Late deliveries to Italy

Last week -- or was it the week before? I can no longer keep track -- I took a look on this blog at some French posters for new movies coming out. In those cases, though, it was the same new movies that were coming out in other parts of the world.

Not so with the most hotly advertised film in the Rome metro stations.

The film they are calling Father of the Year -- Il Padre Dell'Anno -- is a Michael Keaton vehicle you would not recognize by that name. 

See, in Australia, it came out way back in November of 2024 as Goodrich, which doesn't mean much by itself to Italian audiences. Hence the name change. It wouldn't have meant much to us either, but I guess we can handle an abstract title based on a person's name, while Italians cannot.

This is not, however, the most delayed delivery of a movie to Italian cinemas that we've seen in the two days since arriving in Rome. 

Earlier in this piece I was going to say this was the most hotly advertised film in the Rome metro strations second to Il Babysitter, which indeed I have seen spruiked more often than Il Padre Dell'Anno.

But when I went to look up Il Babysitter, I found only I Babysitter -- a 2016 Italian film directed by Giovanni Bognetti. And yet that film has the same poster on IMDB as I was seeing in the Roman metro stations.

Why they are advertising a nine-year-old film, which does indeed appear to have been released nine years ago as planned, in the Rome metro stations in 2025 is not even something I'm trying to look up right now.