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  • Fashion One launches in Germany on KabelKiosk

    MUMBAI: Fashion One, the international channel for fashion, entertainment and lifestyle television, has launched in Germany on Eutelsat‘s digital cable platform KabelKiosk.

    The channel has concluded an agreement with Eutelsat‘s German subsidiary (Eutelsat Germany) for distribution of the channel to cable operators in continental Europe.

    The channel will be available in high definition to cable networks in the KabelKiosk digital television platform provided by Eutelsat Germany. KabelKiosk will carry Fashion One starting 2 January.

    After capitalizing in Germany, Fashion One is now equipped with the potential to continue its expansion on the viewer base in Europe by further distribution on platforms in Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Alto Adige.

    The international television network caters to a female audience with content covering the very latest in fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle news, profiles of A-list celebrities, luxury brands, holiday destinations, and red carpet events. Fashion One also delivers a strong lineup of original programming from reality shows, documentaries, beauty tips and street styling.

    “We are excited to be launching Fashion One in Germany with KabelKiosk. The channel will be broadcasted in crystal clear high-definition for the sophisticated audience in the region. This launch supports our drive for continuous growth in the Western European market following our launch of European headquarter last year and marks the start of a new era in the company‘s operations in Germany,” said Fashion One CEO Ashley Jordan.

    “Fashion One HD delivers pictures in a crisp HD-quality, building a bridge between fashion, luxury and travelling. This unique mixture makes Fashion One HD a real benefit for all of our modern, open-minded KabelKiosk viewers and connect them with an international community,” says Eutelsat Germany MD Martina Rutenbeck.

    The channel will debut with two original programmes Fashion One Correspondence Search: London and Front Row Season 2. Viewers could also enjoy on-going documentary series Eco Fashion and lifestyle series Yoga, Health and Well-being.

  • Fashion One launches in Germany on KabelKiosk

    Fashion One launches in Germany on KabelKiosk

    MUMBAI: Fashion One, the international channel for fashion, entertainment and lifestyle television, has launched in Germany on Eutelsat’s digital cable platform KabelKiosk.

     

    The channel has concluded an agreement with Eutelsat’s German subsidiary (Eutelsat Germany) for distribution of the channel to cable operators in continental Europe.

     

    The channel will be available in high definition to cable networks in the KabelKiosk digital television platform provided by Eutelsat Germany. KabelKiosk will carry Fashion One starting 2 January.

     

    After capitalizing in Germany, Fashion One is now equipped with the potential to continue its expansion on the viewer base in Europe by further distribution on platforms in Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Alto Adige.

     

    The international television network caters to a female audience with content covering the very latest in fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle news, profiles of A-list celebrities, luxury brands, holiday destinations, and red carpet events. Fashion One also delivers a strong lineup of original programming from reality shows, documentaries, beauty tips and street styling.

     

    “We are excited to be launching Fashion One in Germany with KabelKiosk. The channel will be broadcasted in crystal clear high-definition for the sophisticated audience in the region. This launch supports our drive for continuous growth in the Western European market following our launch of European headquarter last year and marks the start of a new era in the company’s operations in Germany,” said Fashion One CEO Ashley Jordan.

     

    “Fashion One HD delivers pictures in a crisp HD-quality, building a bridge between fashion, luxury and travelling. This unique mixture makes Fashion One HD a real benefit for all of our modern, open-minded KabelKiosk viewers and connect them with an international community,” says Eutelsat Germany MD Martina Rutenbeck.

     

    The channel will debut with two original programmes Fashion One Correspondence Search: London and Front Row Season 2. Viewers could also enjoy on-going documentary series Eco Fashion and lifestyle series Yoga, Health and Well-being.

  • GfK to continue as ratings measurement agency in Germany

    MUMBAI: The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fernsehforschung (AGF), the partnership of the TV stations ARD, ProSiebenSat.1, RTL Media Group Germany and ZDF, has commissioned GfK to continue monitoring TV viewing in Germany, initially until 2018.

    The contracts are worth around €130 million.

    TV usage in German households will be measured via a panel of 5,000 reporting households using the GfK TC score measurement device, which will be supplemented by the GfK UMX measurement technology based on the principle of audio-matching. These data will be made available to TV stations, their advertising sales organisations, media agencies and advertisers every single day.

    In addition to the introduction of the supplementary measurement technology GfK UMX, the system includes further innovations, which future-proof television audience measurement in Germany.

    For example, by doing away with conurbations – also West Berlin and East Berlin have now been com-bined as Berlin – the regional distribution of the panel households has been optimised. The process for recruiting households to replace those that leave the panel is adjusted to reflect the diverging options for receiving TV.

    Households and those who inhabit them now have the option of recording their changing personal characteristics online. The measurement of TV consumption in IPTV households was also introduced a few months ago.

    The absolute anonymity of the panel members, the highest data security and the quality of the audience share and market share determining the German TV market remain central to the operation of the system. GfK has been operating the TV research system in Germany for the AGF since 1985 and this is consequently the sixth successive contractual period.

  • Online TV market growing in Germany: Study

    Online TV market growing in Germany: Study

    MUMBAI: According to a new study on Internet TV, there are currently 1,424 online-TV services in Germany, with 194 million daily video hits.

    The number of people accessing videos has increased by about 17 per cent compared to the previous year.

    The study also points out that the mobile use of online TV has also increased with every fifth video hit occurring via mobile devices.

    Having grown quantitatively, particularly in the past few years, the online-TV market is consolidating and gains continuing professionalism. In this context, providers rely on in-house-produced content. On average, 78 per cent of the videos of an online-TV channel are in-house productions.

    Key Findings

    • Currently 1,424 online-TV services in Germany
    • Online-TV services: share of corporate TV and sub-brands of the traditional media increased
    • Online-TV usage: viewing records at live sports events
    • Distribution channels for online TV: mobile access significantly growing, via Smart TV still slow
    • Social TV: three out of four online-TV providers have a Facebook site
    • Economic situation: online-TV channels see higher marketing opportunities
    • In order to make the market structure of the online-TV world more transparent, Berlin strategy consultant Goldmedia was commissioned by BLM, the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting, to produce "Web TV Monitor 2012".

    The study‘s examination of the growth and use of online TV in Germany is based on a survey of primary data research on all German online-TV providers and the annual study is being published for the third year.

    Compared to 2011, the share of online-TV providers has not changed drastically (0.4 per cent). The traditional media‘s video and online portals are still the category with the highest number of services, with a 46 per cent market share. About one third (31 per cent) are online-TV channels that are produced exclusively for the Internet – so-called "Internet-only channels". Other online-TV services include corporate TV and video-shopping sites (11 per cent), non-commercial online-TV channels (five per cent), media stores and video centers (combined four per cent), and video-sharing platforms (two per cent).

    While the number of Internet-only channels and online services of the traditional media, which increasingly include video content, has declined between 2010 and 2012, the number of corporate TV providers and sub-brands from traditional TV brands has grown.

    Online-TV usage: viewing records at live sports events: The number of video hits has increased significantly. The services included in Goldmedia‘s survey for "Web TV Monitor 2012" achieved a total of about 194 million video hits per day, or about six billion per month. At live sports events, such as the Olympic Games or the European championship 2012, new viewing records with live-streaming and catch-up TV could be recorded in the web.

    According to the estimations of the surveyed online-TV providers already 451 million daily hits are expected in 2016, the rise in use infringing all platforms. In the field of Video on Demand (VoD) experts predict a stronger growth than the growth in linear online TV.

    Furthermore, the average viewing duration has increased. For VoD it has risen from nine minutes (2011) to currently 11 minutes, for live-streaming from 25 minutes to 28 minutes. This can be traced back to a growing number of long video content offered and the higher stability and therefore fewer interruptions during broadcasting.

    Meanwhile, every second online-TV provider has a mobile app or an optimised site for mobile devices. Two thirds of the surveyed providers for the study think that online TV will be accessed via mobile devices in the future. Currently, according to provider information, 18 per cent of the video hits are achieved via tablets and smartphones compared to only 11 per cent in 2011. Until 2016, the providers expect a significant rise and a 38 per cent share of hits.

    Hybrid TV via home TV is also gaining significance for the market. While the number of total hits of online-TV services via smart or hybrid TV was merely two per cent in 2011, there was a five per cent share in 2012. The providers themselves predict a rise to 16 per cent, which can be traced back to the spread of devices.

    As part of the growing spread of internet-capable TV-sets, more and more online-TV providers enter the market with their own smart TV app. According to "Web TV Monitor 2012", 23 per cent of the suppliers provide a smart TV app.

    Social TV: three out of four online-TV providers have a Facebook site

    Still, the online-TV website itself is the most important point of contact for video users. While in 2011 three quarters (72%) of all videos of an online-TV channel were seen via this way, it is only 67 per cent in 2012. Until 2016, online-TV providers expect a further decline to 61 per cent.

    The declining significance of channel websites goes along with the increasing importance of social networks, particularly YouTube and Facebook. Altogether, they generated about 25 per cent of the total hits in 2012 (status as of the beginning of October 2012). Until 2016, the providers expect an increase in hits to 29 per cent via social networks.

    Therefore, it is important for the online-TV providers to be present on all platforms. Merely 15 per cent of the providers are not present on any of the social networks.

    Online-TV channels see higher marketing opportunities. Currently, the online-TV channels‘ degree of cost covering is 71 per cent (details for 2011). With this, the relation of total sales and total costs is still highly negative.

    95 per cent of all recorded online-TV services are available for free. Only 61 per cent of the online-TV services are financed by advertising. As a consequence, 34 per cent are financed by alternative sources, partly by marketing budgets. On average, video ads contribute 37 per cent to the total ad sales.

    The marketing opportunities of online TV will continue to grow due to the increasing professionalisation of its content. However, the surveyed providers see the highest growing potential in the revenues of paid services. These should rise by 66 per cent in 2016, in contrast to the ad revenues of the online-TV channels with a growth of only 52 per cent per year.

  • Chinese box office helps Dark Knight to stand at No. 1

    Chinese box office helps Dark Knight to stand at No. 1

    Mumbai: The Chinese box-office helped The Dark Knight garner the number one position on the foreign theatrical circuit though locally it stood at the second spot.
    With an estimated overseas weekend collection of $46.4 million from as many as 10,156 theatres in 64 territories, the Batman sequel pulled in an estimated $28.5 million from Monday through Sunday from nearly 4,100 situations in China, according to distributor Warner Bros.
    Also opening in China was the weekend‘s No. 2, Sony‘s The Amazing Spider-Man, the fourth title in the blockbuster series, which made its international debut on 27 June.
    Of the total intake of $33.7 million from 7,125 sites in 59 markets, $33.3 million came from China over a seven-day period. This was more than that Spider-Man 3 grossed in its total China run. The total foreign collection of Amazing now stands at $475.3 million.
    Millennium-Nu Image Films‘ The Expendables 2, last weekend‘s No. 1 title on the foreign theatrical circuit, is likely to go down to the No. 3 this week once all the numbers come in later this week.
    The action sequel co0starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Dammes and Arnold Schwarzenegger opened at No. 1 in Brazil, Germany, Australia and ($564,053 from 66 sites) in Austria.
    The film also remained No. 1 in its second France round and extracted $2.3 million from 870 spots in Italy and Russia via Universal pushing the two-market total to $22.8 million.

  • Anurag Kashyap retrospective in Germany

    Anurag Kashyap retrospective in Germany

    MUMBAI: A retrospective of Anurag Kashyap‘s films has been arranged at Hamburg, Germany from 11 to 16 July.

    The screening, to be held at the Hamburg-based Metropolis Cinema, has been organised under the banner of Daring Pioneers of Indian Cinema on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Indian cinema during the India Week 2012.

    Films of Kashyap that would be screened on the occasion are Gangs Of Wasseypur, That Girl In Yellow Boots and Black Friday with Kashyap‘s Dev-D opening the event. Notable filmmaker, Fatih Akin will introduce Kashyap and his works.

    Said Kinemathek Hamburg international programming head Rita Baukrowitz, “Under the title of ‘Daring Pioneers of Indian cinema‘, the Metropolis cinema is now presenting for the works of outstanding Indian directors. This time the focus is on present-day cinema and on Kashyap, the pioneer of the new independent movement within the Hindi film industry. In his films, Kashyap draws special inspiration from the works of the Hamburg film-maker Fatih Akin – a feeling of admiration that is mutual. We are looking forward to an interesting cinema discussion between Akin, Kashyap and Nair.”

    Said Kashyap in a statement, “”I am very honoured to be presenting all my films in Hamburg and really happy to be hanging out with Fatih again. He always inspires me and this time too hoping to come back rejuvenated.”

    The Kinemathek Hamburg, in cooperation with the Indian Embassy in Berlin, the Consulate-General of India in Hamburg and the Hamburg Ministry of Culture, will be presenting this comprehensive film programme on modern Indian cinema to commemorate 60 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

  • Panda approaches Gere for film on food security

    Panda approaches Gere for film on food security

    MUMBAI: With both his debut film I Am Kalam and Jalpari-The Desert Mermaid having won rave reviews, Nila Madhab Panda is making a film based on the issue of world food security.

    The film, which will span from 2001 to 2010, will be like a realistic version of Avatar.

    Panda has approached Richard Gere to star in the film. If Gere accepts, he will play the sutradhar, that of a foreigner who comes to India and gets involved with the socio-political setup of a village in the India-Australia joint production.

    The director has also proposed Harrison Ford’s name for the film.

    “We’re talking to a lot of people. Nothing is confirmed yet, but this film will be much bigger (compared to his past films),” observed Panda.

    Talking about Jalpari-The Desert Mermaid , Panda averred, “It’s more than just a children’s film. It falls in the family adventure space.”

    Panda is gearing up to release Jalpari on 28 July through producer-distributor Ultra Distributors.

    The distributor has already received distribution offers from far flung countries like Korea, Taiwan, Germany and Far East.

  • Two foreign outfits to share production costs of Sunrise

    Two foreign outfits to share production costs of Sunrise

    MUMBAI: Augustus Film of Netherlands and Endorphine Productions, Germany will come together to share the production costs of Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise (Arunoday) with Independent Movies, Mumbai and NFDC.

    The film tells the story of Joshi, an embittered Mumbai cop who has been searching for his missing daughter for ten years since she disappeared one day after school.

    Joshi’s quest is used to reveal the horror of child trafficking and exploitation in India, a taboo subject which nonetheless affects a huge number of the children in the world’s most populous democracy, a country where lives are often cheap.

    “It’s good for me now as a large burden has been removed from my shoulders and I have to only stick to the creative process of filmmaking. NFDC’s backing the film also gave the impetus that we were waiting for. But I think that the 156 crowd-funders are the real heroes of the film project,”said Sengupta.

    Sengupta had, in the recent past, collected $21, 000 by crowd funding from the website indiegogo.com for Sunrise.

    The film, featuring Adil Hussain (of Life of Pi fame) and Tannishtha Chatterjee (of Brick Lane fame), is expected to go on the floors early next year.

    The co-production deals were finalised at Marche du Films at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival. The film will now be an Indo-German-Dutch co-production with a mixed international crew.

    Earlier, Sengupta had written and directed films like Shakti Timeless, Sound Check, Hava Aney Dey and Saturday Night in Bombay.

  • Universal acquires Bigelow’s bin Laden film

    Universal acquires Bigelow’s bin Laden film

    MUMBAI: Universal Pictures International has acquired international distribution rights of Kathryn Bigelow’s yet untitled feature film about the killing of Osama bin Laden. It will distribute the film in the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Scandinavia, South Africa and Spain.

    The project from Annapurna Pictures was written by Mark Boal, who had earlier teamed with Bigelow for The Hurt Locker.
     
    Bigelow and Boal will produce alongside Megan Ellison of Annapurna. Greg Shapiro, Ted Schipper and Colin Wilson will serve as executive producers.

    A few days ago, the Obama administration had arranged to get special access to government officials involved in the operation that killed Osama bin Laden for Bigelow and Boal.

  • Memento Films picks up US rights of Lore

    Memento Films picks up US rights of Lore

    MUMBAI: The distribution rights of forthcoming film Lore by Australian director Cate Shortland, set in the aftermath of World War Two Germany, for the US has been picked up by Music Box through France-based international sales agent Memento Films.

    The film, an adaptation of Rachel Seiffert‘s The Dark Room is the story of Lore, a young German girl who must get her four younger siblings to her grandmother on the other side of the country after her Nazi parents are arrested by Allied Forces
    Lore is a co-production between Australia, Germany and the UK, produced by the Australian Porchlight Film‘s Liz Watts as well as British producer Paul Welsh and German producers Karsten Stoter and Benny Drechsel.
    Averred Watts, “I‘ve not worked with Music Box before, but we‘re keen to be in their catalogue. They‘ve done a lot of foreign films like they did the release of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”

    She said the size of the release in the US would depend on the launch of the film internationally. “We will work with Memento in regards to presenting it. It is German language film in a US market. It will be an appropriate release,” she added.
    Internationally, the film has also sold into Benelux to ABC, Brazil to Mares Filmes, to South Korea‘s Linetree, Isreal‘s Lev and to Colombia/Central America‘s Cineplex.