All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 214
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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 ...
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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 ...