All articles by Sheri Jennings – Page 17
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Interview:Matteo Garrone, director of Gomorrah
Matteo Garrone's coruscating portrait of life in two of Naples' Mafia-controlled suburbs was the talk of this year's Cannes, stirring critics into talk of a return to Italian cinema's neo-realism heyday.The director shot the film in Camorra territory such as Scampia, a neighbourhood where someone dies every three days at ...
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Venice to show restored version of Celentano'sYuppi Du
The 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival will host a special event dedicated to the newly restored and remixed version of Adriano Celentano's 1975 Cannes competition film Yuppi Du, which was set primarily in Venice.The film, considered a 1970s cult classic, will be shown in Venice's Sala Grande on ...
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Fandango Portobello continues strong Gomorrah sales
Fandango Portobello sales has closed deals with eight additional territories for Matteo Garrone's competition screener Gomorrah, which has earned $4.9 million (E 3.1 million) at the Italian box office since its release a week ago.Sales have been confirmed with Spain (Alta Classics), Greece (Film Trade), Israel (Orlando), Russia (Maywin Media), ...
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Giuseppe Tornatore back to Sicilian roots for Baaria
Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and Medusa Film CEOGiampaolo Letta unveiled the first details of Tornatore's $30.7m (Euro 20m) film Baaria that has been tightly under wraps since the project's inceptiona year ago.Producing partners for Baaria are Italy's Medusa Film and Franco-Tunisian entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar's French based Quinta Communications and ...
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Abel Ferrara finishing juvenile crime project Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Rome-based sales company and producer Minerva Pictures Group will be in Cannes with a new project from Abel Ferrara, Napoli, Napoli, Napoli.Currently in post-production, the film - which is destined for a theatrical release - interweaves documentary with narrative footage by combining interviews with three female inmates with scripted scenes ...
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European Film Export Association lines up 16 arbitrators
The European Film Export Association (EFEA) has named their arbitrators - 16 in all- whose role will be to assist in resolving problems that crop up between exporters and distributors - the association's president Jacques-Eric Strauss, and vice president Adrianna Chiesa told ScreenDaily.The 16 arbitrators completed a training session in ...
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Venice adds US reps D'Agnolo Vallan and Di Paola
The Biennale has announced Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan and Margherita Di Paola will be the new US programmer and correspondent, respectively,for the 65th Venice Film Festival.Both D'Agnolo Vallan and Di Paola are charged with assisting Venice Film Festival artistic director Marco Mueller in the selection and searching process of American films ...
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Coen brothers' Burn After Reading to open Venice Film Festival
Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading will open the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival as a world premiere.The film's classification as a gala or competition screening will be announced at a later date, the Biennale has said.In either case, the follow-up to the Coen Brother's celebrated No ...
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The Girl By The Lake dominates Donatellos
First-time director Andrea Molaioli's The Girl By The Lake was the surprise winner of Italy's David of Donatello awards taking home 10 statuettes in principal categories including best film, director, first film and screenplay.The thriller - adapted by screenwriter Sandro Petraglia (Best Of Youth)and backed by local film giant ...
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Italy - Faith in home-grown talent
Italy's first-quarter box-office results show that while overall box office is lagging compared to the same period last year, local product has remained strong. The data is important to the industry as 2007 saw local films boom, making a significant contribution to raising last year's overall box office to levels ...
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Adrien Brody replaces Liotta in Dario Argento's Giallo
Oscar winner Adrien Brody will replace Ray Liotta as the detective character in cult horror-master Dario Argento's up-coming English language film Giallo, which starts shooting in Turin as of mid-May.The casting update was confirmed by Giallo producer Rafael Primorac of LA-based Arramis Films, who told ScreenDaily.com the film had to ...
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Italy winning race for Hollywood shoots
Inhabitants of the Tuscan city of Siena are being treated to the sight of Daniel Craig leaping over their Renaissance-era rooftops this spring.The actor is in Tuscany for six weeks with Marc Forster's $230m Quantum Of Solace to shoot the latest international location sequence in the new James Bond production.Top ...
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The Fixers: who are the indispensable figures for international shoots'
ENZO SISTISisti's local know-how has been earned through stints as both co-producer and fiscal representative on some of the biggest international productions to hit Italy, where he has been active in the film business since 1970. Italian co-producer credits include the upcoming Walt Disney film When In Rome and Wes ...
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Production - The Italian connection
Italy's local production sector is booming, with a clutch of top directors busy on projects with international partners. Dario Argento has Giallo (literally 'thriller'), a $10m English-language film financed by Los Angeles-based Hannibal Pictures. 'It's fast-paced and creepy,' promises producer Rafael Primorac, of the plot which centres on the abduction ...
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Fiction Fest names Steve Della Casa artistic director
Turin Piedmont Film commission president Steve Della Casa will take the reins as Rome Fiction Fest's artistic director while Raimon Astarita has been named general manager of the Fiction Fest in its second year, the Fest announced from Cannes today.The nominations were long awaited as the first year's artistic director ...
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L: Change The World to kick off Far East Film
The international premiere of Hideo Nakata's fantasy thriller L: Change The World will kick off the Far East Film Festival April 18 in Udine. The 10th edition of the festival will close April 26 with Johnnie To's musical comedy Sparrow.This year's festival will host an industry event in collaboration with ...
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Film Italia to be folded into Cinecitta Holding
Italian promotional body Film Italia will be fused with Cinecitta Holding, the parent company of Cinecitta Studios, after a unanimous vote by its board last night.But the impending change has sent a chill through the film community that has come to rely on the streamlined and efficient organisation of Film ...
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Italian box-office down from banner 2007 but local films fare well
Italy's first-quarter box office results show that while over all box office is lagging in respect to the same period last year, local product has remained strong.The data is important to the local industry, since 2007 saw local films boom, and aid significantly in bringing box office numbers to levels ...
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Rome may replace public jury with industry jury at next fest
One of the Rome Film Fest's most defining elements - its popular jury - may be set to change if comments made by Leandro Pesci, the regional president of ANEC, Italy's national exhibitor organisation hold true. Leandro Pesci made comments at a Rome cinema promotional forum yesterday called Cin ...
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Quiet Chaos dominates Donatello nominations
Rome-Domenico Procacci's Fandango-produced Quite Chaos starring NanniMoretti and directed by Antonello Grimaldi leads the race for the David of Donatello awards, with eighteen nominations.Quiet Chaos, which was presented at Berlin and features a cameo with Roman Polanski has performed well at the local box office earning $8.8m (Euros 5.2m) in ...