Box office 31 July – 06 August. Barbie breaks through the $1 billion box office mark
Barbie topped the charts again this week and brought home a brilliant new result. The live action based on Mattel’s famous doll, released just three weeks ago, has broken through the $1 billion mark in worldwide box office. The record also concerns the...
Amazon invests over $7 billion in Israel to launch its Amazon Web Services
Tech giant Amazon is planning an investment of about $7.2 billion by 2037 in Israel and has launched its Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers, cloud platforms capable of sending applications running and storing data directly in the country’s infrastructure....
Agreement is reached at the Anica table on the contract for voice actors
An agreement was reached at the Anica table between the unions and employers on the contract for voice actors, which provides for wage increases in the range of 15-18 percent, within an overall increase of 30 percent. “The parties have come to the signing of an...
Amazon Studios extends Nicole Morganti’s role to southern Europe
Nicole Morganti, Head of Amazon Originals – scripted and unscripted – for Italy, will continue to lead Amazon Studios, extending her role to the Southern European region, spanning Italy, France, and Spain. Morganti had joined the Amazon Studios team in...
Those About To Die, Prime Video acquires series starring Anthony Hopkins
The series Those About To Die by Roland Emmerich, director of collossals such as Independence Day, has been acquired by Prime Video in several European territories and will arrive in Italy in 2024. The series, which was also partly filmed in Italy, in the Cinecittà...
Abu Dhabi invests in cinema and builds new studios
A big studios complex is being built in Abu Dhabi. The UAE capital has decided to invest in international cinema, which had already chosen it to shoot some Hollywood films such as Dune, Star Wars and Fast and Furious, attracting Bollywood productions including...
Mfe-MediaForEurope presents positive results for the first half of the year
Mfe-MediaForEurope, the group that controls Mediaset, Mediaset España and is the largest shareholder in the German broadcaster ProsiebenSat, yesterday presented its results for the first half of 2023, with net income up to 87 million and revenues stable. A note...
Eagle Pictures acquires Blu Yazmine and grows with unscripted
Eagle Pictures, the group present in every segment of the audiovisual business, enters the entertainment industry, acquiring control of Blue Yazmine, a company founded by Ilaria Dallatana and Francesca Canetta and active in unscripted production. This business...
The first edition of the Doc/it Women Award kicks off
The first edition of the Doc/it Women Award, the prize organised by Doc/it – Associazione Documentaristi Italiani in collaboration with Women in Film, Television & Media Italia (WIFTMI) and with the support of the Roma Lazio Film Commission, is about to kick...
Production goes European. MIA at Giffoni Innovation Hub
Saturday July 29th at Giffoni Innovation Hub MIA hosted a panel titled Production goes European. How to create viable European Projects and new opportunities from EU co-production fundings for film and series content. The panel was focused on the competitiveness of...
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....
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