‘Downfall’ Director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s ‘The Painter’ Paves Way for Van Gogh Film (EXCLUSIVE)

Ajax chief executive Edwin van der Sar has suggested his club are preparing themselves for a possible Erik ten Hag exit amid links with Manchester United.

Liza Foreman Germany’s Red Balloon Film and Palestine’s Fresco Films have boarded director Ameer Fakher Eldin’s second film “Nothing of Nothing Remains.” The film is part of a trilogy building on his first film, “The Stranger” (pictured), which premiered in Venice and represents Palestine at the Oscars in the International Feature Film category.“Nothing of Nothing Remains” has received development and script funding from German regional funder Moin Film Fund in Hamburg.

I had just moved from Germany to Langley, Virginia, when the case of Kenneth Chamberlain became national news. I remembered I was upset by the events leading up to his death at the hands of the Police.

Ralf Rangnick has named an unchanged team for his first match as Manchester United manager.

EXCLUSIVE: Noble Story Co. has secured the rights to New York Times bestselling author Andy Andrews’ The Heart Mender, with plans to develop it for film.

Naman Ramachandran Acclaimed Germany based Indonesian filmmaker Monica Vanesa Tedja is preparing for her feature directorial project “Dear Family,” selected at the Southeast Asia Film Lab, which is part of the Singapore Media Festival.Tedja got hooked on the medium watching her father film family vacations with his handycam when she was seven.

The European Film Awards has cancelled its plans for a physical ceremony this year due to rising Covid numbers in Germany.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLegendary Croatian-born NBA player Dražen Petrović will be portrayed in Danilo Šerbedžija’s upcoming biopic film “Higher Force – The Drazen Petrovic Story” (working title).The film was penned by Ivan Turkovic Krnjak (“Lovebox”) and is being produced by Ljubo Zdjelarević and Ivor Šiber at Zagreb-based Kinoteka. The film will shoot next year in Croatia, Germany, and in the U.S.

Salma Hayek decided to use her assets to draw attention to her newest film, "House of Gucci."In her Instagram snap, the actress sipped a drink while wearing a one-piece swimsuit in the pool.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentOstinato Cine, one of the high-energy company hubs on Ecuador’s burgeoning film scene, is teaming with Germany’s Rohfilm Productions to co-produce “Alfredo Larón,” the feature film debut as a writer-director of Benjamin Mirguet, an editor on Carlos Reygadas’ “Battle in Heaven” and João Paulo Miranda Maria’s “Memory House.”Developing and financing features for the international crossover arthouse sector, Rohfilm Productions’ credits include Cannes’

Marta Balaga Anita Ekberg, the Swedish star immortalized in Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita,” where her character decides to walk into the Trevi Fountain to the delight, and terror, of Marcello Mastroianni, has a “complicated” story, Italian director Antongiulio Panizzi tells Variety.In “The Girl in the Fountain,” produced by Dugong Films and Eagle Pictures, and presented at the Torino Film Festival alongside Panizzi’s documentary “Piano Lessons: The Life and Art of German Diez Nieto,” he

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorMunich-based sales agency Global Screen has sold crime drama “Dark Woods” to streaming service Walter Presents for the U.K., where it’ll be shown on Channel 4’s All 4 platform, and across the Nordic Region, via C More.The drama, which was produced by ConradFilm and Bavaria Fiction on behalf of NDR and ARD Degeto for Das Erste, was the most-watched show on ARD’s catch-up service in Germany this year, and was the German TV Award winner.Julia Weber,

Liza Foreman Helping a selection of five European films to connect to Latin American distributors, the EFP’s Film Sales Support (FSS) program has awarded grants to three sales agencies to step up their digital campaigns for this year’s hybrid market.Latin America’s leading content market, Ventana Sur runs from Nov. 29 to Dec.

Jamie Lang Rome-based 102 Distribution is placing two of its key upcoming catalog titles on the open market at this year’s Ventana Sur market and festival: Argentine Soccer doc “Xeneizes – Boca: the Origins” and Mexican coming-of-age drama “Oliver and the Pool.”L.A.’s 1844 Entertainment will handle U.S.

beat the performance of Warren Buffett from his tiny desk in a cage somewhere in Germany — is dead. “We feared this day like no other and are truly shocked for it to happen just now,” Mr. Goxx’s anonymous, 30-something German owners tweeted to the rodent’s 18,000 Twitter followers on Wednesday.