All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 228
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Germany's e-m-s adds East European rights
German DVD company e-m-s new media has acquired East European rights to 73 feature films as another step in the internationalisation of its activities.The package covers all stages of the rights chain from theatrical release through TV to home entertainment. The package of mainly US titles, which was acquired by ...
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Producers to be feted by EFP at Cannes
Fu Works' San Fu Maltha, X-Filme creative pool's Maria Koepf and Renegade Films' Ildiko Kemeny are among 17 up-and-coming producers from 16 European countries who have been selected by members of the pan-European promotional initiative European Film Promotion (EFP) for "Producers On The Move" at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival ...
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Berlin's Kosslick squares up to Cannes selectors
New Berlinale chief Dieter Kosslick has warned the Cannes film festival that he will not stand idly by and see films enticed away from his programme. His stand comes hard on the heels of a line-up announcement by Cannes, which includes films by such directors as Michael Haneke, Abel Ferrara, ...
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Financial briefs (Germany)
Odeon FilmFilm and TV production group Odeon Film is forecasting an operating profit $630,000 (Euros700,000) in the current financial on sales of $45.1m (Euros50.1m) after reporting an EBIT loss of $1.44m (Euro1.6m) for 2000. For 2002 it is forecasting an EBIT $1.53m (Euros1.7m). Director of production Reinhard Klooss said the ...
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Haeberle quits board of F.A.M.E.
Thomas Haeberle is to step down from the management board of ambitious German mini-conglomerate F.A.M.E. Film & Music Entertainment where he was director of film production. The move is reminiscent of Bernd Eichinger's recent decision at Constantin to quit the board and concentrate on production. Haeberle's board responsibilities are being ...
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Commercial channel RTL urged to board German fund
Michael Schmid-Ospach, successor to Dieter Kosslick as executive director of German regional funding board, Filmstiftung NRW, has called on leading commercial broadcaster RTL to join public TV stations WDR and ZDF as shareholders in the funding body.Speaking this week ahead of officially taking up his post on May 1, Schmid-Ospach ...
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EM.TV appoints banker as chairman
Bernd Thiemann has replaced Nickolaus Becker as supervisory chairman at the beleaguered German entertainment concern EM.TV & Merchandising.Thiemann is a former chairman of DG Bank.Becker, who had clashed with EM.TV's founder Thomas Haffa on the share deal with the KirchGroup, left the company on March 31.EM.TV's supervisory board will ...
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Kinowelt demonstrates faith in cinema market
German mini-major Kinowelt has exercised an option to acquire the remaining 49.9% shares in the Theile Hoyts Kinopolis group, comprising ten multiplex cinemas. "The positive development in the first months of the current year in the exhibition market confirms our decision to become more involved in the running of cinemas", ...
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TV-Loonland expands into Russia
German animation specialist TV-Loonland has entered into an extensive partnership with Moscow-based Nox Music, one of Russia's fastest growing music and record labels, with a seven-year license deal for 963 half-hour episodes from TV-Loonland's catalogue, including Pettson and Findus, Cramp Twins, Letters From Felix and Little Ghosts.The agreement covers CIS/Russia, ...
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Ott exits Senator Entertainment
Christoph Ott, Senator Entertainment's board member responsible for marketing and sales, is to leave the company "at his own request and by mutual agreement to prepare the founding of his own company". His responsibilities will now be assumed by Senator CEO Hanno Huth, while the area of world sales has ...
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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 ...