New challenges for Italian cinema

New challenges for Italian cinema

Last year on March 27thANICA held an organized meeting in Rome “on the cinema scenarios and its prospects a few months after the so-expected Franceschini Law on cinema was released. A law that has been very welcomed, and which opportunities should be...
New challenges for Italian cinema

Les Unwanted de Europa, a film about the escape of Walter Benjamin

Les Unwanted de Europa is a film directed by Fabrizio Ferraro and distributed by Zombia which will be released in the movie theatres on April 24th (link to the trailer here). The movie tells the story, based on true events, of the last desperate hours of Walter...
New challenges for Italian cinema

CINEPERIFERIE launches a new tender for 200 thousand euros

The €200,000 “CINEPERIFERIE” tender has been launched, an initiative aimed at financing cultural projects to raise the value of city suburbs and communities based in these areas. The tender has been called by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Art...
New challenges for Italian cinema

Apple’s Original TV series is warming up the engines

Last year Apple announced the production of high-level original scripted programming set to compete with giants such as Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu. Recently, Eddie Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services shed some light on what will be their...
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Spanish TV against Netflix and Co.

The key players of the Spanish television get together to fight the giants from overseas. Mediaset España, Altresmedia, and TVE are creating an axis to bring to life a common platform so as to compete on the small screen international market, and especially to block...
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Growth prospects for Cairo Communication group

The growth of the Cairo Communication Group from 2016 to 2017 is surprising. Gross revenues rose from €631.7 million to €1.21 billion, the profit has doubled from €21.5 million in 2016, to reach €52 million in 2017. A dividend of 10 cents per share has been proposed,...
New challenges for Italian cinema

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’...
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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...
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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...
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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...
New challenges for Italian cinema

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...