Francesco Carrozzini to direct Midnight Sun, based on Jo Nesbø thriller.
Midnight Sun, the acclaimed novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, will become a film produced by Cattleya and directed by Francesco Carrozzini, director of the documentary film Franca: Chaos and Creation, dedicated to his mother Franca Sozzani. This new project is...
Rapiscimi, Giovanni Luca Gargano has started shooting his debut film
Giovanni Luca Gargano has started filming Rapiscimi (Kidnap me): this is the first work by the young director who had experience in television industry, both in Rai and Mediaset. The film is a co-production between Italy (Alba Produzioni, Arbalak) and Portugal (Check...
Five acquisitions for Cinema S.r.l. at Cannes 2017
Cinema S.r.l. has acquired two films selected from Cannes’ Quinzaine des Realisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight): Sean Baker’s The Florida Project tells of summer holidays of a group of six-year-old kids (starring Willem Dafoe, Bria Vinaite, Brooklynn Prince and Valeria...
Alessandro Gassmann’s Il Premio, starring Gigi Proietti, Rocco Papaleo and Anna Foglietta, produced by IIF.
Fulvio and Federica Lucisano’s Italian International Film (IIF), in collaboration with Vision Distribution and IDM – Alto Adige Film Commission, will produce Il Premio (The Prize), the new feature by Alessandro Gasmann who is currently on the set. As second directing...
Brussels raises the minimum quota to 30% of European audiovisual works in video-on-demand services.
The EU Ministers for Culture of France, Spain, Germany and Italy have succeeded in creating a majority to raise the minimum quota to 30% of European audiovisual contents in VOD services. This decision has been taken after the meeting on May 23 in Brussels between the...
Videa, Eagle Pictures, Draka and Koch Media: all the acquisitions at Cannes 2017
The Marché du Film (Film Market) at Cannes 2017 has concluded and the most important Italian distribution companies have substantially increased their catalogue with several fruitful acquisitions. Here’s the most important acquisitions by Videa, Eagle Pictures, Draka...
Roberta Torre finishes filming her ‘spectral and pop’ musical Riccardo va all’Inferno
Roberta Torrehas recently finished filming her new film set in Rome, Riccardo va all’Inferno. In addition to the protagonists Massimo Ranieri and Sonia Bergamasco, the film stars Silvia Gallerano, Silvia Calderoni, Teodoro Giambanco, Michelangelo Dalisi, Ivan...
Gomorrah 3 scheduled for next fall. Nils Hartmann: “We’ve become a role model”.
Nils Hartmann has no doubts: “there’s a ‘before’ and an ‘after’ Gomorrah”. During the press conference for the announcement of the third season of the series created by Roberto Saviano, Sky executive producer builds a flattering profile of Sky Atlantic’s flagship...
Rai of Paradoxes
The deadlock at Rai – denounced by the board members CarloFreccero and Paolo Messa in an open letter sent to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera – crippling the preparation of the fall schedule moves closer to the TV series. On the one hand, Rai...
Netflix orders its first Turkish-language series produced by O3 Medya
Netflix has officially ordered its first Turkish-language drama, a ten-episode series inspired by the history and legends of the ancient Ottoman empire. The drama focuses on a young man who discovers that he has mysterious powers and he is destined to save the city of...
Upfronts, topics and new shows for the 2017-2018 TV season in the U.S.
There are three main thematic areas for the U.S. TV series’ next season. The Upfronts, the most important four days of the American television during which broadcast networks announce their primetime schedules to advertisers, couldn’t help reflect the zeitgeist...
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