All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 212
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Germany's Splendid reports 150% sales growth
Germany's Neuer Markt-listed Splendid Medien reported a 150% year-on-year growth in sales and positive earnings before tax, according to provisional figures for the 2001 financial year. The final financial report will not be presented until March 28.The Cologne-based company reported that the preliminary sales for 2001 are approximately Euros 68m ...
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German media companies reorganise funds
EM.TV & Merchandising has parted with its shares in Hamburg-based TFC Holding, Israel's Talit.TV & Communications and Stockholm-based Plus Licens AB as part of its strategic reorientation.EM.TV had acquired the holdings during the Neuer Markt's boom phase between September 1999 and February 2000, but the decision to sell was taken ...
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Fiennes takes lead in $10m Luther biopic
UK actor Joseph Fiennes has signed up to play religious reformer Martin Luther in a $10m feature film biopic to be directed by Eric Till.Luther, the story of a simple monk challenging the political and religious leadership of his time will also feature Peter Ustinov, Bruno Ganz, Mathieu Carriere, ...
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Roxie takes US rights to Richter's The Tunnel
US distributor Roxie Releasing picked up US rights for Roland Suso Richter's The Tunnel from Beta Cinema at this week's Rotterdam Film Festival.Having monitored the film's success at festivals in Montreal (where it won the audience award), Vancouver (placed second in audience choice after Amelie) and the Toronto Film Festival's ...
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Berlin's new Perspective sidebar & Vision Day
The 99 Euro-Films omnibus project will open the Berlinale's new sidebar "Perspective of German Cinema" which is described by the organisers as "a voyage of discovery and adventure through the entire spectrum of German cinema from fictional and experimental films to documentaries". 99 Euro-Films, which comprises 12 short ...
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Kinowelt to exit German Neue Markt
Germany's Kinowelt Medien has withdrawn its listing on the Neuer Markt as of Feb 22 and will transfer its stock to the Regulated Market from Feb 25.Brothers Michael and Rainer Koelmel and the provisional insolvency administrator Dr. Wolfgang Ott decided on the change to the "more suitable segment" of the ...
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European Film Market on target for record year
The Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) is looking forward to a vintage year, with record-breaking levels of registrations, screenings and exhibitors. According to market director Beki Probst, over 120 companies from more than 30 countries were already booked by last November, with three new exhibitors attending the EFM for the ...
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Das Werk picks up $17m worth of work
The international postproduction group Das Werk has won contracts worth $17.2m (Euros 20m) which will keep its feature film facilities working to capacity throughout 2002.LA-based subsidiary CFX has been awarded a $10m contract to handle the effects on an unnamed Warner Bros./Village Roadshow project as well as $3m worth of ...
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Japanese pick-up for Brussels Avenue
Brussels-based world sales outfit Brussels Ave has picked up world distribution rights on Japanese documentary filmmaker Seiichi Motohashi's Alexei And The Spring (Alexei To Izumi) which will be screened in the International Forum of New Cinema at the forthcoming Berlinale. In addition, Brussels Ave is handling Anne Wild's short drama ...
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IMAX symposium during Berlinale
The large-format films Skydance and Horses: The Story Of Equuus, Kilimanjaro are to be screened during this year's Berlinale by Euromax, the European association of the large format industry at its 8th European Large Format Filmmakers Symposium .The four-day event, which will be held from Feb 10-13 at the Cinestar ...
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Constantin expands successful partnership
Germany's Constantin Film is to expand its successful relationship with Achterbahn Film (AF) to include a first-look deal on AF's first live-action production, Wie Die Karnickel, written by Der Bewegte Mann author Ralf Koenig.The new deal goes beyond the current distribution agreement, which covers the theatrical release of the next ...
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Kinowelt sells media[netCom] stake
As part of its ongoing consolidation and focusing on so-called core business, the beleaguered Kinowelt Medien Group has offloaded its 7.7% stake in the Marburg-based media[netCom] AG by selling 622,222 shares at the current market price to three financial investors who had hitherto not held any shares in the ...
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Panorama programme revealed for Berlinale
Films by China's Feng Xiaogang (Big Shot's Funeral), Spain's Antonio Hernandez (The City Of No Limits), Hong Kong's Ann Hui (July Rhapsody) and documentaries by Lindsey Merrison (Friends In High Places), Bill Weber and David Weissman (The Cockettes) and Jaime Camino (The Children Of Russia) are among the last dozen ...
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Berlin's Forum Of New Cinema unveiled
Films from Argentina, Tunisia, Morocco, Eastern Europe, Vietnam and Korea have been selected for this year's International Forum of New Cinema at the Berlinale, which will be the first edition under the direction of Christoph Terhechte as successor to Ulrich Gregor. As in previous years, "the emphasis is firmly on ...
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Berlin's official competition line-up announced
German cinema features prominently in the official competition section of next month's Berlinale, the first under new director Dieter Kosslick's leadership.Echoing the wide range of films now coming out of Germany, four of the main competition titles are German:Tom Tykwer's opening film Heaven, starring Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi; digitally ...
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Cinepool picks up films for Berlin market
Austrian filmmakers Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl's drama Nogo and Oliver Dommenget's children's film Help I'm A Boy! will be given their market premieres by Munich-based world sales outfit Cinepool at the forthcoming European Film Market in Berlin.Produced by Dor Film, Nogo stars hot young German acting talent such as ...
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TV Loonland boosts US presence
German integrated media group TV-Loonland has intensified its presence in the US market by forming a production alliance with Artists Management Group's (AMG) Animation & Family Entertainment department to produce a minimum of four animated television series over the next three years.Co-founded by former Disney president Michael Ovitz, Rick ...
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Fourth German film selected for Berlin competition
German cinema is really being put in the spotlight at the upcoming Berlinale (February 6-17) with the news that a fourth local film - Andreas Dresen's Halbe Treppe - has been selected to screen in the festival's Official Competition section.This latest addition joins Tom Tykwer's Heaven, which will open the ...
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Bavarian Film Awards honour Berlin competitor
With less than three weeks to go to the Berlin International Film Festival, Official Competition entry A Map Of The Heart (Der Felsen) was amongst the main winners at this year's Bavarian Film Awards.Directed by Dominik Graf, the melodrama won the producer prize for MTM Medien & Television Muenchen, which ...
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Shooting Stars assemble for Berlin festival
Germany's Antonio Wannek, the UK's Lucy Russell and France's Rachida Brakni are among the up-and-coming actors and actresses being feted at the Berlin International Film Festival by the Shooting Stars initiative for promoting European talent.Oscar-winning director Istvan Szabo will introduce the 17 young actors and actresses to the press and ...