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Cinecittà Studios (pronounced [ˌtʃinetʃitˈta]; Italian for Cinema City) is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe , [ 1 ] and is considered the hub of Italian cinema .
Cinecittà World is a theme park located in Rome, Italy. With the creation of the sets by Dante Ferretti it is made up of 40 attractions, 6 shows staged in theaters and outdoors and 7 thematic areas developed on a total area of 300,000 m 2 .
The Italian studio complex Cinecittà, the largest film studio in Europe, [1] where the films were made. Era in Italian filmmaking Hollywood on the Tiber is a phrase used to describe the period in the 1950s and 1960s when the Italian capital of Rome emerged as a major location for international filmmaking attracting many foreign productions to ...
This became a spur for the Italian government of Benito Mussolini to invest in the construction of a new development Cinecittà, the largest studio in Europe which opened in 1937. [ 1 ] The refurbished Cines studios continued to operate until 1956, but were often rented out for the use of other companies.
Over the past century, there have been numerous films set in Rome, and the city has a particularly strong cinematic tradition. The city hosts the Cinecittà Studios, [1] the largest film and television production facility in continental Europe and the centre of the Italian cinema, where a large number of today's biggest box office hits are filmed.
C. La Cage aux Folles (film) Captain Fracasse (1940 film) Captain Phantom; The Carnival of Venice (1939 film) Carthage in Flames; Cast a Giant Shadow; Castello Cavalcanti
[2] [3] Filming is at Cinecittà Studios in Rome and will be shot entirely in a virtual production environment. The London-based Future Artists Entertainment's Matt Williams is a producer alongside Neil Jones, and Steve Griffith and Steve Jelley from Singularity Entertainment.
Large-budget films shot at Cinecittà during the "Hollywood on the Tiber" era such as Quo Vadis (1951), Roman Holiday (1953), Ben-Hur (1959), and Cleopatra (1963) were made in English with international casts and sometimes, but not always, Italian settings or themes.