All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 173
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Nine German films get free TV ads
Golden Bear winner Head-On is one of nine German films awarded a total Euros 1.8m worth of advertising airtime on public and private channels.The new funding category, which was introduced as part of the agreement with the TV stations on their financial contribution to the German Federal Film Board (FFA), ...
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'Courageous' doc wins top Diagonale prize
Martin Bruch's documentary handbikemovie was the surprise winner of this year's Euros 19,000 Diagonale Grand Prix in Austria, which was sponsored by the Land of Styria and Kodak.Bruch, who has multiple sclerosis and uses an adapted wheelchair, filmed handbikemovie with a camera attached to his bicycle helmet. It shows the ...
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Although the Ben Stiller/Jennifer Anniston romantic comedy Along Came Polly opened with the Top 15's best screen average ($6,384) and sold almost 400,000 tickets in its four days, this was not enough to unseat Scary Movie 3 from the top spot.The genre parody saw its gross slip 50% week-on-week but ...
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Austrian region launches Euros 1.5m fund
Austria's Land of Styria and the city of Graz havejoined forces to provide an annual Euros 1.5m for the creation of the CineStyria Film Commission & Film Fund.Introducing the new regional body at this week's Diagonalefilm festival in Graz, managing director Enrico Jakob explained that CineStyria intends to be 'a ...
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Malkovich boards Ruiz's Klimt picture
John Malkovich is to take the title role in Raul Ruiz's Klimt, an homage to the famous Austrian artist Gustav Klimt.The film will focus on the last years of Klimt's life from 1900 to 1918. Negotiations are currently underway for German actress Veronica Ferres to play Klimt's partner Emilie Floege ...
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Eurimages bankrolls eleven features with Euros 3.3m
New features by Pan Nalin (Valley Of Flowers), Radu Mihaileanu (Va, Vis Et Deviens) , Diane Bertrand (Der Ringfinger) and Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) are among 11 European co-productions which received over Euros 3.3m support from the Strasbourg-based Eurimages in its latest round of funding.The largest amount - Euro 600,000 ...
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Head-On release impacts German distributors
Fledgling distributor Timebandits Films has been lambasted by fellow German arthouse distributors for bringing forward the release date of Fatih Akin's Golden Bear-winner Head-On (Gegen Die Wand) from April 22 to March 11.In an open letter from 12 distributors including Arsenal Film, Kinowelt, Kool Film, Senator Film, Solo Film and ...
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Despite an 18% drop in box office over the previous weekend, Warner's Something's Gotta Give held on to the top spot against two new entries and also posted the Top 15's highest screen average with $5,364 from its 622 screens.Cold Mountain, which was the opening film at this year's Berlinale, ...
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Diagonale festival unveils Austrian premeries
Pjer Zalica's Silver Leopard-winner Fuse (Gori Vatra), the documentaries Virtual Borders by Manu Luksch, Accordion Tribe by Stefan Schwietert, Fucking Freedom by Chris Krikellis and the avantgarde film WAR by Thomas Steiner are among 66 Austrian premieres at this year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema in Graz which will ...
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Kinowelt revives broadcasting ambitions
Germany's Kinowelt has revived its ambitions to become a player in the German broadcasting arena with plans for a free-TV niche film channel for nationwide distribution.Kinowelt Television has been granted a broadcasting licence by the Kassel-based media watchdog LPR Hessen subject to a final green light from the assembly of ...
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France, Spain lead the field at CARTOON 2004
France and Spain have the largest number of animation projects and finished works being presented at this year's CARTOON MOVIE forum to be held at the Babelsberg Studios from March 11-13.French producers are represented with eleven works including Les Armateurs' Les Triplettes De Belleville, Prima Linea Productions' U and Lardux ...
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Kosslick mulls market future, festival dates
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick declared himself "very pleased" with the running of this year's edition which had "conceptually achieved everything we wanted to."Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, Kosslick described the official competition as a "varied programme of old masters and young first-time directors" and pointed out that the focuses on South ...
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Premiere, Constantin conclude extensive deal
Germany's digital pay TV platform Premiere and producer-distributor Constantin Film have concluded an extensive multi-year programming deal.The agreement covers such films as Constantin's current box office hit Lost In Translation, 21 Grams and Alexander, which are being theatrically released by Constantin Film, as well as all of Constantin's own output ...
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Bavaria enjoys Berlin business
Bavaria Film International (BFI) reported "good business" at this year's Berlinale and European Film Market despite the fact that its films were scheduled quite late into the festival programme.Deals on the Golden Bear winner Head-On by Fatih Akin were closed with Spain (Golem), Italy (BIM Distribuzione), Benelux (Cinemien), Turkey (R-Films), ...
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The smile was wiped off Mona Lisa's face last weekend when Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton arrived in town with Something's Gotta Give to take pole position away from the Columbia TriStar release. The romantic comedy which had been shown in the Berlinale's official section with Nicholson and Keaton in ...
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Borries' Thoughts excite buyers
Achim von Borries' Love In Thoughts (Was Nuetzt Die Liebe In Gedanken) has been sold by Beta Cinema to Japan's New Select Co. and Brazil's Next EntertainmentThe film, which had its European premiere in the Berlinale's Panorama section as a Panorama Special, has also been picked up by Israel's Gil ...
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Intertainment and Kopelson go separate ways
German rights trader Intertainment and US production company Kopelson Entertainment have mutually agreed to terminate their deal to finance a slate of big budget pictures.According to a statement, the step - effective from Feb 11 - was taken "because of Intertainment's cost-cutting requirements interfering with the production requirements of Kopelson ...
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Festival kickstarts Timebandits journey
The Berlinale has served as the ideal showcase for the new German distributor Timebandits films, which has four films showing in the festival's different sections.While Fatih Akin's new feature Head-On (Gegen Die Wand) premiered in the Official Competition section, Andres Veiel's documentary Die Spielwuetigen unspooled in the Panorama, Felix Randau's ...