All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 216
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Wim Wenders produces Berlin cinema
Film director Wim Wenders has joined forces with distributor Christoph Ott of ottfilm and exhibitors Gerhard Gross and Burkhard Voiges of the Hackesche Hoefe cinemas to re-launch one of Berlin's oldest cinemas, the KANT Kino, which first opened its doors in 1912.Most recently, the cinema in Berlin's Charlottenburg district had ...
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Euro MEDIA Programme supports 36 initiatives
Three industry events at the forthcoming Berlinale (February 6-17) are among 36 initiatives which have been awarded over Euros 2.8m by the European Commission's MEDIA Programme as part of its support for promotional measures and film festivals.The Berlin-based events are: the European Film Promotion's (EFP) Shooting Stars showcase of rising ...
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Graz fest highlights three filmmakers
Filmmakers Heddy Honigmann, Gustav Deutsch and Alexander Hammid are the subject of special sidebars being staged at this year's Diagonale showcase of Austrian cinema in Graz from March 18-24, 2002.Dutch filmmaker Honigmann will attend the festival's homage of her oeuvre, while a tribute is being dedicated to filmmaker and artist ...
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UIP retains German box office crown
UIP held onto pole position at the German box office in 2001 with a 20.5% market share, according to ACNielsen/EDI figures, but Warner Bros. was the year's big winner as it more than doubled its share of the market from 2000's 8.3% to 18.8.% thanks in particular to the end-of-year ...
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ApolloProMedia fund to back Borderline
Evelyn Purcell's psychological thriller Borderline, starring Gina Gershon (Driven) and Chris Noth (Sex And The City), is to be backed by the German ApolloProMedia private film fund.This is the second feature to be backed by the new fund after it committed to back Michael J. Bassett's Untitled Great War Project ...
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Catherine Buresi named chief exec of EAVE
Catherine Buresi has been named the successor to Raymond Ravar as chief executive of the MEDIA Programme-supported, Brussels-based European producers training programme EAVE (Les Entrepreneurs De L'Audiovisuel Europeen).A graduate herself of EAVE's 1995 session, Buresi was in charge of the audiovisual policy of the City of Strasbourg and head of ...
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Germany's Red Beat announces 10-picture slate
Berlin-based production house Red Beat Pictures has announced an ambitious slate of ten feature projects after almost two years dedicated to project development since its launch in April 2000 by partners Herbert Gehr, Michael Helfrich and Ali Eckert.This year should see a May start on production at locations in Berlin, ...
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Berlin reveals competition, world premiere titles
The first round of competition titles to be announced for the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival (6 - 17 February) includes six world premieres and a strong European slant.The world premieres lined up for the official competition section include:Heaven by Tom Twyker (opening film)Amen by Constantin Costa-GavrasDer Felsen (A Map ...
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Germany's Senator welcomes Fabritius
After months of speculation as to his next destination, former Arthaus Filmverleih managing director Juergen Fabritius has been appointed as one of the managing directors at Senator Film Verleih with responsibility for marketing and distribution for releases in the German language area.According to a German press report, Bernd Tietze will ...
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Bertelsmann increases RTL Group shareholding
Germany's Bertelsmann is to increase its current 67% majority shareholding in the radio and television holding RTL Group by acquiring the 22% stake held by the Pearson Group. The remaining11% is held by the public as free-float.As part of the purchase agreement, Pearson will be paid Euros 1.5bn for its ...
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Wenders, Scorsese support 1st Int'l Frankfurt fest
Wim Wenders and Martin Scorsese have been recruited as supporters of the 1st Frankfurt International Film Festival which is launched on January 9 with Herve Le Roux's comedy On Appelle Ca ... Le Printemps.While Wenders has agreed to serve as the patron for this year's event (January 9-16), which builds ...
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Minoes to open Berlinale Kinderfilmfest
Belgian director Vincent Bal's Minoes will be the opening film of the Berlinale's children's film sidebar, the Kinderfilmfest, which will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2002.Among the other films already confirmed for the competition lineup of films for 4-14 year-olds are the feature debut A Passage To Ottawa by ...
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Senator sells 29 titles to Universal Germany
Germany's Senator Entertainment has sold a package of some 29 video/DVD titles, including: America's Sweethearts, The Others, Black Hawk Down, Lammbock and Mondscheintarif to Universal Pictures Germany.The deal, which covers the German language market, is valued at a double-digit million Euros amount, according to both partners, and Senator is looking ...
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New German talent premieres for Ophuels Prize
World premieres of Oliver Rihs' Brombeerchen, Zueli Aladag's Elefantenherz and Almut Getto's Fickende Fische are among the 18 films by up-and-coming German-language filmmakers selected for the official competition of the Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival in Saarbruecken (January 22-27, 2002).For the 2002 edition, 14 of the competition films are either ...
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KirchMedia sells Mediaset stake for Euros 120m
Christmas has come early for German media mogul Leo Kirch after his free-TV division KirchMedia sold its 1.28% stake in Italy's Mediaset for Euros 120m. The transaction is part of an ongoing strategy by KirchMedia to focus its business operations on the German language market ahead of its planned merger ...
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Kinowelt Medien AG files for insolvency
Embattled German distributor Kinowelt yesterday (Dec 19) filed insolvency proceedings in the Munich courts.The company described the move as a "precautionary measure" but also said that the move had been triggered by the failure of talks which had been taking place with ABN AMRO Bank over the repayment of a ...
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Sony subsids join German lobby group
Sony Pictures Entertainment's German film and television production arms Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion (DCPF) and Columbia TriStar Film und Fernsehproduktions (CTFF) have become the 21st and 22nd members of Germany's producer lobby group film20."I am very pleased that Deutsche Columbia Pictures was accepted as a member of film20 and ...
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Kloiber plans assault on Kirch pay-TV domination
Herbert Kloiber's Tele Muenchen Group (TMG) and digital and interactive TV service company GET ON AIR are planning an ambitious 2002 launch of three German digital pay-TV channels to compete with Leo Kirch's high-profile Premiere World. The partners' timetables sees cartoon channel Toongate going on air in March, with action ...
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Euro Pitch Point selects 12 projects for Berlinale
An international jury composed of Eurimages' executive secretary Renate Roginas, Senator Film Produktion's managing director Benjamin Herrmann, Road Movies' Uli Felsberg, Maestranza Films' Antonio P. Perez, and Renaissance Film's Angus Finney has selected 12 feature film ideas to be pitched by their writers at the 3rd European Pitch Point on ...
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60's retrospective, 'shooting stars' at Berlinale
European cinema of the 1960s will be the theme of the 2002 Berlinale's Retrospective. In addition, a special 'Shooting Stars' film programme will be staged by pan-European promotion body European Film Promotion (EFP). Commenting on the 60s Retrospective, which has been organised by the Filmmuseum Berlin - Deutsche Kinemathek, festival ...