Sky Sets Italian Prison Drama ‘The King’ With Luca Zingaretti & ‘The New Pope’ Producers

The FIA KZ World Kart Championship went down on Sunday, but instead of just racing through it and competing to win like a normal person, one driver COMPLETELY LOST HIS S**T AND ALMOST KILLED ANOTHER ONE BY THROWING A BUMPER ON THE TRACK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RACE!

speculation that Jovic could depart, with Roma, AC Milan and Inter Milan all touted for a swoop, while reports in Italy recently claimed that United were considering a loan for the 22-year-old. The same report cited former Paris Saint-Germain striker Edinson Cavani, who is now a free agent, as a possible United target.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorUK distributor Curzon has picked up well-received Italian drama Il Mio Corpo, which played as part of the ACID program at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Michele Pennetta’s docu-drama follows two young men living separate but equally tough hardscrabble lives on the margins of Sicilian society. The film is scheduled for release in the UK on 27 November In cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema.

Kaleem Aftab The San Sebastian audience became the first in the world to see all eight episodes of Luca Guadagnino’s HBO and Sky Italy’s eight-part series “We Are Who We Are.”The second episode of the series aired on HBO in America this week. The media had only received the first four episodes to review in advance.

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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEuropean pay-TV operator Sky has greenlit production of Italian prison drama “The King,” toplining Luca Zingaretti, best known as the titular character in the popular “Inspector Montalbano” series.In “The King” Zingaretti will play Buno Testori, chief of the San Michele penitentiary, where “he applies his own personal idea of justice,” according to a Sky synopsis.

Guy Lodge Film CriticAs the director of the best-dressed films in contemporary Italian cinema, it’s not surprising that Luca Guadagnino was the man approved by the Salvatore Ferragamo luxury goods brand to make a devoted documentary ode to its long-deceased founder.

Emilio Vitolo Jr. may or may have not cheated on his girlfriend Rachel Emmons when he and Katie Holmes packed on the PDA during several outings in New York last week.A source claimed that the chef and aspiring actor was already engaged to be married to the designer and founder of Anna Rachel Studio.

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Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorZachary Laoutides, Jaime Zevallos and Alexander James Rodriguez have been cast in Where Sweet Dreams Die, the Ave Fenix Pictures Studios dramatic thriller being directed by Mirza Esho. Production is now set to get underway in November in Chicago and New York with COVID-19 protocols in place.The pic follows an Italian American on the verge of losing his restaurant and wife to cancer.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticWatch “We Are Who We Are” with the volume up. There are no high speed car chases or swelling orchestras in the new HBO/Sky drama. From co-creator and director Luca Guadagnino, the series centers a wandering pack of teenagers living on an American military base in an otherwise sleepy little Italian town circa 2016.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentPaolo Taviani, of revered filmmaking duo the Taviani brothers, is back behind the camera — this time without his brother Vittorio, who died in 2018.Taviani is shooting “Leonora Addio,” a surreal drama that takes its cue from a short story by great Italian playwright and author Luigi Pirandello.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLos Angeles-based Menemsha Films has acquired North American rights from Italy’s Intramovies to Venice Critics’ Week title “Thou Shalt Not Hate,” ahead of the racial hatred-themed drama’s premiere Sunday on the Lido. The film has also been picked up for Australia and New Zealand by Moving Story Entertainment.Directed by Italian first-timer Mauro Mancini, “Thou Shalt Not Hate” (Non Odiare) stars Alessandro Gassman as Simone Segre, a renowned surgeon of

Mark David With her oldest of four daughters off at college and her deported and newly minted ex-husband out of the picture (but still trying to stay pop culturally relevant while living in Italy), “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Teresa Giudice has put her giant Towaco, N.J., mansion on the market at just under $2.5 million.This in not the first time Giudice has attempted to sell the leafy 3.75-acre suburban spread that’s about 25 miles (and at least and hour’s drive) northeast of

Italian media mogul and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has COVID-19 and a history of heart and other medical problems, was admitted early Friday to a Milan hospital, where tests found that he has the "beginnings" of pneumonia, state radio said. Earlier, one of his top aides, Sen.