All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 147
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Vienna Film Fund puts $1.6m into 10 projects
New featurefilms by Antonin Svoboda, Michael Glawogger,and Rupert Henning are among 10 projects awarded over $1.6m (Euros 1.4m) bythe Vienna Film Fund.The largestamount $542,609 (Euros 455,000) went to first-time director Rupert Henning'sadaptation of the satirical play Friendship(Freundschaft) which will be produced by Danny Krausz and Kurt Stocker's DOR-Film with Henning ...
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Brisk sales continue for Golden Bear winner Grbavica
Michael Weber's salesoutfit The Match Factory has closed a raft of deals for Jasmila Zbanic's GoldenBear winning Bosnian drama Grbavica in addition to previous sales to Germany, Switzerland and Italy.TheAustrian-Bosnian-German-Croatian co-production has now been picked up by Golem(Spain), Cinemien (Benelux), Kinoswiat(Poland), Ost for Paradis(Denmark), Budapest Film (Hungary), Folkets Bio(Sweden), Providence ...
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Dardenne brothers' The Child to open Sofia Film Festival
The Dardenne brothers' Golden Palm winner The Child will open the 10th anniversary edition of the SofiaInternational Film Festival (SIFF) on March 9.Among theinternational filmmakers expected in the Bulgarian capital between March 9-19are Bent Hamer (Factotum),Craig Lucas (The Dying Gaul) Alexey Fedorchenko (First On The Moon), Volker Schloendorff (The TinDrum), ...
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Intertainment founder resigns from supervisory board
Ruediger "Barry" Baeres,the founder of beleaguered German licence trader/producer Intertainment,has stepped down from his position as chairman of the company's supervisoryboard "for personal reasons" "with immediate effect."Baeres founded Intertainmentin 1993 and took the company to the Neuer Markt stock exchange in 1999 as the Chairman of the Boardof Management. Baeres ...
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Constantin subsidiary acquires rights to children's book
Just aweek after acquiring the film rights to Michael Ende'sJim Button children's classic for anEnglish language screen adaptation German producer Christian Becker has nowbought the rights to the late Max von der Gruen's 1976 children's book, The Suburban Crocodiles (Die Vorstadtkrokodile).The storyof a paraplegic boy being integrated into a children's ...
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NewsSenator Films looks set to pull cannibal film
German distributor Senator Film looks set to pull its March 9 release of Butterfly -A Grimm Love Story (Rohtenburg), after a court in Kassel granted Armin Meiwes a temporary injunction on Friday preventing the film being shown on German screens.
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Stefan Ruzowitzky's new feature to shoot at Babelsberg
Another film about eventsfrom the Second World War will use sound stages at Studio Babelsbergonly three months after shooting wrapped on Paul Verhoevens Black Book just before Christmas.The production centre nearPotsdam willbe host to part of the shoot for Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky's TheCounterfeiter(Der Faelscher)which is based on the true ...
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Bavarian fund backs family entertainment and Wixxer sequel
Three familyfilms and a sequel to the 2004 box office hit Der Wixxer are among seven feature projects awarded over $4.8m (Euros4.1m) by Bavaria's regional film fund FFF Bayernat its latest sitting.The largestamount $1.6m (Euros 1.4m) - went to Uli Limmer's Collina Filmproduktion for HerrBello which reunites the successful producer ...
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Aardman director duo nominated for Cartoon Movie Tributes
Directorialduo Nick Park and Steve Box, the UK's Aardmananimation studios behind their Wallace& Gromit: The Curse Of TheWere-Rabbit, and Italian distributor Mikado Film are among the nominees forthis year's Cartoon Movie Tributes which will be announced at the eighthedition of the Cartoon Movie co-production market at the BabelsbergStudios in Potsdam ...
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Rat Pack plans English-language family film based on bestseller
ConstantinFilm subsidiary Rat Pack Filmproduktion has secured the film rights to thefamily bestseller Jim Button And Luke TheEngine Driver for an English language adaptation aimed at the internationalmarket.ProducerChristian Becker has "regular" collaborator Sebastian Niemann(Hui Buh Das Schlossgespenst, Das Jesus Video) attached as director for thelive-action feature film version of TheNeverending ...
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Golden Bear winner finds more buyers
Jasmila Zbanic's Golden Bear winner Grbavica has been picked up byVentura Film for theatrical release in Germany later this year, while Switzerland's Trigon-Filmplans to release the mother-daughter drama in the aftermath of the Bosnian warthis autumn.TheAustrian-Bosnian-German-Croatian co-production will be opened by Polyfilm in Austria next week on March 3 with ...
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Germans join forces for $47.7m English-language slate
Production outfit Schmidtz KatzeFilmkollektiv and the Berlin-based developmentcompany mediacontentfactory (mcf)have joined forces to initiate a $47.7m (Euros 40m) slate of English-languagegenre films for the international market.According to thejoint venture's partners, the slate of six to seven thriller,fantasy or adventure feature films will either be based on successful novels,games and/or creative ...
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Kosslick delight at record-breaking Berlinale
"Spectacularlyunspectacular" is Dieter Kosslick's personal verdict on the fifthBerlinale under his direction which came to end this weekend with the awardingof the Golden Bear to Bosnian film-maker Jasmila Zbanic for Grbavica."Nothingwent wrong - except perhaps for the heating in the Martin-Gropius-Bau (MGB),"Kosslick remarked in an exclusive interview with ScreenDaily."Notone single ...
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Mockert steps down as head of German media fund MBP
Rainer Mockert has stepped down from the German private media fund MBP which he founded in 1999 and has handed over management of the MBP KG I and MBP KG II funds to financing expert Kai Grueneke. Over the last seven years, Mockert had involved the MBP funds in the ...
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Bosnian war drama takes Golden Bear at Berlin
Sarajevofilmmaker Jasmila Zbanic's won year's Golden Bear for her moving feature debut Grbavicaabout the traumas of war as a mother and daughter try to come to terms with thelegacy of the Bosnian conflict. Theco-production between Austria's Coop99 Filmproduktion, Bosnia's DeblokadaFilmproduction, Germany's Noirfilm Filmproduktion and Croatia's Jadran Filmalso received the Ecumenical ...
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Bosnian war drama takes Golden Bear at Berlin
Sarajevofilmmaker Jasmila Zbanic's won year's Golden Bear for her moving feature debut Grbavicaabout the traumas of war as a mother and daughter try to come to terms with thelegacy of the Bosnian conflict.Theco-production between Austria's Coop99 Filmproduktion, Bosnia's DeblokadaFilmproduction, Germany's Noirfilm Filmproduktion and Croatia's Jadran Filmalso received the Ecumenical Jury's ...
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Berlinale 2006 prize-winners
BERLINALE2006 PRIZE-WINNERSGoldenBear for Best Film Grbavica(Jasmila Zbanic) SilverBear Jury Grand Prix En Soap(Pernille Fischer Christensen) and Offside (JafarPanahi)SilverBear Best DirectorMichaelWinterbottom and Mat Whitecross (The Road to Guantanamo)SilverBear Best ActressSandraHueller (Requiem)SilverBear Best ActorMoritzBleibtreu (The Elementary Particles)SilverBear Outstanding Artistic ContributionJuergenVogel as producer, writer and main actor (The Free ...
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Polaris Production & Finance to produce two Delpy films
Julie Delpy's production companyStar 69 has joined forces with the new Paris-based outfit Polaris Production& Finance to produce two feature projects this year.French writer-director Philippe Rouquier'sfeature debut The Last Mile (workingtitle) is described as a US-set noir drama taking place at the end of the1980s/beginning of 1990s and will shoot ...
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Jansen's Recipe wins Talent Highlight Pitch Award
The Netherlands'Rinkel Film & TV will be joining forces withHamburg-based Neue Impulsto produce writer-director Melinda Jansen's ARecipe For Hendrik Hadders, which won the Talent Highlight Pitch Award2006 at Berlinale's Talent Project Market.Jansen's script for the "coming of middle-agedrama" was developed at the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdamand had received the ...
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Auret and Thoke launch Roughdiamond
Former Sithengi Film & TVMarket CEO Michael Auret and German producer Christoph Thoke have launched Roughdiamond films as a South African-based internationalfinancing and production outfit.With headquarters in Cape Town,Roughdiamond will be financing and line producingEnglish-language films in the range of $5m-$30m.While all the South African financing and production will becoordinated ...