The 10th edition of Rome’s MIA Market wrapped on Friday with organizers recording a 10% bump in attendance over the 2023 edition, welcoming more than 2,800 participants from 60 countries to the Eternal City for five days of pitching sessions, panel discussions and heated debates over the current state of and future prospects for the […]

Dutch drama series “The Night Watch” was among the big winners at Rome’s MIA Market on Friday, taking home the MIA Development Award for Outstanding Drama Project as the growing industry event wrapped its 10th edition in the Eternal City. The show was among a quartet of projects taking part in MIA’s Co-Production Market and […]

Italy’s Groenlandia, the Banijay-owned and Rome-based company headed by directors and producers Matteo Rovere and Sydney Sibilia, is on a roll with three shows launching this month respectively on Disney+, Sky Italia and Netflix. They include crime drama “This Is Not Hollywood,” which bows Friday at the Rome Film Festival. The four-part crime series is based […]

Universal Studio Group is all-in on the European market for unscripted content, with two of the company’s top TV executives telling industry professionals in Rome that there’s never been a better time for the continent’s producers to forge partnerships with the global powerhouse — or other U.S. studios looking to snatch up Europe’s top talent […]

Sony Pictures Television president Katherine Pope is still bullish on the future of TV, saying that some of the recent disruptions rattling the global business will be good for the industry in the long haul and insisting that this sink-or-swim moment is the time for visionary creatives to shine. “I think some of this constriction […]

Nearly 10 years after its launch, Italian sales company True Colours is branching out from feature films into the TV content space under the new management of Elliot Gustin-Hollman, formerly with Paris-based distribution powerhouse Newen Connect. The move into TV sales is being made by True Colours – which is co-owned by Italy’s Indigo Film and […]

A riveting murder-mystery based on a prize-winning Japanese crime novel is at the heart of the upcoming six-part series “The Aosawa Murders,” a buzzy U.S.-Japan co-production that’s being pitched this week at Rome’s MIA Market. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Japanese writer Riku Onda, the show is produced by Jonathan Kier […]

French media executive Romain Bessi — who played a key role in building France’s Newen Studios and StudioCanal into international powerhouses — is joining the indie trenches as the leader of an alliance of indie production companies known as The Creatives in the newly created role of CEO. Bessi, who in February left his CEO […]

Rome’s MIA Market dedicated to international TV series, animation, feature films and documentaries kicked off its 10th edition on Monday, with 60 selected projects from 90 countries ready to be unveiled to potential partners. The Oct. 14-18 pre-Mipcom boutique event – which is celebrating its first decade by continuing to adapt its innovative informal market […]

Serge Gainsbourg, the French pop poet and provocateur who courted controversy while scaling the heights of stardom over the course of his decades-spanning career, is the subject of an upcoming animated documentary from Logical Pictures and the company’s The Jokers Lab documentary label. The film will be featured in the co-production forum this week at […]

“Frozen” head animator and longtime Disney veteran Lino DiSalvo is developing an animated feature that tells the coming-of-age story of an Italian teenager who teams up with a mythical beast to save her hometown from an evil curse. Written by Kissy Dugan and produced by Emmanuel Jacomet for Mediawan Kids & Family with Italy’s Palomar […]

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jeff Pope (“Philomena”) and Xavier Marchand of “Nautilus” producer Moonriver TV are teaming up on “Castle of the Eagles,” a six-episode limited series based on the true story of Allied POWs who staged a daring prison break from a fortified Italian castle during World War II. The duo will be presenting the project […]

Italy’s Adler Entertainment and 39Films have teamed up on an innovative IP incubator called Writing Box that will bring together Italian and global screenwriters with the goal of germinating feature films, TV series and docs for the international market. The initiative – being launched at Rome’s MIA market next week – is the brainchild of […]

New Italian distribution company PiperFilm is launching its international sales unit at Rome’s upcoming MIA Market with veteran sales agent Catia Rossi spearheading the potentially high-powered player’s sales side having secured a small but promising multi-genre film slate. Rossi is a former head of international sales at Vision Distribution, True Colours, and RAI Com. She launched […]

Italy’s MIA market — dedicated to international TV series, animation, feature films and documentaries — is set for its 10th edition with 60 projects from 90 countries ready to be unveiled to potential partners. The Oct. 14-18 pre-Mipcom event will also feature a rich roster of panels and keynote speakers, which will help take the […]