Hungary and Slovenia are expected to host film productions from India and Pakistan in 2012.

PRAGUE: Director Dora Kapralova is in production with Soilmania, a feature length Czech-German coproduction filmed in Czech, German, and English.

Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME, www.cetv-net.com) showed declines in net revenues and operating income for both its second quarter and its six-month results.

SOFIA: Bulgaria's two leading cinema chains are at the center of a cartel investigation by the country's anti-trust agency, theCommission the Protection of Competition (KZK).

Croatian director Boris Bakal is participating in Ex-Oriente 2012 with his documentary film project Vitic Dances.

BATUMI, GEORGIA: Batumi art house "Argani"/BIAFF International Film Festival (www.biaff.org) launched the BIAFF summer film school on script development in Batumi on 28 July 2012, running through 3 August, 2012.

TIBLISI: The Georgian National Film Center (www.gnfc.ge) selected five projects which will receive script development grants of 5000 GEL (2,500 EUR).