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Gains and losses of the largest Italian broadcasting companies in 2017

The cursed journey of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

9 May 2018

The “curse” that seems to follow The Man Who Killed Don Quixote still goes on. The director, Terry Gilliam, who just suffered a stroke, will not be able to make it to Cannes. After two decades of attempts, the director finally managed to finish his film and The Man...
Gains and losses of the largest Italian broadcasting companies in 2017

Comcast re-launches its bid for Fox

9 May 2018

Comcast is ready to ruin the marriage Disney-21st Century Fox with a $60 billion counter-offer. Comcast, the largest broadband company in the U.S., seems to be willing to re-launch its bid to acquire the Fox group. The owner of NBC-Universal assembled as much as $60b...
Gains and losses of the largest Italian broadcasting companies in 2017

Two Italian winners at the Hot Docs Festival

8 May 2018

Hot Docs, the largest documentary festival in North America, announced its winner list. This year’s edition featured a noteworthy Italian presence, which proved their success with two awards. The first TIE! Special Jury Prize went to Vento Soave by Corrado...
Gains and losses of the largest Italian broadcasting companies in 2017

Positive turnover for Rai’s 2017 financial statements

8 May 2018

Rai has closed its 2017 financial statements with a positive turnover. The austerity policy has rewarded the company’s accounts, which ended the year with a profit of €14.3m. The Board of Directors of the Rai Group, headed by Monica Maggioni, unanimously...
Gains and losses of the largest Italian broadcasting companies in 2017

Sky Italia among the co-producers of the new series ‘Catch-22’

8 May 2018

Paramount Television, Anonymous Content, and Smokehouse Pictures will produce the new Catch-22 TV series, and Sky Italia is among its co-producers. The shooting of the series will begin in May and they will take place in Italy, between Rome and Sardinia, while it is...
Gains and losses of the largest Italian broadcasting companies in 2017

Veneto Film Commission to be launched

7 May 2018

5 million funds have been approved to launch the Veneto Film Commission. The announcement was released on the occasion of the “Stati Generali del Cinema Veneto”. The official presentation of the long-awaited Film Commission will take place during the 75th Venice Film...
Gains and losses of the largest Italian broadcasting companies in 2017

“Fare cinema”: Italian crafts brought to the world

7 May 2018

“Fare cinema” is an initiative aimed at promoting quality Italian film productions: 100 artists will bring their stories from 21 to 27 May 2018. One hundred ambassadors for Italian cinema. There will be a hundred testimonials bringing the professionalism...
Gains and losses of the largest Italian broadcasting companies in 2017

Rai, France Télévisions and Zdf team up for fiction

4 May 2018

Rai, France Télévisions and Zdf team up for fiction. An alliance for the co-production of content for the three public television services of Italy, France, and Germany. Here are all the details of the partnership. Under the name “The Alliance”, the...
Gains and losses of the largest Italian broadcasting companies in 2017

Rakuten TV is leading the video-on-demand market

4 May 2018

Born from the eponymous Japanese e-commerce giant, Rakuten TV has recently arrived in Italy but is rapidly expanding across the continent. At the time being, it has already reached more than five million users in Europe who can choose over a catalog of 40,000 titles,...