PRODUCTION: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Finishes Shooting in Romania

BUCHAREST: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance wrapped shooting on 23 February 2011 in Romania where it was filmed for all but two weeks of shooting in Turkey. The first big…
01-03-2011

Vavra Celebrates Centennial Birthday

Czech director Otakar Vavra marked his 100th birthday on 28 Febrruary 2011. Vavra began working on films as a young university student in 1930, and went on to help establish…
28-02-2011

The Christening Wins Mons Love Film Festival

The Christening by Polish director Marcin Wrona won the Grand Prize of the 27th Mons Love Film Festival. The screenwriters for this title Grzegorz Jankowski, Grażyna Trela and Dariusz Glazer…
28-02-2011

Slovak Public Broadcaster Faces Deficit

Slovak Radio and Television RTVS, the newly combined public broadcaster, expects debts in excess of €57 million in 2011. The deficit compares to a loss of €24.4 million in 2010.
28-02-2011

Kino Polska Launches Music Channel

Kino Polska has announced the upcoming launch of Kino Polska Muzyka, a channel devoted to Polish music. Musical films, documentaries, and animation are among the programmes that the new station…
28-02-2011

Czech Multiplexes Have Record Year

PRAGUE: Box office for Czech multiplexes rose by over CZK 200 million in 2010, nearly 20%, to a total of CZK 1.3 billion. Attendance at multiplexes rose by almost 9%,…
27-02-2011

Arnost Lustig Dead at 84

Arnost Lustig died of cancer on 26 February 2011 at age 84. Lustig, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Lifetime Achievement Award, wrote screenplays for several Czech…
27-02-2011

Budget Cuts Endanger Plans for Hungarian Public Televisions to Play Bigger Role in Film Production

BUDAPEST: Plans for the newly restructured public television in Hungary to play a greater role in film and TV drama production have been endangered by government cuts to the new…
27-02-2011

FNE - IDF DocBloc: Some Of Your Energy Needed For One World 2011

The 13th One World - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival takes place March 8 - 17, 2011, with over 100 documentaries divided into several sections. Several new programmes have…
25-02-2011

Lithuania Sees Mixed 2011 Q4 Telecoms Results

Broadband penetration and subscribers rose in Lithuania during the fourth quarter of 2011, but a decrease in fixed and mobile telephone subscribers led to an overall decline in the telecoms…
24-02-2011

PRODUCTION: Christmas at Castlebury Hall Will Shoot in Romania

BUCHAREST: American director Michael Damian is in Bucharest where he will shoot his feature Christmas at Castlebury Hall, a romantic comedy about a young woman and her orphaned nephews who…
24-02-2011

TVP Signs VOD Agreement with UPC

WARSAW: Polish cable provider UPC is adding productions by public broadcaster TVP to its VOD (video on demand) offer. Before signing the contract with UPC, TVP presented some of its…
24-02-2011

PRODUCTION: Hip Hop Drama You Are God Begins Filming

Polish director Leszek Dawid had started shooting You Are God (Jesteś Bogiem), a drama about legendary Polish rapers, on 22 February 2011. The film is based on a true story…
24-02-2011

Rising Annual Revenues Help Offset CME Fourth Quarter Loss

HAMILTON, BERMUDA: Central European Media Enterprises (CME, www.cetv-net.com) turned around its performance in 2010, going from a 2009 loss of 97.2 million to net income of 100.2 million in 2010.…
23-02-2011

New Polish Distributor Picks up Internet Indie Film

Spectator, a new distribution company which bowed on the Polish market in December 2010, will use Everything (Wszystko), an independent short film by Artur Wyrzykowski, to introduce a new distribution…
23-02-2011

PRODUCTION: 365 New Years in Development

BUCHAREST: Paul Negoescu is developing his first feature, 365 New Years/365 de revelioane (working title), the story of a young man breaking up with his girlfriend on New Years Eve.…
23-02-2011

PRODUCTION: Lubaszenko Filming Blow Follow-up

Polish actor/director/producer Olaf Lubaszenko is near the completion of filming A Moment of Carelessness, or A Second Blow (Chwila nieuwagi, czyli drugi sztos), the sequel to his 1997 directing debut…
23-02-2011

The Turin Horse Sells in 23 Countries

Berlinale Grand Prix and FIPRESCI winner Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse sold to 23 countries during the European Film Market. More sales are expected.
22-02-2011

Weekend Sets New Record in Poland

WARSAW: Weekend has set anew opening week-end record with 275,000 admissions. Weekend is distributed by Poland's ITI Cinema (www.iticinema.com.pl),.
22-02-2011

Slovak Matchmaking Mayor Wins German Prize

The Matchmaking Mayor, a Czech/Slovak documentary about the efforts of a Slovak village mayor to encourage marriages among the local residents, won the Reader's Prize of the Berlin-based national daily…
22-02-2011