Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis dies

Oscar-winning Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis, who brought to the big screen nearly 500 films including Serpico, Three Days of the Condor and King Kong, died in Los Angeles aged 91, Italian media said on Thursday.      

De Laurentiis produced several Italian classics in collaboration, including Federico Fellini's La Strada, for which he won an Oscar in 1957.  

He moved to the United States in the 1970s after the failure of his film studios in Rome, and turned to a string of big international productions, including a few flops.     

He was behind the legendary King Kong remake of 1976, the killer whale film Orca, several adaptations of Stephen King's novels, and most recently Hannibal, the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs.