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All articles by Melanie Rodier – Page 32
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Haynes' Heaven replaces Daldry's Hours; three more titles added
Miramax has withdrawn Stephen Daldry's period drama, The Hours, from the Venice film festival, explaining that the film is unfortunately "not yet ready." Venice artistic director Moritz De Hadeln said its place in the Venice 59 competition, where it was due to have its world premiere, will now be filled ...
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Venice loses The Hours, adds three more titles
Miramax has withdrawn Stephen Daldry's period drama, The Hours, from the Venice film festival, explaining that the film is unfortunately "not yet ready." Venice artistic director Moritz De Hadeln said its place in the Venice 59 competition, where it was due to have its world premiere, will now be filled ...
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Mockridge moves to Stream as Murdoch closes on Telepiu
Rurpert Murdoch has appointed News Corp. veteran Tom Mockridge as CEO of Stream, Italy's struggling pay-TV outfit. He replaces Marty Pompadur and joins Enrico Bondi, Telecom Italia's CEO, the two being recently appointed respectively interim CEO and president of Stream. They replaced Lucia Morselli and Renato Cassaro.The moves come as ...
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Italy's Medusa Film announces new president
Claudio Sposito, CEO of Silvio Berlusconi's media giant Fininvest, has been named president of the multi-billion dollar group's film division, Medusa Film. Sposito (pictured), who will retain his position at Fininvest, replaces Berlusconi's eldest daughter, Marina, who was appointed to the top job last year, following the sudden death of ...
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Italy's summer releasing strategy needs marketing support
While Italy's box office figures slumped in mid-July as temperatures soared and millions of Italians hit the beaches, a deeper analysis reveals that the local industry's effort to establish a 12-month box office season has all the potential to be a success - as long as it is supported by ...
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Giffoni's youth jury captivated by Scars
Norwegian director Lars Berg's Scars, a film about a young boy who uncovers a series of painful truths about his family, scooped the top prize at the 32nd edition of the Giffoni Film Festival, Italy's pre-eminent event dedicated to youth-oriented films. The movie's lead actor, Eirik Evjen, also won the ...
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Venice 59 and Controcorrente line-up
VENICE 59In CompetitionBear's Kiss Dir: Sergei Bodrov (Germany/France/Spain/Italy/Sweden)Fuehrer Ex Dir: Winfried Bonengel (Germany)The Best Of Times (Meili Shiguang) Dir: Tso-Chi Chang (Taiwan)The Hours Dir: Stephen Daldry (USA)Un Monde Presque Paisible (On The Brink Of Peace - unofficial English title) Dir: Michel Deville (France)Naked (Nackt) ...
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Moritz de Hadeln unveils Venice 59 rich in glamour and discoveries
Just four months and one week after being appointed to the job, Venice artistic director Moritz de Hadeln (pictured) has unveiled a glitzy roster of international premieres such as Julie Taymor's biopic Frida which opens the Venice 59 competition, Stephen Daldry's The Hours, Liliana Cavani's Ripley's Game and Steven Soderbergh's ...
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Moritz de Hadeln unveils Venice 59's
Just four months and one week after being appointed to the job, Venice artistic director Moritz de Hadeln (pictured) has unveiled a glitzy roster of international premieres such as Julie Taymor's biopic Frida which opens the Venice 59 competition, Stephen Daldry's The Hours, Liliana Cavani's Ripley's Game and Steven Soderbergh's ...
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Gong Li heads Venice jury
Chinese superstar Gong Li will head the jury of the upcoming 59th Venice International Film Festival, the festival's organisers have announced. The festival said Li had been chosen after artistic director Moritz de Hadeln suggested the actress should be considered as "her career successes have often been linked to the ...
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Gong Li heads for Venice
Chinese superstar Gong Li will head the jury of the upcoming 59th Venice International Film Festival, the festival's organisers have announced. The festival said Li had been chosen after artistic director Moritz de Hadeln suggested the actress should be considered as "her career successes have often been linked to the ...
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Italy's summer release strategy wilts in the heat
Despite this year's groundbreaking summer programming of Hollywood blockbusters in cinemas across Italy, it looks like local distributors and exhibitors will always find it tough to compete against the lure of the sun and the beach. According to data released by Italian body Cinetel, box office takings across the country ...
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Italy's Mikado adds three titles to its slate
Italian arthouse distributor Mikado has added three new titles to its line-up, including Manoel de Oliveira's Cannes contender The Uncertainty Principle.An entangled family drama adapted from the novel by Agustina Bessa-Luis, The Uncertainty Principle tells the story of the wealthy Antonio, played by Ivo Canelas, and Jose Luciano (Ricardo Trepa), ...
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Italy's President speaks out in favour of new media law
Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has spoken out for the first time about the controversial issue of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's control over the nation's media, urging Parliament to draft a new media law that will guarantee impartial news coverage.Ciampi also asked the prime minister himself to sign his official ...
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Venice's Critics Week line up
Sipro Scipione and Francesco Sframeli's Two Friends (Due Amici), a tale adapted from the theatre about two Sicilians who live on the outskirts of a large Northern Italian city, is the only Italian film selected for the Critics Week competition at this year's Venice Film Festival.The competition line-up, selected by ...
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Venice's Critics Week line up
Critics' Week (Settimana Internazionale della Critica)Two Friends (Due Amici) Dirs: Sipro Scipione and Francesco, Italy An Honest Shopkeeper (Un Honnete Commercant) Dir: Philippe Blasband, BelThe Exam (Emtehan) Dir: Nassere Refaie, IranRodger Dodger Dir: Dylan Kidd, US Kite (Zmej) Dir: Aleksej Muradov, Russia Woman Of Water (Mizu ...
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Only one Italian film selected for Venice's Critics Week competition
Sipro Scipione and Francesco Sframeli's Two Friends (Due Amici), a tale adapted from the theatre about two Sicilians who live on the outskirts of a large Northern Italian city, is the only Italian film selected for the Critics Week competition at this year's Venice Film Festival.The competition line-up, selected by ...
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Italy's Giffoni festival announces line-up to 1,000 school children
The Giffoni Film Festival, Italy's international youth-orientated event, has unveiled its full three-tiered competition line-up, which includes Ken Loach's Cannes prize-winner Sweet Sixteen, Chinese director Li Jixian's A High Sky Summer and Kirsten Sheridan's Irish hit Disco Pigs.Other hot titles to be judged by the 1,000 international school children ...
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Italian government moves to overhaul entertainment laws
The Italian government has presented a draft law to Parliament proposing a number of dramatic changes to the country's entertainment laws, including the introduction of a tax shelter.The draft law proposes that public funding for Italian movies should be capped at 50% of the budget. The current state funding ...
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Hour Of Religion praised at Italy's Nastro d'Argento awards
Marco Bellocchio's Hour Of Religion; scooped the best film prize at Italy's oldest awards, the Nastri d'Argento, which were held on Saturday night in the Sicilian coastal resort of Taormina. The Italian auteur also received the award for best story, while the best actor prize went to the film's lead, ...