All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 186
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Kieft & Kieft acts to fend off insolvency
The shareholders of Germany's leading cinema chain Kieft & Kieft have undertaken a Euros 9m cash injection to keep the company afloat and continue its programme of restructuring measures.A cost cutting programme has seen 49 jobs go and six regional offices close, according to the German daily newspaper Die Welt. ...
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Fuse named as Bosnian Oscar contender
Pjer Zalica's Silver Leopard-winning Fuse (Gori Vatra) has been selected by the Association of the Film Workers of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a secret vote to compete for a nomination to the Academy Award's Best Foreign Language Film category. Screenings of three Bosnian features - Fuse, Dino Mustafic's Remake and ...
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Cartoon initiative unveils pan-Euro film conference
In the run-up to the European Union's enlargement eastwards, the Brussels-based animation initiative CARTOON has been hired by the European Commission to organise a two-day audiovisual conference in Warsaw from March 19-20, 2004.CARTOON managing director Marc Vandenweyer told ScreenDaily.com that the event will aim to foster a greater exchange of ...
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Animation trio benefit from German funding
Three animation productions including the sequel to the animation box office hit Der Kleine Eisbaer (The Little Polar Bear) are among the projects backed by Filmstiftung NRW with over Euros 4.8m in its latest round of funding.New features by Wim Wenders, Petra Katherina Wagner and Hannes Stoehr have also received ...
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Studio Babelsberg looks to local industry
Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures (SBMP) has boarded Torsten Wacker's Superseks, the second German feature the studio has backed this year on top of its high profile international productions.Starring Denis Moschitto, Marie Zielcke, Hilmi Soezer, and Martin Glade, the comedy centres on the 23-year-old Elviz who launches the first sex hotline ...
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French animator takes Cartoon D'Or prize
French filmmaker Sandra Desmazieres' first animated film Sans Queue Ni Tete won this year's Cartoon D'Or, which includes Euros 15,000 from the European Union's MEDIA Programme in pre-production aid to begin work on a feature film or TV series project.Desmazieres' six-minute painting on paper film about a woman's nonsensical and ...
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Austrian directors threaten to boycott Diagonale festival
Internationally renowned Austrian filmmakers Michael Haneke (Time Of The Wolf), Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days), Barbara Albert (Boese Zellen) and Ruth Beckermann (Homemade) have added their voices to the Austrian film community's growing chorus of disapproval about the planned re-positioning of next year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema in Graz.Last ...
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Swiss comedy smashes local records
Mike Eschmann's teenage comedy Ready, Steady, Charlie! (Achtung, Fertig, Charlie!) has taken over $731,000 CHF 1m, making it the all-time biggest opener for a Swiss feature film in Switzerland.The film relegated Pirates Of The Caribbean and American Pie 3 to second and third places in the Swiss box office ...
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Regulators probe Intertainment insider trading allegations
The beleaguered German license trader/producer Intertainment has come under suspicion of insider trading, according to German business newspaper Handelsblatt.The newspaper quoted a spokeswoman of the stock exchange watchdog BAFin as saying that it would "look at the case as a matter of routine." The allegations stem from a delay by ...
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Although its week-on-week admission figures dropped by 42%, BVI's Pirates Of The Caribbean held on to the pole position at the German box office for the third week and has already become the third most successful release so far this year. The swashbuckler starring Johnny Depp, and Orlando Bloom had ...
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Bavaria takes on sales for Tradewind pair
Cologne-based production house Tradewind Pictures has entered into a "first look" style agreement with world sales agent Bavaria Film International (BFI).Bavaria has picked up two of Tradewind's current international co-productions - Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Niceland and Peter Timm's Mein Bruder Ist Ein Hund - for international sales.The Euros 2.5m Niceland, ...
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Film20 readies second half of Euro Expansion Conference
Following the extension of the German film20 producer pressure group's membership to the Association of Austrian Film Producers (aafp), the two bodies have prepared two conferences: in Vienna and Berlin, to focus on the economic potential of the film industry following the European Union's enlargement eastwards.The Vienna event between September ...
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Austria unveils co-production market plans
Next year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema (March 13-21, 2004) is to become the latest in a line of international film festivals launching a CineMart-style co-production market and Film Market/Industry Office under the new management of Miroljub Vuckovic and Tillmann Fuchs. Introducing the new concept for the Graz-based festival, ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! named as German Oscar contender
Wolfgang Becker's tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin! has been selected by Germany's nine-person national jury as its candidate for the Foreign Language Oscar category.Since opening in German cinemas in February, the X-Filme creative pool production has attracted over 6.2m admissions, won 10 "Lolas" and prizes at festivals in Berlin, Budapest, and ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! named as German Oscar contender
Wolfgang Becker's tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin! has been selected by Germany's nine-person national jury as its candidate for the Foreign Language Oscar category.Since opening in German cinemas in February, the X-Filme creative pool production has attracted over 6.2m admissions, won 10 "Lolas" and prizes at festivals in Berlin, Budapest, and ...
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Swiss join forces to promote national cinema
Switzerland's Arts Council Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Film Centre and the Swiss Short Film Agency have joined forces to launch Swiss Films to give the Alpine nation's cinema a higher profile at home and abroad.The new promotion agency will start work at offices in Zurich and Geneva from January 1, ...
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Award-winning Bosnian directors ready new English features
Award-winning Bosnian directors Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land) and Pjer Zalica (Fuse) are preparing English-language features as their next projects. Tanovic, who received the Foreign Language Oscar for No Man's Land last year, is preparing the spy love story Ship High In Transit for shooting from December in Morocco with ...
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Wenders back on the road...
Wim Wenders has won back control of Road Movies, the production outfit he sold to the now insolvent German media group Das Werk.Wenders and Peter Schwartzkopff, his partner in a new venture set up last year, Reverse Angle Production, have secured ownership of Road Movies Factory and will rename it ...
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German DVD market booms
Germany's DVD boom continued unabated during the first six months of 2003, spurred on by the lure of new releases such as Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, James Bond;Die Another Day and The Matrix.According to statistics from the country's home entertainment industry body Bundesverband audiovisuelle Medien (BVV), the ...
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Hamburg to give Huppert top award
French actress Isabelle Huppert is to become the latest recipient of the Douglas Sirk Prize during this year's Filmfest Hamburg (Sept 19-26).The Prize, which goes to a personality who has made a special contribution to film culture through their work, will be presented to Huppert by Hamburg's Culture Senator Dana ...