All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 230
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TV-Loonland signs first big deal with BBC
German children's entertainment specialist TV-Loonland has signed its first programming deal with the UK's BBC following the sale of the animation series Cramp Twins and Clifford.The 26 x 30-minute episodes of Cramp Twins were co-produced by TV-Loonland's US subsidiary Sunbow Entertainment and the Cartoon Network UK, and will be aired ...
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Hamburg Festival celebrates Spain
Spain has been selected as the country focus in this year's international Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg/Germany (2-9 June 2001) The fest is a showcase of short films with a running time of no more than 20 minutes (the children's film sidebar allows films of up to 45 minutes in ...
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Advanced Medien to announce changes
Christophe Montague's days as executive board chairman of the debt-ridden German distributor Advanced Medien could be numbered following the appointment of a new supervisory board which is expected "to make key personnel decisions and initiate organizational measures regarding the future development of the company".Advanced's previous supervisory board had resigned as ...
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IN-motion acquires two US TV series
The German media company IN-motion, which was particularly active at this year's Amrican Film Market through its sales arms Myriad Pictures and J&M Entertainment, has further consolidated its position as a producer of internationally marketable TV formats by acquiring the rights to two TV series from US network CBS for ...
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Brandt ends up at Endemol
Former Senator Entertainment board member Borris Brandt has been appointed the new general manager of Cologne-based Endemol Productions, while his predecessor Werner Schwaderlapp has been promoted to the post of president of the German holding of the Dutch entertainment concern which consists of the 100% subsidiary Endemol Productions, a 40% ...
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ProSiebenSat.1 Media to raise up to Euros400m
ProSiebenSat.1 Media, which originated from the merger last year between ProSieben Media and SAT.1, is planning a Eurobond issue of fixed-rate notes with an intermediate maturity of up to Euros400m. Lehman Brothers and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein have been appointed joint bookrunners ofthe offering whose roadshow will be launched throughout Europe ...
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EM.TV exercises its call option for Formula One
Hours before the deadline expired, EM.TV & Merchandising exercised its call option to purchase a further 25% stake in the Formula One holding company SLEC via its subsidiary Speed Investment Ltd. to bring its overall shareholding to 75%. Funding of $987.5m for the 25% was arranged by EM.TV with the ...
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Odeon Film closes Filmstadt.de
Odeon Film's entertainment website www.filmstadt.de was closed down today after negotiations with various investors for a takeover or merger came to nothing The Filmstadt.de site had been operating since 1999 and had been relaunched last autumn as a subsidiary of Odeon's new Internet holding company OdeonNew Vision providing a mix ...
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Formula 1 teams manoeuvre to thwart Kirch
The prospect of German media baron Leo Kirch having a controlling interest over the Formula One racing event hangs in the balance as the motor teams threaten to revolt.On February 27, DaimlerChrysler (Maclaren-Mercedes), Fiat (Ferrari) and Ford (Jaguar) threatened to exit the Formula One tournament and set up their own ...
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Heimat writer finds home at UFA
Bertelsmann's production arm UFA Film- & TV Produktion and Peter Steinbach, screenwriter of Edgar Reitz's internationally successful TV series Heimat (1984) and Margarethe von Trotta's award-winning Jahrestage (2000), have signed an exclusive agreement whereby Steinbach will work only with UFA on future projects for cinema and television.UFA producer Norbert Sauer ...
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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 ...