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Stranger than fiction! The Netflix series Inventing Anna is centered on Anna Delvey, an infamous scammer who tricked New York City’s elite out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Will Tizard ContributorJost Vacano, honored with a lifetime achievement award this year at the EnergaCamerimage cinematography fest, had his career breakthrough working with director Wolfgang Petersen on the 1981 hit film “Das Boot,” which signified a major success for German cinema. International critics praised the extraordinary innovations of Vacano’s filming, which faithfully recreated the claustrophobic confines of U-boat combat in World War II.

coronavirus pandemic.Who stole the 1917 artwork and how it wound up stashed inside the museum’s outer walls are still unknown.

EXCLUSIVE: Here are your first look images at feature The Magic Flute from executive producer Roland Emmerich.

Netflix has released four first look photos of their upcoming drama Inventing Anna, Shonda Rhimes’ first series for the streamer starring Julia Garner, Anna Chlumsky, Jennifer Esposito, Anna Deavere Smith, Jeff Perry, Anders Holm, and Laverne Cox. This is also the first Rhimes created series since ABC’s Scandal.

Grey’s Anatomy fans, anytime soon.)One show in particular piqued our interest: Inventing Anna. The limited series will tell the story of Anna Delvey (real name Anna Sorokin), a woman in New York City who pretended to be a German heiress and scammed many members of the city’s elite party scene.

Manori Ravindran International EditorA new film about the development, regulation and roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines from “How to Survive a Plague” director David France has scored a raft of international sales.Documentary specialists Dogwoof have sold the film — which will debut on HBO and HBO Max in 2022 — into Sky in the U.K., Germany and Italy; NRK for Norway; DR for Denmark; SVT for Sweden; Channel 8 and YesDocu for Israel; and HBO and HBO Max in Latin America.Filming on the documentary,

Since being screened to great fanfare before the press since late August, Warner Bros. and Legendary’s $165M sci-fi epic Dune finally lands in U.S.

Olivia Colman‘s anticipated new film The Lost Daughter is set to stream on Netflix for UK fans.The Oscar-tipped film, which marks Maggie Gyllenhaal’s debut as a director, recently premiered at the Venice and London film festivals.It has now been confirmed that Netflix has acquired the rights for the film in the UK, Benelux and Germany, with a December 31 release date set, according to Deadline.Based on the novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter follows a woman on holiday who

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorLeading arthouse sales agency The Match Factory has debuted the international trailer (see below) for the gripping, tender-hearted prison drama “Great Freedom,” which won the Jury Prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, and has revealed the latest list of international distributors.

EXCLUSIVE: In addition to a host of previously set worldwide territories, Netflix, in a deal with Entertainment One, has acquired rights to Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter in the UK, Benelux and Germany. Gyllenhaal’s feature directing debut will bow on the streaming service on December 31.

Manori Ravindran International EditorNetflix has picked up Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut “The Lost Daughter” for additional territories, snapping up U.K., Benelux and German rights to the Venice-premiering feature.The streaming service struck the deal with Entertainment One, which had previously secured the rights for the markets from Endeavor Content. The platform already had the majority of worldwide rights to the movie.“The Lost Daughter” will debut on Netflix on Dec.

Addie Morfoot ContributorGeorge Clooney and Grant Heslov have joined Austrian director Friedrich Moser’s feature documentary “How to Build a Truth Engine” as executive producers through their Smokehouse Pictures banner.The docu, now in the final stages of filming, tackles investigative journalism and the fight against fake news.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentTresor, a leading German production banner owned by Keshet International, has signed an exclusive first-look deal with MGM Television’s global division to access their non-scripted formats in Germany. Under the one-year deal, which kicks off this month, Tresor will get an exclusive window on all new non-scripted formats in MGM’s Global Formats catalogue.

Bulgaria has selected Ivaylo Hristov’s Fear as its official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. Set in a Bulgarian village close to the Turkish border, Fear centers on a widow (Svetlana Yancheva) who encounters an African migrant (Michael Fleming) while hunting in the woods.

Naman Ramachandran ViacomCBS‘s free streaming television service Pluto TV has partnered with BBC Studios to add three new channels to the platform across Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France and Spain.A new Doctor Who channel in France will feature the first 10 seasons of the BBC action-adventure series that explores space and time, in addition to the series’ Christmas specials, including “Snowmen,” “Last Christmas” and “Day of The Doctor.” The Doctor Who channel on Pluto TV in Spain features

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