All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 218
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Germany's Constantin relinquishes Mandalay output
Germany's ConstantinFilm will not be renewing its output deal arrangement with Mandalay Pictures when it expires at the end of this year. The decision comes as the producer-distributor is drawing up a new strategy for filling its product pipeline for theatrical releases. As a recent bank analystreport observed, until now ...
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Cannes names new German correspondent
Cannes Film Festival has taken another step in its rapprochement with the German film industry by the naming of Berlin film journalist Christiane Peitz as the festival's new national correspondent to succeed Hans-Dieter Seidel.Peitz, who works for the arts pages of Berlin-based daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, will work closely with ...
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Helkon signs $9.1m package deal with RTL 2
The Mexican, The Contender and Brotherhood Of Wolf are among the titles in a Euros 10m film package deal of first and second run licences concluded by Helkon Media with private German broadcaster RTL 2 as part of new, comprehensive long-term programme between the two companies.Commenting on the programme of ...
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Pauline & Paulette scoops 5 Ghent Plateau awards
Belgium's entry for the Foreign Language Oscar: Pauline & Paulette by Lieven Debrauwer was the big winner at this year's "Joseph Plateau Awards" which were presented during the International Flanders Film Festival in Ghent.Five of the seven awards celebrating local Belgian filmmaking went to Debrauwer's film in the categories of ...
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KirchMedia reports strong first half performance
Releasing interim results for the first time, Geermany's KirchMedia has reported significant increases in sales and earnings for the six months to June 30 2001.While revenues climbed by 15% to $1.51bn (DM 3.247bn) and its EBITDA rose by 42% to $238.9m (DM 514m), the new corporate transparency showed that the ...
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Constantin postpones nine theatrical releases
German producer-distributor Constantin Film has "considerably" reduced its planned earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) for 2001 after deciding to postpone nine theatrical releases from the second half of this year until the beginning of 2002.Due to current developments in the German and US distribution markets, the EBIT for the ...
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German producers decry
The future of the German film and television sector is under serious threat from the Gerhard Schroeder administration's plans to introduce a new copyright bill to improve the situation of authors and performing artists, according to producer associations and the six major regional public funds.On the eve of Monday's public ...
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New German digital film prize is postponed
A new German film prize, the E-Motion Bytes Award, which was launched in January by the Hof Film Days and the Berlin-based production company Road Movies, for digitally-produced shorts of up to 10 minutes in length, has had its first awards event postponed from this year's festival (October 24-28) until ...
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First buzz films tipped for next year's Berlinale
New films by Wim Wenders, Tom Tykwer, Constantin Costa-Gavras and Rosa von Praunheim are among the first titles being tipped for an invitation to Dieter Kosslick's first Berlin festival as director.While Wim Wenders' music documentary Vill Passiert about the German rock dinosaurs BAP - to be distributed in Germany by ...
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EM.TV signs co-production deal with First Asia
Germany's EM.TV & Merchandising has signed a three-year co-production pact with First Asia Entertainment Productions Ltd (FAE) to collaborate on at least eight animation series with a programme volume of at least 208 half-hours of programming from EM.TV's portfolio until November 2004.The deal grants FAE free-TV, pay TV and home ...
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Helkon issues downgrade, Kinowelt issued ultimatum
Echoing the experience of several other publicly listed German media companies this year, producer/rights trader Helkon Media has downgraded its sales and earnings expectations for the 2000/2001 financial yearSales are now expected to total $111.9m (DM 240m) rather than the planned $148.2m (DM 318m), although this would still translate into ...
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New MD for Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures GmbH
Producer Gabriela Bacher has been appointed as the managing director of the soon-to-be founded Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures GmbH with responsibility for all media activities in Potsdam/Babelsberg and Los Angeles.Reporting directly to Vivendi Germany boss Thierry Potok, she will also take over the running of the studios from Gerhard Bergfried ...
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Intertainment, RTV announce appointments
Stephen Brown, the head of German film rights trader Intertainment's US operations and board member responsible for business development, has been appointed as the vice president and successor to David Williamson who has left the company by mutual agreement. Williamson's responsibility for legal affairs will now be assumed by CEO ...
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Korean debut wins Hamburg's Golden tesafilm reel
Korean director Kim Dae-Seung's first feature film Bungee Jumping Of Their Own has won the Filmfest Hamburg's 'Golden tesafilm Reel' audience award against competition from 10 other first-time filmmakers. Filmfest director Josef Wutz announced that more than 25,000 admissions were registered for the 148 screenings of the 81 films in ...
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Germany to get UK comedy TV adaptations
UK television comedy series Hale And Pace and drama series Reckless are being adapted by the German production arm of UK broadcaster Granada. Called Granada Produktion fuer Film und Fernsehen, the company aims to establish itself in the German market, through local adaptations of comedy and TV movies. Granada ...
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Constantin/Propaganda joint venture folds
ProCon Pictures LLC, the joint venture launched by Germany's Constantin Film and US production studio Propaganda Films to share the development, financing, production and exploitation of international cinema and TV projects has folded.The joint venture, which was established at the beginning of May 2000 had aimed to produce three to ...
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Production division is latest Kinowelt casualty
Cash-strapped Kinowelt Medien's production arm Kinowelt Filmproduktion has become the latest victim of the German media group's radical programme of restructuring.Redundancy slips have been handed out to all of the production arm's employees as well as to co-managing director Ulrich Limmer, whose contract would have been up for renewal at ...
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FFF Bayern awards funding for eight projects
New feature films by Margarethe von Trotta, Oskar Roehler, Doris Doerrie and Gavin Hood, are among eight projects awarded a total of $5.9m (DM 12.6m) production funding by the Bavarian public funder FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF) at its latest session.While the largest sum - $1.4m (DM 3m) - went to Gavin ...
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Premiere World carrying Fox News Channel
In response to the recent tragic events in the US, Germany's digital platform Premiere World has decided to carry the Fox News Channel from September 25 until further notice. "In view of the currently tense political situation, we want to offer our viewers a comfortable and direct access to US ...
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Germany's H5B5 to make Oma Porat biopic
German media group H5B5 Media has acquired the exclusive rights to produce a biopic based on the eventful life of Israeli actress Orna Porat.Born as Irena Kline in Germany, she came to fame on the German stage in the 1930s and was an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth. Later, ...