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Disney and Pixar celebrate together with Scuderia Ferrari the upcoming release of Lightyear, from June 17th in theaters.

The Formula One Monaco Grand Prix takes place on Sunday, May 29th in Monte Carlo and for the first time Disney and Pixar’s Lightyear logo will appear on the Scuderia Ferrari cars, as well as the helmets and race suits of drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, who play a cameo role in the Italian and Spanish versions respectively of the animated feature.

The partnership with Scuderia Ferrari has been signed in the name of speed and teamwork: themes that join the famous Italian Formula 1 team and the animated feature that tells the origin story of the legendary Space Ranger.

Disney and Pixar’s new adventure and definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired the toy, “Lightyear” follows the legendary Space Ranger after he’s marooned on...

Fremantle and Sky Italia are changing the “X Factor” format for the talent show’s upcoming Italian edition. The show will find four teams of performers formed without making any distinctions around gender, age or even whether they are an individual artist or a band.

The next edition of the globally distributed show — which in Italy plays on the Comcast-owned Sky Italia paybox — will mark the first “X Factor” in the world that is “changing a historic element of its format that has always characterized the show,” Fremantle Italy CEO Gabriele Immirzi said in a statement.

He added that “today, in 2021, in agreement with Syco Entertainment, we feel this element of the format is far removed from everyday reality, especially for the generations that participate at ‘X Factor.”

“We want to see the growth of musical talents without labels or distinctions that aren’t the value and artistic quality of the projects,...

A Warner Bros. and Picomedia production, the latest film by the Italian director is based upon Edoardo Albinati’s eponymous novel which won the 2016 Strega Prize. After closing the 77th Venice Film Festival last month with Lasciami andare - having landed on Netflix just before with his remake of the French film The Players - Stefano Mordini is already back on set with his new feature film La scuola cattolica, a work based upon Edoardo Albinati’s best-selling novel of the same name (published by Rizzoli) which scooped the prestigious Premio Strega in 2016. Produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia and Picomedia (Roberto Sessa), the film boasts several big names from the world of Italian cinema, as well as a new, promising generation of young actors: Valeria Golino, Riccardo Scamarcio and Jasmine Trinca will share the stage with Benedetta Porcaroli (star of the TV series Baby) and Ludovico Tersigni (Skam Italia...