will play the lead, Marco, a 35-year-old who has a dispiriting job at a factory in Udine despite his skill as a chef, amid the deepening economic crisis in Italy.

Eschewing real love, he passes his time in an empty relationship. After his best friend Claudio is killed in a car accident, he tries to keep Claudio.s struggling bookshop business alive. Then he encounters Olivia,...

Chicago – After acknowledging that the rewards of reality are infinitely preferable to the shallow pleasures of a nostalgic dreamworld in his Oscar-winning crowd-pleaser, “Midnight in Paris,” Woody Allen’s tirelessly neurotic psyche appears to be more calm and serene than ever before. Perhaps his compulsion to make one picture a year has finally brought him some sort of therapeutic catharsis.

His eagerly anticipated follow-up, “To Rome with Love,” is an entertaining trifle that functions as little more than an absurdist travelogue, but it’s also his most relaxed, causally playful offering in many a moon. Considering the unfathomable potential of its powerhouse cast, the script’s hit-or-miss trajectory is a considerable letdown. The film wasn’t quite worth the full price of admission in theaters, but as a Friday night rental, cinephiles could do a whole lot worse. As for die-hard Allen fans (such as myself), there is plenty here to savor.

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Listing the best films of any year comes down to a matter of ordering -- Which film will I say was the absolute best? Listing the worst films of a particular year comes down to being honest with yourself -- Did I dislike it enough to call it one of the worst? However, when it comes to disappointments it's a different story. As a movie critic, maybe it's different for me. People tend to believe critics should walk into every movie without anticipation or excitement. Then, if that perception is held up, those that disagree with your opinion will either say "Yeah, but you didn't want to see it anyway!" or "You were always going to like that film." I do my best to let my opinion be known before seeing most films (running a blog of daily opinions helps). I do my best to avoid expectations (not watching trailers...

When you see those traditional Woody Allen titles of a white Windsor font on a black surface, there’s a sense of affability, a comforting familiarity amongst the audience that, at the very least, the forthcoming picture is going to worth your while, as there are few cinematic events that provoke such genuine excitement and anticipation than the latest Allen flick.

Having delved into a selection of European cities such as London, Barcelona and Paris, Allen turns his attentions to the Italian capital city of Rome, where we focus on a host of characters, engulfed in narratives surrounding the themes of romance, betrayal and the celebrity culture of the contemporary world. We follow the engagement of young couple Hayley (Alison Pill) and Michelangelo (Flavio Parenti), coping with the burden of playing host to Hayley’s parents Jerry (Allen) and Phyllis (Judy Davis).

We also delve into the life of Jack...

Woody Allen's latest European adventure is a portmanteau farce with some hits among its many misses

He's been to London, Barcelona and Paris and now Woody Allen has made another of his luxury-tourist stopovers in a European capital, shot in a honeyed sunset-light and recycling picturesque cliches around half a century old. This time it's Rome, and the original title was to be Bop Decameron, an allusion to Boccaccio's medieval multi-narrative tale that set up this ensemble movie. Allen was, however, persuaded that it was too abstruse, and I suspect the hopelessly dated reference to bebop was probably a bit baffling as well. The alternative, Nero Fiddles, was also rejected, so To Rome With Love it is.

Allen is no stranger to Italy and Italians: in Play It Again, Sam (1972), his film critic Allan comes out of the portmanteau film Le Coppie, or Couples, by De Sica and others...

Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love is set to his UK cinemas screens this Friday 14th September and we’ve got this new clip from the movie which gives a glimpse of what we can expect! Keep your eyes peeled for our review of this one and scroll down to view.

Well-known architect John (Alec Baldwin) is vacationing in Rome, where he once lived in his youth. Walking in his former neighbourhood he encounters Jack (Jesse Eisenberg), a young man not unlike himself. As he watches Jack fall head-over-heels for Monica (Ellen Page), his girlfriend Sally’s (Greta Gerwig) dazzling and flirtatious friend, John relives one of the most romantically painful episodes of his own life.

At the same moment, retired opera director Jerry (Woody Allen) flies to Rome with his wife Phyllis (Judy Davis), to meet their daughter Hayley’s (Alison Pill) Italian fiancée, Michelangelo (Flavio Parenti). Jerry...

Following something as successful as Midnight in Paris — which became both a Best Picture nominee as well as the highest-grossing picture of Woody Allen’s career — was never going to be easy. Allen struck gold in that one, finding an ideal surrogate for himself in Owen Wilson and allowing everyone, for the time being, to repress the fact that his recent output has been so erratically scattershot. Unfortunately, his latest Eurotrip, To Rome with Love, brings those memories back in a hurry, with the narrative-vignette approach ultimately revealing a desert-dry uncertainty rather than a purposeful overriding agenda.

Let’s start with the strangest and, even if it doesn’t make good on its promise, most potentially illuminating of these threads. Ellen Page — in a role that makes her slight misplacement in Inception look like a stroke of casting genius — plays Monica, who, as we’re so bullheadedly told time and time again,...

Woody Allen's To Rome with Love is great at moments, good in others and, at times, tedious. In all it's a testament to the lesson that less is more as he's loaded this thing with so many storylines, had the lesser of the bunch been excised he just might have had something to talk about as a solid follow-up to last year's hit and Best Picture nominee, Midnight in Paris.

As the film opens we're introduced to a series of characters beginning with an American tourist (Alison Pill) who falls in love with a Rome native (Flavio Parenti). The two spend a whirlwind summer together and decide to get married. Her parents (Allen and Judy Davis) fly in to meet him and his family and her father, an ex-music producer, takes an interest in his father's (Fabio Armiliato) singing voice.

Then there's John (Alec Baldwin), an architect who was...

Rome -- Woody Allen's newest movie "To Rome with Love" casts big names like Penelope Cruz, Alec Baldwin, Judy Davis and Allen himself. But there is one exceptional star: the Eternal City.

"This city is really special," says Hayley (Alison Pill) to her fiance Michelangelo (Flavio Parenti), as they stand on a terrace overlooking the Spanish Steps, one of Rome's famous attractions. "I could stand here all night, it's too beautiful."

Woody Allen's Rome is beautiful, clean and sunny, a city shining in pristine beauty with no hint of real-world problems like Italy's financial crisis. But while the movie offers an anachronistic and nostalgic postcard portrayal of Rome, Allen also goes beyond the city's best-known locations to capture the unconventional atmosphere of neighborhoods less familiar to tourists like Sant'Angelo, Garbatella and Rione Monti.

The movie, released in Italy on April 20 and in the U.S. on June 22, opens...

Last Friday I had the good fortune to attend a press day for Woody Allen's newest film, To Rome With Love. In addition to that, I attended a press conference with the great man himself in which he admitted he never watches his films after they're finished and that he considers Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters great disappointments. In fact, here's what Annie Hall, according to Allen, was supposed to be about: "Annie Hall. Let me tell you. When Annie Hall started out, it was not supposed to be what I wound up with. It was supposed to be what happens in a guy's mind and you were supposed to see a stream of consciousness in his mind. And I did the film and it was completely incoherent. Nobody understood a thing that went on. And the relationship between myself and Diane Keaton was all anyone cared about.

She’s only 26 years old, but Alison Pill has already twice done something most actors or actresses her age would punch their mothers to get a chance to do: work with Woody Allen. In the writer-director’s “To Rome With Love,” she plays Haley, an American student who takes an Italian fiance, Michelangelo (Flavio Parenti), and hosts her parents (Allen and Judy Davis) for a visit to meet him. For ShockYa, Brent Simon had a chance to talk to Pill one-on-one recently, about the movie, her continued love of theater, and her new Aaron Sorkin-scripted HBO series, “The Newsroom.” The conversation is excerpted below: ShockYa: Since “To Rome With Love” consists of four discrete [ Read More ]...

In the recent PBS "American Masters" portrait of Woody Allen by director Robert Weide, Allen describes how he has a file folder filled with hundreds of loglines for movies he has come up with over the years; after completing each film, he sorts through them, finds one that speaks to him at the time and writes it up. To that end, "To Rome With Love" feels like four minor stories that Allen found in a pile and loosely stitched together in a narrative tied to Rome. That said, Rome is beautiful, and a mouthwatering set for any director. Unfortunately, you can't build a movie on a set alone.   The plot concerns four different storylines intercut throughout the film's running time, which, at 2 hours, is probably 30 minutes too long. With so many storylines going at once, it's hard to focus on all of them for an extended period of time. Without a clear narrative thrust,...

Cate Blanchett in Joe Wright’s Hanna In the last few weeks, Cate Blanchett’s name has been mentioned in connection to Woody Allen’s next film not to be shot in Copenhagen. According to Forbes.com, Allen has indeed made offers not only to Blanchett, but also to Sally Hawkins, best known for almost getting an Academy Award nomination for her Berlin Film Festival hit Happy-Go-Lucky. The Forbes article adds that "there’s no word at all" on Bradley Cooper. The Hit and Run / The Hangover star had been rumored as another possibility for Allen’s film. Still untitled (as usual), Allen’s next will be shot in San Francisco and New York City. Allen’s latest, To Rome with Love, took in $3.7 million in Italy this past weekend, topping the box-office chart in that country. It opens in the Us on June 22. To Rome with Love features Allen himself,...

Roberto Benigni, To Rome with Love According to English-language reports, Italian critics have given a mixed reception to Woody Allen's To Rome with Love (formerly known as Nero Fiddled and Bop Decameron, and currently known as A Roma con amore in Rome itself). They've reportedly complained that writer-director Allen presents a view of Rome and Italians that is both idealized and stereotyped. At the To Rome with Love press conference held earlier today, Allen provided quite a bit of idealization ("Rome is a city unlike any other in the world…"), while one of the film's stars, Roberto Benigni, provided a defense of the filmmaker's portrayals. As an example of how real-life Italians are just like Italians in American movies, Benigni claimed that during the shoot, an ambulance whizzing by came to an abrupt halt. Its occupants got out, asked to pose for pictures with Benigni, and then rushed out...

Woody Allen's To Rome with Love (aka The Wrong Picture, aka The Bop Decameron, aka Nero Fiddled) now has a trailer as its curious path to the big screen continues. I say curious because it almost feels as if this film was shot in a matter of two days and is finally here as we frequently get so few details on Allen's films until we have a trailer, but this one seems to have been covered with regularity all throughout production. Then again, perhaps it's because Allen's Midnight in Paris enjoyed a year-long lovefest after debuting at Cannes last year to the point Allen's name never left our consciousness. Or it's because it's gone through so many title changes as evidenced above. Either way, To Rome with Love is set to hit theaters on June 22 and I fully expect it to play at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The...

I like to see what looks like some renewed excitement for a new Woody Allen feature as it seemed like interest may have been fading a bit before Midnight in Paris after You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, but it seems Woody's venture to Rome in To Rome with Love has people talking and today Sony Pictures Classics have uploaded five new pictures from the film to their newly launched Facebook page. In the pics you'll get looks at Penelope Cruz, Alex Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Jesse Eisenberg and a first look at Ellen Page's character, whom I think we can now assume is in a relationship with Eisenberg. The plot is a bit wide open and non-specific telling us this is a story about a number of people in Italy -- some American, some Italian, some residents, some visitors -- and the romances and adventures and predicaments they get into.

Woody Allen’s next film, heretofore known as ‘Nero Fiddled’, was officially re-titled yesterday and given a new name that should see it resonate better in its international territories, and so from here on out we’ll know it as ‘To Rome With Love’.

We now have the first eleven images to share with you, some images of the film itself and others including Allen on set, as well as the full cast line-up (which is excellent) and the full soundtrack details (which are just a little bit impeccable).

The romantic-comedy is made up of four vignettes, two of which revolving around American characters and two around Italian characters, with the main cast including the likes of Allen himself, Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Ellen Page, Jesse Eisenberg, Roberto Benigni, Judy Davis, Greta Gerwig, and Alison Pill.

The newly re-titled To Rome With Love will open in Italy on 20th April...

With a new geographically-specific title and a summer release just announced, Woody Allen's latest Euro-flavored venture, "To Rome With Love," is just around the corner. Looking to replicate the success of "Midnight In Paris," a career-best box office hit that won Allen his first writing Oscar since 1987 for "Hannah And Her Sisters," details of his latest film are being kept under wraps. Luckily, we now have a better look at what's to come as a host of photos from the project have been unveiled.

While there's no sign of young stars Greta Gerwig or Ellen Page amongst the pics, there's certainly no lack of star-power with our first glimpses at Penelope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Alison Pill, Judy Davis and even Allen in his first acting role since 2006's "Scoop." The images also feature Allen's army of lesser-known Italian stars including Monica Nappo, Flavio Parenti, Alessandra Mastronardi,...

Update: I've already realized I forgot to add Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly and John Hillcoat's The Wettest County to this list. That would make 27. I haven't yet gotten around to cleaning up "The Contenders" section of the site just yet and while some may argue it's too early to look toward the 2013 Oscars considering we just closed the book on the 2012 Oscar ceremony I have to kindly disagree. If for no other reason, looking at films that might be vying for Best Picture next year we get to sort through a bunch of films that may end up being considered the year's best. What's wrong with that? Granted, as is often the case when looking this far into the future, several of these films may end up being duds. Some may not actually hit theaters in 2012 (though most do have established release dates) and others just might...

Top Ten Most Anticipated Films of 2012

Today we reach the top of the list as we come to the top ten movies I'm anticipating most over the next 12 months. The group is a mixture of festival hopefuls and studio titles I'm sure many of you expected, especially considering they weren't listed on my three previous installments. Perhaps that makes this less top ten a little less exciting, but I also hope I have a few on here you did not expect and perhaps hadn't even heard of. On paper, 2012 looks like it will be an amazing year and if all goes well my top 40 is only scratching the surface. That said, on top of my top ten in this post, below and at the bottom of page two, are links to my previous three posts detailing all 40 of my most anticipated films: Most Anticipated 2012 Navigation

#1-10 | #11-20 | #21-30 | #31-40 But...

#53. Nero Fiddled Director/Writer: Woody AllenProducers: Letty Aronson, Steve Tenenbaum, Giampaulo Letta and Faruk AlatanDistributor: Sony Pictures Classics The Gist: Loosely inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, a collection of 100 bawdy novellas written in the 14th century, the film is expected to feature four vignettes, two stories involving Italian characters in Italian and two in English involving American characters in Rome...(more) Cast: Ellen Page, Woody Allen, Jesse Eisenberg, Alison Pill, Penélope Cruz, Alec Baldwin, Greta Gerwig, Roberto Benigni, Judy Davis, Ornella Muti, Riccardo Scamarcio, Carol Alt, Isabella Ferrari, Maricel Álvarez, Flavio Parenti List Worthy Reasons...: We never get tired of Woody and Woody never gets tired of making movies. These extended euro-vacation has definitely given us plenty to cheer about with Vicky Cristina Barcelona being his best so far we can hope that a bit of Penelope Cruz and a bit of everyone else (international cast plus...

Penelope Cruz was spotted filming Woody Allen's The Bop Decameron at Il Vero Aldrefo restaurant in Rome, Italy on Monday and we've got a few photos from the shoot. You can check out the photos by clicking here or on the image below! Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page, Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio and Alessandro Tiberi co-star in the dramedy. (Photo Credits: News Pictures/WENN.com & FlynetPictures)...

Woody Allen has released the full cast list for his latest film set in Rome called "Bop Decameron."According to Variety, Allen will also act in the film, his first appearance since 2006's "Scoop."The rest of the cast includes Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Penelope Cruz, Alec Baldwin, Judy Davis, Greta Gerwig, Roberto Benigni and Alison Pill.Riccardo Scamarcio, Isabella Ferrari, Sergio Rubini, Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti and Alessandro Tiberi also star. The film will be set in present-day Rome but is inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's "The Decameron," a classic medieval collection of 100 crude novellas written in the 1350s.There will be four separate, non-intersecting vignettes with two involving American characters and two involving Italian characters.Shooting begins...

Just because he.s going on 76 this year doesn.t mean that Woody Allen is ready to slow down just yet. The famous writer/ director has assembled yet another top-notch ensemble for his latest film project, currently entitled »The Bop Decameron«. The full cast, which was announced yesterday, includes Alec Baldwin (»30 Rock«), Roberto Benigni (»Life is Beautiful«), Penélope Cruz (»Vicky Cristina Barcelona«), Judy Davis (»Husbands and Wives«), Jesse Eisenberg (»The Social Network«), Greta Gerwig (»Greenberg«) and Ellen Page (»Juno«). Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alessandro Tiberi as well as a slate of other Italian actors are set to co-star. It has also been confirmed that the director himself will return to the screen after last appearing in his own 2006 film »Scoop«. While details about the project are largely being kept under wraps, Allen mentioned the following at a press conference at...

Just because he.s going on 76 this year doesn.t mean that Woody Allen is ready to slow down just yet. The famous writer/ director has assembled yet another top-notch ensemble for his latest film project, currently entitled »The Bop Decameron«. The full cast, which was announced yesterday, includes Alec Baldwin (»30 Rock«), Roberto Benigni (»Life is Beautiful«), Penélope Cruz (»Vicky Cristina Barcelona«), Judy Davis (»Husbands and Wives«), Jesse Eisenberg (»The Social Network«), Greta Gerwig (»Greenberg«) and Ellen Page (»Juno«). Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alessandro Tiberi as well as a slate of other Italian actors are set to co-star. It has also been confirmed that the director himself will return to the screen after last appearing in his own 2006 film »Scoop«. While details about the project are largely being kept under wraps, Allen mentioned the following at a press conference at...

With his latest film, Midnight in Paris, coming out of Cannes with a healthy critical buzz the prolific filmmaker is already in pre-production for his next stop on his European jaunt with a stop in Rome for The Bop Decameron and today the latest iteration of the famous Allen Ensemble cast was revealed.

Some of the actors on the list were already rumoured to have signed up, and Allen himself confirmed Judy Davis, a frequenter co-star of Allen’s who last appeared for Allen in his 1998 film Celebrity, was set to star but the full list has some choice surprises.

Here’s the full cast, culled from Deadline, to whom we owe thanks.

Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. Co-stars include Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio and Alessandro Tiberi

Yes.

The first of many (seven to be exact) dwarves has been cast in "Snow White and the Huntsman."

Ian McShane, late of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" and HBO's "Deadwood," has come on board Universal's "Snow White" adaptation as the film's lead dwarf, THR reports. He joins a cast that includes Kristen Stewart as Snow White, Chris Hemsworth as the titular huntsman, and Charlize Theron as the fairytale spin-offs evil stepmother.

"Snow White and the Huntsman" is set to start production in August with a June 2012 release date.

Get the rest of today's casting call past the jump!

Woody Allen Fleshes Out "The Bop Decameron"

With "Midnight in Paris" out in theaters, Woody Allen is underway getting his next film through pre-production. Called "The Bop Decameron," the flick stars Allen, Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, Penelope Cruz, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page and Judy Davis, and costars Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata,...

Woody Allen is faring pretty well these days after a good showing from Midnight in Paris. His next film was rumored to be starring some young and hip faces in that of Jesse Eisenberg and Ellen Page. There is now confirmation on those castings and that of Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, and Greta Gerwig. At the time of the last casting news, the film didn’t even have a name yet. The title will be The Bop Decameron.

We don’t know much about the film except that it’s a comedy and it could potentially be some reference to a collection of 100 stories by Giovanni Boccaccio. [Thanks to /Film]

Check out the press release below. What do you think of the cast?

Woody Allen announced today the full cast for “The Bop Decameron,” his latest film in pre-production. Starring, in alphabetical order, are: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni,...

And another Woody Allen film keeps on coming. With theaters just releasing his latest film “Midnight in Paris” which stars Rachael McAdams, Allen is getting ready to work on his new film, “The Bop Decameron”. Already in pre-production, the film will star..and this is a huge cast of stars so deep breath… Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. Co-stars include Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio and Alessandro Tiberi. Phew! The Bop Decameron begins production on July 11 in Rome.

After he made "Midnight in Paris", Woody Allen is ready to shoot his 2012 film "The Bop Decameron". On June 20, Allen announces through a press release the full cast members, some of whom have been reported joining the project. The surprising part is Allen himself will star opposite Penelope Cruz in the dramedy flick.

In addition to Allen and Cruz, "The Bop Decameron" will star Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. Other co-stars are the likes of Antonio Albanese, Alessandra Mastronardi, Fabio Armiliata, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio and Alessandro Tiberi.

Production of "The Bop Decameron" will be kicked off on July 11. Apart from the fact that the film will be Allen's first movie which will be shot in Rome and financed by Italian production Gravier Productions, there is no more detail about the pic.

Woody Allen's projects are always chock-full of in-demand actors and his latest is no exception.

On Monday, Allen released the full cast for his next project, 'The Bop Decameron.' It's a doozy. Starring in alphabetical order are: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. Co-stars include Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio and Alessandro Tiberi.

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We’ve had a few drip feed pieces of information about Woody Allen’s latest film, Rome-set The Bop Decameron. But now the writer/director has come out and made the formal casting announcement, including the fact that he will be featured in the movie.This first proper casting list, picked up by Variety, features a few new names among those already linked to the film, with Greta Gerwig and Alison Pill among the newcomers.So the list in full, then: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penelope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page, with co-stars Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio and Alessandro Tiberi.Given that this is the Woodster we’re talking about, the plot is still largely under wraps, though what little has been reported features four vignettes. Two of them revolve around American characters, with...

Here's the official alphabetical listing of Woody Allen's Bop Decameron (which took a cue from Movieline when adding Ellen Page a couple months ago): Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. The minor cast includes Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio and Alessandro Tiberi. Is this the post-2000 Woody Allen cast of everyone's dreams?...

Today Woody Allen (via comingsoon.net) has announced the full cast for The Bop Decameron, which is currently in pre-production.

Starring, in alphabetical order, are: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. Co-stars include Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio and Alessandro Tiberi.

The Bop Decameron is a Gravier Productions film produced by Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum. This is Allen’s first film to be financed by the Italian production and distribution company, Medusa Film.

The Bop Decameron begins production on July 11 and marks Allen’s first time shooting in Rome. His latest film, Midnight in Paris, is currently playing in theaters.

Coming off Midnight in Paris, his biggest financial success in decades, Woody Allen is ready to shoot his 2012 film. It's called The Bop Decameron and he's just finalized the very impressive cast, many of which we were already aware of [1]. The most exciting news is the confirmation [2] that Allen himself will return to the screen after a few films off (his last one was 2006's Scoop). He'll star along with Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. It'll start filming in Rome next month. No word on the plot, as Allen likes to keep those under wraps, but we try and decipher the title and announce more cast members after the jump. Here's the press release: Woody Allen announced today the full cast for “The Bop Decameron,” his latest film in pre-production. Starring, in alphabetical order, are: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni,...

While I have a great appreciation and respect for Woody Allen‘s earlier work, I had stopped paying attention to what he was crafting next after a string of disappointments and half-baked projects. That’s just changed for me, however, as I was lucky enough to see Midnight in Paris on Saturday. Thanks to this viewing, I am now firmly back on his side. If you haven’t checked it out yet, please do so — it’s easily one of his best movies in several years (even if that doesn’t sound like much).

Due to this re-energized love for the man’s work, his next film – the Rome-set The Bob Decameron - has shown up on my radar. Once referred to as The Wrong Picture, this is his first movie to be set in Rome; considering his recent obsession with European cities, it’s kind of surprising it took...

Woody Allen announced today the full cast for “The Bop Decameron,” his latest film in pre-production. Starring, in alphabetical order, are: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. Co-stars include Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio and Alessandro Tiberi.

“The Bop Decameron” is a Gravier Productions film produced by Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum. This is Allen’s first film to be financed by the Italian production and distribution company, Medusa Film. “The Bop Decameron” begins production on July 11 and marks Allen’s first time shooting in Rome. His latest film, “Midnight in Paris,” is currently playing in theaters.

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Easily one of the hardest working filmmakers in the business has to be Woody Allen. Fresh off the release of his romantic comedy "Midnight in Paris," the filmmaker wastes no time putting together yet another production of his. Today he announces his entire cast for the upcoming film "The Bop Decameron." There's no word on what the story is about at the moment.Woody Allen announced today the full cast for “The Bop Decameron,” his latest film in pre-production. Starring, in alphabetical order, are: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. Co-stars include Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio and Alessandro Tiberi.“The Bop Decameron” is a Gravier Productions film produced by Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum. This is Allen ' s first film to be financed by the Italian production and distribution company,...

Woody Allen's projects are always chock-full of in-demand actors and his latest is no exception. Today Allen released the full cast for his next project, "The Bop Decameron." It's a doozy. Starring in alphabetical order are: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. Co-stars include Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti, Alison Pill, Riccardo Scamarcio and ...