Amazon turns to self-distributor: Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel to be the first film released in theatres.
The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Amazon, as audio-visual content producer, took the path to independent distribution too: if at this time the streaming giant used the traditional network (through agreement with Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate), starting from...
News & Documentary Emmy Awards, PBS is leading with 48 nominations, 4 for Best Documentary.
Documentaries vying for the 38th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards (the TV documentary awards) have been announced. Nominations are divided in 49 categories ranging from the “classic” documentary to news reports and multimedia projects. All the documentaries...
Venice 74, line-up announced: Happy Winter (winner of MIA|IDS 2015) among the many Italian works.
The complete line-up of the 74th edition of the Venice International Film Festival has been announced. There are many Italian works among the films in the official competition and in the other sections; some films were present at the previous editions of MIA, such as...
Canal+ and Telecom against Netflix: an initial investment of 100 million euros to produce original content.
Canal+ proposed Tim group to create a joint venture to acquire television and invest in producing original audio-visual content starting from October. The majority shares of the new project, called Canale+, will be held by the Italian company, while French partner...
The three films competing for the 2017 LUX FILM PRIZE announced
President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani announced the three films in contention for the 11th edition of the LUX FILM PRIZE. The first film is BPM (Beats per Minute) by Robin Campillo telling the story of a group of Act Up – Paris activists fighting to make...
Giornate degli Autori 2017, Looking for Oum Kulthum di Shirin Neshat (NCN 2013) and three Italian features in the line-up.
The 14th edition of GiornatedegliAutori presents a line-up of 12 films announced by Director Giorgio Gosetti. There are three Italian works: The Contagion (Il Contagio) by Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini, based on the novel by Walter Siti and produced by Kimera...
Some news of the next TV season.
Among the most curious news of the next TV season, there’s the new edition of Frigo, the docu-cooking programme of Rai2 where singers, hosts, athletes and entrepreneurs talk about their own relationships with food and they will show cameras the contents of their...
74th Venice International Film Festival, the 32nd International Film Critics’ Week line-up revealed.
The line-up of the 32nd Venice International Film Critics’ Week has been announced. The section, dedicated to the debut films, revealed an almost all female selection: among the seven films in competition, indeed, five of them are directed by women, including the...
Genius: Einstein is the most watched show on NatGeo in the last four years.
Camillo Sbarbaro once said: “Human race defends itself from geniuses by denying them and it gets rid of them by acknowledging them”. He emphasised that the world actually doesn’t love exceptional people, even if it apparently does; it worships and flatters them, but...
Internet giants’ new television
An article in the daily Corriere della Sera newspaper reads that Pietro Minto reports the Anglo-saxon critics of the first TV show by Apple. This programme, Planet of the App, is a talent show where wannabe startuppers propose their ideas for new (and they reckon...
