All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 184
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Beta Cinema takes on sales for X-Filme trio
Ahead of this year's MIFED film market, Germany's Beta Cinema has picked up the international rights to three films from Berlin production powerhouse X-Filme creative pool.The films are: Hendrik Handloegten's Learning To Lie (Liegen Lernen), Achim von Borries' Love In Thoughts (Was Nuetzt Die Liebe In Gedanken) and Mennan Yapo's ...
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Beta Cinema takes Mifed sales duties for X-Filme trio
Ahead of this year's MIFED film market, Germany's Beta Cinema has picked up the international rights to three films from Berlin production powerhouse X-Filme creative pool.The films are: Hendrik Handloegten's Learning To Lie (Liegen Lernen), Achim von Borries' Love In Thoughts (Was Nuetzt Die Liebe In Gedanken) and Mennan Yapo's ...
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Internationalmedia posts record revenues
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines has helped Internationalmedia (IM) - parent company of Intermedia - generate third quarter revenues of between Euros 151-156m - a quarterly record for the company. The quarterly sales largely resulted from minimum guarantees for Terminator 3, which has already topped $427m at the worldwide ...
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Brown Bunny bites back with Vienna victory
After attracting widespread disdain from international critics on its world premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny has now picked up the FIPRESCI Prize at this year's Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival in a re-edited version. Festival director Hans Hurch said the FIPRESCI jury's ...
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Esposito's Coeur wins German distribution backing
Arsenal Filmverleih has been awarded the Euros 20,000 MFG/Unifrance Distribution Prize at Tuebingen's French Film Days for Marc Esposito's Le Coeur Des Hommes for release in Germany next March.In addition, a Special Mention went to Lucas Belvaux's film trilogy of Apres La Vie, Cavale and Un Couple Epatant which will ...
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German festivals attack NRW spending cuts
Over a dozen film festivals and workshops in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have joined forces to attack the NRW regional government for proposed spending cuts which would see its budget for film cultural activities slashed by around 50% by 2005.The protesting festivals include the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Cologne's Feminale, ...
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Rival festival emerges to challenge Austria's Diagonale
Austrian filmmakers including Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl and Barbara Albert have thrown their weight behind plans to hold a three-day alternative festival event ahead of next year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema (March 13-21, 2004) in Graz.The move to launch a new festival is a response to Secretary of ...
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FIPRESCI to award prize at Geneva's Cinema Tout Ecran
The international critics federation FIPRESCI will award a prize for the first time this year at Geneva's Cinema Tout Ecran's Festival (November 3-9).The festival's International Competition of 13 films from 12 countries will include world premieres of Pu Sheng's The Pure Land (Jing Tu) and Emmanuel Bourdieu's Cadets De Gascogne ...
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Universal taps into Hannover Leasing fund
Hannover Leasing, financier of two parts of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, is set to board The Bourne Supremacy, Universal Studios' sequel to its box-office success The Bourne Identity.Backing for the film is earmarked to come from Hannover's new media fund, Montranus Beteiligungs GmbH & Co Verwaltungs KG, worth ...
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Spacey's Beyond The Sea wins German backing
Kevin Spacey's Bobby Darin biopic Beyond The Sea is among the projects which have received a total Euro 3.3m production support from Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg in its latest round of funding.The $22m drama, which has also received backing from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and is being co-produced by Jan ...
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German film fund changes under fire
Germany's Federal Finance Ministry (BMF) has come under fire from fund initiators and media lawyers for the recent additions to its Media Ruling requiring all decisions on a private film fund's activities to be taken exclusively by a board elected from the investors (ScreenDaily.com, August 2003).In a discussion organised by ...
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New theatrical distributor launches in Germany
Leading German independent producers Egoli Tossell Film and Wueste Film have joined forces with the Berlin-based exhibitor timebandits Medien to launch a new theatrical distributor - timebandits films.The distributor will have its headquarters in Potsdam. Timebandits Medien's co-owner Burkhard Voiges will serve as head of distribution.The initial line-up of films ...
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Vollmar's My Parents wins Hof prize
Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy student Neele Leana Vollmar was awarded this year's Kodak Eastman Support Award for her short My Parents (Meine Eltern) at this year's Hof International Film Festival (October 22-26).Vollmar joins an illustrious list of previous Kodak Eastman prize-winners such as Oscar winner Caroline Link (Nowhere In Africa), Tom ...
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Top East Euro producers to pitch projects at Cottbus
Fourteen projects will be pitched to potential production partners during this year's two-day Connecting Cottbus co-development forum between November 4-5.They include new feature films from: Slovenia's Emotionfilm, producer of Damjan Kozole Spare Parts; the Czech Republic's Negativ, producer of Petr Zelenka's Year Of The Dog; and Slovakia's ALEF Film&Media Group, ...
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Saban 'bullish' about German market
The expectations were high when it was revealed that Haim Saban was to give the keynote speech at the opening of this year's Munich Media Days on Oct 22. Would he spill the beans on the future strategy for ProSiebenSat.1 Media'As it was, he neatly manoeuvred himself out of revealing ...
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Berlinale reveals co-production market details
Further details of the first Berlinale Co-Production Market (BCM), which will be held during next year's festival from Feb 8-9, emerged this week.Producers have until Dec 12 to submit feature film projects for consideration for the market, which will be held at the Talent Campus venue Haus der Kulturen der ...
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Germany mulls plans to boost film exports
Germany's State Minister for Culture Christina Weiss has proposed increasing the German Export Union's budget from Euros 3.5m to Euros 5.8m and revamping it as central service agency to promote German films abroad.The new agency would be called German Films - Service and Marketing and would be part of a ...
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New European Market being created for January 2005
As if there weren't already enough international film and television markets, yet another new event has been created to entice programme acquisition executives away from their offices with news of the European Programmes Market (EPM) in France's Deauville from January 28-30, 2005.Although the event will be running simultaneously with the ...
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Alan Parker issues statement on European cinema
Next week's promotional launch of his new novel has forced the UK Film Council's chairman Sir Alan Parker to decline the invitation to participate in the European Film Summit at the Munich Media Days on October 22, but he has nevertheless taken the time to issue a personal view on ...
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German private TV offers to double film funding
Germany's private broadcasters have offered to more than double their annual voluntary contributions to the German Federal Film Board (FFA) to Euros 12m over the next five years until 2008.Juergen Doetz, president of the commercial television interest group VPRT, indicated during a public hearing on the revised German Film Law ...