News archive

1998

27 December

X-Filme and Miramax signed an 18-month deal to jointly develop new film projects. The US company will function as distribution partner or co-producer. "We are equal partners, though; we are neither selling the company nor our talents", said X-Filme MD Stefan Arndt. The two partners will decide with each individual project Miramax will be co-producer or take over world distribution etc. Miramax is also planning to shoot its own films in Germany, said Arndt.

6 December

At the European Film Festival, Lola came away empty handed. Instead, Roberto Benigni won two awards for La vita e bella.

4 December

Lola will be shown at the Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah from 21 to 31 January 1999.

5 November

Lola is nominated for the European Film Award (EFA).

  Tom Tykwer on the nomination in the running for the Oscar: "Of course, I am very pleased about this decision! I hope that Lola can run as far as L.A. and prove that our new films can also have an effect on an international level as well."
  2 million viewers for Lola in Germany so far.

23 October

Lola Goes To Hollywood?
The committee which was appointed by the German Export-Union to select the German entry for the 71st OSCAR competition for the Best Foreign Language Film 1998, has unanimously selected the film Run Lola Run from the three films submitted.
A remarkable detail: The committee nominated Tykwer's film, although the end of the year is still two months away... :-)
The AAA will announce the final nominations on 9 February 1999.

5 October

Winterschläfer (Winter Sleepers) will be shown at the Pusan Film Festival, Korea (!). Lola opens in Austria, Switzerland and Italy.

27 September

On 4 Dezember 1998 the first European Film Festival will be held in London. Among three other German films Tom Tykwers "Lola rennt" is also nominated.

25. September

Lola is number 4 of the German box office with an audience of 1.5 million viewers so far.

24 September

The next project of Tom Tykwer will be the film Der Chef (The Chef) with a budget of ca. 7 million Mark (4 million US $ / 2.5 million British £). It will be "a much bigger and more complicated project. It stretches over 40 years and describes the career of a young man who doesn't want to be a boss but must become one. It is a very dark, but also exciting film, a thriller, a nightmare about masculinity." [Tykwer]

18 September

At the film festival of Venice neither Lola nor Franka Potente can win an award. Well, it was nominated at least. :-)

17 September

Lola drops to number 2 at the German box office.

14 September

The unofficial Tom Tykwer Homepage is online!!

9 September

Lola runs for the third week in German cinemas and reaches the top of the box office: An admission of 234.662 people over the weekend and a total of 927.773 viewers.

20 August

Run Lola Run opens in German cinemas.