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The Bold and the Beautiful (B&b) spoilers show that your favorite characters are off to Italy for a fashion shoot and you can bet things get gritty overseas!

Several episodes of the CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful will be taped in Capri and Naples, and air in July.

Here’s what to know to be in the know!

The Bold and the Beautiful Goes to Italy

May Sweeps ends with a boom and a bang as the gang travel to Italy: Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang), Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye), and Eric Forrester (John McCook).

Things always get a little wild on Fc location shoots and we expect this time to be no different!

Will Brooke and Ridge steal a kiss while Taylor Hayes (Rebecca Budig) watches in the bushes?

And what in the world does Eric, who fans never see anymore after his miraculous “cure” get up to?...

The Bold and The Beautiful spoilers and updates reveal four cast members are set to participate in a location shoot in Naples and Capri.

Special episodes are scheduled to air in July, so let’s dive into all the thrilling details, which may involve steamy romances and infidelities!

Casey Kasprzyk Dropped Some Hints

Casey Kasprzyk, the supervising producer of B&b, thrilled fans with an Instagram update at the close of March. He hinted that filming might occur in Capri and Naples, sparking excitement among viewers.

Now, it’s confirmed that the production will indeed move forward with location shoots in Naples and Capri from May 28 to May 31.

Kasprzyk took to X, previously known as Twitter, to share an announcement from Mediaset Infinity about the upcoming filming. This isn’t the first time the CBS soap opera has ventured to Italy for scenes, and likely, it won’t be the last!

Multi-Emmy® Award winning television series The Bold and the Beautiful will film in Naples and Capri, Italy, under the creative leadership of executive producer and head writer, Bradley Bell.

B&b Goes On Location

In Italy, B&b’s immense popularity has endured for decades, and the series has filmed there more than in any other foreign country. Five previous Italian shoots have taken place in Lake Como (1997), Venice (1999), Portofino (2002), the region of Puglia (2012), and Rome (2023).

The popular CBS soap is broadcast in Italy on Mediaset’s Canale 5, under the title “Beautiful,” where it has been a pillar of the channel’s daytime line-up for many years. The series is broadcast in over 100 countries and territories worldwide and has also filmed abroad in Abu Dhabi and Dubai (2014), Australia (2007 and 2017), Denmark (2015), France (2014), Mexico (2011), Monaco and The Netherlands (2014). Additionally, the cast has traveled to do press tours, appearances, and fan experiences in South Africa,...

With Another Simple Favor, director Paul Feig reunites the audience with Stephanie Smothers and Emily Nelson for another high-stakes mystery. This time set against the backdrop of Italy’s Capri, in a tale filled with murder, mistaken identity, and mafia entanglement. In this sequel, Stephanie’s transformation from mommy vlogger to crime-solving mastermind feels a bit familiar.

With every twist and turn, she gets closer to a millennial, Jessica Fletcher. But only less sharp, less believable, and far more chaotic. Whether she will solve the case or not, the question remains: is it really helping the storyline? Or, is it more comical?

In Another Simple Favor Stephanie earned her place, but mystery never leaves her Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively in Another Simple Favor / Credits: Amazon Prime Video

In the original movie, A Simple Favor, Stephanie, played by Anna Kendrick, earned her favor by covering the crime mystery of her...

If you’re the kind of person who scrolls through streaming apps for longer than you watch stuff, we’ve got good news. May of 2025 is coming in hot with a fresh drop of movies and TV shows on Prime Video. Whether you’re into heart-thumping thrillers, chill rom-coms, wild reality shows, or just something to kill time while eating dinner, this month’s lineup has a little bit of everything.

Think of it like a buffet, but for your watchlist. There is one brand-new movie and six shiny new shows hitting the platform, and honestly, some of them look too good to ignore. So if your “Continue Watching” section is looking kinda sad, or you’re tired of rewatching the same comfort show for the 12th time, this is your sign to mix it up. Let’s dive into all the cool stuff landing on Prime this May, you...

With Paul Feig’s highly anticipated sequel to the beloved 2018 film “A Simple Favor” going abroad, it seems that chaos has charted an international flight.

Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively reprise their respective roles for “Another Simple Favor,” with Lively’s character Emily getting remarried in Italy seven years after the events of the first film. The official synopsis reads: “Stephanie Smothers (Kendrick) and Emily Nelson (Lively) reunite on the beautiful island of Capri, Italy, for Emily’s extravagant wedding to a rich Italian businessman. Along with the glamorous guests, expect murder and betrayal to RSVP for a wedding with more twists and turns than the road from the Marina Grande to the Capri town square.”

Andrew Rannells, Bashir Salahuddin, Elizabeth Perkins, Michele Morrone, Alex Newell, Elena Sofia Ricci, Henry Golding, and Allison Janney co-star.

“Another Simple Favor” opened the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival with its world premiere. Feig directs and produces the film,...

The last time The Bold and the Beautiful went to Italy, it ended badly for Liam when he saw Hope kissing Thomas. They were in Rome, where Brooke and Ridge reunited, but that lasted only until Carter stole Forrester Creations and Ridge thought Hope had sided against him. Now, it appears that the show is heading back for some Italian location shoots, leaving the possibilities of what could happen there up to the viewers’ imaginations.

This Time It’s Capri and Naples

B&b is hugely popular abroad, so it comes as no surprise that they’re scouting Italian locations again. Supervising producer Casey Kasprzyk posted some intriguing photos on Instagram, teasing, “Quick trip to Italy this week to scout locations in Naples and Capri.

Paul Feig always gives his cast a lot of input into their movies.The 62-year-old director believes it is important to allow stars "a lot of leeway" because, having acted himself, he thinks it would "cut off this huge bit of talent" if he ignored their opinions and ideas.Speaking about his collaboration with 'Another Simple Favor' stars Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, he told People magazine: “I mean that's what I always do.“When I work with actors, I give them a lot of leeway. I want them to figure out what they want to wear, etc., because I was an actor, I know. Like if I'm just saying, ‘Say this. Say this the way I wrote it,’ I'm cutting off this huge bit of talent.“So every movie, every show I've ever done, I collaborate with them and go, ‘Here's the stuff,’ and they'll come [back with], ‘Oh what about this?...

Two movies in, and nobody can accuse the “Simple Favor” franchise of not knowing what it wants to be.

Speaking to a SXSW audience after the world premiere of “Another Simple Favor,” Blake Lively recalled being nervous on the set of Paul Feig’s original 2018 film because she wasn’t sure if it was intended to play as a comedy or a drama. But when Feig reunited the cast of what turned out to be a very dark comedy for a direct-to-streaming sequel that takes place on the Italian island of Capri, it appeared that everyone had the same goal: turn this into the most consistently nonsensical franchise on the planet.

“A Simple Favor” was not exactly a film known for its restraint. What began as an uncomplicated request from one mom to another — the high-powered publicist Emily (Lively) asking Stephanie the do-gooder supermom to pick her son up from...

Blake Lively said that Another Simple Favor director Paul Feig “upped the ante” in the Amazon MGM Studios /Lionsgate sequel — and that’s keeping the spoiler at bay.

However, watching herself — a lot of herself — onscreen at the Paramount Theatre for the SXSW world premiere Friday, the actress said, “It was uncomfortable to watch in this theater.” That’s not a ding. You gotta see the movie May 1 on Prime Video to see what she’s talking about.

In Another Simple Favor, Lively’s Emily Nelson is not dead. She returns to visit Anna Kendrick’s Stephanie Smothers, who is making a name for herself as an author writing about the calamities that ensued in A Simple Favor. Emily is getting married in Capri, Italy, to a glamorous, mob-tied guy. She insists that Stephanie be her maid-of-honor, or else she’ll sue her for not clearing her name and likeness,...

Emilia Pérez, the highly unconventional Spanish-language musical from the French filmmaker Jacques Audiard and the American distributor Netflix, was the toast of the Capri Hollywood International Film Festival over the Christmas/New Year break.

At the 29th edition of the Italian fest, which is held on the titular island off the coast of Naples, the festival’s jury awarded the film a field-leading six prizes: best picture, actress (Karla Sofía Gascón, who was in attendance at the fest), adapted screenplay, makeup/hairstyling and ensemble, as well as a special honor for its producers.

The other films that were awarded multiple prizes were A24’s The Brutalist, which received three, including best actor for Adrien Brody; and, with two each, Focus’ Conclave, including best supporting actress for Isabella Rossellini; Warners’ Dune: Part Two; and Universal’s Wicked.

Jurors included a number of distinguished Italian and Italian-American filmmakers — among them Franco Nero,...

Johnny Depp’s new film Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness will close out the Rome Film Festival on Saturday, Oct. 26, and the denizens of The Eternal City can’t wait for the star to arrive.

Indeed, the highlight of an otherwise unremarkable edition of the 10-day-long fest will undoubtedly be Johnny Depp’s appearance on Saturday to present the biopic Modi, which premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival and chronicles three chaotic days in the life of Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani.

Meanwhile, at an event that is separate from the film fest, Depp’s film will on Friday night receive the coveted Capri Cult Award.

The producer of Modi, Barry Navidi, a long-time friend of Al Pacino, will pick up the Capri prize on Friday night.

The Capri Cult Award is bestowed by the Capri Institute, the non-profit organization that organizes an annual film fest on the eponymous island.

Almost 35 years ago, production designer David Gropman worked on a Merchant Ivory World War II-era drama called “Mr. & Mrs. Bridge,” in which the opening sequence was in black and white. He still remembers watching dailies to that sequence and hearing director James Ivory exclaim, “What have I been waiting for all these years? It works so much better in black and white!”

“He was right,” Gropman said, laughing. “And I have longed to do a black-and-white film since then.” He finally got his wish with “Ripley,” Steven Zaillian’s Netflix limited series based on the Patricia Highsmith novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley” — although Gropman estimates that the eight-episode, seven-hour series was really “about five films” in scale and complexity.

The action begins in New York in the early 1960s and then moves to Italy’s Amalfi Coast, where a petty criminal named Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott) has been tasked...

Disney's live-action Moana remake offers Catherine Laga'aia a breakout role, similar to Auli'i Cravalho's introduction in the animated film. Laga'aia's on-screen presence in the live-action adaptation could lead to bigger opportunities in Hollywood. Moana 2 is set for November 2024, followed by the live-action remake in 2026.

The live-action casting for the titular role of Moana repeats the animated film's brilliant decision. In 2015, Disney announced that Auli'i Cravalho would play Moana in the animated film. She was an unknown actress at the time, but Disney does not always cast unknown actors to play lead roles, especially for live-action remakes. Emma Watson has an extremely famous past thanks to Harry Potter, and Disney picked her to play Belle in Beauty and the Beast (2017). Beyonc is one of the world's most well-known performers, and Disney cast her to play Nala in The Lion King (2019) and Mufasa.

Angelina Jolie has played numerous characters spanning decades,...

Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino ascended the red carpet here this evening for his latest Cannes competition entry, Parthenope, which was welcomed by a nine-minute standing ovation.

“This movie is a celebration of the journey of my life,” the humbled filmmaker told the crowd.

“The movie is a celebration of the journey of my life” : Paolo Sorrentino says in a speech after the ‘Parthenope’ premiere at #Cannes2024 pic.twitter.com/Z6PhssUcFL

— Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) May 21, 2024

The movie follows Parthenope, a woman born in the sea of Naples in 1950 who searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love with her home city and its many memorable characters. Sorrentino shot the Italian-French co-production between Naples and Capri.

The pic’s breakout star Celeste Dalla Porta was enthralled by the audience reaction, welling up as they applauded.

The cast also includes Dario Aita, Celeste Dalla Porta, Silvia Degrandi,...

In Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” Dickie Greenleaf’s father asks Tom if he’s ever read Henry James’ novel “The Ambassadors.” The reference is a sly one; James’ 1903 book is about a man sent from the Northeast to Paris to bring back a wayward son. That’s Tom’s mission, as well, though his European transformation is starkly different from James’ Lewis Lambert Strether, who ultimately returns to America wiser but sadder.

Tom intends no such return, and who could blame him when he sets up house in a palazzo as magnificent as the one in Steven Zaillian’s Netflix adaptation “Ripley.” “Who died?” his frenemy Marge (Dakota Fanning) quips when she first sees it; the answer is, of course, Dickie Greenleaf, but Tom pretends it was the aunt who raised him.

“In 2005, I did the film ‘Casanova,’ directed by Lasse Hallström,” “Ripley” production designer David Gropman told IndieWire.

Two American actor/filmmakers who have enjoyed career-best years at the movies will be celebrated from afar — specifically, in Italy — over the holiday break.

Italy’s Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival will fete Maestro co-writer/director/lead actor Bradley Cooper will its annual Visionary Award and Barbie co-writer/director Greta Gerwig with its inaugural Lina Wertmüller Award, fest director Pascal Vicedomini announced Monday.

The Italian filmmaker Micaela Ramazzotti will also receive the Wertmüller Award, which is named after the trailblazing Italian filmmaker who died in 2012, and which was created to celebrate outstanding female filmmakers.

The 28th edition of Capri, Hollywood will run Dec. 27 through Jan. 1. Dedicated to the memory of Marcello Mastroianni, it is being chaired by the Oscar-winning filmmaker Bobby Moresco and will open with a screening of All of Us Strangers. Maestro will screen Dec. 30.

The fest previously announced that filmmaker Matteo Garrone and actors Seydou Sarr and...

Gary Oldman has been cast in Paolo Sorrentino's new film.The 65-year-old actor has landed a role in the untitled Italian-language drama that is currently filming in Naples.Details about Oldman's part have not been revealed, but Sorrentino's film is about a woman named Partenope "who bears the name of her city but is neither siren nor myth".In Greek mythology, Parthenope – as she is known in English – is the name of a siren who, after failing to lure Odysseus with her songs, cast herself into the sea and drowned. Her body washed up on a symbolic foundational rock where Naples lies.Sorrentino said: "Her long life embodies the full repertoire of human existence: youth's lightheartedness and its demise, classical beauty and its inexorable permutations, pointless and impossible loves, stale flirtations and dizzying passion, night-time kisses on Capri, flashes of joy and persistent suffering, real and invented fathers, endings and new beginnings.

Chanel Iman, 32, and Davon Godchaux, 28, are engaged after over one year together.

The former Victoria’s Secret Angel and NFL player posted multiple times on their Instagram accounts, showing their social media followers just how happy and grateful they are to be in each others’ lives.

“The blessings keep pouring, grateful for this new chapter and soon to be married and a forever to go Capri , Italy ,” the soon-to-be-married couple wrote on their first post.

“One of the best gifts in life is a lifetime of adventures! My soulmate, protector, backbone and best friend the best memories are yet to come Capri Italy,” reads a second post.

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Iman was wearing a white lace gown as she looked down with happiness on Godchaux while he was on his knee proposing with a glistening diamond ring, with a scenic view of Capri, Italy, in the background.

Chauxdown added his...

The renovated Capri Theatre Photo: Andrew Welch This is the second in a two-part series by The A.V. Club looking at the challenges faced by small, independent movies theaters across the country.The big Covid-era fall off in moviegoing hurt the multiplex circuits like AMC Theaters and Regal Theaters badly.

Annapurna Pictures’ Dick Cheney biopic “Vice,” starring Christian Bale as the former American vice president, will launch in Europe as the opener of Italy’s Capri, Hollywood Film Festival.

The hotly anticipated “Vice” chronicles Cheney’s political life, starting with his beginnings as a Washington bureaucrat. Directed by Adam McKay (“The Big Short), the film will screen on the Italian island of Capri on Dec. 27 after opening on Christmas Day in the U.S.

Bale reportedly had to shave his head, bleach his eyebrows and put on 40 pounds for the role ,which explores Cheney’s service in the administrations of Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, and as the CEO of energy management company Halliburton.

Amy Adams co-stars as Lynne Cheney, and the rest of the star-studded cast includes Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld and Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush. The producers are Megan Ellison,...

The Capri Hollywood International Film Festival is honoring Mel Gibson with its Director Of The Year Award, in recognition of his pacifist WWII drama Hacksaw Ridge. Producer Bill Mechanic, who was already named by the festival as its Producer Of The Year, is accepting the prize on Gibson’s behalf. Hacksaw had its world premiere to great acclaim at the Venice Film Festival this past September and has become a force during awards season.

The story of real-life conscientious objector Desmond T Doss (Andrew Garfield), who saved the lives of 75 men during the battle of Okinawa without ever carrying a gun, the movie crossed the $100M mark at the global box office in mid-December. It is also experiencing a very strong run in China where it’s at nearly $50M through this past weekend.

Among its accolades, Hacksaw won the AFI Movie of the Year Award; swept the Australian Film Academy...