Sky-Mediaset: M. Berlusconi explains the details of the agreement
The agreement between the Italian giants Sky and Mediaset could change the assets of the national TV market. Marina Berlusconi brought us the details: The all-purpose peace truce Sky-Mediaset arrived just before Easter, and we have already sensed the first...
Italy to stop discretion in public funding for the cinema industry
In order to distribute public funding in the Italian cinema, automatic systems have been introduced to eliminate discretionality. 400 million euros a year to help the world of cinema. An amount of €400 million a year, which will be available after January 1st, 2017,...
The Man Who Stole Banksy, a docufilm on street art
The Man Who Stole Banksy, the new docufilm on street art and so much more. Marco Proserpio makes his debut as a film director with his new project The Man Who Stole Banksy, which cast we will find Iggy Pop, and that has been produced by Marco Proserpio and Rai Cinema....
$1.5 billion bond to fund new Netflix content
Netflix has launched a €1.2 billion bond in the market. The proceeds will be used to finance its expansion project. After presenting an ambitious expansión project on original content during See What’s Next, Netflix is looking for resources to finance it. It has...
Tokyo Italian Film Festival: all the films ready to conquer Japan
Italy gets to the third position as a distributor in Japan, thanks also to the help of the Tokyo Italian Film Festival (Festival del cinema italiano di Tokyo). Here are all the Italian films that could conquer among the Japanese audience. The Tokyo Italian Film...
Don Matteo confirms his success. The next season is near
It has been confirmed that it is one of the most followed TV series in Rai. The 11th season of Don Matteo achieved excellent results, and the next season could be close. Here’s what the production team said. The last episode of Don Matteo 11 got amazing audience...
Italy to launch a €24m National Plan bringing the cinema to schools
The cinema is going to school in Italy with the “Piano nazionale cinema per la scuola”, a National Plan to bring cinema into schools: the project will have a special seminar devoted to this issue and three calls to develop teaching programs. Italian schools have never...
Viacom launches ViacomLab for young audiences
Viacom launches ViacomLab, a long-term project that targets young audiences. In Italy, in 2017, the expenses for children aged 3 to 13 (about 6.2 million people) amounted to 3.3 billion euros, recording thus a growth of 1.3% compared to 2016. With an increasing birth...
Focus Diversity: homosexuality in cinema and TV
A rainbow flag both in the cinema and TV. The issue of LGBT has been approached in the small and the big screen much earlier than we might think. A slow but steady development that has given more and more space for sexual differences in all their many faces. It all...
Lovers Film Festival: all the LGBT cinema in Turin from April 20 to 24
The most important film festival dedicated to the LGBT world will be in Turin from the 20th to the 24th of April, 2018. Here are all the events of Lovers Film Festival. Since 1986 Lovers Film Festival has entered the Italian scene as the most important festival...
All the awarded short films at Corti d’Argento 2018
Claudio Santamaria received the first award yesterday at the 2018 edition of Corti d’Argento Awards, organized by the National Union of Italian Film Journalists (Sngci) in Casa del Cinema in Rome. The finish line was reached with The Millionairs, considered to be the...
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