The first season of Canneseries
As previously announced, the first “season” of the Cannes International Series Festival, also known as Canneseries, has officially started today, and it is the new section of the Cannes Film Festival devoted to TV series. Ten TV productions will be...
Some of the nominees to the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival
The Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, held this year from March 15th to the 25th, is one of the most important and successful events in the field of documentaries. The festival puts together different product types and formats, from journalistic reports...
Sky-Mediaset: a historic deal
On March 30th a historic agreement between Sky and Mediaset was announced. After years of never-ending legal and commercial disputes, the two biggest players in the TV market have come to terms in order to achieve a stronger position on the pay-TV market. The main...
New challenges for Italian cinema
Last year on March 27thANICA held an organized meeting in Rome “on the cinema scenarios and its prospects a few months after the so-expected Franceschini Law on cinema was released. A law that has been very welcomed, and which opportunities should be...
Les Unwanted de Europa, a film about the escape of Walter Benjamin
Les Unwanted de Europa is a film directed by Fabrizio Ferraro and distributed by Zombia which will be released in the movie theatres on April 24th (link to the trailer here). The movie tells the story, based on true events, of the last desperate hours of Walter...
CINEPERIFERIE launches a new tender for 200 thousand euros
The €200,000 “CINEPERIFERIE” tender has been launched, an initiative aimed at financing cultural projects to raise the value of city suburbs and communities based in these areas. The tender has been called by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Art...
The borders of many EU countries are torn down also for streaming subscriptions
There are no longer borders between the EU countries. From Easter Sunday on, those traveling in a European country different from their own who wish to see a football match or their favorite TV series will be able to do so as if it were sitting comfortably on their...
Apple’s Original TV series is warming up the engines
Last year Apple announced the production of high-level original scripted programming set to compete with giants such as Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu. Recently, Eddie Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services shed some light on what will be their...
Spanish TV against Netflix and Co.
The key players of the Spanish television get together to fight the giants from overseas. Mediaset España, Altresmedia, and TVE are creating an axis to bring to life a common platform so as to compete on the small screen international market, and especially to block...
Growth prospects for Cairo Communication group
The growth of the Cairo Communication Group from 2016 to 2017 is surprising. Gross revenues rose from €631.7 million to €1.21 billion, the profit has doubled from €21.5 million in 2016, to reach €52 million in 2017. A dividend of 10 cents per share has been proposed,...
Focus 2: The Impact of Brexit on the Audiovisual Market
Last week, in our first focus on the impact of Brexit in the audiovisual sector we took an overall look at the possible aftermath of leaving the EU for those industries in both the British and the EU sides, for which many sources are prophesizing ‘catastrophic’...
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