Entertainment & Media: tv & web thrive in Italy
The latest edition of the “Entertainment & Media Outlook in Italy 2017-2021” report has been presented yesterday in Milan by PwC, complete with development projections of seventeen E&M segments: Books, Business-to-Business, Cinema, Data...
Back to discussion with the share decree
The amendment of Article 44 of the Tusmar (the Consolidated Law on audio-visual and broadcasting media services) relating to cinema and the audio-visual sector and promoted by Minister of Cultural Heritage Dario Franceschini, which led to protests from broadcasters...
Selected projects for MIA|TV Drama Series Pitching Forum
The 15 drama series projects selected by the MIA|TV Board, composed by international professionals of the television industry, will be presented during the second edition of the Drama Series Pitching Forum. The selected projects will have the chance to be...
Selected Projects for MIA|DOC Pitching Forum 2017
MIA|DOC annually chooses a specific topic for its Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum: a section that could be strategic for the economic development of Italian companies. After the success of Arts&Culture of the 2016 edition, MIA|DOC 2017 will focus on...
Italian broadcasters join forces against shares
For the first time in the history on Italian television broadcasters, the nine principal ones, which are Rai, Mediaset, La7, Sky, Discovery, Fox, Disney, Viacom and De Agostini, signed a letter together against the legislative decree to modify art. 44 of the Tusmar...
Mediaset makes a deal with AT&T and lands in the U.S.
An historic step forward in the U.S. for Mediaset Italia. Starting today, the Italian broadcasted will be distributed in the USA also by DirecTV, the AT&T’s satellite platform, a leader in the U.S. with more than twenty-one million subscribers. The best of...
Selected Projects for MIA|Cinema Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum 2017
MIA|Cinema Co-Production Market is delighted to present the international film industry with 21 feature film projects from 14 Countries which were chosen by an International selection committee made up of Cristina Cavaliere, Finola Dwyer and Jakub Duszynski. The...
More screens, less televisions
From January to July 2017, the sale of television sets has decreased by 10% compared with the same period in 2016 in Italy. The collapse is not as significant as that in France (- 46%), but is still indicative of the constant decreasing trend recorded in the last few...
All-female Emmy Awards, The Handmaid’s Tale and Big Little Lies are the big winners
The 2017 Emmy Awards were extremely attentive to the most controversial and thorny topics of this historical period, awarding The Handmaid’s Tale as Outstanding Drama Series: snubbed by Netflix and Amazon, the series was broadcasted by Hulu, which transformed it into...
Narcos Production Assistant Carlos Muñoz Portal killed in Mexico
Netflix PA Carlos Muñoz Portal was killed while he was looking for a location to film the new season of Narcos in Mexico. The bullet-riddled body was found in the trunk of his car on a road of San Bartolomé, in the municipality of Temascalapa, a remote area near the...
PerSO, the “Social Film Festival” of Perugia from 23 September to 1 October
The third edition of PerSO, the “Social Film Festival” for social documentaries, will take place in Perugia from 23 September to 1 October 2017. Guests from all over the world will be present at the event and there will be more than thirty titles in the competition,...
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