All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 148
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Egoli Tossell gears up for bigger English-language films
Berlin-basedEgoli Tossell Film (ETF) isexpanding into higher-budget English-language productions with a slateincluding new projects by Agnieszka Holland andMichael Hofmann. Shootingis scheduled to begin by the end of the year on Holland's Peter & Catherine from a screenplay by IrakliKvirikadze about the love story between Peter the Greatand a Polish battlefield ...
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Steinbichler's Winter Journey to open Munich Filmfest
HansSteinbichler's second feature Winter Journey (Winterreise) will be theopening film of this year's Munich Filmfest (July15-22) just a week after the film had has its world premiere in Karlovy Vary's InternationalCompetition.Thiswill be a kind of homecoming for Steinbichler whosedebut Hierankl,which also starred Bavarian actor Josef Bierbichler,was shown in Munich in ...
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EFP adds four more European films to New York screenings
Another four new European films will be shown to select US buyers, festival scouts and important cinema programmers in European Film Promotion's (EFP) third Industry Screenings in New York.The four titles chosen for the screenings from June 27-28 at the Tribeca Grand Hotel's screening room are David Lammers' Northern ...
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Turkish distributor embarks on Winter Journey
Turkish producer-distributor Limon Program Yapim Tanitim has picked up Hans Steinbichler's second feature film (Winter Journey (Winterreise) which will have its world premiere in the International Competition of the forthcoming Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.Beta Cinema's Andreas Rothbauer told ScreenDaily the film had been sold on the strength of the ...
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Belgrade plans three regional pitching prizes
TheBelgrade International Film Festival (also known as FEST) will award threeprizes for the best pitches made at the second "B2B" IndustryMeetings to be held from March 2-4 next year.Speakingto ScreenDaily.com at this week's Kinotavr festival in Sochi, festival and B2Bproducer Miroslav Mogorovicexplained that the prizes of $8834 (Euros 7,000) would ...
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Locarno taps jury for Filmmakers of the Present
LocarnoInternational Film Festival's new artistic director Frederic Maire has announced the names of the five jurors for theFilmmakers of the Present sidebar, which will be competitive for the firsttime.In addition tothe previously announced Argentine producer Hernan Musaluppi (The MagicGloves), the jury will include French-Iranian director RafiPitts, who was in Locarno's ...
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Kinotavr honours Serebrennikov's Playing The Victim
Kirill Serebrennikov's Playing The Victimwon the Grand Prix at this year's Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr at the Black Sea resort of Sochi.The black comedy about a university graduate who earns money playingcrime victims in the reconstruction of events for police investigations was abig favourite with the festival's foreign guests ...
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Christmas comes early for mdc
mdc Internationalhas taken on the international distribution for the Bulgarian-Germanco-production Christmas Tree Upside Down,which will have its world premiere in official competition at the forthcoming Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.Directed by Ivan Cherkelov and Vassil Zhivkov, thefilm consisting of seven episodes aboutthe elementary things of life and their relation to ...
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Inaugural St Petersburg Film Festival cancelled
The St Petersburg International Film Festival -- which was due to beheld for the first time from July 18-31 in the historical Russian city -- willnot now go ahead after all.The news broke at a masterclass given by actor-director Fedor Bondarchuk during this week's Open Russian Film Festival"Kinotavr" at the ...
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Kinowelt books strong sales at Cannes
Kinowelt International had a busy Cannes market selling packages from its back catalogue aswell as finding customers for its new acquisitions.Head of World Sales Stelios Ziannis reported that theFassbinder Collection was sold to Finland, while another package of films by Fassbinder and Adlon were pickedup by pay TV for Israel. ...
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Beta does brisk sales for The Lives Of Others
Beta Cinema had itsbest-ever Cannes Market this year with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Stasi thriller TheLives Of Others (Das Leben Der Anderen) now sold to 30countries.Apart from selling NorthAmerican rights to Sony Picture Classics, Beta concluded deals on the film withsuch distributors as Japan (New Select), France (Ocean Films), Spain ...
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EEAP's Cannes buys include Saw III and My Blueberry Nights
Berlin-based EasternEuropean Acquisition Pool (EEAP) went on a shopping spree at last week's CannesFilm Market, picking up titles from Lionsgate, 2929Entertainment, Studio Canaland Darclight for East European territories.After having a huge successreleasing Saw II earlier this year inPoland, the Baltic states, ex-Yugoslavia and CIS, EEAP sealed a deal with Lionsgate ...
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Cannes selections top BFI festival sales
BavariaFilm International (BFI) finished this year's Cannes by announcing numeroussales for Stefan Krohmer's Directors' Fortnight film Summer '04and Norwegian Jens Lien's International Critics' Week title The BothersomeMan.Krohmer'sdrama was sold to Austria (Filmladen), South Korea (Sejong Communications) andVenezuela (Blanco y Travieso), with a distributor deal imminent for France,while Lien's black comedy ...
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Maria Koepf to leave X-Filme to set up own company
Maria Koepf, co-managingdirector of X-Filme creative poolsince 2000, is leaving the Berlinproduction house to set up shop with herownoutfit MagnetFilmproduktion.Koepf started at X-Filme asa line producer in 1995, working with Tom Tykwer as line producer on Wintersleepers, as executive producer onRunLolaRun, and producer on The PrincessAnd The Warrior, Heaven and ...
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Germany's FFA awards $4m to new projects
Sequels of this year's local box-office hits Wild Soccer Bunch 3 and WildChicks are among eight projects backed with more than $3.97m (Euros 3.1m)production funding by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) at its latestsitting.The largest amount - $768,569 (Euros 600,000) - went to SamFilm's fourthinstalment in The Wild Soccer ...
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Alonso and Musaluppi recruited for Locarno juries
Leadingfigures from the New Argentine Cinema have been invited to serve on new jurieswhich are being established at this year's LocarnoFilm Festival under the new artistic director Frederic Maire.FilmmakerLisandro Alonso, whosedirecting credits include La Libertad, Los Muertos and the as-yet-unreleased Fantasmas, will be a jury memberof the new Leopard for ...
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Stasi thriller takes seven Lolas at German Film Awards
FlorianHenckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives Of Others (Das Leben Der Anderen)was the big winner at this year's German Film Awards in Berlin.The Stasithriller picked up seven Golden Lolas for best film, best direction, best leadactor (Ulrich Muehe), best supporting actor (Ulrich Tukur), best productiondesign (Silke Buhr), best cinematography (Hagen Bogdanski), ...
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Germany's Beta and Telepool add to Cannes lineups
Germansales companies are busy adding new titles to their sales lineupsa week before the beginning of this year's Cannes Market.Inaddition to the previously announced HeartOf Fire, Beta Cinema has taken on another sevennew titles for its Cannes slate.Thislineup is headed by the international market premieres of FlorianHenckel von Donnersmarck'sthriller The ...
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German director Uwe Boll plans to take Boll AG public
Onthe eve of this year's Cannes Film Market, German film director/media fundmanager Uwe Boll has unveiled plans for his group ofcompanies under the mantle of Boll AG to be listed in the Frankfurt StockExchange's Entry Standard before the summer.Accordingto a company announcement, the injection of fresh cash through a stock ...
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Sokurov to receive Locarno's Leopard of Honour
Locarno Film Festival's Leopard of Honour will be awarded inthe first edition under the new artistic director Frederic Maireto the Russian master Alexander Sokurov.Sokurov has a special fondness for the Swiss festival sincehis first film The Lonely Human Voice wasawarded the Bronze Leopard there in 1987 and, ten years later, ...