My Brilliant Friend (GREENLit | MIA 2018) already sold in 130 territories, now lands in China
My Brilliant Friend confirms the success overseas. The TV series has already been sold in 130 territories, most recently it has been announced the agreement with the Chinese iQiyiyi platform. After the great results obtained by Elena Ferrante’s books, the TV...
2019 Golden Globe Nominations
The Golden Globe nominations have opened the season of Hollywood awards that will end with the Oscars. Vice, the biopic on Vice President Dick Cheney, got six nominations, while five on equal terms received Green Book, starring Viggo Mortensen, and A Star Is Born with...
The cinema reclaims the Italian summer
Revolution 2019: great films return to the cinema to bring back the audience. Thus, even in Italy, major productions enter the summer cinemas planning. Film industry and institutions together for cinema. The relaunch of cinema in the summer is announced in Sorrento,...
Call for co-development Italy – France 2018: the winning projects
Twelve projects have won the Italy-France co-development call, announced by the Directorate General for Cinema of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities. The Fund, established in 2013, aims to encourage co-productions of feature films between France and...
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New development plan for Netflix, the platform focuses on internationalization, not forgetting Europe. What future for Netflix? The SVoD platform has a clear development plan in place, which is based primarily on content enhancement. The content available will be...
British Council launches #FiveFilms4Freedom 2019
Working in partnership with BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the British Council makes five LGBTQ+ themed short films available for the world to watch online, for free, for a 12-day period. The line-up of films, featuring work by emerging filmmakers from across...
Sicilia Film Commission: new funding for the audiovisual sector
The Sicilia Film Commission finances 34 productions, available the ranking of the supported works among feature films, documentaries, TV series and short films. “It’s a commitment that we support with conviction – says Sandro Pappalardo (Councillor...
New acquisitions for Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro
Loro (Them), Paolo Sorrentino’s new film about Silvio Berlusconi (played by Toni Servillo), has been acquired by Curzon Artificial Eye for the United Kingdom, by Jinjin Pictures for North Corea, by Selmer Media for Norway and Sweden e by Infotainment for China. The...
Elisabetta Sgarbi’s new film ‘I nomi del Signor Sulcic’ Presented at the Torino Film Festival
Presented at the Torino Film Festival, Elisabetta Sgarbi’s new film, I nomi del Signor Sulcic (The Names of Mr. Sulcic). It’s a journey into memory that tells the story of the tailing of a ghost. Written together with Eugenio Lio, the film plays on the...
Bernardo Bertolucci, Oscar-Winning director of ‘The Last Emperor,’ dies aged 77
Bernardo Bertolucci, an internationally renowned master of Italian cinema, dies at the age of 77. Author, director, screenwriter and film producer, he has directed films that left a mark in the history of cinema such as Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Sheltering Sky...
Pay TV crisis in the United States
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