Italian Episcopal Conference broadcaster Tv2000 breaks TV viewership records in springtime
Great success for Tv2000. The Italian Episcopal Conference broadcaster has closed the spring season with a 12,3 share in comparison with the same period last year. It has become the seventh national channel in the early morning with a 2,31 share, an increase of 40%...
Rai, Mario Orfeo is the new CEO
Director of Tg1 Mario Orfeo is officially the new CEO of Rai. The decision has been taken by the Board at Viale Mazzini and the next step is to wait for the general assembly to formalize this decision with the partners of the company. The decision seems to be obvious...
Writers Guild Italia and the Television Producers Association join together for Netpitch Television
The one-to-one pitch session for television Netpitch Television will take place at Villa Blanc on 22 June from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The session comes from cooperation between Writers Guild Italia (WGI) and the Television Producers Association(APT). The event is sponsored...
Michela Andreozzi’s Nove Lune e Mezza, fourth film for Vision Distribution
This is the fourth film for Vision Distribution: after Monolith, Il Premio and Lui è Tornato, Vision will also distribute the comedy Nove Lune e Mezzaby the Roman director Michela Andreozzi and produced by Paco CInematografica. Il film is about two sisters, Livia...
Chili tv, capital injection of 10 million. American major will join from this summer.
In early May, the TVoD platform Chili tv founded in 2012 has announced a capital injection of 10 million, a business move followed by the entrance of American majors in the capital of the undertaking: Paramount, Viacom and Warner Brosplanned for this summer, and Sony...
A Skeleton Story and Cinderella The Cat, two new animated films for Alessandro Rak
Neapolitan animated film director Alessandro Rak is working on his second feature film, A skeleton Story, based on his own comic book. Rak won the European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2013 with his debut film, The Art of Happiness. A Skeleton Story is...
Apple launches Planet of the Apps, a talent show about app developers.
Apple makes its TV debut too. Like other internet companies, the Cupertino-based business enters the audiovisual market by producing original TV contents. The field already had Hulu and Netflix, besides the e-commerce giant Amazon and the Chinese Alibaba. The first...
The first edition of the China – International CO-Production Screenings at Casa del Cinema.
ANICA will host the first edition of the China – International CO-Production Film Screenings from 9 to 11 June. The event is organized for MiBACT and SAPPRFT (State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television), with the support of the Chinese...
Nastri d’Argento, shortlists announced.
The shortlists of the 71st edition of Nastri d’Argento have been announced. The awards will be awarded by the National Association of Italian Film Journalists (SNGCI). The most nominated movies are Gianni Amelio’s Holding hands and Leonardo De Angelis’s Indivisible...
New distribution strategies for Mubi, the VoD service for the arthouse cinema
Mubi is an innovative VoD platform founded in 2007 providing an audience of cinephiles a collection of arthouse movies and aiming to create a real community of cinema lovers: users (around 100.000 worldwide) can rate the listed movies, leave comments and reviews of...
A record-breaking May for Discovery Media, Discovery Group’s agency, reporting an increase of 13%
TV ratings results for NOVE have been impressive this past month. The primetime increases of 77% compared with the same period last year. It reaches a 1,8 share and the eighth position among the national channels, right after the seven generalist ones. The average...
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