The Girl in the Fog, four new foreign acquisitions
The Girl in the Fog by Donato Carrisi, adapted by the same author’s novel, has been acquired by Selim Ramia for Lebanon, Pictureworks for India, MovieCloud for Taiwan and by Road Pictures for China. The feature film, starring Toni Servillo and Alessio Boni, is...
Hulu doubled its foreign-language offer: Below the Surface and Midnight Sun acquired from Studiocanal
Hulu, the streaming platform founded in 2007 by Beth Comstock and Jason Kilar (still not available in Italy) has acquired Scandinavian thrillers Below the Surface and Midnight Sun form international distributor Studiocanal. Midnight Sun (pictured), created by...
Perfetti Sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers), Fred Cavayè to direct French remake Le Jeu (The Game).
Fred Cavayè will direct the French remake of Perfetti Sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers) by Paolo Genovese, winner of the David di Donatello 2016 for Best Movie and Best Screenplay and winner of the Best Movie Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. The feature film had a...
Council of Ministers: ok to Franceschini’s new cinema law.
Italian Council of Ministers officially approved the new decree on cinema developed by Minister Dario Franceschini, which faced the opposition of the main broadcasters in the country. New regulations will be applied since 2018, with a period of “adjustment” that will...
Independent Spirit Awards, Call Me By Your Name gets six nominations. Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra runs up for Best Director.
The Independent Spirit Awards, assigned by the no-profit organization Film Independent, will be assign the night before Oscars’ ceremony and in the past three years they have been prophetic: Moonlight, Spotlight and Birdman, all winners of the Indipendent, won the...
Giornate Professionali del Cinema 2017, two premieres from MIA|Cinema What’s Next Italy
The 2017 edition of Giornate Professionali del Cinema will take place in Sorrento on 27-30 november, organized by ANEC (Associazione Nazionale Esercenti Cinema) in cooperation with ANICA and ANEM. Eight premieres are scheduled in this year’s edition, along with 17...
After Disney, Comcast and Verizon are chasing FOX
After the rumors about Disney chasing 21 Century Fox’s several assets, new informations revealed by US media put Murdoch’s company in the middle of a dispute between major audiovisual and entertainment giants as Comcast, Verizon, Sony and Amazon. Negotiations with...
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...
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