All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 170
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Edukators wins Support at Munich festival
Hans Weingartner's Cannes competition film The Edukators(Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei) was the big winner at this year's GermanCinema Support Prize which was presented at this week's Munich Film Festival.Prizes in three of the four categories were taken byWeingartner's film: the Euros 40,000 Prize for Best Director, the Euros 10,000Prize ...
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Karlovy Vary withdraws Slovenian film from competition
Slovenian director Metod Pevec's Beneath Her Window isbeing withdrawn from Karlovy Vary International Film Festival's (July 2 -10)official competition because it was shown at last November's film festival inLjubljana.International producer body FIAPF's director general Bertrand Moullierapproached Karlovy Vary's artistic director Eva Zaoralova at last week'smeeting of European Coordination of Film ...
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Germany sees box office revival
Germany's box office has made a welcome recovery since Mayafter a year-on-year decline in admissions and revenues for the first quarterof 2004, according to EDI Nielsen.In April, EDI reported that admissions were down 6.4% fromlast year's 37.58m to 35.18m in the first three months, while revenues slipped8.6% from Euros 225.68m ...
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Niehuus named executive director at German funding body
Berlin-Brandenburg production community has welcomed thenaming of Kirsten Niehuus as the executive director with responsibility forfilm funding at Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (the public fund which supportedKevin Spacey's Beyond The Sea andHans Weingartner's The Edukators.last year) from November 1, 2004.A qualified lawyer, Niehuus previously served as legalcounsel at Senator Film and the ...
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GERMANY 29 June
The highest new entry this week - and the film with thehighest screen average ($4,263) - was Tobis Film's release of Mindhunters which grossed over $660,000in its first four days, but the German box office is still dominated by the toptwo films - Harry Potter 3 and The Day After ...
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New blow for Hamburg film fund
FilmFoerderung Hamburg (FFHH) has suffered another blow withthe news that public broadcaster ZDF will terminate its cooperation agreementand annual contribution of Euro 1m at the end of this year.The development is a direct result of Culture Senator Karinvon Welck's proposal to cut the city's contribution to FFHH by 50% to ...
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Babelsberg Film looks to board Macdonald's Last King
Germany's BabelsbergFilm is in negotiations to become a co-producer on Oscar-winning documentaryfilmmaker Kevin Macdonald's fiction feature film debut The Last King OfScotland.ScreenDaily.com has learnt exclusively that the Studio BabelsbergMotion Pictures' production unit - whose previous credits included serving asco-producer on Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning The Pianist, City Of God director Fernando ...
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Thirty buyers lined up to attend Munich Previews
FineLine, Miramax, France's MK2, Sweden's Nonstop Entertainment, Hungary's BudapestFilm and Australia's SBS are among over 30 international film distributors andTV film buyers attending the Export-Union of German Cinema's Munich Previews,which are being held for the first time during the Munich Film Festival fromJune 27-30.Othercompanies confirmed as coming to Munich are ...
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Edukators star signs for World War II feature
Julia Jentsch, lead actress in HansWeingartner's Cannes competition film The Edukators, has been cast asthe German resistance figure Sophie Scholl in Marc Rothemund's World War IIdrama Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl - The Last Days)which began shooting in Munich on June 12.The screenplay for the World War ...
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GERMANY 24 June
Despite the Football Championship in Portugal Harry Potter held up for its thirdweekend with over 600,000 admissions and another $4.8m takings to gross $35.1mso far. With around 4.5m admissions, HarryPotter 3 is set to be the first release this year to pass 5m admissions.Olga Film's sequel to its Girls On ...
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Studio Hamburg threatens to move to Berlin
In a reaction to the Hamburg Senate's planned cut to itsfilm funding budget, Studio Hamburg - which is currently negotiating a takeoverof the Babelsberg studios - has threatened to move its production apparatus toBerlin.Speaking to of Die Welt, Studio Hamburg chief Martin Willichsaid that "on 23 July our supervisory board ...
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Leigh named as Sarajevo jury president
UK director Mike Leigh is to serve as the president of theInternational Jury at this year's Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) (August 20-28).He will be joined in judging up to 10 films from eightcountries - ex-Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania and Bulgaria - in the RegionalProgramme by the Tribeca Film Festival's Peter Scarlet, ...
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Akin's Head-On dominates German Film Awards
Fatih Akin's Golden Bear-winning Head-On (Gegen DieWand) was the big victor at this year's German Film Awardsin Berlin on Friday evening (June 18).The film bagged five Golden Lolas in total - for bestfilm, best direction, best lead actress (Sibel Kekilli), best lead actor (BirolUenel) and best cinematography (Rainer Klausmann).Silver Lolas ...
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Cinerenta boss quits to launch own production outfit
Marco Mehlitz is leaving his job as CEO andmanaging director of Munich-based production fund Cinerenta to set up his ownproduction outfit.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com,Mehlitz explained that his Berlin/Babelsberg-based company would focus on internationalEnglish-language feature films to be financed via private placements and funds.The as-yet-unnamed company will develop projects for production ...
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Senator shareholders agree restructuring plan
The restructuring plan for the insolvent SenatorEntertainment negotiated its first hurdle at an extraordinary AGM convened bythe court-appointed receiver Rolf Rattunde in Berlin on Thursday (June 17).At the meeting in Hotel Berlin, the shareholdersagreed to a capital reduction of 90% and a subsequent capital increase in orderto clear the way ...
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Hamburg film fund rocked by budget cut plans
Hamburg's film scene has been rocked by plans unveiled bynewly appointed Culture Senator Karin von Welck to slash the city's support ofFilmFoerderung Hamburg (FFH) from Euros 7m to Euros 3.5m for 2005/6.FFH currently has an annual budget of around Euros 9m madeup of contributions from Hamburg itself and public broadcasters ...
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Berlin launches film fund for developing countries
The Berlinale has been awarded Euro 1.5m initially for the next three years to set up a World Cinema Fund for the support of filmmakers from developing countries and to increase the profile of their films in German cinemas.The funding from the Federal Cultural Foundation(Kulturstiftung des Bundes) is the result ...
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GERMANY 16 June
Its takings may have slipped week-on-week by 35%, but Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban easilyheld on to the top spot with over 1.2m admissions - more than the rest of theTop 15 put together - .and a screen average of $8,018 from its 1,214 screens.The weekend's best screen ...
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Berlinale mourns passing of Werner Gondolf
The Berlinale is mourning the passing of Werner Gondolf, thefestival's chief programmer for over 30 years, at the age of 61 after a longillness.In a tribute, festival director Dieter Kosslick said Gondolfwas "an institution at the Berlinale and nobody knew its ins and outs aswell as he did. Respected by ...
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Intertainment, Franchise judgement expected next week
The final judgement in the damages lawsuitbetween Germany's Intertainment and Franchise Pictures is now expected to bemade sometime next week at the earliest.In a press statement, Intertainment explained thatquestioning of the witnesses had been completed on Tuesday (June 8) and thefinal summing up by the lawyers of both parties was ...