All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 148
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Karlovy Vary creates CenEast Film Event
The latest films fromCentral and Eastern Europe are set to have a new promotional platform at thisyear's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30 - July 8) with thecreation of the CenEast Film Event.The new initiative is opento films from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, CzechRepublic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, ...
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Germany gets first download-to-own service
Warner Bros Entertainment and arvatomobile have joined forces to launch in2movies, the first German-languagedownload-to-own platform, for TV series and feature films, simultaneously withtheir release on DVD.The user canchoose from such blockbusters as Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, TheMatrix or The Last Samurai through classicssuch as Gone With The ...
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Tbilisi-Tbilisi takes top prize at GoEast Festival
Georgian filmmaker Levan Zakareishvili's Tbilisi-Tbilisi, a portrait of harsheveryday life in his nation's capital, was the surprise winner of the GoldenLily award for best film at this year's goEastFestival of Central and East European Cinema, which came to a close on Tuesdayevening in Wiesbaden.The international jury,headed by German film historian ...
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Bosnia plans more support for regional films
Bosnia and Herzegovina'snational Fund for Cinematography has reserved $242,250 (Euros 200,000) of its $908,437(Euros 750,000) annual budget to support regional co-productions.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com at this week's goEastFestival, Sarajevo Film Festival director Mirsad Purivatra described thisdecision by the Bosnian Minister of Culture and Sport Gavrilo Grahovac as"a first step towards a ...
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Board shifts at Germany's Senator Entertainment
SenatorEntertainment's executive board has been restructured following the end of theinsolvency proceedings against the Berlin-based distributor-producer. Theconcern's two major shareholders Cologne media lawyer HelgeSasse and US-based German producer Marco Weber of HSWGmbH, which holds a 36.32% stake in Senator Entertainment, have now beenappointed to the executive board. Sasse is serving ...
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Vanessa Redgrave to head Sarajevo's new documentary jury
Veteran British actressVanessa Redgrave will be the jury president of thenew Regional Documentary Competition at this year's Sarajevo Film Festival(SFF) (August 18-26).The 'Heart ofSarajevo' award for best documentary - with a prize of $3633 (Euros 3,000)- will be awarded to the best film in the festival's Regional DocumentaryProgramme selection and ...
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MDM backs projects from Kirghizia and Georgia
Newfeature films from Georgia and Kirghizia are among 16 projectsbacked with a total of more than $3.15m (Euros 2.6m) by the Leipzig-basedregional film fund MDM in its latest round offunding.Productionsupport of $242,410 (Euros 200,000) was awarded to Kirghiz-born director Marat Saralu's fourth feature Songs From TheSouthern Seas, which will be ...
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Fox Germany signs five-film deal with Claussen & Woebke
TwentiethCentury Fox of Germany has signed a multi-picture deal with Munich-basedproduction house Claussen & Woebke Filmproduktion covering all film rightsfor five feature films in the next three years as well as further projects thatare yet to be developed.Thefirst joint project will an adaptation of Otfried Preussler's award-winningchildren's story Krabat, which ...
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Hamburg Film Fund gives $3.1m to seven new projects
The Hamburg Film Fund has awarded$3.1m (Euros 2.5m) in production support to seven projects including newfeature films by Fatih Akin, Peter Timm, Detlev Buck and Nicolette Krebitz.Akin's production company Corazon International receivedthe largest amount - $616,074 (Euros 500,000) - for his next feature Auf Der Anderen Seite Des Lebens, while ...
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Nyon documentary festival adds pitching forum
The Visions du Reel International Documentary Festival (April 24-29) inNyon, Switzerland, has joined forces with theEuropean Documentary Network to stage its first pitching forum aimed atcreative documentaries focusing on an artistic visual approach.Twelve projects have beenselected for the Pitching du Reel session on April 24and will be presented to a ...
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Filmstiftung NRW puts $3.64m into six new films
New projects by Rolf Schuebel, Fatih Akin, Ulla Wagner, and Tony Loeser are among six feature films awarded more than $3.64m (Euros 3m) by North Rhine-Westphalia's regional film fund Filmstiftung NRW at its latest funding session. The largest amount -- $969,719 (Euros 800,000) -- went to Rolf Schuebel's English-language drama ...
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Fewer sections and films planned for Locarno 2006
This year's edition of the Locarno International Film Festival (August 2-12, 2006) will jettison two sections and show fewer films, the festival's annual meeting was told in Locarno on Monday evening. The new artistic director Frederic Maire announced that the Video and Human Rights sidebars would not be continued in ...
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Theatrical drives big leap in Kinowelt profits
Theresurrected Kinowelt Group trebled its year-on-year annual profits to $4.3m (Euros3.6m) on revenues of $95.1m (Euros 78.5m), up 41%TheLeipzig-based group says the "extraordinarily high" growth in overallturnover was largely thanks to the success of the theatrical division with suchreleases as Mr & Mrs. Smith (3.5m admissions) and TheMarch Of The ...
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Senator upbeat after end of insolvency crisis
SenatorEntertainment's CEO Christopher Borgmann has struck an upbeat note on the Berlin-based producer-distributor's future afterthe company was officially withdrawn from insolvency proceedings.According to Borgmann, the slimmed-down company will now work "atfull stretch" to build its activities again with a concentration onthe (co)production and distribution of German feature films as well ...
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Constantin receives $4.2m from German Federal Film Board
Constantin Film has been named the most successful Germanproducer and distributor of 2005 after picking up a total of $4.2m (Euros 3.5m)retroactive "reference funding" from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) to invest in new filmprojects and distribution campaigns.Thiswas the second year running that Constantin hadreceived this double honour at ...
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Constantin Film sets itself a sales target of $302m for 2006
Germanproducer-distributor Constantin Film has set itself asales target of $302m (Euros 250m) for 2006, which would top the $298m (Euros 246.9m)posted in the record yearof 2004 when Constantin released Dreamship Surprise - Period 1 and Downfall.Thisforecast for 2006 is based on the anticipated theatrical performance of suchin-house and co-productions as ...
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VIP investors file for damages estimated at $30m
More than 200investors in the beleaguered VIP 3 and 4 private media funds have become the first to file fordamages.The claims against the German fund are estimated at around $30m (Euros 25m). The plaintiffs claim VIP Medienfondsprospectuses were misleading and that not all of the equity raisedwas actually channelled into ...
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Russian and Polish films are the focus of goEast festival
Filmmakingfrom Russia and Poland will be the focus of this year's goEast- Festival of Central and East European Cinema in Wiesbaden (April 5-11).Apart from athree-day symposium on mainstream Russian cinema and a roundtable on new trendsin the Russian film industry, the festival will include a homage to Polishactor-director Jerzy Stuhrand ...
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First Danish-Austrian co-productions unveiled
ZentropaEntertainments and DOR-Film are to be partners on the first ever Danish-Austrianco-production with Jacob Thuesen's Erik Nietzsche - The Early Years. Thisalso marks the first collaboration between national public funds the DanishFilm Institute (DFI) and the Austrian Film Institute who are backing theproject that previously had Lone Scherfig attached asdirector. ...
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German Federal Film Board backs 11 projects with over $5.7m
Newfeature films by Marco Kreuzpaintner, Fatih Akin, Peter Timm and Ben Verbong are among 11 projects backed with over $5.7m (Euros4.8m) by the German Federal Film Board in its latest funding session.Thelargest amount $961,399 (Euros 800,0000) went to Kreuzpaintner'sadaptation of the children's classic Krabat for Claussen + Woebke Filmproduktion, while$841,365 ...