All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 109
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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 ...
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The Match Factory to present five world premieres at EFM
Cologne-based sales agent The Match Factory will handle international sales on four new films invited to screen in Berlinale's Competition. The films are: Uruguayan filmmaker Adrian Biniez's comedy Gigante, starring Horacio Camandulle, Leonor Svarcas; The Milk Of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada), from Barcelona-based Peruvian director Claudia Llosa; Veteran Greek director ...
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Films by Loncraine, Scherfig and Guggenheim complete Berlinale programme
Richard Loncraine's 1950s-set My One And Only, starring Renee Zellweger, Kevin Bacon, and Logan Lerman, will screen as a world premiere in Competition, while Scherfig's An Education, with Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Dominic Cooper, will be coming direct from Sundance for a gala presentation at the Friedrichstadtpalast in the ...
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Happy New Year bags four Swiss Film Prize nominations
Christoph Schaub's Happy New Year garnered four nominations for the 2009 Swiss Film Prize QUARTZ in the categories of best fiction film, best screenplay, best actor and best film score. The five episodes intertwine the fates of people of a disparate group of people during Zurich's New Year's Eve celebrations. ...
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Bavaria Film International adds six Berlinale world premieres to EFM sales slate
Bavaria Film International has added six of the forthcoming Berlinale's world premieres to its sales slate for the upcoming European Film Market (EFM). The six titles are: Maren Ade's competition film Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) about a couple during a holiday on Sardinia and their futile attempt to be as ...
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Interview: Oliver Hirschbiegel
The Northern Ireland 'Troubles' of the 1970s are a long way from Oliver Hirschbiegel's hugely successful drama Downfall about the last days of Adolf Hitler, but the German director sees many similarities.'I've always been interested in the human condition and how this brings forth extreme confrontation,' he explains.Hirschbiegel came to ...
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Berlinale's 2009 Panorama programme finalised
The section's main programme will open on February 5 with Danish actress-director Rie Rasmussen's debut feature Human Zoo while the Panorama Special strand will kick off with another debut, North (Nord) by Norway's Rune Denstad Langlo. The final raft of titles to be confirmed include world premieres of new films ...
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Berlinale announces members of International Jury
The Berlinale has announced the members of the International Jury, joining jury president Tilda Swinton. The jury will decide on the winners of the Golden Bear, Silver Bears and the Alfred Bauer Award in the festival's official competition. The jury members are: Spanish writer-director Isabel Coixet, who has had films ...
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Khlebnikov, Schipper, Ottinger and Lom premieres at Berlinale Forum
World premieres of new films by Boris Khlebnikov, Sebastian Schipper, Ulrike Ottinger and Petr Lom have been confirmed as the Berlinale's Forum section finalises its 2009 line-up of 48 films from 31 countries. Russian filmmaker Khlebnikov's Help Gone Mad about the adventures of a Byelorussian migrant coming to Moscow to ...
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Baader Meinhof and John Rabe share top Bavarian prize
Uli Edel's Oscar shortlisted The Baader Meinhof Complex and Florian Gallenberger's John Rabe shared the top honour of the Producer Prize at the 30th Bavarian Film Awards held in Munich at the weekend. Gallenberger's film, which will have its world premiere at the Berlinale next month in the Berlinale Special ...