New cinema chain planned for Baltics

New Europe Cinemas plans to open its first in a chain of cinemas in Latvia in August 2009.
22-02-2009

TVN posts profits, but sees 4th quarter decline

Poland's leading commercial broadcaster TVN posted a 22% increase in revenues in 2008, but saw fourth quarter losses of over 30%.
22-02-2009

Intersonic nominated for Cartoon Movie award

Slovak distribution company Intersonic has been nominated for Best European Distributor by the European Association of Animation Films for its Cartoon Movie Tributes.
19-02-2009

New channels for digital TV in Malta

Malta's digital TV provider Melita is adding two new sports and nature themed channels to its package.
19-02-2009

EU countries moving forward on digital TV switch

The EU Commission announced that all member states but one are on target for a total switchover from analogue to digital TV by 2012.
19-02-2009

Turkish film fund deadline looms

The first application round for the film fund provided by Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism will be completed by February 23.
19-02-2009

Shooting of “Guilt” wraps

Director Vassilis Mazomenos has completed filming on Guilt, which was entirely shot in Cyprus, and has now returned to Athens for editing.
18-02-2009

SPI "dis"claims 2009 record opening weekend

SPI International Poland's Lords of the Flies' racked up impressive opening week-end numbers, with 157,344 admissions, comparing favorably to 2008's top ten Polish films.
18-02-2009

Recep Ivedik 2 breaks all time box office record in Turkey

Sahan Gokbakar starrer Recep Ivedik 2 with 1,209.433 admissions in three days over the weekend broke the all time opening weekend record of Valley of the Wolf with 1,100,000 admissions…
17-02-2009

Lithuanian documentary gets cinema distribution

Agne Marcinkeviciute's documentary Dance in thte Desert premieres on February 18 in Vilnius with nation-wide distribution beginning on February 19
17-02-2009

30 films competes for Polish Film Awards ‘Eagles’ 2009

The 11th edition of Polish Film Awards ‘Eagles' 2009 has begun with the votes by members of Polish Film Academy.
16-02-2009

Solid opening week for Karamazovs in Poland

Petr Zelenka's The Karamazovs racked up nearly 9,000 admissions in its first week in distribution in Polish cinemas.
16-02-2009

New cuts in film funding

Estonia's government on Thursday, February 12, moved to cut over €500 million from the 2009 state budget which is expected to decrease annual subsidies for the Estonian Film Foundation, the…
15-02-2009

Cooking History documentary heads to cinemas

Peter Kerekes´ new full-length documentary film Cooking History (Ako sa varia dejiny) has its Slovak premiere on February 18th.
15-02-2009

FNE in Berlin: Tobruk - first Czech film in SONY 4 K scores big for Marhoul

Tobruk the first Czech film to use the SONY 4 K technology has scored big on the international as well as the domestic market.
13-02-2009

Marhoul scores big in Berlin with WWII epic Tobruk

Prague based director, producer and scriptwriter Vaclav Marhoul has scored big with his three million Euro WWII Czech historic action drama Tobruk.
12-02-2009

Polish-Czech Hel moves into production

Hel, a debut feature from Kinga Dębska, started shooting on February 10, after spending two years pre-production.
12-02-2009

News channel sold to journalist

Well know Slovenian journalist Vladimir Vodušek has bought a majority share in commercial news station Info TV (www.infotv.si) from its founder Leo Oblak.
12-02-2009

Bučar moves to film fund

Nataša Bučar has been appointed to the post of Assistant Director of the Slovenian Film Fund.
11-02-2009

TVP increases ad rates

Polish public broadcaster TVP raised the prices of commercial time, in a search for additional profits as part of the station's new development plan.
11-02-2009