Newen Connect Strikes Deal With Topic For Quartet Of Thrillers From Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands & Denmark

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentNew York-based real estate entrepreneur and producer Noam Baram (“Walking to Paris”) has joined forces with Italian film exec Augusto Pelliccia to launch Valiah Entertainment, a new production company that will tap into Italy’s generous film production incentives.The new outfit, called Valiah Entertainment, has also forged a joint venture with veteran Hollywood producer Mark Lipsky (“Coming to America,” “Beverly Hills Cop III”) whose WOF Entertainment will help finance the production and handle distribution of Valiah’s multi-picture slate.The first film out of the Valiah gate will be “The Curfew,” a rom-com directed by Australia’s Nadia Tass who is known for directing Australian cult comedies such as “Malcolm,” “The Big Steal” and more recently the doc “Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story.” Shooting on “Curfew” is planned to start this fall at Valiah’s studio facilities in Rome. The film centers on an utterly unremarkable man named Raphael Di Stefano whose mediocre life suddenly gets a jolt when women begin to find him utterly irresistible.

Amazon Prime Video’s latest Italian content showcase in a scorching hot Rome has lifted the lid on a 15-strong slate of drama series, movies, docs and entertainment shows, while revealing the commentary line up for its UEFA Champions League coverage.

Jay Ellis is a married man!

Top Gun: Maverick's Jay Ellis is married! Ellis and his longtime love, Nina Senicar, tied the knot in a dreamy wedding in Italy on July 9. Held in a vineyard-lined villa in the small town of San Casciano, the couple was surrounded by friends and family as they said «I do» under the Tuscan sun, with their 2-year-old daughter, Nora, serving as their flower girl.In photos shared by , Ellis wore a Bordeaux-colored suit, while his bride was as gorgeous as ever in a strapless custom gown by Dolce & Gabbana. Guests were asked to wear earth tones for the ceremony, which took place at sunset. While the wedding was absolutely stunning, it was Senicar who stole the show, with Ellis telling the outlet that he was «in awe» of his bride when he saw her in her dress for the firs time.«There was a moment when I was standing there in front of everyone waiting for the giant wrought iron gates to open and to see Nina but the moment kept going and going.

Manchester United could reportedly look to use Donny van de Beek as a makeweight in a deal as they look to improve their midfield.

Jennifer Lopez will soon be called Jennifer Affleck for legal purposes after filing documents to legally change her last name to match her husband, Ben Affleck, following reports the couple married over the weekend in Nevada. Court documents show the 52-year-old singer, listed as "Party 2," requested a "new name" on the marriage certificate filing, which was first received on Saturday, July 16, and filed on Sunday with the Clark County Clerk's Office. Ben is listed as "Party 1" on the document, with his full name recorded as "Benjamin Geza Affleck." It's unclear if the couple hosted a wedding or have plans to return to Las Vegas for an official ceremony, but Nevada state law requires a 10-day delivery of official documents to the courthouse.

Manchester City have reportedly agreed a deal with Arsenal for Oleksandr Zinchenko.

Stranger Things” star recently told GQ about his brief fling with method acting and how far he almost dived into it.“When I was younger — it’s so embarrassing — but I remember playing that famous Scottish king,” he told the magazine. “And being like, ‘I’m gonna kill a cat’ or something: ‘I’m gonna go murder something to know what it feels like to murder.’ I didn’t actually do it, obviously.

Good afternoon Insider squad. Max Goldbart here back from Glastonbury with all the news, analysis and sunburn you need as we look back on the final week of June. Read on.

Liev Schreiber and Taylor Neisen are enjoying a summer vacation in Europe!

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorA24, the indie studio behind TV shows and movies like “Euphoria,” “Minari,” “Moonlight” and “Lady Bird,” signed a first-look deal with Pushkin Industries, Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg’s audio production company.Under the new deal, A24 has the right of first refusal to develop film and TV projects based on Pushkin’s intellectual property. The companies are already in development on “a few” projects including a documentary series based on Gladwell’s “The Bomber Mafia,” to be directed by filmmaker Morgan Neville.Pushkin Industries CEO Weisberg and president Gladwell will executive produce projects developed through the A24 pact.Pushkin Industries, founded in 2018, has produced several podcasts that have broken into the top 10 on Apple’s Top Podcasts chart, including Gladwell’s “Revisionist History,” as well as “Against the Rules,” “The Happiness Lab,” “Broken Record,” “Cautionary Tales,” “The Last Archive,” “Deep Cover,” “Lost Hills” and “A Slight Change of Plans.” Pushkin’s audiobooks include Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Netanyahus” by Joshua Cohen and Gladwell’s “Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon.” In “The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War,” Gladwell uses original interviews and archival footage tell the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard.In the years leading up to World War II, most military strategists saw the airplane as an afterthought.

WATCH: Pregnant Moana Hope takes on a troll over parent shamingAfter 24 long hours of labour, Moana took to Instagram on Sunday night to announce her son's arrival, as did her model wife Isabella Carlstrom.But the proud new mums held off on sharing their second child’s name and gender until Monday evening, when Moana shared a slew of touching photos from their first hours as parents of two.“We are proud parents of this beautiful little baby boy. His name is Ahi Joseph Carlstrom 24.6,” Moana captioned the first slide, a close up of Ahi’s sleeping face.“Coming in at almost 4kgs, we endured 24 hours of labour that was the hardest and most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my life both physically and emotionally.”Moana and wife Isabella admire their baby boy.Moana concluded: “It brought us to the most beautiful little boy.

If you thought you knew how to pronounce Tove Lo‘s name, you were probably wrong.