Rome fest to fete Richard Gere

ROME -- Richard Gere will probably be honored with the Rome Film Festival, which has also employed Michael Mann with an onstage conversation, and guaranteed sneak-look footage of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning -- Part I."Gere, who'll obtain the fest's Marcus Aurelius lifetime achievement award, holds a public discuss the very first stages of his career, undertaking a screening from the restored copy of Terrence Malick's 1978 "Occasions of Paradise," the pic in which the thesp carried out his first starring role.Previous visitors in the Rome jerk include Sean Connery, Al Pacino and Meryl Streep.New introduced photos set to unspool within the Eternal City Extravaganza are Curtis Hanson's Cinemax financial thriller telepic "Too Big to Fail," out-of-competition, and James Marsh's docu "Project Nim," inside the Extra section. A greater-profile "Twilight" event has been manufactured through the fest's Alice inside the City kiddie section while watching November 16 day-and-date release "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning -- Part I." Belgian helmer Vincent Lannoo's "Vampires of the underworld from the underworld" followup, "Little Glory" may even unspool in this section.As formerly introduced, Luc Besson's Aung San Suu Kyi biopic "The WomanInch will open the fest on March. 27, while using Gallic helmer and stars Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis along with you.The sixth edition in the Rome fest will run March. 27-November. 4. Contact Nick Vivarelli at nvivarelli@gmail.com