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Prime Video has unveiled has unveiled its latest slate of Italian original shows and films at a Presents event in Rome, including a remake of No Activity.

The streamer’s glitzy event revealed three new original scripted shows, two unscripted series and six movies, along with a number of returning shows. Among the scripted series is Antonia, the comedy-drama from Groenlandia and Fidelio we told you about earlier this morning in Europe.

Joining Antonia is another Groenlandia series, Niente da Segnalare, which is based on the Australian drama format No Activity.

The six-episode series follows two criminals waiting for an important shipment, two cops on stakeout ready to trigger a raid and two dispatch operators ready to send reinforcements. When the shipment doesn’t arrive, everyone is forced into an exhausting wait.

Valerio Vestoso is the director and Laura Grimaldi,...

Olivia Munn also among cast of project set to shoot in Rome; Endeavor handling sales.

UK-Italy romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Repeat has added Sam Claflin, Olivia Munn and Freida Pinto to its cast ahead of filming in May.

Dean Craig (Death At A Funeral) has written the screenplay and will direct the project, which follows a wedding where the table seating is rearranged with disastrous and humorous consequences. The film is a remake of 2012 French comedy Plan De Table.

Producers on the project are Guglielmo Marchetti (Black Butterfly) of Notorious Pictures and Piers Tempest (The Wife) of Tempo Productions. Jo Bamford...

Olivia Munn also among cast of project set to shoot in Rome; Endeavor Content handling sales.

UK-Italy romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Repeat has added Sam Claflin, Olivia Munn and Freida Pinto to its cast ahead of filming in May.

Dean Craig (Death At A Funeral) has written the screenplay and will direct the project, which follows a wedding where the table seating is rearranged with disastrous and humorous consequences. The film is a remake of 2012 French comedy Plan De Table.

Producers on the project are Guglielmo Marchetti (Black Butterfly) of Notorious Pictures and Piers Tempest (The Wife) of Tempo Productions.

MADRID -- The official competition at the eighth annual Malaga Spanish Film Festival will showcase a healthy representation of the current domestic film industry, with new films from Gerardo Herrero, Mariano Barroso, Laura Mana, Ines Paris and Daneila Fejerman, festival organizers announced Friday. Eleven films will compete for the €60,000 ($77,373) Gold Biznaga award for the official section, which opens April 22 with the political thriller Ants in the Mouth, and closes with Eros Puglielli's Glass Eyes, which screens out of competition on April 30. The festival, which runs April 22-30 in the Mediterranean resort town on Spain's southern coast, is the country's most important festival entirely dedicated to Spanish film and has attracted a following of industry heavyweights.