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Roginas to head St Petersburg Film Festival
Ex-Eurimages executive secretary RenateRoginas has been named Artistic Director for the first St. Petersburg InternationalFilm Festival in July.Roginas, who has been appointed toa five-year contract, wants to see the festival become 'a bridge from Russiato Europe and also to the rest of the world. I think itwill be important ...
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Producer Alan Greenspan forms alliance with SHIP
In an attempt to kick-start its English-language ambitions,Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP) has entered an alliance withLA-based producer Alan Greenspan.The deal, which was brokered by CAA,will provide SHIP with increased access to English projects and talent, whilegiving Greenspan access to international finance for projects in the $10m-$30mrange.'If you have access ...
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VCL and 3Rosen on a Promise with Warner Bros
ChenKaige's The Promise, which screened at the Berlinale last week, will be one of the firsttitles to be released theatrically in Germany as part of a new venture betweenDatty Ruth's VCL Film + Medien and the 3Rosen Filmverleih.WarnerBros Germanywill handle billing and booking on Kaige's fantasy epic, while 3Rosen will ...
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Germany's ProSieben signs US cable carrying deal with Comcast
The international German-language pay channel ProSiebenSat.1 Welt hassigned a deal with the Comcast Corporation's International Networks to bedistributed to subscribers via cable and DSL in the US.The channel, whose schedules include the programming highlights from thenetworks of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media group, was launched a year ago in the USon DISH ...
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Kinowelt resurrects Arthaus theatrical distribution label
Germany's KinoweltFilmverleih has resurrected its Arthaus label for the theatrical release of arthousetitles.The first film to bereleased under the Arthaus label will be Marc Forster's Stay starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts onFebruary 23. The film, which wasreleased by 20th Century Fox in the US last year, is also screeningin ...
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Constantin announces five pick-ups on eve of Berlin
Mel Gibson's new historical epic Apocalypto and the thirdpart in the Asterix franchise, Asterix At The Olympic Games, are among fivepotential blockbusters acquired by German distributor Constantin Film on theeve of this year's Berlinale.Constantin, which previously handled Gibson's The Passion Of TheChrist in Germany two years ago, plans to release ...
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Peckinpah's Pat Garrett to close Berlin
Thedirector's cut of Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy TheKid willclose this year's Berlinale on February 18.Announcingthe complete festival programme, festival directorDieter Kosslick revealed that Peckinpah'sfilm will be shown "out of competition" in a High Definition versionat the Berlinale Palast andUrania cinemas.Therewill also be other films shown in high ...
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Berlinale announces final sidebar entries
Newfilms by Lukas Moodysson, Christian Vincent, AnnetteK. Olesen, and Romuald Karmakar are among the final titles to be confirmed for theline-up of the Berlinale's Panorama whose mainprogramme will be opened by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe'sBrothers Of TheHead about young Siamese twins who appeared on the punk rock scene in ...
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Luxembourg and Austria sign co-production treaty
Collaborationbetween the Austrian and Luxembourg film and televisionindustries has been given amajor boost with the signing of aco-production treaty between the two countries.Theagreement will recognise films made under the auspices of the treaty asnational films and will allow Austrian and Luxembourg co-producers to benefitfrom all of the incentives available to ...
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Berlinale Forum list is finalised
Originalityand innovative strength are the keywords at this year's edition of the Berlinale's Forum programme which will focus on directorialdebuts by young filmmakers.Amongthe strikingly original debuts are Fujiwara Toshi'snarrative experiment We Can't Go HomeAgain, Khalo Matabane'sgenre-bending documentary Conversationson a Sunday Afternoon and Laura Poitras' on-the spot political film My Country, ...
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Berlinale Forum list is finalised
Originalityand innovative strength are the keywords at this year's edition of the Berlinale's Forum programme which will focus on directorialdebuts by young filmmakers.Amongthe strikingly original debuts are Fujiwara Toshi'snarrative experiment We Can't Go HomeAgain, Khalo Matabane'sgenre-bending documentary Conversationson a Sunday Afternoon and Ben Hopkins ethnographic documentary with ...
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Bavaria Film International adds to sales slate
Bavaria Film International has added five new Germanlanguage titles to its sales slate, all of which will be having their worldpremieres at the Berlin filmfestival next month.Three of the films TheFree Will, Requiem and Slummingwill be presented in Competition. Matthias Glasner's The Free Will (Der Freie Wille), starring Juergen Vogel ...
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Eugen wins Best Film at Swiss Film Awards
Last year's local blockbuster, Michael Steiner's My Name Is Eugen(Mein Name IstEugen) was named Best Film at the 2006 Swiss FilmAwards ceremony in Solothurn on Wednesday evening.The jury headed by Oscar-winning film editor Pietro Scalia (JFK, Black Hawk Down) commented thatSteiner's family film had "brought a fresh breeze into the ...
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Berlin's Co-Production Market line-up confirmed
This year's Berlinale Co-ProductionMarket will feature 44 projects from 24 countries, including three projects from the forthcoming CineMart in Rotterdam.Under an agreement between the two festivals, the Berlin market (February 12-14) will include Eran Riklis' Israeli-Palestinian dark comedy Lemon Tree; Stefan Arsenijevic's featuredebut Love and Other Crimes, co-produced with Cologne-based ...
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Debut director is feted at the Bavarian Film Awards
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's feature debut Das Leben Der Anderen was the big winner at the weekend's BavarianFilm Awards taking home prizes in four categories.Thethriller, set in East Germany of the mid-1980s picked up the prizes forBest Screenplay and Newcomer Director as well as for Best Actor (toUlrich Muehe for ...
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German box office takings fall by 18.1%
Germancinemas saw takings fall year-on-year by 18.1% and admissions by 20.4% in 2005,according to figures collated by Nielsen EDI for January 3 2005 to January 1 2006.Box-officerevenues amounted to $869.5 (720.1m Euros), compared to 1061.6m ( 879.1m Euros) in 2004, while the total admissions slippedfrom 151m to 121.3m in the ...
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Berlinale Co-Production Market entries leap 25%
Thenumber of entries for this year's Berlinale Co-Production Market (BCM) is up 25%on 2005.Morethan 300 projects from 58 countries have been submitted for the third editionof the market, which runs from February 12-14.BCMproject manager Sonja Heinen said there had been a noticeablerise in entries from Asia and India.She saidshe was ...
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Cattaneo film will open Berlinale Kinderfilmfest
The Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest will be opened with the international premiere of Peter Cattaneo's new film Opal Dream about a girl whose lively imaginary friends become a real threat to her family in the Australian outback.Other titles confirmed so far for Berlin's children's film sidebar include the world premiere of local ...
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Intermedia signs video deal with Warner Home Video
Internationalmedia's subsidiary Intermedia Film Distribution has signed a 10-year exclusive distribution deal with Warner Home Video (WHV) for titles from its film library.The deal will give WHV the worldwide home video rights and pay-per-view, video-on-demand and television rights in the USA, Canada and Germany.The films include Point Break, G.I. Jane, ...
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Berlin reveals first Competition titles
New films by Terrence Malick, Chen Kaige and Oskar Roehler are among the first nine titles confirmed for the Berlin Film Festival next February.Star power accompanying the six world premieres which have been announced should include: Sigourney Weaver, Heath Ledger, George Clooney and Matt Damon among others. The premieres include ...