All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 217
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Liberty confirms German operational base
US media group Liberty Media will base its German operations in Munich and create up to 10,000 new jobs throughout Germany. After meeting with Bavaria's prime-minister Edmund Stoiber in Berlin, Liberty's chairman John Malone declared that "the density of television stations and internet companies around Munich had been a deciding ...
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Germany's Senator postpones three releases
German theatrical distributor Senator Film has announced that it will hold over three planned winter releases until early 2002. This follows a recent Constantin Film postponement of nine of its planned 25-film line-up for 2001 to next year (Screendaily, Oct 14 2001)The anticipated clogging up of screens with a handful ...
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Media Salles launches exhibition training scheme
MEDIA Salles, the cinema exhibition initiative of the European Union's MEDIA Programme, has launched a training strand for exhibitors with particular attention to the main trends shaping today's cinema industry and to the demands of audiences of European films.The first of the courses in the series "European Cinema Exhibition - ...
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Germany delights to Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 2 took pole position at the German box office over the weekend with $4.4m and a site average of $6,584 from its 663 prints in the penultimate opening weekend before Harry Potter arrives in Germany on an anticipated 1,000-odd screens on November 22; In terms of admissions, the ...
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Eurocinema TV channel proposed by EC minister
The President of the European Council of Audiovisual Ministers, Richard Miller, announced at the Strasbourg Forum of European Cinema in the European Parliament that he had personally earmarked funds for a feasibility study on the creation of a 'Eurocinema' television channel. The pan-European channel would feature European films, film education ...
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Eurocinema TV channel proposed by EC minister
The President of the European Council of Audiovisual Ministers, Richard Miller, announced at the Strasbourg Forum of European Cinema in the European Parliament that he had personally earmarked funds for a feasibility study on the creation of a 'Eurocinema' television channel. The pan-European channel would feature European films, film education ...
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Kayser exits German Premiere World
Less than two months after the rapid exit of Manfred Puffer from the management of the debt-ridden pay-TV service Premiere World and just a couple of weeks after Rupert Murdoch suggested that he might consider bailing out of the German platform (Screen Daily, Nov 2001), Ferdinand Kayser has announced that ...
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Black Box BRD wins Euro documentary award
Andres Veiel's Black Box BRD has been named as the winner of this year's European Documentary Award - Prix Arte which will be presented at the forthcoming European Film Awards in Berlin on December 1. The decision by the Documentary Jury of producer-filmmaker Jens Meurer, director Cinzia Torrini and Warsaw ...
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Second Global Motion Pictures fund launched
The Frankfurt-based IN-motion Group is behind the launching of a second private media fund to follow its Euros 15m first Global Motion Pictures Fonds (GMPF) which was brought on to the market in July. The Second Global Motion Pictures Fonds (GMPF 2) will be inviting private individuals to put ...
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German media sector sees further major changes
Advanced Medien, VCL Film + Medien, and FAME are the latest publicly listed German media companies forced by the 'unfavourable market environment" in the German media sector to embark on a radical strategic reorientation of their operations. Beleaguered producer-distributor Advanced Medien, whose share price has hovered just above oblivion for ...
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Target launches Euros50m media fund
Berlin-based Target Media Entertainment, who entered into a long-term, multi-picture deal with Warner Bros. Pictures Germany at the end of October (Screendaily, Oct 26 2001), has now launched a Euro 50m media fund to finance up to 15 live.action and animated German and English-language features.The production companies Comet Film (The ...
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Bertelsmann denies studio acquisition plans
Speculations that German media concern Bertelsmann might be interested in acquiring a Hollywood studio have been dashed once more by CEO Thomas Middelhoff. Speaking in an interview with the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit about his company's plans for the proceeds from the sales of its shares in AOL and ...
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German cinema admissions reach 10-year high
August's cinema admissions in Germany were the highest for 10 years, thanks to the combined success of Der Schuh Des Manitu Jurassic Park III and Bridget Jones, according to figures collated by the German Federal Film Board (FFA). August's tally of 17.6m admissions was 52% up on August 2000. Moreover, ...
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Kirch/ProSieben agrees management board
Agreement has been reached internally within the KirchGroup on the executives who will sit on the management board of the new company created from the merger of ProSiebenSAT.1 Media AG and KirchMedia by mid 2002, according to the business news service vwd.While Dieter Hahn is already designated as the ...
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Mannheim reveals debut directors' competition
Danish director Ake Sandgren's Truly Human (Et Rigtigt Menneske) is the opening film at the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg (November 8-17 2001) which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with a number of special events looking back over the past five decades with such filmmakers as Volker Schloendorff, ...
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Ex-EM.TV bosses to be prosecuted in Germany
Munich's public prosecutor's office is tabling charges against the former CEO Thomas Haffa and CFO Florian Haffa of one-time shareholders' darling EM.TV & Merchandising's on suspicion of them purposely concealing the true state of the company's shares. (Screendaily Dec 17, 2000)Senior public prosecutor Manfred Wick told the dpa news agency ...
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TV-Loonland takes 29.9% stake in Metrodome
UK DVD and video distributor Metrodome Group is set to boost its international, presence in the home entertainment sector following plans by Germany's TV-Loonland to acquire a 29.9% stake.Subject to receiving approval at an extraordinary general meeting on November 29, TV-Loonland will buy 4,184,250 new shares from Metrodome at a ...
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Gumpert joins Intermedia Film Equities
Former Universal Pictures executive vp Jon Gumpert has joined the Internationalmedia Group as vice chairman of Intermedia Film Equities USA, Inc.In his new post, Gumpert will be in charge of supervising worldwide feature film operations, including the structuring and financing of film projects, while further areas of responsibility will be ...
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European parliament proposes promotion fund
The creation of a European Promotion Fund and the "interconnecting" of existing automatic support funds in European Union member states are among a set of recommendations presented by European Parliament (EP) deputy Luckas Vander Taelen in a report "on achieving better circulation of European films in the internal market and ...
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Two new German media funds launched
A $15.4m (DM 33.2m) two-part TV biopic on the life of Italian automobile legend Enzo Ferrari is one of four projects lined up by Germany's Victory Media for its latest media fund, Victory MultiMediaFonds Private Placement which was launched on October 31.The $38.5m (DM 83.1m) fund intends to attract private ...