Focus 2: The Impact of Brexit on the Audiovisual Market
Last week, in our first focus on the impact of Brexit in the audiovisual sector we took an overall look at the possible aftermath of leaving the EU for those industries in both the British and the EU sides, for which many sources are prophesizing ‘catastrophic’...
Sollima and Saviano return to the small screen
After the big success of Gomorra – La serie, the director Stefano Sollima has now started shooting Zero, zero, zero, based on the homonymous novel by Roberto Saviano. The series will bring us eight episodes of the investigations run by Roberto on international...
Molotov.tv is going to blow our minds
The idea of Molotov.tv is a bomb, just like its name. A single platform that will allow you to watch programs on demand and record them in the cloud to watch them later or pause them even during a live show as if you were watching DVD. The strategy behind this...
Le Winx debut in Piazza Affari
As we had already anticipated in one of our previous articles, the next major project of Rainbow, in partnership with Netflix, is to expand the audience of Winx by turning the cartoon into a “live action” series (for more info., read here). But this is not...
Marriage Vacation will really be a book
It is quite common to find novels that are taken as a source of inspiration for TV series. In rare occasions, however, this process can be inverted, and a series might also become a book (such is the case of adaptations like CSI, Star Trek or The X Files). But what...
Love and Bullets and Nico, 1988, stars of David Awards
We would like to congratulate the team of Love and Bullets for their great success in achieving 5 David di Donatello Awards, among which the best picture prize: the statuette for best supporting actress went to Claudia Gerini and the award for best costume design was...
Deep State: first European production for Fox
Deep State is a European TV production from Fox set to be released in Italy on the 9th of April. “We tell about the dismay and uncertainty that we experience when we watch the news”, says Mark Strong, who will be playing the main character. The idea is to...
The Impact of Brexit on the Audiovisual Market: Opportunities and Challenges Open up in Both Sides Of The Channel
With the breaking news of the UK reaching an agreement with the EU on the transition period of the Brexit – set up to begin after Brexit day, 29 March 2019 – we might be able to shed some light on the mystery of how the future is going to unwrap for all the key...
Censorship brought to the big screen in torino
Film censorship will be the star of Proibitissimo!, a new project set up to be released from the 23rd of March to the 15th of April in PAV (Parco Arte Vivente di Torino). Born from Irene Dionisio’s idea and created by Viola Invernizzi, the show retrieves from...
Two projects presented at MIA|Co-Production Market 2017 come true
Congratulations to Edoardo De Angelis, who has started the filming of his new project: The Vice of Hope. The movie, written in collaboration with Umberto Contarello, was presented in the last edition of the MIA|Co-production Market and Pitching Forum, and narrates...
The right to be forgotten: the Italian Court defends the cause of Venditti
The Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) has upheld the appeal of Antonello Venditti against Rai (the national public broadcasting company of Italy) on the issue of the right to be forgotten. Rai was accused of having aired, after five years of its first...
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