Fire destroys props storage at MediaPro Studios
One fireman was slightly hurt in the attempt to extinguish the fire started Tuesday evening at MediaPro Studios (www.mediaprostudios.com) in Buftea, near Bucharest.
National Film Centre of Latvia is under the threat of reorganization
The financial crisis in Latvia has triggered a chain of reorganization of cultural institutions that threatens the existence of the National Film Centre of Latvia (NFC) as an independent establishment.
m-appeal picks up Slovene, Hungarian films
Berlin-based film sales company m-appeal has picked up Áron Mátyássys feature debut Lost Times and Damjan Kozoles new film Slovenian Girl.
Production: The Graduates of the 3rd Millenium in post-production
Adrian Popovici is finishing post-production on The Graduates of the 3rd Millenium (Liceenii mileniului trei, working title).
Slow moves to digital television in Romania
Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Society (http://www.mcsi.ro/) is expected to present a new draft for the strategy to transfer to digital television.
Production: Womb nears completion
Producer András Muhi, Inforg Stúdió (www.inforgstudio.hu) has annonced that Womb, the new film from Golden Leopard winner Benedek Fliegauf, will complete its final cut on August 20.
Bulgaria's new Minister of Culture promises a film fund
Bulgaria's new minster of culture Vezhdi Rashidov, the new Bulgarian minister of culture, has appointed former National Film Centre (NFC, www.nfc.bg) director Dimitar Dereliev as a vice-minister.
MTV to launch in Czech Republic
Nova TV will launch MTV in the Czech Republic and Slovakia on November 29, in partnership with MTV Networks Intermational.
Liberty Global announces Q2 losses
Liberty Global, which operates UPC broadband divisions in Hungary and four other CEE territories, reported second quarter loss in revenues of $60.7 million, and a $93 million loss for the…
Ad market revenues drop in 2009
The TV advertising market has dropped by over 30% in Romania in the first half of 2009.
Bulgarian antitrust commission allows TV channel acquisition
The New Bulgarian Media Group Holding (NBMGH) owned by the former head of the Bulgarian State Lottery Irena Krusteva has been allowed to acquire cable operator Balkan Bulgarian Television (BBT)…
Production: Dan Chişu starts shooting The Bear
Writer/director Dan Chişu's film The Bear, winner of the Connecting Cottbus "Best Pitch Award," began filming August 3.
Production: Slovenian family movie begins filming
Slovenian director Miha Hočevar is nowadays shooting his fourth full-length movie, a teen film titled We Go Our Way.
Romanian box office on the rise
Due to multiplexes and 3D, local box-office projects growth of as much as 25% in 2009 compared to last year.
Zift wins at Bulgarian film awards
Javor Gardev's radical neo noir Zift was awarded "best film" of the year during an official ceremony on July 30 at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia.
Polish market is open for Sweden
The focus on Swedish cinema during this year's ERA New Horizons IFF has proven that Poland can be a significant market and production partner for Swedish cinema.
Bulgarian TV stations cope with ad market decline
A TNS/TV Plan survey shows the Bulgarian TV advertising market has decreased 8.6% in the first half of 2009, to 151 million Euros, compared with the same period in 2008.
Production: Constantin Popescu preps Principles of Life
Constantin Popescu (Tales from the Golden Age) has finished post-production of Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man and started pre-production of Principles of Life.
Production: Nicolae Mărgineanu finishes doc about Securitate surveillance
Nicolae Mărgineanu is in post-production with his documentary film Surveilled by the Securitate between 1970-1980.
Production: Szasz launches new project
Janos Szasz has started pre-production on a new project, the adaptation of the novel of Agota Kristof titled Le Grand Cahier (The Big Notebook).
