All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 91
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NewsGerman sales agent Beta Cinema takes on Toronto surprise hit Viva Riva! from the Congo
German sales agent Beta Cinema has picked up writer-director Djo Tunda Wa Munga’s feature debut Viva Riva! and signed its first deals with the US, UK and Australia/New Zealand.
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Three Musketeers is sixth international production at Studio Babelsberg in 2010
Berlin’s shooting frenzy continues with Paul W.S. Anderson 3D project.
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NewsGerman zombie film Rammbock sold to US, Japan and other territories
Sales to distributors in the US, Japan, Poland and Romania are among the deals signed by the Vienna-based EastWest Filmdistribution for Marven Kren’s zombie film Rammbock which had its international premiere on the Piazza Grande in Locarno in August.
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NewsSarah Bolger cast in lead for 3D fantasy adventure Starbright
Irish actress Sarah Bolger has been cast in the lead of Canadian writer-director Francesco Lucente’s 3D fantasy fairytale adventure Starbright which will begin shooting in the US in early 2011.
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Dorsch leaves German Films
Christian Dorsch has left the German film industry’s Munich-based promotional agency German Films Service + Marketing GmbH “to take up new professional challenges.”
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Paramount’s German outpost picks up second German production
Shooting has begun today on Elmar Fischer’s sensitive comedy Offroad, which marks the second local pickup by the German outpost of Paramount Pictures.
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NewsGermany's Splendid unveils Toronto deals
Splendid Medien signed deals for German-language territories and the Benelux to four films at last month’s Toronto International Film Festival.
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NewsGood Bye, Lenin! director Becker plans second feature Oskar
Seven years after his last film Good Bye, Lenin!, director Wolfgang Becker is now in preparations for a second feature project entitled Oskar alongside the previously announced Ich und Kaminski.
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NewsZurich's international Golden Eye goes to Woman With A Broken Nose
European films took home all of the prizes at this year’s edition of the Zurich Film Festival which will come to an end on Sunday evening (Oct 3) with a gala screening of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
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David Lynch to receive Film Award Cologne 2010
Last year’s award is still waiting for Polanski.
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NewsGainsbourg opens Filmfest Hamburg, Douglas Sirk Award for Julian Schnabel
Joann Sfar’s Gainsbourg will open the 18th edition of Filmfest Hamburg tonight.
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Uncle Boonmee German co-producer backed by new regional film fund
Hans W. Geissendoerfer, one of the co-producers of this year’s Golden Palm winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, has become one of the first film producers to benefit from a new regional fund based in South Tyrol.
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Fribourg fest director Waintrop moving to Geneva arthouse cinema
He will leave his post as director of the Fribourg Festival after the festival’s 25th edition.
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Swiss Oscar entry nominated for Prix Europa
Switzerland’s Oscar entry La Petite Chambre by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond is among fiveSwiss films nominated in this year’s Prix Europa competition, being held in Berlin from October 16 to23.
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Markus Welter starts shoot for 3D slasher film One Way Trip
Shooting begins today at Swiss locations on Markus Welter’s 3D horror slasher film One Way Trip.
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Disney Research gets Swiss innovation award
Disney Research Zurich (DRZ) has been awarded the Tell Award “for most significant Swiss Technology and Innovation Investment in 2009” in recognition of the Walt Disney Company’s inward investment into the Greater Zurich Area.
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Constantin Film and Michael Steiner plan future collaborations
Constantin Film Schweiz and Michael Steiner, director of Zurich Film Festival’s opening film Sennentuntschi, are to collaborate on film projects in the future.
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Swiss national fund backs five international co-productions
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Culture (BAK) has awarded over $2.6m (CHF 2.5m) to five international co-productions in the latest round of funding from its film section.
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Zurich Film Foundation doles out $1m; Film Office plans afoot
New feature films from Oliver Paulus, Isabel Kleefeld and Friederike Jehn are among the projects supported with over USD 1m (CHF 1m) by the Zurich Film Foundation at its latest sitting.
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Pellegrino sets up new company with writer-director Birgit Stein
Producer-financier Roland Pellegrino has set up the Stuttgart-based production outfit PS-Filmproduction with writer-director Birgit Stein to produce her feature debut No Mercy.