Laura Bispuri’s new feature film Figlia Mia (What’s Next Italy 2017)) will be part of the Official Competition of Berlinale 2018 (February 15-25). Film, starring Valeria Golino and Alba Rohrwacher, is a coproduction between Italy, Germany and Switzerland ((Vivo...
SAT-CAB regulation, proposed by VP of European Commission Andrus Ansip, has been mostly rejected by European Parliament, with great relief of the major part of audio-visual industry, against the regulation since its very proposal. SAT-CAB would allows broadcasters to...
At the end of the year, Netflix reveals the results of its original shows in 2017 and it’s not wrong to say that the most viewed tv shows in Italy as in the rest of the world are all available on the streaming platform, if we don’t consider of course HBO’s Game of...
Last Tuesday Apple added Amazon Prime Video to its OTT platform Apple TV, increasing the offering with the Amazon’s original products. This decision fits in the general turmoil of the end of the year which is completely changing the international audiovisual...
Every year, magazine Fabrique du Cinema assigns an award to the best of Italian cinema and on this edition it gets international: in addition to the usual awards, four new categories (best feature film, best shor film, best webseries and special award for best...
The new French reform on cinema production has been approved yesterday and it will come into force on 1 January 2018. I twill plays a significant role in production of feature films, tv shows and animated features, as CNC’s president Frédérique Bredin (pictured)...
Following the great success of Babylon Berlin, Beta Film joins forces with Sky and Wiedermann & Berg (Netflix’s original Dark) to produce Pagan Peak, a German-Austrian remake of Bron, the Scandi-noir who already inspired US’s The Bridge and UK’s The Tunnel. As the...
Little Tito, feature film directed by Paola Randi starring Valerio Mastandrea (What’s Next Italy 2016) as a widower professor living isolated in the Nevada desert, will go abroad soon: produced by Bibi Film and Rai Cinema, the film has been acquired by Time Vision for...
Peaky Blinders and Taboo’s creator Steven Knight will bring to television Charles Dickens’ A Christmas’ Carol. BBC One ordered a three-episodes series which will be produced by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Films, along with Tom Hardy and Dean Baker’s Hardy Son &...
Studios, the commercial production arm of BBC will merge with BBC WorldWide (BBCWW) in a new entity called BBC Studios. BBCWW and Studios have already cooperated in the past for the documentary Blue Planet II, and they are now united in a new organization led by CEO...
The 10th edition of TorinoFilmLab ended with its production awards assigned by an international jury headed by President of National Museum of Cinema Laura Milani and including Karim Aïnouz, Tala Hadid, Anna Rose Holmer and Georges Schoucair. Among the 12 selected and...