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The Italian distributor Rai Cinema has become the 12th member of Globalgate, a consortium specializing in intellectual property issues and the production of local language films around the world. Globalgate also co-produces and co-finances wide-release local language films. Its funding comes from major distribution companies. Rai Cinema, with 15% of the Italian film market, joins …
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At the “Series Mania” festival in Lille, France Télévisions, Rai and ZDF announced they are creating a pan-European broadcasting group, Alliance, which will offer viewers high budget drama series. For Delphine Ernotte, chair of France Televisions, Europe must “take advantage of [its] strengths, [its] diversity and [its] incredible cultural wealth” to compete with large groups …
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Rai TV, in competition with Mediaset, has managed to keep the broadcasting rights and live broadcast exclusivity for the Coppa Italia, the national football competition, for the period 2018-2021. The Italian public broadcasting group will pay 35.5 million euros a year – a 60% increase over the previous period. Rai Chief Executive Mario Orfeo said …
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For the second year running Turin hosted “Cartoons on the Bay”, an international festival of cross-media animation and children’s television from April 12th to 14th. The event was organized by Rai Com and sponsored by Rai, with the Piedmontese Region also very involved in the project. The festival programme this year was very varied – …
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Paolo Del Brocco, CEO of Rai Cinema gave a press conference on April 11th to present the group’s international co-productions. In particular, he cited productions with prestigious directors: “Everybody Knows” with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, his first film in Spanish; “Il peccato” with Russian director Andrei Konchalovskye and “Opera senza autore” with German director Florian …
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Amazon has signed an agreement with Rai Television to include recent films, some film classics and the channel’s own TV series on its Italian video platform. The series concerned will be the most successful ones, such as “Medici: Masters of Florence”. Every new episode of a series being broadcast will be available on Amazon just …
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The TivùSat satellite broadcasting platform (DTH) is adding the Cine Sonny cinema channel to its offering. Cine Sonny is operated by Sony Pictures Television Networks (SPTN), showing mainstream films but also documentaries on the history of cinema. It will be the second SPTN channel on TivùSat. TivùSat transmits more than a hundred channels, 38 in …
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