Genius: Einstein is the most watched show on NatGeo in the last four years.
Camillo Sbarbaro once said: “Human race defends itself from geniuses by denying them and it gets rid of them by acknowledging them”. He emphasised that the world actually doesn’t love exceptional people, even if it apparently does; it worships and flatters them, but...
Internet giants’ new television
An article in the daily Corriere della Sera newspaper reads that Pietro Minto reports the Anglo-saxon critics of the first TV show by Apple. This programme, Planet of the App, is a talent show where wannabe startuppers propose their ideas for new (and they reckon...
The Lazio Region allocates 9.3 million euros to the audio-visual sector.
The Lazio Region issued two new public calls to support creativity and the audio-visual sector, as well as for facilitating restructuring and securing cinemas and theatres. Details have been outlined by President of the Region Nicola Zingaretti, together with...
Rainbow, Iginio Straffi’s company acquires the majority share in Iven S.p.A.
Rainbow, the Italian leading company in animation and entertainment for kids and teens founded by Iginio Straffi in 1992, announced that it has acquired the majority share in Iven S.p.A. The group, created in 1986 by producer Maurizio Totti, includes important...
Interview with the President of APT Leone by Il Sole 24 Ore
He was in Rai for 33 years and he came out in 2016 after the last years directing Rai 1. At some point, the paths of Giancarlo Leone and the public broadcaster seem to cross again during the weeks when they need to choose the substitute of former CEO Antonio Campo...
Discovery aims at merging with Scripps, but Viacom doesn’t sit back and watch.
The Stock Exchange doesn’t lie. The 20% increase of the Scripps shares on Wall Street only mean one thing: market rumours about the interest of Discovery for a merger with a company in Knoxville (Tennessee) are real. After a failed attempt in 2014, there is currently...
Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli (What’s Next Italy 2016) to open the Orizzonti section of Venice 74.
Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli was selected as the opening film of the Orizzonti section of the 74thVenice Film Festival. The movie, produced by Vivo film, Tarantula, Rai Cinema, with the contribution of MiBACT and the support of the Lazio Region, was present in...
Giuseppe Piccioni to chair the Jury of students awarding the Venice Classics Award for Best Restored Film at the next Venice Film Festival.
Giuseppe Piccioni will head the Jury of students awarding the Venice Classics Award for Best Restored Film at the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival. After successfully directing the 10th edition of Rome Fiction Fest last year, the director from the Marches will...
Netflix, over 100 million subscribers. “Our model can reinvigorate the film business”.
Netflix blew past the 100 million subscriber mark, thus exceeding the American ones at international level: the number of users of the platform in the United States, indeed, has increased by one million units compared to last quarter, while the non-domestic ones by...
The Game of Thrones business: eight record years for Northern Ireland.
The seven season’s premiere of Game of Thrones, aired on Sunday 16 July on HBO, set a new record for the series, as Variety states: 16 million viewers watched the episode, ten of which live (on HBO official channels) and 6 on the official streaming platforms....
A little work of art by Michel Gondry shot on iPhone.
Apple commissioned Michel Gondry to shoot a short film that must be filmed entirely with the new iPhone 7 Plus. A little ten-minute masterpiece full of poetry and dream was born: the French director (the author of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) tells the story...
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