Box Office July 24-30. Podium unchanged with Barbie at the top
Box office podium unchanged from last week: Barbie confirms the top spot with weekly earnings of 10,406,726 and with total receipts of more than 18 million as of July 30, the film enters the top box office ranking since the 2021 reopenings, but it does not end there....
Netflix looking for AI Manager
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Vuelta Group prepares for acquisition of Indiana Production
Indiana Production is set to join the ranks of European independent cinema, gathered under the aegis of the Vuelta Group, a production company headed by Jerome Levy. The latter, after its recent acquisitions of Paris-based international sales company Playtime Group,...
Comandante and El Paraíso directly to the Venice Film Festival, via the MIA
Edoardo De Angelis’s Comandante starring Pierfrancesco Favino, featured in the sestina of Italian films in competition at the Venice International Film Festival from August 30 to September 9, 2023, is the new opening film from the kermesse. A...
Child protection in media use. MIA at Giffoni
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Premio Franco Solinas 2023 announces the 8 shortlisted projects
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Animal by Sofia Exarchou in competition at Sarajevo Film Festival
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Trieste, the capital of Audiovisual. Positive balance sheet for AVPSummit
The second edition of the Audio-Visual Producers Summit, a three-day event-from July 19 to 21-full of appointments on issues of stringent topicality for the audiovisual sector with the participation of important players from all over the world, closed in Trieste. The...
Box Office July 17-23. Barbie dominates box office
The highly anticipated Barbie, the live-action based on the famous toy line, released on July 21, dominates the chart with € 7,717,161 and drops one place to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One with a gross of € 1,404,699 and Indiana Jones and...
Abruzzo will also have its own Film Commission. A call for 2 million euros for productions in the fall
Abruzzo will also have its Film Commission and its role will be to attract and support productions and render service to the region. The President of the Region, Marco Marsilio, during the conference chaired by representatives of institutions, Film Commissions and the...
Emilia-Romagna supports creative and cultural industry with two calls for proposals dedicated to training
Emilia-Romagna’s commitment to the cultural and creative industry is growing. The region allocates 5.5 million euros through two new calls for proposals to finance training activities aimed at qualifying and increasing the skills of those working in the film and...
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