EXCLUSIVE: Narcos, Lupin and Barbarians producer Gaumont is teaming up with author and screenwriter Annette Hess on a likely in-demand miniseries adaptation of Hess’s 2018 bestseller The German House.
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Naman Ramachandran Moritz Polter, executive producer of Sky series “Das Boot” and “Freud” for Netflix/ORF, is joining ITV Studios and establishing a high-end German scripted label.The label will be launched later in 2021.
Moritz will be based in Germany with an international scope and will report into Lisa Perrin, managing director of international production at ITV Studios in London.He was previously executive producer of international television series at Bavaria Fiction.Moritz was named as
.EXCLUSIVE: Narcos, Lupin and Barbarians producer Gaumont is teaming up with author and screenwriter Annette Hess on a likely in-demand miniseries adaptation of Hess’s 2018 bestseller The German House.
Naman Ramachandran Netflix’s adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic anti-war novel “All Quiet On The Western Front” continues production near Prague, having commenced in March.Directed by Edward Berger (“Patrick Melrose”), the film details a young German soldier’s terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during WWI.The cast includes Daniel Brühl, Devid Striesow and Andreas Döhler, and joining them are Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus and Edin
Hamilton is set to make its return in London’s West End this summer.Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical will resume at the Victoria Palace Theatre from August 19, nearly 18 months after theatres shut their doors last March because of COVID-19.Hamilton, which first opened in London in December 2017, is now booking until February 2022, with the cast yet to be announced.Theatregoers who had tickets for shows that were cancelled due to the pandemic will have them moved to an alternative date, which will be
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Academy Awards to huge fanfare, this year, the singer hosted a pre-event in London instead that was streamed online to help raise money for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, and saw Dua Lipa perform. The singer, who at one point shared the stage with John, wore not one, but two standout Balenciaga looks for the occasion.
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Joe Otterson TV ReporterHenry Lloyd-Hughes and Thalissa Teixeira will star alongside Lucy Hale in the AMC-Alibi series “Ragdoll,” Variety has learned.The six-episode show, which was ordered to series back in February, is set to begin production on April 19 in London.
Oscars have detailed how they plan to make next week’s ceremony as safe as possible amid the COVID-19 pandemic.The 2021 Oscars will take place on April 25, and see the implementation of “hubs” for European-based nominees to appear in London and Paris.The news followed the organisation’s initial and controversial “no-Zoom rule,” which aimed to encourage all nominees to travel to Los Angeles for the ceremony.Speaking to Deadline ahead of this year’s ceremony, producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher
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Red Arrow Studios International, the distribution arm of German TV giant ProSiebenSat.1's Red Arrow Studios unit, has promotedTim Gerhartz to the position of president and managing director, effective immediately. The company announced the new role for Gerhartz, who has served as senior vp global sales atthe company's Munich office, on Thursday.
ITV Studios is boosting its investment in German TV, launching a new label for high-end scripted television with Moritz Polter, the producer of such hit German-language series as Sky's Das Boot and the Netflix/ORF production Freud. A former executive at Bavaria Fiction and StudioCanal-owned Tandem Productions, Polter will set up the new German fiction division under the auspices of ITV Studios.
Moritz Polter, the executive producer behind Sky’s German series Das Boot and Netflix’s Freud, is setting up a production label with ITV Studios in Germany.
Kristin Cavallari and her ex-husband, former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler, are being hit with a lawsuit in Tennessee following an alleged incident in which one of their German Shepherd dogs is said to have bitten a man.
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EXCLUSIVE: Following its Oscar nomination, Elvira Lind’s short film The Letter Room has been racking up the sales. The movie, which stars Oscar Isaac and Alia Shawkat, has sold to France and Germany (ARTE France), Spain (Telefonica), Denmark (TV2), Russia (Shot TV), Poland (New Europe Film Sales), Airlines (JetBlue) as well as an international deal with Kanopy for the educational circuit.