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While much of the industry has been having a 2020 they'd rather forget, for Pulse Films it's arguably been one of the studio's best to date. Among a number of reasons to celebrate, the production and talent management house — in which Vice took a majority stake in 2016 —has seen Mogul Mowgli, the music-soaked feature co-written by and starring Riz Ahmed in a deeply personal role,earn rave reviews following its world premiere in Berlin and more recently in London.

straight to your inbox every day, freeErling Braut Haaland would rather join Real Madrid than Manchester United when he leaves Borussia Dortmund, according to reports.Haaland has firmly established himself as one of the world's best young strikers over the last year after initially bursting onto the scene at Red Bull Salzburg before joining Dortmund last January.Ole Gunnar Solskjaer coached his countryman at Molde and United were interested in signing the 20-year-old before he moved to Germany,

Keanu Reeves and his girlfriend, Alexandra Grant, were spotted together in Berlin nearly one year after their relationship first made headlines.The visual artist, 47, gave the actor, 56, a kiss from her car as she dropped him off on the set of The Matrix 4 on Sunday, October 18, in photos published by the Daily Mail.

Keanu Reeves, 56, and his lady love Alexandra Grant, 47, proved they’re still adoring each other when they shared a kiss outside of a hotel in Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 18.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentProduction is set to start next week on pan-European TV series “Survivors,” the latest project commissioned by the partnership known as The Alliance between leading European public broadcasters to counter the growing power of Netflix and other streamers.The plan is for cameras to start rolling in Genoa on Oct. 21 on the series revolving around a sailboat that gets destroyed in a fierce storm and disappears.

Henry Winkler is sharing his family's story about how they smuggled heirlooms out of Germany during the Holocaust.

Renowned Chinese director Zhang Yimou's love letter to cinema, the period drama One Second, is finally headed to cinemas. Beijing regulators have approved the film for release on Nov.

Ed Meza @edmezavarGermany’s Maze Pictures has boarded Moscow-based Metrafilm’s KGB comedy series “Pawns,” from writers Michael and Lily Idov, who penned the award-winning 2018 Cannes competition screener “Leto.”The company, which has offices in Munich, Berlin and Lucerne, Switzerland, is also developing a miniseries based on “Ghosts of Berlin,” a book of supernatural stories by filmmaker Rudolf Herzog (son of Werner Herzog), and the tentatively titled mystery series “Parallels.”On the film

Andreas Wiseman International EditorItalian firm Indiana Production, German outfit SquareOne Productions and French company SND (Groupe M6) have revealed details about their Italian-language mafia series L’Ora (Ink Against Bullets).The 10-part returning mafia origin series is inspired by the real-life investigative endeavors of the Sicilian newspaper of the same name.The series is directed by Piero Messina, best known for Netflix Original series Suburra, Ciro d’Emilio and Stefano Lorenzi.

Christopher Vourlias Chile’s Oscar-winning Fabula Films (“A Fantastic Woman”), the company co-founded by producer Juan de Dios Larraín and director-producer Pablo Larraín (“Jackie,” “No”), is producing “The Sorcerers,” which will be presented this week during the Rome-set film and TV market Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (MIA).

Ed Meza @edmezavarReal Film, the Berlin-based co-producer of the hit Emmy-winning Netflix series “Unorthodox,” looks set to continue its recent success with a slew of hard-hitting fact-based series.The Studio Hamburg subsidiary is focusing on German-language productions aimed at the international market, including a take on one of the biggest automotive industry scandals in history and an exploration of Germany’s role in international money laundering.

Brad Pitt's GF addressed her Instagram trolls on Friday, October 9, in IG stories, where she confronted their toxic behavior and questioned what point of leaving nasty comments on a person's account.The videos were in German, but thankfully, she included captions for us English speakers. “Hey guys, I have been wondering since forever why people leave hateful comments?” she wrote on one of the videos.

Naman Ramachandran In today’s Global Bulletin, Johnny Depp’s “Minamata and “Crock of Gold” get U.K., Ireland release; a brace of Princess Diana TV documentaries in the works; and MTV debuts short form series.Vertigo Releasing has acquired U.K. and Ireland distribution rights from HanWay Films for Berlin Film Festival title Andrew Levitas’ “Minamata,” starring Johnny Depp, Hiroyuki Sanada, Minami and Tadanobu Asano, and will release the film Feb.

Manori Ravindran International EditorArthouse streaming service Mubi has snapped up rights to Toronto International Film Festival title “Shiva Baby” for the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, India, Turkey and Latin America.Written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Emma Seligman, “Shiva Baby” follows a young bisexual Jewish woman at a shiva — a mourning tradition in the Jewish community — at which she must confront her over-achieving ex-girlfriend as well as her sugar daddy, his girlfriend and

Aphex Twin has hinted at his latest project by launching a new series of posters and billboards in cities across the world.A red version of Richard D.