Roman Polanski’s black comedy “The Palace” was given a tepid three-minutes of applause when it world premiered in the Palazzo del Cinema’s Sala Grande on Saturday night.
Producer Luca Barbareschi, French star Fanny Ardant and other key cast members including German actor Oliver Masucci (“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore”), Portugal’s Joaquim de Almeida and Italy’s Fortunato Cerlino (”Gomorrah”) stood up and took a bow, but the audience’s response seemed to be more polite than exited, though there were occasional bursts of laughter during the screening.
Before the film’s premiere “The Palace” set designer Tonino Zera received Venice’s Campari Passion for Film prize from artistic director Alberto Barbera.
Polanski directed the black comedy from a screenplay he wrote alongside Jerzy Skolimowski and Ewa Piaskowska. “The Palace” takes place during New Year’s Eve in 1999, when a dinner party at Switzerland’s Gstaad Palace hotel takes an unexpected turn.
Producer Luca Barbareschi, French star Fanny Ardant and other key cast members including German actor Oliver Masucci (“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore”), Portugal’s Joaquim de Almeida and Italy’s Fortunato Cerlino (”Gomorrah”) stood up and took a bow, but the audience’s response seemed to be more polite than exited, though there were occasional bursts of laughter during the screening.
Before the film’s premiere “The Palace” set designer Tonino Zera received Venice’s Campari Passion for Film prize from artistic director Alberto Barbera.
Polanski directed the black comedy from a screenplay he wrote alongside Jerzy Skolimowski and Ewa Piaskowska. “The Palace” takes place during New Year’s Eve in 1999, when a dinner party at Switzerland’s Gstaad Palace hotel takes an unexpected turn.
- 9/2/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli and Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Directed by Aleksey Nuzhny, the film is produced by the heavyweight trio of Leonid Vereschagin, Anton Zlatopolskiy and Nikita Mikhalkov.
Leading Russian sales agent and distributor Central Partnership is launching pre-sales at Afm on big-budget action film Fire.
Directed by Aleksey Nuzhny, the film is produced by the heavyweight trio of Leonid Vereschagin, Anton Zlatopolskiy and Nikita Mikhalkov, who collaborated on Olympic basketball movie Three Seconds (aka Going Vertical), Russia’s highest-grossing film ever.
Fire follows so-called “smoke jumpers”, rescuers called on to show extreme bravery on a regular basis in putting out forest fires. The film, which is in post-production,...
Leading Russian sales agent and distributor Central Partnership is launching pre-sales at Afm on big-budget action film Fire.
Directed by Aleksey Nuzhny, the film is produced by the heavyweight trio of Leonid Vereschagin, Anton Zlatopolskiy and Nikita Mikhalkov, who collaborated on Olympic basketball movie Three Seconds (aka Going Vertical), Russia’s highest-grossing film ever.
Fire follows so-called “smoke jumpers”, rescuers called on to show extreme bravery on a regular basis in putting out forest fires. The film, which is in post-production,...
- 11/9/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
The WW2 film has also newly sold to Japan Italy, the Gulf and Taiwan.
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired UK rights to $10m Russian tank movie T-34 from Moscow-based sales agent Mars Media. In the wake of the Afm, Mars Media has also sealed deals with Gulf (Middle East), Twin Co (Japan), Movie Cloud (Taiwan) and Minvera (Itay).
These follow deals already announced for Germany (Tiberius), Spain (Mediaset), Benelux (Dutch Film Works), Baltics (Garsu) and Korea (Korea Screen.) A French deal is expected to be concluded imminently.
Written and directed by Alexey Sidorov, T-34 in set 1941 during the height of the Second World War.
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired UK rights to $10m Russian tank movie T-34 from Moscow-based sales agent Mars Media. In the wake of the Afm, Mars Media has also sealed deals with Gulf (Middle East), Twin Co (Japan), Movie Cloud (Taiwan) and Minvera (Itay).
These follow deals already announced for Germany (Tiberius), Spain (Mediaset), Benelux (Dutch Film Works), Baltics (Garsu) and Korea (Korea Screen.) A French deal is expected to be concluded imminently.
Written and directed by Alexey Sidorov, T-34 in set 1941 during the height of the Second World War.
- 11/21/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The WW2 film has also newly sold to Japan Italy, the Gulf and Taiwan.
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired UK rights to $10m Russian tank movie T-34 from Moscow-based sales agent Mars Media. In the wake of the Afm, Mars Media has also sealed deals with Gulf (Middle East), Twin Co (Japan), Movie Cloud (Taiwan) and Minvera (Itay).
These follow deals already announced for Germany (Tiberius), Spain (Mediaset), Benelux (Dutch Film Works), Baltics (Garsu) and Korea (Korea Screen.) A French deal is expected to be concluded imminently.
Written and directed by Alexey Sidorov, T-34 in set 1941 during the height of the Second World War.
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired UK rights to $10m Russian tank movie T-34 from Moscow-based sales agent Mars Media. In the wake of the Afm, Mars Media has also sealed deals with Gulf (Middle East), Twin Co (Japan), Movie Cloud (Taiwan) and Minvera (Itay).
These follow deals already announced for Germany (Tiberius), Spain (Mediaset), Benelux (Dutch Film Works), Baltics (Garsu) and Korea (Korea Screen.) A French deal is expected to be concluded imminently.
Written and directed by Alexey Sidorov, T-34 in set 1941 during the height of the Second World War.
- 11/21/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
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