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The Italians at Cannes

The Italians at Cannes

13 Apr 2018

Italy has made its return to this year’s Cannes Film Festival with two of the country’s best directors: Matteo Garrone and Alice Rohrwacher. Some years ago both filmmakers had already participated and obtained the Grand Prix of the jury at the French festival: Garrone...
The Italians at Cannes

Viacom revenues increase mainly thanks to free TV

12 Apr 2018

The accounts of Viacom Italia increased in 2017, with a total turnover of 67.9 million euros, + 20.6% compared to the previous year. A success mainly due to the excellent results of free TV. The television group led by Andrea Castellari sees a moment of strong growth...
The Italians at Cannes

Del Brocco announces a €70m investment for Rai Cinema

12 Apr 2018

Paolo Del Brocco announced a raise of their investment for Rai Cinema to €70m. The productions have been distributed into several big categories. Paolo Del Brocco, Rai Cinema’s CEO, still recovering from the big celebration of Rome’s victory over Barcelona, made a...
The Italians at Cannes

New rules at Cannes Film Festival

11 Apr 2018

New rules have been established at the Cannes Film Festival. Selfies on the red carpet and previews for journalists have been banned to avoid prejudices on official projections. Thierry Frémaux, director of the Cannes Film Festival, set some new rules for this...
The Italians at Cannes

Great success of the Italian Social Film Fund initiative Con il Sud.

11 Apr 2018

98 are the projects for new films that have been sent to the “Social Film Fund – Con il Sud”. The Apulia Film Commission and Fondazione Con il Sud are celebrating the success of the initiative. The announcement, released last April 3rd, was born from the...
The Italians at Cannes

Saudi Arabia to debut at Cannes

10 Apr 2018

Saudi Arabia will launch internationally and will participate in Cannes Film Festival for the first time. Saudi Arabia will make its debut presence in Cannes Film Festival with nine short films directed by different Saudi filmmakers. The projects will be presented in...
The Italians at Cannes

Videotime Produzioni is absorbed by Reti Televisive Italiane

10 Apr 2018

Reti Televisive Italiane, owned by Mediaset, absorbs Video Time Produzioni. Cologno Monzese’s media group, after having absorbed a few months ago the company Media4commerce, is working on a merger project to incorporate the company Videotime Produzione (Vp) to Reti...
The Italians at Cannes

The battle between Sky and Siae

9 Apr 2018

The battle for the copyrights between Sky and Siae has been going on for about one year, and it has recently intensified with the exchange of threats and accusations from both sides, which have come into the public domain. The situation between both companies turns...
The Italians at Cannes

Scandal in Bbc: manipulated the documentary series Human Planet

8 Apr 2018

Manipulation of information even in British documentaries. The shocking case of the Human Planet series, realized by BBC. The BBC after 7 years confesses: some of the most important scenes in the doc Human Planet series have been manipulated. The documentaries aired...