All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 176
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German media fund strikes radical US deal
Producers Eberhard Junkersdorf and Dietmar Guntsche's private German media fund Neue Bioskop Germany (NBG) has teamed up with US producer @radical.media.Junkersdorf said that the co-operation with production and commercials outfit @radical.media, a producer of Oscar nominated documentary The Fog Of War, would "immediately give us a partner at our side ...
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Berlinale co-production market opens for business
The first edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market opened for business with around 200 participants at the Talent Campus venue of the House of World Cultures.32 projects, including new features by Daniel Burman, Alexander Sokurov, Robert Glinski, Susanne Bier, Goran Paskaljevic and Pang Ho Cheung, were selected from 230 entries ...
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Kinowelt sales slate swelled by Playa, Verhoeven doc
Kinowelt International has picked up Felix Moeller's documentary The Verhoevens and Peter Lichtefeld's new feature Playa Del Futuro for international distribution.Stelios Ziannis, head of international sales at Kinowelt International, plans to begin presales on Lichtefeld's film which was shooting in Cologne before Christmas and will be moving production to Andalucia ...
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Solo takes Your Next Life
German distributor Solo-Film has picked up veteran Spanish director Manuel Gutierrez Aragon's latest feature Your Next Life which will have its world premiere in the Berlinale's Official Competition on Feb 9.Meanwhile, Senator Film Verleih has been named as the distributor for Carsten Fiebeler's East-West comedy Kleinruppin Forever. Handled internationally by ...
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Germany's 'ambivalent' cinema year
"An ambivalent cinema year" was how Rolf Baehr, the outgoing board member of the German Federal Film Board (FFA), described 2003 on presenting Germany's official annual box office figures yesterday.While the box-office success of such local films as Good Bye, Lenin!, The Miracle Of Bern and Luther saw German ...
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New German media fund backs its first feature
US director Aaron Allred's thriller/love story Not A Lovestory is the first feature film project to be backed by the Babelsberg-based MPF Beteiligungs GmbH & Co Zweite KG (MPF) media fund.The production by Wanowski Brothers Filmproduktion and Doris Kirch's Blue Angel Entertainment Film Productions in co-production with EuroArts Medien and ...
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German media funds raise Euros 1.7bn
German media funds raised Euros 1.76 bn equity from private individuals in 2003, according to a survey of 40 initiators by fund specialist Stefan Loipfinger.Michael Oehme, board member of the media funds' interest group Verband Deutscher Medienfonds (VDM), told ScreenDaily.com that these figures showed that the media funds had stabilised ...
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Japanese 2003 box office lifted by Shakedown effect
Bayside Shakedown 2, Katsuyuki Motohiro's comic thriller about feuding cops in Tokyo's trendy bayside district, topped the Japanese box office in 2003, according to figures from the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren).BS2 grossed $163.7m (Y17.35bn) following its July 2003 release -- a record for a Japanese live-action film.The ...
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Muxmauschenstill wins Max Ophuls Prize
Marcus Mittermeier's feature debut Muxmauschenstill, which will be screening in the Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino, was the big winner at this year's 25th jubilee edition of the Max Ophuls Prize Film Festival (26 January - 1 February, 2004) for newcomer German-language cinema in Saarbrücken.The black comedy by Berlin-based Schiwago Filmproduktion ...
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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 ...