All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 111
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Fortissimo Films picks up Parque Via
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up world sales for Mexican filmmaker Enrique Rivero's feature debut Parque Via. The film is currently screening in the Horizontes Latinos sidebar at this week's San Sebastian International Film Festival. Parque Via won 32-year-old Rivero the Golden Leopard in the International Competition at the Locarno ...
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Studio Babelsberg to co-produce Inglorious Bastards
Studio Babelsberg has now confirmed that it will be serving as the German co-producer on Quentin Tarantino's Second World War drama Inglorious Bastards.The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Universal Pictures are co-financing and co-presenting the feature, while Harvey and Bob Weinstein are serving as executive producers.Tarantino's film will begin shooting at ...
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Telepool to handle distribution rights on Der Grosse Kater
Munich-based Telepool will handle international distribution on Wolfgang Panzer's adaptation of Thomas Hürlimann's 1998 bestselling novel Der Grosse Kater. The film, currently shooting at locations in Berne and Bavaria, is a co-production between Neue Bioskop Film, Abrakadabra Films and Barry Films. It received backing from several sources including: Zurich's Film ...
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New programme manager forBerlinale Talent Campus
Dutch-born Matthijs Wouter Knol has become the fourth programme manager at the Berlinale Talent Campus.He will be responsible for the general direction of the seventh edition of the Talent Campus in collaboration with Christine Tröstrum. The Campus has announced that in 2009 it will focus on turning points as a ...
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Cartoon expands with EU MEDIA International support
Cartoon Connection is one of 18 projects involving partners from Canada, Latin America, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Morocco, Bosnia, Turkey and Georgia, which have been provided with almost $2.88m (Euros 2m) by the EU to develop closer cooperation between European and third country film professionals. 11 of the selected ...
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Berlinale Co-Production Market announces deadline
The 6th Berlinale Co-Production Market has announced that submissions are now open for new film projects for the 2009 market (Feb. 8-10).The deadline for submissions is Oct. 30, 2008. Projects must have secured a minimum of 30% of their required financing and be suited to co-production in order to qualify.The ...
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Berlinale Co-Production Market announces deadline
The 6th Berlinale Co-Production Market has announced that submissions are now open for new film projects for the 2009 market (Feb. 8-10).The deadline for submissions is Oct. 30, 2008. Projects must have secured a minimum of 30% of their required financing and be suited to co-production in order to qualify.The ...
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Berlinale Co-Production Market announces deadline
The 6th Berlinale Co-Production Market has announced that submissions are now open for new film projects for the 2009 market (Feb. 8-10).Film projects must be submitttedby Oct. 30, 2008. They must have secured a minimum of 30% of their required financing and be suited to co-production in order to qualify.The ...
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Baader Meinhof Complex is German entry for foreign language Oscar
Germany has announced its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar as Uli Edel's The Baader Meinhof Complex.The film chronicles the Red Army Faction terrorist group, which terrorised Germany in the 1970s. Itstars Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck and Johanna Wokalek.The filmhad its world premiere in Munich this week and ...
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Berlinale's European Film Market centres business presence
The Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) has found an alternative venue for its EFM Business Offices which are currently on Potsdamer Platz.In 2009 it will expand its presence at the Marriott Hotel where three EFM screening rooms have already been located since 2007. In addition to the central market venue ...
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German incentive programme to pay outall $86.4m annual budget.
The German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) incentive programme will pay out all of its $86.4m (Euros 61m) annual budget this year. According to the DFFF, a total of $62m (Euros 43.7m) had been allocated to the end of August, generating a German spend of Euros 261m in the local economy. ...
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Goetz Spielmann's Revanche named as Austria's Oscar entry
Goetz Spielmann's Revanche has been selected as Austria's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at next year's Academy Awards.The rural drama had its world premiere in the Panorama Special section of the Berlinale in February and is handled internationally by The Match Factory.To date, Revanche has received 10 ...
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Match Factory takes on Wuste projects from Oberli, Taddicken
The Match Factory will handle international sales on two new feature film projects by Wüste Film - Bettina Oberli's The Murder Farm (Tannöd) and Sven Taddicken's Zwölf Meter Ohne Kopf - which both began principal photography this week.Late Bloomers director Oberli's dark crime story is starring Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu ...
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IM Internationalmedia's future as 'Film library company'
The beleaguered IM Internationalmedia Group may see its future operating as 'a mere film library company.' according to the company's interim report for the first half of 2008, The prediction follows the company's decision to file for insolvency proceedings in Munich last month due to pending illiquidity. IM also revealed ...
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IM Internationalmedia's future as 'Film library company'
The beleaguered IM Internationalmedia Group may see its future operating as 'a mere film library company.' according to the company's interim report for the first half of 2008, The prediction follows the company's decision to file for insolvency proceedings in Munich last month due to pending illiquidity. IM also revealed ...
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Blow to Germany as Cartoon Movie market moves to Lyon
Just days before this year's Cartoon Forum financing market is held in the south-west German town of Ludwigsburg from Sept 16, Brussels-based CARTOON has announced that its annual market for animation feature films, Cartoon Movie, is leaving its venue of 10 years at Potsdam's Babelsberg Studios to be held in ...
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Peter Fonda to serve as jury president in Zurich
Veteran actor-director Peter Fonda will serve as the president of the feature film jury at this year's Zurich Film Festival which will open on September 25 with the Swiss premiere of Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof Komplex in the presence of the director Edel, producer Bernd Eichinger, author Stefan Aust ...
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Catherine Buresi named European Film Market deputy director
French-born Catherine Buresi has been appointed as the deputy director for Berlin European Film Market (EFM). She took up her post as from September 1 as the successor to Karen Arikian who stepped downas deputy director after this year's Berlinale in February to become the executive director of the Hamptons ...
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3L follows Adam Resurrected with Among Farmers, Hangtime
Germany's 3L Filmproduktion, co-producer of Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected which screens in Toronto's Masters section this week after its world premiere in Telluride, has returned to Germany's recent dark past to back Dutch-born filmmaker Ludi Boeken's latest feature Among Farmers (Unter Bauern).The German-French co-production with Joachim von Mengershausen's FilmForm, Cologne-based ...
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Films Boutique takes on sales for Woschitz's Universalove
Berlin-based fledgling sales agent Films Boutique has picked up international rights for Austrian filmmaker Thomas Woschitz's Universalove which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last night.The co-production by Austria's Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production (KGP) with Luxembourg's Red Lion, Serbia's Art & Popcorn and the donaufestival.at was shot ...