All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 208
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German cinemas report boost in box office, drop in admissions
Box office receipts at German cinemas increased 6.3% year-on-year to Euros 271.4m in the first quarter of 2002 - although admissions slipped by 2.2% (1m) to 45.2m, according to official figures released by the German Federal Film Board (FFA).The FFA explained that the discrepancy between revenues and admissions was probably ...
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VFX experts converge on FMX conference
Visual effects experts from Europe, Japan and the USA including Olcun Tan (Black Hawk Down), Karen E. Goulekas (Spider-Man), Thomas Duval (Amelie), and Tim McGovern (Total Recall) will speak about past and present projects and artistic visions in the conference section of this year's Film and Media Exchange (FMX) in ...
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Eurimages appoints new board member, awards co-production funds
The European production fund Eurimages has for the first time appointed a Norwegian to its board - the 52-year-old Nils Klevjer Aas, who works for the new Norwegian Film Fund. Meanwhile, projects by Margarethe von Trotta, Alain Resnais, Gerardo Herrero and Mika Kaurismaki were among 11 European co-productions granted a ...
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Delphi Film picks up The Russian Ark for Germany
Delphi Film will handle the German theatrical distribution of Alexander Sokurov's The Russian Ark, which will have its world premiere in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival.The Euros 2.4m German-Russian co-production between Egoli Tossell Film, Heritage Bridge Studio, Cappa Productions and Koppmedia had received backing from MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, ...
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Legal dispute prompts Intertainment to increase write-offs by Euros 109m
The continuing legal dispute with Franchise Pictures over allegedly inflated budgets has led German rights trader Intertainment to increase depreciations, allowances and provisions by Euros 109.3m to Euros 142.4m for the last financial year.Intertainment announced that its first hearing regarding the assets of Franchise Pictures had been held before a ...
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Film supply for German free-TV stations is secure
German newspaper speculation that the supply of Hollywood feature films to the free-TV channels of ProSiebenSAT.1 could become a victim of the KirchGroup crisis, has been refuted by ProSiebenSAT.1's board chairman.Ahead of planned talks on debt-for-equity deals between Hollywood studios and the beleaguered KirchGroup on Monday April 29, Welt ...
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'The lights are on green' for EM.TV after Euros 240m write-offs
Germany's EM.TV & Merchandising has reacted to 'the weak advertising market and current changes in the media landscape' by undertaking Euros 240m of extraordinary write-offs.As a result of these write-offs, the consolidated earnings before tax amounted to minus Euros 331m (compared to minus Euros 1.34bn the previous year) and the ...
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Moby Dick gets biggest slice of German film fund backing
New feature film projects by Soenke Wortmann, Sherry Hormann, Wolfgang Panzer and Benjamin Quabeck are among more than 20 projects backed with over Euros 6m by FilmFernsehFonds Bayern in its latest round of funding.The largest single amount of Euros 1.5m though, went to Trixter Film for Moby Dick: The Legend ...
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Advanced's corrected figures show deeper losses in '99, but less red ink in 2000
German rights trader Advanced Medien has published its revised financial statements for 1999 and 2000 after auditors exposed "dubious" transactions in the original filing, rendering them "ineffective" and, according to some analyst allegations at the time, possibly fraudulent. (ScreenDaily, March 21, 2002)According to the corrected figures, the company recorded revenues ...
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Beckham picked up for Germany
Highlight Film has picked up German speaking rights for Gurinder Chadha's box office hit Bend It Like Beckham, which has so far clocked up $6.6m on its UK release. Highlight plans to organise a large scale marketing campaign to launch the football comedy into German cinemas this year and has ...
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My Brother Tom wins 'Britspotting' audience award
The 3rd 'Britspotting' British Independent Film Festival in Berlin awarded audience prizes for the first time this year, with the Best Feature Film category won by Dom Rotheroe's feature debut My Brother Tom which took home Euros 13,000 in prize-money donated by Das Werk and Metropolitan TV.The prize for Best ...
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Internationalmedia claims revenues set to double in 2002
After posting a decrease in revenues and a negative EBIT for the financial year 2001, Internationalmedia (IM) has announced that revenues in 2002 will be between Euros 330m - 370m and operating profit before goodwill amortization (EBIA) estimated at between Euros 21m - 25m. "The budget for 2002 is based ...
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New support award for German cinema planned for Munich Filmfest
Leading German bank HypoVereinsbank has been joined by Bavaria Film and public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk for an expanded version of its Director's Support Award which is presented during the next Munich Filmfest at the beginning of July.Now in its 14th year, the Euros 40,000 prize for directors is to be ...
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Germany's NRW film body awards Euros 9m backing
New features by Amos Kollek, Max Faerberboeck, Lone Scherfig and Peter Lichtefeld are among the projects granted over Euros 9m backing by Filmstiftung NRW in its latest round of funding. The highest sum - Euros 1.022m - was awarded to Bosko Biati Film's Spanish-German co-production of Lichtefeld's Playa Del Futuro, ...
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Germany's third largest exhibitor faces bankruptcy
Germany's third biggest cinema chain, Ufa Theater, with 240 screens at 42 sites, is threatened with insolvency after its bank declined to provide further financing following two years of restructuring.Ufa spokesman Uwe Kattwinkel confirmed a report in the German weekly Der Spiegel that the chain needed an additional Euros 3m ...
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Germany's TiMe distribution scales back staff, moves HQ
The difficulties facing the German independent distribution sector has forced Wolfram Tichy's TiMe Group to re-locate its theatrical distribution and licensing arm TiMe Medienvertriebs GmbH from Munich to the group's headquarters in Potsdam.Commenting on the decision, which saw the laying off of distribution head Rudy Tjio and five other staff, ...
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Senator sells 10-film package to ZDF
Germany's Senator Entertainment has closed its second free-TV package deal of 2002, this time for ten titles with German public broadcaster ZDF.The package (the contents of which was not disclosed) was equally split between first- and second-run licenses and follows another combined deal of seven titles, with the ARD ...
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Finance chief of KirchGroup holding company steps down
Brian Cook, chief financial officer of KirchGroup holding company, TaurusHolding has left the company after just nine months.In a press communique, the holding stated that the resignation had "occurred now in light of the fact that the restructuring of the KirchGroup of companies is increasingly being managed by the insolvency ...
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Nirgendwo In Afrika leads German Film Award nominations
Caroline Link's Nirgendwo In Afrika has picked up four nominations for this year's German Film Awards (Lolas) which will be presented in Berlin's Tempodrom on June 14. At the announcement of this year's nominees during a gala event in Berlin on April 19, Link's adaptation of Stefanie Zweig's bestseller was ...
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Venice film festival selects Buschmann for German liaison
Venice Film Festival's new director Moritz de Hadeln has named filmmaker/producer Christel Buschmann as the festival's correspondent for Germany to liaise with German producers wanting to place their films in Venice.Buschmann - who Gibbi-Westgermany (1980), Comeback (1982) and Ballhaus Barmbek - Let's Kiss And Say Goodbye (1988) - is no ...