All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 217
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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 ...
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Schmid wins prestigious Hof film award
Hans-Christian Schmid, director of last year's box-office and critical success Crazy, was awarded this year's Film Prize of the Town of Hof at the International Hof Film Days (October 24-28) joining past filmmakers including Wim Wenders, Doris Doerrie, Tom Tykwer, Detlev Buck and Werner Herzog, all of whom have ...
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German cinema admissions to rise by 9% in 2001
German cinema admissions are expected to rise by 9% this year to 166m, according to a new report. In comparison, French admissions are expected to reach between 172m and 180m, while in the UK they are predicted to reach at least 148m for 2001.According to German HypoVereinsbank (HVB) Equity Research ...
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H5B5 issues sales and profit warning
German media company H5B5 Media has issued a sales and profit warning for the current and coming financial years due to "the reserved purchasing behaviour of German and international television stations". The Munich-based company now expects sales for the current year to be on the same level as 2000 (DM ...
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Germany's Bavaria takes controllong stake in Odeon
Munich-based Bavaria Film has become a major shareholder in the publicly-listed Odeon Film by increasing its interest to 50.01%.Bavaria Film had originally held a 32% stake in Odeon at the time of its IPO in spring 1999, but had gradually increased its shareholding in the intervening period.An adhoc announcement released ...
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peppermint adds six titles to Mifed slate
German sales company peppermint has added another six titles to its new film division's MIFED slate bringing the line-up to 14 films for its market premiere.Leading the raft of the latest peppermint pickups is US production outfit Interlight's $28m film noir thriller White Jazz, which is currently in pre-production and ...
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SunriseMediaStar fund lines up partners
Pierce Brosnan's Irish production outfit DreamTime, veteran producer Wayne Duband's Screen Corporation Limited (SCL), France's TF 1 and Ireland's Mc Films are being lined up as production partners for the new Euros 50m private film fund SunriseMediaStar.Sunrise's managing director Nadia Saleh plans to provide financing for between six to seven ...
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ProSiebenSat.1 suffers nine-month profit dive
The slowdown in the German advertising market has pushed down the earnings of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group in the first three quarters of 2001. Consolidated revenues of Euros 1.419 billion were posted as of September 30, down 4.5% on last year's Euro 1.486 billion. While the consolidated pre-tax result was Euros ...
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IMAX format films to showcase at Berlinale 2001
A selection of past and present large format IMAX films are set to be shown in a special sidebar at next year's Berlinale.The showcase, which will be spread over three days during the festival, will be screened at the two IMAX cinemas at the festival's Potsdamer Platz venue - in ...
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Berlinale films may be influenced by Sept 11deaths
The film selection for next year's Berlin Film Festival will almost certainly be influenced by the terror attacks of September 11, according to festival chief Dieter Kosslick.In an interview with the German film magazine Film-Echo, Kosslick declared: "when I view films at the moment, I am particularly sensitised. My reception ...
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EFA to host international film festival conference
The first ever conference of international film festival directors has been scheduled during the European Film Awards (EFA) weekend in Berlin from November 29 to December 2.The unprecedented event will see the Berlinale's Dieter Kosslick and UK film critic Derek Malcolm chair a conference entitled "Film Festivals In The Spotlight ...
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Manitu becomes all-time German champion
After 14 weeks on release, this year's surprise summer hit Der Schuh Des Manitu has broken the 15-year record held by comedy Otto - Der Film to become the most successful German film since records began, in 1980.Michael "Bully" Herbig's Western parody clocked up total admissions of more than 8.85 ...
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Omirbajev's Jol to open FilmFestival Cottbus
Kazakh filmmaker Dareshan Omirbajev's Jol will open this year's FilmFestival Cottbus (October 31 - November 4) which has developed into a leading international showcase spotlighting the range of production from Eastern Europe and Central Asia. German producer Peter Rommel, Directors Fortnight selector Jacques Gerber and Russian actor Ivan Shvedoff ...
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ottfilm announces further distribution deal
Following the sealing of a distribution co-operation with the German office of UIP at the end of August, new theatrical distributor ottfilm has reached a further agreement with the Munich-based Filmwelt Verleih Agentur.Filmwelt, which also handles films on an agency basis for TiMe Medienvertrieb, Advanced Filmverleih and zoomfilm.de, will be ...
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Cobalt taps into German WorldWide Picture Fund
Cobalt, the London and Los Angeles-based sales and financing house, is tapping into German financing through a Euro 100m fund being launched by local studio facility Studio Hamburg and the German arm of ING Bank.The partners are to finance around seven international pictures budgeted up to $20m each through the ...
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peppermint to launch film distribution at Mifed
The German international sales sector has seen some movement with the news that the German TV distributor peppermint is to launch a feature film distribution arm at the forthcoming MIFED market with eight titles, including Ralf Huettner's romantic comedy Moonlight Tariff (Mondscheintarif) and Stefan Jaeger's digitally shot Birthday.As part of ...
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Germany's MBP launches family entertainment fund
Low budget family entertainment features are the focus of a new film fund being launched by Munich-based financier MBP whose past credits include Istvan Szabo's Taking Sides, Fred Schepisi's Last Orders and Jimmy Murakami's animation feature Christmas Carol.MBP NY 121 (NY 121 refers to MBP's address in Munich's Nymphenburger Strasse) ...
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Hamburg film fund invests in production support
New film projects by Margarethe von Trotta, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Volker Schloendorff, and Rolf Schuebel have received backing in the latest round of funding by Hamburg's regional public film fund FilmFoerderung Hamburg. A total of $1.2m (DM2.6m) production support was given to von Trotta's Rosenstrasse project, which will begin shooting ...
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Oberhausen to analyse Catastrophe as media event
The ways in which catastrophes become media events will be the focus of the Special Programme at next year's edition of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (2-7 May 2002).The events of September 11 have given the programme a new topicality and resonance which had not been anticipated when preparations ...