Romulus
Genre	Historical, Epic
Created by	Matteo Rovere
Written by	Matteo Rovere, Filippo Gravino, Guido Iuculano
Country of origin	Italy
Original language	proto-Latin
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Production locations	Rome, Lazio
Running time	50 min
Production companies	Sky Italia, Cattleya, Groenlandia, ITV
Original release
Network	Sky Italia
Related
Romulus & Remus: The First King

On Rotten Tomatoes, the show has a 79% audience score approval rating. In January 2019, a study, then published by Italian newspaper Corriere della sera, defined the show as the most popular Italian TV series abroad taking into account the number of streams, downloads and social-network interactions.^[1]

Florence, 1429. Giovanni de' Medici is a rich banker who also represents one of the most important political forces of Florence's Signoria. He has a plan to increase his family power by making an agreement with the Church of Rome. The election of a new Pope is about to take place and Giovanni sends his sons Cosimo and Lorenzo to Rome in order to encourage the election of a Pope close to his family. In Rome, Cosimo, fascinated by the beuty of ancient architectures and art, meets Donatello and one of his models Bianca. Cosimo falls in love with her and he is then forced to leave her and marry Contessina de Bardi, a political marriage agreed by Giovanni and Contessina's father. The Medici's candidate gets elected and this ensures to the bank of the Medici an agreement that turned his family bank into an unparalleled economic power. Twenty years later, Giovanni is mysteriously murdered and Cosimo and Lorenzo try to secretly investigate about his death. Meanwhile the political situation in the government of the city is troubled by plots against the power of Medici's family and their view for the future of Florence (which will then lead to the Renaissance) is in danger. His dream is to complete the Duomo but no architect seems to have a feasible solution due to the particular shape of the base created for the dome. Finally, Filippo Brunelleschi introduced himself to Cosimo and shows him his plans for the construction of the dome. Cosimo decides to trust Brunelleschi and the construction of the dome starts, bringing jobs and people to Florence. Meanwhile, the mystery sourrounding the death of Giovanni thickens and Rinaldo Albizzi, Cosimo main opponent in the Signoria, tries to obstaculate the construction and to bring the people to rise up against the Medicis.

Twenty years have passed after the events of the first season, Piero, Cosimo's son, and his wife Lucrezia are now at the head of the family. The power of the Medici has consolidated over time, but an assassination attempt on Piero brings to light his mismanagement of the family bank. Sforza's family is the one with the greatest debt towards the bank and manage to make an agreement with Piero to erase their debts. The solution proposed by Sforza would also bring to the invasion of Florence. Lorenzo, Piero's son, in order to avoid the fall of Florence takes over the role of his father both in the governement of the Signoria and as head of the family avoiding the invasion. Although he has a relationship with a married woman, Lucrezia Donati, Lorenzo eventually accepts the marriage with a rich Roman noblewoman, Clarice Orsini. His brother Giuliano and his dear friend Sandro Botticelli, both meet ad fall in love with Simonetta, although if in different ways. Botticelli's interest is an artistic one (he made her his muse so that he painted her in many of his later works). Pazzi's family, lead by Jacopo Pazzi and his nephew Francesco, try to oppose ,As the new head of the family, he will also have in his hands the destiny of his brother Giuliano and his sister Bianca, while the friendship with Sandro Botticelli will give life to some of the greatest masterpieces of the Renaissance. His dream of a peaceful and culturally alive Florence will be put to the test by the winds of war that will oppose him to the Pope, who will lead to the Pazzi conspiracy.

Lorenzo de Medici will find himself battling with a rising discontent among the people of Florence, who find their inspiration in Savonarola.

The show’s world premiere took place in Florence at Palazzo Vecchio on the 14 October 2016, ahead of its premiere airing on RAI 1 on October 18.

Filming for the second season started in Rome on 24 August 2017.^[2]

On 28 August 2018 filming for the third season started in Formello, outside Rome.^[3]

Season		DVD releases
		Italy	United Kingdom
	Medici: Masters of Florence	March 22, 2017 (2017-03-22)	December 11, 2017 (2017-12-11)
	Medici: The Magnificent	January 24, 2019 (2019-01-24)	-

DVD title	Region 2
I Medici (Italian edition) Medici: Masters of Florence (UK edition)	23 March 2017 11 December 2017
I Medici: Lorenzo il Magnifico (Italian edition) (Medici: The Magnificent)	24 January 2019 -

The second season was also released in Blu-Ray (Region B) on the 24 January 2019. Both Italian editions have the original audio track in English and the Italian-dubbed audio track.

On the 16 October 2018, a novelisation of the events told in the second season titled I Medici - Lorenzo il Magnifico was published in Italy by Michele Gazo.

Pinocchio is an Italian film written and directed by Matteo Garrone. The film is based on The Adventures of Pinocchio, written by Italian author Carlo Collodi.

Pinocchio
Directed by	Matteo Garrone
Written by	Matteo Garrone
Based on	The Adventures of Pinocchio
Produced by	Matteo Garrone, Jeremy Thomas, Jean Labadie
Starring	Federico Ielapi Roberto Benigni Gigi Proietti Rocco Papaleo Massimo Ceccherini Marine Vacth
Edited by	Marco Spoletini
Music by	Dario Marianelli
Production companies	Archimede, Rai Cinema, Recorded Picture Company, Le Pacte
Distributed by	01 Distribution in Italy
Release date	25 December 2019
Countries	Italy, United Kingdom, France
Language	Italian

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• Federico Ielapi, as Pinocchio
• Roberto Benigni, as Mister Geppetto
• Gigi Proietti, as Mangiafuoco
• Rocco Papaleo, as the Cat
• Massimo Ceccherini, as the Fox
• Marine Vacth, as the Fairy with Turquoise Hair

Filming began on March 18, 2019^[4] for 11 weeks in Tuscany, Lazio and Apulia.^[5]

The film will be theatrically released in Italy on 25 of December 2019.

On the 29th of March 2019 the first promotional image was released.^[5] The first trailer was published online on July 3, 2019.^[6]

Production began in June 2019 and it is expected to air in 2020.

The series will focus on different characters: a dethroned prince who wants to regain power, a Vestal representing the relationship with religion and an orphan slave from a village at the edge of the empire that to save his life will eventually play an important role in the foundation of Rome.

• Andrea Arcangeli
• Marianna Fontana
• Francesco Di Napoli
• Giovanni Buselli
• Silvia Calderoni
• Sergio Romano
• Demetra Avincola
• Massimiliano Rossi
• Ivana Lotito
• Gabriel Montesi
• Vanessa Scalera

Filming began in June 2019 in Rome and its surroundings, filming will last for 28 weeks.^[1]

International distribution is handled by ITV Studios Global Entertainment.^[2]

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• Romulus on Cattleya

Eva and Rocco, husband and wife, invite their best friends to dinner: Cosimo and Bianca, Lele and Carlotta and Peppe. The hosts are living a period of crisis, a situation exasperated by Eva's conflicted relationship with her teenage daughter Sofia, who finds an outlet for all her worries and needs only with her father; the second one is a couple of newlyweds, he a taxi driver and she a veterinarian, who strongly wishes to have a child; the third is a couple married for years with two children and various problems; Peppe is instead a former divorced physical education teacher who is currently unemployed. Peppe had promised to present to his friends Lucilla, his new companion, who unfortunately could not come to dinner because of a bad fever. During dinner, friends discuss a couple who recently separated because of a betrayal discovered by his wife reading a message on her husband's cell phone. Telling this story, Eva proposes to everyone to make a game: to place their mobile phone on the table and to accept that the content of all the communications they will receive during the evening (messages and phone calls) is revealed to everyone present. After many hesitations, friends accept intrigues, but unfortunately what was supposed to be a game soon turns into a public confession of all their most intimate secrets.

It turns out that Rocco, a plastic surgeon by profession, has long been in analysis while his wife Eva, an analyst in her turn (and to whom Rocco has always said he believes the analysis was useless) knows nothing about it. Eva, on the other hand, wants to rebuild her breast, but has made sure that the intervention is performed by her husband but by a famous surgeon, Blanchard; Rocco also, after giving his daughter a box of condoms (discovered by Eva poking in Sofia's bag), Rocco gives her advice over the phone (being heard by everyone) about her first sexual experience; Bianca feels with her ex without her husband's knowledge, but only to help him face a new relationship; Cosimo, in addition to having a lover who became pregnant (who was the taxi operator of the taxi service), has a relationship with Eva (but this relationship is revealed only to the spectators, both implied that Rocco has understood it); Carlotta, unbeknownst to her husband, made contact with a nursing home to get rid of her mother-in-law, who lives in their home; both Carlotta and Lele have online relationships.

Lele, to protect himself from the inevitable arrival of an erotic photo of his lover on the cell phone, privately asks Peppe to exchange their mobile phones, as they have them the same; while avoiding that his lover is discovered, a message is soon found and the calls are destined to a certain Lucio, who, thinking of turning to Peppe, declares that he misses his kisses. Everyone therefore thinks that Lele has a homosexual extramarital affair. To this discovery the friends react very strongly, especially Cosimo, apparently sorry that Lele never revealed his alleged homosexuality even to his best friends, but in reality exposing a profound homophobia. Later, Peppe reveals the exchange of telephones and thus his own homosexuality, which is also why he lost his teaching position, and declares that he will not present Lucio to his friends as he wants to protect him from their reactions. Finally it turns out that years earlier Carlotta, while driving drunk, caused an accident in which a man died, although it was Lele who took responsibility for the murder to avoid being imprisoned by his wife and thus the ruin of their family.

At the end of the evening, it turns out that in reality the game of mobile phones never happened, following a decisive opposition from Rocco: the guests return home, after what was an ordinary dinner with friends. Everyone returns to their own lies: Peppe is excluded from a five-a-side football match with an excuse from Lele, Cosimo and Rocco and, at the request of his friends, he promises that at the next opportunity he will present them the non-existent Lucilla (in reality his companion Lucio); Cosimo, in the car with Bianca, runs through the messages of lover Marika and responds to a message from Eva, who in the meantime removes the earrings received as a gift from Cosimo himself; Carlotta put on the panties that her lover had asked her to take off and Lele secretly looked at the photo she had received from her lover.