{"id":243367,"date":"2026-01-14T02:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243367\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:22:12","slug":"hbo-max-drops-trailer-for-first-italian-original-marco-bellocchios-portobello-as-it-launches-in-italy-and-other-key-european-markets-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243367\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max Drops Trailer for First Italian Original, Marco Bellocchio\u2019s \u2018Portobello,\u2019 as It Launches in Italy and Other Key European Markets (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0754095\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO Max<\/a> launches today in Italy with several Italian originals to follow soon, the standout one being <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0069166\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Bellocchio<\/a>\u2019s limited series \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35663349\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portobello<\/a>\u201d that reconstructs one of the country\u2019s most clamorous travesties of justice.<\/p>\n<p>The HBO Max streaming service is also launching today, Jan. 13, in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35663349\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portobello<\/a>\u201d \u2013 to which Variety has been given exclusive trailer access \u2013 is the true story of popular Italian TV host <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0869029\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enzo Tortora<\/a> who, among other programs, conducted a primetime game show by the same title that aired on Italian state broadcaster <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0876282\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rai<\/a> for seven seasons starting in 1977. The six-episode show is a vivid account of how Tortora, in 1985, went from being a top-rated TV star to being wrongly convicted of conspiring with the Neapolitan crime syndicate known as Camorra.<\/p>\n<p>Tortora is played by frequent Bellocchio collaborator <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0317561\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabrizio Gifuni<\/a> who starred as former Italian Prime Minister <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1377212\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aldo Moro<\/a> in Bellocchio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO Max launches today in Italy with several Italian originals to follow soon, the standout one being Marco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3213,3214,321,3215,93,695,3211,61,60,270,43,3212,904,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-243367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-movies","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-stars","20":"tag-television","21":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}