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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 ...
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Media Luna adds five titles including Katia's Sister
Sales company Media Luna Entertainment has added five new titles to its Toronto lineup, including Mijke de Jong's Katia's Sister (Het Zusie Van Katia) which will have its North American premiere in Toronto tonight.De Jong's intimate portrait of a 13-year-old girl living in Amsterdam who loses her Russian mother and ...
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Momentum takes UK rights to Let The Right One In
Momentum Pictures has secured all rights for the UK and Ireland to Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire romance Let The Right One In from sales agent Bavaria Film International.Based on the bestselling novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist, the crossover hit has been sold to all major territories including France ...
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Grbavica director Zbanic starts shoot for On The Path
Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic, winner of Berlin's Golden Bear in 2006 for her feature debut Grbavica, began shooting her second feature film On The Path in Bosnia-Herzegovina today.Featuring a cast including Leon Lucev, Zrinka Cvitesic, Sebastian Cavazza and Grbavica's lead actress Mirjana Karanovic, Zbanic's new film centres on a ...
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Germany's UFA Cinema unveils 11-film production slate
Germany's UFA Cinema has unveiled an 11-picture production slate encompassing bestseller adaptations, family entertainment and political cinema, with the first project going before the camera in spring 2009.The company's executive managers Wolf Bauer, Thomas Peter Friedl, Nico Hofmann and Jürgen Schuster have selected 11 projects from more than 60 in ...
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Profile: Online company mediapeers
'We do not want to replace the Mipcoms and AFMs of this world,' says Moritz Viehweger, co-managing director of mediapeers, the new Berlin-based virtual film and TV market.'Our goal is to complement the traditional rights business with a new form of promoting and licensing film and TV programming,' he explains.Crucially, ...
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Beta Cinema handling sales on two Venice world premieres
Beta Cinema is to handle international sales on two Italian films - Marco Pontecorvo's Pa-Ra-Da, the opening film of the Horizons sidebar, and Uberto Pasolini's Venice Days title Machan - which are having their world premieres at next week's Venice Film Festival.Pa-Ra-Da, DoP Pontecorvo's feature film debut, tells the true ...
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Zurich to welcome Sly Stallone for first Golden Icon Award
Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone is to receive the Golden Icon Award which is presented for the first time in recognition of an actor or actress's life's work at this year's Zurich Film Festival (Sept25 to October 5).The award ceremony on Sept 26 will be accompanied by a small retrospective of ...
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Constantin's theatrical distribution up 92% in first half of 2008
Constantin Film's theatrical distribution arm generated 92% more revenues year-on-year to June 30, according to the group's interim management report issued today for the first six months of 2008.Constantin garnered a 9.9% market share and held on to its position as Germany's leading independent distributor with box office takings of ...
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IM Internationalmedia filing for insolvency
The beleaguered IM Internationalmedia filed for insolvency proceedings in Munich today since pending illiquidity was putting continued business operations at risk.According to an adhoc communique, the reason for the illiquidity could be traced back to an investment group around David Bergstein, Eluvium Holdings, not paying for exercised options.But Bergstein's R ...
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Five animated shorts nominated for Cartoon d'Or
Five animation shorts from Belgium, France and the UK have been nominated for this year's Cartoon d'Or prize which will be announced at an awards ceremony during the forthcoming Cartoon Forum (Sept 16-19) in Germany's Ludwigsburg.The finalists are:The Bridge (Le Pont) by Vincent Bierrewaerts (Belgium/France)Breakout (L'Evasion) by Arnaud Demuynck (Belgium)The ...
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Widely tipped Parque Via from Mexico wins Locarno Golden Leopard
Mexican director Enrique Rivero's feature debut Parque Via won the Golden Leopard at this year's Locarno International Film Festival which closed with the world premiere of Solveig Anspach's Back Soon.Based on the life of Nolberto Coria who plays himself (as Beto) in the story about the gap between rich and ...
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Speculation heats up over Maire replacement in Locarno
Locarno's Frederic Maire has pronounced himself 'very pleased' with how his third outing as the festival's artistic director panned out this year. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com ahead of the announcement of the awards at the weekend, Maire pointed to such highlights as the reaction of the audience to the Amos ...
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In Focus: Britta Knoller and Hans-Christian Schmid's Storm
Hans-Christian Schmid could not have wished for better timing to start shooting his latest feature project, the English-language political thriller Storm, about the aftermath of the Balkan war.Just a week earlier, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had been apprehended after 13 years on the run.Storm (working title), which began ...