Production: Medal of Honor in post-production
Peter Călin Netzer (Maria) is in post-production with his second feature, Medal of Honor, the story of a 75 man who receives out of the blue a medal for his…
Production: Radu Gabrea in production with The Red Gloves
Romanian director Radu Gabrea continues his screen adaptations of Romanian born Saxon writer Eginald Schlattner's novels, this time with The Red Gloves (Mănuşile roşii).
Hungarian box office up, attendance down
Attendance at Hungarian cinemas went into its seond year of decline, dropping 7.3% to 10,352,494, while box office increased 2.1% to €35 million, and the number of the screenings increased…
Slovak admissions see dramatic increase
Slovak cinemas attracted 1,022,890 viewers in the first quarter of 2009, a 44% rise in admissions comparing to the first quarter in the year 2008.
Rising box office trend for Estonian film
Over the past half decade, the share of Estonian films at domestic box office has grown nearly fivefold from 47,000 ticekts sold in 2004 to 223,000 tickets sold in 2007.
TV2 agrees to digital switchover
Antenna Hungaria Group (www.ahrt.hu) and commercial TV channel TV2 owner MTM-SBS Television (www.tv2.hu) signed a contract concerning digital terrestrial transmission the two companies announced in a common statement on May…
UPC Romania launches Da Vinci Learning channel
The educational TV channel Da Vinci Learning is now part of the digital offer of the Romanian cable operator UPC.
Lottery to fund Hungarian culture
Hungary's cultural tax will be dissolved on January 1, 2010, and the budget of the National Cultural Fund of Hungary (www.nka.hu) will be covered by 90% of the national lottery's…
Fee reduction petition fails
The Hungarian Board of the National Radio and Television Commission (ORTT, www.ortt.hu) rejected a final petition from the two leading Hungarian commercial TV channels seeking a reduction in their annual…
Production: Andrei Zincă preps Puzzle for a Blind Man
Romanian director Andrei Zincă is in preparation to film Puzzle for a Blind Man, an adaptation of Argentinian playwright Mario Diament's Blind Date for Castel Film Studios.
Decreasing Hungarian ad market
The Hungarian ad market could see a 20% decrease in 2009.
Production: Jodorowsky in Lynch-Kantor co-production
Cult-director Alejandro Jodorowsky (known for his 1970 midnight movie El Topo) is in pre-production to direct the American-French-Hungarian co-production King Shot, co-producer Laszlo Kantor told FNE.
Bathory locks up Cannes sales
The Czech/Slovak box office hit Bathory signed sales agreements with Germany and Hong Kong during the Cannes film market.
Kerekes lines up co-producers at EFP event
Slovak director and producer Peter Kerekes found co-producers for his film on cosmonauts while participating in European Film Promotion's Producers On the Move at Cannes.
ATM Grupa expands on Polish market
TV production company ATM Grupa has bought 100% of Baltmedia, one of the most successful Polish producing companies.
RTL Klub CEO claims media title
For the second year in a row Dirk Gerkens, CEO of the commercial TV channel RTL Klub (www.rtlklub.hu), has been named the most influential person in the Hungarian media by…
Disney rebrands CEE channels
The Walt Disney Company will re-brand its Jetix channels in Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria as Disney Channel, increasing the channel's distribution to 12 million households in the…
Estonia’s CineExpress tours the Balkans
Estonia's rolling cinema exhibitor Cinema Bus is wrapping up its tour of the Balkan countries, trying to revitalise the failed cinema networks and bring moving pictures back to remote areas…
Endomol Polska commissioned to produce Dutch hit
Endemol Polska has been commissioned to produce a local Polish version of the Dutch TV hit series Roses and Vodka Lime for Polish commercial channel TVN.
New Polish media law enacted
The Polish parliament passed a media law on financing public media in Poland on May 22.
