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Western Europe Slumming, Austria Acclaimed Austrian documentary maker Michael Glawogger, who just scooped the London Film Festival Grierson Award for 'Workingman's Death,' has turned to fiction for his latest work. [...]

The back-to-back film markets known as the London Screenings and Milan's MIFED have long been begrudgingly back-to-back on the autumn agenda for movie sellers and buyers from around the globe. [...]

ROME -- Martin Scorsese has turned down the post of director of the Venice International Film Festival. Italy's recently installed government, headed by conservative media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, had offered [...]

VENICE, Italy -- A new TV festival dedicated largely to all types of European TV product will launch in March from the Venice Lido, the same venue where the Venice [...]

ROME -- Days before Italy's soccer championship season kicks off, pubcaster RAI and the national soccer league are still waging a tug of war over the price of rights. As [...]

FOR ITALIAN DIRECTOR Gabriele Muccino, making movies in Hollywood has been a roller-coaster ride that began at the top, working with Will Smith as helmer of 'The Pursuit of Happyness' [...]

Blighty chancellor resorts to Force; Spaniards salivate over food shows; France debates mobile tax 1 CHINA Django Eventually Unchained Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained returned to Chinese multiplexes May 12 after [...]

Luxury living in Dubai, India film awards in Vancouver (1) Dubai The world's first Paramount-branded hotel is set for construction in Dubai, part of a $1 billion five-star facility, sold [...]

Zombies in India, Brazil TV shifts, Korean digital marketing 1 Russia What's a religious film fan to do? In mid-March, the Russian Orthodox Church urged followers to give up social [...]

ROME Starting with its smart opener, Ang Lee's 3D epic 'Life of Pi,' the Dubai Intl. Film Festival has assembled a classy cross-cultural mix of pics for its ninth edition, [...]

Rome wasn't rebuilt in six months. But Marco Mueller has certainly put his distinctive stamp on what was previously a somewhat shapeless fest. Time constraints due to protracted political bickering [...]

Clear signals that the Middle East is fostering a truly international film industry pervade all sections of the 6th Abu Dhabi Film Festival, starting with its opener, Wall Street thriller [...]

Call it the curse of the Lido's new Palazzo del Cinema. Plans to build new digs for the Venice fest have fallen through at least three times since 1938, when [...]

The 68th Venice Film Festival is shaping up as an especially strong edition, with a slew of hot titles secured more than three months in advance of its Aug. 31 [...]

Providing tangible evidence of the increasing need for payboxes around the world to add local fare to their mixes--rather than just being a pipeline for Hollywood fare--Sky Italia is churning [...]

MTV's 'Jersey Shore' housemates are about to spend their first summer break abroad, swapping their U.S. seaside digs for a holiday in Italy. And no one is more curious to [...]

Is unrest in the Arab world causing a production freeze in the Middle East? Yes, but not in Tunisia, it seems. Although the country that triggered all the turmoil has [...]

WHAT DO THE latest 'Star Wars,' 'Fast and Furious' and 'Star Trek' installments have in common? They all recently shot in the United Arab Emirates, where a combination of incentives, [...]

ROME In marked contrast with the excesses of its outset, the Intl. Rome Film Festival is seeking glory in gravitas. Having secured its spot on the international fest circuit and [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The upcoming Venice Film Festival is shaping up as a launching pad for plenty of U.S. kudos hopefuls, a strong European lineup and new works from big-name helmers [...]

ROME Five years after first beaming into Italian homes, Rupert Murdoch's Sky Italia satcaster is starting to shake up the country's TV landscape with its first batch of skeins centered [...]

When: Oct. 22-31 Where: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome Web: romacinefest.it ROME The road leading to the third Rome Film Festival has been rockier than the Appian Way. Everywhere in [...]

Among the offerings at the Toronto fest were Steven Soderbergh s Spanish-language 'Che,' as well as Brit helmer Danny Boyle's Mumbai-set 'Slumdog Millionaire,' in which Hindi is spoken for a [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Rome Film Festival is going local, with romancer 'L'Uomo che ama' (The Man Who Loves) opening its third edition Oct. 22. Pic was directed by Maria Sole [...]

Play it again, Che. While Steven Soderbergh's two-part epic 'Che' was regarded by many in Cannes as overlong and unwieldy, hurting its prospects for a North American distribution deal, a [...]

Circa May 2008, the Rome Film Festival seemed on the brink of collapse, weakened by civil warfare within the Eternal City, where Mayor Walter Veltroni, who had started the ambitious [...]

ROME With a flesh new four-year mandate, Marco Mueller finally has a chance to burnish his legacy on the Lido and take it to a higher plateau. But don't brand [...]

Darren Aronofsky's 'The Wrestler,' Jonathan Demme's 'Rachel Getting Married,' Kathryn Bigelow's 'The Hurt Locker' and Joel and Ethan Coen's 'Burn After Reading' will world preem at the 65th Venice Film [...]

The Coen brothers' 'Burn After Reading' will open the 65th Venice Film Festival. World preem of the dark spy comedy, starting George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and [...]

British helmer Joe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement' will open the 64th Venice Film Festival as a film in competition. Wright's sophomore follow-up to 'Pride and Prejudice' will world [...]

Spike Lee will shoot an Italy-set WWII drama based on 'Miracle at St. Anna,' author James McBride's novel about black American soldiers fighting the German army in the mountains of [...]

Quentin Tarantino is expected to attend the 64th Venice Intl. Film Festival as patron and presenter of a sidebar dedicated to the spaghetti Western genre. A selection of 40 Italo [...]

A mix of populist pics and more eclectic fare, with a decidedly European bent, makes up the 95-movie lineup of RomeFilmFest's first edition unveiled Tuesday. While organizers said preems were [...]

ROME Italian B-movies--that distinctive genre of gory, garish, and stylish pics that did killer biz for decades before going dormant in the early 1990s--have been reawakened by Quentin Tarantino. In [...]

The battle for Italian fest supremacy is heating up. The city of Venice has taken the first step toward securing private financing for a new Palazzo del Cinema for the [...]

Sitting in a Rome cafe on a scorching morning in late July, an Italian ice and a pile of local papers in front of him, Venice festival topper Marco Muller [...]

Italy is trying to come up with something that could compensate for Mifed's demise. And, in so doing, their efforts could rattle Venice, stirring the fest to fast-track plans for [...]

ROME -- Italian helmer Gabriele Muccino ('The Last Kiss') will direct Will Smith in Columbia Pictures' inspirational pic 'The Pursuit of Happyness,' based on the true rags-to-riches tale of Chicago [...]

ROME -- Steven Spielberg's airport dramedy 'The Terminal' will bow internationally at the 61st Venice Film Festival, which has been set to run Sept. 1-11, the event's new artistic director [...]

MILAN -- Italian Culture Minister Giuliano Urbani jetted to Mifed on Monday to pledge his support for the Milan mart and unveil plans to focus it on developing markets in [...]

ROME -- An Italian dubbers strike could jeopardize the planned fall releases of several U.S. studio titles, including Buena Vista's 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,' […]

AFMA's decision to shift the American Film Market's dates into the November time slot currently held by MIFED shook the European film industry Tuesday and prompted organizers of MIFED, the […]

CANNES -- The winds of market wars blew across the Croisette on Wednesday after an AFMA meeting during which the prospect of AFM moving into MIFED's November time slot gained […]

CANNES -- MIFED's upcoming 70th edition will be under new management, which is hatching a major revamp plan for the Milan film, television and multimedia market. In January, Europe's oldest […]

ROME -- Times are tough for Italy's independent film producers and distributors, with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset/Medusa and pubcaster RAI increasingly dominating the audiovisual industry and no alternative financing […]

ROME -- The Italian shoot of U.S. director F. Gary Gray's 'The Italian Job' is making waves in Venice. Scenes involving high-speed motorboat chases and gondola crashes in the canals […]

MILAN -- MIFED halls were abuzz Tuesday with talk about the Milan market's future as AFMA scheduled a meeting for today that many say will consider moving the American Film [...]

MILAN--Although Steven Soderbergh had vowed not to film another movie for a year once he completes work on 'Solaris,' which 20th Century Fox will release Nov. 27, another project has [...]

MILAN -- Thousands of buyers and sellers flocked to the halls of the 69th edition of MIFED Sunday, spurred by high hopes for the revamped market. But as the gray [...]

ROME -- Italy's Franco Bernabe Group has drafted a plan to launch a new Italian TV venture that aims to compete with dominant broadcasters RAI and Mediaset. Early talks are [...]