Call for proposals Italy-France I session 2024, grant awarded
The complete ranking of the projects that applied to the I session 2024 of the Call for Selective Grants for the development and co-production of French-Italian cinematographic works and audiovisual series has been published on the institutional website of...
TorinoFilmLab selects two co-productions for the TFL Co-Production Fund
TorinoFilmLab, a Turin-based institution that supports the production and distribution of feature films (fiction, documentary and animation) co-produced by European companies with international partners, has selected Awaiting Birds and Past Future Continuous to...
New at Venice 2024, a section for TV series
The novelty of this edition of Venice International Film Festival, scheduled from 28 August to 7 September, is a special Out of Competition section dedicated to television series. In this way, the oldest festival in the world proves to be sensitive to contemporaneity...
Italy – Serbia, agreement on film co-production
After being signed in Belgrade on March 21, 2023, the Agreement on film co-production between the Government of the Republic of Italy and the Government of Serbia entered into force on August 4. An agreement that is valid for 5 years, with tacit renewal, and which...
A new homepage for MAX
On the homepage of Max, the streaming TV platform created by the merger of Hbo Max and Discovery+, changes were introduced in December, then implemented from the end of July to recommend TV programmes and films more closely to each user’s tastes, Liesel Kipp,...
Discovery Italia, profit up
Autumn programme schedules in hand, from September Discovery will be able to count on the presence of Amadeus alongside Fabio Fazio and Maurizio Crozza on Nine. Their presence is proof that Warner Bros Discovery in Italy wants to create a true generalist offer with...
The rise of IMAX cinemas
IMAX cinemas experienced growth last year, the pinnacle of a trend that has seen IMAX screens flourish. IMAX screens have higher quality and are larger than those of other cinemas, thanks in part to Christopher Nolan’s film The Dark Knight Rises. Some scenes...
ITTV International Forum returns to Venice with women in TV and film industry panel
For the fifth consecutive year during the Venice Film Festival, the ITTV International Forum returns, together with TechInEntertainment, exploring new and alternative means of developing and producing audiovisual content, focusing on cutting-edge technologies. The...
Imaginaria – International Animated Film Festival, back from 18 to 25 August
Back in Conversano (Bari), August 18-25, Imaginaria – International Animated Film Festival, now in its 22nd edition. The festival’s categories are: INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION, which is the main selection; the GRADUATION SHORT FILM COMPETITION;...
Box Office 24 July – 04 August. Podium unchanged with Deadpool and Wolverine in the lead
The weekly box office kept the podium unchanged with Deadpool and Wolverine in first place (€ 43,528,306), followed by Inside Out 2 and Twister which maintained second and third place with respective takings of € 44,374,993 and € 1,277,365. In fourth place, a new...
