All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 174
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Monster launch for new German theatrical player
Leading German DVD distributor e-m-s new media is to launch its own in-house theatrical distribution arm 3L Filmverleih to release the Oscar-nominated Monster for which it holds the German language rights.The new outfit is expected to handle between five and eight releases each year, with Monster being the first 3L ...
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Distant Lights wins German critics prize
Hans-Christian Schmid's Berlinale 2003 competition entry Distant Lights (Lichter) was the big winner at this year's German Film Critics Awards, winning the prizes in the categories of Best Feature Film, Best Actor and Best Editing.The Awards were presented during a gala ceremony at the Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival in ...
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Kinowelt expands local production slate
Kinowelt Filmproduktion has added another three local titles - Playa Del Futuro, Antikoerper and Max & Moritz - to its production line-up.The company has previously made commitments to co-produce an adaptation of Wladimir Kaminer's Russendisko with Christoph Meyer-Wiel's CMW Films and Joachim von Vietinghoff's Von Viettinghoff Filmproduktion (see ScreenDaily.com, October ...
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Solanas doc set to open Fribourg festival
Veteran Argentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas, who will receive an Honorary Golden Bear at next month's Berlinale, will be presenting his new documentary La Memoria Del Saqueo as the opening film for this year's Fribourg International Film Festival (March 21-28).According to the festival organisers, Solanas' film will be complemented by a ...
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Ex-Deutsche Columbia chief joins Falcom Media
Producer Andrea Willson has been recruited by the Swiss rights trader/distributor Falcom Media Group to manage the company's expansion into German language production as a "second strategic business unit" alongside the core business of rights trading.Berlin-based Willson, who ceased being the managing director of Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion (DCPF) when ...
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Julia Roberts' lasting appeal in Germany was underscored by its No. 1 position on the opening weekend for Columbia TriStar's Mona Lisa Smile with Euros 2.8m from 600 screens, while the Eddie Murphy-starrer The Haunted Mansion topped the Euros 2m mark at No. 3.Lost In Translation may have slipped down ...
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Speck speaks up for 'explosive' Panorama programme
The Berlinale's Panorama, which opens on Feb 5 with Eytan Fox's Walk On Water, has "a particularly bold, raw and energetic programme this year", according to section head Wieland Speck.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com, Speck cited "such explosive films as Abdellatif Kechiche's L'Esquive which really touches one through its unbelievable energy to ...
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Media Luna picks up Panorama pair
Media Luna Entertainment has picked up international sales rights for Hilmar Oddsson's Cold Light and Russian directorial duo Olga Stolpovskaya and Dmitry Troitsky's You I Love (Ya Lyublu Tebya) which are both screening in Berlin's Panorama section.Oddsson's contemporary drama, which was the opening film at Gothenburg Film Festival, will show ...
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Traechslin launches new Swiss distribution company
A new Swiss distribution company - Basle based Cineworx - has been launched by Pascal Traechslin, the head of distribution at Fama Film for the past six years.Traechslin told ScreenDaily.com on the eve of Rotterdam's CineMart at the weekend that he has set up Cineworx with partners Waltraud Wesselmann (finance) ...
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Swiss tune in to Jagged Harmonies
Dominique de Rivaz's Jagged Harmonies - Bach vs Frederick II (Mein Name Ist Bach) has won the top award at the Swiss Film Prize 2004.Sold internationally by Bavaria Film International, de Rivaz's feature debut won in the best film category. It had its world premiere at last August's Locarno International ...
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Thirty projects set for debut Talent Project Market at Berlin
Feature films from 23 countries as far flung as the Philippines, Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Iceland, Ukraine and Hong Kong are among the 30 projects selected for the first Talent Project Market at next month's Berlinale Talent Campus.The Talent Projects were picked from 256 entries by an international jury comprising the Berlinale ...
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Berlinale unveils Forum of New Cinema
More than half of the programme of this year's International Forum of New Cinema are world premieres, and particular attention is being paid to little-known filmmaking countries like South Africa and Thailand.As the Berlinale is casting a spotlight on South Africa this year, the Forum will be featuring a series ...
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32 projects head for Berlinale co-production market
New projects by Daniel Burman (Raquel Liberman), Alexander Sokurov (The Sun), Robert Glinski (Unkenrufe), Goran Paskaljevic (Lost In The Stars), Susanne Bier (Simon) and Pang Ho Cheung (Waiting For Nike) are among 32 projects chosen from 230 entries to be presented in the Berlinale's first Co-Production Market.The first edition Market ...
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Kosslick mixes it up with wide ranging selection
The 26 films in Berlinale chief Dieter Kosslick's Competition line-up are, he acknowledges, "quite a different mix".But, he says, political issues run like a central theme through many of the Competition line-up films - but love, relationships, passion and unrequited love are also topics.Kosslick also argues that the Competition "has ...
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German exhibitors call on court to examine Film Law
Germany's exhibitors' association HDF decided at an extraordinary AGM on Jan 15 to call on the Federal Constitutional Court to examine whether the new Film Funding Law (FFG) is in accordance with the German Constitution.The exhibitors are particularly unhappy about the different ways in which the ticket levy was decided ...
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Distant Lights takes top Bavarian film honour
The producers of last year's Berlinale competition film Distant Lights by Hans-Christian Schmid took home the top honour at this year's Bavarian Film AwardsThe jury presented the Euros 200,000 Producers Award to Jakob Claussen, Thomas Woebke and Uli Putz of Claussen + Woebke Filmproduktion, acknowledging "the independent stand of the ...
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Vinterberg, Almodovar win Euro i2i backing
New features by Thomas Vinterberg, Pedro Almodovar, the Brothers Quay, Jonathan English and Charles Dance are among 59 European film and TV projects supported with over Euros 2.3m by the European Commission's i2i Audiovisual scheme.The new scheme was launched last July to help production companies access external funding from banks. ...
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Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest unveils line-ups
The Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest sidebar has confirmed the lineups of films for its traditional competition section and 14plus, the new competition for youth films (see ScreenDaily.com, Nov 2003).Twelve feature length films, including Inke Houtmann's Polleke, Richard Berry's Moi, Cesar 10 Ans 1/2 1M 39 and Paul Morrison's Wondrous Oblivion, have been ...
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Spacey's Sea wins Babelsberg backing
Kevin Spacey's Bobby Darin biopic Beyond The Sea has become the first film production to benefit from the State of Brandenburg's guarantee scheme.With the state-backed guarantee as a security, Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures (SBMP) will put up Euros 4.8m towards the film's $ 20m-plus production costs through a loan from ...