EndemolShine UK has created Shiny Button Productions, a new production company working in England and specialised in comedies. Its founders are Andy Brereton, James De Frond and Tom Davis, who conceived the English big comedy hit Murder in Successville. Shiny Buttom...
Monica Bellucci won the Nastro d’Argento Europeo 2017 for her interpretation in the film On the Milky Way by Emir Kusturica. The prestigious award, assigned in the past to such personalities as Krzystof Kieslowsky, Philippe Noiret, Aki Kaurismaki, Ken Loach, Alain...
Vision Distribution, the distribution company set up in 2016 through the merger of Sky Italia with five independent Italian production companies (Cattleya, Wildside, Lucisano Media Group, Palomar and Indiana Production), has finally revealed the names of its...
After a three year pilot phase, CNA (National Federation of Artisans and Carftmen and of Small and Medium sized enterprises) ) enters the cinema world, with the official setting up, last May 3rd, of CNA Cinema e Audiovisivo, chaired by Mario Perchiazzi , an...
The magazine Motionographer, worldwide leader in motion design, awarded the prize for Best Networking Branding to laeffe, the only Italian channel to obtain this recognition. The Feltrinelli channel’s rebrand was carried out by the creative department of the...
It has been a negative week-end for Italian Box Office, with a 25% drop probably due to next week’s first releases (led by Alien: Covenant by Ridley Scott coming out next Thursday 11) and to Wednesdays Cinema at 2 euros this month, that pushes many people to...
Rupert Murdoch, 86, is engaged on several fronts to overcome the difficult period the group is going through, both in Europe, where Murdoch presently manages 39.14% of Sky, and in the United States, where Fox News, a 21st Century Fox channel accounting for 25% of the...
Among the most expected events of the Dogliani TV Festival, «The Renaissance of Italian fiction » took place yesterday; a long and impassionate conversation moderated by Aldo Grasso and attended also by Lorenzo Mieli, CEO of Fremantle Media Italia, Pietro Valsecchi,...
On Friday 19 May, at 2:30 pm at the Italian Pavillon of Cannes, TRL Espresso, a MIA partnership with When East Meets West of Trieste and the London Production Finance Market will present the results of its first year of activities. Director Sonja Prosenc and producer...
Nielsen, an American multinational company dealing with market surveys has announced a new function of Social Content Ratings for Social TVs, an application that will allow to monitor the social profiles of broadcasters, production companies and TV stars separately...
The Court of Appeal of Rome, with judgment 29 April 2017 has passed a sentence against Break Media, one of the leading American web providers for “culpable cooperation by omission in the illegal distribution of Mediaset TV programs”. Break Media belongs to...
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has named Zelda Stewart, who left her post as Head of Acquisitions in Mediaset last January, as new Vice President of Distribution for SPT in Italy. The company will rely on Stewart’s experience – she has worked in Mediaset...