All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 208
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Germany's Helkon Media boss steps down
An era has come to an end at Germany's Helkon Media with the decision by Martin Heldmann, co-founder, CEO and major shareholder, to step down from heading the company as well as managing several of its subsidiaries.Helkon's advisory board and board of directors expressed their regret at Heldmann's move but ...
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Son Of The Bride to open Munich film festival
Juan Jose Campanella's romantic comedy and directorial debut Son Of The Bride (El Hijo De la Novia), which was nominated for the Foreign Language Oscar, will open this year's Filmfest Muenchen in Germany on June 29.The 20th edition of Munich's audience festival under Eberhard Hauff's direction (June 29 - July ...
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Beta Cinema closes US distribution deal on Sun Alley
Germany's Beta Cinema has closed a US distribution deal with Outrider Pictures for Leander Haussmann's feature film debut Sun Alley (Sonnenallee) with a release planned for this autumn.This is the second Beta title to secure US distribution this year following Roxie Releasing's acquisition of Roland Suso Richter's The Tunnel at ...
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'99 Euro Films' expands European dimension
The UK's Richard Stanley, France's Tony Baillargeat, Spain's Nacho Cerda, Belgium's Harry Kuemel and Germany's Benjamin Quabeck are to contribute to a second edition of the '99-euro films' series of digitally produced shorts which is now being opened up to European filmmakers.Producer Torsten Neumann and creative director RP Kahl have ...
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Tradewind, MMC Independent sign first-look deal
Cologne/Erfurt-based production house Tradewind Pictures and the MMC studios' production arm MMC Independent have signed a first-look deal for a long-term co-operation on the production of national and international feature films.As part of the agreement, both partners will offer each other the chance to board projects as a co-producer. ...
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Eureka Screenings to select 300 love stories
Love has been chosen as the theme for Audiovisual Eureka's 5th Eureka Screenings which are being hosted in Skopje by the Minister of Culture of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia from October 30 - November 3.During three days, buyers from all over Europe will have the opportunity of viewing ...
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No Man's Land wins European Union media prize
This year's Foreign Language Film Oscar-winner Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land has been presented with the European Union's Euros 25,000 Media Prize.'Beyond the conflict in ex-Yugoslavia and the story of these two soldiers, one Serbian, the other Bosnian, No Man's Land illustrates with talent and humour the absurdity of violence ...
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Almodovar to head first European cinema heritage week
Pedro Almodovar will be the patron of the first European Cinema Heritage Week (November 15-23, 2002) which aims to raise awareness of European cinema and to promote discussion of the visual image.Launching the Heritage Week in Cannes, European Commissioner Viviane Reding said 'the European public will discover the great films ...
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Columbia launches German arthouse distribution division
The German office of Columbia TriStar Film has launched Columbia Pictures Art Selection - a classics-style division for the theatrical release of arthouse titles.The first releases will be Ed Harris's biopic Pollock on June 6, Marleen Gorris' Nabokov adaptation The Luzhin Defence (Sept 5) and Fred Schepsi's Last Orders (Oct ...
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Tristan And Isolde involved in double shooting
Start-up production company Octagon Films will co-produce a version of Tristan And Isolde with Ridley Scott's Scott Free, to be directed by Kevin Reynolds - while at the same time Intermedia and Metropolitan Filmexport have teamed to finance and sell their own Tristan & Iseult, to which Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) ...
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Europa Cinemas increases network to 896 screens
The MEDIA Programme's exhibition initiative Europa Cinemas has added 171 screens in 28 European cities to its network, bringing the total number of screens getting support from MEDIA Plus for programming European films, to 896 in 356 cinemas located in 201 cities in 17 countries.Combined with other similar cultural supporting ...
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20th Century Fox taps new Euros 246m German production fund
20th Century Fox is tapping a new Euros 246m German production fund for three of its projects; The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Down With Love and Just Married.Mediastream III, set up by financial services company Ideenkapital and regional savings banks in Cologne and Duesseldorf, will invite private German individuals ...
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Advanced Medien agrees settlement with Wolfgang Petersen
German rights trader Advanced Medien and film director Wolfgang Petersen have reached a settlement in the lawsuit regarding mutual contract fulfilment, which had been dragging on since August 2001. As part of the settlement both parties agreed to abandon the suits they had filed before a US civil court and ...
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Intermedia co-founders step down from board of directors
Internationalmedia (IM) co-founders Guy East and Nigel Sinclair have stepped down from the board of directors and entered into a three-year producing deal with the company. At the same time, Graham King, President and CEO of the IM Group subsidiary IEG, will join the executive board.The move comes just two ...
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Dream Work takes top prize at Oberhausen shorts fest
Austrian filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky's visual poem Dream Work won the Grand Prize at this year's Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (May 2-7)The jury awarded two other prizes to Stephane Elmadjian's Je M'Appelle and Luciano Larobina's documentary Los Zapatos De Zapata, while the Arte Prize for European Short Film went to ...
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Helkon severs TV ties with Buena Vista International
The German outpost of Buena Vista International (BVI) and local distributor Helkon have formally ended BVI Television's representation of Helkon titles in German speaking territories.In fact , at the end of last year, Helkon had unilaterally announced that the arrangement with BVI was over, as the US major failed to ...
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Sweet Sixteen, Deux, 10 Minutes Older picked up by ottfilm
Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen, which will premiere in competition in Cannes on May 21, is one of three new titles picked up by German theatrical distributor ottfilm. The Berlin-based outfit has also picked up another two Road Movies productions: Werner Schroeter's German-French co-production Deux -which will be screening in ...
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Germany's KirchPayTV files for insolvency
The crisis-ridden KirchGroup's pay TV unit KirchPayTV has been forced to file for insolvency a month after the KirchMedia holding company filed for insolvency and self-administration.The pay-TV unit and several of its subsidiaries opened insolvency proceedings in a Munich court today (Wednesday May 8). Kirch Marketing Services was expected ...
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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 ...