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...
An ABI research on Millennials’ tastes, the generation of young people born between 2000 and 2010.
A research commissioned by ABI for the fourth edition of the Festival della Cultura Creativa investigated the tastes of Millennials, the generation including young people born between 2000 and 2010. Nobody knew what digital natives wrote, read and listened to until...
Série Series, a sixth edition in the name of the Crime Drama. Italy was present too with the TV series Sirene.
Many European TV series were presented during the sixth edition of Série Series which took place in Fontainebleau from 28 to 30 June 2017. Some of the most striking successes, such as the French series Spiral and the Nordic The Killing and Broen, made the crime drama...
Doctor Who is a woman: Jodie Whittaker.
Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch, Black Mirror, Cranford, The Night Watch) will be the thirteenth Doctor of the famous franchise Doctor Who, therefore replacing Peter Capaldi. For the first time in the history of the show started in 1963 and resumed in 2005 with a new...
Emmy Awards nominations. The Young Pope gets the first nomination for an Italian series
The Emmy Awards nominations have been announced yesterday in Los Angeles. HBO triumphs once again with 110 nominations, starting with two important titles such as Westworld and Big Little Lies. Netflix is in second place with 91 nominations, thanks in particular to...
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