All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 226
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Tykwer and Petzold dominate German Lolas
Christian Petzold's The State I Am In (Die Innere Sicherheit) and Tom Tykwer's The Princess And The Warrior (Der Krieger Und Die Kaiserin) came away with four nominations each for this year's German Film Awards. Who will end up winning the statuettes - to be known as Lola following a ...
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Simply Committed teams with Pressman and Expand
New Berlin and Paris-based production outfit Simply Committed, co-founded by producer Peter Paulich and German-American actor Thomas Heinze, will announce the first projects stemming from its partnership with US producing stalwart Ed Pressman at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Quite separately, Simply has also committed to a joint venture with ...
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Eichinger steps down as Constantin chairman
Constantin Film's Bernd Eichinger has stepped down from his position as board chairman to concentrate his energies on production - the company's in-house output having more than doubled in the last year.In a statement, Eichinger declared: "In the past few months I had already increasingly withdrawn from the management of ...
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Germany's Das Werk exceeds earnings expectations
German digital postproduction and production house Das Werk brought some welcome cheer to an otherwise depressed Neuer Markt exchange in Frankfurt by posting a 157% increase in sales for the financial year 2000 to Euro 88.8m, 72% higher than the forecast Das Werk had made on its flotation in August ...
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Til Schweiger enters the ring as Max Schmeling
Germany's leading film export Til Schweiger (Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Der Bewegte Mann) is to play the role of German boxing legend Max Schmeling in the $9m (DM 20m) Joe and Max which will begin shooting in Berlin under the direction of US filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams) from this ...
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Music publishers sing from the same sheet
German publishing houses Eichborn and Achterbahn have joined forces to launch a company specialising in the devising and marketing of music for national and international feature films, TV productions and commercials.Double Fun will be managed by co-shareholders music consultant Andreas Kirnberger (Conception and Production) and media lawyer Steven A. Reich ...
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Kinowelt aims international arm at Eastern Europe
Kinowelt International (KI), the in-house world sales arm of Kinowelt, is to re-focus its activities exclusively on Eastern Europe, exploiting films acquired through New Line, Beacon Communications and Alliance Atlantis.Having already recognised the rapid growth in the Eastern European market - a five-year growth rate of 46% compared to 11% ...
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Kinowelt CEO still mulling stake in UK's Momentum
Kinowelt has yet to acquire a 50% stake in Momentum Pictures, chief executive officer Michael Koelmel told Screen Daily on Friday, contradicting a popularly-held belief that the UK distributor is already a jointly-owned venture between his German company and Alliance Atlantis of Canada. "Either we will become a shareholder or ...
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German animation house to expand abroad
Animation producer BKN International (BKNI), which has been listed on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt since March 2000, has won approval from its shareholders to buy back up to 10% of the issued share capital by mid-September 2002 as part of a programme of expansion.In an official statement, the Cologne-based company, producer ...
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Cinema on Demand patented
Marburg-based medianetCom has registered its broadband video-on-demand technology operating under the name of "Cinema on Demand"at the European Patent Office in Munich.Until now, the technology had only been protected in Germany as a registered utility model, but the international patent protection applies not just to the whole of Europe, but ...
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Premiere World revises breakthrough date
German digital pay TV platform Premiere World's breakthrough with consumers is set to be delayed by another 1 - 1 ' years, according to the KirchGroup's Dieter Hahn in an interview with the German daily newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Although not wishing to give exact figures, he declared that the platform ...
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Von Trotta's comeback to be backed by Hamburg/TMG
The Women of Rosenstrasse, Margarethe von Trotta's first feature film since 1994's The Promise, is to be the first project to be co-produced by Studio Hamburg's feature film production arm Studio Hamburg Letterbox Filmproduktion (SHLF) with Herbert Kloiber's Tele-Muenchen Group (TMG) as part of their recently signed three-picture deal.The Trotta ...
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Pan-European Animation training network planned
The MEDIA Programme-supported initiative Cartoon signed an agreement with a group of animation schools at this year's Cartoon Movie financing market in Babelsberg to create a European training network .Announcing the new venture, Cartoon's Corinne Jenart explained that the network initially consists of eight schools of animation which will collaborate ...
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China and Taiwan dominate popular Fribourg
Films from China and Taiwan were particularly strong at the 15th edition of Fribourg's festival dedicated to films from Asia, Africa and Latin America, which registered a record attendance of some 22,000 festival-goers between 11-18 March.The International Jury awarded its Grand Prix "Le Regard d'Or" to Yi Yi (A One ...
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Greenlight Media to launch second animation fund
Greenlight Media and the Dresdner Bank's investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein are to launch a second BAF Berlin Animation Film fund to raise in the region of $100m for the production of up to five international animation features.According to Greenlight's chief operating officer Nikolaus Weil, BAF II, which concentrates on ...
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Digital Renaissance to be reborn yet again
An Israeli-UK-US consortium including Capitol Films, Gravity, DLIN and the US' Kushner Locke Group is preparing to sell controversy-ridden German VFX facility Digital Renaissance after acquiring it only two years ago.News of the move revived criticism from North Rhine-Westphalia politicians about the local administration's financial support of the facility, which ...
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Babelsberg hosts first Cartoon Movie Tributes
The UK's Aardman Animation, Denmark's A.Film and Italian distributor Cecchi Gori are among the winners of the first 'Cartoon Movie Tributes' presented at this year's Cartoon Movie co-production market. While Aardman was honoured for the 'Best International Enterprise Strategy' in the making of Chicken Run, A.Film, producer of Help, I'm ...
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No more Victory for EM.TV
German private media fund Victory Media has cancelled its five-year co- production agreement with EM.TV to put up $233m (DM 500m) for the production of 100 animation series for the international market with a total production volume of $700m (DM 1.5bn) over the next five years.Victory had planned to attract ...
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Future German co-production funding in doubt
Germany's status as a major source of funding for international co-productions could be a thing of the past thanks to new government legislation which threatens to curtail the country's involvement in such projects.A new Finance Ministry legislation could effectively halt the huge flow of money out of Germany into predominantly ...
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Ferry-Go-Round claims first Jameson award
Finnish director Aleksi Salmenperä's short Onnenpeli 2001 (Ferry-Go-Round) about love and relationships during a Baltic cruise has won the first Jameson Short Film Award presented at this year's Tampere Film Festival which wrapped on March 10.All fiction short films in the festival's national selection were eligible for the award which, ...