All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 205
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German exhibitor launches theatrical distribution operation
German exhibitor Kinostar Theater GmbH has expanded its operations to embrace in-house theatrical distribution in the field of arthouse cinema in addition to its exhibition and production activities.The first release will Philip Groening's drama L'Amour, L'Argent, L'Amour (pictured) which won a Best Actress Silver Leopard at the 2000 Locarno ...
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Look Now signs output deal with Swiss Dschoint Ventschr
Zurich-based production outfit Dschoint Ventschr has signed an output deal with local theatrical distributor Look Now for the release of its films in Switzerland The first two titles to fall under this output deal are Dschoint Ventschr co-owner Samir's documentary Forget Bagdad - Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection ...
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Italy's Mikado Film picks up Fuehrer Ex
Italian distributor Mikado Film has picked up Winfried Bonengel's controversial Neo-Nazi drama Fuehrer Ex which screened in Official Competition in Venice last week and received its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival yesterday.In addition, the film's sales agent - Bavaria Film International - will handle international distribution for ...
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Valli to direct Tibet Project for German Friends
French director Eric Valli, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his feature Himalaya in 2000, has been signed up by Munich-based production house Friends Production to direct the ethnological road movie The Tibet Project (working title).Based on a screenplay by Valli, the Canadian-based, Oscar-nominated Chinese screenwriter and ...
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Egoyan to be honoured by Cinema Tout Ecran festival
Canadian director Atom Egoyan will be honoured with a retrospective at the 8th Cinema Tout Ecran International Film and Television Festival in Geneva (October 21-27) which showcases feature films produced by or for television.Meanwhile, among the films already confirmed for this year's International Competition are Willem van de S. Bakhuyzen's ...
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Studio Babelsberg chief Bacher exits suddenly
Less than a week before Babelsberg Studios' 90th anniversary on September 16, the German film industry has been rocked by the news of CEO Gabriela Bacher's sudden exit.Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures (SBMP) was created last autumn, with Bacher in control of overseeing all media activities of parent Vivendi Deutschland. Bacher ...
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Feminale festival announces first competition line-up
The first Chinese production about a relationship between two women - Li Yu's Fish And Elephant -, Marilyn Freeman's study of group therapy GROUP, and Eliane de Latour's documentary Bronx-Barbes about teenage gangs in the West African city of Abidjan are among seven international films selected to compete for the ...
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Movienet Film sells five titles to Austria
Munich Filmfest's opening film The Son's Bride (El Hijo De La Novia) and Mika Kaurismaki's music documentary Moro No Brasil are among five films sold by Munich-based theatrical outfit Movienet Film to Austrian distributors. Filmladen Wien picked up The Son's Bride, Golden Bowl, Divided We Fall and the German regional ...
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German producers reach 'voluntary' agreement with public broadcasters
German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have reached a voluntary agreement with the national producer associations which will see the first exploitation cycle for TV rights on funded cinema co-productions reduced from seven years to five. Following the signing of the agreement with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neuer Deutscher Spielfilmproduzenten e.V. ...
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Helkon sells TV prod unit and distributor Solo Film
Helkon Media has now offloaded its interests in the TV productionsubsidiary Sonne, Mond + Sterne Film- und Fernsehproduktions and distributorSolo Film Verleih.The 75.6% stake in Sonne, Mond + Sterne has been acquired by itsmanaging director Erwin Kraus, while Solo Film's managing director PeterHeinzemann has taken over all of the shares ...
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Beta Cinema adds Baader, Scherbentanz to sales slate
Beta Cinema, the feature film division of Beta Film, has picked upinternational rights to Christoph Roth's controversial biopic Baaderwhich won the Alfred Bauer Prize at this year's Berlinale and received a stormyinternational premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in a 15-minute shorter version last month. "The new version of ...
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Saturday wins Agnes B award at Sarajevo film festival
Argentine director Juan Villegas'(pictured) Saturday (Sabado) won the Euros 12,000 'J'aime le cinema' Best First Feature Film Award which was donated by French designer Agnes B. at this year's Sarajevo Film Festival (16-24 August).In addition, one of the festival's opening films, 10 Minutes by local director Ahmed Imamovic, received ...
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Gladiator, Mummy head Premiere/Vivendi film deal
Beleaguered German pay-TV platform Premiere has sealed a deal with Vivendi Universal for such films as Gladiator, Erin Brockovich and The Mummy Returns as it attempts to put itself on a sound financial footing and attract new investors. Universal is the third studio, following Fox Entertainment Group Inc. and Dreamworks, ...
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German box office continues upward swing
The recent upward trend in the German exhibition sector has continued in the first half of 2002, according to statistics issued by the German Federal Film Board (FFA).While the number of cinema-goers increased year-on-year from 79.7m to 80.7m - equivalent to growth of 1.3% -, box-office revenues expanded by 7.8% ...
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Berlinale hit with second sidebar defection
Renate Zylla, director of the Berlinale's Children's Film Festival (Kinderfilmfest), has tendered her resignation, less than a fortnight after Wolfgang Jacobsen's announced he was stepping down as the organiser of the festival's Retrospective. Zylla had worked for the Kinderfilmfest in Berlin since 1985 and was appointed the sidebar's director in ...
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Das Werk thrown E60m lifeline
The survival of ailing post-production group Das Werk has been given a crucial boost through the granting of a credit line of more than Euros60m ($58.5m) and the extension of previous loans by a banking pool that includes BHF Bank, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank.The additional funds were made available after ...
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Flach Pyramide picks up Suddenly
Flach Pyramide International (FPI) has picked up international distribution rights on Argentinian director Diego Lerman's feature debut Suddenly (Tan De Repente) which had its world premiere in competition in LocarnoShot in black-and-white, Suddenly follows a solitary and straight-laced young shop girl travelling to the countryside to Buenos Aires where she ...
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KirchMedia to merge sports and film rights
KirchMedia's managing director sports rights, Dr Alexander Liegl has quit the insolvent German media group ahead of plans to merge its film and sports rights businesses under the management of one director.Kirch said Liegl will leave the company "with immediate effect," adding that his departure was "at his own request ...
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The Longing tops Locarno winners
Scots-born, German director Iain Dilthey's austere The Longing (Das Verlangen) was the surprise winner of this year's International Competition in Locarno. Dilthey's graduation film from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy won the top award of the Golden Leopard/Grand Prize of the City and Region of Locarno, with a purse worth CHF ...
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Koelmel brothers back in control at Kinowelt with E32m bid
Brothers Michael and Rainer Koelmel are back in the driving seat at Kinowelt after their bid to take over the running of the group's core interests was accepted by a committee of creditor banks. At a meeting in Munich on Friday (August 9) insolvency administrator Dr Wolfgang Ott, acting for ...