All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 190
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Berlin film festival to launch co-production market
Next year's Berlinale (February 5-15 2004) is to launch a co-production market associated with its second Berlinale Talent Campus.Speaking exclusively to Screendaily, Berlinale chief Dieter Kosslick explained that "we won't attach any conditions to the projects pitched by the young talents whereas certain criteria will have to be fulfilled for ...
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Belgian success heralds local production boom
Flemish filmmaker Tom Barman's feature debut Any Way The Wind Blows has become the strongest opener in Belgium in the last year, clocking up around 14,000 admissions on 12 screens for distributor Cineart since its release on June 18.A combination of good reviews, excellent word-of-mouth and the song Summer's Here ...
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German exhibitors threaten UIP boycott
A group of German exhibitors is threatening to boycott UIP's forthcoming releases of The Hulk (3 July ) and Sinbad (24 July) because of the introduction of a new rental system which sees the percentage cut taken by the US major rising to 55% for the release of Van Helsing ...
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Constantin Film rejects Highlight, Eichinger bid
Highlight Communications and Bernd Eichinger's joint tender offer of Euros4.50 per share for the remaining shares in Constantin Film has been rejected by the German producer-distributor's management board and the majority of its supervisory board as "not appropriate and too low". The joint tender offer by Highlight and Eichinger was ...
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German arthouse cinema nominations announced
The Pianist, Good Bye, Lenin! and Bend It Like Beckham are among the films nominated for the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas' Film Awards.The five films competing in the German Films category are: Doris Doerrie's Naked, Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin!, Thomas Riedelsheimer's documentary Rivers And Tides, Fatih Akin's Solino ...
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Finalists selected for Sarajevo's CineLink market
Vedran Fajkovic's Bosanski Ionac and Namik Kabil's Zadnji Dan are among six projects selected by producers Cedomir Kolar and Behrooz Hashemian and sales agent Philippe Bober to be presented at Sarajevo Film Festival's first CineLink Market from August 20-22.The complete line-up of the six finalists is:Bosanski Ionac - Vedran FajkovicGola ...
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New deputy MD appointed at Columbia TriStar Germany
Gerd Bender, sales director for Columbia TriStar Film in Germany since 1990, has been promoted to deputy managing director, by Martin Bachmann, the new managing director of Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International's (CTFDI) German operation. Bender will also continue in his capacity as sales director. "I have known Gerd since ...
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Cologne conference hands out annual awards
zero film's Martin Hagemann and Thomas Kufus, producers of Max Faerberbock's September and Alexander Sokurov's Father And Son, are the winners of this year's Producers Award at the Cologne Conference.The Casting Award went to casting director Sabine Schroth, whose credits include international productions The Name Of The Rose, Homo Faber ...
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Pandora to produce Nalin's Valley Of Flowers
German production house Pandora Filmproduktion, producer of Indian director Pan Nalin 2002 feature debut Samsara, are to team up again for his next project Valley Of Flowers which is set to go into production in the Himalayas, Tokyo and a Cologne studio from summer 2004.Currently budgeted at around Euros 4m ...
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Premiere secures pay-TV package from Warner Bros
Matrix Reloaded, Good Bye, Lenin! and Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets are among the titles in a multi-year pay TV package deal concluded by Germany's digital pay TV platform Premiere and Warner Bros. International Television (WBIT).The deal, which is an extension of an existing agreement signed last October ...
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Tunisia's Bouzid wins Innsbruck with Arais Al-Tein
Tunisian filmmaker Nouri Bouzid's Poupees D'Argile (Arais Al-Tein) picked up three prizes at this year's Innsbruck International Film Festival (June 18-22) which is dedicated to films from South America, Africa and Asia. The international jury, including Austrian filmmaker Andrea Maria Dusl, Benin's Idrissou Mora Kpai, and Brazil's Paulo Roberto de ...
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80 Days provides boost to regional German economy
Frank Coraci's Around The World In 80 Days is expected to generate an economic 'effect' of 4,000% on the Euros 500,000 production funding granted by the regional Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, with turnover of Euros 20m in the region.The $110m-plus Walden Media production spent eight weeks shooting at the Babelsberg Studios and ...
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UK, French shorts lead Cartoon D'Or hopefuls
British and French animated shorts make up almost two-thirds of the 25 European films vying to be shortlisted for the nominations for this year's Cartoon D'Or.Among the films being considered by a jury composed of CARTOON's Corinne Jenart, the UK's Mark Baker, Denmark's Jannik Hastrup and Spain's Antonion Zurera Aragon, ...
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EAVE plans more production forums
MEDIA Plus producer training programme EAVE has announced plans for further Production Forums in Venice, Ghent and Vendome following its first one on 'Responding To New Developments in European Distribution' in Paris from July 4-6.The Venice Forum - 'Getting To Know Asian Markets' - from August 23-26 will bring experts ...
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Colour Me Kubrick is Studio Hamburg's first project
Brian Cook's Euros 8.5m satirical comedy Colour Me Kubrick will be the first project for Studio Hamburg Produktion's English-language division Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP) which was launched shortly before this year's Cannes Film Festival.The screenplay by Kubrick's long-time personal assistant Anthony Frewin centres on the true story of a ...
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UK productions win main prizes at Emden
Features by Lone Scherfig and Gillies MacKinnon were among four UK productions which were awarded prizes at this year's Emden - Aurich - Norderney International Film Festival which focuses on new British cinema.The Euros 10,000 Bernhard Wicki audience prize went to MacKinnon's Pure, while the 2nd Prize was taken by ...
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Bachmann replaces Schau at Columbia TriStar Germany
Martin Bachmann, senior vice president international marketing at the headquarters of Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), is to succeed Juergen Schau as Managing Director, Germany.Bachmann has been at CTFDI since 1989 where he began as a management trainee at the German office in Munich before being promoted to the ...
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Senator Entertainment reports Euros 178.2m net loss
German distributor-producer Senator Entertainment posted a net loss of Euros 178.2m for the 2002 financial year (2001's loss was: Euros 4.2m) but expects its extensive restructuring will start showing results by the 2004 financial year.In a statement issued on Friday after trading had closed, Senator reported that group sales fell ...
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Nowhere In Africa producers team for Sergeant Pepper
MTM Medien & Television Muenchen and Constantin Film, who were co-producers on Caroline Link's Oscar-winning Nowhere In Africa, are teaming up for Sandra Nettelbeck's second German-language feature Sergeant Pepper after her international hit Mostly Martha.The comedy about an unusual friendship between a six-year-old boy and a talking dog called Sergeant ...
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House Of Fools to open Munich film festival
Andrei Konchalovsky's House Of Fools (Dom Durakov), winner of the Jury Grand Prix at 2002's Venice Film Festival, will open this year's Munich Film Festival on June 28.The eight-day festival, which is the last under the management of founder Eberhard Hauff, will also include Oliver Stone's controversial documentary Comandante, Roberto ...