All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 226
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MEDIA programme gets new admin body for funding
D&S Media Services is to handle applications for MEDIA programme development and training support after winning the contract to run the Technical Assistance Office (TAO) from Brussels.D&S co-founder John Dick will oversee main operations from Brussels. The TAO will continue to have an office for television distribution support located in ...
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German film prize goes to The State I Am In
Christian Petzold's The State I Am In received the top honour of a golden Lola - as the prize is now known - at the 52nd German Film Awards ceremony in Berlin. The award carries a premium of up to $440,000 (DM1m) to be invested in a future project.Oliver Hirschbiegel's ...
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Liberty ties up German cable for Euros 5.5bn
Liberty Media Group has reached agreement with Germany's Deutsche Telekom (DT) to acquire its last remaining six cable television operations - covering 10m connected households - for a reported Euros5.5bn. In addition to 100% of the DT cable companies, Liberty will take over DT's service companies Deutsche Telekom Kabel-Services and ...
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Germany's Brainpool expands overseas web
German comedy powerhouse Brainpool TV has taken another step in its strategy of establishing an international network of companies, acquiring 50% of French light entertainment outfit Show Devant Productions (SDP).Together with its Swiss subsidiary Gregoire Furrer Productions (GFP), Brainpool paid $2.6m for the stake in SDP. Half of this is ...
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Kinowelt shares go into freefall on Neuer Markt
No end seems to be in sight for the downward slide of troubled German media concern Kinowelt Medien's shares, which went into freefall yesterday (June 19) on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt. By the close of business, shares in the company stood 25.37% down on the previous day at Euros2.50.The business news ...
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EM.TV sells Internet interests, Victory takes over
EM.TV & Merchandising has exited from the Internet activities it has concentrated in EM interactive, amidst a restructuring and re-focusing on core businesses.German media fund specialist Victory Media will now increase its stake in EM interactive from 25.1% to 100%. The firm will continue operating as victory.tv under the new ...
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Hannover Leasing to raise $465m for Fox, New Line
Munich-based leasing company Hannover Leasing (HL) has launched seven separate production funds to raise over $465m (Euros540m) in finance for feature projects from 20th Century Fox and New Line Cinema. HL's collaboration with New Line Cinema follows on from last year when the German fund specialist raised a total of ...
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Kinowelt finally secures German TV deal with ZDF
Beleaguered German mini-studio Kinowelt Medien has finally found a TV home for the Wachowski brothers' Warner Bros. action blockbuster The Matrix.The title is among 15 German free-TV premieres - including the animation feature Pokemon - The Film and Amos Kollek's Fast Food, Fast Women - sold as part of a ...
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EM.TV shares slide as Kirch investment in doubt
Shares in ailing German media concern EM.TV & Merchandising hit a 2001 low on Thursday amidst speculation that the Germany cartel office could block the KirchGroup's plans to invest in the company.Speaking to Financial Times Deutschland, an official at the cartel authority was quoted as saying that the office "will ...
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Das Werk raises TV stakes with company acquisition
German post-production specialist Das Werk is expanding is raising its stake in TV production outfit FFP Media by 30% to 81%.FFP, which specialises in handling programme commissions from German broadcasters, is working on four TV movie adaptations of novels by Rosamunde Pilcher and a TV movie based on a Barbara ...
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James Cameron's TV debut screens at Cologne
Dark Angel, James Cameron's first work for TV, Sidney Lumet's 100 Centre Street and Antonia Bird's Care are among 20 international fiction and non-fiction programmes selected this year to compete in the Cologne Conference's television festival.Also screening in competition is Dutch documentary maker Jeroen Berkven's A Skin To Few. Apart ...
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Krevoy to partner Germany's IWP on third project
US producer Brad Krevoy's feature project Basshole is being lined up as his third production to be backed this year by private German film fund IWP International West Pictures as part of its six/seven-picture production slate for 2001.Krevoy's Motion Picture Corporation of America (MPCA) has already partnered with IWP on ...
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No Man's Land set to open Sarajevo Film Festival
Bosnian director Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land, which won the best screenplay award in Cannes last month, will open the seventh Sarajevo Film Festival on August 17.Although municipal and higher level government ministries have been slow to respond to the festival organisers' applications for financial support, preparations are nevertheless in ...
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EM.TV gets animated with double pick-up
EM.TV & Merchandising has acquired international distribution rights for the animated versions of Michael Ende's Momo and Astrid Lindgren's Karlsson On The Roof.EM.TV will be marketing the TV, audio, video, publishing and merchandising rights as part of its Junior portfolio for the two properties which are both being developed as ...
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$100m double boost for German film funding
$100m double boost for German film funding Mediability and MDF funds launch in Germany, bringing new $100m revenue stream onlineGerman media mogul Herbert Kloiber's CTM Concept TV & Merchandising is to serve as the production and international distribution partner for the new Munich-based media fund Mediability, which was launched last ...
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VCL cuts 2001 forecasts, raises new cash
Germany's VCL Film + Medien's "liquidity bottleneck has been uncorked by a $33.9m financial package provided by a consortium of banks and other investors, led by France's Societe Generale. It will help to secure the financing of the first two Woody Allen films in VCL's three-picture deal concluded in June ...
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Mediacs moves into film licensing
German multimedia producer mediacs has followed rival e-m-s new media into the film licensing business. It has sealed an output deal for the production and distribution of DVDs for films from Berlin-based production house TTD Checkpoint Berlin.The first TTD productions to be released on mediacs' own DVD label will be ...
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Stockmarket confirms Kinowelt share trading probe
The Frankfurt-based German Federal Securities Supervisory Office (BaWe) has said that it has begun formal investigations into alleged insider trading at Kinowelt. The move comes after shares in Kinowelt, listed on the Nemax50 blue-chip segment of Germany's Neuer Markt, lost some 40% of their value in the three days ahead ...
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Stockmarket mulls Kinowelt insider dealing probe
The German securities regulator said on Friday it would decide next week whether to start a formal insider trading probe into film rights dealer Kinowelt Medien ."Our analysis has been positive. We have noted peculiarities in advance of the publication of Ad-Hoc-News", Sabine Reimer, a spokeswoman for the regulator, said. ...
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German tax funds give Paramount another $1.12bn
Paramount Pictures is tapping into another two private German film funds to raise $1.25bn for more of its feature line-up. Germany's giant Deutsche Bank has finally jumped on the private film fund bandwagon with its own product called "Motion Picture Production GmbH & Co. Erste KG" (MPP). It has been ...