Production: Radu Mihaileanu is completing The Concert

Director Radu Mihaileanu (Train de vie, Live and Become) is completing post-production on his dramatic comedy The Concert.
21-06-2009

Estonia hosts largest budget film

Poll, a €7.8 million Austrian-German-Estonian co-production, started shooting on the coast of Estonia the week of June 15.
21-06-2009

No funding for new Polish media bill

The Polish Ministry of Finance announced that the national budget does not have enough money to finance reforms planned by the new media bill.
21-06-2009

Green light for Bulgarian feature projects

Six film productions and five projects in development have been chosen to receive 2.1 million Euros in support from Bulgarian state funds.
18-06-2009

Bromski comedy opens

After a premiere gala in Warsaw on June 15, the highly anticipated new comedy from hit-maker Jacek Bromski U Pana Boga Za Miedzą enters the cinemas across Poland.
18-06-2009

Romanian ad market poised to grow

Romanian ad market will increase with 1.1% between 2009-2013, according to an estimate from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
18-06-2009

First drive in to open in Bucharest

Bucharest will have its first drive-in cinema, located at Băneasa Shopping City, set to open July 1.
18-06-2009

Megaplex and IMAX set to open in Romania

The first megaplex and IMAX in Romania, Cinema City Cotroceni with 21 theaters with 4,300 seats, is set to open in October.
17-06-2009

Miracle in Adana and Golden Boll Prize Winners

Fest organizers accomplished the impossible in Adana, Turkey, putting on a seamlessly well organized international event under very difficult conditions this year.
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Production: Flying Lessons in development

Moldavian filmmaker Igor Cobileanski is in early development with his first feature based on a script written by Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective) and himself.
16-06-2009

Lithuanian box office in decline

Lithuania‘s movie theatres have posted 12.8 million Litas (3.7 million Euros) in box-office revenues in the first quarter of 2009, down 5% from the 13.5 million Litas (3.9 million Euros)…
16-06-2009

Production: Zanussi starts short shoot

Krzysztof Zanussi takes a look back at his past film characters in Revisit, which begins shooting June 17, to premiere at this summer's ERA New Horizons IFF.
16-06-2009

Slovenian Film Fund gets over 7 million Euros

The Slovenian government confirmed that the Slovenian Film Fund will recive more than 7.2 million Euros to finance Slovenian film production in 2009, in announcing operating and financial plans for…
15-06-2009

Russian productions head for Estonia

Shooting has begun on the reportedly $4 million budgeted Russian fantasy-thriller Quarantine in Tallinn -- the latest in a spate of Russian films being produced in Estonia.
15-06-2009

Production: Herz shoots a story from Sudetenland

Czechoslovak director Juraj Herz is in production with a big-budget historical drama, Habermann´s Mill (www.habermannuvmlyn.cz), based on a true story from the Sudetenland during the era of Nazi occupation.
15-06-2009

LUX Prize nominees announced

Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Romania are among the countries fielding nominated films for the European Parliament's LUX Prize, with three finalists to be announced during the Venice Film Festival.
14-06-2009

HBO Central Europe signs format deal

HBO Central Europe has signed an agreement on format rights to the Israeli series that HBO produces in the US under the title In Treatment.
14-06-2009

Slovak internet TV channel launched

News web server www.sme.sk launched an internet television channel, tv.sme.sk, on June 11.
14-06-2009

Production: Doldrums in postproduction

Director Tamas Sas tells FNE that he has just wrapped a 15 day shoot on his latest film, Doldrums.
11-06-2009

Production: Ao in rehearsals in Sofia

French directorJacques Malaterre is in Sofia rehearsing the UGC YMhigh budget epic fictionAo: The Last Neanderthal based on Marc Klapczynski's book Aô, Ancient Man.
11-06-2009