All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 185
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Austrian Film Institute backs five co-productions
Five international co-productions are among the projects awarded over Euros 2m in production support from the Austrian Film Institute (OFI) in its latest round of funding.Production backing was allocated to Jessica Hausner's thriller Hotel, to be co-produced by Coop99 Filmproduktion with Germany's Essential Filmproduktion; Wolfram Paulus's coming of age tale ...
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Suicide bombers and von Trier edge on to Razor slate
Former Senator Film executives Gerhard Meixner and Roman Paul have unveiled the production slate of their Berlin-based production outfit Razor Film with a two-track strategy - serving as the German partner on international co-productions and producing features by up-and-coming local talent.Razor's first international co-production will be Palestinian-born Hany Abu-Assad's drama ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! star in demand
Good Bye, Lenin! star Daniel Bruehl has been reunited with director Hans Weingartner on his new feature Jan Jule Peter and has joined the cast of actor Charles Dance's directorial debut Ladies In Lavender which is set to roll in September.Bruehl and Weingartner both came to prominence last year through ...
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Sarajevo fest lines up world premieres
No Man's Land lead actor Branko Duric's directorial debut Sour Cream And Marmalade and Srdan Vuletic's Summer In The Golden Valley are among four world premieres confirmed for the Regional Programme of the forthcoming Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) (August 15-23).Duric's film is described as being "about a couple from the ...
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HVE, Constantin ready German teen comedy zombie flic
After scoring box office success with comedies aimed at the youth market such as the Erkan & Stefan franchise and Feuer, Eis Und Dosenbier, Munich production house Hofmann & Voges Entertainment (HVE) is now turning its attention to producing the first German teen zombie comedy Die Nacht Der Lebenden Loser ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! tops 6m German admissions
After 23 weeks on release in Germany, Wolfgang Becker's tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin! has now passed the 6m admissions mark and clocked up over Euros 36m in box office takings.The X Filme creative pool production now qualifies for a Golden Screen with star Award, sponsored by the German exhibitors association ...
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At least 12 international buyers target Locarno for the first time
US distributors Zeitgeist and Kino International, Sweden's Nonstop Entertainment, Brazil's Imovision, Spain's Lolafilms and Poland's Best Film are among a raft of international buyers attending the Locarno International Film Festival for the first time this year.Nadia Dresti of the festival's Industry Office told Screen Daily that acquisition executives from Japan's ...
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Documentaries dominate Swiss showcase at Locarno
Documentaries are particularly strong in this year's "Appellations Suisse" showcase of new Swiss cinema to be presented at the forthcoming Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16).Of the ten films screening in the showcase which is primarily aimed at international buyers and festival programmers, seven are documentaries, including Stefan Haupt's local ...
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Locarno unveils full competition line-up
The concept of "passage" - historical, geographical and personal - is the common theme running through the International Competition line-up for the Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16), according to festival organisers.This year, 19 of the 20 competition films are world premieres - and come from 17 different countries. The ...
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Locarno prepares to showcase global talent
Films by Korea's Kim Ki-Duk, Argentina's Martin Rejtman, Germany's Soenke Wortmann, Austria's Barbara Albert and Switzerland's Dominique de Rivaz Knecht will be unveiled on July 24 as world premieres at the forthcoming Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16).The official Locarno competition line-up will be fully unveiled on July 24 at ...
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Pictorion Das Werk unveils new management structure
Pictorion Das Werk - formerly Das Werk - has unveiled its new management structure and the opening of an additional post house in Cologne.The move comes three months after Helmut Breuer's Media Select took over the insolvent Das Werk postproduction group' facilities in Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich and Frankfurt-based ...
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Filmstiftung NRW backs four international co-productions
Four international co-productions - by the UK's Christopher Smith, Argentinian Pablo Trapero, Palestinian Hany Abu-Assad and German newcomer Till Franzen - are among seven feature projects receiving a total of Euros 2.5m production support from Filmstiftung NRW in its latest round of funding. Euros 500,000 was allocated to Smith's fantastic ...
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Chabrol thriller backed by Bavarian fund
Feature projects by veteran French director Claude Chabrol, newcomer director Marco Kreuzpaintner and Mostly Martha's Sandra Nettelbeck are among those receiving a total Euros 1.35m backing from Bavaria's regional public fund FFF Bayern.Over Euros 600,000 were awarded to Kreuzpaintner's coming of age tale Sommersturm, which will be produced by the ...
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Germany's Splendid to divest its 80% holding in US subsidiary
Germany's Splendid Medien plans to divest itself of its 80% interest in the US subsidiary Splendid Pictures Holdings, Inc. (SPH), subject to approval at the annual general meeting.In statement, the group explained that the step was being taken "due to the currently difficult market environment surrounding the financing of US-American ...
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VCL Film + Medien reduces 2003 forecast
German home entertainment specialist/license trader VCL Film + Medien has reduced its sales forecast for the present fiscal year from the previously announced Euros 25m-30m to Euros 18m.In a statement, the company explained that this has been "due to the stagnating market development within the German home entertainment segment since ...
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Saban resurfaces in KirchMedia bidding
It could be the comeback of the year. Six weeks after making an eleventh hour exit from the bidding for the insolvent KirchMedia, US media tycoon Haim Saban could be back in the picture.According to German press reports this weekend, Saban has rallied the support of a group of financial ...
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Little Polar Bear sequel among films to get German funding
The sequel to the 2001 hit animation feature Der Kleine Eisbaer (The Little Polar Bear) and new films by Grill Point's Andreas Dresen, Mostly Martha's Sandra Nettelbeck and Sonnenallee's Leander Hausmann are among the projects receiving a total of Euros 3.2m from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) in its ...
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Maurice Jarre to receive award at Flanders film festival
Veteran French composer Maurice Jarre will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's World Soundtrack Awards during the Flanders International Film Festival (FIFF) in Ghent (October 7-18 2003).The composer of scores for such films as Doctor Zhivago, Dead Poets Society and Ghost will be presented the award "for his ...
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German indies win distribution funding
Theatrical distributors X Verleih, Salzgeber & Co Medien and Alamode Film have been awarded prizes worth Euros 100,000 each to invest in distribution campaigns for German and other European films.Each of the companies was awarded the special distributor prize by German culture minister Christina Weiss in recognition of "their special ...
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Franchise vs Intertainment court battle delayed
The lawsuit between German license trader Intertainment and US producer Franchise Pictures may be delayed for another year, after the planned August 5 court case between the two companies was unexpectedly postponed by a Los Angeles judge.Federal District Court judge Alicemarie H. Stotler did not give any reasons for the ...