All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 73
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NewsBille August signs up for Nabokov's Laughter
Danish filmmaker Bille August has signed up to direct an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1932 novel Laughter in the Dark.
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NewsEC scheme awards €2m to Wild Bunch, ARP and Artificial Eye
Distributors Wild Bunch, ARP and Artificial Eye have secured nearly €2m from the European Commission (EC) to support simultaneous multiplatform releases – a scheme that has drawn criticism from cinema-owners.
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NewsEFP sends communication to EP and EC, call to lobby national politicians over Creative Europe programme
Over 400 figures from the European film industry, including Carey Mulligan [pictured], put their name to European Film Promotion’s communication to the European Parliament and European Commission.
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NewsUS deals for Deflowering and Out in the Dark
North American deals have signed by Berlin‘s m-appeal for Michiel ten Horn’s The Deflowering of Eva van End and Michael Mayer’s Out in the Dark.
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NewsFonteyne's Tango Libre wins Warsaw Grand Prix
Festival director Stefan Laudyn also announced that the CentEast Market will “hopefully” expand next year to include films from Chinese independent filmmakers.
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NewsRed Square Screenings boasts Pussy Riot and Jason Flemyng projects
The punk feminist band Pussy Riot [pictured’] and UK actor Jason Flemyng might seem unlikely bedfellows, but not for those attending the first edition of the Red Square Screenings (RSS) (Oct 15-19) where they appeared in ‘works in progress’ presented to 100 industry professionals.
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NewsFilm Manufacturers boards Oscar-nominated Marc Rothemund's bestseller adaptation Galapagos
Katharine Otto-Bernstein’s New York-based Film Manufacturers Inc. has joined Munich-based Telepool and KJ Entertainment to develop and produce German director Marc Rothemund’s Galapagos which is due to begin shooting in autumn 2013.
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NewsGerman and Russian superstars unite in comedy by Cloud Atlas co-producer
Germany’s Til Schweiger and Russia’s Fyodor Bondarchuk are to unite as lead actors in Antalyagrad to be produced by Cloud Atlas co-producer and distributor Alexander Rodnyansky.
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NewsDigital age a major opportunity for film, says EC’s Kroes
EC Commissioner Kroes declares that digital age “isn’t a threat to the film industry”, but “an opportunity”.
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NewsEC's state aid for film delayed
The European Commission’s Cinema Communication on state aid for the film industry will have its publication delayed by “some weeks” after initial plans to unveil the proposed new regulation in October or November.
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NewsWinners revealed at 20th Filmfest Hamburg
Dolan, Shortland, Glasner among winners at 20th anniversary edition of Filmfest Hamburg.
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NewsLeading European players contribute to 'critical assessment' of EC's Creative Europe MEDIA strand
BFI, Match Factory and CNC among those consulted; Italian MEP Barbara Matera [pictured] has also sent a report on proposed Creative Europe programme to Committee on Culture and Education
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NewsEuropean Parliament drafts 197 amendments to EC's Creative Europe programme
EXCLUSIVE: Italian MEP Silvia Costa’s [pictured] report will be presented at the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education in Brussels next week.
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NewsChelsom, Temple, Dorrie, Wenders benefit from €9.7m payout by German regional funds
New films by Peter Chelsom, Julian Temple, Doris Dörrie and Wim Wenders [pictured] are among the projects benefitting from over €9.7m funding allocated by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Film-und Medienstiftung NRW.
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NewsWarsaw's CentEast, Connecting Cottbus and Red Square Screenings unveil project lineups
This year will see the ten ‘works in progress’ projects presented as part of the Red Square Screenings in Moscow, ahead of the Warsaw presentation for the first time.
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NewsLeading figures from European film industry meet with EC Commissioners for cinema roundtable
Studio Babelsberg CEO Carl Woebcken, BFI Director Amanda Nevill, and European Film Promotion’s president Christian Lemche were among the key movers and shakers invited to a high-level roundtable meeting in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss how the EU should support the European film industry.
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NewsGermany's DFFF extended by €180m to 2015
The European Commission greenlights second extension of Germany’s DFFF incentive scheme to 2015, Commissioner to present report on CCIs contribution to growth and jobs.
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Focus Features to handle sales on Perez's Alone In Berlin
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Classics already in place to distribute English-language adaptation of Hans Fallada’s bestselling novel.
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NewsEurasia international jury declines to award grand prix
EurasiaInternational Film Festival’s international jury, under the presidency of German director-producer Wolfgang Petersen, announced on the closing ceremony at Almaty’s Palace of the Republic in Kazakhstan at the weekend that it has decided not to award a grand prix for best film.
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News108 Media reports sales on Kazakh Oscar entry
The Toronto-based sales agent has racked up its first sales on Akan Satayev’s Myn Bala – Warriors Of The Steppe.