All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 189
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New German production outfit targets Czech talent
Pandora Filmproduktion's Karl Baumgartner has launched a new production outpost, Pallas Film, in the east German town of Halle to focus on projects with filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe.One of Pallas Film's first projects will be a feature film entitled Happiness by Czech director Bohdan Slama whose quirky Wild ...
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CineMedia shares soar as Tele Muenchen ups stake
CineMedia Film's shares soared by over 29% on Tuesday from 93 cents to Euros 1.20 on the news that the Tele Muenchen Group (TMG) has reached agreement with Amsterdam-based German Equity Partners BV (GEP) to acquire all of its 905,000 shares.This transaction, which is expected to be completed in the ...
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Arndt to produce Roehler's Agnes
X-Filme creative pool's Stefan Arndt, named European Producer of the Year at last month's Cinema Expo in Amsterdam, wasn't planning to produce any features this year after the demanding production history of Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin!But Arndt was tempted back into the producer's chair by Oskar Roehler's next feature ...
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OpenPictures and Intertainment seal strategic partnership
Intertainment and Munich-based development, production and distribution company OpenPictures have concluded a strategic partnership which includes a co-operation on jointly financing and marketing international feature films with US major studios and legal financing against Franchise Pictures and other parties involved in a $100m litigation.In a statement, Intertainment said "OpenPictures concurs ...
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German distributors pay back subsidies
Thanks to the commercial success of such releases as the Oscar-winning Nowhere In Africa, scifi horror pic Resident Evil and 2002's top local film Bibi Blocksberg, producer-distributor Constantin Film has been able to pay back more than Euros 1.5m in production and distribution subsidies to the Bavarian public fund FFF ...
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Germany's Helkon Media sells remaining assets
German media group Helkon Media is now practically nothing more than a name after the insolvency administrator Axel W. Bierbach sold the bulk of the film library to the Hamburg-based investment company Aurum Beteiligungs- und Verwaltungs GmbH. The asset deal was greenlit by Helkon's creditor banks and the creditors ...
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Eurimages backs 10 co-productions
New features by Thomas Vinterberg (Dear Wendy), Auli Mantila (Ystavani Henry) and Robinson Savary (Bye-Bye Blackbird) are among ten projects supported with a total of Euros 3.8m by the pan-European co-production fund Eurimages in its latest round of funding decided at a committee meeting in Riga.The complete list of projects ...
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Stuttgart film festival reveals competition line-up
Paula van der Oest's Zus & Zo, the opening film of this year's Filmfest Stuttgart Ludwigsburg (July 10-15, 2003), Lukas Moodysson's Lilya 4-ever, Karim Dridi's Rage and Sandra Goldbacher's Me Without You are among 14 films from 14 European countries competing for around Euros 70,000 in prize money.The international jury ...
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High Hopes Award goes to French producing duo
French producers Jean-Philippe Andraca and Christian Berard of Paris-based Les Films A4 have received the Euros 25,000 High Hopes Award, donated by the German collection society GWFF, for their production of Robert Kechichian's feature debut Aram, which was co-produced with StudioCanal and BAC Films.In its decision, the jury of distribution ...
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Guild of German arthouse cinemas fete Good Bye, Lenin!
Wolfgang Becker's runaway hit Good Bye, Lenin! won the Gold Award in the Best German Film category of the Guild of German Arthouse Cinema Awards at a ceremony in Marburg's Cineplex cinema. Fatih Akin's family drama Solino picked up Silver .In the Best Foreign Film category, the Guild ...
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New German distributor to release Don's Plum
RD Robb and John Schindler's Don's Plum, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, will now be released in Germany by new distributor Favorit Film.Established in the Bavarian town of Wasserburg by Bernhard Troestl and Esther Jakub, Favorit Film has also picked up Andrea and Antonio Frazzi's World War 2 drama ...
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Little Studio strikes two-picture deal with director Claridge
US management and production company Little Studio Films has concluded a two-picture directing deal with Munich-based British director Peter Claridge for two of its feature projects - action thriller Terminal Leave and the romantic comedy The Vedova.The Vedova, which is set entirely in Italy and in the style of Michael ...
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Birch Tree Meadow wins Munich's Bernhard Wicki prize
Marceline Loridan-Ivens has been awarded the Euros 25,000 "Bernhard Wicki Film Prize - The Bridge 2003" for her exploration of her own and Germany's past in La Petite Prairie Aux Bouleaux (A Birch Tree Meadow) at a gala ceremony during this week's Munich Film Festival. The film's lead actress Anouk ...
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Vienna International Film Festival courts controversy
The seeds for a potentially controversial Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale, October 17-29) have been sown with the inclusion of two special programmes - one dedicated to US actor-director Vincent Gallo and the second to Austrian filmmaking as a riposte to Austria's Secretary of State for the Arts Franz Morak.The ...
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Hochbetrieb wins FFA Short Tiger award
Hochbetrieb by Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FBW) student Andreas Krein has won this year's Euros 25,000 Short Tiger award sponsored by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) for students at German film schools.The other five nominees - including two fellow FBW students, Sven Martin (Ritterschlag) and Anna Matysik (Post Card), Oliver Held ...
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Strand takes The Child I Never Was for US release
US indie distributor Strand Releasing has picked up Kai S Pieck's feature debut The Child I Never Was (Ein Leben Lang Kurze Hosen Tragen) (pictured) which is being handled internationally by Bavaria Film International.Premiering last year at the Hof Film Days, the film is based on the life of Germany's ...
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Bavaria Film takes int'l sales on Tuschi's feature debut
Bavaria Film International will handle international sales on Cyril Tuschi's feature debut SommerHundeSoehne which is set to shoot on location in Spain and Morocco this October. The low-budget production between Tuschi's Lala Films! and Nicholas Conradt's Friends Production has received backing from Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg and broadcaster ARTE and has already ...
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German producers form Heimatfilm production company
Stefan Telegty and Helmut Hartl of Munich-based commercials production house Embassy of Dreams have joined forces with Cologne producer Bettina Brokemper to establish the film and TV production outfit Heimatfilm to develop and produce features by new German directors and European co-productions as well as act a service producer in ...
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Three films nominated for Berlin Today award
2002 Student Academy Award winner Grace Lee (Barrier Device) is among four filmmakers - and three films, nominated from over 110 entries from all over the world to have the chance to make a short film about the German capital for the Berlin Today Award.While Korean-American Lee's project will ...
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German fund to invest in Fox marketing campaigns
German fund initiator Ideenkapital is launching its Mediastream IV fund to raise Euros232m from private individuals for investing in the marketing costs of three releases by 20th Century Fox.The three features are the sci-fi action film I, Robot starring Will Smith, which is scheduled to open in the US on ...