All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 199
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Yugoslavia, Slovenia co-produce Red Coloured Grey Truck
Hot Slovenian production house E-motion Films, producer of Damjan Kozole's Spare Parts which premieres in Official Competition in Berlin, is to co-produce feature debutant Srdan Koljevic's Red Coloured Grey Truck as the first collaboration between Yugoslavia and Slovenia since the Balkan War. Koljevic's Euros 1.2m roadmovie - "in the tradition ...
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Jack Valenti brings anti-piracy campaign to Berlin
MPAA president Jack Valenti reiterated his anti-piracy campaign in Berlin, when he addressed the opening of the European Film Finance Forum and also met German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to discuss the issue."There is a menace in this world that threatens not only the Americans but every creative community ...and that's ...
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Tele-Muenchen ups German feature production
Herbert Kloiber's Tele-Muenchen will step up its German-language feature production as a way of filling the gap left by the bursting of the Neuer Markt bubble."We are currently speaking with all independent producers and talents we didn`t have a chance of working with in the past because they ...
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Berlinale promotes Freedom2Speak
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick has given a group of young local filmmakers the greenlight to transform the festival into an ongoing discussion forum about the threat of war with Iraq.Under the banner 'Freedom2Speak', the filmmakers have already produced a 20-second spot which will be shown before each film at the ...
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Koelmels spell out Neue Kinowelt ambitions
Rainer and Michael Koelmel have unveiled theplanned strategy of Neue Kinowelt,just ahead of their first market presence since regaining control oftheir insolvent Kinowelt empire.`We will no longer be in theleague of the majors as we were for a while in 1999`, explained Rainer Koelmel,`but we will certainly see ourselves in ...
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Koelmels spell out Neue Kinowelt ambitions
Rainer and Michael Koelmel have unveiled theplanned strategy of Neue Kinowelt, just ahead of their first market presence since regaining control oftheir insolvent Kinowelt empire.`We will no longer be in theleague of the majors as we were for a while in 1999`, explained Rainer Koelmel,`but we will certainly see ...
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Apollo to launch four English-language productions
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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Extension sought for MEDIA Plus & Training
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
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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Menemsha sells TV rights to Local Angel
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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Ottfilm picks up Things You Can Tell for Germany
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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German box office in decline, recovery predicted
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...