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Vatican world premiere for Hardwicke's Nativity
New Line cinema's Virgin Mary themed picture Nativity is to hold its world premiere at the Vatican on November 24.Eagle Pictures, the film's Italian distributor, said the Catholic prelates, academics and experts in Catholicism gave approved the film's "poetic and faithful retelling of the Scriptures" after a private viewing.The premiere ...
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Vatican world premiere for Hardwicke's Nativity
New Line cinema's Virgin Mary themed picture Nativity is to hold its world premiere at the Vatican on November 24.Eagle Pictures, the film's Italian distributor, said Catholic prelates, academics and experts in Catholicism approved the film's "poetic and faithful retelling of the Scriptures" after a private viewing.The premiere of Catherine ...
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Three world premieres among competition entries at Turin
The line-up for the 24th editionof the Turin Film Festival (November 10-18) includes a feature film competitiondedicated to first and second works with a $26,000 (Euro 20,500) prize.The competition features internationaltitles from Algeria, Lebanon, Italy, USA, Spain, the Philippines, Japan, China,Iran, and Kazakhstan.The titles include world premieres from Italy'sMauro Santini ...
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Italian exhibitor pulls Miami Vice in release window row
Italian Multiplex Association ANEM has removed all copies of Miami Vice from Italian theatres in a row over DVD release windows.The action follows complaints raised yesterday by the country's entertainment trade organisation Agis about the gap between the UIP film's theatrical and DVD releases.President of ANEM Carlo Bernaschi told Screendaily.com ...
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Turin competition includes Serra's Honor de Cavalleria
The 24th edition of theTurin Film Festival, Italy's'cutting-edge film event, has unveiled itscomplete line-up. Clint Eastwood's Flags of our Fathers will kick off'thefestival, which runs Nov 10-18.This year's competition offirst and second features includes a mix of international titleshailing'from Algeria, Lebanon, Italy, the US, Spain, the Philippines,Japan,'China, Iran and Kazakhstan.Four ...
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Turin award gives funds to Argentos and Tullio Giordana
Marco Tullio Giordana and Darioand Asia Argento will be the first recipients of the $19,000 (Euros 15,000)prize Set Torino Piemonte - for actors, directors and producers working in Italy's Turin - Piedmont region.A $19,000 (Euros 15,000) prizewill be given to each of three recipients on behalf of the Film CommissionTorino ...
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Vittorio Cecchi Gori's Finmavi declared bankrupt
In yet another blow toItalian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori's long-avowed comeback - Finmavi -Cecchi Gori's financial holding company for his media group - has been declaredbankrupt by the Rome bankruptcy court, a press release issued by theCecchi Gori Group said late Monday.Cecchi Gori vowed to battlethe decision: 'I will ...
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Rome riches go to Russia's Playing The Victim
Russian drama Playing TheVictim (Izobrajaya Zhertvy) wasawarded the top Marco Aurelio prize at the Rome Film Fest's first editiontoday. The prize (awarded by a juryof fifty 50 Roman filmgoers led by Ettore Scola) includes a large cash prize of$252,310 (Euros 200,000), which was awarded to the film's director KirillSerebrennikov. Playing ...
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Industry finds first Rome Film Fest unique from Venice
As the Rome Film Festprepares to wrap its first edition on Saturday, the fears that it could not co-exist with Venice seem to have dissipated. .Although, of course, there remainsthe contentious issue of Rome's datesto be settled. Gaettano Blandini, General Director of Cinema at Italy's Culture Ministry told ScreenDaily.com the ...
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Tornatore film boasts sales to seven countries at Rome
Giuseppe Tornatore's La Sconosciuta (The Unknown) has been sold to seven countries at the inaugural Rome festival.The film, which marks the director's return to film-making aftera six-year hiatus, closed the Premiere section of the festival.Based on a storythe Sicilian director clipped from a newspaper years ago, the film was shot ...
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Rome Fest scales back activities after local train crash
Organisersof the Rome Film Fest suspended all activities beyond screenings and pressconferences Tuesday morning when two Rome underground trainscollided causing the death of at least one person.Immediatereports from Italian news agency ANSA confirmed two deaths and two hundredinjuries of which six are critical. Final injury counts are not yetdiscernable.Thecrash took ...
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Sellers predict Rome can help wrap-up autumn deals
As sales companies and buyers go terrace hopping in Rome thequestion on everyone's mind is will Rome's inaugural Business Street (Oct14-16) catch on' Turnout atop Hotel Bernini's terrazza - one of the ViaVeneto hubs for the 160 buyers and 50 sales companies at the market was full ofindustry regulars who ...
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Scorsese talks budgets and restorations in Rome
As his latest film The Departed screened at the inaugural Rome FilmFest, Martin Scorsese denied talk that the film would be his last big-budgetproject. Scorsesesaid that although his next film, the Japanese-themed Silence based on the book by Shusako Endo will have a lowerbudget, he wouldn't rule again directing films ...
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New Rome Fest opens with Kidman's star power
The first edition of theRome Film Fest kicked off today with Steven Shainberg's Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of Diane Arbus,starring Nicole Kidman.Kidman's presence on openingday amplified the glamour quotient of the inaugural festival, plugged from itsinception as a people's "festa" or party.Director Shainberg andKidman filed into the Santa Cecilia concert ...