Comcast against Fox: the battle for Sky
In the heated up battle between Comcast and Fox for Sky, Comcast officially unveils a £22 billion takeover bid. Comcast’s offer is now official: the American group has announced that it is ready to pay £22b to acquire Sky in full or about £12.50 pounds for each...
Distribution of the 27 million euros cinema fund for 2017
Here is the allocation of the unused funds for the year 2017 and their purpose: The unused funds destined to the audiovisual and the cinema industry in 2017, which adds up to about €27million and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (Mibact)...
Sky-Mediaset: M. Berlusconi explains the details of the agreement
The agreement between the Italian giants Sky and Mediaset could change the assets of the national TV market. Marina Berlusconi brought us the details: The all-purpose peace truce Sky-Mediaset arrived just before Easter, and we have already sensed the first...
Italy to stop discretion in public funding for the cinema industry
In order to distribute public funding in the Italian cinema, automatic systems have been introduced to eliminate discretionality. 400 million euros a year to help the world of cinema. An amount of €400 million a year, which will be available after January 1st, 2017,...
The Man Who Stole Banksy, a docufilm on street art
The Man Who Stole Banksy, the new docufilm on street art and so much more. Marco Proserpio makes his debut as a film director with his new project The Man Who Stole Banksy, which cast we will find Iggy Pop, and that has been produced by Marco Proserpio and Rai Cinema....
$1.5 billion bond to fund new Netflix content
Netflix has launched a €1.2 billion bond in the market. The proceeds will be used to finance its expansion project. After presenting an ambitious expansión project on original content during See What’s Next, Netflix is looking for resources to finance it. It has...
Tokyo Italian Film Festival: all the films ready to conquer Japan
Italy gets to the third position as a distributor in Japan, thanks also to the help of the Tokyo Italian Film Festival (Festival del cinema italiano di Tokyo). Here are all the Italian films that could conquer among the Japanese audience. The Tokyo Italian Film...
Don Matteo confirms his success. The next season is near
It has been confirmed that it is one of the most followed TV series in Rai. The 11th season of Don Matteo achieved excellent results, and the next season could be close. Here’s what the production team said. The last episode of Don Matteo 11 got amazing audience...
Italy to launch a €24m National Plan bringing the cinema to schools
The cinema is going to school in Italy with the “Piano nazionale cinema per la scuola”, a National Plan to bring cinema into schools: the project will have a special seminar devoted to this issue and three calls to develop teaching programs. Italian schools have never...
Viacom launches ViacomLab for young audiences
Viacom launches ViacomLab, a long-term project that targets young audiences. In Italy, in 2017, the expenses for children aged 3 to 13 (about 6.2 million people) amounted to 3.3 billion euros, recording thus a growth of 1.3% compared to 2016. With an increasing birth...
