A Skeleton Story and Cinderella The Cat, two new animated films for Alessandro Rak
Neapolitan animated film director Alessandro Rak is working on his second feature film, A skeleton Story, based on his own comic book. Rak won the European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2013 with his debut film, The Art of Happiness. A Skeleton Story is...
Apple launches Planet of the Apps, a talent show about app developers.
Apple makes its TV debut too. Like other internet companies, the Cupertino-based business enters the audiovisual market by producing original TV contents. The field already had Hulu and Netflix, besides the e-commerce giant Amazon and the Chinese Alibaba. The first...
The first edition of the China – International CO-Production Screenings at Casa del Cinema.
ANICA will host the first edition of the China – International CO-Production Film Screenings from 9 to 11 June. The event is organized for MiBACT and SAPPRFT (State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television), with the support of the Chinese...
Nastri d’Argento, shortlists announced.
The shortlists of the 71st edition of Nastri d’Argento have been announced. The awards will be awarded by the National Association of Italian Film Journalists (SNGCI). The most nominated movies are Gianni Amelio’s Holding hands and Leonardo De Angelis’s Indivisible...
New distribution strategies for Mubi, the VoD service for the arthouse cinema
Mubi is an innovative VoD platform founded in 2007 providing an audience of cinephiles a collection of arthouse movies and aiming to create a real community of cinema lovers: users (around 100.000 worldwide) can rate the listed movies, leave comments and reviews of...
A record-breaking May for Discovery Media, Discovery Group’s agency, reporting an increase of 13%
TV ratings results for NOVE have been impressive this past month. The primetime increases of 77% compared with the same period last year. It reaches a 1,8 share and the eighth position among the national channels, right after the seven generalist ones. The average...
Stars’ great escape from Rai
The latest one to move to La7 is Diego Bianchi, a.k.a. Zoro, along with all the band from Gazebo (Makkox and Damilano). Zoro has decided to leave Rai3 and to be reunited with his crony Andrea Salerno, who has just been nominated director of Urbano Cairo’s network. On...
Netflix, 128 million users worldwide by 2022, according to Digital TV Research
A survey conducted by Digital TV Research estimates that the number of Netflix subscribers will increase by 44% between 2016 and 2022 amounting to a total of 128 million users worldwide. The number of international subscriptions should be higher than that of North...
Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro acquired by Focus Features.
Loro(Them), Paolo Sorrentino’s new film about Silvio Berlusconi (played by Toni Servillo), has been acquired by Focus Features and it will be distributed by Universal Pictures Italy for the Italian market. The president of Focus Features Robert Walak has announced it...
Notorious Pictures and Kimera Film join forces for Botrugno and Coluccini’s Il Contagio.
Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini’s film Il Contagio, based on the 2008 novel by Walter Siti, is currently in post-production and is planned to be released within the year. Notorious Pictures has signed a co-production agreement with Kimera Film and it will...
