AI and Audiovisual. Opportunities and risks – Part 3 of 4 – Copyright
On copyright law, the enormous opportunities presented by artificial intelligence raise great challenges to legal systems. And if they fail to engage in an active effort to keep up with the latest technological developments, the road to harmonizing the law with...
MIA 2023 first speakers unveiled
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UK, Pact’s prediction for 2023 turnover
U.K. television industry turnover may experience an hard setback in 2023, after well over £3 million in 2022. Such as emerges from data of the annual census of Pact, U.K. industry association for independent producers of feature film, television, animation,...
Italian Ministry of Culture, Borgonzoni: Pnrr’s 155-million plan closed
“On schedule, the 155-million-euro Pnrr plan for the Italian Ministry of Culture is concluded. The response to the last two public notices gives us another positive result, sealing a path started last autumn and aimed at giving new impetus to cultural and...
Digital TV Research, $215 billion revenues for OTT by 2029
OTT episode and TV film sales will reach a total of $215bn revenues by 2029, up 33% from the 2023 figure of $162m. This is predicted by the Global OTT TV and Video Forecasts compiled by Digital TV Research, the company founded in 2011 by Simon Murray that provides...
Telfaz11 leads the expansion of Saudi cinema
As soon as Saudi Arabia decided to reopen cinemas at the end of 2017, the production studio Telfaz11, led by Fadan, Al Khairallah, and Ali Kalthami, took the helm of cinema expansion. Suffice it to say that the comedy “Sattar”, in which a depressed man...
Box Office September 4-10. Oppenheimer still on top of podium
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Venezia 80, double win for the movie El Paraiso
The film El Paraiso by Enrico Maria Artale wins two awards in the Orizzonti section, the second section of the 2023 Venice Film Festival dedicated to new cinema trends. Enrico Maria Artale wins the Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay while the Orizzonti Award for Best...
Netflix Italy, €617 million in revenues in 2022
Revenues boom for Netflix Italy: the Italian branch of the streaming giant recorded revenues of €617 million in 2022 compared to €59 million in 2021. This jump is linked to the birth in 2021 of Netflix services Italy srl, which for the past two years has moved the...
AI and Audiovisual. Opportunities and risks – Part 2 of 4
The launch of ChatGpt (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) in November 2022 was the turning point around which the enormous opportunities associated with the development of AI have become entwined. Machine learning has become the free zone where geopolitics meets...
€1 million to French-Italian audiovisual productions
Today, 7 September, opens the second session to participate in the call for applications set up by the Italian Ministry of Culture together with the French National Film Centre to support film and television initiatives between Italy and France. The €1,000,000 budget...
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