In the aftermath of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, with its skillful mixture of live action and animation, no one followed suit until Italian writer-directors Maurizio Nichetti and Guido Manuli with Volere ...

Familiar animated cartoon characters make us laugh and feel good, so when they try to sell us something, we're more inclined to listen. That advertising ploy dates as far back as at least World War II ...

As the eightieth anniversary of its October 2, 1928 founding approaches, Opus Dei is producing an Italian TV cartoon and mini-series on the life of its founder St. Josemaria Escriva. The cartoon is in ...

A cartoonist in Rome has sparked a heated controversy in Italy and abroad after depicting the European Union as the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as an escaping ...

Controversial French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has provoked fresh outrage with its response to last week’s devastating earthquake in central Italy. The latest edition of the edgy French ...

Russian filmmaker Natalia Chernysheva was stunned recently to learn that her award-winning 2012 short film Snowflake was screening in festivals again. But what shocked her even more is that her film ...

Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport have issued an apology after they published a cartoon depicting Mario Balotelli as King Kong. The Manchester City forward featured in the cartoon on the top of ...

Brothers who helped put Italian animation on the map honored by the Bay By Eric J. Lyman, The Associated Press ROME — With an eggshell cocked sideways on his head, freshly hatched Calimero, the ...

A SLOVAK animated cartoon, Kamene (Stones) by director Katarína Kerekesová, was the winner at the Fano International Film Festival in Italy, which has focused on short and medium-length audiovisual ...

ROME, Feb 14: Italy’s Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli has had T-shirts made emblazoned with the anti-Islam cartoons in a move that could embarrass Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government. Mr ...

Rome: The Italian town hardest hit by last month's earthquake has filed a criminal defamation complaint denouncing French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo for a cartoon depicting victims in layers of ...