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Turns out the hand of God is a litigious one. Diego Maradona's lawyer Matias Morla says the Argentine soccer star is exploring possible legal action over Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino's upcoming Netflix film The Hand Of God. Maradona's legal rep took to Twitter over the weekend to state that the soccer player did…

Oscar-winning Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino has been set to write and direct The Hand Of God for Netflix. The Youth and The Great Beauty filmmaker most recently helmed HBO series The New Pope and Silvio Berlusconi biopic Loro. His latest pic will be produced by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a…

Makeready has set a feature adaptation of Pulitzer Prize reporter Teresa Carpenter’s non fiction crime story Mob Girl, with Jennifer Lawrence to star as the mob wife turned police informant Arlyne Brickman, and Paolo Sorrentino to direct the film. Angelina Burnett (Halt and Catch Fire, The Americans) has written the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Venice Film Festival will reveal its lineup later this week and two anticipated TV series are expected to make their debut on the Lido: cocaine-trafficking crime-drama ZeroZeroZero and Paolo Sorrentino’s Jude Law-starrer The New Pope. We hear the festival is set to screen the first two episodes of…

Sundance Selects is taking domestic rights to Paolo Sorrentino’s comedy Loro, which skewers media tycoon and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his court. The pic will make its world premiere in the Masters Section at the Toronto Film Festival next month, with Sundance Selects eyeing a 2019 theatrical…

Nobody does electro-fueled political biopics quite like Paolo Sorrentino. The Italian filmmaker’s regular producers Indigo Film have released some slick first footage of the auteur’s new movie Loro (Them), about controversial Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi. I have confirmed with those close to the film that…

Bow down and humble yourself before Jude Law. Taking on the full weight of papal regalia as Pope Pius XIII (né Lenny Berardo) in HBO’s limited series The Young Pope, the Oscar-nominated actor delivers one of the most memorable performances of his career. In the first television series from acclaimed Italian…

Working alongside writer/director Paolo Sorrentino—one of Italy’s most revered cinematic talents, nominated six times for the Palme d’Or—for nearly 15 years, The Young Pope cinematographer Luca Bigazzi feels that their collaboration has taught him a lot, spurring the evolution of his craft by virtue of Sorrentino’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features has acquired Paolo Sorrentino's upcoming Loro for release in Italy where it will be distributed by Universal Pictures' local outpost. The Oscar-winner's event project stars The Great Beauty's Toni Servillo as Silvio Berlusconi, the media mogul and erstwhile Prime Minister. From Indigo Film…

With just a few weeks to go before the curtain rises on the 70th Cannes Film Festival, organizers have set the eight jury members who will serve under President Pedro Almodovar. Joining the Spanish filmmaker are: two-time Oscar nominee Will Smith; veteran Cannes regulars Park Chan-wook from Korea and Paolo Sorrentino…

HBO’s new Paolo Sorrentino series The Young Pope, starring Jude Law as a shrewd, ironic, pedantic, doubting, resolute, and ruthless man  – and the Catholic Church’s first American pope – is not an "imaginative, hyper-not-realistic" version of the church, as one TV critic suggested today at TCA and Sorrentino corrected…

Italy on Monday announced its candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar race, selecting timely documentary Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare). The pic by Gianfranco Rosi is a study of the island of Lampedusa, which has become a metaphor for the flight of refugees to Europe. It won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film…