All Germany articles – Page 87
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NewsEFP launches new producer initiative
European Film Promotion (EFP) has launched a new initiative, Producers Lab Hamburg (PLH), bringing producers from across Europe to meet with their Hamburg-based opposite numbers.
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NewsWe Are The Freaks heads to Germany
German distributor Lighthouse has acquired rights from 104 Films to Justin Edgar’s We Are The Freaks for German-speaking territories.
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NewsGermany submits Beloved Sisters to Oscar race
Dominik Graf’s ménage-à-trois drama to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.
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NewsParticipant boards DreamWorks duo
Participant Media has joined Steven Spielberg’s Untitled Cold War Spy Thriller and period drama The Light Between Oceans.
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NewsVue's CinemaxX managing director quits
Christian Gisy to step down after more than seven years at exhibitor.
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NewsFilms submitted for German Oscar entry
A total of 15 films have been submitted for consideration.
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NewsWild Bunch, Senator announce merger
Merger ties in with Senator Entertainment’s restructuring strategy.
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NewsFocus goes for gold with Race
Jason Sudeikis has joined Jeremy Irons and Stephan James in the true story of the Olympic legend. Focus acquired US rights in a deal with world sales agent Mister Smith Entertainment.
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NewsLionsgate, StudioCanal expand output deal
The renewed output partnership with StudioCanal in Germany, Austria and Switzerland includes a TV component involving ProSieben.
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NewsGerman producers 'regret' over €10m cuts proposal
Germany’s film producers have expressed ¨exceptional regret¨ at learning that Angela Merkel’s cabinet has proposed reducing the annual budget for the DFFF ¨German spend¨ incentive by another €10m to €50m in the global federal budget for 2015.
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NewsDownfall director to make Nazi drama
Oliver Hirschbiegel to direct the story of Georg Elser, the man who attempted to assassinate Hitler in 1939.
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NewsGermany’s SquareOne acquires Cannes market titles
Films include Eli Roth’s Knock Knock, Anton Corbijn’s Life, Boychoir starring Dustin Hoffman and Spooks feature.
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NewsDifret acquired for UK, Germany, Italy
EXCLUSIVE: Executive producer Angelina Jolie “can’t wait for the world to see” Ethiopian drama, which has been snapped up by distributors across Europe.
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NewsJeunet's Spivet to open Munich
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The Young and Prodigious Spivet will be the opening film at this year’s Filmfest München (June 27-July 5) after Jeunet previously kicked off the festival in Munich in 2001 with Amelie From Montmartre.
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NewsFack Ju producer moves to Constantin
Lena Schömann, producer of box office hit Fack Ju Göhte (Suck Me Shakespeer), is switching to Constantin Film after 12 years at the distributor-producer’s subsidiary Rat Pack Filmproduktion.
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NewsHelma Sanders-Brahms dies aged 73
The German film industry is mourning the passing of film-maker Helma Sanders-Brahms, one of the leading women directors of the New German Cinema with a broad international following, at the age of 73 after a long illness.
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NewsHelge Sasse resigns from Senator
CEO of the Berlin-based producer-distributor resigns after eight years in the role and “takes responsibility” for major losses in 2013.
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NewsFiddlesticks flies high in Europe
EXCLUSIVE: German kids adventure Fiddlesticks has been snapped up buyers following its market premiere.
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NewsSorrentino’s Youth scores sales
EXCLUSIVE: Wild Bunch and StudioCanal take rights to the Italian director’s follow up to Oscar-winner The Great Beauty.
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NewsJuergen Hellwig dies aged 66
Documentary filmmaker and distribution executive Juergen Hellwig died on April 8, 2014, in Los Angeles. He was 66.