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French/Czech Simply Sirena launched in Prague
Prague-based production houses Sirena and Simply Cinema have announced a merger, with the new firm looking to capitalise on a French-Czech ownership, pursuing Czech-made co-productions for a pan-European audience.Simply Cinema, founded in 1993 by Czech producer Jaroslav Boucek, who produces films from acclaimed director Vladimir Michalek (Autumn Spring, Angel Exit), ...
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Prague slashes location shooting fees
Prague city council this week slashed location shooting fees in the Czech capital by 75%.The reduction effectively reverses a controversial location fee increase introduced in June, when shooting costs in the city's historic centre were raised fivefold from $0.32 to $1.62 per square metre - working out as an increase ...
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Year Of The Devil wins Karlovy Vary's Crystal Globe
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival wrapped in the Czech Republic on Saturday, with the Crystal Globe, the festival's main prize, going to a Czech film, Petr Zelenka's Year of the Devil. It was a weekend of surprises and disappointments in the Bohemian spa town. Zelenka's film, a part fiction, ...
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Menemsha gets The Power Of Good at Karlovy Vary
LA-based sales and distribution outfit Menemsha Entertainment has picked up North American rights to the Czech-Slovak co-production The Power Of Good - Nicholas Winton at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week. Matej Minac's The Power Of Good is a documentary about an Englishman who saved 669 Jewish children from ...
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Prague Studios to build additional stages
Six months after Prague Studios unveiled refurbished stages and began taking on US productions, the Czech-based firm has announced further plans to extend the facility. Studio executives say construction will begin at the end of this year on four new 2000-meter stages at the Prague Studios complex, to be completed ...
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Karlovy Vary film festival opens new 'industry liaison office'
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival opened yesterday with a renewed emphasis on the concerns of the European film industry in the form of a sales co-ordination office. Four years after abandoning efforts to establish a working film market where international rights could be bought and sold, the festival has ...
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Karlovy Vary reveals full competition line-up
Sean Connery will visit the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary for its 37th annual film festival this year (July 4-13), where he will receive an award for outstanding contribution to world cinema. Connery will be in the Czech Republic for the upcoming shoot of Fox's League Of Extraordinary Gentleman ...
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Off-screen drama at Czech TV station
The fate of Czech private television station TV Nova, is once again in doubt, as an ongoing off-screen drama took another unexpected twist with the attempted removal of CEO Vladimir Zelezny According to reports, Zelezny has apparently been sacked by his former allies in his ongoing battle with original Nova ...
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Czech arthouse flourishes during mainstream boom
With a boom in multiplex building and cinema admissions rising over the 10 million mark for the first time in half a decade, mainstream film is more popular than ever in the Czech Republic. And yet it is experimental film making that is grabbing most of the attention.Of all the ...
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Karlovy Vary names first festival jury members
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has announced the names of six members of the grand jury for the main competition, including Pulitzer-Prize-winning American film critic Roger Ebert.The festival, which takes place in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary on July 4-13, announced that Czech director of photography Jan ...
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HBO set for April launch in Bulgaria
Cable broadcaster HBO has announced an April launch for its Bulgarian service, with subtitled American films running alongside European productions, events and concerts 24 hours a day on weekdays and 18 hours on weekends. Bulgarian cable companies Msat, Eurocom Cable, Eurocom Plovdiv, Skat and Telecable are lined up to host ...
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Untitled Great War project wraps in Prague
The as-yet untitled World War I thriller starring Billy Elliot's Jamie Bell wrapped in the Czech Republic in December, a UK-German co-production and the first from UK-based Film & Music Entertainment Ltd. The $5 million shoot finished on time and on budget, according to producer Mike Downey, who explained that ...
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Czech cinema admissions pass 10m in 2001
Homegrown hit Ali G IndaHouse topped the chart in the UK over the weekend. Grossing an impressive $4.6m (£3.2m) from 396 sites, including $352,649 of previews from 338 sites, the comedy vehicle for Sacha Baron Cohen's Ali G character triumphed over an onslaught of children's and family titles. Ali G, ...
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Czechs appeal against Stockholm ruling on CME
The Czech Republic has appealed against a decision by a Stockholm tribunal in the case of Central European Media Enterprises (CME) and TV Nova that could cost the country up to $500m.On Sept 13, a three-member international tribunal found that the Czech Republic had violated its treaty on the mutual ...
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Prague Studios, Barrandov attracting new projects
Czech upstart Prague Studios unveiled its refurbished stages last week, just in time for filming to start on Vin Diesel actioner XXX, with Rob Cohen becoming the latest director to take advantage of low production costs in the Czech Republic. At the same time, it was confirmed that Children Of ...
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TV Nova still on track for Barrandov Studios
Czech broadcaster TV Nova appears to be pushing ahead with plans to purchase Prague's Barrandov Studios despite recent setbacks, including a ruling against it Wednesday (Nov 21) by the Czech Supreme Court in its dispute with the US's Central European Media Enterprises (CME).Last week, Nova director Vladimir Zelezny spent the ...
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Czech media mogul Zelezny arrested
Police took into custody the Czech Republic's top media mogul, Vladmir Zelezny, on Nov. 13 in a move that appears timed to coincide with recent international rulings against Zelezny and his firm, CET-21.The arrest of Zelezny could put a hitch in the planned sale of Barrandov Studios, but observers say ...
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New Eastern European fund aims to raise $40m
A new production financing fund for Central and Eastern Europe has been established with the aim of raising $40m towards developing the region's film-making activities.Bianca Bezdek, an international media attorney with Linklaters in New York, and Andrew Stear, head of Bucharest-based Stray Dogs Productions, have teamed to raise capital from ...
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Barrandov and Boyana studios attracting investors
US producer David Kappes (Dune, Anne Frank) is said to be heading a group of American producers, called Trilateral Entertainment, interested in purchasing the Czech Republic's Barrandov Studios, according to local sources.Current Barrandov owner Moravia Steel, which is selling the studio complex on the outskirts of Prague to focus on ...
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Karlovy Vary fest fetes Amelie
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie grabbed the $20,000 grand prize at the 36th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which closed on Saturday 14 July. Jeunet's comedy about the adventures of a Parisian girl stood out from a slate of films dominated by darker themes this year, including drug addiction and Alzheimer's.Special jury ...
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