All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 198
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German media fund backs Oscar-winner's feature debut
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Comerica Bank files lawsuit against Advanced Licencing
German license trader Advanced Medien's troubles seem to have no end with the news that US-based Comerica Bank has filed a lawsuit against subsidiary Advanced Licencing.The lawsuit is over payment of over $2m in loans granted by the bank to Unified Film Organization (UFO), a 51% subsidiary of Advanced Medien, ...
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Kinderfilmfest international jury announced
The Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest has announced its International Jury which will award the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix.The five jury members are:German director Christina Schindler (Rinnsteinpiraten); Norway's Lars Berg (winner of the Grand Prix and the Crystal Bear for Glasskar last year); Ricardo Casas, director of Uruguay's Festival Internacionale de Cine para ...
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Kinowelt takeover saga resolved
The seemingly never-ending saga of the Koelmel brothers' (Michael, pictured left and Rainer, right) planned takeover of their Kinowelt empire has finally come to an end.Insolvency administrator Dr. Wolfgang Ott announced on Tuesday (Jan 21) that the rescue company Neue Spielfilm Vertriebs- und Marketing GmbH (to be known in future ...
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Miracle debut wins Max Ophuels Prize
Writer-director Anne Wild's feature debut My First Miracle (Mein Erstes Wunder) (pictured) has won this year's $38,500 (Euros 36,000) Max Ophuels Prize The prize, for up-and-coming German language cinema, was awarded at the Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival (January 13-19) in Saarbruecken, Germany.The story about a friendship between an eleven ...
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Family films take top honours at Bavarian film awards
The makers of the family films Bibi Blocksberg and Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer shared top honours at this year's Bavarian Film Awards Presenting the Euro 250,000 award to producers Uschi Reich, Karl Blatz and Peter Zenk, Bavaria's prime-minister Edmund Stoiber said "the success of both of these productions confirms the welcome ...
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Another Senator executive bails out
Just four weeks after the surprise departure of Juergen Fabritius from Senator Entertainment, another executive: COO Friedrich-Carl Wachs has quit the company.Wachs (pictured) had been appointed in April 2002 as deputy to chairman Hanno Huth and Senator's fourth board member with responsibilities for corporate development, corporate communication, investor relations and ...
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Til Schweiger to star in Star Trek spoof
Til Schweiger is to take one of the leads in (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1, Michael "Bully" Herbig's follow-up to his surprise 2001 hit Manitou's Shoe Schweiger, who appeared in last year's Was Tun, Wenn's Brennt and Drive, will play opposite the Manitou acting trio of Herbig, Rick Kavanian and ...
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Hot German director announces next two projects
German filmmaker Oskar Roehler, whose Angst (Der Alte Affe Angst) is a competition entry at year's Berlinale, is developing his next two film projects with X-Filme Creative Pool and Constantin Film.Roehler (pictured), who will have Angst distributed this spring by X-Filme's distribution arm X Verleih, told screendaily that the ...
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First Forum titles confirmed for Berlin
Piotr Tzaskalski's Edi, the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Lynn Hershmann Leeson's clone thriller Teknolust, starring Tilda Swinton in four roles along with Jeremy Davies and Karen Black, and Ulrike Ottinger's six hour-plus documentary travelling through south east Europe, Sudostpassage. Eine Reise Zu Den Neuen Weissen ...
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Grill Point wins top German critics prize
Andreas Dresen's Silver Bear winner Grill Point (Halbe Treppe) (pictured) has won the German film critics' Best Feature Film prize.In addition, Hans Weingartner's much lauded White Noise (Das Weisse Rauschen) was named Best Feature Debut, with Best Actor honours going to the film's lead Daniel Bruehl (who was also recognised ...