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All articles by Melanie Rodier – Page 36
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Italy's Medusa buys Cecchi Gori package
Rome's leading distribution outfit, Medusa Film, has finalised a late deal to buy five completed films from Cecchi Gori, enabling the former Italian number one to inject some cash back into its beleaguered film distribution and production operation. Medusa is believed to have paid between 68 and 70 billion lire ...
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Italy and Iceland submit their Oscar candidates
As expected, Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room has won Italy's nomination to join the foreign language Oscar race. The Moretti picture, which won the Cannes Palme d'Or in May, beat competition from local heavyweights The Last Kiss and Ignorant Fairies. Meanwhile, Iceland has selected Agust Gudmundsson's new feature The Seagull's ...
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Turin film festival unveils competition line-up
The 19th edition of the Turin Film Festival, Italy's pre-eminent cutting-edge event, has unveiled its competition line-up which includes Ake Sandgren's Dogme title Truly Human (Et Rigtigt Menneske) and Terry Zwigoff's Steve Buscemi starrer Ghost World, which is produced by John Malkovich.Titles in the festival's main competition also include Monica ...
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Italian industry denounces merger consultations
In an unprecedented move, more than sixty of Italy's top film directors, writers and producers have addressed a fiery open letter to Giuseppe Tesauro, president of Italy's Antitrust Authority in leading Italian daily La Repubblica, denouncing the fact that none of Italy's film associations have been consulted over the planned ...
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Italy ponders shortlist of three Oscar candidates
Italy's unofficial shortlist for its foreign Oscar candidate features Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room, Gabriele Muccino's The Last Kiss and Ferzan Ozpetek's Ignorant Fairies.All three movies swept the David di Donatello local awards in April, and are among the highest-grossing Italian films of the year.Widely tipped as the favourite, Moretti ...
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Benigni's Pinocchio delayed until next Christmas
Roberto Benigni's hugely anticipated next picture, Pinocchio, will not be released in Italy until Christmas 2002, a spokesman for the Cecchi Gori Group confirmed on Wednesday (Nov 7).The film had originally been set for release later this year, which would have placed it somewhere between the two blockbuster heavyweights Harry ...
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Olmi wins Italy's St Vincent prize for Arms
Veteran Italian director Ermanno Olmi has been awarded the Best Director prize for Profession Of The Arms at Italy's prestigious St Vincent Prize, a pre-eminent festival designed to promote Italian cinema abroad.Profession Of The Arms, a tale of 16th century warfare, screened in competition at Cannes. It is also one ...
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Salles' Virgin heads for Cinecitta
Brazilian director Walter Salles' upcoming Assumption Of The Virgin will start shooting next year in Rome's fabled Cinecitta Studios on a set designed by Oscar winning legend Dante Ferretti (Gangs Of New York).Benicio Del Toro, Geoffrey Rush, Chloe Sevigny and Juliette Binoche are all set to star in the movie, ...
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Italy's Eagle buys Wine, develops Rose
As it beefs up its slate of high-profile pictures, Rome powerhouse Eagle Pictures has acquired rights to Blackberry Wine, the new novel from Joanne Harris, the best-selling author of Chocolat, and is also developing The White Rose, a new project from director Joel Schumacher (Tigerland, The Client).An epicurean follow-up to ...
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Mifed market premieres attract attention
As the 68th edition of Mifed kicked off yesterday under its new private operator, Rassegne, interest was expected to hot up on a slew of market premieres, including Robert Altman's much-anticipated Gosford Park and Spanish Penelope Cruz-starrer No News From God.Other titles expected to cause a stir include Fred Schepisi's ...
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Salvatores to film Italian kidnap drama
Oscar winning director Gabriele Salvatores's next project will be a screen adaptation of Niccolo' Ammaniti's critically-acclaimed drama, "Io Non Ho Paura."Set in southern Italy in the 1970s, Io Non Ho Paura is the story of a 10-year-old boy who discovers another young boy who has been kidnapped by his own ...
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Rai seeks US distribution reciprocation
In a bid to boost the presence of Italian films in the US theatrical market, Rai Cinema is including a clause in all the acquisition and co-production contracts it signs with US partners stipulating that they must in turn agree to distribute of a number of selected Rai titles in ...
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Berlusconi finally acquitted of bribery
Ending a bitter legal battle that has lasted seven years, Italy's highest Appeals Court has acquitted premier Silvio Berlusconi of bribery charges relating to his media empire, Fininvest. However, the Court did confirm sentences for several of the multi-million dollar group's executives.Berlusconi and other Fininvest executives had been accused in ...
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Turin festival announces first competition titles
The upcoming Turin Film Festival (November 15th-23rd)'s line-up will include James Toback's latest film, Harvard Man, Todd Solondz's Storytelling and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, organizers of the northern Italian festival announced. The festival will only reveal its full-line up on November 8th, but organizers have already confirmed that competition titles ...
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Charlton Heston plays Mengele in war crime drama
Charlton Heston has joined the cast of Papa Alguem 5555, a movie about a Nazi war criminal who lives in hiding in Brazil. Adapted from a controversial novel by German author Peter Schneider, the Italian-Brazilian-Hungarian film is currently shooting in Rio de Janeiro.The movie, which is set in 1977 and ...
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Italy's Mifed boosts its international appeal
As it attempts to recover ground lost to supporters of the rival London Screenings, Mifed has announced an increase in the number of premieres and films screening at the market, as well as several innovations including a convention on international relations, a VIP Lounge and a new market award.Mifed organizers ...
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Berlusconi acquitted of most charges, some remain
Italy's Supreme Court has acquitted prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi of charges of false accounting during the acquisition of leading film outfit Medusa Film in the late 1980s.The verdict clears Berlusconi of a 16-month prison sentence handed out by a court in 1997. It also confirms an appeals ...
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Michelangelo Antonioni to return to directing
Michelangelo Antonioni, the ailing 89-year-old director of Blow Up and Beyond The Clouds, is set to return to the film set after six years to direct one segment of a three-part feature film. Wong Kar-wai and Pedro Almodovar are attached to direct the other two parts of the movie, a ...
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Italy's Mediaset accused of unlawful trading
Italy's Mediaset was again caught up in a whirl of controversy this weekend after a Milan court accused the group's president, Fedele Confalionieri, of unlawful rights-trading. Investigating prosecutors also lifted the lid on the conflict of interest issue, one of the hottest points of contention for Mediaset and current prime ...
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BBC's Care wins Prix Italia TV drama prize
The BBC's heart-wrenching drama Care won the prestigious Prix Italia prize for best TV drama at the annual television and radio awards ceremony held this year in Bologna and Reggio Emilia (Sept 14-22). The 104 min picture tells the story of a 14-year-old boy who is sent to a children's ...