All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 195

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    Extension sought for MEDIA Plus & Training

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    The MEDIA Programme is seeking a year extension to funding support mechanism MEDIA Plus, which is due to end in 2005. 'We will be proposing a technical extension of MEDIA Plus and MEDIA Training for one more year until the end of 2006 so that the programme can ...

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    Extension sought for MEDIA Plus & Training

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    The MEDIA Programme is seeking a year extension to funding support mechanism MEDIA Plus, which is due to end in 2005. 'We will be proposing a technical extension of MEDIA Plus and MEDIA Training for one more year until the end of 2006 so that the programme can ...

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    Apollo to launch four English-language productions

    2003-02-10T00:00:00Z

    German media fund ApolloMedia has unveiled a raft of four titles to go into production in the first half of 2003.The first pictures to roll are Mick Garris' thriller Riding The Bullet based on an e-book by Stephen King (who is serving as one of the film's executive producers) and ...

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    Ottfilm picks up Things You Can Tell for Germany

    2003-02-06T04:05:00Z

    Germany's ottfilm has picked up theatrical rights to Rodrigo Garcia's directorial debut Things You Can Tell from license trader and cofinancier Intertainment. In addition, Intertainment has agreed to a comprehensive video distribution package with Planet Media covering the video and DVD release of Things You Can Tell as well as ...

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    Menemsha sells TV rights to Local Angel

    2003-02-06T04:05:00Z

    Menemsha Entertainment has sold the German and French TV rights for Udi Aloni's documentary Local Angel - Theological Political Fragments to public broadcasters WDR and ARTE respectively.The US-Israeli production, which is an attempt to address the causes and contradictions in the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict, will be shown in Berlinale's ...

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    German box office in decline, recovery predicted

    2003-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Box office takings in Germany last year were the second best since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, according to figures released by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) yesterday.The FFA's statistics showed that box office turnover was down 2.8% year-on-year from 2001's Euros 987.2m to Euros 960.1 ...

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    Babelsberg gets Around The World

    2003-02-05T04:05:00Z

    Babelsberg Studios has been given a major boost with news that Jackie Chan's Around The World In 80 Days will be shot at the studios from this spring.Frank Coraci (The Wedding Singer) directs the big-budget production for US-based Walden Media at Babelsberg and on location including Berlin and Central Germany. ...

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    Berlinale jury member wins Goldene Kamera

    2003-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Berlinale international jury member and Mostly Martha star Martina Gedeck was named best German actress at this year's Goldene Kamera Awards which were presented in Berlin yesterday evening.Winner in the best German actor category was Juergen Vogel, who last year starred in Doris Doerrie's Naked (Nackt) and makes a cameo ...

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    Berlinale jury member wins Goldene Kamera

    2003-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Berlinale international jury member and Mostly Martha star Martina Gedeck was named best German actress at this year's Goldene Kamera Awards which were presented in Berlin yesterday evening.Winner in the best German actor category was Juergen Vogel, who last year starred in Doris Doerrie's Naked (Nackt) and makes a cameo ...

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    Berlinale jury member wins Goldene Kamera

    2003-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Berlinale international jury member and Mostly Martha star Martina Gedeck was named best German actress at this year's Goldene Kamera Awards which were presented in Berlin yesterday evening.Winner in the best German actor category was Juergen Vogel, who last year starred in Doris Doerrie's Naked (Nackt) and makes a cameo ...

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    German media fund backs Oscar-winner's feature debut

    2003-02-04T04:05:00Z

    Private media fund CP Medien has boarded Oscar-winning German director Florian Gallenberger's feature debut Schatten Der Zeit which begins shooting in India on February 4. The tragic love story between two childhood sweethearts who first meet working in a carpet factory and then cross paths again many years later in ...

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    Trust takes international sales on Home

    2003-01-31T04:05:00Z

    Trust Film Sales has picked up international sales on Theo van Gogh's new feature project Home Is Where The Heart Is which was presented at the Cinemart co-production market at the Rotterdam International Film Festival this week.Budgeted at Euros 2.2m, the digitally shot psychogical thriller will be produced by Els ...

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    German media funds raise over Euros 2bn in 2002

    2003-01-30T04:05:00Z

    In spite of the German stock exchange crisis and the Federal Government dragging its feet on the future structure of its tax legislation, German investors channelled over Euros 2bn of equity into private media funds for national and international production in 2002.According to German fund specialist Vendura, the funds' overall ...

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    Record year for German home entertainment market

    2003-01-29T04:05:00Z

    2002 looks to have been a record year for the German video and DVD market, according to the video industry trade body.According to statistics prepared by the GfK market research institute, turnover for the sector increased by over 22% to Euros 1.15bn in the first eleven months of 2002 compared ...

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    Holocaust producer receives death threats

    2003-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Veteran producer Artur 'Atze' Brauner has received death threats ahead of the special screening of his Holocaust drama Babij Yar at this year's Berlinale.84-year-old Brauner revealed that he had received anonymous telephone calls and letters in the past few weeks threatening that he would not live to see the film's ...

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    Hoffman, Grant, Hayek among Goldene Kamera recipients

    2003-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Dustin Hoffmann, Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek and Sir Elton John are among the recipients of this year's Goldene Kamera awards which will be presented by the HoerZu magazine in Berlin's Konzerthaus on the eve of the Berlinale on February 4. Hoffmann, who will also be in Berlin to present Moonlight ...

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    Hoffman, Grant, Hayek among Goldene Kamera recipients

    2003-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Dustin Hoffmann, Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek and Sir Elton John are among the recipients of this year's Goldene Kamera awards which will be presented by the HoerZu magazine in Berlin's Konzerthaus on the eve of the Berlinale on February 4. Hoffmann, who will also be in Berlin to present Moonlight ...

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    BV International Pictures takes One Last Ride

    2003-01-27T04:05:00Z

    Bjoerg Veland's BV International Pictures is to handle international sales on Tony Vitale's urban thriller One Last Ride which begins shooting in Los Angeles on January 25.Produced by director Ang Lee, Germany's Christian Arnold-Beutel of MagicWorx, US producer John Kelly, and Patrick Cupo who adapted his own stage play for ...

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    Sokurov to receive Berlin Freedom Prize

    2003-01-27T04:00:00Z

    Russian director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) is to receive this year's Andrzej Wajda/Philip Morris Freedom Prize at a special gala ceremony in the Berlin Rathaus on February 9. The Prize, which is presented by the Foundation with a purse of $ 10,000 donated by Philip Morris Kunstfoerderung, is awarded annually ...

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    Sokurov to receive Berlin Freedom Prize

    2003-01-27T04:00:00Z

    Russian director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) is to receive this year's Andrzej Wajda/Philip Morris Freedom Prize at a special gala ceremony in the Berlin Rathaus on February 9. The Prize, which is presented by the Foundation with a purse of $ 10,000 donated by Philip Morris Kunstfoerderung, is awarded annually ...