All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 105
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German Federal Film Board's finances in question after court ruling
Future financing of the German Federal Film Board (FFA) was potentially put into question after the German Administrative Court ruled this week that the national funding institution's cinema levy is unconstitutional.According to the German Film Law (FFG) cinema owners are required to pay a levy of between 1.8% and 3% ...
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Finalists for the Cartoon Movie Tributes 2009 announced
Irish animator Tomm Moore who directed Berlinale offering Brendan and The Secret Of Kells, French distributor Bac Films and the production team behind Niko & The Way To The Stars are among the finalists nominated for this year's Cartoon Movie Tributes. Cartoon Movie Tributes rewards companies and personalities who have ...
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Belgrade Fest hosts fourth co-production market
The 37th Belgrade International Film Festival FEST has opened its fourth East-West co-production market, the B2B Industry Meetings.B2B spotlights countries that are geographically in Europe, but not fully integrated in European film networks and markets, as well as countries outside Europe with strong European influence and heritage.The co-production market gives ...
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Bavarian fund backs projects by Hirschbiegel, Wieland and Kraus
New films by Sundance winner Oliver Hirschbiegel, Ute Wieland and Chris Kraus are among the projects receiving funding totalling $5m (Euros 3.9m) from the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern. The largest single award, $1.2m (Euros 950,000), went to Hirschbiegel's adaptation of Andreas Ulrich's bestselling book Angel Face. The film tells ...
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NewsAscot picks up five more titles in EFM
Leading Swiss independent distributor Ascot Elite, acquired the rights for German speaking Europe to another five titles to add to the previously announced black thriller comedyChawby Shin Jeong-Won.The Zurich-based group picked up Gerald McMorrow’s thriller Franklyn, starring Ryan Philippe, Sam Riley and Eva Green, which will ...
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Tom Tykwer dreams big with 'fascinating' adaptation ofCloud Atlas
Much has happened in Berlin in the decade between the release of Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run, which exploded onto the European film-making scene in the late 1990s, and his latest film, The International, which opened this month's Berlinale.'Berlin is completely up there with any other big film city in ...
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Germany's TMG picks up new films by Redford, Gilliam, Carpenter
Herbert Kloiber’s Tele München Group (TMG) acquired the German rights to new films by Robert Redford, Terry Gilliam and John Carpenter at this year’s European Film Marketduring the Berlinale.
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Berlin Bear winners sell well for Match Factory, Bavaria
Sales have been strong for Berlin Bear winners handled by German-based sales agents The Match Factory and Bavaria Film International.
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Film producers to access Saxony-Anhalt $64m loan programme
Film producers will have access to a $64m (Euros 50m) loan programme in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt which has been launched to support the media industry in the state. The 'Sachsen -Anhalt IMPULS Medien' programme offers locally based production companies loans of up to $3.8m (Euros 3m) per project. The loans are ...
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Peru's The Milk Of Sorrow wins Golden Bear at Berlinale
For the second year running, the Berlinale's Golden Bear has gone to Latin America with the International Jury led by Tilda Swinton selecting Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa's second feature The Milk Of Sorrow for the top honours this year.Sold internationally by The Match Factory and supported by the Berlinale's World ...
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Berlin's EFM a 'mixed bag', according to market director Beki Probst
'It has been a mixed bag this year' was market director Beki Probst's verdict on the 2009 edition of the European Film Market (EFM) which finally closed its doors on February 13.'Some people would say it was good, some better than what they expected and some that it was not ...
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Fidalgo takes Norwegian rights to two Berlin competitors
Norwegian distributor Fidalgo has acquired two films which had their world premieres in this year's Competition at the Berlinale.Deals were concluded by Fidalgo with The Match Factory for Uruguayan filmmaker Adrian Biniez's feature debut Gigante and with TrustNordisk for Annette K. Olesen's Little Soldier. In addition, Berlin-based distributor Neue Visionen ...
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Match Factory floats with Vinterberg's Submarino
The Match Factory has taken on sales for Thomas Vinterberg's low budget feature Submarino which is based on the novel of the same name by Jonas T Bengston. The deal continues Match's collaboration with Danish production house Nimbus Film after handling international sales on their previous productions of Ole Christian ...
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Universum Film developing Tractors bestseller with UK's Trijbits
German distributor Universum Film has joined forces with UK-based producer Paul Trijbits of Ruby Films for the development of an adaptation of Marina Lewycka's A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian. The culture clash comedy about a dysfunctional Ukranian family living in Peterborough in the 1990s was a bestseller in ...
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Dieter Kosslick extends Berlinale contract till 2013
Dieter Kosslick is staying put at the Berlinale - the festival director confirmed to Screen that his contract as festival director has been extended by another two years until April 30, 2013, four weeks before his 65th birthday. It was originally scheduled to expire in 2011. He also expressed optimism ...
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German distributor Universum Film developing Tractor bestseller with UK's Trijbits
German distributor Universum Film has joined forces with UK-based producer Paul Trijbits of Ruby Films for the development of an adaptation of Marina Lewycka's A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian. The culture clash comedy about a dysfunctional Ukranian family living in Peterborough in the 1990s was a bestseller in ...
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Uchitel to hunt Lions with Sokolovsky
Russian director Alexey Uchitel's company Rock Films has lined up local filmmaker Vadim Sokolovsky to direct thriller Hunting The Lions. Written by the Ukrainian-born Anastasia Sarkisyan, the film is set among a group of Nazi-style nationalists planning an Oklahoma-style bombing in St. Petersburg. An experienced TV drama director, Sokolovksy previously ...
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Winter booked for Gate remake by H20, MMC
UK-born actor-director Alex Winter, still best known for playing Bill in the Bill & Ted films, has been confirmed as the director for a remake of the 1987 horror film The Gate which could become the first 3D feature film to be shot completely in Germany later this year. Winter's ...
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Eva Green, Matt Smith to star in Benedek Fliegauf's Womb
Eva Green and Matt Smith, the UK's new Doctor Who, are to star in Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf's first English language feature film Womb which will begin shooting on location at Germany's North Sea coast at the beginning of March.The production by Waltz With Bashir producers Razor Film and Budapest-based ...
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Szasz signs for The Notebook
Agota Kristof's award-winning anti-war novel The Notebook (Le Grand Cahier) is to be adapted for the cinema screen by Hungarian writer-director Janos Szasz. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, producer Sandor Soth of Intuit Pictures said that he had secured the film rights against stiff competition. He is looking in Berlin for ...