All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 174
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GERMANY 6 May
Columbia TriStar reigned supreme at the German box office taking the top two positions with romantic comedy 50 First Dates moving up to pole position and the Johnny Depp starrer Secret Window coming in at number two with over $ 1.3m gross in its first four days of release.Meanwhile, last ...
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New Diagonale team named
German-born film academic and journalist Birgit Flos(pictured) has been appointed as the new director of the Diagonale for threeyears from 2005.She will run the annual showcase of Austrian cinema in athree-person team together with critic Robert Buchschwenter (managing director,production) and financial consultant Georg Tillner (managing director, finance)and intends to continue ...
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German animation industry reaches new heights
At the recent Cartoon Moviefinancing market in Babelsberg, German animation producers were feelingparticularly bullish. Of the 14 countries present with projects, Germany wasrepresented with eight of the 40 projects - after France and Spain - and was alsoa co-production partner on the Danish studio A.Film's The Ugly Duckling& Me.Moreover, in ...
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Sarajevo film festival announces opening film
Kod Amidze Idriza, the new feature by award-winningBosnian director Pjer Zalica (Fuse), is set to be the opening film atthe 10th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival (August 20-28).The Euros 1.3m drama, which was scripted by Namik Kabil andstars Senad Basic and Semka Sokolovic, began shooting in Bosnia-Herzegovina onApril 5 ...
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Roads To Koktebel wins Best Film Award at goEast Festival
Russian directing duo Boris Chlebnikov and AlexeiPopogrebsky's Roads To Koktebel picked up the Euros 10,000 Best FilmAward at this year's goEast Festival of Central and East European Film whichclosed with an awards ceremony in Wiesbaden on Tuesday night (April 28).The international jury chose this film, which has also beenselected by ...
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Bavaria Film takes Int'l sales on new omnibus film
Bavaria Film International will handle international sales on theomnibus film Generation by six Central and Eastern European filmmakers,which goes into production next month.The film, which was initiated by the 'relation' EastEuropean cultural programme of Germany's Kulturstiftung des Bundes, will seesix 12-18-minute shorts being made by Stefan Arsenijevic (Serbia &Montenegro), Nadejda ...
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MEDIA programme extended, budget increased
The official greenlight has now been given for the extensionof the European Union's MEDIA Programme until the end of 2006.In accordance with the wishes of the European Parliament andthe European Commission, the budget for training measures will be increased toEuros 59.4m and for MEDIA Plus (development, distribution, promotion) to Euros453.6m.The ...
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Internationalmedia negotiates $18m credit line
Internationalmediahas negotiated a credit line of up to $18m over a 12 month period with aprivate US investor group to reduce its bank liabilities and finance pre-production for upcoming film projects,among other things.This latest move was revealed on the publication ofInternationalmedia's 2003 figures which saw its performance affected"disproportionately" by the ...
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GERMANY 27 April
Kill Bill Vol. 2 shot into the German box-office charts in poleposition with a screen average of $5,582 from each of its 515 screens to grossover $2.8m in its first weekend. It was one of four BVI releases in the top 6,including Vol. 1 of Kill Bill - now in ...
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Constantin financial chief to leave after five years
Constantin Film's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Dr DanielWiest is to leave the German producer-distributor at the end of next monthafter five years with the company.Constantin's Chairman of theSupervisory Board Bernd Eichinger noted that Wiest had 'played a prominentrole in helping to make Constantin Film one of the most successful German ...
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Costa-Gavras, Haneke features win Eurimages funding
New feature film projects by Michael Haneke, ConstantinCosta-Gavras, Robert Glinski and Pal Sletaune are among nine Europeanco-productions which were awarded Euro 3.3m by the pan-European co-productionfund Eurimages in its latest round of funding.The largest amounts - Euro 600,000 each - went to Haneke's Cache and Pasquale Scimeca's Italian-Spanishco-productionPassione Di Giosue ...
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Head-On favourite for German Film Awards
Fatih Akin's Golden Bear-winner Head-On is the favourite for this year's German Film Awards after it received four nominations in the categories for best film, direction, actor and leading actress.Three nominations each also went to Sönke Wortmann's The Miracle Of Bern, Leander Haussmann's Berlin Blues and Christian Petzold's Wolfsburg.The fact ...
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GERMANY 20 April
While BVI's Brother Bear held on to the top spot for the fifth week in a row based on admissions, it was a different matter as far as box-office takings were concerned. The animation feature was pushed down to second position by the new entry of UIP's The Dawn Of ...
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Fragile's Click taps into German funding
UK-Germanco-production Click,set to star Rhys Ifans, Bill Nighy, Thandie Newton, Dominic West and JuliaStiles, is one of four international co-productions to share Euros 3m fundingfrom Dusseldorf-based Filmstiftung NRW.The romantic comedy about a bride falling in love withanother woman is the directorial debut of Ol Parker and is a co-production withthe ...
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Intertainment shares surge following lawsuit settlement
Shares in beleaguered German media concern Intertainment soared by up to 14% yesterday (April 19) after it reached a settlement with Franchise Pictures' former president and COO Andrew Stevens on the eve of its lawsuit against Franchise and other parties.A statement issued by Intertainment indicated that the settlement had included ...
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Berlinale winners embark on host of projects
Director Fatih Akin and actor Birol Uenel have had a busy March. After winning the Golden Bear at this year's Berlinale for Head-On (Gegen Die Wand) the film's opening dates and the respective promotional tours in Germany and Turkey were brought forward to mid-March. But both of them have still ...
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Munich festival to honour Kaurismaki brothers
Filmmaker brothers Aki and Mika Kaurismäki are to be the subjects of this year's Retrospective at the Munich Film Festival (June 26 - July 3).Both directors are expected to accompany the retrospective in person.This year's festival, which is the first under the new management of director Andreas Stroehl, will see ...
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Eight projects vie for co-production market
Projects by eight South-East European filmmakers are in the running to be pitched at the second CineLink co-production market to be held during the Sarajevo Film Festival in August in collaboration with Rotterdam's CineMart.The projects selected by the CineLink regional jury are:Albanian Tales - dir: Saimir Bajo (Albania)Gravity - dir: ...
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Kinowelt's Koelmel faces possible jail term
Kinowelt's Michael Koelmel will appear before Munich's District Court from today (Wednesday) to answer claims of embezzlement, delaying the filing of insolvency and bankruptcy.According to German press reports, the indictment against the media manager runs to 343 pages and the trial documents already fill some 100 files. The trial is ...
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German box office down in first quarter 2004
Germany's box office saw a fall in admissions and revenuesfor the first quarter of 2004, according to figures collated by EDI Nielsen.Admissions weredown 6.4% from last year's 37.58m to 35.18m in the first three months, whilerevenues slipped 8.6% from Euro 225.68m to Euro 206.27m.Apart from the final part ofthe Lord ...