All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 221
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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, ...
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Hamburg's Digi@ward goes to Danish KAT
Filmfest Hamburg's first Digi@ward in recognition of the use of digital technology in film has gone to Henrik Danstrup, producer of Danish filmmaker Martin Schmidt's psycho-thriller KAT. Described as a cross between Cat People and Nightwatch, KAT received the first prize worth $30,652 (DM 65,000) and the promise of additional ...
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German private film fund names strategic partners
Indigo Film, Claussen + Woebke Filmproduktion and Calypso Film have been named as the first strategic partners of the Berlin-based private media fund German Film Productions (GFP), which plans to raise Euros 11m for the financing of German language feature films and TV movies.According to GFP, "letters of intent" have ...
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German Short Film Award nominations revealed
Su Turhan's Gone Underground, which was one of the first shorts to be shot with the Sony 24p digital high definition camera, is among eight German shorts nominated from 108 entries for this year's German Short Film Awards which will be presented by Culture Minister Julian Nida-Ruemelin at a ceremony ...
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Fox and Warner team for Swiss distribution
After months of speculation the Swiss outposts of US majors 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. have announced that they will release their films from Oxtober 1 under the joint banner Fox-Warner.According to an official release, the new distribution outfit's operations will be coordinated from Warner Bros.' offices in Zurich ...
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Germany's BKNI gets shareholder support
Following its recent announcement to implement a capital increase of 769,695 new ordinary shares to finance further investment in the production of new animated series, BKN International (BKNI) has now received an offer of support from its largest shareholder, Durham Capital Holdings "to ensure that the management of BKNI retains ...
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Father And Daughter awarded Cartoon d'Or
Michael Dudok de Wit's animated short Father And Daughter was presented with this year's Euro25,000 Cartoon d'Or at the 12th Cartoon Forum co-production market (September 19-22) which was held in the Bavarian town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2001. Next year's Forum will be hosted by the region of Snowdonia, Wales. De ...
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Germany's RTL joins Filmstiftung NRW
Germany's largest private TV channel RTL is to become the fourth shareholder of the country's largest public fund Filmstiftung NRW.At a session of the fund's supervisory board, it was decided to give RTL a seat each in the film funding committee, the supervisory board and the shareholders' assembly. RTL's decision ...
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Mannheim Meetings introduces Nyman's film debut
Michael Nyman's directorial debut, and film version of his own opera Facing Goya and Icelandic filmmaker Hilmar Oddson's Cold Ice are among the film projects from Latin America, West and Eastern Europe and Canada already confirmed for this year's Mannheim Meetings co-production market (October 11-14) at the 50th International Mannheim-Heidelberg ...
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Neue Sentimental acquires Compass Films
Frankfurt-based German production group Neue Sentimental Film (NSF) has acquired the remaining 49% interest in New York's Compass Films to add to the initial 51% stake it had obtained in February as part of a restructuring of its US-based business. Compass, which like NSF concentrates on producing for the corporate ...
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German Mediability fund extends portfolio
Munich-based private media fund Mediability has added Hahn Film's Wildlife 2 to its portfolio of animation projects.The Euro 56m fund will put up 50% of the Euro 6.65m budget for the animation series with Hahn Film contributing the remaining 50%.Wildlife 2 picks up on the successful first Wildlife series which ...