Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Gianni Amelio’s “Lord of the Ants,” a biopic of Italian poet and playwright Aldo Braibanti, who was jailed in 1968 due to a Fascist-era anti-gay law, has reached the top spot at Italy’s box office following its launch from the Venice Film Festival. “Ants” on Monday reached the numero uno position at the local box office roster with a €483,474 ($487,000) intake from more than 300 screens following its September 8 release. While far from stellar in normal times, this result is being hailed as an encouraging sign for the country’s still sagging post-pandemic theatrical sector. Amelio’s film is now ahead of Japanese anime pic “Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo,” which was released as an event on Monday for a three day run, and “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” which is at the end of its run, following it’s Aug. 18 Italian outing.
Kabir Bedi Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at Venice
03.09.2022 - 19:35 / variety.com
Naman Ramachandran Veteran Indian actor Kabir Bedi, who has an extensive body of work in Italy including all-time favorite television series “Sandokan,” was conferred a lifetime achievement award at Venice on Saturday. Bedi was presented with the Filming Italy Movie Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Production Bridge market. The award was presented by producer and actor Tiziana Rocca and Roberto Stabile, the head of the international department of Italian national audiovisual body ANICA. The actor, who has served as an unofficial ambassador for Indo-Italian relations for some four decades, said during his acceptance speech, “I have tried to make people in Italy focus on India for many years, and people in India focus on Italy for many years.”
“Since the time of ‘Sandokan,’ I’ve done over six major series in Italy and not many people realize that really Bollywood and Hollywood are a far lesser part of my life than my career in Italy,” Bedi added. Bedi’s early hits in Bollywood include “Kuchhe Dhaage” (1973), “Ishk Ishk Ishk” (1974) and “Nagin” (1976). “I realized very quickly that unless I wanted to be a singing dancing star, I could not be a leading man in Bollywood. So I knew I had to reach out for a career abroad. And it was the Italians that gave me the opportunity to come to Italy by giving me this iconic role of Sandokan,” Bedi said. Based on novels by Emilio Salgari, featuring the dashing pirate hero Sandokan who fought against the British colonisers, the television series began in 1976 and fired the Italian popular imagination, gathering a record 34% audience share. Several subsequent series and films revolving around the character followed. Bedi’s career in the U.S. includes a long run on “The Bold and
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