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Kitano joins Mikado's bumper Venice slate
Italian arthouse distributor Mikado has acquired local distribution rights to Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi, bringing to four the total number of competition films at the upcoming Venice International Film Festival (Aug 27- Sep 6) which the outfit will release in Italy.Kitano directs and stars in Zatoichi, playing the title role of ...
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Monicelli tipped to head Venice jury
Veteran Italian director Mario Monicelli is tipped to head the jury of the Venice International Film Festival, according to reports in Milan newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.Born in 1915, Monicelli was one of the founders of the post-war Commedia all'Italiana genre, and is still active as a filmmaker today. ...
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Venice jury members set
The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the jury members for both its competitions, confirming that veteran Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli will head the jury of the traditional Venice 60 competition (ScreenDaily.com Aug 12)Joining Monicelli, who received Venice's Golden Lion award in 1959 for his classic film The Great War, will ...
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Venice names jury members
The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the jury members for both its competitions, confirming that veteran Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli will head the jury of the traditional Venice 60 competition (ScreenDaily.com Aug 12)Joining Monicelli, who received Venice's Golden Lion award in 1959 for his classic film The Great War, will ...
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Venice considers collaboration with Mifed
Cinecitta holding president Pupi Avati has approached the Venice Film Festival and Mifed with plans to establish a new film market on the Lido to run alongside the festival.The collaboration between the three organisations is believed to involve several initiatives, although the market element is likely to create the most ...
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Festival considers collaboration with Mifed, Cinecitta
Cinecitta holding president Pupi Avati has approached the Venice Film Festival and Mifed with plans to establish a new film market on the Lido to run alongside the festival.The collaboration between the three organisations is believed to involve several initiatives, although the market element is likely to create the most ...
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Italy's Bim swoops on four festival titles
Bim, one of the most muscular buyers in the Italian market, has acquired local rights to four films in the Venice International Festival, including the hotly anticipated 21 Grams.21 Grams, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's second feature after international hit Amores Perros, centres on the lives of three people fatefully brought ...
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Italy's Bim swoops on four Venice titles
Bim, one of the most muscular buyers in the Italian market, has acquired local rights to four films in the Venice International Festival, including the hotly anticipated 21 Grams.21 Grams, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's second feature after international hit Amores Perros, centres on the lives of three people fatefully brought ...
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Cinecitta targets UK producers with London office
In a continuing drive to raise its international profile, Rome's Cinecitta Studios is opening a new office in London, after opening branches in New York and Los Angeles.The office will be headed by Joshua Andrews, fomerly head of worldwide sales at Icon Entertainment and head of production at Odyssey Entertainment.Andrews ...
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Tornatore targets Kidman for Leningrad
Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and Medusa vice-president Giampaolo Letta will be flying out to New York next week to talk to Nicole Kidman about joining the cast of the Oscar-winning director's upcoming English language movie, Leningrad.While Rome-based Medusa does not expect to sign a contract next week, company spokesman Claudio ...
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Cinecitta lines up Soderbergh, Anderson shoots
Rome's Cinecitta studios are continuing to attract a slew of Hollywood productions, the latest of which are Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic, and Steven Soderbergh Ocean's Twelve.The Royal Tenenbaums director Wes Anderson's new project, The Life Acquatic, is a comedy adventure that centres around an oceanographer, who was inspired by ...
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Venice's last-minute Lido line-up
Venice has unveiled its competition line-up for the festival's 60th edition (Aug 27-Sep 6), including widely anticipated films from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Michael Winterbottom, Takeshi Kitano, Christopher Hampton and Bruno Dumont - although most of the hotly awaited US titles will screen out of competition"It was a particularly difficult year," ...
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Full competition line-up
Venezia 60 - In CompetitionBuongiorno, Notte dir Marco Bellocchio,Segreti Di Stato, dir Paolo Benvenuti,Le Cerf-Volant, dir Randa Chahal Sabbag, Raja, dir Jacques Doillon,Twentynine Palms, dir Bruno Dumont,Alila, dir Amos Gitai, 21 Grams, dir Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Imagining Argentina, dir Christopher Hampton, A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baram-Nan Gajok), dir Im Sangsoo, ...
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Venice: full competition line-up
Venezia 60 - In CompetitionBuongiorno, Notte dir Marco Bellocchio,Segreti Di Stato, dir Paolo Benvenuti,Le Cerf-Volant, dir Randa Chahal Sabbag, Raja, dir Jacques Doillon,Twentynine Palms, dir Bruno Dumont,Alila, dir Amos Gitai, 21 Grams, dir Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Imagining Argentina, dir Christopher Hampton, A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baram-Nan Gajok), dir Im Sangsoo, ...
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Mueller unveils debut Downtown slate
Marco Mueller's new production company, Downtown Pictures, has unveiled a slate of 12 pictures, including the directorial debut of Italian actress Chiara Caselli and the first European movie by Hong Kong filmmaker Kirk Wong.Downtown's first completed film is Turkish-Cypriot picture Fango (Mud) by Dervish Zaim. A satire about nationalism in ...
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Young Adam's Mackenzie starts Asylum shoot
Young Adam director David Mackenzie has started shooting his new film, Asylum, which co-stars Ian McKellen and Natasha Richardson.Based on a novel by David McGrath, Asylum was scripted by Patrick Marber and is set in a mental hospital for criminals. The picture focuses on a woman (Richardson) who moves with ...
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MGM loses court case against Cecchi Gori
MGM has lost its legal battle against the Cecchi Gori Group in a Rome court, according to Italian press reports.The US studio had accused the Italian group of failing to stand by its production and distribution agreements. As such, MGM sued the Fin.Ma.Vi holding group which controls the Cecchi Gori ...
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Italian distributors contest 'inaccurate' admissions data
The Italian box office is growing at a healthy rate, says Richard Borg, the newly-appointed head of Italy's national distributors union, UNIDIM, describing as "inaccurate" previously released data showing that industry figures had dipped in the first semester of 2003.Earlier this week, Cinetel data showed that ticket sales had dipped ...
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Wondrous Oblivion scoops top Giffoni prize
British director Paul Morrison's Wondrous Oblivion won the top Golden Gryphon prize at the Giffoni International Film Festival (19th - 26th July), one of the world's leading festivals dedicated to children and youth-oriented films.Written and directed by Morrison, who earned an Oscar nomination in 2000 for his debut feature, Solomon ...
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McKellen eyes role in Merchant Of Venice alongside Pacino
Ian McKellen says that he "very much hopes" to play a role in a new Merchant Of Venice movie which is set to star Al Pacino."I very much hope to play Antonio in the film, when the money arrives to make it," said McKellen, who was attending the Giffoni International ...