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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 ...
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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 ...