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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TorinoFilmLab, all the 10th edition’s awards. Sky and APT Awards for SeriesLab Italy.
The 10th edition of TorinoFilmLab ended with its production awards assigned by an international jury headed by President of National Museum of Cinema Laura Milani and including Karim Aïnouz, Tala Hadid, Anna Rose Holmer and Georges Schoucair. Among the 12 selected and...
The Girl in the Fog, four new foreign acquisitions
The Girl in the Fog by Donato Carrisi, adapted by the same author’s novel, has been acquired by Selim Ramia for Lebanon, Pictureworks for India, MovieCloud for Taiwan and by Road Pictures for China. The feature film, starring Toni Servillo and Alessio Boni, is...
Hulu doubled its foreign-language offer: Below the Surface and Midnight Sun acquired from Studiocanal
Hulu, the streaming platform founded in 2007 by Beth Comstock and Jason Kilar (still not available in Italy) has acquired Scandinavian thrillers Below the Surface and Midnight Sun form international distributor Studiocanal. Midnight Sun (pictured), created by...
Perfetti Sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers), Fred Cavayè to direct French remake Le Jeu (The Game).
Fred Cavayè will direct the French remake of Perfetti Sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers) by Paolo Genovese, winner of the David di Donatello 2016 for Best Movie and Best Screenplay and winner of the Best Movie Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. The feature film had a...
Council of Ministers: ok to Franceschini’s new cinema law.
Italian Council of Ministers officially approved the new decree on cinema developed by Minister Dario Franceschini, which faced the opposition of the main broadcasters in the country. New regulations will be applied since 2018, with a period of “adjustment” that will...
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