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All articles by Melanie Rodier – Page 22
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Bernardo Bertolucci's sizzling 1968-set drama, The Dreamers, opened at number two at the Italian box office, earning an impressive $1,560,404 from 307 screens for a strong screen average of $5,041.Distributed by local Fininvest-owned powerhouse Medusa, The Dreamers stars Eva Green and Louis Garrel as twin brother and sister who strike ...
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Five Italian films win Brazilian distribution
Five Italian films have found distribution in Brazil at the International Rio De Janeiro Film Festival (Sep 25 - Oct 9) after Italy became the first country to join an experimental international scheme aimed at encouraging the distribution of independent films across the world. The scheme, which operates under ...
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Bertolucci ready to plunge into Hell And Paradise
Bernardo Bertolucci, whose erotic Venice Film Festival title TheDreamers is to be releasedin Italy this weekend, looks set to finally start shooting his long-awaitedpicture about 16th century Italian composer Gesualdo da Venosa.Although he first announced plans to make a movie aboutGesualdo way back in 1997, the Oscar-winning director said he ...
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A highly visible marketing campaign for Italian film My Brother-In-Law (Mio Cognato) is paying off for 01 Distribution, as the picture grossed $241,984 from just 89 screens on its opening weekend, earning a strong $2,719 per screen. Directed by Alessandro Piva, My Brother-In-Law is set in the southern town of ...
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Foreign Oscar deadline closes with heavyweight submissions
Two heavyweight film nations submitted their candidates for the Academy Awards foreign language category yesterday (Oct 1) - the final deadline day for entries.Italy chose Gabriele Salvatores's acclaimed thriller I'm Not Scared, while Spain submitted David Trueba's Salamina Soldiers.Italians will be hoping that Salvatores can repeat his 1992 best foreign ...
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Italian films hit by release bottleneck
The Italian film industry is complaining that too many local pictures are being released in an extremely short period of time, effectively damaging each film's prospects at the box office.According to Agis, Italy's national entertainment organisation, around 30 local pictures are being released between September and end of November. These ...
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Italy unveils major new film promotion outfit
After weeks of rumour, Cinecitta Holding has officially announced that it is establishing a new company with Fiera Milano International (FMI) and the Venice Biennale, in the hope of boosting the sales of Italian films abroad, as well as the stature of Mifed and of the Venice Screenings. The new ...
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Avati pulls out of Italian Oscar race
Italian director and Cinecitta president Pupi Avati has withdrawn his latest film, The Heart Elsewhere from consideration as Italy's Oscar candiate, as a sign of protest against a "lack of transparency" at the country's Donatello Academy.Avati's decision came after he learned that an extra 112 members had just been appointed ...
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Iranian war movie looks to break mould
Iran is lining up its biggest ever movie, a war film budgeted at $4m - more than twenty times the cost of a regular Iranian film. Directed and produced by Mohammad Reza Darvish, the film is set during the Iran-Iraq war. It focuses on a group of Iranians ...
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Prime time TV outing for Exorcist scares up Italians
A new storm of controversy has been raised in Italy over the country's virtually non-existent film classification system, after The Exorcist was broadcast in the Catholic country last week on prime time TV.""It is a slap in the face for our children," said Italy's parents association, Moige. "The story and ...
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Terminator 3 opened at number one in Italy, its last international opening - and yet another first place on release - earning a powerful $2,392,393 from 511 screens for a screen average of $4,682. But the biggest surprise of the weekend was L'Apetta Giulia E La Signora Vita, Italy's first ...
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BVI's Johnny Depp vehicle Pirates Of The Caribbean continued its stellar performance at the Italian box office on its second weekend, grossing a massive screen average of $6,056 from 531 screens, which brings its running total to $11,968,867.Medusa's newcomer Confidence, a thriller starring Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Dustin Hoffman and ...
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Italy's Eagle embarks on Lazarus Child shoot
Shooting is currently underway on Rome distributor Eagle Pictures' first major production, the English-language picture The Lazarus Child starring Andy Garcia and Angela Bassett.The Lazarus Child focuses on a girl who falls into a coma after being hit by a bus. Her only hope for recovery hinges on an eccentric ...
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Exorcist prequel books into Cinecitta for major reshoot
The Exorcist: The Beginning has booked in for a five to six week reshoot at Rome's Cinecitta Studios next month, following director Paul Schrader's sudden dismissal from the movie after an alleged conflict with his producers at Morgan Creek. Carol Andre-Smith, director of international marketing at Cinecitta confirmed that re-shoots ...
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl stormed the Italian box office, grossing an enormous $5.8m (Euro 5.241m) five days after its Italian premiere, making it the biggest opening ever in the territory for its distributor BVI.Days after the movie's star, Johnny Depp's widely publicized trip to ...
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Venice Critics' Week winner scores first foreign sale
Dutch distributor Cinemien has snapped up Benelux distribution rights to Salvatore Mereu's Ballo A Tre Passi, following International Week of Film Critics win at Venice.International sales are being handled by Lucky Red, Andrea Occhipinti's Rome outfit which also produced the Sardinian director's debut feature with Gianluca Arcopinto's Pablo Distribuzione. Lucky ...
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Italian BO up 8%
Italy's state-owned ditribution outfit, Istituto Luce, has bought local distribution rights to Babak Payami's hard-laboured Upstream title, Silence Between Two Thoughts, which the director managed to smuggle out of Iran after local authorities had confiscated his 35mm film.'My film's negative was confiscated by Iranian authorities, and it was a hard ...
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Italian BO jumps 8 per cent
The Italian box office grossed Euros 307,701,166 in the first eight months of this year, marking a rise of 7.79% compared to the same period last year, according to national film body Anica. According to Cinetel, which monitors around 75% of screens in the country, admissions between January and August ...
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Italy's state-owned ditribution outfit, Istituto Luce, has bought local distribution rights to Babak Payami's hard-laboured Upstream title, Silence Between Two Thoughts, which the director managed to smuggle out of Iran after local authorities had confiscated his 35mm film.'My film's negative was confiscated by Iranian authorities, and it was a hard ...
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Italy's Istituto Luce takes Payami's Silence
Italy's state-owned ditribution outfit, Istituto Luce, has bought local distribution rights to Babak Payami's hard-laboured Upstream title, Silence Between Two Thoughts, which the director managed to smuggle out of Iran after local authorities had confiscated his 35mm film."My film's negative was confiscated by Iranian authorities, and it was a hard ...