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All articles by Melanie Rodier – Page 23
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In The Forest heads for the trees
In surprise turn of events, Venice artistic director Moritz de Hadlen has withdrawn Indian film In The Forest...Again (Abar Arannye) from the Upstream competition two days before the end of the festival - because the title has just screened at the rival Montreal Film Festival.According to Venice's regulations, any film ...
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India's In The Forest heads for the trees
In surprise turn of events, Venice artistic director Moritz de Hadlen has withdrawn Indian film In The Forest...Again (Abar Arannye) from the Upstream competition two days before the end of the festival - because the title has just screened at the rival Montreal Film Festival.According to Venice's regulations, any film ...
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Agata and The CardPlayer lead rare Italian pre-sales
In what stands as one of the rare times Italian films are pre-sold to international distributors, Rome sales agent Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE) has already found a host of buyers for Bread And Tulips director Silvio Soldini's new comedy, Agata And The Storm, and Dario Argento's upcoming thriller, The CardPlayer. ...
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Italian job for Spain's Family
In what is set to become the second Spanish film to get an Italian make-over, Lucky Red's Andrea Occhipinti has acquired Italian remake rights to Fernando Leon's comedy Family (Familia).The Mondays In The Sun director's 1996 movie, Family, tells the story of a lonely man who hires professional actors to ...
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RAI bags hot US trio
Italy's Rai Cinema has pre-bought Italian distribution rights to a trio of hotly anticipated US pictures: Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, Lakeshore's upcoming Philip Roth adaptation, American Pastoral, and Miramax's major new Jennifer Lopez vehicle, Shall We Dance.Sold by Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) and written by John Logan, The Aviator follows ...
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MIFED announces market premieres
MIFED has announced that its 70th edition, which runs from November 9 - 13, will screen the market premieres of a host of highly-anticipated films, including Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Infernal Affairs 2, and Robert Altman's The Company. Also receiving a market screening in MIFED are Venice and Toronto titles ...
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Taormina's 50th anniversary dates announced
Taormina Festival Chief Felice Laudadio has announced that the 50th edition of the international event will take place from June 11th to 19th 2004. "The earlier dates worked very well this year, and films such as Phone Booth and Identity, which received their Italian premiere in Taormina, went on to ...
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The Hulk grossed a huge Euros 2.8m for UIP on its opening weekend in Italy, taking an impressive screen average of Euros 6,345 from 441 screens.The second highest new entry last weekend was Monsieur Ibrahim Et Les Fleurs Du Coran, whose release distributor Lucky Red timed to coincide with the ...
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Cool reception for Italian film law
A new Italian law, which the government hopes will revolutionise the public funding of local film, has met with a lukewarm reception from local filmmakers.The legislation, unveiled by cultural affairs minister Giuliano Urbani at the weekend, proposes to limit the public funding of local films in a bid to ensure ...
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Rai Trade takes on sales for Venice pair
Rome-based sales agent Rai Trade has taken world-wide distribution rights to two highly anticipated Italian Venice competition titles, and has also sold North American rights to Pupi Avati's Heart Elsewhere to Northern Art Entertainment.The sales offshoot of state broadcaster Rai has picked up international rights to The Miracle, Edoardo Winspeare's ...
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Rai Trade takes on sales for competition pair
Rome-based sales agent Rai Trade has taken world-wide distribution rights to two highly anticipated Italian Venice competition titles, and has also sold North American rights to Pupi Avati's Heart Elsewhere to Northern Art Entertainment.The sales offshoot of state broadcaster Rai has picked up international rights to The Miracle, Edoardo Winspeare's ...
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Thrillers continue to be hot property at the Italian box office - at least until distributors start unleashing their autumn titles over the next couple of weeks to coincide with some of these films' premiere at the Venice Film Festival (Aug 27- Sep 6).Final Destination 2 grossed a further Euros ...
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'I've stolen from all the great Italian masters,' jokes Allen
The 60th Venice International Film Festival kicked off in hot and humid weather on Wednesday night with a black tie opening ceremony attended by a sprinkling of stars, followed by the world premiere of Woody Allen's latest comedy, Anything Else.Stars who sashayed up the giant wooden runway in the shape ...
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'I've stolen from all the Italian masters,' jokes Allen
The 60th Venice International Film Festival kicked off in hot and humid weather on Wednesday night with a black tie opening ceremony attended by a sprinkling of stars, followed by the world premiere of Woody Allen's latest comedy, Anything Else.Stars who sashayed up the giant wooden runway in the shape ...
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Italian distributors binge on Venice titles
The race among Italian distributors to acquire local rights to Venice competition titles is fast reaching its peak as arthouse outfit Lucky Red announced that it will be the local distributor behind Noemie Lvovsky's Venice 60 title Les Sentiments, new Italian distribution label Esse & Bi acquired local rights to ...
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Italian distributors binge on competition titles
The race among Italian distributors to acquire local rights to Venice competition titles is fast reaching its peak as arthouse outfit Lucky Red announced that it will be the local distributor behind Noemie Lvovsky's Venice 60 title Les Sentiments, new Italian distribution label Esse & Bi acquired local rights to ...
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Sky Italia pledges to invest in Italian film
In a move that will boost the confidence of the Italian film industry, Sky Italia CEO Tom Mockridge has announced that Rupert Murdoch's new Italian pay-tv platform will invest Euros 50m each year into the Italian film industry. "Sky believes that Italian cinema is a key element of its programming ...
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Sky Italia unsettles local players
Pier Luigi Celli, the polemical former CEO of RAI, has warned that the arrival on the Italian market of Sky Italia is "certain" to cause more economic damage to the state broadcaster than to Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset network.In an interview published by Italian news weekly L'Espresso, Celli said: "Between Rai ...
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Cecchi Gori cranks up comeback feature
Popular Roman actor-director Carlo Verdone (It Can't Be All Our Fault) has announced that he is about to start shooting a new project for Cecchi Gori - marking the first concrete steps in the fallen giant's comeback.Entitled Love Is Eternal - For As Long As It Lasts (L'Amore E' Eterno ...
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Scola's Gente Di Roma to premiere at Viareggio
Renowned Italian writer-director Ettore Scola's new film, Gente Di Roma, is to have its world premiere at the 20th Europa Cinema festival in Viareggio (Sep 20 - 27). Co-produced and distributed by Istituto Luce, Gente Di Roma stars Stefania Sandrelli (The Last Kiss, Un Filme Falado) and Valerio Mastandrea (V-Max) ...