New measure to protect workers in the entertainment industry
Among the measures approved by the Consiglio dei Ministri on August 28, 2023, the legislative decree for the reorganization and revision of shock absorbers and allowances and for the introduction of a discontinuity allowance in favor of workers in the entertainment...
Venice Film Festival opens in memory of Gina Lollobrigida
This evening, the pre-opening of the 80th Venice Film Festival will present the world premiere screening of Portrait of Gina (1958) by Orson Welles, in a version restored by the Filmmuseum München thanks to the contribution of Cinecittà, and La Provinciale (1953) by...
AVOD revenues grow more than SVOD in Latin America
According to UK-based Digital TV Research, the Latin American market for AVODs, which stands for Advertising Supported Video On Demand, free services such as Youtube, where the user has free access to one or more streaming content accompanied by advertisements, will...
Box Office 21 – 27 August. Oppenheimer dethrones Barbie
Oppenheimer shows no sign of surrendering the top spot in the charts, grossing €8,923,000 less than a week after its theatrical release. The film, starring the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, known for his contribution to the creation of the first atomic bomb, played...
Letter from the President of APA and the President of Anica Producers to the Editor of La Stampa
Dear Editor, An article published in your newspaper, authored by Gianmaria Tammaro and titled “Dopo l’abbondanza, la crisi: in Italia chiudono produzioni e vengono cancellate serie tv” (“After Abundance, Crisis: Productions Closing and TV Series Being...
CNN lands on Max
CNN Max, a new streaming content offering will be added to Max, a Warner Bros Discovery platform. A daily flow of news from the US network and international feeds along with some original content will be the main components of the service, which “will provide...
Instrumented Auditorium, neuroscience at cinema’s service
In 2024, Instrumented Auditorium, a cinema capable of measuring audience emotional reactions, will open in Bristol, UK. Designed by the University of Bristol’s research centre MyWorld, in partnership with the BBC, Watershed cinema, Aardman and Netflix, the...
Podcasts, new perspectives for TV and film
Along with books, theatrical works, and video games, podcasts have established themselves over the last decade as a source of inspiration for film or television adaptations. Its serial, episodic, original scripted or unscripted nature has made the medium a source of...
Summer of record for China’s Box Office
According to data from ticketing agency Maoyan Entertainment, the summer of 2023 was a record-breaking season for Chinese film receipts. The previous summer season box office record of RMB17.8 billion, set in 2018, was broken this year, two weeks before the season...
The growth of the film industry in Scotland. The report and numbers
On the final day of the Edinburgh Film Festival, the report by Saffery Champness and Nordcity for Screen Scotland was released, which showed that spending in the Scottish film sector increased by 55% between 2019 and 2021. According to the research, in fact, a total...
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, in world preview at Venice Film Festival, acquired by Mubi
The distribution, streaming and production company Mubi has acquired the international rights (except for Italy and North America) to Sofia Coppola’s new film ‘Priscilla’. The company also has two other co-productions that, like Priscilla, will have...
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