Jane Birkin’s Daughter Lou Doillon Set to Star in Quirky Italian Comedy Produced by Nanni Moretti

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Investment in original content production continues to grow in Italy where resources across all genres reached a total of €1.8 billion ($1.9 billion) thanks to increased investments from U.S. streamers.

Strictly Come Dancing star Aljaz Skorjanec appeared to get emotional and told Lorraine "I want to cry" when he appeared on the ITV daytime show with his wife Janette Manrara. Janette, 39, welcomed her first child - a baby girl called Lyra Rose Skorjanec with her husband, Aljaž, 33, on 28 July, 2023.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Prominent Egyptian director Marwan Hamed, whose epic “Kira and El Gen” about local resistance to British occupation recently scored at the local box office, is being feted with a career award by the El Gouna Film Festival. The Egyptian fest, running Oct.

Selling Sunset, is set to take on a challenging new acting role, one that sees her embracing her queerness and putting it on full display.The reality superstar is set to star in the upcoming Lifetime movie, You’re Not Supposed to be Here.Stause will play Zoe, a pregnant woman who embarks on a vacation with her same-sex partner, Kennedy, who will be played by Diora Baird. The couple is offered a getaway at one of their boss’ cabin in a remote mountain town, and while that might seem like a wonderful idea, things quickly turn from bad to worse.

Woody Harrelson, Andy Serkis, and Derry Girls star Louisa Harland have signed on to star in Ulster American, a new stage production from Irish playwright David Ireland (Cyprus Avenue) and directed by Jeremy Herrin (A Mirror, Best of Enemies). 

EXCLUSIVE: In its fourth deal for films that played last month’s Toronto Film Festival, Netflix has acquired His Three Daughters for just under $7 million, sources said. Scripted, directed and edited by Azazel Jacobs, the film stars Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon. Deal lands .

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent U.S. actor Elena Kampouris (“My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3”) is set to star in the Sicily-set “Here Now,” a romantic thriller marking Italian director Gabriele Muccino‘s return to English-language filmmaking.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian star Luisa Ranieri, who played the emotionally troubled Aunt Patrizia in Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God,” has joined the cast of the Johnny Depp-directed film “Modì,” about Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. The film has started shooting in Budapest. Ranieri is starring in “Modì” alongside fellow Italian Riccardo Scamarcio, who plays the bad boy painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France and became famous for the groundbreaking modern style of his portraits and nudes.

Madonna‘s daughter Lourdes Leon played a live set at a festival in Spain last weekend – check out the footage below.The 26-year-old musician, dancer and model, who is Madonna’s eldest child, performed under her stage name Lolahol at the Brava Madrid Music Festival at IFEMA on Saturday (September 23).According to reports, the slot marked the singer’s first major performance. She led two other dancers in a song and dance routine and was backed by a DJ at the event.

The first night of Strictly Come Dancing kicks off on Saturday 23 September, but not all of the pro-dancers are feeling the heat of the competition, after they weren’t chosen to have celebrity partners. Stars Nadiya Bychkova and Neil Jones weren’t picked to dance with the celebs this year.

Marin Hinkle and Randall Sommer are splitting up after 25 years of marriage.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian multi-hyphenate Ilaria Borrelli’s Arabic-language feminist drama “The Goat” – featuring Mira Sorvino and John Savage, alongside a stellar Egyptian cast – is set for back-to-back launches at Egypt’s upcoming El Gouna Film Festival, followed by the closing film slot at the Rome Film Festival. A rare, if not unique, case of an Arab production directed by an Italian, “The Goat” stars young Egyptian TikTok star Jessica Hosam as an 11-year-old pregnant orphan named Hadya who after being forced into marriage becomes the target of a western corporation that seeks to control the only water source in her village.

This dashcam footage shows the moment a former Bolton Wanderers footballer ran from his Range Rover after a dramatic police chase.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italy’s Indiana Production – which has just become part of pan-European studio Vuelta Group – is staying true to its roots with production kicking off this month on gender swap movie “Romeo is Juliet,” directed by quality comedy specialist Giovanni Veronesi, just as the company expands its horizons. This latest title in Indiana’s slate stars A-lister Sergio Castellitto and Pilar Fogliati (“Romantiche”) who plays an actress named Vittoria who after being brutally rejected by a cynical stage director when she auditions to play Juliet in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” decides to reinvent herself as a man to audition for Romeo and gets the part.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Netflix on Tuesday unveiled four new Italian originals – two feature films and two series – that confirm its continued investment in Italy as local subscribers grow. The new projects also bolster the fact that the bulk of the streamer’s Italian productions are not high end and have a primarily local focus.

Chrishell Stause and G-Flip are enjoying married life!

STARZ keeps moving to the beat of its own eccentric drum and, today, has released the trailer for season two of its hit horror comedy, “Shining Vale,” which returns to haunt viewers’ screens on the frightfully appropriate Friday, October 13. READ MORE: Fall Film Preview: 60+ Most Anticipated Movies To Watch “Shining Vale” stars Emmy Award–nominee Courteney Cox (“Friends,” “Cougar Town”), Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Greg Kinnear (“As Good as It Gets,” “The Kennedys”), and Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino (“Hollywood,” “The Expecting”).

Holly Willoughby 'hated' former TOWIE star Pete Wicks, he has claimed, after she dished out a savage dig. Pete, 35, and his best pal, former Made in Chelsea star Sam Thompson, 31, interviewed celebrities on the red carpet at the recent National Television Awards, where they managed to snag some time with This Morning's Holly. But a savage dig directed from Holly to Pete seems to have made him think she hates her after they met a few years ago on now-defunct ITV show, Celebrity Juice.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian producer and director Ginevra Elkann, whose delicate first feature “If Only” opened the 2019 Locarno fest garnering critical praise, is at the Toronto Film Festival with her tonally different follow-up, “I Told You So.” The movie features a group made up mostly of women who are having a mental meltdown amid an unprecedented January heat wave in Rome. As the heat rises, so do the characters’ obsessions with sex, food, drugs, alcohol, and religion. The eclectic ensemble film, which was conceived by Elkann and her co-writers during the pandemic, features a star studded cast comprising Danny Huston – speaking perfect Italian on screen – as a heroin-addicted Italian-American priest.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Emmy-nominated “The White Lotus” star Sabrina Impacciatore will play the Venice Film Festival’s master of ceremonies in the upcoming second season of the Italian version of “Call My Agent,” which will also feature a cameo by Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera. Impacciatore, wearing a red gown, disembarked from a water taxi at the Excelsior Hotel pier on the Venice Lido on Saturday welcomed by Barbera, as cameras rolled for a key scene in the show.