BAFTA 2018: the winners of the British television
The BAFTA Awards (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) have crowned the protagonists and the best British TV series. Unexpectedly in the top category of the BAFTA Awards, Best Drama Series, BBC’s Peaky Blinders took a surprise win, passing ahead of the...
Germany taxes on Netflix and other OTTs
Germany recently decided to establish a new tax for video on demand suppliers to finance the national cinema industry. A provision that has already received the support of the European Union. How to protect the local audiovisual productions? The new measures are quite...‘The Weekly’ partnership between The New York Times and FX
The New York Times has teamed up with FX and Hulu on a new documentary series called “The Weekly”. The American cable channel announced on Wednesday their distribution deals of a new weekly documentary series narrating stories that appear in The Times and the...
‘My Body Will Bury You’ (MIA 2015): agreement for its international distribution with UDI
After being presented at the New Cinema Network of MIA 2015, Giovanni La Parola’s My Body Will Bury You has captured the interest of Urban Distribution International. Here are all the details of the distribution agreement. Giovanni La Parola’s My body will bury is set...
Interview to Giancarlo Leone, president of the APT – Television Producers Association
MIA is defining its identity as a well-established hub for the audiovisual market, and it has gained an increasingly stronger positioning among the international events of its kind. To what extent have the worldwide success and the promotion of Italian TV...
The longest Italian soap opera reaches the milestone of 5000 episodes
Tomorrow the Italian series Un Posto al Sole will reach its 5000th episode. Created in 1996 by the director of Rai 3 Giovanni Minoli, the famous soap opera set in Naples has been confirmed as the longest-running Italian drama TV series, which received remarkable...
New rumors on the Microsoft-Netflix partnership
The famous and influential Wall Street media and entertainment analyst Porter Bibb, dropped the bombshell on CNBC’s “Squawk Box”: the upcoming ‘wedding’ between Microsoft and Netflix. According to Bibb, the two giants would have been...
Gains and losses of the largest Italian broadcasting companies in 2017
Viacom rose by 20.6%, while Fox and La7 TV dropped. Rai and Mediaset closed in equal numbers, and Sky Italia positioned themselves at the top of the revenues league. The 2017 accounts are closed and it is, therefore, possible to compare the results of the different...
The cursed journey of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
The “curse” that seems to follow The Man Who Killed Don Quixote still goes on. The director, Terry Gilliam, who just suffered a stroke, will not be able to make it to Cannes. After two decades of attempts, the director finally managed to finish his film and The Man...
Comcast re-launches its bid for Fox
Comcast is ready to ruin the marriage Disney-21st Century Fox with a $60 billion counter-offer. Comcast, the largest broadband company in the U.S., seems to be willing to re-launch its bid to acquire the Fox group. The owner of NBC-Universal assembled as much as $60b...
