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Rome Film Fest backs film education programme for schools
The Rome Film Fest is backing a new initiative to promote cinema to kids in Rome's public schools by bringing films, actors, directors and film critics to the classroom.To kick off the initiative, entitled Waiting for the festa,actor Sergio Castellito, who portrays King Miraz in Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, ...
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Italy loses 254 cinemas since 2003 as multiplexes grow
The Italian exhibitor association Anec has said that 254 cinemas have closed in Italy since 2003, shutting down 306 screens.The Northern Lombard region sustained the most losses at 58 screens. Emiglia-Romagna and Tuscany followed.Traditional downtown cinemas in Florence, Milan, Rome, Naples and Bologna sustained the most closures, but Anec says ...
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New Bond filmto shoot in Tuscany
Marc Forster's new James Bond film will be heading to Tuscany as part of its locations shoot, the latest of a series of international productions to choose the region as set.Quantum of Solace will head to Italy for 15 days from the end of Aprilthrough May 12, picking up where ...
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Italian culture minister to run for mayor of Rome
Italian Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli has announced he will run for mayor of Rome, a position he has twice held in 1993 and 1997.Rutelli's announcement comes on the heels of the recent shake up in the Italian government, which saw Prime Minister Roman Prodi resign after 20 months in office: ...
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Strong casts line up for new Italian films from Tognazzzi, Corsicato
Two new Italian films set to shoot this spring -- The Man Who Loves and Seeds Of Discontent - have both pulled together strong casts. Principal photography of The Man who Loves (L'uomo che ama), directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi, will begin February 25 in and around Turin.The film features ...
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Cecchi Gori forms New Capitol Films
Oscar-winning Italian producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori has set up a new production company, New Capitol Films, that aims to produce films, TV commercials and a series MF. The sighting of New Capitol Films was reported by a Rome newspaper, which reported the registration of the new business at the ...
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Rai Trade adds The Viceroys, Maybe God Is Ill to EFM slate
Rai Trade will present two market premieres at the European Film Market in Berlin next week. Those titles are Roberto Faenza's The Viceroys (I Viceri), a historical drama set in 1800s Sicily and feature length documentary Maybe God is Ill directed by Franco Brogi Taviani that shines light on the ...
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Salvatores gears up for 10-week shoot for As God Commands
Oscar-winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores will begin principal photography February 11 on the thriller As God Commands (Come Dio Comanda), based on the eponymous best-selling book by Niccolo Ammaniti.Maurizio Totti's Colorado Film co-produces with Rai Cinema who will distribute nationally via 01 Distribution. Totti confirmed the film's budget has risen ...
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TWC to take US, Latin America on next Dario Argento horror movie
The Weinstein Company (TWC) is in final negotiations to take US and Latin American rights to Dario Argento's forthcoming Giallo which is scheduled to start shooting on March 3.LA-based Hannibal Pictures is handling world sales and also financing the $7-8m picture, which has been described as a return to the ...
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Italian box office rises 12.28% in 2007
The Italian industry is jubilant over 2007 box office results, with Italy's exhibitor organisation ANEC calling it 'one of the best in the past 20 years.' The exception is 1998 - when Titanic reigned at the box office and 118m tickets sold. According to estimates, 2007 will see 115m tickets ...
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Italy on track for best box office in 20 years
The Italian Box Office has enjoyed a record December (December1-26) registering a14.5% year on year increaseon 2006,according to Italy’s box office compiler Cinetel. The box office is nowexpected to show areturn to a healthy statenot seen for 20 years. Total box office revenue for December 1-26 reached $95.9m(Euros 66.5m) with10.8 ...
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Baratta confirmed as Venice Biennale president
Paolo Baratta has been confirmed as the president of the Venice Biennale arts festival.His responsibilities include the film festivaland events covering art, music, architecture, theatre and dance.Baratta'snomination wasapproved bythe Italian parliament and he will now take over the reins from outgoing president Davide Croff who tendered his resignation along with ...
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Garage takes top honours at Moretti's first Turin festival
Irish director Lenny Abrahamson's second feature Garage took the $36,600 (Euros 25,000) Best Film Prize at the 25th edition of the Turin Film Festival, which wrapped Saturday in the Northern Italian town. Scripted by Mark O'Halloran who also wrote Abrahamson's debut feature Adam & Paul, Garage is the story of ...
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Polanski's adaptation of The Ghost to start shooting in summer 2008
UK novelist Robert Harris, in Turin to promote his novel The Ghost, provided new details on the film adaptation of the book which Roman Polanski will direct. The pair are working together on the script now.Harris also discussed Pompeii, the $100m epic that was cancelled last September when Polanski pulled ...
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Italy sees growth in production but lags behind European admissions
Italy is seeing positive growth in terms of production, budgets and box office trends, yet it still lags behind the other major European territories, particularly in terms of ticket sales. That was the news as Cinecitta Holding presented new research revealing the state of the Italian film market at the ...
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Beta takes on sales for Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo
Beta Film will handle world sales for director Paolo Sorrentino's much awaited film The Divo (Il Divo), Andrea Occhipinti of Italy's Lucky Red confirmed. Sorrentino's film is inspired by the life of Giulio Andreotti, who served as Italian Prime Minister seven times whose name is a symbol for Italian ...
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Italy's Mediaset launches new free cinema channel
Italy's Mediaset, the nation's most powerful private network owned by Silvio Berlusconi, is launching Iris: a new, free, digital terrestrial channel to be devoted tofilms and cultural programming.The new channel will go on air November 30 will be under the direction of Miriam Pisani who acted previously as vice director ...
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Mueller tipped to stay at Venice Film Festival for another four years
Marco Mueller will remain at the helm of the Venice Film Festival for a second four-year mandate, Italy's culture minister Francesco Rutelli said Friday as he hailed Mueller's work as 'excellent.' Rutelli has also indicated that Paolo Baratta, a former banker, government minister and previous Biennale president will return ...
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Nanni Moretti kicks off his first Turin programme with The Savages
The 25th edition of the Turin Film Festival has unveiled its complete line up under new artistic director Nanni Moretti.Traditionally known as the Italian film event dedicated to cutting edge and auteur driven fare sees only minor changes to its long-standing format.'I've always been passionate about the Turin Festival and ...
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Rome Fest sees growth in ticket sales, market presence
Organisers said they were pleased with results at Rome Film Fests's second edition, which among other goals, aims to stimulate movie going. This year's festival issued 110,000 tickets, up from the inaugural run's 102,000.As last year, prestige was also strong on Rome's roster, with Terrence Malick coming to the festival ...