All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 112
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Ascot Elite adds four new titles to 2009 release slate
Leading Swiss indepedent distributor Ascot Elite has acquired rights for Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking with up-and-coming star Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley and Rose McGowan, from Handmade Films International. Fifty Dead Men Walking is one of four films acquired by Ascot Elite for German speaking Europe. Also from Kari ...
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Visitor passfor the EFM, Wild Bunch returns (almost) to the market
The European Film Market plans a number of logistical changes to make life easier for its delegates and in doing so has brought sales agent Wild Bunch back into the market - almost. The first innovation is the introduction of a transferrable visitor pass that will cost $106 (Euros 80). ...
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Berlinale co-production market selects The Diary from Bille August
The Diary from Bille August is one of 22 projects chosen for the official selection of Berlin's 6th co-production market. The final list of projects selected also includes Mary's Ride from Thomas Imbach; The Ardor from Pablo Fendrik andThe Book Of Internal Grammar from Nir Bergman. Eligible projects have budgets ...
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Germany's M-Appeal picks up Panorama world premiere Ghosted
Berlin-based sales agent M-Appeal has picked up Monika Treut's latest feature Ghosted which will have its world premiere in the Berlinale's Panorama section next month. Ghosted is a co-production between Treut's own company Hyena Films and Taipei-based Chi & Company - it is the first ever German-Taiwanese feature co-production. Inga ...
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US indies and strong Asian presence in Berlinale's Forum
Films from the USA, Lebanon, Germany, and Asia are among the new titles confirmed for the Forum's programme at next month's Berlinale. They include three US independent productions which will have their world premieres in Berlin. Andrew Bujalski's Beeswax about the vagaries of oral communication; Matthew Hysell's Marin Blue: and ...
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German 2008 box office up 3.5%, year on year, admissions up 1.57%
2008 ended with a 3.5% year on year increase in box-office takings and a year on year increase of 1.57%admissions in German cinemas, according to figures collated by Nielsen EDI. German cinema-goers bought 123.6m tickets in the last 12 months, up 1.57% on 2007's 121.7m. They generated box-office takings of ...
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Projects by Alvart, Stölzl, Schwochow planned by new Berlin outfit
Berlin-based production outfit Bittersuess Pictures has revealed new feature projects by Christian Alvart, Philipp Stölzl and Christian Schwochow. Oscar-winning producer-director Pepe Danquart established Bittersuess Pictures in 2008 and since then has been developing projects for its first slate. That slate will now include Christian Alvart's next feature Liebe, his first ...
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Berlin Panorama announces first half of programme and Forum titles
World premieres of The Countess, by Julie Delpy, Fig Trees by John Greyson, Light Gradient by Jan Krüger and Ghosted by Monika Treut are among the 21 titles selected so far for the Berlinale Panorama by section director Wieland Speck.As in previous years, documentaries will ultimately make up approximately a ...
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More than 90 first-time exhibitors as Berlin's EFM sells out
The Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) has sold out with 386 companies and organisations from 55 countries booking, including more than 50 first time exhibitors. To date EFM has announced that 309 companies will be in the Martin Gropius Bau building with 77 based in the EFM Marriot offices. Of ...
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Senator and IM Internationalmedia make management changes
Publicly-listed Senator Entertainment and IM Internationalmedia have announced management shakeouts in the final days of 2008.Senator's COO Legal Affairs, Licences and Human Resources, Christopher Borgmann, has left his position for personal reasons to return to legal practice.The Berlin-based company will now be headed solely by CEO and main shareholder Helge ...
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Sieben's Distance to open Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino
Writer-director Thomas Sieben's feature debut Distance (Distanz) will open the Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino - the sidebar dedicated to German films on February 6.Sieben describes the film as 'An existential story of violence and love which simultaneously disturbs and touches through its unconditional nature.'Distance was produced by Berlin-based GrandHotelPictures with ...
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European Film Market launches documentary initiative
The European Documentary Network (EDN) is collaborating with the Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) to provide a new initiative for documentary sellers entitled Meet The Docs.Meet The Docs will serve as a connecting platform for all documentary sellers, buyers, and directors offering a meeting place and a general information service ...
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Stelios Ziannis to leave Germany's Kinowelt International
Stelios Ziannis, head of world sales at Germany's Kinowelt International for the past eight years, is leaving the company of his own accord at the end of December.Ziannis will be succeeded by Barbara Knabe, Kinowelt's head of TV sales.Kanbe will have responsibility for cooperation with the world sales and distribution ...
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Production fund to double for German film funder MFG
Christmas has come early for film producers in Germany's Baden-Württemberg region as Prime-Minister Günter H. Hettinger and Media Minister Wolfgang Reinhart have agreed to more than double regional film fund MFG Baden-Württemberg's production budget.Mug's $6.3m (Euros 4.3m) production fund budget will be increased by $4.4 (Euros 3m) in 2009 and ...
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Six world premieres selected for Berlinale's Generation section
World premieres of new films by Sweden's Fredrik Edfeldt and Germany's Lars Büchel are among the first 13 titles selected for Generation, the Berlinale's section for children and young people. The section is in its first edition under the direction of Maryanne Redpath who succeeded Thomas Hailer earlier this year.The ...
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Oliver Berben new managing director of Constantin Film Produktion
Oliver Berben has been appointed as the managing director of Constantin Film's production arm Constantin Film Produktion from January 1, 2009.Berben has been brought in to take over the management of the production arm under former managing director Martin Moszkowicz, who will now head up this division.Both moves are the ...
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Moodysson's MammothjoinsBouchareb, Potter, Ade, Miller at Berlinale
Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth, with Gael Garcia Bernal, Michelle Williams, and Sophie Nyweide, and world premieres of new films by Sally Potter, Maren Ade, Rebecca Miller and Rachid Bouchareb are among ten titles confirmed so far for the Competition programme of the 2009 Berlinale international film.The four world premieres selected for ...
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International co-productions benefit from $11.4mGerman support
New international co-productions by Poland's Agnieszka Holland, Serbia's Oleg Novkovic and Sweden's Björn Runge are among a raft of feature projects supported with a total of over $ 11.4m (Euros 9m) by German public film funders at their latest funding sessions.Holland's German-Canadian-Polish co-production Hidden about the struggle for survival by ...
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Senator Entertainment to reduce number of international titles
Germany 's financially beleaguered Senator Entertainment has said that it will reduce the number of international titles it acquires for distribution in future. The company is refocusing on its traditional core activity of producing and distributing German language feature films.In addition it has rescinded the contract to acquire a 51% ...
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Joel Silver and Studio Babelsberg Group agree five-year alliance
US producer Joel Silver and the Studio Babelsberg Group have agreed a strategic partnership until 2013.The deal will include the current slate of over 15 films in Silver's Dark Castle Entertainment being distributed by Warner Bros.A central element will be Studio Babelsberg's role as a co-producer in future films produced ...