Italy’s RAI Cinema is the primary worldwide distributor to announce they’ve acquired Johnny Depp-starrer “Day Drinker” that marks Depp’s return to Hollywood following his high-profile authorized battles with ex-wife Amber Heard. 

“It’s an important motion film that includes an nearly unrecognisable Johnny Depp with lengthy gray hair and a beard,” RAI Cinema chief Paolo Del Brocco advised reporters on Wed. as he unveiled the 2025/26 lineup of the distinguished Italian firm that’s the movie arm of Italian state broadcaster RAI.

Italy’s Leone Movie Group and RAI Cinema collectively acquired “Day Drinker” from Lionsgate.

The movie from “500 Days of Summer season” and “Snow White” director Marc Webb re-teams Depp and Penélope Cruz for a fourth time after earlier collaborations on “Blow,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and “Homicide on the Orient Specific.” Madelyn Cline additionally stars within the movie. Manu Ríos, Arón Piper, Juan Diego Botto and Anika Boyle spherical out the solid.

Del Brocco stated RAI Cinema has not but set a launch date for “Day Drinker” which tells the story of a private-yacht bartender (Cline) who encounters a mysterious, onboard visitor (Depp). They quickly discover themselves entangled with a legal determine (Cruz) and linked in methods nobody noticed coming.

Different high-profile worldwide titles on RAI Cinema’s upcoming slate embody Olivier Assayas’ new movie “The Wizard of the Kremlin” that includes Jude Regulation as a younger Vladimir Putin and offered by Gaumont; Paul Feig’s “The Housemaid” starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried; and “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’,” the third film within the magician heist collection starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Isla Fisher, each from Lionsgate.

On the home manufacturing facet RAI Cinema’s upcoming standout Italian titles comprise beforehand introduced new works by Giuseppe Tornatore, who’s in submit on his doc about Italy’s “King of Cashmere” Brunello Cucinelli titled “Brunello, the gracious visionary”; Nanni Moretti’s upcoming “It Will Occur Tonight” toplining Louis Garrel and Jasmine Trinca; and Gianfranco Rosi’s high-end doc “Beneath The Clouds.” Rosi, whose “Hearth at Sea,” gained the 2016 Berlin Golden Bear whereas his “Sacro GRA” scooped the 2013 Venice Golden Lion, is again with this passionate private exploration of Naples and the encompassing space which is tipped for a Venice bow.