Netflix, 128 million users worldwide by 2022, according to Digital TV Research
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Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro acquired by Focus Features.
Loro(Them), Paolo Sorrentino’s new film about Silvio Berlusconi (played by Toni Servillo), has been acquired by Focus Features and it will be distributed by Universal Pictures Italy for the Italian market. The president of Focus Features Robert Walak has announced it...
Notorious Pictures and Kimera Film join forces for Botrugno and Coluccini’s Il Contagio.
Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini’s film Il Contagio, based on the 2008 novel by Walter Siti, is currently in post-production and is planned to be released within the year. Notorious Pictures has signed a co-production agreement with Kimera Film and it will...
Francesco Carrozzini to direct Midnight Sun, based on Jo Nesbø thriller.
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Rapiscimi, Giovanni Luca Gargano has started shooting his debut film
Giovanni Luca Gargano has started filming Rapiscimi (Kidnap me): this is the first work by the young director who had experience in television industry, both in Rai and Mediaset. The film is a co-production between Italy (Alba Produzioni, Arbalak) and Portugal (Check...
Five acquisitions for Cinema S.r.l. at Cannes 2017
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Alessandro Gassmann’s Il Premio, starring Gigi Proietti, Rocco Papaleo and Anna Foglietta, produced by IIF.
Fulvio and Federica Lucisano’s Italian International Film (IIF), in collaboration with Vision Distribution and IDM – Alto Adige Film Commission, will produce Il Premio (The Prize), the new feature by Alessandro Gasmann who is currently on the set. As second directing...
Brussels raises the minimum quota to 30% of European audiovisual works in video-on-demand services.
The EU Ministers for Culture of France, Spain, Germany and Italy have succeeded in creating a majority to raise the minimum quota to 30% of European audiovisual contents in VOD services. This decision has been taken after the meeting on May 23 in Brussels between the...
Videa, Eagle Pictures, Draka and Koch Media: all the acquisitions at Cannes 2017
The Marché du Film (Film Market) at Cannes 2017 has concluded and the most important Italian distribution companies have substantially increased their catalogue with several fruitful acquisitions. Here’s the most important acquisitions by Videa, Eagle Pictures, Draka...
Roberta Torre finishes filming her ‘spectral and pop’ musical Riccardo va all’Inferno
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Gomorrah 3 scheduled for next fall. Nils Hartmann: “We’ve become a role model”.
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