Little Tito (NCN 2012 What’s Next Italy 2016), three new foreign acquisitions.
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...
BBC One to order Dickens’ A Christmas’ Carol, adapted by Scott Free Film and Hardy Son & Baker
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 &...
BBC merges Studios and WorlWide
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...
Intervista di Francesca Cima, Presidente Anica Produttori, a ItaliaOggi
TorinoFilmLab, all the 10th edition’s awards. Sky and APT Awards for SeriesLab Italy.
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...
The Girl in the Fog, four new foreign acquisitions
The Girl in the Fog by Donato Carrisi, adapted by the same author’s novel, has been acquired by Selim Ramia for Lebanon, Pictureworks for India, MovieCloud for Taiwan and by Road Pictures for China. The feature film, starring Toni Servillo and Alessio Boni, is...
Hulu doubled its foreign-language offer: Below the Surface and Midnight Sun acquired from Studiocanal
Hulu, the streaming platform founded in 2007 by Beth Comstock and Jason Kilar (still not available in Italy) has acquired Scandinavian thrillers Below the Surface and Midnight Sun form international distributor Studiocanal. Midnight Sun (pictured), created by...
Perfetti Sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers), Fred Cavayè to direct French remake Le Jeu (The Game).
Fred Cavayè will direct the French remake of Perfetti Sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers) by Paolo Genovese, winner of the David di Donatello 2016 for Best Movie and Best Screenplay and winner of the Best Movie Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. The feature film had a...
Council of Ministers: ok to Franceschini’s new cinema law.
Italian Council of Ministers officially approved the new decree on cinema developed by Minister Dario Franceschini, which faced the opposition of the main broadcasters in the country. New regulations will be applied since 2018, with a period of “adjustment” that will...
Independent Spirit Awards, Call Me By Your Name gets six nominations. Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra runs up for Best Director.
The Independent Spirit Awards, assigned by the no-profit organization Film Independent, will be assign the night before Oscars’ ceremony and in the past three years they have been prophetic: Moonlight, Spotlight and Birdman, all winners of the Indipendent, won the...
Giornate Professionali del Cinema 2017, two premieres from MIA|Cinema What’s Next Italy
The 2017 edition of Giornate Professionali del Cinema will take place in Sorrento on 27-30 november, organized by ANEC (Associazione Nazionale Esercenti Cinema) in cooperation with ANICA and ANEM. Eight premieres are scheduled in this year’s edition, along with 17...
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