Beta Film Sells Dreamtool’s ‘The Turncoat’ to Scandinavia (EXCLUSIVE)

Almost a century before the recent, wildly popular Hilma af Klint retrospective at New York's Guggenheim, the Swedish artist imagined a spiraling white temple, not unlike that Manhattan landmark, as the home for her paintings. Most of what she envisioned for her art was denied her during her lifetime, but af Klint, ever prescient and prolific, understood her work's power and importance and, planning for posterity, she managed, in a way, to have the last laugh.

[Note: In the wake ofthe Tribeca festival's postponement this year,The Hollywood Reporteris reviewing select entries that elected to premiere digitally.] It's fitting that Wake Up on Mars opens in winter. The frozen Swedish landscape is an apt backdrop for this real-life tale of suspended animation: Two teenage sisters, in side-by-side beds, lie in a coma-like condition that's variously known as uppgivenhetssyndrom, apatisk (apathy) syndrome and resignation syndrome.

The class of 2020 won't have the opportunity to don graduation robes or receive their diplomas in front of their families and friends, but iHeartMedia has assembled a star-studded slate of commencement speakers to offer up virtual words of wisdom. Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Fallon, John Legend and a dozen others are recording speeches specifically for seniors who are missing their graduation due to the coronavirus pandemic.

By Tom Grater

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Nathan Kalish never met Johnny Cash. But he's co-written a song with the late icon -- "Delta Woman," premiering exclusively below, from Kalish's new album, Songs for Nobody.

Coronavirus or not, the German film industry has determined that the show must go on. Germany will still hand out its equivalent of the Oscars, the German Film Awards, in a live ceremony in Berlin on April 24, despite the country being on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

By Tom Grater

The makers of Same Boat clearly knew they had a nearly unclassifiable mashup on their hands. Hence their tagline on the film's advertising: "A Classic Cruise Ship Time Travel Assassination Love Story." The description well serves this entertaining microbudgeted feature that plays like an unlikely romantic comedy variation of The Terminator.

Mumford & Sons frontman Marcus Mumford couldn't have picked two better songs for his digital performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night.Directed by wife Carey Mulligan, Mumford started off his set by strumming his Major Lazer-assisted lullaby "Lay Your Head on Me," which Danish singer-songwriter MØ co-penned.

Farce is not a genre we commonly associate with the Germans, but then, as “Curveball” reminds us at the outset, this wildly atypical Teutonic satire — which plays like a cross between “Wag the Dog” and “Dr. Strangelove” in its portrayal of incompetence at the highest levels — is “A true story.

Frontman Per 'Pelle' Almqvist says he is recovering from COVID-19

By Nancy Tartaglione

About 20 years ago, a collector found something quite rare at a flea market: a group of 55 photos taken on the set of the seminal 1920 German Expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Germany’s Studio Babelsberg is seeking to find a settlement with hundreds of film crew members following the shutdown earlier this month of Warner Bros.’ “The Matrix 4” and Sony Pictures’ “Uncharted” amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Fremantle and Fabula has dropped the first trailer of eight-part series “La Jauría” (“The Pack”), showrun by Lucía Puenzo (“The German Doctor”), one of Latin America’s most prominent film and TV writer-directors, and starring Daniela Vega, the lead in the Academy Award winning “A Fantastic Woman.”

MADRID — In one of the first detailed breakdowns from a major European company of marketing strategies in the Series Mania/MipTV online marketplace, Germany’s Beta Film has announced that it will stage a virtual Beta Brunch on March 31.

MADRID — In one of the first detailed breakdowns from a major European company of marketing strategies in the Series Mania/MipTV online marketplace, Germany’s Beta Film has announced that it will stage a virtual Beta Brunch on March 31.