All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 67
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NewsAmour Fou readies Hausner shoot
Shooting starts Monday (Feb 11) in Luxembourg on Jessica Hausner’s new feature film Amour Fou, which will be the first project to go into production for the Amour Fou label.
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NewsReflexion Films debut at EFM
Reflexion Films, a new sales company based in Moscow, has unveiled a line-up of features for its EFM debut.
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NewsBerlin to host first major Martin Scorsese exhibition
The Deutsche Kinemathek at Potsdamer Platz is staging the world’s first major exhibition dedicated to Martin Scorsese.
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NewsWenders' 3D series sold to 10 broadcasters
Tel Aviv-based Cinephil and Wim Wenders’ Neue Road Movies have pre-sold the 3D series Cathedrals of Culture to ten broadcasters around the world.
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NewsKon-Tiki star cast in Viking saga
Oscar-nominated Norwegian drama Kon-Tiki’s star Tobias Santelmann has been cast as the lead in Elite Film Produktion’s English-language historical action adventure Northmen - A Viking Saga.
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NewsTiberius secures EFM acquisitions
Munich-based Tiberius Film has started its 2013 EFM well this year with three acquisitions for release in 2014.
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NewsEurimages reboots distribution fund
Eurimages is to re-launch a distribution fund that will benefit seven countries without access to the EU’s MEDIA Programme.
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NewsWild Bunch Benelux snaps up Goodnight
Wild Bunch has picked up all Benelux rights to Erik Poppe’s English-language debut A Thousand Times Goodnight, which stars Juliette Binoche.
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NewsBerlin gets $93m fest boost
Berlin’s economy is to receive a $93m (€69m) boost over the 11 days of the Berlinale, according to a report by the Investitionsbank Berlin.
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NewsBombay Berlin brings love triangle to EFM
Indo-German sales company Bombay Berlin Film has picked up Blue Throat Entertainment’s maiden project, the love triangle film Ishq Actually, for the EFM.
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NewsMaeck back to Burroughs for Smash The Control Machine
Fatih Akin’s former production partner Klaus Maeck is to revisit the New York of the 1980s for the first project of his new Hamburg-based company Interzone Pictures.
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NewsSola Media premieres English version of Nordic hit
Germany’s Sola Media is presenting the English language version of Nils Gaup box-office hit Journey To The Christmas Star in a market at the EFM for the first time.
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NewsRange to direct David Bowie, Iggy Pop biopic
A biopic based around David Bowie and Iggy Pop’s collaboration in 1970s West Berlin is to be directed by Gabriel Range.
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Estonia's Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma plan historical drama
Estonian filmmaker/producer duo Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma are going back in time to the eve of the First World War for their next feature film project The Hoppers (Hüppajad) which won the Screen International Best Pitch Award at Tallinn’s Baltic Event in December.
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NewsMemento's Artscope picks up Berlinale title In Bloom
Artscope, a label of Paris-based Memento Films International, has picked the Georgian Berlinale Forum title In Bloom by Nana Ekvtimshvili and Simon Gross.
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NewsMedia Luna adds three more titles
Films are A Fold In My Blanket [pictured], Three Kids and Jackie.
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NewsParadise: Love scores Austrian hat trick; Marcel Gisler's Rosie dominates Swiss noms
The Austrian and Swiss film industries are currently gripped with awards fever with the Austrian Film Awards presented for the third time in Vienna and the nominations for the Swiss Film Awards (aka as the Quartzs) announced at this week’s Solothurn Film Days.
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FeaturesMax Ophüls Prize Film Festival
The 34th Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival took place in Saarbrücken, Germany from Jan 21-27 with Rainer Frimmel and Tizza Covi’s The Shine of Day taking the top prize.
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NewsBerlin unveils competition jury
Filmmakers Susanne Bier, Andreas Dresen and Shirin Neshat have been named as members of the Berlinale’s seven-person International Jury headed by Chinese director Wong Kar Wai.
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NewsNew German sales/production outfit launched
EXCLUSIVE: Andreas Rothbauer and Alec Schulmann have joined forces to launch the Berlin-based integrated sales and production outfit Picture Tree International (PTI).