Paolo Sorrentino on Maradona, Fellini, and Getting Personal in ‘The Hand of God’

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Former Bachelorette star Ali Fedotowsky, who now goes by Ali Manno, had a big scare on Wednesday when her daughter Molly was hospitalized with dehydration.The reality television star, 37, spent the night in the hospital with her little one, aged five, and detailed the experience on her Instagram.She posted a photo of Molly laid in a hospital bed with an IV in her arm and a huge cast around her right hand. Very sick:Former Bachelorette Ali Manno's daughter was hospitalized with dehydration on Wednesday She wrote a rather large caption detailing the experience which read, 'Molly and I are spending the night at the Children’s Hospital tonight.

Emily Ratajkowski was spotted walking home with her sonSylvester Apollo Bear after grabbing lunch at Odeon in New York City on Thursday.The model, 30, braved the chilly weather in an oversize black puffer jacket, a matching black hat, and a pair of tight-fitting leggings that showed off her toned legs.The brunette beauty — who shares Sly, one, with film producer husband Sebastian Bear-McClard — pushed her baby boy in a grey, black, and yellow stroller. Stroll: Emily Ratajkowski was spotted walking home with her son Sylvester after grabbing lunch at Odeon in New York City on ThursdayThe Gone Girl actress paired her casual look with slim black sunglasses and black and white Vans.

Austin Butler is reportedly in talks to appear in the upcoming sequel to Dune. According to a Thursday article fromThe Hollywood Reporter, the 30-year-old star is in negotiations to playFeyd-Rautha, who was previously portrayed by Sting in a 1984 film.The media outlet also reported that several other performers are currently being courted for roles in the forthcoming sequel On screen: Austin Butler is currently in talks to appear in the upcoming sequel to Dune.The news about the 30-year-old performer was revealed by The Hollywood Reporter, who announced that he is in negotiations to play Feyd-Rautha, who was previously portrayed by StingFlorence Pugh is in talks to portrayPrincess Irulan in the sequel to Denis Villeneuve's epic feature, which was released last year.Although the news about the actress was reported earlier this month, her role in the film has not been confirmed as of yet.

They're never too far from each other's sides and have even built side-by-side mega mansions from the ground up to be neighbors in their exclusive Hidden Hills community in Southern California.And Khloe Kardashian made sure to bring her momager, Kris Jenner, along for the ride as they visited a farm on Thursday in the Fillmore area just 30 minutes north of their Los Angeles-area homes.The 37-year-old reality star stayed warm wearing a chocolate brown trench coat paired with matching leggings as camera crews followed them around the animal sanctuary in Ventura County. Checking things out: Khloe Kardashian made sure to bring her momager, Kris Jenner, along for the ride as they visited a farm on Thursday in the Fillmore area just 30 minutes north of their Los Angeles-area homesKhloe's long jacket was loosely tied around her waist with a matching belt and hemmed just above her ankles to reveal a comfortable pair of kicks.She wore half of her bright blonde hair tied up and let the rest cascade down her back, with thick silver hoop earrings glistening in her ears and a pair of thick shades shielding her eyes from the bright sunshine.

Scott Disick was spotted taking his 12-year-old son Mason to the movies in the old Kardashian enclave of Calabasas this week.The 38-year-old reality TV heartthrob shares his three children - Mason as well as Penelope, nine, and Reign, seven - with his ex Kourtney Kardashian.Cutting a casual figure in sweats and an anorak vest, Scott accessorized with a pair of gleaming shades and a baseball cap. Out and about:Scott Disick was spotted taking his 12-year-old son Mason to the movies in the old Kardashian enclave of Calabasas this weekHis latest spot of family time comes after he left a cheeky comment on new girlfriend Holly Scarfone's lingerie snap.At 23, she is closer to Mason's age than Scott's.Holly rose to fame on the Netflix reality series Too Hot To Handle, where contestants are rewarded for restraining themselves from having sex with each other.

Zoe Saldana and Marco Perego make a beautiful couple. The pair was spotted walking down the Venice Film Festival red carpet, where they kissed and hugged in front of dozens of photographers.Zoe Saldana is teaming up with Crunchyroll for an ‘epic animated space opera’Eva Longoria is excited to direct new HBO Max project alongside Zoe SaldanaZoe and Marco were attending the festival to watch “ The Hand of God,” the much-awaited film by award winning director Paolo Sorrentino.Zoe was wearing a stunning Dolce & Gabbana sequined floor-length dress.

Naman Ramachandran The 65th British Film Institute (BFI) London Film Festival has revealed the eight films in its official competition.The competition titles include a few films currently playing at the Venice Film Festival, including Michelangelo Frammartino’s “Il Buco” (Italy-Germany-France), Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” (Italy) Harry Wootliff’s “True Things” (U.K.) and Michel Franco’s “Sundown” (Mexico-France-Sweden). Films that bowed at Cannes also make an appearance in the competition, including Mamoru Hosoda’s “Belle” (Japan), Justin Kurzel’s “Nitram” (Australia), Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s “Lingui” (Chad-France-Germany-Belgium) and Panah Panahi’s (Hit The Raad” (Iran).

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The BFI London Film Festival has confirmed an eight-strong lineup for its Official Competition this year. The movies are:

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentRTL-owned production and distribution giant Fremantle, which has two films in competition in Venice, has entered exclusive negotiations to buy Italy’s Lux Vide, the prominent TV production company behind, most recently, the high-end “Medici,” “Devils” and “Leonardo” skeins.Sources have confirmed to Variety a report in Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore that Fremantle, which already owns two other Italian production companies — Wildside and The Apartment, the shingle behind Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” and “America Latina” by the D’Innocenzo Brothers — is in advanced talks to buy Lux.Fremantle and Lux Vide declined to comment on Friday.

Coming on the heels of the Venice debut this week of Paolo Sorrentino’s memories of Growing up in 1980’s Naples is a trip back in time for yet another celebrated director, and of course actor, Kenneth Branagh who revisits the memories of being  nine years old and growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland right in the middle of troubles breaking out between the Protestants and the Catholics that so ravaged the country. Like Sorrentino, Branagh says it has taken a long time, 50 years to be exact, to sort out those memories and try to put them into some (fictionalized) context that has universal meaning all these years later.

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

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentFremantle, which is at Venice with two films in competition –– Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” and “America Latina” by Damiano and Fabio  D’Innocenzo –– is ramping up its film side.The RTL Group-owned company “that everyone used to associate with [TV franchise] ‘Got Talent’ is becoming one of the biggest independent film production studios in Europe” says its COO Andrea Scrosati.It’s rising power in feature films isn’t being noticed because of Fremantle’s model of owning a panoply of indie companies, many of which are in Europe, including two in Italy, 12 in the Nordics, German studio UFA and Fiction Valley in the Netherlands.But “nobody is connecting the dots,” Scrosati says.

Zoe Saldana looks absolutely ravishing in a shining red dress while walking the red carpet at the 2021 Venice Film Festival on Thursday (September 2) in Venice, Italy.

“I don’t like reality anymore. Reality is lousy,” teenager Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) says mournfully at a crucial, spiritually lonely moment in Paolo Sorrentino’s evocative new coming of age story, “The Hand Of God.” Sitting on a mountain, looking to the sky, the heavens, for answers, Fabietto should know.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticFabietto (Filippo Scotti), the autobiographical hero of Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God,” is a teenager growing up in the 1980s in the bustling port metropolis of Naples, and he keeps a watchful gaze on just about everything. He’s like the eye at the center of a storm of avidly impassioned but overstated filmmaking.

In movies as disparate and vividly imagined as Il Divo, Loro, the Oscar winning The Great Beauty, as well as English language efforts like This Must Be The Place, Youth, and his TV miniseries The Young Pope and The New Pope  Paolo Sorrentino has always seemed to be a director with a large brush and even more of a Fellini influence in some cases. That is why his latest, a largely autobiographical coming of age film called The Hand Of God which just had its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and is next headed this weekend to Telluride, is such a departure, one absent the usual flourish the director often favors.

Manori Ravindran International EditorNetflix is officially in the building.With both Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” and Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” playing at the festival, the streaming giant made its splashy debut on the Lido on Thursday, holding an exclusive reception in the afternoon for their top executives and partners at the chic Hotel Excelsior.Netflix film boss Scott Stuber, a recent Variety cover star, arrived at the party with his wife, the actor and model Molly Sims — and was greeted almost immediately by Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorSome critics were giving Venice bad reviews on the second day of this year’s film festival — but it had nothing to do with the quality of the movies.Long security lines operated by Italian police officers to get into the press screenings of two movies, Netflix’s “The Hand of God” and Focus Features’ “The Card Counter,” meant that some journalists weren’t able to make it inside their seats before the opening credits rolled.At the 8:30 a.m. showing of Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” on Thursday morning, the security line was so long, dozens of critics missed the beginning of the movie.

Clayton Davis Celebrating its 48th edition, the Telluride Film Festival announced its official programming selections, which include world premieres of Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast,” Mike Mills’ “C’mon C’mon,” Joe Wright’s “Cyrano,” Reinaldo Marcus Green’s “King Richard” and Céline Sciamma’s “Petite Maman.”Also on the docket are Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” and Pablo Larraín’s “Spencer.” Larraín’s film is opening the Venice Film Festival, where several of the films are screening before debuting Stateside in Colorado.From the documentary side, festivalgoers will get a smorgasbord of subjects from acclaimed filmmakers such Todd Haynes (“The Velvet