All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 199
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KirchMedia back on the map with Buena Vista deal
KirchMedia has signed a multi-year deal with Buena Vista International Television (BVI-TV) for the German free-TV rights to 20-30 feature films a year from Touchstone, Walt Disney Pictures and Miramax as well as a selection of TV movies and series from ABC/Touchstone and Walt Disney.The agreement includes such feature films ...
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German film industry wants more cash from broadcasters
The debate on a revised Film Funding Law (FFG) - due to come into effect from 2004 - has heated up with the German film industry "umbrella organisation" SPIO calling on the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF to follow the State Ministry for Culture's (BKM) proposal and substantially increase their ...
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Berlinale announces talent campus hosts, Cinema For Peace special screening
German filmmaker Wim Wenders, production designer Ken Adam, screenwriter Alessandro Baricco and Lia van Leer, founder and director of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Israel Film Archives are the first industry figures recruited by the Berlinale Talent Campus.The five-day training programme (February 10-14),.which is organised in co-operation with Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg and ...
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Bertelsmann accesses Euros 1.5bn credit facility
German media concern Bertelsmann has closed the syndication of a five year Euros 1.5bn revolving credit facility to be used for general corporate purposes and to partially replace a Euros 2.5bn bridge loan agreed in June 2002. The non-underwritten deal was so successful with the market that there was a ...
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Eurimages elects new president
Former French Minister of Culture Jacques Toubon was unanimously elected on Tuesday (19 November) as the new president of Eurimages, the Council of Europe's pan-European fund for co-production, distribution and exhibition.Toubon, who had held a number of ministerial posts in France, most notably that of Culture and Francophony from 1993-1995 ...
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Morawetz launches new German distribution outfit
After being off the radar for a while, Veronika Morawetz has bounced back with the launch of a new distribution outfit Stardust Filmverleih into the increasingly difficult German distribution market.The first company's releases scheduled for January 30, 2003 will be the trio of 'Planet B' features - The Antman, Detective ...
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New director for Munich film festival named
Andreas Stroehl has been named successor to Eberhard Hauff who this year celebrated his 20th year as director of the Filmfest Muenchen.Stroehl, who has worked for the German cultural organisation Goethe Institut since 1988 - most recently as head of the division for film, film production management, television and radio ...
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Paramount Pictures to tap German equity fund for two titles
Despite the growing caution among German investors, Paramount Pictures is set to access private German equity for the financing of biopic Against The Ropes and the high school comedy The Perfect Score. After collaborating with the German financing companies SachsenFonds and EastMerchant last year on a Euros 52.7m fund for ...
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Falcom Media signs distribution deal with Universum
Andreas Fallscheer's Falcom Media Group has concluded a long-term video/DVD distribution deal with the RTL Group's video subsidiary BMG/Universum Film for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.The first releases - all "straight to video" - will be the US children's animation film The Little Drummer Boy, Chuck Norris actioner McCourd, Mimic 2 ...
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Jeans walks away with audience award at Luenen
German actress Nicolette Krebitz's (The Tunnel) feature directorial debut Jeans won this year's 'Luedia' Audience Award at Kinofest Luenen's annual celebration of German cinema.Apart from a specially created bronze statue, the award includes a slot in the 'Berlin And Beyond' festival in San Francisco's Castro Cinema in January 2003, financing ...
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IM Internationalmedia to cut staff by more than 30%
Following last week's announcement of pre-tax losses of $36.1m in the first nine months of 2002, production and finance group IM Internationalmedia has unveiled an extensive cost reduction programme to reduce expenses by Euros 28.7m and predicted that revenues for 2003 would be between Euros 330m-350m, well above this year's ...
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Junkersdorf launches tax fund to finance four pictures
Eberhard Junkersdorf, who called earlier this year for the introduction in Germany of tax-driven incentives similar to those in the UK, Ireland, Canada or Luxembourg, has launched his own media fund - Neue Bioskop Film - to finance four international feature productions in 2002 and 2003.German individuals can invest a ...
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Mannheim jury in favour of The Devils
French director Christopher Ruggia's drama The Devils (Les Diables) was named Best Film by the international jury at this year's Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival.Announcing its decision, the jury of Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, French sales agent Margarita Seguy (F For Film), Korean sales agent Karen Moon (CJ Entertainment), Finnish Film ...
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Constantin reports increase in sales - and net losses
German producer-distributor Constantin Film has posted a 10% increase in sales to Euro 94.6m, but also a 64% increase in net losses to Euros 7.36m, (from 2001's loss of Euros 4.5m) according to the nine-months report to September 30, 2002. International sales revenues were up 78% on the previous year ...
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German, Israeli film funds sign joint project agreement
German regional film fund Filmstiftung NRW and the Israel Film Fund have signed a deal to develop relations between the two film industries.The "Joint Project" agreement, which initially is to run for two years, was signed during this week's REEL IL 02 showcase of new Israeli student work at the ...
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German star to headline English-language Ghetto
Hot German star Moritz Bleibtreu (The Experiment, Luna Papa, Taking Sides) is to play the lead role of the Nazi officer Kittel in Audrius Juzenas' adaptation of Joshua Sobol's Ghetto based on real events in the Jewish ghetto of Vilnius during the Second World War."Normally, the Nazi is played ...
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Sandrew Metronome picks up Finnish kung-fu comedy
Sandrew Metronome has picked up all Scandinavian rights (except for Finnish TV rights) for first-time Finnish director Aj Annila's kung fu-fantasy-comedy Jade Warrior which was presented to international producers at this week's Mannheim Meetings co-production market.Blind Spot Pictures, the Finnish co-producer of Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark, plans ...
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German investors cheered by erotic media floatation
Amidst all of the insolvency doom and gloom, German investors had reasons to be cheerful with the successful flotation of the adult films trader erotic media ag on the Frankfurt stock exchange with a threefold over-subscription of its 100,000 shares. Trading began on Friday at Euros 34.50, up 15% from ...
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Internationalmedia losses force board shake-up
Production and finance group Internationalmedia announced pre-tax losses of Euros35.7m for the first nine months and as part of a cost cutting programme halved its management board from four members to two. Graham King will step down from the board although will continue to serve as managing director of Initial ...
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German funds less attractive to investors in 2002
German media funds are expected to raise Euros1.5bn in 2002 from private investors to finance feature film and TV production - 25% less than last year.This will be the second year in a row that fund investment levels will have fallen. In his newly published survey of the performance of ...