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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 ...
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German banks provide KirchMedia with Euros 100m
German banks Commerzbank, HypoVereinsbank, Bayerische Landesbank, and DZ Bank have reportedly agreed to provide the crisis-ridden KirchGroup's KirchMedia with Euros 100m working capital to enable the company, which filed for Chapter 11 at the beginning of last week, to continue operations as a going concern. This cash boost will also ...
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Morocco to get two new film production studios
The Moroccan film industry is set to for a major boost with the announcement of ambitious plans for two studio complexes at Ouarzazate, a town 200 kilometres south of Marrakesh, at the foot of the Atlas Mountains. Dagham Film, owned by Moroccan-born businessman Mohamed El Asli, who spent 25 years ...
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Constantin takes majority stake in Rat Pack
Germany's Constantin Film has added to its portfolio of 'satellite' production houses by taking a 51% majority stake in Christian Becker and Anita Schneider's new outfit Rat Pack Filmproduktion The new film and TV production company, in which director Sebastian Niemann and writers Juergen Egger and Alexander Ruemelin hold minority ...
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German animation studio to close after just two years
After just two years in the German market, animation production outfit Ellipse Deutschland Film und Fernsehproduktion has shut up shop following the decision by its French parent Expand to pursue a course of consolidation after group losses last year. Despite Ellipse Deutschland's success with the setting up of the international ...
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First programmes for Cologne Conference selected
The German premieres of the World War II series Band Of Brothers, produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, American Beauty author Akan Ball's black comedy Six Feet Under and Swiss documentary filmmaker Christian Frei's Oscar-nominated War Photographer are among the international productions being lined up for the 12th International ...
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Murdoch seen moving in on KirchPayTV
The prospect of the KirchGroup's pay TV unit KirchPayTV filing for insolvency is now appearing 'extremely unlikely', according to a report in the German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag (WamS).Sources close to talks told the newspaper that Rupert Murdoch is allegedly prepared to stump up Euros 600m to increase his ...
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Germany's RTL denies plans to acquire Constantin stake
Private German broadcaster RTL has denied claims made by EM.TV Board Chairman Werner Klatten at a press conference last week that the RTL Group is interested in acquiring a stake in distributor-producer Constantin Film. The suggestion that RTL might be interested in taking an interest in Constantin is arguably not ...
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Insolvent KirchMedia begins rights renegotiations
Debt-ridden media mogul Leo Kirch finally filed insolvency proceedings for the KirchMedia division of his KirchGroup empire yesterday morning (April 8).A provisional insolvency administrator Dr. Michael Jaffe was appointed by the Munich administrative court. Shortly after, consultants Wolfgang van Betteray and Hans-Joachim Ziems were named as a "turnaround management" team ...
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Germany's RTL buys three Intermedia titles
Pursuing an 'all rights' strategy, German private broadcaster RTL Television has acquired German rights for three titles - K-PAX, K-19 and Basic - from Intermedia Film, in what is described as the beginning of a business relationship.RTL's co-operative agreement with theatrical distributor Constantin Film for Germany and Austria, will see ...
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Refinanced Senator favours one Joe over another
German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment's deal with Joe Roth's Revolution Studios is likely to be revised as part of a wide-ranging review of its financial and production strategies. Joe Drake's Senator International sales arm is likely to be expanded.The news emerged as Senator signed a three-year Euros230m syndicated loan agreement with ...