Liev Schreiber takes a smoke break on his balcony in Venice

“The Life Ahead” (in select theaters Friday, on Netflix Nov. 13).

The same Romain Gary novel that became the Oscar-winning 1977 French drama, Madame Rosa, earning a César Award for Simone Signoret in the title role, gets relocated from Paris to a Southern Italian coastal town in The Life Ahead. This sensitive contemporary remake, set in one of the hubs of the Euro-Mediterranean migrant crisis, reshapes the work as a vehicle for director Edoardo Ponti's celebrated mother, Sophia Loren, back on the screen after a 10-year absence.

“Here we go again,” Diane Warren says. The Grammy, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner has jumped on the phone to discuss “Io sì (Seen)” a beautiful ballad sung by Italian pop star Laura Pausini from Edoardo Ponti’s “The Life Ahead.” A song that also puts her right back in the middle of awards season.

Tom Cruise is known for filming most of his own stunts and he was spotted filming an intense stunt scene in the Venice Canals!

Mia Kang collapsed into the arms of a stranger after a pervert followed her through the streets of Milan.The creep, who had been pleasuring himself during the pursuit, backed off when the good Samaritan yelled at him in Italian. But the 2006 incident left Kang a wreck.“I just wanted to go home, lock the door, get in bed and stay there,” recalls the 5-foot-9 Sports Illustrated beauty in her memoir “Knockout” (Abrams Books, out Oct.

Dominic West’s promotional interviews for The Affair have come back to haunt him in the wake of a real life affair!

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsThe celebration of Columbus day has become highly-debated as more people have started to understand the Italian explorer’s unintentional discovery of America as one that exploited and led to the killings of large Native American populations.

Molly-Mae Hague was in Venice for a brief trip but received some backlash after she complained about the the "grim" food she ate while in the Italian city.