Franco Nero on ‘Recon,’ Cuba Project, and ‘Django Lives!,’ in Which He Hopes Tarantino Will Cameo (EXCLUSIVE)

EXCLUSIVE: Cruella and Little Joe actress Emily Beecham is set to star in Netflix’s anticipated European series 1899, we can reveal.

Veteran German producers Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and Michael Lehmann will adapt Max Sprenger's best-selling autobiography Tsunami im Kopf (Tsunami in the Head), about Sprenger's life with locked-in syndrome, for the screen. German director Marco Petry (Heiter bis wolkig) will helm the feature and co-write the script with partner Janina Petry.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentPeter Langenberg, the newly appointed COO of Banijay following the Endemol Shine takeover, will be ramping up the company’s content strategy in key territories, notably in Benelux, Germany and India.In Benelux, where Banijay just bowed the new label Simple Zodiak, a merger of Simple Media and Zodiac Nederland, the company is developing a packed slate of shows under the new leadership of Peter Lubbers, who was tapped as CEO of Banijay Benelux, the new

Manori Ravindran International EditorAmazon Prime Video is finally landing on Sky.The streamer has struck a multi-year deal with Comcast-backed pay-TV provider Sky that will see the Prime Video app launch on set-top box service Sky Q and SVOD service Now TV across Europe. Sky’s markets cover the U.K., Ireland, Austria, Germany and Italy.

The United States' only memorial to Holocaust victim Anne Frank was plastered with stickers depicting a swastika, a symbol appropriated by the Third Reich during the World War II era and used by white supremacists.  The Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial, located in Boise, Idaho, includes a life-sized bronze statue of the Jewish diarist. It shows Frank holding her diary and looking out the window of the "secret annex" in which she and her family spent 761 days hiding from German Nazis.

Manori Ravindran International EditorNetflix is believed to have swooped for world rights to Edward Berger’s long-anticipated adaptation of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” starring Daniel Brühl (pictured).The project is understood to be among the biggest-budget films to ever come out of Germany, with production set to begin in March.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentTrustNordisk has sold U.S. rights to “A Taste of Hunger,” an anticipated romantic drama starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”) and Katrine Greis-Rosenthal (“A Fortunate Man”), to Magnolia Pictures.Directed by Christoffer Boe, “A Taste of Hunger” has also been acquired in a raft of territories, including Germany (Koch Films), Spain (Adso Films), Brazil (Synapse) and Greece (Rosebud).

Germany’s Constantin Film has issued an apology over dialogue in its feature game adaptation Monster Hunter which led to an online backlash in China this weekend, and subsequently resulted in the movie being pulled from Middle Kingdom cinemas.

Kaleem Aftab Screenwriter-playwright Christopher Hampton, who won an Oscar for “Dangerous Liaisons” and was Oscar nominated for “Atonement,” has penned a screen version of his one-woman play “A German Life,” about the life of Brunhilde Pomsel, the infamous secretary of Nazi Joseph Goebbels.

Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli is “worried” about his future as a judge on the show, reports claim.The 65 year old has been unable to appear on this year’s BBC series due to travel restrictions. He is currently in the USA judging on Dancing With The Stars.Throughout the series, professional dancer Anton Du Beke stepped in as a temporary judge after Motsi Mabuse was forced to self isolate after she was forced to take a last-minute trip to Germany.

Strictly Come Dancing judge Motsi Mabuse has made a welcome return to the Strictly Come Dancing panel. The glamorous star, 39, looked as beautiful as ever in a satin floral dress while joining hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman back in the studio.

Marta Balaga German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has been making films for nearly 50 years now, creating experimental and often transgressive work that frequently walks the line between documentary reality and artistic truth.

in September that the production would relocate to Gwrych Castle - like the UK version. The series, known natively as Ich bin ein Star, was set to head to Abergele for its 15th season in early 2021.

The appeal of Tennessee resident Friedrich Karl Berger, a German citizen who served as an armed guard of concentration camp prisoners during World War II, was dismissed last week. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) upheld a Memphis-based judge’s Feb.

Pablo Sandoval Producer-director Kristina Konrad’s Berlin-based Weltfilm has boarded “Amateur,” the feature debut of Spaniard Martin Gutiérrez which won the top Malaga Festival Prize for best Spanish film at this Spring’s Malaga WIP pix in post competition.Konrad, one of the jury members for Spanish titles at Malaga WIP, along with Berlin Panorama director Paz Lázaro and Gijón Film Festival programer Ricardo Apilánez, signed up to co-produce “Amateur” after the Malaga WIP showcase.Written by