There was a 12% increase in box office in 2007 over the preceding year, 11% of which came from Italian films. "Currently, the market share of Italian product has risen to 32%," said Ferrari. In ...

Asian cinema will be a strong presence at the Cannes Film Festival, underlying the region’s importance as a producer of auteur-driven cinema. However, an entirely different sort of Asian cinema is on ...

Everyone expects that once you've made a movie you've made it. Not so. Consider the case of director Karen Moncrieff, whose film The Dead Girl had Sean Penn gushing but only made $19,875 in its ...

Fresh on the heels of its best year at the boxoffice in nearly three decades, experts here say the prospects for improving on those results may hinge on whether or not Italians can continue to buck ...

Italian films continued their hot streak in the first quarter, with six of the territory's top 10 films produced domestically and local titles claiming more than a third of the overall boxoffice, ...

If they didn't know it before, the Hollywood suits know it now: War is hell -- on movie studios' profits. Exhibit A: After a series of 2007 box-office disappointments involving movies about America's ...