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All articles by Sheri Jennings – Page 24
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Marco Tullio Giordana starts shooting Crazy Blood
Principal shooting has started for Marco Tullio Giordana's current project entitled Crazy Blood (Sangue Pazzo), a co-production between Angelo Barbagallo's Bibi Films and the French company Paradis Films with the collaboration of Rai Cinema and Rai Fiction. With Crazy Blood, Tullio Giordana revisits the political/social genre for which he is ...
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The Unknown and The Caiman lead Silver Ribbons nominees
Giuseppe Tornatore's The Unknown (La Sconosciuta) and Nanni Moretti's The Caiman (Il Caimano) have tied as top contenders with seven nominations each for the Nastri D'Argento (Silver Ribbons), Italy's oldest film awards, voted by the national film journalist's union SNGCI. The Wedding Director (Il Regista dei Matrimoni) directed by Marco ...
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Italy's Far East Film Festival announces 51-film lineup
The Far East Film Festival has announced a fifty-one film official line up boasting eighteen international festival premieres from for its ninth edition which runs in the Northeastern Italian town of Udine April 20-28.This year's film and guest highlights include the international festival premiere of Teng Huatao's The Matrimony starring ...
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Tim Burton to receive Golden Lion at Venice
US director Tim Burton will receive the Golden Lion for Career Achievement at the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival, the Biennale announced Wednesday. Burton will receive the award on September 5 during a special 'Tim Burton Day' in the Lido's Palazzo del Cinema. Burton - who has presented ...
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Piedmont announces new $33.1m (Euros 25m) film fund
Italy 's Piedmont region announced the inception of the Piedmont Film Company and the details of its new $33.1 million (Euros 25m) film fund to a packed press conference that was attended by industry insiders, cultural politicians and directors including Gabriele Salvatores and Mario Martone. Piedmont region President Mercedes Bresso ...
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Udine Far East Film Fest will open with Japanese blockbuster Dororo
Director Akihito Shiota's Dororo will open the 9th edition of Italy 's Udine Far East Film Festival (April 20-28). Shiota will be present at the Dororo's European premiere. The film - which has grossed $26 million to date, is a massive success in his native Japan and already spawned plans ...
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Italian exhibitors pull controversial Death Of A President
Gabriel Range's Death Of A President has already hit a nerve in Italy, where ahead of its March 16th opening 30% of planned exhibitors have backed out of showing the film and 600 out of 2,000 promotional posters have disappeared in Rome. Andrea Occhipinti, president of the film's Italian distributor ...
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Teen cult film beats Pinocchio
Italian teen cult film I Want You (Ho Voglia Di Te) has beaten Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio for best opening day for a local film, a record the Oscar winner's film has held since 2002. The Cattleya-produced I Want You, which is a sequel, scored $2 million (Euros 1.5 m) off ...
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Italian publisher Feltrinelli starts producing first feature film
Leading Italian book publisher Feltrinelli has started production on its first feature film, We Believed (Noi Credevamo), the story of political violence sparked by Italy's battle for unification in the 19th century. The film will be released in 2008. Popular writer Giancarlo De Cataldo (Crime Novel) and director Mario Martone ...
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Italy's box-office renaissance
Italy's reputation as a box-office problem territory has been firmly cemented over the last couple of years - but a stellar start to 2007 suggests it is time for reassessment. It has blasted into the first two months of the year with a record eight consecutive weekends topping the $13m ...
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Italy - The good, the bad and the awarded
Fresh from picking up his lifetime achievement Academy Award in Hollywood at the weekend, 78-year-old Italian maestro Ennio Morricone is still one of the busiest men in the business.In the weeks before the Oscars, Morricone's schedule was typically packed: flights to New York and London for concerts; performances in Italy; ...
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Taormina plans Tornatore and Egyptian programmes
The 53rd edition of Sicily's Taormina Film Festival will host the first retrospective on Sicilian director Giuseppe Tornatore as well as a focus on Egyptian films in a newly formatted festival that focuses on Mediterranean films, new festival director Deborah Young announced Wednesday. Young told ScreenDaily.com the Tornatore retrospective includes ...
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Sky increases Italian film investment
Satellite TV operator Sky Italia has come to an agreement with Italian producers to increase investment in Italian cinema by 37%, increasing their actual investment from $28.8m (Euros 22m) to $45.9m (Euros 35m) annually. Details of the rights purchasing agreement of local films - including how much exclusivity Sky ...
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Opus Dei to consult on Lux Vide feature film
Opus Dei - the controversial Catholic religious order exposed in Dan Brown's runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code - announced they will act as consultants on an upcoming feature film on the life of their founder, Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer. The announcement was made at a Friday press conference held ...
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New Brizzi film sets Italy Wednesday opening record
Italian director Fausto Brizzi's second feature Night Before Finals: Today (Notte prima degli esami - oggi) broke records for an Italian film released on a Wednesday earning $1.18m (Euros 900,000) on its Valentine's Day opener. The picture is the sequel to last year's local sleeper hit Night Before Finals. Today's ...
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European stars: Italy
A host of Italian actors have been making headway in large international productions recently. Giovanna Mezzogiorno (The Last Kiss, Facing Windows) stars alongside Javier Bardem in the upcoming adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love In The Time Of Cholera; Pierfrancesco Favino (Crime Novel) played Christopher Columbus in Night At The ...
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Moretti's first Turin sets dates as Nov 23 to Dec 1
The first details of the 25th edition Turin Film Festival, led by Italian art house director Nanni Moretti, were disclosed in Berlin despite Moretti's absence due to a bout with the flu.The festival will run November 23 to December 1 and continue to boost new talent, focus on cutting edge ...
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Top Italian directors demand say in appointment of RAI cinema chief
Italy's top directors, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Gabriele Muccino, Dario Argento, Gianni Amelio, Ferzan Ozpetek, Paolo Virzi, Paolo Sorrentino and 116 others have written an open letter to RAI Cinema's board of directors asking to be taken into consideration in the naming of a new RAI Cinema director.The request follows the ...
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Nanni Moretti and long-time producer part ways
Film making duo Nanni Moretti and producer Angelo Barbagallo have separated after 20 years of film making together, Italian media reported Wednesday. The pair's prolific collaboration has produced Moretti's best-known work such as Dear Diary (Caro Diario, 1993), April (Aprile, 1998), 2001 Palme d'Or winner The Son's Room (La Stanza ...
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New Turin fund provides $648,125 for doc productions in 2007
The Turin Film Commission and the Northern Italian Turin-Piedmont Region have joined forces to set up the Piemonte Doc Film Fund by earmarking $648,125 (Euros 500,000) for documentary projects that are shot in the area or that employ local professionals for post-production work. The fund aims to promote about 20 ...