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All articles by Melanie Rodier – Page 30
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Mikado boards new Panahi, Sokurov projects
Italy's Mikado, fresh from a hefty cash boost by new multimedia shareholder De Agostini, continues to raise its international profile by boarding as a co-producer two new films from world-renown filmmakers: Aleksander Sokurov's Father And Son and Jafar Panahi's Gold, which was co-written with another festival favourite, Abbas Kiarostami. Both ...
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Bim has snapped up Italian rights to Haneke's Wolfszeit
Rome arthouse distributor Bim has snapped up Italian distribution rights to Michael Haneke's Wolfszeit, which stars Isabelle Huppert, Patrice Chereau and Beatrice Dalle.Translated literally as Time Of The Wolf, Wolfszeit is now in post-production and involves Haneke's "regular" Austrian production company Wega-Film in co-production with France's Les Films du Losange ...
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Bim has snapped up Italian rights to Haneke's Wolfszeit
Rome arthouse distributor Bim has snapped up Italian distribution rights to Michael Haneke's Wolfszeit, which stars Isabelle Huppert, Patrice Chereau and Beatrice Dalle.Translated literally as Time Of The Wolf, Wolfszeit is now in post-production and involves Haneke's "regular" Austrian production company Wega-Film in co-production with France's Les Films du Losange ...
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Cecchi Gori arrest fuels monopoly fears in Italy
The arrest of former Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori throws one big question into sharp relief: what will happen to his film interests if ' as is looking increasingly inevitable - his once-formidable empire disintegrates' To many, the answer could rock the landscape of the Italian film industry ' ...
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Cecchi Gori arrest fuels monopoly fears in Italy
The arrest of former Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori throws one big question into sharp relief: what will happen to his film interests if - as is looking increasingly inevitable - his once-formidable empire disintegrates' To many, the answer could rock the landscape of the Italian film industry - ...
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Blue Star widens Anglo-Italian financing net
As the Italian film industry continues to struggle to make commercially viable pictures that can travel outside its own borders, local producers have started to recognise the benefits of joining forces with European - and, in particular, UK allies.A pioneering model has been set by a reciprocal financing arrangement that ...
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Blue Star widens Anglo-Italian financing net
As the Italian film industry continues to struggle to make commercially viable pictures that can travel outside its own borders, local producers have started to recognise the benefits of joining forces with European - and, in particular, UK allies.A pioneering model has been set by a reciprocal financing arrangement that ...
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Blue Star widens Anglo-Italian financing net
As the Italian film industry continues to struggle to make commercially viable pictures that can travel outside its own borders, local producers have started to recognise the benefits of joining forces with European - and, in particular, UK allies.A pioneering model has been set by a reciprocal financing arrangement that ...
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Turin festival unveils cutting edge line-up
The Turin Film Festival (Nov 7-15), Italy's leading cutting-edge event, has unveiled a brimming 20th edition line-up, which includes David Cronenberg's Spider, Toy Love by New Zealand director Harry Sinclair, and John Frankenheimer's last film, Path to War.The festivalwill open with competition title Pumpkin, Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder's ...
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Cecchi Gori is placed under house arrest in Italy.
Fallen media baron Vittorio Cecchi Gori has been placed under house arrest for alleged wrongdoings linked to the bankruptcy of his former Serie A football club, Fiorentina.Firemen entered Cecchi Gori's house early on Tuesday morning with a ladder after police failed to obtain a response from the entrepreneur who was ...
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European Investment Bank funds three Italian features
The European Investment Bank has made one of its first concrete investments in feature film, bankrolling three Italian pictures through the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro's Euros 100m credit line. The Italian films that benefited from the EIB loans are Piergiorgio Gay's La Forza Del Passato, which screened at this year's ...
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Italian producers speak out in support of Eurimages
Italian producers are distancing themselves from the inflammatory comments made by Gianni Massaro about Eurimages when he announced his shock resignation as president of the Fund last week.Massaro left his position two months before the end of his non-renewable 2-year term, blaming crippling bureaucracy as well as behind-the-scenes feuds between ...
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Eurimages president Massaro in shock resignation
Gianni Massaro has resigned as president of European Council film fund Eurimages, blaming the "excessive power of the European Council," bad management, and feuds between the Council and the Eurimages Committee.Massaro explained the reasons for his departure at a press conference in Rome, commenting: "I fear that Eurimages cannot go ...
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Italian singer-songwriter starts shooting debut feature
Franco Battiato, one of Italy's most celebrated singer-songwriters, has moved behind the camera to direct his first feature, Perduto Amor, which started shooting this week in Italy.Produced and co-written by the cult Sicilian singer with his long-term collaborator, philosopher Manlio Sgalambro, the picture tells the coming-of-age story of a Sicilian ...
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Blue Star Movie, Spice Factory sign co-production deal
Italy's Blue Star Movie has signed a joint venture agreement with the UK's Spice Factory to co-produce three to five pictures a year that will be shot in Italy in English with budgets ranging from $3m - $20m.The first project to be made under the agreement which was signed by ...
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Benigni's Pinocchio smashes Italian box office record
Roberto Benigni has smashed all previous box office records in Italy with his fairytale Pinocchio which earned a massive $6.9m (Euros 7,021,422) on its opening weekend, according to Cinetel which monitors 70% of the country's screens. With Cinetel monitoring only 627 of the 940 screens on which Pinocchio was released, ...
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Pinocchio's Italian screen count noses ahead
Massive demand from Italian exhibitors has led Italian distributor Medusa to widen its nationwide release of Pinocchio this Friday to an unprecedented 940 screens, up from the previously announced - and already record-breaking - 860 screens.Through a careful Euros2m marketing campaign, Medusa and the film's star and director, Roberto Benigni, ...
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Benigni to record English-language version of Pinocchio
Roberto Benigni will use his own voice to dub the English soundtrack for the international version of his new film, Pinocchio, which is released this Friday in Italy and on Christmas day in the US.The comic's wife, Nicoletta Braschi, who plays the fairy godmother in Benigni's adaptation of the Carlo ...
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Murdoch finally agrees Telepiu takeover terms
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has agreed to buy the financially crippled Italian pay-TV operation Telepiu from Vivendi Universal through a cash-and-debt agreement worth Euros893 million.News Corp said it would pay Euros470 million in cash for Telepiu and will assume Euros423 million worth of the outfit's debt.The deal, which is expected ...
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Gibson's biblical Passion story will unscroll in ancient tongues
Seven years after winning two Oscars for his epic battle movie Braveheart, Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson is going behind the camera for a highly ambitious picture about the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus Christ.After cartwheeling into a press conference at Rome's Cinecitta Studios with Neapolitan dwarf actor ...