All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 161
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Snowland world premiere opens Max Ophuels festival
Hans W. Geissendoerfer's Snowland(Schneeland) receives its world premiere today as the opening film of thisyear's Max Ophuels Prize Film festival in Saarbruecken (January 17-23) ahead ofthe drama's German theatrical release by Kinowelt on January 20 and theinternational premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.The dramatic love story,which stars Maria Schrader (Rosenstrasse), ...
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Berlinale Co-Production Market shortlists 30 projects
New feature films by David Mackenzie and SergeiBodrov are among 30 projects chosen from 230 entries to be presented at theBerlinale's second Co-Production Market over two days from February 13-14.The line-up of 30 official projects includesthree from this year's edition of Rotterdam's CineMart under the banner of the'Rotterdam-Berlinale Express' initiative ...
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Downfall dominates Bavarian Film Awards
Oliver Hirschbiegel's Hitlerdrama Downfall was the big winner at the weekend's Bavarian Film Awardstaking home prizes in three categories.Constantin Film's BerndEichinger received the Euros 200,000 Producers Award, while Best Actor honourswent to Bruno Ganz for his performance as Adolf Hitler in his last days in thebunker under the centre of ...
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ProSiebenSat.1 signs Spyglass output deal
Germany's ProSiebenSat.1Group has signed a license agreement with US production outfit SpyglassEntertainment covering all German-language free-TV rights for titles going intoproduction from this year onwards. The agreement will includethe much-anticipated adaptation of Arthur Golden's best-selling novel MemoirsOf A Geisha which is being co-produced by Spyglass with Columbia Picturesand DreamWorks. Commenting ...
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MDC takes on sales for prize winning pair
MDC International is to handle internationalsales on two prize-winning feature debuts: French director David Lanzmann's DooWop and Serbian writer-director Srdjan Koljevic's comedy Red ColouredGrey Truck (Sivi Kamion Crvene Boje).Lanzmann's film received the FIPRESCI Jury'sprize at November's International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg and aSpecial Award from the International Jury. Red Coloured Grey ...
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German box office climbs in 2004
German box office takings rose 7.4% to Euros879.1m in 2004, boosted by a string of successful German films such as (T)raumschiffSurprise - Periode 1. Overall admissions also climbed by 7% from2003's 140.3m to 151m, according to figures from Nielsen EDI.While US films werestill the dominant force in German cinemas, their ...
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GERMANY 11 January
While there was littlemovement among the top six last weekend - with Ocean's Twelve holding onto the No. 1 slot for the fourth week running against Buena Vista's TheIncredibles-, the top 10 welcomed four strong performers in new entries AfterThe Sunset, Ray, House Of The Flying Daggers and Alles Auf ...
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2004: German film blasts off in Dreamship year
Local comedies Dreamship Surprise - Period 1, DerWixxer and 7 Dwarfs drove soaring admissions in 2004. German audiencesalso responded well to the more idiosyncratic titles including OliverHirschbiegel's The Downfall,Fatih Akin's Golden Bear winner Head-On, and the family film Lauras Stern.In the first nine months of the year, German films'market share ...
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Germany's X-Verleih earns exhibitor wrath
Germany's exhibitorassociations HDF and AG Kino have criticised distributor X Verleih for planningto release Dani Levy's comedy Alles Auf Zucker! on free-TV station WDRjust three months after its Jan 6 theatrical premiere.AG Kino said it feared that 'a precedent' wasbeing set to undermine release window dates. Earlier in the year, ...
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New Line pair win German funding
Two New Line Cinema films - Craig Gillespie'scomedy-drama Mr. Woodcock and Liam Lynch's Tenacious D in The Pick OfDestiny - have won backing from a film fund run by Germany's ALCAS/KGAL.According to ALCAS/KGAL, the fund's investorsdecided at their assembly in Munich last week to invest in the LandscapePictures production of ...
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Wargnier's Man To Man to open Berlinale
The world premiere of French director RegisWargnier's anthropological epic Man To Man will be the opening film ofthe Berlin International Film Festival(Feb 10-20).Starring Joseph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas,Iain Glen, Hugh Bonneville and Flora Montgomery, the film is set in SouthAfrica in the 1870s and follows the search for the so-called ...
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Kinderfilmfest reveals first competition titles
The Berlinale'sKinderfilmfest has announced the first titles selected for its competition forthe Crystal Bear prize and for the 14plus section introduced at the festivallast February.Already lined up for theKinderfilmfest competition are Torun Lian's tale of first love in The ColorOf Milk (Ikke Naken, Norway); LiisaHelminen's Pelicanman (Pelikaanimies,Finland) about a music-mad ...
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ZDF steps into Berlinale sponsorship breach
German public broadcaster ZDF has stepped into the breachleft by SAT.1 as the new media partner for the 2005 edition of the Berlinale.In addition to providing extensive coverage of the festival,ZDF and its partner channel 3sat will be responsible for organising and stagingthe opening gala, the award ceremony and other ...
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Kloiber buys back control of Tele Muenchen Group
Tele Muenchen Group's (TMG) Herbert Kloiber has taken fullcontrol of the German media conglomerate after buying back the 45% shareholdingwhich he sold to EM.TV in 1999.Kloiber founded the group in 1970 and created a portfolio ofcompanies covering license trading, theatrical and home entertainmentdistribution (Concorde Filmverleih, Concorde Home Entertainment), production(Clasart and ...
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VIP backs three more Hollywood projects
Leading German private mediafund VIP Medienfonds is to invest in new features by Steven Zaillian, BruceBeresford and Paul McGuigan - in addition to its joint venture with RolandEmmerich.The VIP 3 and VIP 4 fundswill be partnering Columbia Pictures for Zaillian's $74m All The King's Menwhich is being produced by Mike ...
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Film Commissions to launch European network in Berlin
Plans for a new"European Film Commissions Network" (EFCN) are to be unveiled at aone-day symposium of film commissions from all over Europe on the eve of theforthcoming Berlinale on February 9.Hosted by the German FilmCommissions, the "2nd European Encounter of Film Commissions"symposium will be opened by Berlin's Governing Mayor Klaus ...
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Head-On star boards Holocaust Train drama
Head-On star Sibel Kekilli is to play the female lead of ayoung Jewish woman in veteran producer Artur "Atze" Brauner'sHolocaust drama The Last Train (Der Letzte Zug) about Jews being sent tothe concentration camp in Auschwitz in early 1943.The film will be directed by actor Armin Mueller-Stahl. Speakingto ScreenDaily.com, 86-year-old ...
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GERMANY 14 December
Bridget Jones only lasted one week at the top before Disney's TheIncredibles stormed the German box office with over $5.7m from 1,003prints. The film's opening performance of 750,000-plus admissions made it thefourth most successful for a CGI animation film after Finding Nemo (2m),Ice Age (1.5m) and Shrek 2 (1.3m).The only ...
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German fund to bankroll Mann's Miami Vice
Three high profile big budget feature projects fromMichael Mann, Sam Mendes and Gary Ross have been shortlisted for considerationby the investors of Hannover Leasing's (HL) second Montranus media fund at ameeting in Munich next week (December 17).After consulting with film industry experts, theMunich-based fund has put forward three projects with ...
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GERMANY 8 December
National Treasure lasted only one week at the top spot before beingousted by Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason which clocked up over $4.2min its first four days and the weekend's top screen average of $ 5,864.The 500,282 admissions werealmost 50% up on the opening performance of the first Bridget ...