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Italy has chosen to jump on the series mania bandwagon, creating its own Italian Global Series Festival (IGSF), which opened its premier event on Saturday, June 21, in the beach-town (…)

By Dom Serafini

On April 14, 1998, I wrote in the Italian financial daily, Il Sole 24 Ore, that RAI, Italy’s state-owned broadcaster, should replace each of its three TV channels’ (…)

How can a company transform its product from a simple trademark into a brand and then an icon? A hint could come from the idea that “products are bought, brands (…)

Today, Thursday June 12, concludes the 12th edition of the New European Market, better known as NEM Dubrovnik, after a four-day run at the Dubrovnik Palace hotel in this seaside (…)

Televisively speaking, June is a busy month, with at least seven international TV markets to attend and, for those in the northern hemisphere, with preparations for summer vacations. VideoAge is at (…)

The celebration of one of the most important holidays in Italy, Italy’s National Day (Festa della Repubblica), took place on Monday, June 2. In the U.S. it was just simply (…)

“It was an event that left an indelible mark on the history of pop music,” American producer and director Vincent Scarza said when asked to recall July 13, 1985, when (…)

This year, most of the screenings at NATPE Budapest will occur on the market’s opening day, Monday, June 23, 2025, at the Dorothea Hotel. This venue is located just around (…)

Many of the studios’ screenings were shorter this year, with majors, including Fox, Amazon MGM, and Lionsgate, taking up just one day each. Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery took (…)

The independent portion of the L.A. Screenings 2025 concluded on Friday, May 16, following a two-day run at the newly “adopted” 12-story Roosevelt Hotel, which, for the first time in (…)