‘Mafia Mamma’: Toni Collette Explains How a Brutally Violent Mob Movie Was Her ‘Beacon of Light’ (Video)

Serbian tennis star, Slobodan Živojinović, and his wife, musician Lepa Brena, have listed their waterfront villa in Miami for $16.9 million.The former tennis ace previously claimed to have had a relationship with Princess Diana in the late 1980s while she was still married to Prince Charles.Živojinović, 59, revealed his relationship with Diana began when she watched him play at Wimbledon, after which they became “extremely close.” In a 2016 interview with the Serbian newspaper Kure, he explained Diana would watch him play tennis from the courtside stands rather than the VIP seats so she could be closer to him.“She was a wonderful woman. With her I could talk about everything and even simple things became fascinating,” Živojinović said in the interview.He is the only tennis player from Serbia to be the world No.

"turn to Jesus."A former Playboy model-turned-Italian princess has been evicted from her $533 million Roman villa amid an inheritance battle with her stepchildren. Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi was escorted out of the property by police on Thursday, April 20, and locksmiths immediately began changing the locks. "It's illegal. I think that it's a travesty this is a brutal ending and unnecessary," she said in a Twitter video. "It didn't have to happen this way I don't get it.

Going with the flow. Kylie Jenner has not completely shut the door on a potential reconciliation with ex Travis Scott — even though she is currently getting to know Timothée Chalamet.

Book Club gals, you'll be thrilled to know the film's next instalment is just around the corner.The trailer for Book Club: The Next Chapter, starring Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen, has dropped - and our fab four are in for a romp through Italy. WATCH: 'Book Club: Next Chapter' - the official trailerThe second Book Club film picks up with Vivian (Jane Fonda) set to marry her 'long lost love', Arthur.In anticipation of the nuptials, our lit-loving gals decide to throw Viv a helluva bachelorette party in the form of a girls' trip to Italy.As you can imagine, hijinks ensue.Can anyone pull off a suede safari jacket like Jane Fonda?The film's trailer also promises the full rom-com fantasy, with lush locations, dapper gents, and event a wedding dress montage. What's not to love?While the 2018 original film received mixed reviews, it proved to be a popular success at the box office and a hit among fans of its four leading ladies.Each of the actresses, now ranging from 70 to 85 years of age, is a major legend of screen - so there's no surprise they can turn a performance!Who wouldn't want to be in this book club?The film is set to be released in cinemas on May 11. So, if you're looking for some Mother's Day plans, this is undoubtedly one for the list.

Cocaine Bear, or see limbs, heads, and a face torn off by Nicolas Cage’s Prince of Darkness in Renfield. Funny thing is, those films actually elicit laughs by flaunting gruesome violence that, while outlandish and in some cases flat-out gross, fits the circumstances and gonzo energy that rules those joints from start to finish.Audiences for the seemingly breezy mob action-comedy Mafia Mamma (★★☆☆☆), however, might really not expect to see Toni Collette — starring as suburban American mom Kristin, tapped to succeed her deceased Italian grandfather as the head of a Calabrian crime family — plunge a stiletto heel into some guy’s eye, then wriggle the heel around in the socket good and deep before gouging the eyeball out and watching it roll across the floor.Director Catherine Hardwicke, of Twilight and Thirteen fame, working from a script by TV writers Debbie Jhoon and J.

first week, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.The film, which The Post found “lousy,” has now earned $500 million globally, making it the top-grossing video game adaptation in cinematic history, Variety reported. The horror-thriller “The Pope’s Exorcist,” which tells the petrifying tale of the Vatican’s top exorcist’s investigation into a child’s possession, landed second with $4.3 million after debuting on Tuesday.

After passing $500M globally through Thursday, Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s The Super Mario Bros Movie is now on its way to an estimated $659M through Sunday worldwide. Of that, the international box office is estimated to rep $318.6M. 

Toni Collette‘s new movie Mafia Mamma is now in theaters!

Toni Collette is stepping out for the premiere of her new movie!

Mafia Mamma coulda been a contender, a sharp idea to throw an unsuspecting wife, mother and frustrated businesswoman into a new life as the head of an Italian crime family. Instead, though blessed to have the wonderful Toni Collette in the title role, it becomes a pasta with too many ingredients. This is not to say general audiences won’t be pleased, but this is a movie that feels like we have seen it too many times before. You certainly will have a few laughs, admire the Roman scenery and root for Collette’s success, but it is pretty mild when it should have been wickedly smart with this kind of premise. Married to the Mob it is not.

You never want bad films to happen to great actors, but every once in a while one of your favorites inevitably turns up in an unfortunate and miscalculated clunker. Sadly, Catherine Hardwicke’s “Mafia Mamma” is that movie for Toni Collette.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In her own home, Italian American working mom Kristin Balbano Jordan (Toni Collette) is hardly the boss. When her deadbeat hubby isn’t cheating on her, he calls the shots, and her independent-minded son can’t wait to leave for college. At work, her male colleagues undermine her every idea. What Kristin doesn’t realize is that it’s not her destiny to be a doormat. Far from it. Come to find, she’s next in line to run Italy’s well-connected Balbano clan, and though Kristin couldn’t have imagined she was heir to an organized crime family, taking charge amounts to an offer she can’t refuse. A fun fish-out-of-water farce with “Godfather” DNA and a clever female-empowerment kick, “Mafia Mamma” makes inspired use of Collette, who’s never better than when playing women we oughtn’t to have underestimated. Here, using stiletto heels to brutally stab a rival clan’s top assassin, first in the crotch and then in the face, demonstrates that Kristin’s better suited to the job than her enemies could have imagined. While such a graphic scene may come as a shock in a movie that’s more “Under the Tuscan Sun” than “Scarface” (“He had bits of his scrotum stuffed in his eye socket,” reports Monica Bellucci as Bianca, Kristin’s seen-it-all consiglieri), it more than proves that Donna Balbano deserves some respect.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Pedro Almodóvar’s hotly anticipated short “Strange Way of Life” has secured its first deal ahead of its Cannes Film Festival world premiere next month. In the project’s first announced multi-territory deal MUBI — the indie streamer, distributor and producer — has acquired all rights for Italy and Latin America. Pathe will be releasing the film in the U.K. under a longstanding agreement. Shot in southern Spain’s Tabernas desert, “Strange Way of Life” stars Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as two gunmen who reunite after 25 years. The half-hour film has been described by Almodóvar as a “queer Western, in the sense that there are two men and they love each other,” the director said last December on Dua Lipa’s “At Your Service” podcast. 

Mip TV is just around the corner and, as ever, the content will be king. Here, Deadline walks you through 12 of the biggest formats and docs set to light up the Croisette featuring Hot Wheels, pianos, King Charles, Jimi Hendrix and more. Read on for the best-in-class projects heading to Cannes for the April 17-19 confab.

Chris Pratt’s casting as the voice of an animated Italian plumber has been controversial since the news was first announced, but it hasn’t appeared to have dampened enthusiasm at the box office for “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”.

Chris Pratt’s casting as the voice of an animated Italian plumber has been controversial since the news was first announced, but it hasn’t appeared to have dampened enthusiasm at the box office for “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”.

Matteo Berrettini had a disappointing showing at the Miami Open this year, but it gave him time to rest up for his next tournament!

READ MORE: Dickinson's Real Deal expert Cheryl Hakeney quits after 14 yearsOpening up to Loose Women, Fergie explained she thinks it was this abandonment which kickstarted her mental health issues. "I think it's so important I can sit here now, very authentic, because I have really pushed them", she said. "And I think it started when mum went to live in Argentina and it was 1970 or something and I was 12.

voiced by Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) work as plumbers.It’s a realistic setting. I spot mustachioed guys wearing overalls in Williamsburg all the time.But perhaps the boys would be better off selling artisan beard oil on Bedford, because they’re not very good with their socket wrenches.

Illumination/Universal’s The Super Mario Bros Movie began its international rollout today in 44 markets, and will expand to 70 through Friday. While we are waiting on numbers from a great many of today’s debuts, early word out of Asia Pacific is encouraging at $7.95M including sneaks.