Independent Spirit Awards, Call Me By Your Name gets six nominations. Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra runs up for Best Director.
The Independent Spirit Awards, assigned by the no-profit organization Film Independent, will be assign the night before Oscars’ ceremony and in the past three years they have been prophetic: Moonlight, Spotlight and Birdman, all winners of the Indipendent, won the...
Giornate Professionali del Cinema 2017, two premieres from MIA|Cinema What’s Next Italy
The 2017 edition of Giornate Professionali del Cinema will take place in Sorrento on 27-30 november, organized by ANEC (Associazione Nazionale Esercenti Cinema) in cooperation with ANICA and ANEM. Eight premieres are scheduled in this year’s edition, along with 17...
After Disney, Comcast and Verizon are chasing FOX
After the rumors about Disney chasing 21 Century Fox’s several assets, new informations revealed by US media put Murdoch’s company in the middle of a dispute between major audiovisual and entertainment giants as Comcast, Verizon, Sony and Amazon. Negotiations with...
Vision Distribution signed a distribution agreement with 20th Century Fox.
Vision Distribution signed an agreement with 20th Century Fox for the distribution on Home Entertainment and digital channels. The newborn society, created from an agreement between Sky, Cattleya, Wildside, Lucisano Media Group, Palomar and Indiana Production, will...
Netflix and Italy together again for tv show Baby, produced by Fabula Pictures.
Following Suburra, Netflix bets again on Italian productions with Baby, a new eight-episodes show produced by Nicola De Angelis’s Fabula Pictures (pictured) Inspired to the Baby Squillo scandal, a prostituition racket which involved several teenage girls of the rich...
Amazon acquired The Lord of the Rings’s television rights. The 250 mln dollars show is scheduled for 2020.
It’s confirmed: The Lord of the Rings will be a tv show. Amazon acquired the television rights for Tolkien’s masterpiece for 250 million dollars, the highest price for a tv production so far. According to Deadline, Jeff Bezos’s giant would be interested in the...
Oscar 2018, Cinderella the Cat selected for Best Animated Feature.
Cinderella The Cat by Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri and Dario Sansone (Mad Entertainment, Rai Cinema, Big Sur, Skydancers, Tramp Limited) figures in the list of films racing for the Best Animated Feature of the Oscars 2018. The official selection...
Les Arcs Festival, all the Italian films in the 9th edition
The Les Arcs Film Festival unveiled the programme of its 9th edition, which will take place on 16-23 December 2017. Among the ten films in the main competition there is Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli (What’s Next Italy 2016), winner of the Orizzonti Section at...
Is Disney about to acquire FOX?
Sources close to the deal have revealed rumors about a possible Disney acquisition of some FOX’s international assets, a deal that would enourmously change the global audiovisual landscape. The acquisition would be part of Disney’s strategy to reach a prevalent role...
Pinewood Television rebrands as Twelve Town. Helen Gregory: “creativity at the heart of producing process”.
After the full-acquisition by StoryFirst in September, Pinewood Television rebrands as Twelve Town and pens a deal with producing company Riff Raff, led by actor Jude Law and producer Ben Jackson. Twelve Town, which mantains Helen Gregory (speaker at MIA Market 2017’s...
