Dino De Laurentiis will be buried with attendees to his funeral wearing red, instead of the customary black. The family of the late producer said in a statement that "Dino De Laurentiis did not want to be met with a sea of black at his funeral."

The public funeral service will be held Monday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles.

The Italian film producer died last Wednesday in his home in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 91.

Laurentiis is the famed producer of the Hannibal series, based on the novels by Thomas Harris. He produced the first Hannibal Lecter 1986 film Manhunter directed by Michael Man. Although he passed on producing the critically acclaimed The Silence of the Lambs, De Laurentiis produced Ridley Scott-directed Hannibal (2001) and Red Dragon (2002). In 2007, he also produced Hannibal Rising.

In 2001, Dino de Laurentiis received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which is given to "creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production" from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

His last film was 2007's Virgin Territory directed by David Leland. It is a romantic comedy based on the classic Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. He has produced an estimated 500 films to the big screen, since his first film Battle of the Bulge directed by Ken Annakin in 1965.