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

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Deutschland 83 creator Jörg Winger has landed one of the first German-language series for Disney+ international streamer Star.

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

coronavirus.In Cologne, the western city whose Carnival festivities are perhaps the best known, Mayor Henriette Reker appealed for residents to stay home and bide their time until next year’s celebrations.“As a Carnival fanatic, my heart is bleeding today,” she said on Twitter.One of Germany’s first superspreader events stemmed from a Carnival celebration in a town west of Cologne last February where many people came in contact with an infected man.This year authorities were taking no chances.

She rose to fame on Germany’s Top Model, flourished in the modeling industry, and dated one of the most famous men in soccer. Kasia Lenhardt, just 25 years old, was discovered dead in the luxurious Charlottenburg neighborhood of Berlin, Germany on February 9. She was alone in her apartment, and no foul play was suspected, according to police. Here’s what you need to know about Kasia and her life:

BERLIN -- The Berlin International Film Festival on Thursday announced 15 films that are part of this year's competition and will compete for the top Golden and Silver Bear awards.

Germany disagreed and argued that the case did not belong in the American legal system.The justices said the heirs had not at this point shown that federal law allowed them to bring their case in U.S. courts.

Valve have announced that they have released the uncut version of Left 4 Dead 2 in Germany, 11 years after it was cut to ensure release.After appealing to German authorities, Valve have had the game re-evaluated.