All articles by Karsten Kastelan – Page 3
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Advanced signs on for MGM's Heartbreakers
Munich-based Advanced Medien is co-financing MGM's Heartbreakers, starring Sigourney Weaver, Gene Hackman and Jennifer Love Hewitt, in return for German-speaking theatrical rights and a percentage of worldwide box office receipts. UK-based Winchester Films is handling international sales on the film which is currently in production in Los Angeles. German-speaking free ...
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Das Werk buys stake in new producer
German post-production giant Das Werk has acquired a 25% stake in FutureWorks Crossmedia Production, a Munich-based events agency which plans to expand into film production and marketing.The company, which is organising the Nea World Xtreme Sports Awards in Munich, plans to draw on the experience of chairman Joseph Schoninger, a ...
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Constantin doubles turnover, posts profit increase
Germany's Constantin Film has reported that turnover doubled to $57.6m (DM125.1m) and pre-tax profit increased to $4.8m (DM10.4m) in the first half of the current financial year.Constantin boasts a 34% share of the German distribution market and has also had success with its own productions during 2000 including Harte Jungs ...
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Telepool takes Swiss rights to Warner Bros package
German rights trading company Telepool has acquired free-TV rights for German-speaking Switzerland to a package of 80 films from Warner Bros including The Matrix, Eyes Wide Shut, Three Kings and You've Got Mail. The deal also includes several television series including The Sopranos, Jack & Jill and upcoming series The ...
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Constantin rings up $43m in video, TV sales
Germany's Constantin Film has sold a package of free TV, pay-TV and video/DVD rights to broadcasters such as Kirch Media and ZDF and video companies VCL Film + Medien and BMG Video for a total $42.5m (DM90m).Constantin licensed video/DVD rights to a total 15 films in two packages. VCL took ...
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Kinowelt grabs Rings merchandising rights
M.R. Kinowelt Merchandising (MRKM), the recently formed joint venture between German mini-major Kinowelt and Munich-based M.R. Merchandising & Retail, has acquired the German merchandising rights to New Line Cinema's upcoming Lord Of The Rings trilogyThe deal makes MRKM the first Lord Of The Rings licensee outside the US. MRKM CEO ...
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German half-year box office up 13%
German cinema attendance rose 12% to 74.7 million admissions in the first half of 2000 according to the German Federal Film Board, the FFA, compared to 66.7 million during the first half of 1999.At the same time, a rise in average ticket prices in Germany from $5.10 (DM10.58) last year ...
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EM.TV exchanges investments for Crown Media stake
German family programming and merchandising giant EM.TV is taking an 8.2% stake in the US' Crown Media Holdings in exchange for its stakes in Crown's US pay-TV station Odyssey Network and Asian Kermit Channel.EM.TV inherited a 22.5% stake in the Odyssey Channel and 50% of the Kermit Channel in February ...
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Kinowelt enters Russia with Scriba's Gemini
German mini-studio Kinowelt is continuing its expansion into Eastern Europe by establishing a Russian distribution outfit, Gemini Kinomir, in partnership with Bodo Scriba's Moscow-based distributor Gemini International.The new company will handle Kinowelt's existing slate and take over from Gemini International as exclusive distributor of 20th Century Fox product in Russia. ...
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Intertainment reports 848% jump in revenues
Germany's Intertainment has reported an 848% increase in revenues to $64.5m (DM134.4m) for the first half of 2000, while pre-tax profit improved 949% to $30.5m (DM63.6m).The company said the rapid rise was partly due to its recent move into selling film and TV rights for the whole of Europe rather ...
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Bavaria snaps up film rights to Danella's novels
Munich-based Bavaria Film has purchased film rights to all 38 novels by German bestselling author Utta Danella and plans to adapt two to three of them a year as TV movies.The deal continues Bavaria's association with the popular author, which began recently with the Bavaria/Artus-Film co-production The Black Mirror (Der ...
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Kirch Media unveils new internet platform
Germany's Kirch Media has unveiled the creation of a new internet platform which will be jointly owned with KirchPayTV and affiliated broadcasters Pro Sieben, Sat 1 Media and DSF.The various channels are expected to support the internet start-up with free advertising of up to $250m. News Corp's TM3 could ...
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Middelhoff comes out on top in German media survey
Bertelsmann chairman Thomas Middelhoff has been voted the most important player in Germany's media scene in a survey in German magazine TV Today. Leo Kirch came a distant second with 355 to Middelhoff's 435 points. Third place went to Spiegel publisher Rudolf Augstein. Other notable players named were EM.TV's Thomas ...
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Germany's IN-motion takes over US' Myriad for $4m
German media concern IN-motion has acquired 76% of Kirk D'Amico's US sales operation Myriad Pictures for $4m, only weeks after the Frankfurt-based company went public.D'Amico will remain CEO of Myriad, working with IN-motion's LA-based chairman for film and TV Philip von Alvensleben, formerly president of Telemuenchen, who joined Myriad's board ...
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RTL shuffles execs to sister channel Vox
RTL executives Ladya van Eeden and Marko Langer will replace Joerg Schuette as programming chief at RTL sister channel Vox. Van Eeden will be responsible for the fiction division and Schuette will supervise news. Van Eeden, who is currently programming co-ordinator at RTL, will make the transition on August 1 ...
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German authorities clear News Corp's TM3 deal
Germany's antitrust commission KEK has approved News Corp's acquisition of the remaining 34% of Munich-based broadcaster TM3 which it does not already own. The Bavarian authorities still have to clear the deal.News Corp is reportedly planning to sell at least part of TM3 to the Kirch Group which is considering ...
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Saving Grace bags GWFF award at Munich fest
UK title Saving Grace, directed by Nigel Cole, snatched the High Hopes award, sponsored by the German collection society GWFF, at the Filmfest Muenchen last week (June 24-July 1). Retaining its independent focus, the Munich event gave out 12 independently sponsored awards to up-and-coming film-makers. The Hypo Vereinsbank award, intended ...
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Checkpoint, Cinemedia, Senator team for B-movies
German production and financing outfits Checkpoint Berlin Filmproductions and Cinemedia Film have teamed with local distributor Senator Films to produce a slate of unashamed B-movies under the label Planet B.Checkpoint and Cinemedia aim to produce four low-budget films under the strand, with Senator taking German rights. All will four be ...
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