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Other winners include Italian star Sophia Loren and two Netflix features.

Giorgio Diritti’s Hidden Away was the big winner at Italy’s David di Donatello awards on Tuesday (May 11), winning seven awards including best picture, best director and lead actor for Elio Germano.

The drama, which chronicles the difficult life of Italian painter Antonio Ligabue, is produced by Palomar with Rai Cinema, and premiered at the 2020 Berlinale, where Elio Germano won the Silver Bear for best actor. The film, which was the frontrunner going into the night with 15 nominations, also picked up prizes for cinematography, hair artist and sound.

When Netflix suggested I might like to preside over a conversation between Sophia Loren and Frank Langella, two titans of the screen and stage, it felt churlish to turn the opportunity down. They both appear in films handled by the streamer this year; Loren makes her return to screens after more than a decade away in The Life Ahead, directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, and Frank Langella delivers a blistering turn as Judge Julius Hoffman in Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7.

And what to say about two of the most accomplished actors of their generation that hasn’t been better spoken by the many decades of extraordinary work both of them have authored?

Frank Langella, of course, made his name in the theater, where he has won no fewer than four Tony Awards for performances in plays by Peter Morgan, Florian Zeller, Edward Albee and Ivan Turgenev.

6 random things that happened on this day, February 12th, in showbiz history...

1949 Annie Gets Your Gun starring Ethel Merman closes on Broadway after a nearly three year run. The troubled film adaptation directed by George Sidney (a replacement for Busby Berkeley who was fired) and starring Betty Hutton (a replacement for Judy Garland who was fired) arrives the following year. 

1959 The Black Orchid starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn opens in theaters. Sophia Loren had won the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival the previous summer...

Peter Mark Richman, the pharmacist turned ubiquitous character actor who showed up in such films as Friendly Persuasion and The Black Orchid and on TV shows including Dynasty and Three’s Company, has died. He was 93.

Richman died Thursday morning of natural causes at his home in Woodland Hills, publicist Harlan Boll announced.

Richman starred as a former mob lawyer who teams with the FBI to bring criminals to justice on the 1961-62 NBC series Cain’s Hundred and played Andrew Laird, a savvy attorney for Denver-Carrington Oil and the Carrington family, on ABC’s Dynasty from 1981-84.

He also was the Reverend Snow, the ...

Peter Mark Richman, the pharmacist turned ubiquitous character actor who showed up in such films as Friendly Persuasion and The Black Orchid and on TV shows including Dynasty and Three’s Company, has died. He was 93.

Richman died Thursday morning of natural causes at his home in Woodland Hills, publicist Harlan Boll announced.

Richman starred as a former mob lawyer who teams with the FBI to bring criminals to justice on the 1961-62 NBC series Cain’s Hundred and played Andrew Laird, a savvy attorney for Denver-Carrington Oil and the Carrington family, on ABC’s Dynasty from 1981-84.

He also was the Reverend Snow, the ...

The rich mysteries and the encounters with the Fae will both continue thanks to Syfy. The network announced this week that two of its series, Warehouse 13 and Lost Girl shall live on. One pops in after a mid-season break, the other celebrates a series renewal for another intrepid season.

When Warehouse 13 returns to the airwaves, you can consider it Season “4.5″. When does this happen? I know you Warehouse fans are burning to know. Well, burn no more. The come back is scheduled for April 29. This will kick off the show’s final 10 episodes of the current season in a brand new time slot. Pay attention! Mondays at 10 p.m. on Syfy now belong to the 13 crew.

According to EW, this change in scheduling will give Warehouse 13 a “lead-in” from Syfy’s new drama Defiance. You remember the details on that one, right? Aliens are involved.

The Warehouse 13...

It's not easy being a child star of the '80s. Few have made it into adulthood without drugs, audience disinterest or mismanagement sidelining their careers or halting any momentum they might've had. And in some cases, you turn into the pod person that was formerly Kirk Cameron. But for Ralph Macchio, he's avoided the tabloid headlines of some of his contemporaries, and fallen largely into a path that sees him riffing on his former celebrity. But he's lined up a role that could be a nice entry into more serious roles, or just a reminder that he's around, willing to work and that he's not the Karate Kid anymore.

Macchio has joined the sprawling ensemble of Sacha Gervasi's "Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho." He'll be taking on the role of Joe Stefano, the young screenwriter who came in and adapted Robert Bloch's novel, winning approval...

Nothing is quite as rewarding as hearing about the reissuing of some great classic film scores.

Three classics will be seeing their soundtracks hit store shelves once again later this year, the first of which is coming thanks to the Mondo label. The company will be bringing Fabio Frizzi’s score for Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond to vinyl on May 22. Only 1,500 copies will be made, with 500 being made of clear, turquoise wax, so this is one you’ll want to keep an eye out for.

Read more on Scores for Terminal Station, The Black Orchid and The Beyond getting reissued...

So, kinda bummed out by the depressing soundtrack for "The Avengers" that was unveiled yesterday? Well, these upcoming releases should make that alt-rock mess a distant memory as the scores for Lucio Fulci's "The Beyond," Vittorio De Sica's "Terminal Station" and Martin Ritt's "The Black Orchid" are all getting fresh reissues.

First up, Mondo -- who are also bringing the soundtrack to "Drive" on vinyl later this year -- are dipping back into early '80s horror, set to release Fabio Frizzi's score for "The Beyond." One of the famed director's biggest hits, the film starts with the murder of an artist in 1927 Louisiana, whose demise results in the seven doors of death being opened up to the living. And yeah, it gets pretty freaky from there. Frizzi was a regular collaborator with Fulci, and his work here is considered one of the best '80s horror had to offer.