Apulia Development Film Fund. Promoting the territory through cinema
Apulia Film Commission Foundation has allocated a 200,000 euro fund to support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in the development and pre-production phase of feature films, TV series and animation works. Applications can be submitted to the Apulia...
Oceans Are the Real Continents. Fandango launches international sales of Santambrogio’s film
Fandango launches at the Venice Film Festival the international distribution of Oceans Are the Real Continents, the first feature film by Tommaso Santambrogio, which opens Giornate degli Autori, the festival’s independent section. The film is a Rosamont...
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...
