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New body to lobby for deal for Polish filmmakers
Polish film and television producers have established a new consultative body which will lobby the government for better legal and commercial conditions for the Polish audio-visual industry. The newly formed Association of Producers made up of producers working in both film and television will act as Chamber of Commerce for ...
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Czech oscar nominee sweeps Lion awards
Czech Oscar nominee Divided We Fall scooped the top awards at the annual Czech Lion Awards - the country's local equivalent of the Academy Awards - and it is hoping to carry its winning streak on to Los Angeles.Divided We Fall won best fim and best director for Jan Hrebejk ...
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Hungary fears Government fund famine
Plans to restructure government funding for film production has set off a wave of protests from Hungarian filmmakers who claim it will give them fewer sources of cash to green-light new productions. Last year Hungarian filmmakers, who are heavily reliant on government subsidies, produced 27 feature films, the largest annual ...
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Hungarian 'plex saturation slows admissions
According to industry insiders, there are signs that the multiplex boom which revitalised the Hungarian exhibition industry over the past five years is grinding to a halt.There are now 12 multiplexes in the country, which has a population of 10 million, but the rapid growth that saw admissions in Budapest ...
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Werckmeister wins top prize at Hungarian Film Week
Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies was awarded the grand prix and the Gene Moskowtiz critics prize at the 32nd Hungarian Film Week (February 1-6).Best director went to Arpad Sopsits for Abandoned and best photography to Gergely Poharnok for I Love Budapest and Sorted Letters. Best first film was split between I ...
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Gusinsky moves to block takeover of NTV
Vladimir Gusinsky is reportedly attempting to stop Russian state gas giant Gazprom from taking over his NTV television station at an extraordinary general meeting next month, by switching the location of the meeting to Gibraltar.Gusinsky, who is currently in southern Spain pending an extradition request from Russia, said that the ...
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Soros emerges as latest NTV champion
Financier George Soros is poised to join the international consortium of investors offering to buy a stake in Russian broadcaster NTV, part-owned by Vladimir Gusinsky's embattled Media Most Group.Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Soros said he had held talks with Jean Lemierre, president of the European Bank ...
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Gazprom claims victory in battle for NTV
Representatives of Vladimir Gusinsky's embattled Media Most group have been barred from exercising voting rights attached to a disputed 19% stake in the group's flagship station NTV, leading gas giant Gazprom to claim victory in its long-running battle to take control of the broadcaster.Gazprom, which already owns 46% of NTV, ...
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Moscow court freezes sale of NTV shares
CNN founder Ted Turner has hit a major obstacle in his attempts to buy into Russian broadcaster NTV, owned by the beleaguered Media Most group, as a Moscow court has blocked the sale of 19% of the company, pending a court hearing in mid-February. Russia's state-controlled gas giant, Gazprom Media, ...
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Media Most faces bankruptcy threat
While Russian media tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky awaits the outcome of extradition hearings in Spain, Moscow tax authorities have moved to liquidate several companies within his Media Most group, using an obscure piece of legislation that has never been used before.Moscow tax inspectors launched a case in the city arbitrage court ...
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Ratcatcher reels in top prize at Bratislava
Lynne Ramsay's UK drama Ratcatcher won the grand prize at the second edition of the Bratislava International Film Festival.The award for best director went to Lee Chang-dong for Korean title Peppermint Candy. Mandy Matthews won the best actress prize for her part in Ratcatcher, while Peppermint Candy's Sol Kyung-gu took ...
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Kirch discusses buying stake in Russia's TV6
Germany's Kirch Group is in negotiations to acquire a stake in Russian broadcaster TV6, which is majority-owned by Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky. According to the station's director general, Alexander Ponomarev, a stake of up 25% is up for grabs.Representatives from the German company recently spent several days in Moscow, visiting ...
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Media Most, Gazprom sign new debt relief deal
Russia's embattled Media Most group has finally signed a debt relief settlement with its major creditor, the state-controlled gas giant Gazprom. The agreement is essentially the same as the one reached a week earlier, which was scotched at the eleventh hour when Gazprom Media chief Alfred Kokh withdrew his offer ...
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Media Most cuts deal with Gazprom
Embattled Russian media giant Media Most Group has reached what it described as an "amicable agreement" with its chief creditor, state gas giant Gazprom. While details are not yet available the deal would also involve bringing on board an unnamed foreign investor according to a spokeswoman for the group.The agreement, ...
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Away From The Window
Dir: Jan Jakub Kolski. Poland. 2000. 104mins.Prod co: Close Up, TVP SA: Agencja Filmowa and Agencja Produkcji Filmowej Komitetu Kinemotograffii. Int'l sales: Close Up, tel: (48) 22 851 2042. Domestic dist: Gutek Film. Prod: Witold Adamek. Scr: Cezary Harasimowicz. DoP: Arkadiusz Tomiak. Set des: Bogdan Nobel-Nobielski. Music: Michal Lorenc. Ed: ...
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SBS plans digital expansion in Eastern Europe
Mediatrade president Maurizio Costanzo has been appointed head of Veleno (Venom), the new company recently launched as Cross Media Factory by Italian media giant Fininvest, with the aim of seeking synergies between its publishing, internet, film and television arms.Veleno aims to be a 'factory of ideas,' that will draw on ...
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Disease picks up top prize at Gdynia
The grand prize at the Gdynia Festival of Polish Features Films went to Krzysztof Zanussi for Life As A Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease. The film - which took the main award at this year's Moscow film festival - also won the best male actor award for its star Zbigniew Zapasiewicz.The ...
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Bailiffs move in on Russian media group Media Most
Bailiffs moved on Friday to freeze the shares of Media Most Group, Russia's sole independent media empire, after talks between the troubled group and its major creditor, the state-controlled gas concern Gazprom, broke down.The move came after a court order was granted to Gazprom's media arm, Gazprom-Media, which is trying ...
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Berezovsky offers to hand back ORT stake
In a move that Moscow media watchers are calling a publicity ploy, Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has threatened to hand back to the government his stake in Russia's largest broadcaster ORT. In a letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin that was provided to the press, Berezovsky claimed that he has ...
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Media Most benefits from Ostankino tragedy
The tragic fire at Moscow's Ostankino Television tower that claimed four lives last week and wiped out nearly all broadcasting in the city has proved a windfall for Media Most Group's satellite service NTV Plus.The Media Most Group, which has been beset by financial problems over the past year, reported ...