All Italy articles – Page 57
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Paula Wagner, Rick Nicita to chair 2012 Ischia Global Film & Music Festival
The tenth annual summer event will take place on the Italian island from Jul 8-15.
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NewsWarner Bros Italia takes territories on The Best Offer
Geoffrey Rush and Jim Sturgess have joined Oscar winning director Giuseppe Tornatore’s $21m English and Italian-language film, purportedly a love story set in the luxurious world of Viennese art auctions.
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NewsObituary: Tonino Guerra, pillar of postwar Italian cinema
The Italian screenwriter whose work helped define postwar Italian cinema died on Wednesday (21) after battling an ongoing illness. He was 92.
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NewsPaolo Ferrari named president of Rome’s Cinema Foundation
The founding partners of Rome’s Cinema Foundation voted on Monday (Mar 5) four to one in favour of Ferrari, ending a fierce political struggle that waged for two months.
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NewsTulpa starts shooting in Rome
IDF begins production on Federico Zampaglione’s third feature, based on a story by genre veteran Dardano Sacchetti.
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NewsAlberto Barbera succeeds Marco Mueller as Venice head
In a surprising turn of events, but which had been largely leaked in Italian wire reports, the board of the Italian Biennale arts organisation in a vote on Tuesday (Dec 27) has not confirmed Marco Mueller in the role of artistic director.
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Capri, Hollywood Fest to honour The Artist, Bejo, Fassbender
The festival, set to run in Italy from Dec 27-Jan 2, has named The Artist film of the year and will present the award to writer-director Michel Hazanavicius on Dec 30.
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NewsItaly announces new culture minister, film tax credit safeguarded
Despite upheaval and potential cuts in arts funding, film tax credit safeguarded by a parliamentary vote earlier this year
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NewsFocus Features International brings Nero Fiddled to AFM
Alison Thompson will introduce buyers to the eternally prolific Woody Allen’s latest film, his first to be financed by Medusa Film which wrapped production in Rome over the summer.
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Cinema Italian Style to celebrate Academy Award entry Terraferma
The US premiere of Emanuele Crialese’s immigration drama on Nov 11 will kick off the 2011 Cinema Italian Style, which runs until Nov 15.
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NewsBop cops it as Woody Allen fiddles with film title
The director claims few people understood the meaning of previous title The Bop Decameron, and has changed the name to Nero Fiddled. Allen’s first shoot in Rome wrapped over the summer and will open in 2012.
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NewsDavies, Hare, Nyman, Kureishi to attend Rome's UK focus Punks and Patriots
Terence Davies, David Hare, Michael Nyman and Hanif Kureishi to attend Rome Film Festival event produced in collaboration with the BFI London Film Festival.
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NewsPaolo Ferrari steps down as president and MD, Warner Bros Italy
He will be replaced by Barbara Salabè, who joins Warner Bros from Stage Management.
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Shooting on Serafini’s The Healer earmarked for Sept 14
Isabelle Fuhrman of The Hunger Games, James Le Gros of Mildred Pierce and Joel Courtney of Super 8 are set to star in the supernatural thriller.
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NewsRome to open with Luc Besson’s Aung San Suu Kyi biopic The Lady
Besson to present the premiere with stars Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis.
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NewsShooting wraps on Dario Argento's Dracula 3D
Principal photography has wrapped on the Italian horror master’s €10m thriller produced by Rome’s Multimedia Film Production and Enrique Cerezo Productions.
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NewsJohn Malkovich to star in Salvatores' Siberian Education
The actor will head up the cast of Gabriele Salvatores’ upcoming English language project about the Siberian criminal underworld.
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul to head Orizzonti jury at Venice
Thai director competed at Venice in 2006
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NewsOdeon & UCI Cinemas acquires seven multiplexes in Italy
Odeon subsidiary UCI Italia takes seven multiplexes from Giometti Cinema
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NewsRAI slate includes new Ozpetek film
Rai Cinema’s CEO Paolo Del Brocco on Monday unveiled the state-run film company’s 2011-2012 line up, budget and new projects in the production pipeline.