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All articles by Melanie Rodier – Page 17
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As Italy braces itself for the release of The Passion Of The Christ on April 7, five new films opened at the box office last weekend, although none of them garnered a warm reception during what turned out to be a particularly lukewarm weekend.Columbia Tristar's Peter Pan opened at number ...
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Feature collaboration just the ticket for Loach, Olmi, Kiarostami
International festival favourites Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi and Abbas Kiarostami are teaming up to direct a single feature film entitled Tickets.The three veteran directors co-wrote the screenplay, which takes place on a train from an Eastern European country to Rome's Termini station. The film is expected to start shooting on ...
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Taormina reveals details of 50th edition
Stephen Frears, Peter Weir and Jane Campion are among the guests attending the 50th edition of the Taormina Film Festival (June 13-20).Felice Laudadio, former Venice director who has headed the Taormina Film Festival since 2000, said that Anjelica Huston, Margarethe Von Trotte, John Jost and Roberto Perpignano are also expected ...
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Venice date shift expected
The Biennale is expected to hold the next edition of the Venice Film Festival from Sept 1 to 11, 2004, moving its dates back a few days from its usual slot in order to provide a more lucrative platform for Italian independent distributors to release their autumn titles. Its 2004 ...
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Filmauro's Crimson Rivers 2: The Angels Of The Apocalypse opened at number one at the Italian box office, grossing $1,795,12, making it the second film to be released by Aurelio De Laurentiis's company in a month to reach the top four.Filmauro, which co-produced Crimson Rivers 2 (together with Studio Legende, ...
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Italian producer Seregni lines up Corpses
Rosanna Seregni, the independent Italian co-producer behind Vodka Lemon, has boarded a new French-Slovenian film that is being produced by No Man's Land's Dunja Klemenc and Cedomir Kolar.Set in Sarajevo in 2001, the film, whose working title is Well Tempered Corpses, tells the story of four corpses who are brought ...
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Penelope Cruz has scored an impressive double whammy, starring in the top two films at the Italian box office: Medusa's Italian-language picture Don't Move, and Columbia Tristar Italia's Gothika.Actor-director Sergio Castellitto's Don't Move took the number one spot on its second weekend, grossing an extra $1,769,784 which brings the Italian-Spanish ...
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What Will Become Of Us earns 12 Italian Oscar nods
In a surprise turn of events, Giovanni Veronesi's coming-of-age tale Che Ne Sara' Di Noi (literally, What Will Become Of Us) scored a massive 12 nominations for the David di Donatellos awards, Italy's most prestigious accolade - beating films from long-established directors such as Marco Bellocchio, Marco Tullio Giordana and ...
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Italian films continued to perform strongly at the box office last weekend. New opener Don't Move burst into the local box office at number three, scoring the biggest per screen average of any film and a huge gross of $1,512,205.Distributed by Medusa, Don't Move stars Penelope Cruz and was adapted ...
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Italian cinema wins Euros 80m cash injection
The Italian government has approved an emergency decree topour an extra Euros 80m into the local cinema industry, which will be largelydestined for production and will free at least 80 state-funded films fromlimbo.Around 80 films are believed to have been greenlit in 2003for state funding for production, but have still ...
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Veteran Italian producer juggles historic biopics
Renowned Italian executive and line producer Mario Cotone is currently developing two major international multi-million dollar projects that will both be backed by RAI and are set to shoot next autumn.The first is a long-gestating $25m movie about Matteo Ricci, a 16th century Italian Jesuit missionary and scientist who lived ...
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Filmauro's Italian coming-of-age tale, Che Ne Sara' Di Noi (literally, What will become of us) opened on a high at number four at the Italian box office last weekend, grossing $997,007 from 171 screens.The picture, which was directed by Giovanni Veronesi and co-scripted by Veronesi and the film's lead actor, ...
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Eagle triples Passion prints for Italy
Italian distributor Eagle Pictures has revealed that it will increase the number of prints it releases Mel Gibson's The Passion Of Christ on in Italy from 150 to more than 500 - a figure normally associated with Italy's Christmas comedy blockbusters."We already had huge requests for the film from exhibitors ...
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Mueller confirmed as Venice festival chief
As expected, former Locarno and Rotterdam festival chief Marco Mueller has been appointed artistic chief of the Venice Film Festival.Rome born Mueller will replace Moritz de Hadeln, the British-born Swiss national who became the first non-Italian to run the world's oldest festival when he was appointed in 2002 on a ...
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Mueller poised to take over as Venice artistic director
Former Locarno and Rotterdam festival director Marco Mueller is poised to be crowned artistic chief of the Venice Film Festival, during a Biennale board meeting that will take place today (March 4) at 5pm.Venice organisers said on Thursday that several names are still in the running, although according to local ...
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Italian film set for Euros 70m emergency funding
Culture Minister Giuliano Urbani is to present on Friday an emergency decree to the Italian Parliament to pour extra funds into the local cinema industry, after the Italian bank that manages the film industry's funds announced that its coffers are almost emptyAccording to Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore, ...
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Silvio Soldini's latest film, Agatha And The Storm, opened in seventh place at the Italian box office, grossing $484,799 from 126 screens for a strong, if unspectacular, screen average of $3,848.The weekend's other local opener, Sotto Falso Nome (aka A Strange Crime) opened rather more disappointingly: the Medusa thriller, which ...
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Italian critics unveil early Nastri D'Argento nominations
In a surprise move destined to boost Italian films at the box office, Italy's national critics union (SNCCI) has announced its full list of nominees for the country's second biggest awards - the Nastri D'Argento - two months earlier than in previous years.The Nastri D'Argento (literally, Silver Ribbons) awards ceremony ...
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Italy faces film industry 'labour dispute'
Notwithstanding Italy's brand new cinema law, the Italian film industry is once again asking the government to urgently address a series of problems that are crippling the local film industry, including poorly distributed funds, and the lack of antitrust laws or financial incentives.During an emergency, self-described "labour dispute" held in ...
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MIFED unveils AFM counter-offensive
Launching an all-out counter-offensive against the AFM, MIFED has announced that it is officially moving its dates forward by three weeks, and will now host the 71st edition of the Milan market from October 12 - 16, 2004.AFM, which kicks off today, is holding a second market this year, from ...