All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 124
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Ascot Elite adds to slate with Swiss sci-fi thriller Cargo
Zurich-based Ascot Elite Entertainment has unveiled a raft of new acquisitions, including the first ever Swiss science-fiction thriller Cargo by feature debutants Ralph Etter and Ivan Engler.The acquisition of rights to all German speaking territories are for: the action thriller The Tournament, starring Robert Carlyle, Ving Rhames, Kelly Hu and ...
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Fliegauf, Puiu and Carrito serve onLocarno juries
Film directors Benedek Fliegauf (Hungary), Cristi Puiu (Romania) and Albertina Carri (Argentina) are have been recruited as members of two official juries at this year's Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16).Fliegauf, who won the Filmmakers of the Present competition Leopard last year for Milky Way and will be the subject ...
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Transsiberian co-producer Universum boards Lippel's Dream
Universum Film, co-producer/distrubutor of Brad Anderson's thriller Transsiberian, has boarded its first German-language project, Lars Buechel's Lippel's Dream (Lippels Traum) which begins shooting in Morocco's Ouarzazate today.The co-production between Ulrich Limmer's Collina Film, Universum Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk, B.A. Produktion, and Buechel's own production outfit element e, is based on Paul ...
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Nu Boyana expands with new city streets sets
Outside sets re-creating streets of London, Paris and Berlin are being planned next year to join the 2.5 kilometres of New York streets currently in construction at Sofia's Nu Boyana Film Studios.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com on the studio lot at the weekend, Nu Boyana's CEO and Chairman David Varod said ...
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Melikyan's Mermaid wins Grand Prix at Sofia
Anna Melikyan's quirky coming of age tale Mermaid (Rusalka), which was the opening film of the Berlinale's Panorama last month, was the winner of this year's Grand Prix at the Sofia International Film Festival, the second time in three years that the top prize went to a Russian filmmaker (Alexei ...
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Sundance winner Durakovo opens Nyon's doc festival Visions du Reel
Nino Kirtadze's Durakovo: Village Of Fools, winner of the World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary at this year's Sundance Film Festival, will open the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival 'Visions du Reel' held from April 17-23.An international jury of US producer Claire Aguilar, Swiss cinematographer Severine Barde, Tunisian filmmaker Nourid Bouzid ...
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Progress takes on sales for German kids film Morphus
Progress Film-Verleih will handle world sales on Karola Hattop's new children's film Morphus which is shooting in Berlin until Easter after completing location work near Berchtesgaden and Wernigerode.The story of a young boy's adventure to recover the last composition by Ludwig van Beethoven, which was stolen from him by two ...
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Bac takes on sales, French rights to Pablo - The Little Red Fox
Bac Films is set to handle international sales and French theatrical distribution for the animation feature Pablo - The Little Red Fox based on the popular TV series of the same name. Pitching the $ 11.9m (Euros 7.8m) project in development at last week's Cartoon Movie co-production forum, Toons ...
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Malaysia's Flower In The Pocketwins Fribourg Grand Prix
Malaysian director Liew Seng Tat's feature debut Flower In The Pocket was awarded the Grand Prix - the Regard d'Or - at this year's Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF), the first edition under the new artistic director Eduoard Waintrop.The story about two small boys growing up without their mother and ...
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Cartoon Tributes go to French projects including Persepolis
France was the big winner of this year's Cartoon Movie Tributes awarded to 'companies or personalities that have had a positive or dynamic influence on the European animation feature film industry' which were presented at the Cartoon Movie market in Babelsberg this afternoon.The Best European Director of the Year award ...
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Trust, Bac Films to handle international sales on Cartoon Movie projects
Trust Film Sales and Bac Films are to handle international sales on two projects pitched at this week's Cartoon Movie co-production market in Babelsberg.Trust will be handling international distribution for Valeria Edwina Saunders' Prima Ballerina which is being produced by her company Rambling Rose Animation Studio with Denmark's Zentropa, Hungarian ...
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Pan-European digital cinema pilot project to launch in autumn
France's MK2, Hungary's Szimpla Film, Denmark's Nordisk Film and Belgium's Kinepolis Group are supporting a European 'Cinema on demand' film digitisation project entitled Europe's Finest which is being launched this autumn by Cologne-based reelport to digitise and distribute 30-40 European films.The project, which has been supported by the European Union's ...
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Fifth Sofia Meetingsselects 22 second features for fifth edition
New feature films by Serbia's Dusan Milic, Estonia's Ilmar Raag and Germany's Marc Meyer are among 22 projects being presented at the fifth edition of the Sofia Meetings pitching forum for second feature films from March 13-16.For the first time this year, three of the projects selected for pitching at ...
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Managing director Stephan Schesch takes over Animation X
Managing director Stephan Schesch has taken over control of the Berlin-based production house Animation X Gesellschaft zur Produktion von Animationsfilmen following the exit of the shareholders X-Filme creative pool and David Groenewold's Promedium from the joint venture.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com on the eve of this year's Cartoon Movie co-production market ...
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Dragon Hunters opens 10th Cartoon Movie market in Babelsberg
This year's Cartoon Movie co-production forum for European animation feature films will open in Potsdam on Wednesday evening March 5 with an avant-premiere screening of Dragon Hunters.The film's producers Futurikon, Trixter, LuxAnimation and Mac Guff Ligne are also among the nominees for this year's Cartoon Movie Tributes which are awarded ...
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Revolver Germany on board for Czech co-production Normal
Revolver Film Germany, the German outpost of Raymond van der Kaaij's Dutch production outfit Revolver Film, has boarded its first co-production Normal by Julius Sevcik with Czech producer Karla Stojakova's Axman Production.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, Marta Lamperova, van der Kaaij's partner in Revolver Film Germany, described the filmmaker as 'young ...
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Tiberius' EFM pick-ups include Girl In The Park, Arn
QED International's Sigourney Weaver/Kate Bosworth thriller The Girl In The Park by David Auburn is among eight titles acquired by the Munich-based distributor Tiberius Film at the recent European Film Market in Berlin.The other acquisitions are:Michael and Peter Spierig's scifi drama Daybreakers, starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill, ...
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IM Internationalmedia appoints Prestel to management board
Sascha R. Prestel is joining IM Internationalmedia's CEO Konstantin Thoeren as a new member of the management board as of March 1, 2008.Prestel, who will be responsible for the areas of finance, investor relations, corporate communications and administration, had previously worked for two years from 2005 to 2007 overseeing the ...
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Arsenal takes on German rights to CSNY Deja Vu
Stefan Paul and Egon Nieser of German distributor Arsenal Film has picked up the music documentary CSNY Deja Vu by Bernard Shakey a.k.a. Neil Young from Fortissimo Films.The documentary, which showed Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their Freedom of Speech Tour in 2006, was presented at the Berlinale in ...
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Bavarian regional fund announces $10.6m in funding
New productions by actor-director Til Schweiger, Christian Ditter and Mike Barker are among 35 film and TV projects allocated over $10.6m (Euros 7.2m) by the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern at its latest sitting.The largest amount - $1.25m (Euros 850,000) - went to Schweiger's next feature project, the medieval slapstick ...