BUCHAREST: Ada Solomon and Parada Film are developing the second feature of Vali Hotea, I Hate Berlin, a dark comedy about indecision and the fear of taking responsibility.
ZAGREB: Foreign film production is on a roll in Croatia. The Croatian Audiovisual Centre estimates that international productions will spend approximately 13.8 m EUR/105 m HRK in Croatia in 2014 with the number of the shooting days increasing every year since 2012.
BUCHAREST: After shooting The Mercenary: Absolution with Steven Seagal in March and April 2014, director Keoni Waxman is returning to Romania where he will start shooting entirely the four hour miniseries Vlad The Impaler: Blood Empire on 27 October 2014 with Castel Film again providing facilities.
The results of the first session of the production and development grants was announced by the Romanian Film Center on 1 October 2014.
BUCHAREST: The Romanian Film Center allotted 3,401,250 EUR/15 m RON for film production and development at its first session of 2014.
BUCHAREST: Freealize will distribute its first film on 7 November and will launch the Romanian portmanteau film Short/4: Tales of Spades end of November.
BUCHAREST: After five years of decline, the Romanian ad market is poised to grow by 2.8% through the end of 2014.
ZAGREB: Hana Jusić's debut feature, Quit Staring at My Plate/ Ne gledaj mi u pijat, is a Croatian, Danish and French coproduction set for shooting in May 2015.
BUCHAREST: Răzvan Săvescu’s debut feature America, Here We Come!/America,venim! racked up 14,257 admissions in the first weekend, more than #Selfie, the biggest hit of 2014 so far, but it didn’t break the all time opening record set by Child’s Pose in 2013.
ZAGREB: Croatian director Ivan Goran Vitez (Forest Creatures) is shooting People’s Hero Ljiljan Vidić, a Croatian partisan-comedy set in 1944.
