TIFF2024, Italian films featured at Toronto Film Festival announced

TIFF2024, Italian films featured at Toronto Film Festival announced

Countdown to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which will open its 49th edition on Thursday, September 5, two days before the conclusion of the one in Venice, and run until Sunday, September 15. The overlap with the Italian festival is not only in the...
Filming Italy Venice Award returns to the Laguna

Filming Italy Venice Award returns to the Laguna

The appointment with the Filming Italy Venice Award is back, which again this year during the Venice Film Festival will award the best films, TV series and talent of the last film and TV season, in collaboration with the monthly magazine Ciak. In addition, the award...
Capalbio Film Festival returns

Capalbio Film Festival returns

From September 19 to 22 the appointment with the Capalbio Film Festival is renewed, now in its third edition, under the direction of Steve Della Casa and Daniele Orazi. This year’s themes are storytelling and screenwriting, from book to screen, the stories and...
Fried chicken and unscripted shows for Chick-fil-A

Fried chicken and unscripted shows for Chick-fil-A

US fast food chain Chick-fil-A, which specialises in serving chicken food, is in talks with production companies and Hollywood studios to create original family-friendly and mostly unscripted shows. The company is looking to enter the reality sector, which has shrunk...
Locarno77 rewards Jane Campion with the Pardo d’onore

Locarno77 rewards Jane Campion with the Pardo d’onore

Locarno Film Festival honours Jane Campion with the Pardo d’onore Manor, awarded to the extraordinary personalities of cinema, not only for the quality of her work, which has already won an award at Cannes for Lessons of the Piano and two Oscars (for original...
Abruzzo region’s new call for short film production

Abruzzo region’s new call for short film production

The Abruzzo region’s call for proposals is online, which has allocated a total of 260,970.26 euros for the financing of non-continuous activities for “audiovisual production” in the region. In this case, the resources will be allocated to the...
Box office 12 – 18 August. Three Disney titles on the podium

Box office 12 – 18 August. Three Disney titles on the podium

On the podium of the weekly chart there are three Disney titles: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’, which remains at the top with a gain of €1,558,698, despite the arrival of ‘Alien: Romulus’, which, thanks also to Wednesday’s previews, reached...
Alain Delon, French movie star, passed away

Alain Delon, French movie star, passed away

Alain Delon, undisputed star of French and international cinema, died yesterday, August 18. From his beginnings in the theaters to the movies such as “Rocco and His Brothers,”, “The Leopard,” “L’Eclisse,” “The Swimming...
Rai Way increases margins and profits in the first half of 2024

Rai Way increases margins and profits in the first half of 2024

News from a few months ago, Rai Way had asked Citigroup to consider a merger with Ei Towers, Italy’s leading radio, TV and telecommunications infrastructure company. Rai holds 65% of Rai Way, while EI Towers is 60% controlled by the F2i fund and 40% by the...
The new calls for selective grants 2024

The new calls for selective grants 2024

Two of the new calls for applications for the Selective Grants line have come out. As for 2024, the calls for proposals will be divided into two sessions that will allow the submission of applications. The two Calls in question are: the Call for Selective Grants for...
The eight finalist projects of the Premio Solinas

The eight finalist projects of the Premio Solinas

The first phase of Premio Franco Solinas has concluded and the eight works that will go directly to the final selection have been revealed. Premio Solinas is aimed at feature film projects for cinema and multimedia platforms and has reached its 39th edition with as...