All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 201
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Das Werk's holding company files to start insolvency
Following Helkon International Production and peppermint from the Helkon Media Group, the German postproduction group Das Werk has become the latest former Neuer Markt stock to file an application to start insolvency proceedings. And while peppermint was still operating at MIFED as a sales entity with an ongoing business - ...
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Scacchi and Prochnow headline Baltic Storm
Greta Scacchi and Juergen Prochnow are the leads in US director Reuben Leder's poltical thriller Baltic Storm which began shooting on location in Berlin on November 5.The co-production between Babelsberg-based Top Story Filmproductio, Denmark's Smile Entertainment and the UK sales agent IAC centres on the sinking of the Baltic ferry ...
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German cinema admissions fall 8% in third quarter
German cinema admissions have fallen 8% year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2002, but industry observers expect the new Harry Potter, James Bond and The Lord Of The Rings to effect a turnaround in the fourth quarter.According to figures released by the Berlin-based German Federal Film Board (FFA) ...
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Alcas launches Euros 93.4m German film fund for Hallmark Entertainment
While debate is currently raging in Germany about ways of keeping more private film fund equity at home, fund initiator Alcas has launched a Euros 93.4m fund to produce a raft of international film and TV projects for Hallmark Entertainment.Private German individuals are being invited to invest a minimum of ...
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Odeon Film switches from Neuer Markt
Odeon Film, co-producer of Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers, has received the greenlight from the German Stock Exchange to switch his company listing from the Neuer Markt and start trading on the Regulated Market (Geregelter Markt) from December 2.An official statement explained the move 'as a reaction to the present situation ...
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German funds in Polish development talks
The German regional funds Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung (MDM) and Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg are in talks with the Polish Culture Ministry to establish a development fund dedicated to joint projects by German and Polish producers.MDM chief executive Manfred Schmidt is confident that a decision could be reached before the end of this year, ...
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Wild Bees, Hukkle win Cottbus prizes
Wild Bees and Hukkle - the Czech Republic and Hungary's candidates for the Foreign Language Film Oscar - were among the prize-winners at this year's FilmFestival Cottbus which closed on Sunday evening with an overall 15% increase in attendances over 2001.Bohdan Slama's Wild Bees (Divoke Vcely) received the Euros12,000 main ...
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Michael Haneke wins Vienna city award
Austria's filmmaker Michael Haneke (The Piano Player, Funny Games) was awarded the 'Golden Decoration" for services to the city of Vienna at a ceremony in the Austrian capital's City Hall on October 28 (Monday).'It is thanks to Michael Haneke that Austria today enjoys the reputation of being an exciting film ...
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Bauer consortium selected as negotiating partner for KirchMedia
The bidding consortium of German publisher Heinrich Bauer Verlag and the HypoVereinsbank has been selected by the creditors committee of the insolvent KirchMedia to enter into exclusive negotiations for the take over of the media concern which includes the private broadcasters ProSieben, SAT.1, Kabel 1 and the former KirchGroup's film ...
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Michael Koelmel released on bail
Kinowelt co-founder Michael Koelmel is back on the streets after being released on bail early Wednesday afternoon after spending the past two nights in a prison cell.Despite the negative headlines, brothers Rainer and Michael are still sticking to their plans to take over the core assets of their bankrupt media ...
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Cinerenta and Babelsberg sign co-operative agreement
John Boorman's SFX-laden, family fantasy feature Knight's Castle may benefit from a cooperative agreement concluded this week between German private media fund Cinerenta and Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures for Cinerenta's Media Fund VI to be dedicated exclusively to projects produced in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. Introducing the joint initiative, Cinerenta's COO ...
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Japanese film wins Grand Prix at Cinema Tout Ecran
Japanese director Tetsuo Shinohara's The High-School Girl's Friend (Jogakusei no tomo) received the $6,715 (CHF 10,000) 'Grand Prix Cinema Tout Ecran' for Best Film at this year's Cinema Tout Ecran Festival in Geneva (October 21-27) which also featured a retrospective dedicated to Atom Egoyan.The International Competition jury, including Pierre-Henri ...
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Two more Fox projects to be backed by German fund
20th Century Fox's thriller The Clearing, starring Robert Redford, Helen Mirren and Willem Dafoe, and the family comedy Catch That Girl have been added to the projects to be financed by Ideenkapital's Mediastream III fund, due to investor demand.. Ideenkapital had originally planned to raise Euros 246.7m from private ...
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German police arrest Kinowelt's Michael Koelmel
Kinowelt co-founder Michael Koelmel has been arrested by Munich police, just three days before his Euros 32m acquisition of the insolvent Kinowelt Medien Group is due to go through.According to a report in the German daily tabloid newspaper Bild Zeitung, Koelmel has been taken into custody because of an "insolvency ...
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Wenders launches new production outfit
Wim Wenders has set up a new, Hamburg-based production outfit Reverse Angle Production which will produce his next feature project entitled Don't Come Knockin'.Originally developed at Road Movies Filmproduktion as In America, the project still has previous Wenders collaborator Sam Shepard onboard as screenwriter for the contemporary love story ...
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Germany's Prokino prepares provocative release
German distributor Prokino's marketing campaign for Buffalo Soldiers has selected both a provocative poster image as well as an arresting new title for the German market: Army Go Home The story of GIs stationed in West Germany during the 1980s uses an image of Joaquin Phoenix as a drug-dealing ...
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Donnersmarck brothers win Hof's Eastman Support Award
Brothers Sebastian and Florian von Donnersmarck have won the Eastman Support Award for newcomer talents at the Hof Film Days for their short Der Templer.The story of a Templar knight returning disillusioned from the Crusades was produced by Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion with broadcasters Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte and 13th Street ...
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61 projects selected for Mannheim coproduction market
New feature film projects from Ireland's Orla Walsh (Love In Limbo), Poland's Robert Glinski (The Gorki Sanatorium), Brazil's Luiz Fernando Carvalho (The Passion According to G.H.), Slovenia's Igor Sterk (Red Horizons), Canada's John Hopkins (RoboSapiens) and the USA's RD Robb (Sex Crimes) are among 61 titles selected from 28 countries ...
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German/Polish collaboration at the core of Cottbus
Roman Polanski's Golden Palm winner The Pianist will open the Festival of East European Cinema in Cottbus (October 30-November 3) which will be placing a particular focus this year on contemporary filmmaking from Poland and the potential for closer collaboration between German and Polish producers.Apart from the Filmfest Cottbus' official ...
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UK talent joins Supertex - An Hour In Paradise
Maureen Lipman, Stephen Mangam and Elliot Levey are among the UK acting talent cast for Jan Schuette's adaptation of Leon de Winter's best-selling novel Supertex - An Hour In Paradise which has now gone into production.'I have always been amazed at the wealth of talent available in Britain. You can ...