Cinecittà comes back to being public: it’s a benchmark for the Italian audiovisual industry again.
After many years of crisis, Cinecittà is looking for a relaunch: it comes back to being public after the unsuccessful privatisation attempt started in 1997. The operation (figures have not been released yet) aims to make Via Tuscolana studios a benchmark for the...
Vision Distribution & Medusa announce commercial partnership.
Medusa Film and Vision Distribution have announced their partnership providing for the sales network of theatres to be shared, while maintaining an independent editorial line, including marketing activities and possible trade agreements. President of Vision...
PwC, UK to be the first VR market in Europe by 2021.
Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) presented its Global Entertainment & Media Outlook, an analysis of consumer data for the past five years and a prediction of their behaviour in the next five (2017-2021). According to the accounting firm report (focusing primarily on...
Great success for the web premiere of Non Uccidere, the crime TV series starring Miriam Leone.
Crime TV series Non Uccidere (created by Claudio Corbucci and starring Miriam Leone as a police inspector) was a success on the web. Rai has won the bet: the public broadcaster has premiered all the new episodes of the Freemantle noir series on RaiPlay (in advance of...
Karlovy Vary: Little Crusader (NCN 2013) among the selected films.
Among the films presented at the 2017 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, there is Little Crusader by Václav Kadrnka, which was selected at the Roman market NCN (New Cinema Network) in 2013 and won the Eurimages Co-production Development Awardat the time. Little...
Eurimages: two films from 2015-2016 MIA|Cinema among the funded projects.
The Board of Management of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund has approved the support for the production of 25 film projects, a documentary and an animation. The total amount allocated from the Board is € 7.104.430. Among the selected films, there are two...
Suburra, the prequel TV series to 2015 film on Netflix and Rai1 this fall.
Set the date in fall 2017 for one of the most anticipated Netflix titles of the year: based on the novel by Bonini and De Cataldo and prequel to the 2015 film by Stefano Sollima, Suburra (Cattleya, Rai Fiction) will be distributed on the streaming platform and then on...
Facebook becomes a TV: Teen shows coming up by the end of the summer.
The objective is two fold: to grow a video-related business which it is interesting in for a while, and to have a portion of the TV advertising spending (about tens of billions of dollars). Facebook has entered the audiovisual market too. After Netflix (House of...
APT objects to the extension of split payment
Split payment is the new VAT payment method introduced by the Italian financial act of 2015. This method applies in relations between private companies and public administration. This type of payment was used to reduce VAT evasion by ensuring that the public entity...
Netflix launches interactive storytelling to let baby spectators rewrite the plot
On-demand stories are the newest provocation by Netflix. From now on, users will be able to rewrite both the end and the actions of characters and Puss in Boots will be the first interactive story, maybe as a homage to the historic headquarters of Los Gatos in...
Netpitch Television: a project by APT and WGI
The TV one-to-one pitch session Netpitch Television took place on 22 June 2017 at Villa Blanc; the project was created by APT (Television Producers Association) and WGI (Writers Guild Italia). Sponsored by RAI Fiction, Mediaset, Fox Networks Group, 100Autori, Anac and...
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