All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 71
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NewsFranco-German co-pro treaty extended
Since its founding in 2001, the “mini-traité” has been financed by the FFA and CNC with €1.5m annually, backing more than 90 Franco-German co-productions.
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NewsSilver's Cannes swansong
EXCLUSIVE: Cannes Film Festival is likely to be Aviva Silver’s final appearance as head of the MEDIA unit before moving to a new position within the European Commission (EC).
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NewsSchell and Adorf cast as Marx and Engels
Veteran actors Maximilian Schell and Mario Adorf have been cast in a new feature as philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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NewsBelle Epoque to make next Rabaté
EXCLUSIVE: Cologne-based Belle Epoque Films, the German producer of Guillaume Nicloux’s Berlinale film The Nun, is to produce cartoonist Pascal Rabaté’s next feature.
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NewsCreative Europe in sight
EXCLUSIVE: Creative Europe has come one step nearer after the 27 EU leaders agreed on Friday in Brussels to an overall $1.3tn (€960bn) budget for 2014-20.
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NewsAction Concept sells Guardians
EXCLUSIVE: Til Schweiger’s action film Guardians has been sold by Action Concept throughout Asia, Europe and Latin America.
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NewsDistribution round-up: Salzgeber acquires La Partida, Unconditional; TMG finds Solace
La Partida [pictured] is currently in post-production, while Solace will begin shooting in May and will be released theatrically by Concorde Filmverleih next year.
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NewsFuture of Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund secured
This year’s Berlinale programme features two WCF-funded films: Harmony Lessons and Workers.
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NewsUlrich Seidl talks up horror title
EXCLUSIVE: Seidl producing his wife’s horror film Ich seh/Ich seh.
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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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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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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.