Disney is willing to purchase 21st Century Fox at all costs, and yesterday raised its bid to $71.3 billion (in cash and stock), which comes down to $38 a share. The giant led by Bob Iger has raised its bet for the assets sold by Fox, namely the British Sky, Star...
The Pesaro Film Festival (16-23 June 2018) focuses this year on “Women in Italian Cinema”, with its special section We Want Cinema. For its 54th edition, the Pesaro Film Festival proposes in its programme a section entirely devoted to women in Italian...
The new Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (MiBACT) Alberto Bonisoli issued statements on the Cinema Law. Here are the details. The new calls for the allocation of contributions to films and audiovisual works for 2018 have been published on the...
The profits of Lux Vide have doubled, with a €1.2 million coupon for its partners and revenues of €58 million for 2017. This has been a golden year for the Lux Vide. The Italian production company founded by Ettore Bernabei has gathered countless achievements, as...
Netflix shares in Wall Street do not seem to be affected by the merger between AT&T and Time Warner, the telecommunications giant that will revolutionize the competitive scenario of online film distribution, TV series, and other entertainment content. Goldman...
The Foreign Press Association in Italy has awarded one more year the best of the Italian cinema in the 58th edition of the Globi d’Oro (Italian Golden Globes Awards). Here is the winner list. In the wonderful setting of Villa Medici in Rome, the Foreign Press...
Cattleya is betting on TV. After the important success of some TV series, the production company has started working on new projects like Gomorra 5, Django, and Suspiria de profundis. In recent years Cattleya has produced some true successes, among which Gomorrah is...
The 29th edition of the Sunny Side of the Doc will take place in La Rochelle, on the French Atlantic coast, from 25-28 June 2018. Over 2,000 industry professionals are expected to attend this event on documentaries. “Culture in Motion” will be this year’s...
Pier Silvio Berlusconi has unveiled the plans of Mediaset for the future. A major focus on free-to-air TV and possible international cooperations are expected. During the presentation of the Fifa World Cup by Mediaset, Pier Silvio Berlusconi made some comments on the...
After What’s next Italy | MIA 2017, Two Small Italians by Paolo Sassanelli arrives in theatres from 14 June 2018. Key Films will distribute the film by Paolo Sassanelli, Two Small Italians, a project presented at What’s next Italy | MIA 2017. Two Small...
Published by the Directorate-General for Cinema of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (MiBACT), the ranking list of contributions to festivals, film events, and awards of national and international relevance for the year 2017. The...
After 2 years the companies Ballandi Multimedia and Ballandi Arts have been reunified. Entertainment and cultural production team up again thanks to a management buy-out operation. A few months after the death of the TV Lord Bibi Ballandi, the producer Mario Paloschi...