Rising box office trend for Estonian film

Over the past half decade, the share of Estonian films at domestic box office has grown nearly fivefold from 47,000 ticekts sold in 2004 to 223,000 tickets sold in 2007.
31-05-2009

TV2 agrees to digital switchover

Antenna Hungaria Group (www.ahrt.hu) and commercial TV channel TV2 owner MTM-SBS Television (www.tv2.hu) signed a contract concerning digital terrestrial transmission the two companies announced in a common statement on May…
31-05-2009

UPC Romania launches Da Vinci Learning channel

The educational TV channel Da Vinci Learning is now part of the digital offer of the Romanian cable operator UPC.
31-05-2009

Lottery to fund Hungarian culture

Hungary's cultural tax will be dissolved on January 1, 2010, and the budget of the National Cultural Fund of Hungary (www.nka.hu) will be covered by 90% of the national lottery's…
28-05-2009

Fee reduction petition fails

The Hungarian Board of the National Radio and Television Commission (ORTT, www.ortt.hu) rejected a final petition from the two leading Hungarian commercial TV channels seeking a reduction in their annual…
28-05-2009

Production: Andrei Zincă preps Puzzle for a Blind Man

Romanian director Andrei Zincă is in preparation to film Puzzle for a Blind Man, an adaptation of Argentinian playwright Mario Diament's Blind Date for Castel Film Studios.
28-05-2009

Decreasing Hungarian ad market

The Hungarian ad market could see a 20% decrease in 2009.
28-05-2009

Production: Jodorowsky in Lynch-Kantor co-production

Cult-director Alejandro Jodorowsky (known for his 1970 midnight movie El Topo) is in pre-production to direct the American-French-Hungarian co-production King Shot, co-producer Laszlo Kantor told FNE.
28-05-2009

Bathory locks up Cannes sales

The Czech/Slovak box office hit Bathory signed sales agreements with Germany and Hong Kong during the Cannes film market.
27-05-2009

Kerekes lines up co-producers at EFP event

Slovak director and producer Peter Kerekes found co-producers for his film on cosmonauts while participating in European Film Promotion's Producers On the Move at Cannes.
27-05-2009

ATM Grupa expands on Polish market

TV production company ATM Grupa has bought 100% of Baltmedia, one of the most successful Polish producing companies.
27-05-2009

RTL Klub CEO claims media title

For the second year in a row Dirk Gerkens, CEO of the commercial TV channel RTL Klub (www.rtlklub.hu), has been named the most influential person in the Hungarian media by…
27-05-2009

Disney rebrands CEE channels

The Walt Disney Company will re-brand its Jetix channels in Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria as Disney Channel, increasing the channel's distribution to 12 million households in the…
27-05-2009

Estonia’s CineExpress tours the Balkans

Estonia's rolling cinema exhibitor Cinema Bus is wrapping up its tour of the Balkan countries, trying to revitalise the failed cinema networks and bring moving pictures back to remote areas…
26-05-2009

Endomol Polska commissioned to produce Dutch hit

Endemol Polska has been commissioned to produce a local Polish version of the Dutch TV hit series Roses and Vodka Lime for Polish commercial channel TVN.
26-05-2009

New Polish media law enacted

The Polish parliament passed a media law on financing public media in Poland on May 22.
25-05-2009

Slovaks organize media complex

The Slovak government has approved the construction of a new media complex in Bratislava, housing the three state-supported public media institutions.
25-05-2009

Hungarian and Romanian sports channels planned

Digi Communication and Broadcast Ltd. (www.digi.tv) will launch new sports channels in Hungary and Romania.
25-05-2009

FNE in Cannes: Antalya Fest set for October Date

Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and the accompanying Eurasia International Film Festival and Market have set their dates for this year's edition.
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FNE in Cannes: ScripTeast Announcers winner of the Prestigious Krzysztof Kieslowski Prize

(See Who's Partying At.. for awards photos)Romanian scriptwriter Ioan Antoci was awarded the prestigious ScripTeast Krzysztof Kieslowski Prize for his script The Japanese Day at a glamourous champagne beach party…
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