The Counterfeiters (2008) News

11/26/09 BERLIN The Austrian government has come to the rescue of financially strapped pubcaster ORF, pumping in E160 million ($240 million) to stem the red ink following two years of dramatic revenue decline.  |  Variety

11/19/09 Austrian pubcaster ORF has calmed the fears of local filmmakers following months of intense wrangling by agreeing to raise film subsidy contributions by 30%, from E5.9 million ($8.8 million) to $11.9 million a year.  |  Variety

09/01/09 This time next year, the country may have a new government-backed financing vehicle patterned after Germany's hugely successful $85-million-a-year Federal Film Fund (DFFF).  |  Variety

04/26/09 Art and commerce are often strange bedfellows, but the gap between culture and boxoffice has rarely been as wide as it was Friday night when "John Rabe" won big at the German Film Awards, taking home four Lolas.  |  The Hollywood Reporter

01/22/09 LONDON -- Throughout Europe, filmmakers, producers and backers were thanking the Academy for their foreign-language noms Thursday even as they effected a "we haven't won anything yet" modesty.  |  The Hollywood Reporter