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Italian cinema loses local market share
Italian films' share of the domestic theatrical market dropped from 27% to 14% in the 12 months from June 1999 to May 2000 according to local exhibitors association ANEC. Without local hits such as 1998's Life Is Beautiful or Cosi E' La Vita, US films dominated the Italian box office ...
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Key adds Hallstrom, Nair to debut production slate
One-year-old Italian distributor Key Films unveiled its debut production slate at last week's Professional Screening Days in Sorrento, which includes projects from Lasse Hallstrom, Mira Nair and Lisanne Skyler in addition to Thomas Vinterberg's previously announced US-set love story It's All About Love.Founded by former Lucky Red chief Kermit Smith, ...
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Italy's 'plex operators form breakaway trade body
Italy's largest multiplex operators, including Warner Village Cinemas, De Laurentiis Cineplex and United Cinemas International, have split from exhibitor trade association, ANEC, to form their own organisation, ANEM.ANEM spokesman Carlo Bernaschi said that Italy's single-screen exhibitors want to obstruct the rights and interests of multiplex operators, but claimed that the ...
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Eagle unwraps theatrical slate; $60m drama
In a bid to stamp its mark on Italy's turbulent distribution scene, recapitalised distributor Eagle Pictures has unveiled its first full theatrical slate and also announced development of $60m medical drama, The Lazarus Child.Eagle secured a $300m war chest to invest in film and TV productions and acquisitions last year ...
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Bim eats Kollek's Fast Food, Loach's Bread
Valerio De Paolis' independent distribution company Bim has acquired Italian rights to a raft of Cannes competition titles including Ken Loach's Bread And Roses, from UK-based sales outfit The Sales Co.Other competition titles acquired by Bim are Amos Kollek's Fast Food Fast Women, from Celluloid Dreams; Austrian director Michael Haneke's ...
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RAI joins Napoleon's $35m European campaign
Italy's RAI Fiction has joined forces with France's GMT Communications and France 2 to co-produce Napoleon, the planned four part mini-series starring Christian Clavier (Asterix & Obelix, The Visitors) and Gerard Depardieu. GMT had been expected to partner with Italy's Mediaset and Germany's KirchGroup/Beta Film on the project (Screendaily, February ...
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Warner Italy joins bid to boost summer box office
Warner Bros Italy is pushing back the release date of South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut from May to June in an effort to establish year-round programming in Italy. Warner will also release John Travolta sci-fi film Battlefield Earth and martial arts action picture Romeo Must Die in June and ...
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Bread And Tulips sweeps Italy's Davids
Silvio Soldini's Bread And Tulips (Pane E Tulipani) scooped nine prizes at Italy's leading awards ceremony - the David di Donatellos - last night, including best film, best director and best screenplay for Soldini and Doriana Leondeff.The film also bagged awards for best actress (Licia Maglietta), best actor (Bruno Ganz), ...
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Berlusconi's son replaces Carlotti at Mediaset
Pier Silvio Berlusconi, son of Italian mogul Silvio Berlusconi, has been named chairman of Mediaset's RTI television production unit, replacing Maurizio Carlotti who is resigning after battling with the company's top executives. Pier, 31, has been at Mediaset since 1992 and is the former vice-chairman of RTI. His appointment had ...
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Eagle sets aside $20m for production
Newly capitalised Italian distributor Eagle Pictures is stepping up international production and has earmarked $20m from a $300m war chest to invest in feature films, television mini-series and documentaries.According to Eagle president Giampaolo Sodano the company is looking to board a greater number of international co-productions and English-language TV movies. ...
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Carlotti expected to exit Mediaset
Mediaset CEO Maurizio Carlotti is expected to resign this week ending a power struggle that has shaken up Italy' largest commercial broadcasting group.Carlotti's resignation has not yet been made public, but sources at Silvio Berlusconi's TV outfit say the resignation came at the request of several top executives after a ...
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Eagle swoops on Buena Vista's Sidewalks
Aggressively acquisitive Italian distributor Eagle Pictures has added four pictures to its line-up, including Buena Vista Film Sales' Sidewalks Of New York, directed by Ed Burns, and is discussing multi-picture deals with US sales companies Alchemy Entertainment and Joe Singer Entertainment.The newly capitalised distributor has also added Tomorrow Film Corp's ...
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