11 Films To See In January: ‘Italian Studies,’ ‘The 355’ & More

DEALSUniversal Music owned label services business Ingrooves has acquired Icelandic label and distributor Alda. For the time being, Alda will continue to operate as a standalone company, and remain led by CEO Sölvi Blönda.

Manchester United are still open to allowing Anthony Martial to leave the club on loan this month, despite failed negotiations so far with La Liga side Sevilla.

Dakota Fanning and Andrew Scott chat with the crew of their new show Ripley during a break from filming their show Ripley on Friday (January 21) in Venice, Italy.

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

Madonna knows how to wine and dine. The iconic singer had a late-night dinner with her boyfriend Ahlamalik Williams at Cecconi’s in West Hollywood, California, where they had the entire restaurant to themselves. The modern Italian dinner closes at midnight and, the 63 and 27-year-old arrive around 12:30 am.

Måneskin has been getting plenty of buzz in the rock world in recent months! Although the band hails from Italy, Americans just can’t get enough of their breakthrough singles “I Wanna Be Your Slave” and “Zitti e buoni.” Learn more about the group making their highly anticipated debut on Saturday Night Live‘s January 22 episode, hosted by Will Forte.

the Daily Mail reported.According to Italian newspapers, Malkovich was slated to stay at a deluxe suite in the lavish Hotel Danieli overlooking the Grand Canal.However, the thespian was turned down after presenting a one-week-expired Super Green Pass, — a proof of vaccination certificate that is required to access every venue in The Boot, from restaurants to museums and public transportation.Due to his failure to produce up-to-date documentation, the “Con Air” star was reportedly forced to seek private accommodations.Reps for the actor have yet to respond to The Post’s request for comment.Per the current laws, vax passes are valid in Italy for nine months since the date of the last dose – whether that is a second or third jab, local media reports. However, starting on February 1, they will only be valid for six months since the last COVID shot.Malkovich will reportedly be in Venice for around a month to film the drama series, which is based on the crime novels by Patricia Highsmith.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorVanessa Kirby didn’t go all Method for “Italian Studies,” but she didn’t need to in order for her character to seem a little out of sorts.“The Crown” actor filmed the Adam Leon-directed indie drama — she stars as Alina, a successful writer who finds herself wandering around New York City with a group of teens after she suddenly suffers severe memory loss — while doing a play in London.“Adam said, ‘I don’t want you to have a process. I want you to come as you are. If you are knackered, you come knackered,’” Kirby, who earned an Oscar nomination for her work in “Pieces of a Woman,” tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast.When she was jet-lagged, which she was many times after coming to the New York set straight from a transatlantic flight, Leon told her to lean in.

When Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino reached his milestone 50th birthday, he decided the occasion was ripe with the potential to break away from many of the enduring ways he made distinctive, much lauded projects (including Academy Award winner The Great Beauty, Youth, Il Divo, The Consequences of Love and The Young Pope) and experiment with new cinematic and storytelling techniques. And for his next film, The Hand of God, he decided to plumb the depths of his own past as well.

Clayton Davis The Oscars have announced that 276 feature films are eligible for this year’s Academy Awards, with nomination voting set to begin Thursday, Jan. 27 until Tuesday, Feb.

Final Fantasy 7’s Tifa Lockhart having sex interupted an Italian government meeting earlier this week.On Monday (January 17), the Italian senate hosted a Zoom meeting to discuss data transparency in political decision making, which was broadcast live on Facebook. According to Italian wire service ANSA, all was well for the first thirty minutes but when it came time to introduce Giorgio Parisi, one of last year’s Nobel Prize winners in physics, someone hijacked the meeting by sharing their screen while playing the unofficial Final Fantasy 7 porn.To begin with, Five Star Movement Senator, Maria Laura Mantovani continues speaking over the video, seemingly unaware of what’s happening.

star-studded ensemble for season 2 continues to grow. On Tuesday, HBO confirmed to ET that F.

Actor, producer and activist Elliot Page has boarded 2022 Berlin Film Festival title Into My Name (Nel Mio Nome), directed by Italian filmmaker Nicolò Bassetti, as an executive producer.

MILAN -- Nino Cerruti, the Italian fashion designer credited with revolutionizing menswear in the 1960s and who gave Giorgio Armani his first fashion break, has died, Italian media reported Saturday. He was 91.Cerruti died in northwestern Italy, where his family has operated a textile company since 1881, the Italian news agency LaPresse reported.

Fathom Events presents Betty White: A Celebration in 1,529 locations nationwide, a one-day-only special event on Monday honoring the actress who died Dec. 31 just a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday. The star-studded reflection on White’s life and career, which had already been set by filmmakers Steven Boettcher and Mike Trinklein to celebrate her centennial Jan. 17, will run three showtimes at 1 pm, 4 pm and 7 pm.

This shimmering wisp of a drama — in theaters and on VOD this Friday — offers a breezy pre-pandemic portrait of the city, following an author who wanders its crowded sidewalks and falls in with its young minds after inexplicably losing her memory. As hazily directed and ever so slightly written by Adam Leon (“Gimme the Loot,” “Tramps”), “Italian Studies” is less about solving the mystery of Alina’s sudden amnesia than asking how her surroundings might fill the wiped-clean slate of her identity in with vivid details (read our review here).