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,...
Spike, Super!’s men’s interest channel to air on the DTTV from October 22
Viacom (Visual & Audio Communications) acquires 50% of Super! and from October 22 it launches men’s interest channel Spike on channel 49 of the DTTV. Spike is also present in other countries, with case histories in the UK and the Netherlands; its ratings are...
Netflix vs Amazon. Ted Sarandos: “we are interested in everything except mainstream and what’s already been watched”
The war of the Networks. According to American independent films distributor and Slamdance President Peter Baxter, “this is a positive war for the audience and the independent authors, who are the real beneficiaries of this conflict”, which is transforming into a real...
Audrey Hepburn. The Rome Film Festival has her (funny) face
Audrey Hepburn, timeless icon of style, grace and elegance. She is the protagonist and the official image of the Rome Film Festival, produced by Fondazione Cinema per Roma, with Piera Detassis as President and Antonio Monda as Art Director. David Seymour took the...
Netflix: Barbara Ferrieri to become Originals Publicity Manager Italy from next October
Barbara Ferrieri, graduated in philosophy at the Catholic University of Milan, will be Netflix’s Originals Publicity Manager Italy from October 2. She was Communications Director at Discovery Italia until a few months ago (Pr & Social Media Manager at the TV group...
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