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Italeri's kit is closest to the film's tank as it apparently contains the canvas cover frames for the mantlet, something the new Tamiya kit and Asuka's Fury tank don't have. It's not their ancient kit and does have new-tooled parts but the tooling techniques are quite dated IMHO.
If you end up buying both, I'd recommend using Italeri's tank as a donor kit for the Tamiya one.
Yes, it contains a piece of the convas cover framework (only on mantlet tho), itself not original equipment but something that was adapted post war and may have been done by the museum to protect the inside from moisture.
I like some argued in the beginning that any model of "fury" should be an M4A2E8 because of "ron" the primary vehicle used for the film. Then I found out no less than 5 different shermans where used to complete scenes and at least one a french M4A3E8 that was modified to the radial engine sometime ago. This was probably due to an over abundance of parts and engines available post ww2 than performance as the ford engine has been recognized as the top one to serve in the sherman. Alas the US Army still used the M4A3E8 into the 1950s so ford engine parts were probably not sold to other countries. There is an image of this french hybrid tank (all decked out as fury) with a M4A1 engine deck and it looks weird.
Just remember this, "fury' is SUPPOSED to be an M4A3E8 so model that and don't worry about what anyone thinks.
As for the kit itself, I will probably hold off on buying this one until I see the build reviews. Looks like they recycled some old sprues. The sprues themselves have been rearranged but I recognize the parts. Turret, hull, sandshield brackets, and suspension are the very old DML #9010 kit parts (from 1990) and the tub is from their ancient (1967) m4a1 76mm kit. The tracks, decals, and fury accessories might be the only new tooled parts.
If it is the old DML stuff, the turret and barrel are woefully undersized, the sand shield brackets oversized and the suspension is very fragile, difficult to assemble, and inaccurate. I hope I'm mistaken as I'd love to buy this kit simply as a fan of the film and because I would like to support movie themed kits like this.
BTW, am currently building the new Tamya kit and it's a real nice kit, modern, no fit issues, accurate, medium level details, and it's also inexpensive. If you absolutely need to match the movie tracks then buy some AM T-80s (i believe AFV makes a link to link set in plastic). Otherwise you can make a real nice fury out of the tamiya kit by scratch building your own unditching logs, spare track, wheel, bags, etc. Not hard to do. Beware of the Italeri tracks, they use a really stiff almost plastic like material that may be designed to be formed in like hot water or something. They cannot be glued with CA and unless pre-formed into correct shape are too stiff to wrap around plastic model suspensions without reaking suspension bits. They are that stiff.
I was mainly a box collector as AFV modeler, but i like AFV 
