ROME — Friday’s much-anticipated opening of Roberto Benigni’s “Pinocchio” will claim the title of widest release in Italy’s box office history, and will be the first local production projected ...

ROME — Italy has chosen two-time Oscar winner Roberto Benigni’s fairy tale “Pinocchio” as its entry for a foreign-lingo film nomination for the Academy Awards. The selection was announced Tuesday by ...

It’s a common lament among film lovers: “____ is such a great movie, so why is Hollywood remaking it?” Alas, those complaints tend to fall on deaf ears: In our age of reboots and redos, studios have ...

There’s no earthly way Carlo Collodi could have predicted his novel The Adventures of Pinocchio would become one of the world’s most popular stories when it was published in 1883. The fascinating tale ...