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Roberto Cavalli, the Italian fashion designer renowned for his stretch jeans and animal prints, is getting the biopic treatment, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Filmmaking duo Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi have optioned Cavalli’s life rights from the man himself, with their Iervolino Lady Bacardi Entertainment banner having acquired the rights to his autobiography Just Me! from Cavalli’s company Freedom.

The film — which will chart Cavalli’s early life up to his success in the fashion industry — will be directed by Giulio Base (The Inquiry, Imperium: Pompeii, Doc West) and is due to shoot in Italy in March, using the ...

Roberto Cavalli, the Italian fashion designer renowned for his stretch jeans and animal prints, is getting the biopic treatment, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Filmmaking duo Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi have optioned Cavalli’s life rights from the man himself, with their Iervolino Lady Bacardi Entertainment banner having acquired the rights to his autobiography Just Me! from Cavalli’s company Freedom.

The film — which will chart Cavalli’s early life up to his success in the fashion industry — will be directed by Giulio Base (The Inquiry, Imperium: Pompeii, Doc West) and is due to shoot in Italy in March, using the ...

Sony Pictures Classics has released brand new photos featuring some of Lahly Poore-Ericson’s amazing costumes from I Saw The Light.

Her costume design credits include The Homesman, 50 to 1, Doc West, Spoken Word, First Snow and Save Me.

Written and directed by Marc Abraham, I Saw The Light is based on Colin Escott’s award-winning biography of Hank Williams and stars Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Bradley Whitford, David Krumholtz and Cherry Jones.

Of star Tom Hiddleston, who actually sings every note in the film, Abraham says, “He’s an amazing actor and truly I cannot imagine anyone, anywhere more dedicated.”

The film screened at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Hiddleston’s “performance is magnificent,” says Chris Bumbray (JoBlo.com). Read the full review here.

I Saw The Light tells the story of the iconic, tormented singer-songwriter Hank Williams who revolutionized country music with his raw charisma, haunting voice and original songs,...

A look at what's new on DVD today:

"Buried"

Directed by Rodrigo Cortes

Released by Lionsgate

"Paper Man"

Directed by Kieran and Michele Mulroney

Released by Mpi Home Video

While one can't feel too badly for the future "Green Lantern" star and People's sexiest man alive, Ryan Reynolds' two stabs at glory outside the beaten path went largely unseen, which is particularly a shame in the case of Rodrigo Cortes' "Buried," the thriller where Reynolds has no acting partner but a cell phone as a military contractor who finds himself trapped in a coffin with no knowledge of how or why he got there. A success at Sundance, Lionsgate scrapped expansion plans for the film when it didn't do well in limited release, so home video will be the first chance for many to catch it. Still, that was a considerably bigger success than "Paper Man," which snuck in...

DVD Playhouse—August 2010

By

Allen Gardner

Black Orpheus (Criterion) Winner of the 1959 Best Foreign Film Oscar and that same year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, Black Orpheus is a modern-day update of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice reset in 20th century Brazil during Carnival in Rio. Director Marcel Camus offers up a visual feast with some of the decade’s most ravishing color cinematography. A classic. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Archival interviews with Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn; Interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam, jazz historian Gary Giddins, and Brazilian author Ruy Castro; Documentary on the film; Trailer. Full screen. Dolby 1.0 mono.

The Last Song (Touchstone) Sentimental adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ (by Sparks and Jeff Van Wie) sentimental novel about a father and daughter attempting to repair their damaged relationship. Greg Kinnear, as the dad in question, comes off best, while tween sensation Miley Cyrus...

Back in the day, I was a huge fan of the incredibly silly cop comedy “Super Fuzz”, a film that introduced me to the wacky world of Terence Hill. Since then, I’ve become quite enamored with his “Trinity” series, which may explain why I’ve become somewhat excited about Hill’s upcoming project “Doc West”. Although it’s being released by Lionsgate, a company that has recently dumped a large number of dodgy direct-to-video westerns into the marketplace, I’m holding out hope that this particular endeavor is a bit stronger than its like-minded contemporaries. After all, you can’t go wrong with Terence Hill. Seriously. Here’s the plot, summarized: After bandits steal his poker winnings this American legend makes his way to the next town in search of them. Seeking out his revenge during a poker game gone bad Doc West finds himself in the local town jail.