Romanian producer Ada Solomon has been named as one of five jury members who will select the ten 2012 Shooting Stars (www.shooting-stars.eu) for European Film Promotion (www.efp-online.com).

Central European exhibitor Cinema City (www.cinemacity.nl) reported cinema revenues of 197.6 million euros at the end of Q3 2011, an increase of some 11% over 2010, but EBITDA dropped 20.6% to 53.3 million euros for the nine months. Operating profit fell 43% to 17.1 million euros for the period.

The Finnish Film Foundation announced 150,000 euros in grant support for the Finnish/Lithuanian coproduction Santa co-produced by Lithuanian company ArtBox (www.artbox.lt).

BUCHAREST: A sequel to the family film Ho Ho Ho started filming on 7 November 2011 and is expecting to wrap 2 December^,, representatives of the production company MediaPro Pictures (www.mediapropictures.com) told FNE. The director Jesus del Cerro is working on the script written by an American, Collin Jay Blair, and adapted into Romanian by Gabriela Ceuta. Alma Sârbu is producing for MediaPro Pictures. Shooting is taking place in and around Bucharest.

FNE together with Europa Cinemas continues its Cinema of the Month series.  In recognition of the hard work and excellence of European cinema operators we choose a cinema from each country covered by FNE each month.  We look at the challenges and the successes faced by those cinemas with a special series of interviews that offer insights that other operators can benefit from and a platform for the exchange of ideas.  This month we focus on Hungary and Tibor Biro who is the manager of the Urania and Beke Cinemas in Miskolc.