ROME (AFP) – Mourners are being asked to wear red at the funeral on Monday in Los Angeles of Italy-born producer Dino De Laurentiis, the man behind many art house masterpieces and Hollywood blockbusters.
"Dino would not have wanted to see a sea of black at his funeral," his family wrote in a statement on Saturday, Italian news agencies reported.
The family asked people attending the funeral "to honour his memory by wearing something red -- a colour that gave him great strength."
The Oscar-winning film producer died earlier this week in Los Angeles and the funeral will be held at Our Lady of the Angels cathedral.
Film star turned politician Arnold Schwarzenegger has paid tribute to the producer, who gave him his big break in cinema with "Conan the Barbarian".
De Laurentiis worked with some of Italy's best-known directors such as Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini before breaking into Hollywood.
He won an Oscar for Fellini's "La Strada" and was nominated 38 times.
In 2001 he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the Oscars for demonstrating "a consistently high quality of motion picture production" and in 2003 he was given a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival.
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