All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 162
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Franka Potente readies directorial debut
Run Lola Run starFranka Potente, who is a member of the International Jury at this year'sBerlinale, is to make her directorial debut this spring with a 25-30-minuteshort film.Producer Stefan Arndt of X-Filme creative pool told ScreenDaily.com that Wer Die Tollkirsche Ausgraebt will be 'a really classical silent film likefrom the ...
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Studio Babelsberg prepares for flotation
Studio Babelsberg is planning to go public in the first halfof this year, according to managing director and co-owner Carl Woebcken.In an interview with the business newspaper Euro AmSonntag at the weekend, he revealed thatthe German film studios were 'in intensive talks' about an IPO whichwould be undertaken within the ...
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GERMANY 2 February
Despite a 58% week-on-weekdrop in box-office takings, Warner Bros.' Blade:Trinity held onto thetop spot for a second week with a $1.8m gross to bring its tally for the firsttwo weeks of release to over $ 7m.Last weekend saw threestrong new entries to the Top 10 with Lemony Snicket's A Series ...
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Demand heats up for Berlin market
The number of films submitted to Berlin's European Film Market (EFM) hasrisen by a third, underlining its growing importance as the first market of theyear following the AFM's move to autumn dates.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com,festival director Dieter Kosslick said that the market has seen "moredemand from all over the world, but ...
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Zglinski's Hiver wins Swiss Film Prize
Greg Zglinski's Tout Un Hiver Sans Feupicked up the Swiss Film Prize in the best film category at this week'sSolothurn Film Days.The prize for best documentary went to StefanSchwietert's Accordion Tribe - which had its world premiere at Graz'sDiagonale last year.Manuel Flurin Hendry's Straehl won threeprizes for best lead role ...
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Tout Un Hiver Sans Feu wins top Swiss Film Prize
Greg Zglinski's Tout UnHiver Sans Feu picked up the $51,000 (CHF 60,000) Swiss Film Prize 2005 forBest Feature Film at this week's Solothurn Film Days.Meanwhile, the prizes forBest Documentary went to Stefan Schwietert's Accordion Tribe - which hadits world premiere at Graz's Diagonale last year - while Best Short Film ...
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GERMANY 26 January
The third instalment of theWesley Snipes Blade franchise - Blade: Trinity - blasted intolast weekend's Top 15 with over $ 4.3m from 524 screens, followed by MartinScorsese's multi-Oscar nominated The Aviator which grossed over $ 2mfrom 318 prints to enter the chart at No. 2. Trinity's 512,540 admissions in its ...
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Diagonale names Dummies as festival opener
Joerg Kalt's Crash TestDummies will be the opening film at the first Diagonale - Festival ofAustrian Cinema (March 14-20) under new director Birgit Flos.Kalt's second feature, whichinterweaves the story of a Romanian couple who have come to Vienna to collect astolen car with a second story centring on a store ...
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GERMANY 18 January
Sony Pictures Releasingstarted the year well with Closer knocking Ocean's Twelve off thetop spot after four weeks with a screen average of $ 4,787 from 469 screens togross over $ 2.2m. But the weekend's highestscreen average was scored by the German arm of Turkish distributor MaxximumFilms with its latest release ...
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Hayat, Innocent Voices to launch Berlinale youth sidebars.
The Iranian film Hayatby Gholamreza Ramezani will open this year's Berlinale Kinderfilmfest onFebruary 11, with the 14plus youth film competition launched a day later by InnocentVoices (Voces Inocentes) by Mexico's Luis Mandoki.Speaking to ScreenDaily.comabout this year's line-ups, section head Thomas Hailer said that during theselection process for this year's 14plus ...
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German film critics applaud Edukators
Hans Weingartner's Cannes2003 competition entry The Edukators (Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei) isthe big winner at this year's German Film Critics Awards, winning in thecategories of Best Feature Film and Best Actress.The complete line-up ofawards:Best Feature Film - TheEdukators by Hans Weingartner Best Feature Film Debut - Schultze Gets The ...
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Africa, sexuality to be dominant themes during Berlinale 2005.
Bill Condon's Kinsey was selected as the closing film for the 55th Berlinale - to screen on Saturday February 19 after the awards ceremony . The biopic of the sexologist Alfred Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Peter Sarsgaard, will be released by 20th Century Fox in Germany on ...
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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 ...