TBILISI: Zaza Urushadze’s Tangerines sold 3,880 tickets in Greece in its first week.
BUCHAREST: Tommy Wirkola’s What Happened to Monday? starring Noomi Rapace and Glenn Close will be shot entirely in Romania with Castel Film providing services this summer.
ZAGREB: Seasons six and seven of HBO television series Game of Thrones will be partially shot in Croatia, where HBO is expected to invest over 8m EUR with local partners.
TBILISI: Georgian director Nino Basilia’s debut feature, The Naked, which has just wrapped a 27 day shoot, is a social drama about a mother desperately trying to get to the U.S. with her autistic child. The main actors are Eka Demetradze, Lika Okroshidze, Kote Janjgava and Lasha Murjikneli.
BUCHAREST: Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Treasure/Comoara which started sales prior to Cannes has been sold by Wild Bunch in new territories.
ZAGREB: Steven Quale’s action thriller Lake, produced by Luc Besson and starring Sullivan Stapleton (300: Rise of an Empire) and Oscar-winning J.K.Simmons (Whiplash) will be shot in Croatia this summer.
CLUJ-NAPOCA: Juan Schnitan's film The Fire/El Incendio received Best Film Award and the Transilvania Trophy at the 14th Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) which wrapped on 7 June 2015.
BUCHAREST: The Audiovisual Council of Romania has approved that the Taraf TV channel expand its broadcast coverage to Europe, North America and South-East Asia.
ZAGREB: Dejan Aćimović's feature film Anka, with French football player-turned-actor Eric Cantona in the starring role, started shooting in Croatia on 1 June 2015.
BUCHAREST: Victoria Baltag’s independent debut feature Herman: the Man behind the Terror/Herman-omul din spatele terorii (www.hermanfilm.com), focusing on the torture "reeducation” used by the communist regime through the Piteşti Experiment, opened a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo on 2 June 2015.