Berlin Film Festival Summer Event Set to Go Ahead in June

Cata Balzano In today’s borderless music business, a label still needs territorial expertise to make a go of an international act.

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.

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 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.

Live Musik Kommission, an overwhelming majority vote was achieved in favour of the proposal yesterday (May 5) and it will now be presented to the German federal government for final consent tomorrow (May 7).The landmark move follows a year of campaigning from the multi-party Parliamentary Forum For Club Culture & Nightlife.As well as helping venues weather the adverse effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the selected venues will also benefit from new tax breaks and be permitted to operate in

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.

BERLIN -- The prominent German philosopher Juergen Habermas said Sunday he will not accept a high-priced literary award from the United Arab Emirates, reversing an earlier decision.The 91-year-old, who is considered Germany's most eminent contemporary philosopher, told the German news site Spiegel Online that “I declared my willingness to accept this year's Sheikh Zayed Book Award.

It was almost exactly a year ago, in March 2020, atStudio Babelsberg Germany's largest film studio, located just outside Berlin.