Netflix, Hastings accuses Cannes. Barbera’s comment: “Festival out from market logics”
Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, has given harshly commented the Cannes Festival’s decision that, starting from 2018, will not allow films to qualify for the competition unless they are released in theatres. Hastings posted his comment about such resolution on...
Mariangela!, a tribute to Melato starting from today on Rai Storia
Mariangela! starts off today, a tribute to Mariangela Melato signed by Fabrizio Corallo that will be broadcast in three episodes on Rai Storia. The artistic and personal life of an extraordinary actress who died in Rome in 2013 at the age of 71. A journey through...
Cannes, Netflix films in the selection, but rules will be stricter from 2018
Just a week away from its opening, Cannes Festival has definitely decided that films produced by Netflix (Okja by Bong Joon-ho and The Meyerowitz Stories by Noah Baumbach) will be in the official selection. Their participation had been questioned after the protest of...
EndemolShine UK launches Shiny Button Productions, from the creators of Murder in Successville.
EndemolShine UK has created Shiny Button Productions, a new production company working in England and specialised in comedies. Its founders are Andy Brereton, James De Frond and Tom Davis, who conceived the English big comedy hit Murder in Successville. Shiny Buttom...
Monica Bellucci won the Nastro d’Argento Europeo 2017 for her interpretation in the film On the Milky Way by Emir Kusturica
Monica Bellucci won the Nastro d’Argento Europeo 2017 for her interpretation in the film On the Milky Way by Emir Kusturica. The prestigious award, assigned in the past to such personalities as Krzystof Kieslowsky, Philippe Noiret, Aki Kaurismaki, Ken Loach, Alain...
Vision Distribution revealed its management. Scrosati: “fundamental contribution to the Italian market”
Vision Distribution, the distribution company set up in 2016 through the merger of Sky Italia with five independent Italian production companies (Cattleya, Wildside, Lucisano Media Group, Palomar and Indiana Production), has finally revealed the names of its...
CNA Cinema e Audiovisivo has just been created , Mario Perchiazzi named president with a four year term
After a three year pilot phase, CNA (National Federation of Artisans and Carftmen and of Small and Medium sized enterprises) ) enters the cinema world, with the official setting up, last May 3rd, of CNA Cinema e Audiovisivo, chaired by Mario Perchiazzi , an...
Motion Award 2017, laeffe awarded Best Network Branding
The magazine Motionographer, worldwide leader in motion design, awarded the prize for Best Networking Branding to laeffe, the only Italian channel to obtain this recognition. The Feltrinelli channel’s rebrand was carried out by the creative department of the...
Drop in Box Offices, waiting for Cinema 2Day and new releases. Alien: Covenant among the most awaited films
It has been a negative week-end for Italian Box Office, with a 25% drop probably due to next week’s first releases (led by Alien: Covenant by Ridley Scott coming out next Thursday 11) and to Wednesdays Cinema at 2 euros this month, that pushes many people to...
Murdoch, hard times for the group: Sincler close to a deal for Tribune Media
Rupert Murdoch, 86, is engaged on several fronts to overcome the difficult period the group is going through, both in Europe, where Murdoch presently manages 39.14% of Sky, and in the United States, where Fox News, a 21st Century Fox channel accounting for 25% of the...
