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
Another first place for Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Oppenheimer, which does not hint at leaving the top of the chart for the third week in a row, earning €4,604,346. In second place is The Nun 2, the latest installment in James Wan’s highly successful...
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...
Second Al Jazeera Documentary Industry Days at AJB DOC coming soon
From 9 to 11 September 2023, the second edition of Al Jazeera Documentary Industry Days at AJB DOC will take place, the event that promotes the dissemination and development of the documentary genre by bringing together the main players in the field. The festival will...
Investment firm Liberty Strategic Capital acquires 5.5 percent of Lionsgate
A package of shares in Lionsgate, the U.S.-based studios group that owns the pay channel Starz, have been acquired by Liberty Strategic Capital, the Washington, D.C.-based firm that invests in technology companies. The investment, amounting to about $30.8 million,...
Regione Piemonte, €1.5 million for audiovisual productions
The second session of the Piemonte Film Tv Fund, the fund set up by Regione Piemonte to support the audiovisual sector, opened on Monday 4 September 2023 with an endowment of €1,500,000. Only small and medium-sized film and audiovisual companies based in Piedmont can...
AI and Audiovisual. Opportunities and risks – Part 1 of 4
From the 25th birthday, celebrated this month, of the US giant Google, to the birth of ChatGpt: artificial intelligence (AI), in the last quarter of a century, has moved on the high-speed tracks, building a new and much more complex world around us. Technological...
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