The Place (What’s Next Italy 2017), five new European acquisitions.
Five new acquisitions for The Place, the last film by Paolo Genovese (Perfect Strangers), produced by Lotus Production and Medusa Film, world sales assigned to True Colours. The feature film, an adaptation of the tv show Booth at the End, has been acquired by Bodega...
Berlinale 2018, Laura Bispuri’s Figlia Mia (What’s Next Italy 2017) in the Official Competition.
Laura Bispuri’s new feature film Figlia Mia (What’s Next Italy 2017)) will be part of the Official Competition of Berlinale 2018 (February 15-25). Film, starring Valeria Golino and Alba Rohrwacher, is a coproduction between Italy, Germany and Switzerland ((Vivo...
SAT-CAB, European Parliament rejects the regulation.
SAT-CAB regulation, proposed by VP of European Commission Andrus Ansip, has been mostly rejected by European Parliament, with great relief of the major part of audio-visual industry, against the regulation since its very proposal. SAT-CAB would allows broadcasters to...
Netflix in a year: American Vandal, The Crown, Narcos and Stranger Things the most viewed shows in Italy.
At the end of the year, Netflix reveals the results of its original shows in 2017 and it’s not wrong to say that the most viewed tv shows in Italy as in the rest of the world are all available on the streaming platform, if we don’t consider of course HBO’s Game of...
Market revolution, traditional medias lost 3,1% of their clients to OTT services.
Last Tuesday Apple added Amazon Prime Video to its OTT platform Apple TV, increasing the offering with the Amazon’s original products. This decision fits in the general turmoil of the end of the year which is completely changing the international audiovisual...
Fabrique du Cinema Awards, all the nominations. December 15th the awards ceremony.
Every year, magazine Fabrique du Cinema assigns an award to the best of Italian cinema and on this edition it gets international: in addition to the usual awards, four new categories (best feature film, best shor film, best webseries and special award for best...
French Film’s production reform approved.
The new French reform on cinema production has been approved yesterday and it will come into force on 1 January 2018. I twill plays a significant role in production of feature films, tv shows and animated features, as CNC’s president Frédérique Bredin (pictured)...
German ‘Renaissance’: Beta Film, Sky (Babylon Berlin) and Wiedermann & Berg (Dark) to produce noir Pagan Peak
Following the great success of Babylon Berlin, Beta Film joins forces with Sky and Wiedermann & Berg (Netflix’s original Dark) to produce Pagan Peak, a German-Austrian remake of Bron, the Scandi-noir who already inspired US’s The Bridge and UK’s The Tunnel. As the...
Little Tito (NCN 2012 What’s Next Italy 2016), three new foreign acquisitions.
Little Tito, feature film directed by Paola Randi starring Valerio Mastandrea (What’s Next Italy 2016) as a widower professor living isolated in the Nevada desert, will go abroad soon: produced by Bibi Film and Rai Cinema, the film has been acquired by Time Vision for...
BBC One to order Dickens’ A Christmas’ Carol, adapted by Scott Free Film and Hardy Son & Baker
Peaky Blinders and Taboo’s creator Steven Knight will bring to television Charles Dickens’ A Christmas’ Carol. BBC One ordered a three-episodes series which will be produced by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Films, along with Tom Hardy and Dean Baker’s Hardy Son &...
BBC merges Studios and WorlWide
Studios, the commercial production arm of BBC will merge with BBC WorldWide (BBCWW) in a new entity called BBC Studios. BBCWW and Studios have already cooperated in the past for the documentary Blue Planet II, and they are now united in a new organization led by CEO...
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