All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 153
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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 ...
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European Film Market to open second 'spillover' site
The European Film Market's move to a new venue - The Martin-Gropius-Bau - in February has been over-subscribed, resulting in a market 50 percent bigger than 2005 and prompting EFM organisers to open a 'spillover' venue for 40 companies.EFM director Beki Probst revealed that due to the large demand from ...
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EFM 2006 will be 50% larger than 2005
EFM director Beki Probst revealed that due to the large demand fromsales companies, we decided at thelast moment to provide additional space'We have about 40 more EFM Business Suites on the fifthfloor of Potsdamer Str.11 (where the Berlinale GuestReception is housed) to give more companies achance of having a presence ...
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Film bodies fear EU budget plans could damage MEDIA Programme
Film industry bodies claim the European Union MEDIA Programme's work could be damaged by reductions in spending on culture after 2006.This weekend, the European Union (EU) member states, under the presidency of the UK, agreed a financial framework for the EU from 2007 to 2013.The European Producers Associations Alliance (EPAA) ...
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Solothurn Film Days to show Maximilian Schell retrospective
Stina Werenfels' feature debut Nachbeben willopen the Solothurn Film Days (January 16-22, 2006), the Swiss film community's annualget-together to showcase production by its filmmakers working at home andabroad.Thefestival's Swiss Forum will also present Swiss premieres of Thomas Imbach's adaptation of the Georg Buechner play Lenz,Alain Gsponer's family drama Rose, Michael ...
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3 Degrees Colder producer launches distribution arm
blue eyes Fiction, the producer of FlorianHoffmeister's 3Degrees Colder (3 Grad Kaelter), has launched anin-house theatrical arm blue eyes Pictures to release the Silver Leopard-winnerin German cinemas on March 16.Accordingto the Munich-based production company, blue eyes Pictures will not berestricted to handling its own arthouse productions,but will also operate as ...
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New head of European MEDIA Programme appointed
Aviva Silver was today appointed as the successor to Domenico Raneri as the head of the European Commission's MEDIA Programme. The University of London law graduate has worked for the Commission since 1993, initially in the Internal Market Directorate General where she dealt with media issues. From 1997-2002, she worked ...
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New projects by Miller and Golubovic backed by Eurimages
Newfeature films by Claude Miller, Alain Resnais, Lone Scherfig, and Srdan Golubovic are among 14 projects awarded over $5.2m (Euros4.4m) by the Council of Europe's pan-European co-production fund Eurimages.Thelargest amounts - $768,850 (Euros 650,000) each - were awarded to Slovak filmmaker JurajJakubisko's Bathory, which is to be co-produced by the ...
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Midsummer Madness to begin shooting in March 2006
Vienna/London-basedsales agent EastWest Filmdistributionhas picked up world sales rights on Riga-born Alexander Hahn's comedy Midsummer Madness which was presented atlast week's Baltic Event Co-Production Market in Estonia's Tallinn and set to beginshooting next March.Midsummer Madness will be co-produced by Austria's Fischer Film, the UK's Steve WalshProductions and Latvia's KaupoFilm with ...
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Kinowelt Forecasts 30% Increase in Group Turnover
Kinowelt is forecasting a 30% year-on-year increase inturnover to over $82.4m (Euros 70m) by the end of 2005. This financial forecastwill see the company return to its position as one of the key German players. Thisgrowth, despite the overall market trend, was largely down to thetheatricaldistribution division which expects to ...
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Bavaria Film International Picks Up Schmid's Portovero
Bavaria FilmInternational (BFI) has picked up international distribution rights to Swissdirector Daniel Schmid's latest feature Portoverowhich has just begun shooting on location in Switzerland.StarringCatherine Walker (Conspiracy of Silence),Eduardo Noriega (Che),Marisa Paredes (AllAbout My Mother), David Warner (Ladies in Lavender) and Stephen Moyer (Deadlines), the script by US author Barry Gifford ...
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Lemming Director Chosen As Jury President
TheGerman-French director Dominik Moll has been named asthe jury president for the Dialogue en perspective Prize at next year's BerlinInternational Film Festival. Togetherwith seven cineastes aged between 18 and 29 from France and Germany, Moll will select awinner from one of the German films screening in the PerspektiveDeutsches Kino sidebar.The43-year-old ...
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Germans may hear new finance ideas by Christmas
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's new administration may give an indication of their plans to attract private capital to the local film industry before the Christmasbreak.The issue has been top of the local film agenda after the scrapping of media funds last week and all eyes are now on the new ...
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Yves Marmion named chairman of the European Film Academy
French producer Yves Marmion was elected as the new Chairman of the EuropeanFilm Academy (EFA) on the eve of the weekend's European Film Awards ceremony.Marmion has taken over from NikPowell who had been serving as EFA's Acting Chairmansince the sudden and unexpected death of the previous Chairman producer Humbert Balsan ...
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Marmion elected chair of European Film Academy
Frenchproducer Yves Marmion was elected as the new Chairman of the European FilmAcademy (EFA) on the eve of the weekend's European Film Awards ceremony.Marmionhas taken over from Nik Powell who had been serving as EFA's Acting Chairmansince the sudden and unexpected death of the previous Chairman producer HumbertBalsan last February.Marmion,who ...