All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 164
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Cannes winning director celebrates End Of World
Germany's Reverse Angle is to co-produce young Romanian filmmakerCatalin Mitulescu's The Way I Spent The End Of The World which waspitched at last year's Mannheim Meetings.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com after being awarded the title of'Master of Cinema' on Wednesday evening, Wim Wenders confirmed thathis company will be a partner with Bucharest-based ...
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Germany, South Africa sign co-production treaty
Collaboration between the German and South African film and televisionindustries has been given a major boost with the signing of a co-productiontreaty between the two countries.Structured along the same lines as other treaties with such countries asFrance, the agreement will recognise films made under the auspices of thetreaty as national ...
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German coproduction market looks East
The organisers of theMannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival's annual 'CoproductionMeetings' are considering expanding the gathering to include projects from Asiain the future.Speaking at a workshop onthe development of the co-production market since its founding in 1996,co-ordinator Olaf Aichinger said that they were encouraged by the fact that aproject from China, Haolun ...
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Summer Storm to get North American outing
US distributor here! Films & Television has picked upMarco Kreuzpaintner's gay coming of age tale Summer Storm (Sommersturm) which won the audience award at thisyear's Filmfest Muenchen.Sales agent Bavaria Film International also reported saleson the film after presentations at the Toronto Film Fetival and the MIFED andAFM markets to ABC/Cinemien ...
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Berlinale film selection committee shapes up
German producer Gloria Burkert (A Map Of The Heart) and Rajendra Roy, programme director of the Hamptons International Film Festival, and Berlin-based freelance journalist Ralf Schenk are three new members of this year's advisory film selection committee for the Berlinale's Official Competition.The twelve-person committee includes the various section heads - ...
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GERMANY 23 November
While the 7 Dwarfscontinued to reign supreme at the German box office - the comedy's gross topped$40m on its 4th weekend at the No. 1 spot -, Solo Film's release of the firstTurkish science fiction comedy G.O.R.A.came up trumps with a tremendous $ 8,737 screen average from 73 prints to ...
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Media Luna unveils Bear Cub, Nomi deals
German sales house Media Luna has unveiled a string ofdeals concluded during this month's AFM.Deals for Miguel Albaladejo'sSpanish gay parenting comedy-drama Bear Cub (Cachorro)included Partner Video Film taking theatrical and video rights for Russia andformer USSR Republics; Estação Cinema e Cultura buying all rightsfor Brazil; Accent Film Entertainment buying DVD/video ...
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Blow for Berlinale as title sponsor pulls out
The Berlin-based station has been a main sponsor for the last seven years and shared the official partner status in 2004 with L’Oreal and Volkswagen, who have retained their deals.According to German press reports, SAT.1indicated that the decision to step down as a sponsor was prompted by a desire to ...
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Germany breaks Euros 1bn home entertainment barrier
Thanks tothe continuing DVD boom, turnover in Germany's home entertainment market hasbroken the Euro 1bn barrier after just nine months for the first time.Accordingto the GfK market research institute, the sector posted a total turnover ofEuros 1.079bn on the sale and rental of DVDs and videos in the first ninemonths ...
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Festival invitations to determine German film funding
The participation ofGerman films at 17 international festivals from Annecy to Zlin will now berecognised as an additional criterion for accessing "reference"production funding from the German Federal Film Board (FFA).When the new German Film Law (FFG) came intoeffect at the beginning of this year, producers were informed that aninvitation to ...
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GERMANY 16 November
Germany is still in 7Dwarves fever as the comedy held onto the top spot for a third week runningdespite a 33% week-on-week drop in takings. The film has now sold over 4.6mtickets and grossed over $34.2m.Buena Vista's Shall WeDance', meanwhile, swapped places with Fox's Alien vs. Predator whose takings dropped ...
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Fremaux names new Cannes scout for Germany
Munich-based film journalist and author Thilo Wydra has beenappointed by Cannes' artistic director Thierry Fremaux as successor toChristiane Peitz as the festival's correspondent for Germany.Wydra, who works as a freelance journalist for suchpublications as Film-echo/Filmwoche, Der Tagesspiegel and Hamburger Abendblatt, has also published several books on German andFrench cinema, including ...
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Box office success helps Constantin raises targets
German producer-distributorConstantin Film has raised its sales forecast and EBIT target for a second timethis year after the strong performance of Michael "Bully" Herbig's DreamshipSurprise - Period 1 and OliverHirschbiegel's Downfall in thecinemas in the third quarter of 2004.At the end of June, Constantin had raised its salesforecast for 2004 ...
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Berlinale Talent Campus receives 2,500 applications
The third edition of the Berlinale's Talent Campus hasreceived 2,500 applications for the 500 places available at the event (Feb12-17) during next year's film festival.While the number of countries sending entries increased from101 to 104, the total number of entries was more than 25% less than last year's3,500. (The first ...
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Local films fuel German box office boom
Over 115m admissions have been registered atGermany's cinemas in the first nine months of 2004, up 12.7m on 2003's 102.5mfor the same period, according to figures collated by the German Federal FilmBoard (FFA).The FFA noted thatadmissions increased year-on-year by almost 89% in July, 21% in August and 12%in September.Thanks to ...
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Sci-fi spoof set for Turkey blast off
One million tickets have been sold in advancefor the first ever Turkish sci-fi comedy G.O.R.A. which is released byWarner Bros. in 460 cinemas - almost half of the available screens - throughoutTurkey on November 12 (Friday).Speaking to ScreenDaily.com, BirolAkbaba, head of international sales for the film's production company BesiktasKultur Merkezi ...
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Media Luna picks up The Great Water
Ivo Trajkov's labour camp drama The GreatWater, Macedonia's entry for the Foreign Language Film Academy Award, isone of five new titles Cologne-based Media Luna Entertainment has added to thesales line-up.Described as "a powerful and emotionallymoving epic saga of friendship and betrayal between two boys", Trajkov'sfilm will have its world premiere ...
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Mouawad's Tideline to open Mannheim festival
Canadian filmmaker Wajdi Mouawad's feature debut Tideline(Littoral) will open this year's Mannheim-Heidelberg International FilmFestival on November 19.Mouawad's political parable about war, exile andintegration will be competing with another 21 films in the InternationalCompetition which includes Sarajevo Film Festival winner Mila From Marsby Bulgaria's Zornitsa Sophia, Crossing Europe's winner How I ...
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Swiss producers welcome new Film Foundation
Swissproducers have received a welcome boost with the creation of a Film Foundationin Zurich which aims to have an annual funding budget of at least $7.4m(CHF8.8m).The launchmakes the Foundation one of the leading Swiss film funding institutions afterthe Federal Office for Culture and broadcaster SRG SSR idee suisse.The city of ...
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Berlinale World Cinema Fund jury named
French independent distributor Isabelle Dubar of IDDistribution and Zimbabwe-born festival programme consultant and curator KeithM. Shiri will sit on the four-member international jury which will choose theprojects to be supported by the World Cinema Fund (WCF).The other jury members are the Berlinale's festival directorDieter Kosslick, who set up the Fund ...