Vision Distribution signed a distribution agreement with 20th Century Fox.
Vision Distribution signed an agreement with 20th Century Fox for the distribution on Home Entertainment and digital channels. The newborn society, created from an agreement between Sky, Cattleya, Wildside, Lucisano Media Group, Palomar and Indiana Production, will...
Netflix and Italy together again for tv show Baby, produced by Fabula Pictures.
Following Suburra, Netflix bets again on Italian productions with Baby, a new eight-episodes show produced by Nicola De Angelis’s Fabula Pictures (pictured) Inspired to the Baby Squillo scandal, a prostituition racket which involved several teenage girls of the rich...
Amazon acquired The Lord of the Rings’s television rights. The 250 mln dollars show is scheduled for 2020.
It’s confirmed: The Lord of the Rings will be a tv show. Amazon acquired the television rights for Tolkien’s masterpiece for 250 million dollars, the highest price for a tv production so far. According to Deadline, Jeff Bezos’s giant would be interested in the...
Oscar 2018, Cinderella the Cat selected for Best Animated Feature.
Cinderella The Cat by Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri and Dario Sansone (Mad Entertainment, Rai Cinema, Big Sur, Skydancers, Tramp Limited) figures in the list of films racing for the Best Animated Feature of the Oscars 2018. The official selection...
Les Arcs Festival, all the Italian films in the 9th edition
The Les Arcs Film Festival unveiled the programme of its 9th edition, which will take place on 16-23 December 2017. Among the ten films in the main competition there is Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli (What’s Next Italy 2016), winner of the Orizzonti Section at...
Is Disney about to acquire FOX?
Sources close to the deal have revealed rumors about a possible Disney acquisition of some FOX’s international assets, a deal that would enourmously change the global audiovisual landscape. The acquisition would be part of Disney’s strategy to reach a prevalent role...
Pinewood Television rebrands as Twelve Town. Helen Gregory: “creativity at the heart of producing process”.
After the full-acquisition by StoryFirst in September, Pinewood Television rebrands as Twelve Town and pens a deal with producing company Riff Raff, led by actor Jude Law and producer Ben Jackson. Twelve Town, which mantains Helen Gregory (speaker at MIA Market 2017’s...
Israeli TV series False Flag is coming to Italy starting November 7 on FOX.
From November 7, Fox will broadcast Israeli drama False Flag created by Maria Feldman, who was a guest of MIA 2017 during IDM Südtirol: RACCONTI # 6 as a mentor for the selected projects together with Harold Valentin (author of the series Call My Agent). The title,...
Eurimages Fund, four films of previous editions of MIA Market among the 30 selected projects
The Board of Management of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund has chosen thirty projects (22 fiction, 7 documentaries and one animation film) which will receive a financial support for a total amount of 5.598.535 euros. Among the selected projects, there are...
“Sirene”: the Italian fantasy drama gains an audience share of 20.6% for its debut
“Sirene” (“Mermaids”): the fascinating mythological creatures become the protagonists of a TV series. The fantasy drama, written by Ivan Cotroneo, comprising six episodes set in contemporary Naples, experiments with a whole new genre and succeeds, even on...
Dicktatorship (MIA DOC Pitching Forum 2017) among the films financed by IDM Alto Adige Film Fund & Commission. Five Italian films in the complete list.
IDM Alto Adige Film Fund & Commission announced nine winning projects of the third and last call of 2017. This films will obtain a funding in their production and pre-production phase, for a total investment of 1.3 mln euros. Film Commission will fund five Italian...
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