All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 200
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Transit Film picks up Fassbinder In Hollywood
Transit Film has picked up international sales on Robert Fischer's documentary Fassbinder In Hollywood which was produced to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the legendary German director's untimely death in June 1982.The production by Fischer's Fiction FACTory and Ulli Lommel's Los Angeles-based company Lavida looks at Fassbinder's relationship to ...
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Yasujiro Ozu to be honoured with Berlinale retrospective
The forthcoming Berlinale (February 6-16) will devote a retrospective to the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth on December 12, 2003.His most famous work Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story) will be screened at the Berlinale Palast, while other works by and about Ozu will be ...
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European Film Promotion 2003 gets full MEDIA Plus support
For the first time, the pan-European marketing initiative European Film Promotion (EFP) has received confirmation of support in advance for a whole year from the European Commission's MEDIA Plus Programme rather than on a project-by-project basis. "This year-long contract will allow us the necessary lead time to develop our projects ...
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Studio Hamburg World Wide Pictures lines up two new projects
The Studio Hamburg's WorldWide Pictures (WWP) fund has lined up another two potential projects - Colour Me Kubrick and Dudes - to back after its first production, John Irvin's The Great Ceili War, wrapped on the Isle of Man last week on December 4.WWP has optioned the $7m satirical comedy ...
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Arsenal takes Rabbit-Proof Fence for Germany
Germany's Arsenal Film will collaborate with Odeon Film on the local release of Philip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence which was one of the big winners at the Australian Film Institute's Awards at the weekend and honoured by the US National Board of Review last week.The film's executive producer David Elfick told ...
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Publisher Bauer close to signing ProSiebenSat.1 deal
The consortium of German publishing empire Heinrich Bauer and HypoVereinsbank is expected to sign a Euros 700m deal for a majority 52.5% stake in the ProSiebenSat.1 broadcasting family in the next two weeks.Speaking to the Reuters news agency after a meeting of the insolvent KirchMedia's creditor committee on Monday December ...
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Nine world premieres in Max Ophuels competition
Over half of the 17-film line-up at this year's Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival feature film competition will be world premieres. The complete line-up of 11 German, four Austrian and two Swiss newcomer features screening in Saarbruecken from January 13-19, 2003 includes:011 Beograd by Michael Pfeifenberger, Austria (World premiere)Baby by ...
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European Film Academy lambasts French, German broadcasters
German and French broadcasters have come under fire from the European Film Academy (EFA) for not airing this year's European Film Awards, which takes place in Rome this Saturday (Dec 7)."It is a political and cultural scandal that the television broadcasters in France and Germany are unwilling to partner with ...
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New chief appointed at Hamburg Film Festival
Albert Wiederspiel has been appointed successor to Josef Wutz as head of Filmfest Hamburg and will take up his new post from January 1, 2003.With over 17 years experience in the international film industry for such companies as 20th Century Fox, PolyGram/Universal Pictures and most recently as head of distribution ...
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VIF Distribution launched as successor to German film fund
The Babelsberg-based management company VIF Distribution has been created as a successor to VIF International Films to handle the administration of three German media funds VIF 1, VIF 2 and VIP which co-produced 12 international productions including Michael Moore's box-office success Bowling For Columbine, Renny Bartlett's Eisenstein and Peter Sehr's ...
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Das Werk jettisons Swiss, Spanish assets
Just aweek after Das Werk's German post-production divisions filed forinsolvency (ScreenDaily, Nov 26), the group has now sold off interests inSpain and Switzerland as part of its programme of restructuring andstreamlining operations.DasWerk has sold its stake in the Barcelona-based film laboratory Image Film tothe newly created Image Laboratories, which is ...
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German pay-TV platform passes historic subscriber mark
The number of subscribers at German pay-TV platform Premiere has passed the 2.5 million mark for the first time in the channel's 11-year history.At the end of November, the platform had 2.53 million subscribers on its books, 85,000 more than at the end of the third quarter on September 30. ...
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Swiss Film Prize nominations announced
Local box-office hit Ernstfall In Havanna, Locarno competition entry Otre Il Confine and the documentary Forget Baghdad are among the films nominated in five categories for the Swiss Film Prize 2003 whose winners will be announced during the Solothurn Film Days on January 22, 2003.The Film Prizes will be decided ...
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Kirch manager Kogel to step down
Ahead of the sale of the insolvent KirchMedia to German publishing empire Heinrich Bauer Verlag by mid-December, managing director Fred Kogel announced at the weekend that he will leave the company at the end of the year.Speaking to the news agency AP, Kogel explained that 'after I have completed the ...
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German Culture Minister hands out industry awards
Two Munich-based distributors Prokino Filmverleih and Movienet Film and Berlin distribution outfit Piffl Medien have each received the 2002 Distributor Award worth Euros 100,000.The awards were presented to the three companies at a special ceremony on last week by Germany's new State Minister of Culture Christina Weiss in recognition of ...
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Central Asian films to be focus of Trieste festival
Films from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan will be showcased at this year's Trieste Film Festival - Alpe Adria Cinema (January 16-23, 2003) which has become an important meeting place for cinema from Central and Eastern Europe since its launch in 1988.The festival's 'Cinema of the Silk Road' showcase is part ...
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Germany's Senator reports massive net loss
Senator Entertaiment has posted a net loss of Euros 59.5m for the first nine months of 2002 - a massive reversal compared with last year's Euros6.9m net profit The company also announced the reduction of its management board by one member as part of its cost-cutting and restructuring programme.The ...
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Germany named Europe's fastest-growing DVD market
Germany is set to become the fastest growing DVD market in Europe, according to new data collected by the national DVD trade body.In the light of the current DVD boom, DVD-Arbeitsgemeinschaft (DVD-AG) has had to revise its forecast of the number of DVD players in German households at the end ...
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Koelmels miss Kinowelt payment deadline, but get extension
The Koelmel brothers' bid to take over their former company is set to drag on for yet another week after they missed the November 27 deadline for the transfer of the Euros 32m purchase price.On November 22, insolvency administrator Wolfgang Ott said that "if the confirmation by the Sparkasse Leipzig ...
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Germany's Tobis breaks away from StudioCanal
The future for German distributor Tobis has become much clearer after a management buyout (MBO) by shareholders Kilian Rebentrost and Pathe.The MBO has seen the duo acquire StudioCanal's 60% majority holding in the Berlin-based company. They have also taken over the activities of its local production arm StudioCanal Produktion, which ...