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Luxembourg-based broadcaster CLT-Ufa has named Didier Bellens chief executive officer and Ewald Walgenbach chief operating officer. Bellens takes over from joint chief executives Remy Sautter and Rolf Schmidt-Holtz who were appointed to represent CLT and Ufa when the two companies merged three years ago. The appointments will take effect on March 10. Bellens is currently managing director of Groupe Bruxelles La
stanley cup mbert, co-chairman of the executive committee of CLT-Ufa and chairman of the board of directors of Audiofina, which is the co-controlling shareholder of CLT-Ufa alongside German media group Bertelsmann. Walgenbach moves from being head of television in Germany, prod
stanley cup uction and rights at the company.Meanwhile Schmidt-Holtz will assume a newly created post as chief creative officer in charge of Bertelsmann s internet strategy. Michael Dornemann, currently responsible for music and television on the group s executive board, will concentrate on his Bertelsmann Music Group activities, the company said. No comments No comments yet You re not signed in. Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this artic
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In a prescient speech more than a month ago in Berlin, financier Ben Waisbren talked of impending calamity for the US wave of slate financing - banks won t touch such mega-deals again until there is more transparency and a better alignment of investor and studio interests.Click here for comment fromScreen editor-in-chief Colin BrownClick here for profile of Ben WaisrenWaisbren is president and chief executive officer of Continental Entertainment Capital, a Citicorp-backed merchant banking business focused on film and television. CEC invested in Wild Bunch in France, and has backed Frank Miller s The Spirit and Th
stanley kubek e Laundry Warrior, both in production.Here are edited excerpts from Waisbren s presentation given at Berlin s European Film Finance Sales Summit hosted by Screen International:By its nature, the film industry is predacious, but irresistible to investors. From its earliest days, the film industry has relied successfully on outsiders to spread its capital and mitigate the high risk of producing and distributing movies. Despite all the risks, and well-known stories of investor losses in the past, some $12bn in equity and debt has been committed to the film secto
stanley us r since 2004 - not a particularly large number in the overall capital markets, but a substantial increase for the studios from historical levels.The recent, well-publicised and promoted wave of Hollywood slate financing deals has occurred even though film, as in investment class, is non-transpar
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