Italy’s RAI Cinema Unveils Lineup Featuring Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz-Starrer ‘Day Drinker’

Italy’s RAI Cinema is the first international distributor to announce the acquisition of “Day Drinker,” the film that marks Johnny Depp‘s return to Hollywood following his high-profile legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard. 

“It’s a great action movie featuring an almost unrecognisable Johnny Depp with long grey hair and a beard,” RAI Cinema chief Paolo Del Brocco told reporters on Wed. as he unveiled the 2025/26 lineup of the prominent Italian company that is the film arm of Italian state broadcaster RAI.

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

The film from “500 Days of Summer” and “Snow White” director Marc Webb re-teams Depp and Penélope Cruz for a fourth time after previous collaborations on “Blow,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and “Murder on the Orient Express.” Madelyn Cline also stars in the film while Manu Ríos, Arón Piper, Juan Diego Botto and Anika Boyle round out the cast.

Del Brocco said RAI Cinema has not yet set a release date for “Day Drinker” which tells the story of a private-yacht bartender (Cline) who encounters a mysterious, onboard guest (Depp). They soon find themselves entangled with a criminal figure (Cruz) and connected in ways no one saw coming.

Other high-profile international titles on RAI Cinema’s upcoming slate include Olivier Assayas’ new film “The Wizard of the Kremlin” featuring Jude Law as a young Vladimir Putin and sold by Gaumont; Paul Feig’s “The Housemaid” starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried; and “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’,” the third movie in the magician heist series starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Isla Fisher, both from Lionsgate.

On the domestic production side RAI Cinema’s upcoming standout Italian titles comprise previously announced new works by Giuseppe Tornatore, who is in post on his doc about Italy’s “King of Cashmere” Brunello Cucinelli titled “Brunello, the Gracious Visionary”; Nanni Moretti’s upcoming “It Will Happen Tonight” toplining Louis Garrel and Jasmine Trinca; and Gianfranco Rosi’s high-end doc “Below The Clouds.” Rosi, whose “Fire at Sea,” won the 2016 Berlin Golden Bear while his “Sacro GRA” scooped the 2013 Venice Golden Lion, is back with this passionate personal exploration of Naples and the surrounding area which is tipped for a Venice bow.