All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 211
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Magicworx adds three English lang titles to slate
Munich-based production outfit Magicworx, a division of the international production and distribution 2K Group, is lining up three English-language projects to co-produce this year. Locations in Mexico or the South Pacific will serve as the setting for UK director Simon Hunter's thriller Savage Surf which will be produced by Magicworx ...
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Germany's Allmedia moves into feature production
Munich-based production outfit Allmedia is to expand into feature film production with the arrival of Uwe Schott as a joint managing director alongside Heike Richter-Karst."We have built up a reputation for quality TV productions and now the next step is to establish a feature film strand which can benefit from ...
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Degeto buys six-pack from Prokino
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's multi-Oscar nominee Amelie heads a six-title package acquired from theatrical distributor Prokino by the ARD's central purchasing agency DEGETO Film for screening on the public TV network.The package's other titles are Wong Kar-wai's In The Mood Of Love, Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding, Matthias Lehmann's comedy DoppelPack, Philippa Cousins' ...
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Russian film industry comes in from the cold
The Russian film industry is gearing up to return to the international film-making community, but this time with government backing, as opposed to the fluctuating private investment that has market previous production activityThe days when Russian film producers were treated like Third World countries may now be over, attendees were ...
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Berlin to support foreign film production
The Berlinale is set to join other European film festivals in finding ways of supporting filmmakers from developing countries in the production of their films.Inspired by the examples of Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund, Locarno's Montecinemaverita, and Bruges' Cinemanovo Film Festival Fund, Berlinale chief Dieter Kosslick would like to see provision ...
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FIAPF re-categorises Locarno film festival
Previously specialised in young cinema, the Locarno festival is to become a generalist event from this year."FIAPF moved us to the general festival category which will give us freedom to choose what we want, although our focus will still be on new cinema", said artistic director Irene Bignardi during the ...
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Wild Bunch seals raft of deals at EFM
French sales agent Wild Bunch has completed a swathe of sales on its huge European Film Market slate. Competition film Spirited Away was confirmed as going to Pathe for UK and Switzerland, RAI Cinema for Italy and Central Partnership Russia. After buying City Of God at Sundance for the US ...
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Gilliam to exec produce Quay Bros' next feature
Two of the Berlinale's "Vision Day" panelists have revealed details of the new projects they are hatching.Terry Gilliam, in town for Lost In La Mancha, will serve as executive producer on the Quay Brothers' long-anticipated second feature The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes. "Audiences are searching for a chance to journey ...
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Berlinale confirms status as new-talent event
Two of the Berlinale's "Vision Day" panelists have revealed details of the new projects they are hatching.Terry Gilliam, in town for Lost In La Mancha, will serve as executive producer on the Quay Brothers' long-anticipated second feature The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes. "Audiences are searching for a chance to journey ...
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New German production outfit seeks US product
Framewerk's Stefan Jonas and three partners have launched the new Munich-based international production outfit SRO Entertainment AG.SRO - which stands for Standing Room Only - will be represented in Los Angeles by Michael Ovitz's AMG and top lawyer Larry Hirsch to access top quality projects from the US."Our plan is ...
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Kinowelt's fate to be determined by March 2002
A final decision on the fate of the debt-ridden Kinowelt Medien Group is likely to be made by the second half of March, according to the provisional insolvency administrator Dr. Wolfgang Ott.In a status report to the end of January on his efforts with Kinowelt's management and the creditor banks ...
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German exhibitors boycott All Industry Meeting
German exhibitors' association Hauptverband Deutscher Filmtheater (HDF) last week boycotted an All Industry Meeting on joint marketing measures in response to critical comments made about it in an internal memo by the distributors' association Verband der Filmverleiher (VdF). HDF - which represents more than half of the German exhibition sector, ...
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Screenwriters to get equal billing at Berlinale
Less than a year after the threat of a screenwriters' strike stuck fear into the heart of Hollywood, the Berlinale is to change its rules on recognition for scriptwriting.From next year the Berlinale will give writers equal credit with directors and lead actors in the listing of all festival films. ...
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Contact Berlin feature line-up confirmed
New feature projects from the UK, Spain, Denmark and France are among 12 films being presented to key potential financiers at the "Contact Berlin" financing platform being held at this year's Berlinale from February 9-10.The line-up of projects include:The Body In The Yard (AGAT Films & Cie, France)The Bum's Rush ...
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Nazi image set to fire up Berlin film festival
A crucifix parodied as a Nazi swastika, hung only a few hundred metres from Hitler's famous bunker in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, is certain to spark controversy at the Berlin festival as well as among the city's populace.The gruesome image (pictured) is the poster for Costa-Gavras' Amen, which gets its ...
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Germany's VIP fund to back Richter's The I Inside
Munich-based Film & Entertainment VIP Medienfonds (VIP) is to back the first English-language project by Der Tunnel director Roland Suso Richter.VIP is to supply just over half of the budget for The I Inside which will go into production in March by Rudy Cohen's RCD Productions with a cast understood ...
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Bavaria Film Int'l, X-Filme expand relationship
German world sales company Bavaria Film International (BFI) and X-Filme Creative Pool, producer of the Berlinale's opening film Heaven, have agreed to expand their existing working relationship."Our goal is to intensify the co-operation with X Filme on an informal basis, which could go over and above the world sales business ...
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France, Spain and UK dominate Cartoon market
More than half of the 42 feature projects selected for this year's Cartoon Movie market (March 14 - 16) to be presented to investors and distributors come from animation production companies from France, Spain and the UK.As the leading centre for animation in Europe, France leads the field with 10 ...
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Korean, Canadian shorts featured at Dresden fest
Short films from South Korea and Canada will be specially featured in the sidebar section of this year's Filmfest Dresden (April 16-21).The Filmfest is working with the Korean producer-distributor Indiestory to compile an overview of the largely unknown Korean short film scene, while the sidebar entitled "A Decade of Canadian ...
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Blanchett among Golden Camera award winners
Actresses Cate Blanchett and Heike Makatsch and actor Heino Ferch are among the prize-winners of the 37th Golden Camera Awards which will be presented by the German TV and radio listings magazine Hoer Zu in Berlin today, on the eve of this year's film festival.Blanchett, who stars opposite Giovanni Ribisi ...