A subdued year for Germany's Carnival, thanks to the virus

Not long into I'm Your Man, Dan Stevens' character, a genial android named Tom, arranges a perfectly contrived combination of romantic clichés for his would-be partner, Alma. The rose petals are "artfully" strewn, the candles flicker, and flutes of bubbly are ready for sipping beside the bubble-filled tub.

Davide Abbatescianni Rome-based international sales and production company TVCO has sold Dace Pūce’s debut feature “The Pit” to German independent distributor Arsenal Filmverleih.The drama, staged by Latvia’s Marana Production and Finland’s Inland Film Company, is based on a series of true stories published by Jana Egle.The plot follows a 10-year-old boy called Markuss (Damirs Onackis), who must adapt to starting a new life in the Latvian countryside with his strict grandmother (Dace Eversa).

You have to wonder when she sleeps. The tireless Maria Schrader — fresh off an Emmy win as outstanding director of a limited series for Netflix's Unorthodox and another critically acclaimed turn in front of the camera as East German spy Lenora Rauch in Amazon's Deutschland 89 — somehow managed, during a pandemic, to shoot her fourth feature film.

Late Wednesday night there was a sliver of good news for the German film industry —and for anyone trying to sell films into Germany at this week's virtual European Film Market: Germany plans to re-open cinemas. Sort of.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday extended Germany’s current lockdown to March 28, while also unveiling plans to relax certain Covid restrictions. Under a five-step process, cinemas may be able to reopen beginning March 22 at the earliest (this would be part of Stage 4).

Nick Jonas' recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon saw the handsome singer and actor discuss his latest outing, Chaos Walking, his epic Saturday Night Live appearance as both host and performer and his highly-awaited solo album, Spaceman. While quipping about how he had the most expensive album photoshoot ever for Spaceman, shot on Mars with Elon Musk funding the "extra wealthy shoot" (P.S.

Nick Jonas really missed his other half Priyanka Chopra while she was away in Germany shooting “The Matrix 4”.

ATB, Topic and A7S climb to Number 1 on the Official Trending Chart with their hit collaboration, Your Love (9pm).

Ed Meza @edmezavarGerman cinema looks set for a major boost this year from some of the country’s most commercially successful and critically acclaimed directors tackling such eclectic subject matter as U.S.

Christopher Vourlias Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales continues its pre-sales of “The Peasants,” the hotly anticipated follow-up from Oscar-nominated “Loving Vincent” director Dorota Kobiela, selling rights for Germany and Austria to Koch Media.As reported earlier, New Europe brokered a deal with The Jokers for distribution in France of the buzzy animated feature.“The Peasants” is produced by BreakThru Films’ Sean Bobbitt and Hugh Welchman, who also co-wrote the script, using

The Pygmalion myth gets a gender flip in I’m Your Man, the Berlin Film Festival competition entry from Germany’s Maria Schrader. Maren Eggert stars as Alma, a single anthropologist who agrees to live with a humanoid robot for three weeks as part of a trial testing period. Thomas (Dan Stevens) has been designed as Alma’s ideal partner, using algorithms based on her brain scans, her responses and research involving 17 million people.

StudioCanal Germany and local independent Prokino have signed a major deal that will see StudioCanal take over the physical and digital distribution of Prokino's back catalog for the German market. The deal, announced Thursday, includes more than 100 titles released by Prokino in German theaters in 2019 or earlier.

German film and TV studio Leonine have made a major executive appointment, naming Sebastian Heinlein, formerly of Constantin Entertainment, to its SEO Entertainment division as head of development and creative director. He takes over at the new position on April 1, 2021.

Sea Shanty hitmaker Nathan Evans looks like he's following in the footsteps of Amy Macdonald with a number one in Germany. And the Wellerman Tik Tok postie turned singer just performed one of his first big ad deals - making up a song for men's fragrance Old Spice.Nathan who was number one in the Official Big Top 40 with his Wellerman remix, is still on a high following his label signing to Polydor.In a post entitled: 'Number 1 in Germany.

Anand Tucker’s (Hilary & Jackie) period-drama Curtain Call, which is due to star Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu and Simon Russell Beale, has been pre-sold by Culmination Productions to a host of key territories ahead of shoot later this year in the UK.

Donald Trump, German politicians and the fight against coronavirus made their way Monday through the largely empty streets of Duesseldorf, which would usually be the site of raucous celebrations.Parades, street festivals and other large gatherings have all been cancelled this year.But organizers in Duesseldorf, one of the German Rhineland's main Carnival strongholds, didn't want to let Rose Monday in 2021 go completely without the traditional caricatures of current events.They sent eight floats