Paolo Sorrentino and Wife Daniela D’Antonio Fete ‘The Hand of God’ with Homemade Italian Dinners at Elizabeth Taylor’s Former Home

EXCLUSIVE: Danny Trejo (Machete), Shannon Elizabeth (American Pie) and Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction) have joined the cast of Alone Today, an upcoming crime drama from director Wendy Wilkins.

Kate Aurthur editorFor Variety’s FYC Fest, screenwriters Aaron Sorkin (“Being the Ricardos”), Paolo Sorrentino (“The Hand of God”), Adam McKay (“Don’t Look Up”), Tracey Scott Wilson (“Respect”) and Kenneth Branagh (“Belfast”) gathered virtually to discuss their own individual movies, as well as the state of the film business.McKay kicked off the conversation by talking about how he’d adjusted “Don’t Look Up” — his Netflix comedy-tragedy about a comet hurtling toward Earth — because of COVID-19,

Going home has been a common theme for filmmakers over the past few years. Alfonso Cuaron revisited his childhood in Mexico City with “Roma.” Kenneth Branagh has done the same with his appropriately titled Oscar contender “Belfast.” And now, Paolo Sorrentino has given his birthplace, Naples, Italy, the same treatment in “The Hand of God,” Italy’s submission for the International Film Oscar.

With 2021 coming to a close and everyone putting their best-of lists together, the Sundance Film Festival is on the horizon giving us a wave of new movies to look forward to. The festival has released a batch of first-look images (see below) for the upcoming slate of festival entries including films such as “Resurrection,” “Honk For Jesus, Save Your Soul,” and “Call Jane.” All three projects will have their World Premiere at Sundance alongside many other feature films and documentaries.

Talking Heads frontman David Byrne before he filmed This Must Be The Place.Starring Sean Penn and Frances McDormand, the 2011 drama film follows wealthy former rock star Cheyenne who, bored in his retirement, ventures out to find a Nazi war criminal who tormented his father.The film, named after the Talking Heads song, was soundtracked by Byrne.

Arguably the greatest soccer player of all time, Pelé, was admitted to Sao Paulo’s Hospital Albert Einstein on Wednesday according to his doctors. It is the second time in the past few months the three-time World Cup winner has been admitted for treatment on a tumor in his colon.

After Paulo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” debuted at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, media and attendees were buzzing about the film’s star, newcommer Filippo Scotti. The 21-year-old actor portrays Sorrentino at a crucial moment in the filmmaker’s life and has a natural charisma that had many referring to him as the “Italian Timothée Chalamet.” Speaking partially through a translator last month, Scotti appreciates the sentiment but is hoping the world takes him on his own merits.

Bad Blood, a biopic about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.The actor will play Holmes in the forthcoming film, set to be written, directed and produced by McKay.

Jennifer Lawrence is taking on a new role!

Way back in 2016, after the success of “The Big Short,” it was reported that Adam McKay would team up with Jennifer Lawrence for a film titled “Bad Blood,” about the downfall of Theranos founder, Elizabeth Holmes. Then, like so many projects, things went silent.

Apple Studios will produce “Bad Blood,” a film from Jennifer Lawrence and Adam McKay about Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes.The “Don’t Look Up” filmmaker will write, direct and produce “Bad Blood,” and Lawrence will both produce and star as Holmes.The film will chart the story of Holmes’ Silicon Valley blood testing startup that catapulted her to being the youngest and richest self-made billionaire before claims of fraud brought everything crashing down.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaApple Original Films will back “Bad Blood,” a feature film from “The Big Short” writer and director Adam McKay that will star Jennifer Lawrence as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.

Apple Original Films has confirmed it will be the studio backing and distributing Bad Blood, the drama about the shocking rise and fall of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes that Adam McKay is writing to direct, with Jennifer Lawrence starring. The project was originally set up at Legendary after a heated auction in 2016, and it will be a coproduction between Apple Studios and Legendary. McKay’s Hyperobject Industries has a multi-year first look deal at Apple for scripted movies.

Silicon Valley starlet Elizabeth Holmes “too good to be true”? Is she guilty of the wide-ranging fraud and conspiracy charges that she faces?In 2015, Ms Holmes was the darling of the tech industry. Her start-up, Theranos, promised to upend the highly lucrative industry of blood testing in the United States.