All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 228
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Kinowelt leaps 20% on Bertelsmann takeover rumour
Kinowelt Medien's shares on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt jumped by over 20% on speculation that the Bertelsmann media empire was considering a takeover of the Munich-based concern.By 16.36 (German time) the stock had risen 19.11% on the previous day of trading to Euros15.02 after a report in Welt am Sonntag had ...
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TEAM Communications plans expansion
The US TV production and distribution company TEAMCommunications Group, whose shares are traded on the Nasdaq and Neuer Marktexchanges, is planning further expansion in Europe and the US through'strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions' and the developmentof a sales force based in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Benelux countries,the UK and ...
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New European short film awards launched
The Brussels-based European Coordination of Film Festivals and Jameson Irish Whiskey have joined forces to launch an initiative worth Euros300,000 over the next three years to support European short film-making. The Jameson Short Film Awards will be presented annually at eight European film festivals to a short film with the ...
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Studio Hamburg Produktion and Ellipse Deutschland
Studio Hamburg Produktion (SHP), a production arm of Studio Hamburg, and Berlin-based Ellipse Deutschland Film- und Fernsehproduktion have joined forces to work together on animation projects for film and television.In a first phase of the collaboration, the partners are planning to co-develop and produce four projects including TV animation series ...
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Germany's Producers AG expands again
Claus Boje and Detlev Buck's production outfit: Boje Buck Produktion and theatrical distribution outlet Delphi Filmverleih are the latest companies to become partners in the rapidly expanding Producers AG. Producers AG CEO Friedrich-Carl Wachs confirmed last week during the Berlin Film Festival that the Potsdam-based media venture capital company will ...
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Round-up of Berlin's European Film Market
Sales of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Mortal Transferto Japan’s Amuse Pictures and Greece’s Rosebud are among a raft of deals sealedby Bavaria Film International at the European Film Market in Berlin last week.
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EM.TV to sell off its 45% stake in TMG
German mediaconcern EM.TV may sell its 45% stake in Herbert Kloiber's Tele-Muenchen-Group(TMG) to an external investor, according to the German daily newspaper DieWelt. Until now ithad been assumed that Kloiber, Germany's second most important rights traderafter Kirch, himself wanted to buy back the EM.TV stake, but at a price muchlower ...
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German weekend box office hits all-time high
Germany saw arecord-breaking weekend in the cinemas with the first four days on release ofthe Mel Gibson-starrer What Women Wantand Ridley Scott's Hannibal. Accordingto the German distributors association VdF, the result(February 15-18) of 3,563,651 admissions and box office takings of $19,937,759 (DM42,898,463) broke the previous record set in September 1997 ...
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Germany creates new film and cinema prizes
Germany's new state minister for culture and affairs of the media Julian Nida-Ruemelin has launched another initiative - the Innovation Prize - to follow last week's announcement of three annual film distribution awards.The prize, which will recognise innovations in filmmaking will be awarded up to twice a year with a ...
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CineMedia quits rights market
German media group CineMedia Film is set to quit rights trading and licensing just one year after its launch into the market.The Munich-based company made its surprise withdrawal after admitting that figures for the last financial year revealed that sales forecasts for it rights trading and licensing activities would fall ...
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CineMedia quits rights market
German media group CineMedia Film is set to quit rights trading and licensing just one year after its launch into the market.The Munich-based company made its surprise withdrawal after admitting that figures for the last financial year revealed that sales forecasts for it rights trading and licensing activities would fall ...
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CineMedia quits rights trading
German media group CineMedia Film is set to quit rights trading and licensing just one year after its launch into the market.The Munich-based company made its surprise withdrawal after admitting that figures for the last financial year revealed that sales forecasts for it rights trading and licensing activities would fall ...
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CiineMedia quits rights trading after one year
German media group CineMedia Film is set to quit rights trading and licensing just one year after its launch into the market.The Munich-based company made its surprise withdrawal after admitting that figures for the last financial year revealed that sales forecasts for it rights trading and licensing activities would fall ...
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MME acquires majority stake in Neue Impuls
Hamburg-based TV production house MME: Me, Myself and Eye Entertainment has acquired a majority stake in Neue Impuls Film Produktionsgesellschaft (NIF) in a move to expand its portfolio to include film and television fiction production.NIF, whose credits include the Danish-German-Italian co-production of Lars Hesselholdt's family film Katja's Adventure and, most ...
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EMTV chairman quits
Troubled German media group, EM.TV lost its second high-ranking executive on Friday after its supervisory board chairman Nikolaus Becker tendered his resignation following the deal between EM.TV and the KirchGroup on February14.Rumours had been circulating for weeks about the possibility of Becker resigning from the beleaguered company and the allegedly ...
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Germany launches new distributor cash awards
Up to $28,000 (DM600,000) is being made available by Germany's new state minister for culture, Julian Nida-Ruemelin, to support "culturally outstanding achievements in the sphere of film distribution" in the form of three annual distributor awards starting this coming autumn. Each award will include up to $94,000 (DM200,000) to be ...
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EM.TV agrees to KirchGroup rescue deal
After months of speculation about the future of the beleaguered EM.TV media group, the German rights trader and merchandising empire announced on Wednesday that it would sign a rescue deal with the KirchGroup on the basis of their negotiations dating from December 4, 2000.The deal was finalised just hours before ...
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Telepool, Nighthawk team for distribution
German rights trader Telepool and start-up distributor Nighthawk Pictures have joined forces to release Michael Anderson's The New Adventures Of Pinocchio in German cinemas on April 5. According to Nighthawk's managing director Christoph Heckenbuecker, depending on the release's success, this distribution partnership could be continued in the future for other ...
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To See A Boat wins Prix UIP Berlin
Anja Breien's short To See A Boat At Sail (A Se En Bat Med Seil) has been awarded the Prix UIP Berlin, an initiative of distributor UIP and the European Film Academy in co-operation with the Berlin International Film Festival.The Euros2,000 prize, awarded for the first time this year, ensures ...
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German DVD sales up by 350%
German DVD sales leapt by 350% to nine million units in 2000, compared to 2.6 million the previous year, and accounted for 30% of the sell-through video market, according to figures from market research company gfk.Gladiator was the most successful of the 1,400 DVD titles released in 2000, shifting more ...