All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 70
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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).
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NewsBerlin market on Asia's radar, Probst feted by the Swiss
EXCLUSIVE: Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM) is now firmly on the Asian film industry’s radar, according to market director Beki Probst.
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NewsGermany’s Commerzbank doubles film finance to $400m
Commerzbank, the second biggest bank in Germany, is planning to double its commitment to the financing of film and TV production for the next four years.
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NewsKosslick reveals plans for Berlinale's future
Quality international television and VoD are on festival director Dieter Kosslick’s agenda for the Berlinale’s future.
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NewsVartiainen to head MEDIA unit; Commission launches pilot project
Finland’s Sari Vartiainen has succeeded Constantin Daskalakis as the new head of the MEDIA unit at Brussel’s Education, Audiovisual, and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), with responsibility for the operational management of the EU’s MEDIA Programme.
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Newsm-appeal picks up two Berlinale titles
Berlin-based m-appeal has taken on international distribtion for two films from Cuba and Greece selected for this year’s Berlinale.
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NewsGerman incentive supports record 115 projects in 2012
The German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) incentive scheme supported a record 115 projects, including 40 international co-productions and a new adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, totalling $78.2m (€58.4m) in 2012.
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Creative Europe given “key priority” by Irish Presidency of EC
The European Commission’s (EC) proposed Creative Europe programme has been given “key priority” in Ireland’s Presidency of the European Council for the first six months of 2013.