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...
Box office growth trend confirmed again in July
It may be the Barbie effect, which alone accounted for half of July’s box office, the Indiana Jones sequels and Mission: Impossible, which made significant contributions, but theaters this month earned more than 40 million and recorded 5.5 million admissions....
Skyrocketing growth of SVoD in the Middle East market
The Arabic SVoD market, according to the British company Digital TV Research, will experience tremendous growth over the next six years as it reaches 28 million subscribers, up from 15 million in 2023. By 2029 there will be 28 million SVOD subscriptions in 13 Arabic...
Box office August 14-20. Blue Beetle conquers the bronze medal
One month after its release in Italian cinemas, Barbie does not abandon the top spot with a gross that rises to €1,556,143, gaining the highest Italian box office of 2023, second only to Avatar: The Water Way. Shark 2 – The Abyss holds on to second place with a...
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