Zelezny Acquitted in Czech Court
PRAGUE: In connection with one of the longest and most prominent international legal cases in the Czech Republic, Vladimir Zelezny, the former Director of Central European Media Enterprises' (CME, www.cetv-net.com)…
FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: TV4 Picks up British Reality Format
Polish private broadcaster TV4 has commissioned the first season of Czysta Chata, a Polish version of the British reality show, How Clean Is Your House.
Czech Foreign Minister Leads Delegation to Hollywood
PRAGUE: Karel Schwarzenberg, the Czech Foreign Minister, is leading a delegation to Hollywood to promote the Czech film industry. He departs for the US on 27 May 2011 and will…
Malta TV Head Resigns
VALLETTA: The chairman of Malta's state broadcaster Public Broadcasting Service, Joseph Mizzi, has resigned. He handed in a letter of resignation earlier this week.
MTG Announces CEE Management Changes
Sweden's Modern Times Group (MTG, www.mtg.se), the international entertainment broadcasting group, announced that Anders Nilsson, Chief Operating Officer of MTG, will assume responsibility for the Group's pay-TV operations in the…
FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: Estonia
TALLINN: Estonia's three national broadcasters, public broadcaster Estonian TV (ETV, etv.err.ee, operated under ERR which also runs a national radio network),and foreign-owned commercial channels TV3 (www.tv3.ee) owned by Modern Times…
UPC to Acquire Aster
Liberty Global (www.lgi.com), the owner of UPC (www.upc.pl) cable net, is planning to buy Aster (www.aster.pl) for 2.4 million PLN. MID Europa Partners LLP (www.mideuropa.com) investment fund will sell 100%…
PRODUCTION: Mihăileanu Prepares English-language Debut
BUCHAREST: Romanian-born French director Radu Mihăileanu is developing his first English-language feature film, with plans to shoot in Los Angeles in 2012 or at the begining of 2013. The still-untitled…
PRODUCTION: Mihăileanu Prepares English-language Debut
BUCHAREST: Romanian-born French director Radu Mihăileanu is developing his first English-language feature film, with plans to shoot in Los Angeles in 2012 or at the begining of 2013. The still-untitled…
FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: Poland
WARSAW: The Polish television market has grown into a dynamic source of original and adapted content, blazing a path for other CEE territories in shaping formats to fit local tastes.…
Slovenia Signs Coproduction Agreement with France
The Slovenian Film Center (www.film-center.si) announced that he Slovenian and French Ministers of Culture, Majda Širca and Frédéric Mitterand, have signed a film co‑production agreement in Brussels. The agreement will…
Menzel Honored in Romania
The Oscar-winning Czech director Jiri Menzel received a special award from the President of Romania Traian Basescu during a retrospective of Menzel's films in Bucharest.
Brad Pitt Film Begins Casting in Malta
Malta Today reports that locals are currently being hired as extras on a film to star Brad Pitt. The film, produced by Pitt's Plan B company, will begin shooting in…
Polanski Tapped for Gdynia Lifetime Award
Poland's national film festival taking place in Gdynia 6-11 June 2011(www.fpff.pl) will bestow its Lifetime Achievement Award on Roman Polanski.
TV Malta Maintains Market Lead
A new report from the Malta Broadcasting Authority (www.ba-malta.org) covering TV viewing habits in Malta in 2010 shows that domestic channel TVM has maintained its position as the leading channel…
FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: Slovenia
LJUBLJANA: Original programming is currently down slightly in Slovenia, but there are some bright spots on the market as a whole, including local adaptations of reality formats and fiction programmes.…
Revenues Up at Polsat
WARSAW: Revenues from advertising and sponsorship at Polish commercial broadcaster Polsat (www.polsat.pl) grew 3.6 % in the first quarter of 2011, double the growth on the Polish market as a…
Bulgarian Cinema Screens Increase
SOFIA: A new report from the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute (NSI) covering data from 2010 shows that Bulgarians prefer cinema to most other cultural activities. At the same time, film…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2011: Certain Regard: Elena
CANNES: Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev returns to form with his new feature Elena fulfilling the promise of his 2003 debut The Return. Elena deservedly won the Special Jury Prix in…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2011: Cannes Film Festival Winners
CANNES: A jury headed by Robert De Niro awarded the Palm d'Or to Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. The Grand Prix was shared by The Kid with a Bike…
