All articles by Sheri Jennings – Page 22
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Tornatore's Unknown is best film at Italy's Donatello awards
Giuseppe Tornatore's noir film The Unknown picked up five top prizes at 51st edition of the David of Donatello awards, Italy's top film honors.The Unknown received awards in five principal categories including best film, best director, best cinematography, as well as best music for Ennio Morricone's score as well as ...
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Distribution: studio's home movies
US studios see opportunity in local-language film. Sheri Jennings reports. The importance of the US studios to local-language film has been growing steadily for some years now. But it now seems clear that tentative steps are becoming big strides.Italy provides a good illustration with two films from the Rome-based Cattleya ...
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Abel Ferrara: go go dancer
The new film from energetic film-maker Abel Ferrara is a sexy, glossy comedy - or so he promises, says Sheri JenningsWhat does a director like Abel Ferrara, who has already had four films invited to Cannes, do for his next act' Something completely different, it seems.Ferrara's Go Go Tales screened ...
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Taormina plans new Mediterranean focus under Deborah Young
Egyptian cinema and a new competitive section focusing on Mediterranean films are all on the agenda for the reinvigorated 53rd Taormina Film Festival.Other features brought in for the new Mediterranean-heavy format, introduced by artistic director Deborah Young, include the first Giuseppe Tornatore retrospective and the revival of the Sicilian short ...
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Spike Lee decamps to Italy for Miracle Of St Anna
Spike Lee will shoot a film in Tuscany based on James McBride's 2003 book Miracle at St. Anna, the story of an Italian orphan who befriends a black American soldier in Italy during World War II.The project - which is in scripting stage - is the first film produced by ...
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Universal Italy makes first local film deal for distribution
US majors are lining up to distribute and produce local films in Italy following a slow but consistent trend internationally. Two films from the Rome-based Cattleya production outfit start shooting this month with Hollywood players on board. (Chocolate Lessons) Lezioni di Cioccolato will be Universal Italy's first foray into distributing ...
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Zhang Yimou to head Venice competition jury
Beijing-based director Zhang Yimou will preside over the competition jury -comprised only of directors - of the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival during the Biennale's Jubilee 75th anniversary.Zhang has won the most major awards at Venice including two Golden Lions in 1992 for The Story of Qui Ju ...
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Salvatores commands God with new RAI-Colorado alliance
Italy's RAI Cinema has pacted with Maurizio Totti's Milan-basedColorado Films to produce four new films including Oscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores' upcoming project As God Commands (Come Dio Commanda) based on best-selling novelist Niccolo Ammaniti's book of the same name.The film reunites Salvatore with Ammaniti, who authored their 2003 collaboration I'm ...
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Night Bus drives to UK and Korea
Italy's Intramovies has sold Night Bus (Notturno Bus) to ACMEInternational Investments for the UK with theatrical release through Maiden Voyage Pictures and to K& Entertainment for South Korea.A debut film by Davide Marengo, Night Bus is an action comedy starring Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Valerio Mastrandrea. Producers are Maura Vespini and ...
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Italy moves into CGI with Winx Club's Lost Kingdom
Italy is moving en force into CGI animation with a Euros 25m feature based on the hugely successful original animated TV series Winx Club produced by Rainbow, RAI Cinema and RAI TV.Winx Club the Secret of the Lost Kingdom, present at the Cannes market has had multiple sales including Independent ...
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Myriad previews Dario Argento's long awaited The Third Mother
Journalists got the first glimpse of the graphic trailer of Italian horror master Dario Argento's long-awaited film The Third Mother, the final chapter of The Mother of Tears trilogy, in Cannes. The film has its market debut for international sales handled by Myriad Pictures.Italy's Medusa produced Mother (in post), and ...
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Taviani Brothers' Lark Farm flies to RAI Trade
Italian sales company RAI Trade has added the Taviani's latest film, The Lark Farm, to its Cannes slate.The film, which played in Berlin, is the latest effort from Paolo and Vittorio Taviana, who won the Palme d'Or in 1977 for My Father, My Master and a special jury prize in ...
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Notro lands more deals on Honor de Cavalleria
Notro Films has closed several new deals for Spanish director Albert Serra's Honor de Cavalleria with the UK (Soda Pictures), Argentina (791) and Benelux (Victory Production). The picture, which took the top prize at the last edition of the Turin Film Festival, is an ultra-minimalist take on Cervante's classic Don ...
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Good News builds hot slate including Bin Laden title
Yacoubian Building producers The Good News Group have announced a four-title multi genre film slate that shows the group intends to forge ahead with controversial and hot topics about the Arab world as shown from their own perspective.Al-Qaeda will be the title of an Osama Bin Laden, Aiman el-Zawhiri themed ...
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DeAPlaneta takes on new thriller 25 Carats
DeAPlaneta has initiated pre-sales for Madrid-based Iconica and Barcelona-based In Vitro's new joint project with the working title 25 Kilates (25 Carats).Paxti Amezcua's thief thriller, budgeted at Euros 2.5m film, will start shooting in September with a cast including Carmelo Gomez and Veronica Echejui.
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Intramovies takes on sales for Olmi's One Hundred Nails
Italy's Intramovies has picked up international sales rights to One Hundred Nails, Palm d'Or winning director Ermanno Olmi's last feature to which is being represented in Cannes Tribute section.Olmi, who has now presented five films at Cannes won the Palme d'Or for The Tree of Wooden Clogs in 1979.One Hundred ...
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World Cinema Foundation launch to open with Moroccan Transes
Martin Scorsese's May 22 Cannes launch of the World Cinema Foundation will include a rare Moroccan film entitled Transes, shot in 1981 by director Ahmed El Maanouni and restored by Italy's Cineteca di Bologna.The film focuses on the musical ensemble Nass-El Ghiwane.The World Cinema Foundation is set to follow similar ...
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Istituto Luce on board for Calopresti's L'Abbuffata
Istituto Luce has announced Italian director Mimmo Calopresti's latest directorial foray L'Abbuffata, starring Gerard Depardieu, Diego Abatantuono and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.The $2.4m (Euros 1.8m) budget picture was produced under Calopresti's own Gage production outfit, with Istituto Luce and France's Dania film as well as support from the Turin Piedmont Film ...
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First Sun takes shine to remake of Argento's Suspira
New Italian production outfit First Sun has acquired remake rights to Dario Argento gothic horror classic Suspira.The company is led by Italian director Luca Guadagnino (Melissa P), Fendi group fashion designer Silvia Venturini Fendi with producers Carlo Antonelli, Marco Morabito and Massimilano Violante.The English-language remake will have an international cast ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Seven films by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have been to Cannes - but it was Father And Master which the Palme d'Or in 1977. Their next entry at Cannes, The Night Of San Lorenzo, took the Jury prize. They now present films out of Competition in order 'to give a ...