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All articles by Melanie Rodier – Page 39
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Sharada snags two Cannes titles for Italy
Confirming the rise in Italy of a new generation of ambitious distributionoutfits, Sharada, a new Rome-based company, has snapped up Italiandistribution rights to two Cannes titles, including Catherine Corsini'scompetition film La Repetition.Sharada's Andrea De Liberato, who also heads Italian production outfitPoetiche Cinematografiche, and his business partner Antonio Fusco, have alsoacquired ...
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Italy celebrates Nanni Moretti as a national hero
Better known for nervous introspection than clambering over the audience a la Roberto Benigni, Nanni Moretti was at the centre of a media whirlwind on Monday as the Italian press celebrated Italy's first Palme d'Or in 23 years.Echoeing widesprad public sentiment over Moretti's Cannes triumph with The Son's Room (La ...
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Bauer strikes deals on Good War
Bauer Martinez Studios has made a raft of sales on Giorgio Serafini's English-language picture, The Good War, and has also unveiled a 4-picture slate of international English-language co-productions. Buena Vista International has acquired rights to The Good War for Benelux and Scandinavia. Negro Y Azul has bought rights for Spain ...
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Hundred Steps producer lines up Palestinian movie
Fabrizio Mosca, producer of the Italian Oscar candidate The Hundred Steps, is lining up three English-language pictures, including Return to Haifa - a breakthrough Israeli-Palestinian-Italian film about Middle East tensions. Return to Haifa is based on a book by a leading Palestinian author, Ghassan Kanafani, who was killed by Mossad ...
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Mueller creates new film production company
Marco Mueller, head of the Benetton-owned production company Fabrica Cinema, is planning to create a new, autonomous production company at the end of this year. Mueller said he will maintain his role at Fabrica, which will continue to build on its reputation of fostering new talents from around the world. ...
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Zefirrelli lines up next project with Italy's RAI
As part of its drive into high profile film production, Rai Cinema is set to produce the next project by Franco Zeffirelli after the Italian director completes his widely anticipated upcoming film, Callas Forever, for rival mini-major Medusa Film. Although it is not yet clear what the next Zeffirelli project ...
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FilmExport seduces partners for Valentino film
Rome-based sales outfit FilmExport is in the final stages of talks with US and European co-production partners to board a $30m film about legendary gigolo Rudolf Valentino. The English-language film, entitled Baciami Rudy (Kiss Me Rudy) will chronicle Valentino's life from the age of 18 until he becomes a star ...
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Venice festival launches second competition
In a ground-breaking restructuring of the oldest international film event, Venice film festival chief Alberto Barbera has announced that he will establish two official competition sections at the next edition of the festival. The two Lion awards will carry equal weight."The new structure is an attempt for the festival to ...
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Indie community mourns Kermit Smith
A funeral service was held today for Kermit Smith, one of Italy's most highly recognised producers and distributors of independent film. Aged 48, he died on Thursday (April 12) after a brief illness. Widely admired for championing the causes of independent and quality film with passion and a strong business ...
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Alatan leaves Cecchi Gori for Medusa
Italy's leading distributor, Medusa, has dealt another serious blow to struggling competitor and former number one Cecchi Gori.The Cecchi Gori Group's veteran acquisitions executive Faruk Alatan has ended his 16-year relationship with the group to join Medusa and its sister company, rights trading arm Mediatrade, as international film acquisitions consultant. ...
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Italian pay-TV merger expected next week
After months of on-off talks, negotiations concerning a merger of Itlay's two pay-TV operators appear now to be in the home straight. Such a merger would be expected to have a deflationary effect on the cost of film rights in the Italian television market.French sources close to Vivendi Universal, which ...
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Italy's Davids celebrate local success
Gabriele Muccino's local hit The Last Kiss (L'Ultimo Bacio) picked up five awards at the David di Donatello awards, Italy's equivalent to the Oscars, including the prestigious Best Director prize. The film, with local box office receipts in excess of $8.5m, is one of a handful of Italian pictures credited ...
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Berlusconi expected to sell Mediaset shares
With Italy's national elections looming on May 13, fresh rumours are circulating that opposition candidate Silvio Berlusconi could be about to sell his shares in private broadcaster Mediaset to Australian mogul Rupert Murdoch. Such a move would serve to quell the increasingly vociferous complaints which Berlusconi has been facing from ...
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Italy's Donatello Awards follow box office lead
After awarding a slew of prizes last year to sleeper hit Bread And Tulips, Italy's film industry nominations again matched local box office success. Nanni Moretti's La Stanza del Figlio, Marco Tullio Giordana's The Hundred Steps and Gabriele Muccino's The Last Kiss led the nominations for Italy's Oscar equivalents, the ...
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Italy's German film festival line-up announced
The second edition of Italy's German Film Festival is set to feature Germany's foreign Oscar candidate, No Place To Go by Oscar Roehler and Volker Schlondorff's The Legends Of Rita.The festival will also showcase Filippos Tsitos's Berlin competition title My Sweet Home, Turkish-German director Fathim Akim's Im July, a romantic ...
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Beacon to remake Not Of This World
Beacon Communications has acquired US remake rights to Giuseppe Piccioni's multi-award winning Italian film, Fuori Dal Mondo (Not Of This World).The film, about a nun's search for an abandoned child's father, was Italy's foreign Oscar candidate in 1999. Produced by Lumiere & Co and sold by Rome-based Intra Films, Piccioni's ...
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Buskin gets Dynamic as part of new drive
One of Italy's fastest-growing sales companies, Buskin Film, has sold a five-film package to Panama's Dynamic Group including Peter Del Monte's Against The Wind, which screened recently at the Berlin Film Festival.Buskin, which specializes in Italian auteur cinema, also sold to Dynamic the four films that launched the company at ...
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RAI and Lakeshore to make first Gere
Richard Gere is set to make his directorial debut with a feature film that is being planned as a co-production between Italy's RAI Cinema and Lakeshore. The two companies are currently in talks to reach an agreement on the 52-year-old actor's film, which it is understood could go into production ...
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Italy's Film Exporters lobby for loans
In a bid to give a major boost to the Italian film industry, Italy's National Film Exporters Union is appealing to the government to give more financial support to projects with significant international appeal.Roberto Di Girolamo, the president of Italy's Film Exporters, will ask the cultural ministry to evaluate screenplays ...
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Istituto Luce: Apocalypse Nuovo
Confirming a new, more aggressive attitude at Italy's Istituto Luce, head of distribution Giovanni Tamberi says he is in talks to buy Italian rights to Francis Ford Coppola's expanded version of Apocalypse Now. Should Tamberi succeed in obtaining rights to the film, which will premiere at the Cannes International Film ...