Mario Martone on Toni Servillo-Starrer ‘The King of Laughter’ and Why the Neapolitan Music Plays ‘Like in Little Italy’

Chris Pratt has been cast as Mario.Kimmel didn’t really understand what the big deal was and specifically thought it was silly that some people complained that casting Pratt was some kind of anti-Italian prejudice. So he made fun of it with an extended sketch suggesting that those people are really just suffering from daddy issues.He also gave some pretty good dating advice inspired by this whole thing.

revealed the controversial casting decision via Nintendo Direct Thursday.“We are collaborating with Chris and his experienced team to not just create a character licensed film, but a new piece of entertainment which brings Super Mario Bros. to life on the screen,” said Mario creator and representative director Shigeru Miyamoto of the Universal Pictures flick which will be based on the Mario Bros.

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary) and Oscar winner Mira Sorvino (Impeachment: American Crime Story) have joined feature biopic Lamborghini, about Italian sports car founder Ferruccio Lamborghini.

Kristen Stewart and Dylan Meyer are enjoying a day out together.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentProminent Italian thesps Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”) and Silvio Orlando, who plays Cardinal Voiello in “The Young Pope,” had never had a chance to share the screen before director Leonardo Di Costanzo cast them – respectively as a prison guard captain and an incarcerated Mafia boss – in his prison drama “The Inner Cage.”This naturalistic film is shot in an ancient rural prison on the island of Sardinia with real ex convicts and former

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Venice Film Festival is exerting a positive impact on the Italian box office where Mario Martone’s “The King of Laughter” (“Qui Rido Io”) got a boost over the weekend from its Lido launch that landed the Toni Servillo-starrer in the number two spot after Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.”Italy’s box office results this past weekend saw “King of Laughter,” in which Servillo plays Neapolitan theater luminary Eduardo Scarpetta, score

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEli Roth, who is known to have a passion for Italian B-movies, is at the Venice Film Festival to help promote biographical doc “Inferno Rosso: Joe D’Amato on the Road to Excess,” directed by Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin, in which Roth features as a talking head.The doc, which premiered on the Lido as a special screening, sheds light on Aristide Massaccesi, known as Joe D’Amato, the under-the-radar producer, director and cinematographer who

Guy Lodge Film Critic“I’ve never liked artists who have more fun offstage than onstage,” says Italian comic star Eduardo Scarpetta (played by Toni Servillo) in “The King of Laughter.” If that was indeed Scarpetta’s belief, he would have thoroughly approved of Mario Martone’s big, brash, garishly frosted celebration cake of a biopic, in which everyone involved seems to be having the very best of times, tumbling onto screen with the breathless energy of a community theater crew given a very

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentFilm Movement has acquired U.S.

Kate Hudson crouches down on the red carpet to play with director Ana Lily Amirpour‘s dog at the premiere of Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon during the 2021 Venice International Film Festival on Sunday (September 5) in Venice, Italy.

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So many stars from Young Hollywood are at the 2021 Venice Film Festival this weekend and they’re all wearing the same designer!

Ester Exposito is looking amazing at the 2021 Venice Film Festival!

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentRising Italian star Michele Riondino, who is on the Lido with Venice Days pic “I Nostri Fantasmi,” is set to play a priest sent by the Vatican to Holland to investigate a crying statue of the Virgin Mary in “The Man From Rome,” from Dutch director Jaap van Heusden (“In Blue”).This English, Dutch and Italian-language pic blending thriller and comedy elements is set to start shooting this month on location in the southern Dutch province of Limburg and in

So many stars were at the premiere of Dune at the 2021 Venice Film Festival!

Here’s a pairing that you probably didn’t expect – Jessica Chastain and Maria Sharapova!

Kristen Stewart and Dylan Meyer have arrived for the 2021 Venice Film Festival!