Production: The Mill And The Cross wraps shoot

Lech Majewski has finished shooting The Mill And The Cross, one of the biggest Polish productions of the year with a cast including Charlotte Rampling, Michael York and Rutger Hauer.
16-08-2009

Shooting of Wilhelm Tell: The Legend postponed

Bogdan Moncea, PR Manager at Castel Film Studios, told FNE that filming on Wilhelm Tell: The Legend has been postponed until 2010.
16-08-2009

Lithuanian box office sets record

Lithuanian cinemas was 4.53 million Litas (€1.31 million) in box office in July, 2009, the country's biggest revenues in a one month period.
16-08-2009

Darik Radio launches Bulgarian TV Channel

Bulgaria's Council for Electronic Media (www.cem.bg) has issued a license to the leading radio station, Darik (http://darikradio.bg) to establish a TV channel under the name Darik Radio and TV.
13-08-2009

Latvian filmmakers support National Film Centre

Nearly 200 Latvian film professionals voiced their support for retaining the independent legal status of the National Film Centre of Latvia during demonstration on August 12.
13-08-2009

Production concept premieres in Malta

Watermelon Media of Malta is piloting a new concept for the international game show Divided.
12-08-2009

Latvian ad market shows steep decline

The Latvian Advertising Association announced a 42% decline in the media advertising market in the first half of 2009.
12-08-2009

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.
12-08-2009

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.
11-08-2009

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.
11-08-2009

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).
10-08-2009

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.
09-08-2009

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.
09-08-2009

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.
09-08-2009

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.
06-08-2009

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…
06-08-2009

Ad market revenues drop in 2009

The TV advertising market has dropped by over 30% in Romania in the first half of 2009.
05-08-2009

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)…
05-08-2009

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.
04-08-2009

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.
04-08-2009