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La Dolce Villa is a romantic comedy film directed by Mark Waters from a screenplay co-written by Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy. The 2025 film follows Eric, a successful businessman who travels to Italy to stop her daughter from pouring all her savings into restoring a cheap Italian villa. Still, he soon falls in love with the laid-back lifestyle and a beautiful woman. La Dolce Villa stars Scott Foley, Violante Placido, Maia Reficco, and Giuseppe Futia. So, if you loved the laid-back vibes, romantic story, and charming characters in La Dolce Villa, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

A Good Year (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – 20th Century Studios

A Good Year is a romantic comedy-drama film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Marc Klein. Based on the 2004 novel by author Peter Mayle,...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

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Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series The Last of Us

Weekly Commentary: HBO is guaranteed a win in this category having all six slots split between “The Last of Us” and “Succession.”

While “Succession” is the undisputed frontrunner for the top prize, many believe “Last of...

For better and worse, there's more than meets the eye in "The Infernal Machine."

The ever-reliable Guy Pearce shines as the haunted Bruce Cogburn, a reclusive writer hiding out in Southern California over twenty years after first hitting the bestseller lists for his breakthrough novel, "The Infernal Machine." The traumatic reasons why he's shunned the world and never written a single follow-up to such an influential novel remain at the forefront of the story, thanks to the chilling cold open narration of a (seemingly unrelated) decades-old crime, and especially the disturbing deluge of letters sent to Cogburn from an obsessive fan. Pushed far enough to actually call up the mysterious William DuKent and leave a polite-but-firm message asking to be left alone, the script steadily turns the screws until the hidden danger of Cogburn's fixated and unseen admirer practically fills each frame.

Written and directed by Andrew Hunt and based...

Netflix’s September 2022 lineup of new films includes the much anticipated drama Blonde starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, and Allison Janney channeling her inner action hero in Lou.

September’s lineup also includes The Umbrella Academy‘s Tom Hopper teaming up with The Vampire Diaries‘ Kat Graham for Love in the Villa, a romantic comedy set in Italy. Queen Latifah and Ludacris headline the action thriller End of the Road, and Riverdale‘s Camila Mendes and Stranger Things‘ Maya Hawke combine forces in Do Revenge.

Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe in ‘Blonde’ (Photo Credit: Netflix © 2022)

September 2022 Releases

Sept. 1

Love in the Villa

Genre: Rom-com

Logline: A young woman (Kat Graham) takes a trip to romantic Verona, Italy, after a breakup, only to find that the villa she reserved was double-booked, and she’ll have to share her vacation with a cynical and very good-looking British man (Tom Hopper).

Cast: Kat Graham,...

We have a major update from Netflix to share today, as the streaming service has announced their Fall 2022 Movie Preview, unveiling release dates through the end of the year! The fall movie fun begins this Thursday, September 1st, and the line-up includes Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, Blonde, Descendant, Enola Holmes 2, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, The Good Nurse, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Luckiest Girl Alive, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, My Father’s Dragon, The Redeem Team, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, The Pale Blue Eye, The School for Good and Evil, Slumberland, The Swimmers, Wendell & Wild, and White Noise.

The full list can be seen below. Let’s break it down by month:

September

September 1: Fenced In

Genre: Comedy

Logline: Walter is stressed and collapses. Following medical advice, he abandons the urban rhythm and seeks peace in a small town, surrounded by nature. But...

Here in its near entirety are the streaming and some theatrical dates for Netflix’s fall and holiday movie lineup.

Many of these streaming dates have already been out there, i.e. the TIFF world premiere Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery hitting the service on Dec. 23 (yet still not theatrically dated). However, there’s 13 movies getting dates here, read Alejandro Iñárritu’s Venice Film Festival world premiere Bardo, which is getting an exclusive month and half theatrical window before it hits the service.

There’s also the Jessica Chastain-Eddie Redmayne drama thriller The Good Nurse (world premiering at TIFF), Noah Baumbach’s Venice and New York film festival opener White Noise, Sally Hosaini’s TIFF opener The Swimmers, Henry Selick’s animated pic Wendell & Wild (also at TIFF), and Scott Cooper’s period crime drama about Edgar Allen Poe, The Pale Blue Eye and The Volcano:...

Raymond Ablack, Laura Hopper, Sean Amsing and Emilio Solfrizzi have joined the cast of Netflix’s new rom-com “Love in the Villa.”

Starring Kat Graham and Tom Hopper, “Love in the Villa” follows a young woman who takes a romantic trip to Verona, Italy after a break up. When she arrives to find that that villa she reserved was double-booked, she has to share her vacation with a cynical (yet very good-looking) British man. Ablack plays the woman’s ex-boyfriend.

Set to be released on the streamer in 2022, the rom-com is written, directed and produced by Mark Steven Johnson, with Margret Huddleston and Stephanie Slack producing for Off Camera Entertainment.

The new movie marks a continuation of Ablack’s relationship with the streamer after appearing in “Maid,” “Ginny & Georgia” and “Narcos.” In “Ginny & Georgia,” Ablack plays Joe, the owner of the local farm-to-table restaurant who can’t help...

Sorry folks, if you were hoping you could get with The Umbrella Academy's Luther, you're out of luck. The actor, Tom Hopper, is happily married. Tom and wife Laura Hopper started dating in 2009, seemingly due to a chance meeting at a party. After five years of dating, the pair tied the knot in June 2014. The couple then welcomed a son named Freddie Douglas Hopper in 2015 and a

daughter named Truly Rose Hopper

in 2018.

While they didn't play love interests, Tom and Laura have shared the screen before as Billy Bones and Esther in the Treasure Island prequel, Black Sails. You may also recognize Laura from her soap opera roles as Jenna Gibbs on Hollyoaks and Kayleigh Jackson on Doctors. Although Laura's known for soaps and Tom's known for being the broody heartthrob, the pair aren't afraid to be silly on social media, proudly showing off their spa days, competitive sides,...