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The 2024 Tribeca Festival, which unveiled its film slate Wednesday, is out with its television lineup of world premieres of new and returning programs from networks and streamers. The 23rd edition, which unspool June 5-16, features 11 series premieres and two first looks at returning classics. World…

Max has dropped a teaser for its 2024 lineup that includes never-before-seen footage from new HBO Originals like the limited series The Sympathizer, along with the comedy series The Franchise and the new Max Original The Penguin starring Colin Farrell (who utters, “the world ain’t built for guys like…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s a scorching 90 degrees in Rome at the end of July, but producer Lorenzo Mieli isn’t breaking a sweat. In the course of three days, he’s fully booked, first working into the night with Luca Guadagnino on the filmmaker’s new Daniel Craig movie, Queer, which wrapped shooting in June at…

The pals on My Brilliant Friend are all grown up. For the drama’s fourth and final season on HBO, Alba Rohrwacher will play Elena Greco and Irene Maiorino will take over as Lila Cerullo in the series based on "The Story Of The Lost Child," Elena Ferrante's fourth and final book of her quadrilogy…

Italian director and screenwriter Saverio Costanzo has just wrapped his upcoming film Finalemente L'Alba, starring newcomer Rebecca Antonaci alongside international cast Lily James, Joe Keery, Willem Dafoe and Rachel Sennott. Set in the golden age of Rome's historic Cinecittà in the 1950s, the…

EXCLUSIVE: Italian actress Margherita Mazzucco, best known for her starring role as Elena in HBO and Rai’s My Brilliant Friend, has signed with ICM Partners for representation. Mazzuco landed the lead role of Elena Greco in My Brilliant Friend in a school and city-wide audition when she was 16. Created by Saverio…

My Brilliant Friend is coming to an end at HBO. But not quite yet. The WarnerMedia-owned cable network and Italian public broadcaster Rai have renewed the series, which is based on Elena Ferrante's book series, for a fourth and final season. It comes as the third season, My Brilliant Friend: Those Who Leave and Those W…

HBO has picked up another season of Italian drama adaptation My Brilliant Friend. The series, which is co-produced with Italian public broadcaster Rai and Fremantle, is based on Elena Ferrante's novels. The eight-part second season, My Brilliant Friend: The Story Of A New Name, debuted in the U.S. on March 16. The…

HBO has released the first official image from the second season of My Brilliant Friend, featuring Margherita Mazzucco as Elena and Gaia Girace as Lila (see above. Based on Elena Ferrante's second book of her four-part series The Story of a New Name, the second chapter begins where the series left off at the end of…

Escape at Dannemora, On The Spectrum, My Brilliant Friend, The Good Doctor and Lethal Weapon were among the big winners of the prestigious Golden Nymphs Awards at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. Escape at Dannemora, from Showtime, Red Hour Productions, Busyhands, The White Mountain Company, Michael De Luca…

RTL Group, owner of My Brilliant Friend and American Gods producer Fremantle, has touted its "remarkable" relationship with HBO and revealed that it is in talks to supply content to Apple as it sets a revenue target of $565M by 2021. The company revealed the target after announcing its full-year financial results…

My Brilliant Friend is heading to China after digital platform iQIYI struck a deal with distributor Fremantle International. My Brilliant Friend is the tale of Elena Greco and the most important friend in her life. She met Raffaella Cerullo, whom she has always called Lila, in the first year of primary school in 1950…