Latvian TV Song and Dance Festival draws 1 million viewers

Almost 1.1 million viewers watched the July 5-12 Latvian Song and Dance Festival broadcast on LTV, the Latvian public broadcasting station.
27-07-2008

New home for Czech National Film Archive

The Czech government decided on July 23 to construct a new building to house the Czech National Film Archive (NFA). Construction could begin as late as 2013.
27-07-2008

Nu Image and Nu Boyana bring Hollywood to Bulgaria

The 4th Kind and Command Performance are keeping locally based production companies Nu Boyana film studio, Millenium Films, Nu Image, and producer Gold Circle Films busy with action thrillers this…
25-07-2008

Polsat to sell 53% of shares to Cyprus firms

Cyprus based companies Karswel Ltd. and Sensor Oversear Ltd. will purchase controlling interest in Polish commercial TV network Polsat.
24-07-2008

Italians shoot Lithuanian documentary

Italian journalists Blasco Marotta and Maria Cristina di Toto are in Lithuania through July 27 to film a documentary aimed at attracting visitors to the Baltic state.
24-07-2008

Elion cable subscribers up 58%

Eesti Telekom's Elion announced IPTV and cable TV subscribers rose by 58%, to 67,700 at the end of the second quarter of 2008.
24-07-2008

Poland, Estonia pick up Tibet documentary

C4i, owned by Digital Right Group, announced that the documentary Undercover in Tibethas been sold to Polish TV and Estonian TV,
24-07-2008

France Telecom introduces a new satellite platform to the Polish market

The Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported that the new satellite platform from Polish Telecommunication S.A. (TP www.tp.pl), owned by the international join-stock company France Telecom (www.francetelecom.com),will launch in the first…
24-07-2008

Correction

The head of PTV's Film Agency was incorrectly identified in a story on Polish TV's new film funding structure. The correct name is Sawomir Jozwik. FNE regrets the error.
24-07-2008

Protector announces film start and cast

Director Marek Najbrt‘s CZK62 million (€2.6 million) Protector, one of the most anticipated Czech films of 2009, will start filming in early September.
24-07-2008

Bathory draws 200,000 viewers in 2 weeks

The big-budget €11 million Czech-Slovak-Hungarian-British co-production Bathory by director Juraj Jakubisko hit a Czech domestic record in attendance since its opening on July 10.
22-07-2008

Andrzej Munk Studio starts script recruitment

Newly launched Andrzej Munk Stufio, a joint project of The Polish Filmmakers Association (PFA), the Polish Film Institute,the Ministry of Culture and Polish public broadcaster TVP, announced it is ready…
22-07-2008

News Corp considers pulling out of Central and Eastern Europe

News Corp has reportedly hired Lehman Brothers to study the company's holdings in Bulgaria, Latvia, Poland, and Turkey with the intention of selling its holdings in the region.
22-07-2008

Mundruczo to open Budapest cinema

Following the success of Delta (Cannes FIPRESCI prize and Lux Prize nomination), director Kornel Mundruczo and producer Viktoria Petranyi are lining up new film projects and leasing a Budapest art…
22-07-2008

National Cinema Digitalization Program launches in Poland

The Polish Filmmakers Association (PFA) along with The Polish film Institute, the Ministry of Culture and the National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers has started working on the transfer to digital…
21-07-2008

Lithuanian Radio and TV posts profits for 2007

Public broadcaster Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT, www.lrt.lt ) reported net profits of LTL2,947 million (854,000 Euros) for 2007, compared with losses of 361,000 Euros in 2006.
21-07-2008

Singing Bee picked up for Romania

ProTV Romania has commissioned rights to the format musical game show The Singing Bee, prrogramme distributor Zeal Entertainment announced on July 21.
21-07-2008

Lodz Film Fund grants €3.1 million to six projects

The second edition of the Lodz competition for film projects promoting the city awarded €3.1 million to three documentaries, two features, and one short animation.
20-07-2008

Director Harlin scouts Lithuania for Mannerheim film

Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2) has been scouting locations in Lithuania for a 10 million Euro film on the Finnish Marshall, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.
20-07-2008

Made in Hungaria begins shooting

Filming began on the adaptation of hit stage musical Made in Hungaria on July 16, and will continue through the end of summer.
20-07-2008