‘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...
Two Italian winners at the Hot Docs Festival
Hot Docs, the largest documentary festival in North America, announced its winner list. This year’s edition featured a noteworthy Italian presence, which proved their success with two awards. The first TIE! Special Jury Prize went to Vento Soave by Corrado...
Positive turnover for Rai’s 2017 financial statements
Rai has closed its 2017 financial statements with a positive turnover. The austerity policy has rewarded the company’s accounts, which ended the year with a profit of €14.3m. The Board of Directors of the Rai Group, headed by Monica Maggioni, unanimously...
Sky Italia among the co-producers of the new series ‘Catch-22’
Paramount Television, Anonymous Content, and Smokehouse Pictures will produce the new Catch-22 TV series, and Sky Italia is among its co-producers. The shooting of the series will begin in May and they will take place in Italy, between Rome and Sardinia, while it is...
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