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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 ...
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Constantin results exceed expectations
German producer-distributor Constantin Film has exceeded its sales forecasts according to provisional results, with group turnover increasing by 80% to Euros116m.Theatrical distribution accounted for the bulk of Constantin's 2000 sales - Euros53m - thanks to the successful releases of films such as American Pie, The Sixth Sense, Harte Jungs and ...
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Thoeren quits Ufa to focus on producing
Veteran producer Konstantin Thoeren is exiting his post as managing director of Ufa International Film & TV Produktion at the end of this week. Thoeren told ScreenDaily that he will now concentrate on producing through his own outfit Patrola Films Inc, based in Munich and Los Angeles, although he will ...
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Babelsberg beefs up production division
Germany's Studio Babelsberg has expanded its in-house production division in a bid to attract more big-budget international productions to the legendary production facility. The studio's CEO Rainer Schaper announced during the Berlin Film Festival that production manager Udo Happel, who has most recently supervised Jean-Jacques Annaud's Berlin opener Enemy At ...
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Ferch to star in Iceland's Seagull's Laughter
German actor Heino Ferch, who recently headlined SAT1's East-West drama The Tunnel, is to play one of the leads alongside Margaret Vilhjalmsdottir and Ugla Egilsdottir in Icelandic director Agust Gudmundsson's next project The Seagull's Laughter (Mavahlatur). The film, which starts shooting in Iceland from February 26, is being executive produced ...
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Bavaria sells In July, Fandango to Japan
Germany's Bavaria Film International has sold Fatih Akin's In July (Im Juli) to Japan's Tokyo Theatres, and Matthias Glasner's Fandango to Japan's Gaga Communications.In July, a Bulgarian-German-Turkish co-production, is a romantic comedy and road movie which follows a journey from Hamburg to Istanbul. Director Akin is serving on this year's ...
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Peppermint acquires Italy's Domenica
German rights trader Peppermint has picked up German rights to Italian director Wilma Labate's Domenica which is showing in the Panorama section of this year's Berlin Film Festival. Starring Claudio Amendola, Domenica Giuliano and Annabella Sciorra, the film centres on a police inspector, who doesn't have a daughter, and an ...
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Leading German producers form lobby group
Constantin Film's Bernd Eichinger, Kinowelt's Rainer Koelmel and Road Movies' Uli Felsberg are among 16 leading German film and TV producers banding together to form a producers lobby group.Dubbed FILM 20, the group will focus on representing the film and TV production sector when dealing with broadcasters, public funding bodies, ...
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Murath, Brunckhorst share German Script Prize
Two scripts - Clemens Murath's Schatten Des Jaguar and Natja Brunckhorst's Wie Feuer Und Flamme - were awarded this year's German Script Prize, worth a total $47,000 (DM100,000), by Germany's state minister for culture Julian Nida-Ruemelin.Murath's thriller is to be made as a European co-production, with Filmline's Arno Ortmair ...
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E-M-S, Sunfilm strike video distribution pact
German video and DVD company E-M-S New Media has forged a distribution partnership with Munich-based video distributor Sunfilm.Under the terms of the agreement, Sunfilm will handle distribution of E-M-S video and DVD titles in the rental market, while E-M-S will do the same for Sunfilm titles in the sell-through sector. ...
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DCPF joins Media Programme in German Equinoxe
Columbia TriStar's German production arm, Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion (DCPF), is setting up a German outpost of the French scriptwriting workshop Equinoxe which has supported 150 screenplays since its inception in 1993.Equinoxe Germany is being established by DCPF executive Ellen Winn Wendl, producer Huelya Sancar and lawyer Martin Heller. Sancar ...