Johnny Depp is going back to Italy. After the last program with atrioventricular bundle, Hollywood Vampires (including Alice Cooper and Joe Perry from Aerosmith) in 2018 at the Lucca Summer Festival, the actor/musician/filmmaker will be feted with a life time accomplishment honor at the 2024 Rome Film Fest, which runs Oct. 16-27.
Depp will likewise debut his most current directorial job at the fest: Modi– Three Days on the Wing of Madnesswhich narrates the unstable life of artist Amedeo Modigliani in 1916 Paris. Starring s the movie will evaluate in Rome following its opening night at the San Sebastián Film Festival.
The Rome honor comes as Depp tries to put his legal fights with ex-wife Amber Heard behind him. While his Hollywood profession has yet to completely recuperate from the unfavorable promotion that surrounded the divorce, he stays popular worldwide and continues to be accepted by the movie neighborhood in Europe. In 2023, he opened the Cannes Film Festival with Jeanne du Barry from French filmmaker Maïwenn.
Other prominent participants at Rome Fest’s 19th edition consist of Viggo Mortensen and Francis Ford Coppola, both set to get unique honors. Mortensen will be on hand to provide his western The Dead Don’t Hurt starring Vicky Krieps. The movie is his 2nd function as director, following the 2020 drama Fallingstarring Lance Henriksen. Coppola will evaluate Megalopolishis long-gestating impressive about an enthusiastic designer (Adam Driver) figured out to reconstruct the imaginary city of New Rome following a destructive catastrophe.
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