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ITALY / Vivendi launches an Italian production subsidiary

The French media company Vivendi has announced that by the end of the month it will create a subsidiary in Italy, where for more than a year a legal dispute has pitted it against the Italian group Mediaset. The news was announced by Arnaud de Puyfontaine, Chairman of Vivendi’s Executive Board. The subsidiary, named simply …

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ITALY / Funding for Italian cinema will be doubled

The Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, has announced that a new Film Act will be in force soon, redefining how the country’s film subsidies are awarded. He said the draft legislation, its second reading approved by the Senate, will almost certainly have its “final approval within a few weeks.” The Act will strengthen the Italian …

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BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA / The reform for financing BHRT rejected

On July 19th the Bosnian Parliament rejected the draft reform on public broadcasting funding, which includes the public television service BHRT. The idea behind the reform was to include each person’s TV license fee with their electricity bill, a method recently adopted in Italy. At present the fee is part of the bill for fixed …

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ITALY / Mediaset refuses to change its contract with Vivendi

Meeting on July 28th, the board of directors of the Italian group Mediaset refused to renegotiate the terms of the agreement signed with Vivendi in April. According to this contract, Vivendi was supposed to buy Mediaset Premium, a pay-TV platform, and buy 3.5% of Mediaset’s capital. But on July 26th the French group, owned by …

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Selection for PriMed 2016 : Mediterranean Memory category

The following is the selection for PriMed 2016 in the Mediterranean Memory category : – BERLUSCONI ET LA MAFIA. SCANDALES À L’ITALIENNE by Olivier TOSCER – FEDERICA MONTSENY, L’INDOMPTABLE by Jean-Michel RODRIGO – LA FABULOSA CASABLANCA by Manuel HORRILLO – MY OWN PRIVATE WAR by Lidija ZELOVIC   PriMed is the International Festival of Mediterranean …

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CMCA presents the list of films selected for PriMed 2016!

From May 23rd to 27th the PriMed 2016 selection jury worked at the headquarters of 2M in Casablanca to choose the films which will go through to the final phase of the festival’s 20th edition in Marseille from November 20th to 26th. The CMCA (Centre Méditerranéen de la Communication Audiovisuelle), PriMed’s organiser, received nearly 350 …

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ITALY / An agreement Vivendi/Mediaset being negotiated

While at the beginning of the week we learned that the French group Vivendi had approached the Italian Mediaset “for cooperation […] over content”, the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore gave details on March 24th of the progress of negotiations. The newspaper said the Franco-Tunisian producer Tarak Ben Ammar would be responsible for leading discussions …

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