All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 29
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NewsTelepool’s Global Screen to launch genre label Fearious with three US titles (exclusive)
New banner to launch with three titles including Elle Callahan’s ‘Witch Hunt’ and Will Forbes’ ‘John Henry’.
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NewsGermany could see first cinemas reopen in North Rhine-Westphalia in late May
One-off financial support plan from minister for culture and media comes under fire.
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News‘System Crasher’ tops Germany’s Lolas with eight awards
The ceremony was conducted from a largely empty Berlin soundstage.
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NewsGerman film industry calls for creation of “stability fund” to support sector through Covid-19 crisis
The call is being led by umbrella organisation SPIO.
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NewsEuropean Film Promotion reveals digital plans for upcoming festivals; Producers on the Move to stay in May
A virtual version of Producers on the Move will take place in May, regardless of when Cannes takes place.
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NewsNew guidelines force closure of all cinemas throughout Germany
The news comes as the German Producers Alliance issued a statement calling for solidarity within the film industry.
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News‘There Is No Evil’ wins Golden Bear at 2020 Berlin Film Festival
Eliza Hittman’s ’Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ wins Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
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NewsMarcos Carnevale comedy-drama ‘El Cuartito’ launches sales at EFM (exclusive)
Former Match Factory executive Brigitte Suarez is launching world sales at EFM.
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NewsLeonine picks up ‘Herzogpark’ series (exclusive)
The script for the six-part event series is currently being developed by head writer Regina Dietl.
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NewsFrance and Japan pick up Global Screen’s ‘Crescendo’ (exclusive)
The film stars Toni Erdmann’s Peter Simonischek as a world-famous conductor who accepts the job of creating an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra.
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NewsAlfred Bauer prize dropped by Berlin Film Festival after Nazi revelations
Alfred Bauer was the Berlinale’s first festival director from its launch in 1951 until 1976.
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News‘The King’s Man’ is first to receive VFX funding from German federal and state sources (exclusive)
Confirms Germany’s growing reputation as an international VFX hub.
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NewsCarlo Chatrian says his first Berlinale competition line-up is “quite dark”
Chatrian said he’d encountered more than 6,800 films whilst preparing his first Berlinale line-up.
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NewsWarner Bros and the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein fund set up new €3m feature initiative
Around 25% will be invested in projects by new talents.
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News‘Cat In The Wall’ duo win top award at Trieste’s When East Meets West
Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova are prepping a new project based on on true events.
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NewsGerman media criticises Berlinale chiefs for choice of Jeremy Irons as jury head
The UK actor has previously voiced provocative comments about sexual harrassment and gay marriage.
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Features42 European films to tempt festival directors in 2020
The hot productions from France, Benelux, Nordics, Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia.
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NewsBerlinale 2020 adds screening venues in the wake of closures
Festival to take over all nine screens at the CineStar CUBIX
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FeaturesGerman 2019 box office report: downward trend reversed but local films suffer
One bright spot was the surprise success of Nora Fingscheidt’s international festival favourite System Crasher.
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NewsNew EFA chairman speaks out on Roman Polanski, sexual harassment in the film industry
Mike Downey has taken over from Agnieszka Holland.