All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 184
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Germany funds new projects from award winning directors
New projects by Christian Petzold and Iain Dilthey are the among new features awarded a total of Euros 1.48m by State Minister for Culture and Media Christina Weiss in her ministry's latest round of film funding.Petzold, who received the top German Film Award for The State I Am In two ...
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Germany rides DVD boom
Germany's home entertainment market has posted record results for the first nine months of 2003 thanks to the ever increasing popularity of the DVD.New figures published by the trade association BVV (Bundesverbandes audiovisuelle Medien) show overall turnover for the sector grew year-to-year by 10.4% from Euros 888.5m to Euros 981m.This ...
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Highlight figures paint mixed picture of Constantin takeover
Highlight Communications' takeover of Germany's Constantin Film has had mixed results, according to the Swiss media concern's nine-month figures.On the one hand, profits dropped. Highlight reported a 41% contraction in operating profit to $11.3m (CHF 14.7m) due to the net loss contributed by Constantin. Revenues, however grew. Following the takeover ...
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Fresh blow for Graz's Diagonale festival
The future of Graz's Diagonale festival under the new management of Miroljub Vuckovic and Tillmann Fuchs has been dealt another blow with the news that Graz's city council has decided to also provide funding for the rival event being planned by the filmmaking community (ScreenDaily.com, 29 Oct).According to the Austrian ...
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Rebic's Donau to open Mannheim-Heidelberg
Goran Rebic's 'river movie' Donau, Dunaj, Duna, Dunav, Dunarea will open this year's Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (Nov 20-29).The festival's 23-title International Competition includes the Oscar entries from Uruguay (El Viaje Hacia El Mar by Guillermo Casanova) and Luxembourg (J'ai Toujours Voulu Etre Une Sanite by Genevieve Mersch). Over a ...
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Matrix Revolutions may have held on to the top spot for a second weekend, but the Warner Bros release saw admissions slide by 60% compared to the opening four days and the chances of matching the performances of the first two Matrix films fading into the distance. The German-US co-production ...
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7 Brothers wins Luenen's Kinofest
The documentary 7 Brothers (7 Brueder) by first-time filmmaker Sebastian Winkels picked up this year's Luedia at Luenen's Kinofest for German films (November 13-16).In addition to the Euros 7,500 cash prize, Winkels will have his film subtitled in English by the German Federal Film Board and receive a prominent Saturday ...
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Local films buck Germany's downward admissions trend
Cinema admissions and box office takings continued their downward trend into the third quarter of 2003, according to figures published by the German Federal Film Board (FFA). While the second quarter had seen a 11.7% drop in admissions over the same period in 2002, this grew to 12.1% in the ...
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German fund commits to two new projects
The production fund Studio Hamburg WorldWide Pictures (WWP) has boarded another two projects - the family film Chestnut: Hero Of Central Park and the fantasy adventure Dungeons & Dragons: The Sequel - as part of a slate of up to seven English language features with budgets between $5m-$20m.Chestnut, which is ...
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75% more entries for 2nd Berlinale Talent Campus
The Berlinale Talent Campus has received 75% more applications for next year's event with 3,500 entries coming from 101 countries, compared to 2,000 from 70 countries for the first edition last February.Talent Campus project manager Christine Dorn told ScreenDaily.com that applications had come from countries like Mali, Azerbaijan, Syria, Senegal ...
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Winterbottom, Chereau, Kaurismaki to speak at EFA conference
Directors Michael Winterbottom, Patrice Chereau and Mika Kaurismaki and Isabelle Coixet as well as producer Nik Powell - in his new incarnation as the UK's National Film & Television School chief - are among the speakers recruited by the European Film Academy (EFA) for its conference "Let's Talk About Content!" ...
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68 projects chosen for Mannheim co-production meetings
New features by Ineke Smits (The Aviatrix Of Kazbek), Nicholas Kendall (The Singing House), Gyorgy Palfi (Taxidermia), Pablo Trapero (Rolling Family), Damjan Kozole (The Dark Side Of Earth) and Joan Chen (The Concubine) are among 68 projects from 27 countries being pitched at the 7th edition of the Mannheim Co-Production ...
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German blockbuster opens London festival of German cinema
Germany's current blockbuster The Miracle Of Bern, which has grossed over $ 14.5m in its first four weeks of release in German cinemas, will open this year's Festival of German Cinema in London on November 27 with director Soenke Wortmann and lead actors Peter Lohmeyer and Louis Klamroth (who are ...
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Constantin to launch home entertainment label
As part of a closer working collaboration with Highlight Communications, Constantin Film is to launch its own home entertainment label "Constantin Film" from January 1, 2004, taking over responsibility for Highlight's activities in rights acquisition and theatrical distribution in the future.While the agreement for the new video label will see ...
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As to be expected, the final part of the Matrix trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions (Warner) wrestled the top spot away from Soenke Wortmann's The Miracle Of Bern which had reigned on high for the last three weeks. The latest Matrix instalment's 1.1m admissions (including 230,000 from the additional Wednesday screenings) ...
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Russian films clean up at Cottbus festival
Russian cinema is well and truly back on the international scene after becoming the big winner at this year's Festival of East European Cinema in Cottbus (November 4-8) by picking up nine of the festival's 12 awards presented at a gala ceremony on Saturday evening (Nov 8).Lidija Bobrowa's Granny (Babusja) ...
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Euro producers club to hold co-production forum
The European Film Awards weekend will kick off this year with the European Producers Club's (EPC) Berlin Co-Production Forum on December 5 (Friday) which will open with a panel discussion open to the public, focusing on producing in or with Germany and the future Film Funding Law (FFG).Those wanting to ...
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Increased film funding ahead for Slovenia, Bulgaria
Filmmakers in Slovenia and Bulgaria could benefit from increased funding for film and television production in the future according to new audiovisual legislation in preparation.Speaking at this year's Connecting Cottbus co-development market at the Cottbus Film Festival, Tanika Sajatovic, Head of Promotion and Sales at the Slovenian Film Fund, said ...
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MDC takes on Schultze sales
Berlin-based sales agent MDC International has picked up international distribution for Michael Schorr's feature debut Schultze Gets The Blues, which won the Special Director's Award at this year's Venice Film Festival.The tragicomedy produced by Filmkombinat Nordost has already secured theatrical distribution in the USA (Paramount Classics), UK (Paramount), Germany and ...
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TV chief quits Germany's ProSiebenSat.1
Dr. Ludwig Bauer, ProSiebenSat.1 Media's board member with responsibility for television, has left the company "due to differing views on the future strategic direction of the company".Bauer, who had worked at the ProSiebenSat.1 Group since 1992 in various posts including head of programmes and managing director at Kabel 1, was ...