All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 106
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NewsLocarno's Open Doors to focus on Greater China
Greater China will be the focus region of the Open Doors co-production platform at this year’s Locarno Film Festival.
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Russia steps up as fourth biggest European market
The Russian Federation became Europe's fourth largest cinema market in terms of cinema attendance in 2008, according to estimates from the Strasbourg-based European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO). Russian cinemas posted the biggest year-on-year increase in absolute terms among 31 European countries with a 16% increase. Russian admissions rose by 17.3m to ...
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Media Luna picks up Memory, Jennifer
Media Luna Entertainment has picked up Memory, the second feature by Matthias Luthardt, who is the president of the 'Dialogue en perspective' jury of young German and French film buffs for this year's Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar. The drama starring Franziska Petri and Pasquale Aleardi premiered at the Hof Film ...
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Schmidtz Katze lines up English language thriller slate
German production outfit Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv (SKF) is in Berlin to look for an international sales partner for a three-picture slate of English-language thrillers. According to SKF managing director Patrick Knippel, each thriller will be budgeted at around $2.6m (Euros 2m) and the idea is to shoot them back to ...
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Match Factory joins Tanovic's Cirkus
The Match Factory (TMF) will handle international sales for Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic's Cirkus Columbia (working title) which will be his first feature to be shot in his Bosnian homeland. The adaptation of the debut novel of the same name by Croatian journalist Ivica Djikic is being prepared by Tanovic ...
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Sophie goes to Turkey for Atlas
Turkey's Horizon has picked up Leif Bristow's family film Sophie which begins shooting in Canada this week with Brittany Bristow, John Rhys-Davies, Augustus Prew and German actor Thure Riefenstein in the cast. Describing the deal with Horizon as 'the fastest in my career', Philipp Menz, of the film's sales agent ...
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EU's MEDIA International funding increased by$3m for 2009
The European Commission's MEDIA International initiative has more than doubled its budget for 2009, isencouraging new approaches to distributionand will expand to include projects designed to reach new audiences. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily ahead of this year's MEDIA Info Day today, Aviva Silver, head of the MEDIA Unit, explained that ...
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Films Boutique picks up Rots, Jude titles
Berlin-based sales company Films Boutique has picked up four new titles for international distribution, including two Forum titles - Esther Rots' Can Go Through Skin and Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude's The Happiest Girl In The World. Films Boutique's Jean-Christophe Simon also told Berlinale ScreenDaily that he has take on international ...
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Match Factory waltzes again with Folman
The Match Factory is continuing its collaboration with Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman after handling international sales on his Oscar-nominated animated documentary Waltz With Bashir.The Cologne-based sales agent is the German partner on Folman's new project The Futurological Congress, which is adapted from Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi novel of the same name ...
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GrandHotel to make gay footballer story
Berlin-based GrandHotelPictures has unveiled its development slate which includes Iranian-born Reza Memari's adaptation of Ronny Blaschke's Versteckspieler, a biography of the gay footballer Marcus Urban from former eastern Germany. The biography was published in Germany last year'It is a kind of coming of age story for adults where we will ...
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UK's Hudson launches Cologne-based production outfit
UK-born, Cologne-based director Steve Hudson has launched his own production company GRINGO Films with producer Sonja Ewers to develop and produce international features. They are in Berlin to meet potential partners to board their first two feature projects which are currently at the stage of script development. The first project, ...
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Kinowelt's Ziannis sets up new sales shop Aktis
Former Kinowelt world sales chief Stelios Ziannis is in Berlin with his new sales company Aktis Film International. The Leipzig-based outfit's first acquisition is Rudolf Thome's black tragicomedy Pink which will have its world premiere in the festival's Berlinale Special sidebar. Starring Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Panzner (Valkyrie), Guntram Brattia (The ...
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Atrix boards Murnberger's Bone Man
Beatrix Wesle's Munich-based Atrix Films has taken all international rights, excluding German-speaking territories, to Wolfgang Murnberger's laconic mystery drama The Bone Man (Der Knochenmann) which will be having its world premiere in Panorama. Starring Josef Hader, Simon Schwarz, Josef Bierbichler and Birgit Minichmayr, the adaptation of Wolf Haas' cult novel ...
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Rotterdam and Berlin could overlap in 2010
The Rotterdam and Berlin film festivals are on a potential collision course with their dates for 2010 when the Berlinale will be celebrating its 60 th anniversary. At the end of this year's edition last weekend, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced that its 2010 dates will be Wednesday ...
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Tom Tykwer teams up with the Wachowskis
Tom Tykwer is teaming up with the Wachowski brothers on one of two projects he currently has in development. Tykwer said he is working on an adaptation of UK author David Mitchell's 2004 Booker Prize shortlisted novel Cloud Atlas, whose action stretches from the remote South Pacific in the 19 ...
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Basterds swings German cash
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds has been awarded $8.7m (Euros 6.8m) support by Germany's much praised DFFF incentive scheme. The Second World War drama, which is currently shooting at the Babelsberg studios, is the fifth project to break the fund's 'cap' threshold of $5.1m (Euros 4m) after the Joel Silver production ...
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Number of buyers at EFM increases year-on-year by almost 40%
The number of international buyers attending this year's European Film Market (EFM) at the Berlinale is set to increase by almost 40% year-on-year. While a total of 1,073 attended the EFM's 2008 edition, this year's market has 1,474 buyers from 60 countries accredited (as of Feb 2, ...
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Medienboard backs films from Stölzl, Garbarski, Haussmann
Just a week before the 59th Berlinale opens, local regional film fund Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) has announced over $6.8m (Euros 5.3m) for 38 projects, including new films by director Philipp Stölzl, Sam Garbarski, and Leander Haussmann. In MBB's first funding session of 2009, a total of $ 5.8m (Euros 4.5m) ...
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German films - Doors open for rush of local films
The entire Berlin festival this year acknowledges the role played by German production houses in international projects. Tom Tykwer's The International, Stephen Frears' Cheri and Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth all benefited from the German Federal Film Fund's incentives, as did a slew of Panorama titles including Michael Glawogger's Kill Daddy Good ...
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Interview: EFM director Beki Probst
As director of the Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) for 20 years, Beki Probst has borne witness to seismic changes at both the festival and the international film business. One of the most striking changes she has observed is in the attitudes of people attending the market.'When they come to ...