Box Office September 23-29. Despicable Me and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice still on top
For the third consecutive week, Despicable Me 4 dominates the Box Office with earnings of 541,128 euros, followed by Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which collects 528,226 euros. In third place, Vermiglio, a film set in Sicily at the end of World War II, rises with earnings...
Warner Bros. streaming platform Max to arrive in Australia in 2025
Warner Bros. announced its streaming service Max will arrive in Australia in the first half of 2025. Max was launched as HBO Max in spring 2020 in Latin America and Europe. In August 2022 it was announced that it would merge with Discovery+ with a corresponding name...
Disney+ intensifies control over sharing: fees for subscriptions and extra services increase
Disney+ is officially launching a crackdown on password sharing, offering a paid ‘extra member’ option. In fact, this week, Disney+ started informing its users about the new paid sharing modes available, offering the possibility of adding members from outside the...
Abruzzo Film Commission is officially born
The Fondazione Abruzzo Film Commission was officially born on September 26th with the signing of the notarial deed. The venue chosen to host the Foundation is Palazzo Dragonetti De Torres in L’Aquila. The members who will make up the Board of Directors are:...
Rai Board of Directors, new appointments presented
In the evening of today, 26 September 2024, the four new members of the Rai board of directors were voted in the Italian Parliament. The parliamentary appointments are in addition to the proposals for Rai made by the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance Giancarlo...
Anica, Alessandro Usai is the new president
This week is considered decisive for a number of internal junctures in the Italian audiovisual sector, with the election of the four members of the RAI Board of Directors and the appointment of the person who will lead ANICA. On this last point, the General Council of...
Tax credit, new platform to open soon
Italian Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli announced that the opening of the new platform for receiving tax credit applications is very close. This is how Giuli responded to the question time of the PD group held yesterday 25 September 2024 at Montecitorio Palace. The...
Italian Film Festival 2024 in Vietnam
From September 23th to September 29th, the Italian Film Festival 2024 will take place at the National Cinema Center in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, in collaboration with the Asian Film Festival in Rome. The aim is to promote Italian culture abroad through cinema by...
$2.2 billion to power cinemas in USA and Canada
An investment of $2.2 billion to modernise cinemas is the announcement made by the eight largest theatres chains in the US and Canada. As reported by Variety, B&B Theatres, Cinemark USA, Cineplex, Harkins Theatres, Marcus Theatres, MC Entertainment, Regal Cinemas,...
Tokyo Film Festival, competition line-up unveiled
The full program of the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival, which will run from October 28 to November 6, has been announced. The line up consists of 110 films, including a selection of ten world premieres by emerging talents, presented in the Asian Future...
Selective contributions: new Commission appointed
Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli appointed the new Commission of 15 experts appointed to select the projects that will access the selective contributions for the film and audiovisual sector. According to Article 26 of Law no. 220 of 14 November 2016...
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