Berlin clubs to be declared cultural institutions to safeguard their future

EXCLUSIVE: Upcoming Avatar star Jack Champion and Wonder Woman 1984 actress Lilly Aspell will play the son and daughter of Liam Neeson’s banking executive protagonist in the Studiocanal thriller Retribution. 

The final season of Netflix‘s La Casa De Papel (aka Money Heist) will debut part five in two separate installments a few months apart.

BERLIN -- Battered by the pandemic, Berlin’s legendary nightclubs are starting to reopen. Sort of.Several of the German capital’s nightspots have managed a limited restart along with pubs and restaurants over the weekend.Clubs are opening their outdoor spaces to guests only as beer gardens or for small concerts and performances, provided the party people present a negative COVID-19 test or a vaccination certificate.

Deezer has named Jeronimo Folgueira as the company’s new CEO. He takes over the position from Hans-Holger Albrecht, who has been responsible in the role since 2015.

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off a strong turn in the HBO series The Undoing, Noma Dumezweni will star with Liam Neeson in Retribution, the Studiocanal thriller being produced by The Picture Company

Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee has recalled his last conversation with the band’s frontman Lemmy Kilmister , shortly before his death.Lemmy died aged 70 on December 28, 2015, shortly after the first half of a European tour.

Heidi Klum's husband, Tom Kaulitz, has set a high bar for himself in the gifting department. The couple tied the knot in 2019 and on Tuesday night's, 47-year-old Klum revealed that for her birthday last June, the 31-year-old Tokyo Hotel guitarist gave her a very meaningful gift. «It's the German wall! It's the Berlin German Wall,» Klum shared, showing off the chunk of the Berlin Wall that now sits in her front garden.

EXCLUSIVE: AMC’s genre streamer Shudder and sales and distribution firm Utopia have picked up Dasha Nekrasova’s horror debut The Scary Of Sixty-First.

The Berlin Film Festival has confirmed that it will hold its Berlinale Summer Special (June 9-20, 2021) program as an outdoor event across 16 venues. 

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe Berlin Film Festival has confirmed that its in-person June event will go ahead as planned, taking place as an outdoor event.Organizers said the event will run from June 9-20, noting that “the Berlinale is pleased to be able to give audiences the enjoyment of an open-air cinema experience at 16 venues in total at the Summer Special.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“Community” and “Love” star Gillian Jacobs and “Aladdin” break-out Marwan Kenzari are set to lead Berlin-set romantic comedy “Any Other Night.”Written by Patrick Whistler and directed by Michiel Ten Horn, the comedy follows two strangers thrown together as their lives are falling apart.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorThe producers of this year’s International Feature Film Oscar winner “Another Round” and Berlin Silver Bear winner “Natural Light” have been selected for European Film Promotion’s Producers on the Move program, which promotes promising producers and fosters international co-productions. The 20 participants for the program, which runs online from May 17-21, will be presenting their latest projects in speed meetings and during roundtable sessions.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSpecialist sales agency Good Move Media has picked up international rights to “Ancient Soul,” which had its world premiere in March at the Berlin Film Festival.The film, aka “Mbah Jhiwo,” is a Spanish-produced docu-drama about life in the Sulphur mines of Java, Indonesia.