All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 215
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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 ...
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Utopia Blues triumphs at Swiss Film Awards
Utopia Blues was the big winner at this year's Swiss Film Awards.Directed by Stefan Haupt, the film took home the honours in the best feature and best actor categories at an awards ceremony held at this week's Solothurn Film Days. The film's star, Michael Finger, has also been selected as ...
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German crits awards snub triple nominees
Christian Petzold's The State I Am In and Achim von Borries' England! picked up two awards each in this year's round of honours by the German film critics association Verband Der Deutschen Filmkritik. Andreas Dresen's The Policewoman (Die Polizistin) and Ben Verbong's family film The Slurb (Das Sams) both came ...
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Premiere World adds Kofler, loses Liberty
German entrepreneur Dr. Georg Kofler (pictured) has been enticed back into the Kirch empire to head up the debt-ridden digital pay TV platform Premiere World. At the same time, US cable operator Liberty Media has surprisingly withdrawn an application submitted to the German cartel office for clearance to take a ...
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Helkon severs ties with Buena Vista International
German media concern Helkon Media has severed its last link with the local outpost of Buena Vista International (BVI) by ending its booking and billing arrangement for the German theatrical release of its films after ending its TV output agreement with BVI at the end of last year.In future, Helkon ...
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Venture capitalist funds EM.TV share acquisition
Dutch venture capital company Constant Ventures is to finance EM.TV board chairman Werner Klatten's acquisition of shares in the company.In an agreement signed on Jan 14 with Klatten's company: WKB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Constant Ventures will secure finance for WKB to acquire 36.16m EM.TV shares. On the basis of the current ...
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Berlinale Panorama: two thirds confirmed
New films by Lynne Stopkewitch, Mika Kaurismaki, Monica Treut, Ventura Pons and Marius Holst are among the films which have been confirmed so far as two-thirds of the line-up for the Berlinale's Panorama section.26 nations will be participating with films in the Panorama's main programme and the Panorama Dokumente and ...
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Policewoman, Slurb rule German Critics nominations
Andreas Dresen's The Policewoman (Die Polizistin) and Ben Verbong's family film The Slurb (Das Sams) have each bagged three nominations from the German critics association (Verband der Deutschen Filmkritik) for this year's German Film Critics Prize Both films are nominated in the Best Film category along with Oliver Hirschbiegel's The ...
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IM profit warning clouds Spyglass deal
Neuer Markt-listed Internationalmedia's (IM) announcement that it will miss its 2001 targets has clouded analyst enthusiasm about the Spyglass takeover deal and sent shares falling by over 20% to Euros 18 by mid-afternoon Monday (Jan 14).In an ad.hoc announcement for the Spyglass transaction, IM also declared that "according to first ...
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Hamburg's public film fund under threat
The German city of Hamburg's status as a film and TV production location is under serious threat following plans by the new Senate to slash almost $915,000 (DM 2m) from the 2002 budget for the city's public FilmFoerderung film fund.Until now, the city's cultural and economic senates had each contributed ...
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Three KirchGroup companies renamed
The KirchGroup's three holding companies are to be renamed as a consequence of the planned merger of ProSiebenSat.1 and KirchMedia this June.Thus, KirchHolding will then be known as TaurusHolding, KirchPayTV as Premiere Medien, and KirchBeteiligung as TaurusBeteiligung, while the name KirchMedia will be retained for the new merged company.Commenting on ...