All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 145
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Beta takes on sales for German hit Hui Buh
BetaCinema has taken on the international sales for Sebastian Niemann'sfamily entertainment film Hui Buh, which has been seen by 1.8m cinema-goers since Constantin Film released it in Germany in earlyJuly.The story about the lovable, bumbling castle ghost HuiBuh, played by Michael 'Bully' Herbig of Manitou'sShoe and Dreamship Surprise fame, also ...
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Berlin to launch $3.8m fund for regional films
The city ofBerlin is to launch a $3.8m (Euros 3m)Bank Fund to support the production and distribution of film productions fromthe region from 2007.Berlin's Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit announced the new initiative at the beginning ofthis week's Medienforum Berlin-Brandenburg,explaining that the fund would be financed by the city of Berlin ...
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Berlin to launch $3.8m fund for regional films
The city ofBerlin is to launch a $3.8m (Euros 3m)Bank Fund to support the production and distribution of film productions fromthe region from 2007.Berlin's Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit announced the new initiative at the beginning ofthis week's Medienforum Berlin-Brandenburg,explaining that the fund would be financed by the city of Berlin ...
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German box office up 8.9% over first half of 2005
Despite Germany's hosting ofthe World Cup and sweltering temperatures from late May, German cinemas havereported marked increases in box-office takings and admissions for the firsthalf of 2006 over the same period last year, according to figures collated bythe German Federal Film Board (FFA).The FFA reported that box-office takings had increased ...
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Bosnia puts forward Grbavica for foreign-language Oscar
Jasmila Zbanic's GoldenBear-winning feature debut Grbavica has been selected by Bosnia and Herzegovina as its official submission for the Foreign LanguageFilm category at the forthcoming Academy Awards.The co-production between Austria's coop99 Filmproduktion, Zbanic's own company Deblokada Filmproduction, Germany's Noirfilm Filmproduktion,and Croatia's Jadran Film has alreadybeen sold to more than 45 ...
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Match Factory takes on Half Moon and Takva
Germansales company The Match Factory will handle international sales onKurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi'slatest feature Half Moon and Turkishdirector Ozer Kiziltan's Takva - A Man's Fear Of God which are bothhaving their world premieres at the forthcoming Toronto International FilmFestival. Ghobadi's film, which is produced by his own companyMIJ Films with ...
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Germany's Schlingensief starts feature about Princess Di
German"enfant terrible" Christoph Schlingensief has grabbed the headlinesonce again, this time with the announcement that he plans to make a featurefilm about the last hour in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. Speaking toGermany's leading tabloid Bildjust two days before the ninth anniversary of Diana's tragic death in Paris, ...
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Promising Romanian director killed in road crash
The Romanian film industry was in shock this weekend on hearing the news that director Cristian Nemescu, one of its most promising young filmmakers, had been killed in a traffic accident in Bucharest early on Friday morning.A graduate of the Romanian National Academy of Drama, 27-year-old Nemescu had directed several ...
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Tanovic lines up first feature shot in his Bosnian homeland
Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land) is planning his firstBosnian-shot film.The project is an adaptation of Croatianjournalist Ivica Djikic'sdebut novel Circus Columbia. Speaking after presenting his secondfeature Hell at the Sarajevo FilmFestival, Tanovic explained that fellow Bosnian directorDino Mustafic (whose feature debut Remake appeared in 2003) had intended ...
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Tanovic lines up first feature set in his Bosnian homeland
Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land) is planning his firstBosnian-set film.The project is an adaptation of Croatianjournalist Ivica Djikic'sdebut novel Circus Columbia. Speaking after presenting his secondfeature Hell at the Sarajevo FilmFestival, Tanovic explained that fellow Bosnian directorDino Mustafic (whose feature debut Remake appeared in 2003) had intended ...
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Onoma takes on sales for Ferenc Torok's Overnight
French sales company Onoma International has taken on the world sales forHungarian filmmaker Ferenc Torok'snew film Overnight.The project has been shooting in Budapest since July 14 and will be moving to Germany on Aug 30 before a final stage of shooting in Bombay.Overnightis the final film in Torok's trilogy about ...
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Beta Cinema on board for Quinn's 32A
Germany's BetaCinema has taken on world sales for Marian Quinn's bittersweet comedy 32A which is now in principalphotography in Ireland. The film, about 13-year-old girls in 1979 Dublin, starsthe director's brother Aidan Quinn along with Ailish McCarthy, Orla Brady,Jared Harris, Sophie Jo Wasson, Orla Long and Riona Smith.The$1.9m (Euros 1.5m) ...
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Constantin sales up 25% in first half of 2006
German producer-distributor Constantin Film generated sales of $159m (Euros 124m) inthe first six months of 2006, an increase of 25% over the same period in 2005,and remains on track for its planned sales target of $321m (Euros 250m) for thefull year.The increased sales volumewas largely achieved with the Constantin Group's ...
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Intertainment settles legal battle with Samaha, Franchise
Germanlicence trader Intertainment has settled its longstanding legal battle withElie Samaha, former chief executive of Franchise Pictures, and productioncompany Sidonian Holdings (formerly Glickson Investments International).TheMunich-based company had been forced into insolvency after failing to recoupdamages of $121.7m awarded by a court against Samaha, Franchise Pictures andSidonian and 15 further production ...
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Match Factory takes on Venice competitor Euphoria
Cologne-basedThe Match Factory has picked up world sales rights for the Venice competitiontitle Euphoria by Russian writer-directorIvan Vyrypaev. Theromantic drama produced by Russia's First Movie Partnership is Vvrypaev'sfeature debut and won a special diploma at the Kinotavr Open Russian FilmFestival in Sochi at the beginning of June, where it had ...
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Deckert gets Swiss documentary Zeit Des Abschieds
Deckert Distribution has picked up world rights for Mehdi Sahebi's documentary Zeit Des Abschieds, which had its world premiere in Locarno's Critics Week sidebar last week and won the SRG SSR idee suisse Prize. The film, which charts the last months in the life of AIDS victim dying of ...
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Locarno gives Golden Leopard to Das Fraeulein
AndreaStaka's fiction feature debut Das Fraeulein has become the first Swiss film to win Locarno'sGolden Leopard in more than 20 years, since the top honour went to Fredi M.Murer's Hoehenfeuer in 1985. TheSwiss-German co-production between Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion and QuinteFilm of Staka's drama about three women coping with life far ...
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Frederic Maire already looking forward to 60th Locarno
With his firstedition as artistic director coming to a close on Saturday (Aug 12), Locarno's Frederic Maire isalready looking ahead to the festival's 60th anniversary in 2007.Speakingexclusively to ScreenDaily.com, Maire revealed thatthe festival will be organizing a tour of 30 important competition films frompast years by such directors as Spike ...
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La Consultation lands French and Swiss deals at Locarno
Helen de Crecy'sfirst feature-length documentary LaConsultation on the world of private medicine has been sold to Xenix Filmdistribution for Switzerland and to Ad Vitam for France.The dealsfor the film, which is showing in Locarno's Filmmakers of the Present section, was negotiated byCaroline and Stephane Rousselfor the Arturo Mio production company ...
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Albert drops out of Locarno jury over Fraeulein involvement
Austrian filmmaker-producerBarbara Albert has stepped down from Locarno FilmFestival's International Jury "to prevent any discussion about theindependence of the jury" after a local newspaper suspected a cover-up bythe festival about Albert's involvement in the screenplay for Andrea Staka's Das Fraeulein, the only Swiss film in this year's OfficialCompetition.In an official ...