German Artists Organize to Demand Bigger Slice of Streaming Pie

Eighteen children are among those who were injured when a car ploughed into crowds at a carnival parade in Germany.

In 1970, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider changed the direction of modern music with the creation of their game-changing electronic project Kraftwerk. Focused on robotics, technology and the ideas, images and sounds of the future, the German act is widely credited as creating the soundtrack for the digital age and influencing the sound of electronic music across all genres.  On Monday (Feb. 24), Kraftwerk

Premier League side Brighton have made a move to land Jamie Hamilton.

'Several' people have been injured after a car ploughed into crowds at a carnival in Germany, police say.

BERLIN -- Several cities in western Germany canceled their traditional carnival parades at short notice Sunday, citing severe weather conditions including gusty winds and heavy rains.

BERLIN -- Several cities in western Germany canceled their traditional carnival parades at short notice Sunday, citing severe weather conditions including gusty winds and heavy rains.

Police probing the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have quizzed a British barmaid about her German ex-boyfriend.

Berlin’s European Film Market has gotten off to a slow start — but there are signs of life. Leonine, the new German studio formed last year by KKR’s acquisition and merger of German indies Tele Munchen Group and Universum, picked up German-speaking rights for the Gerard Butler action thriller Remote Control from STXinternational in a mid-seven-figure deal, the largest reported pact of the EFM so far.

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Leonine, the new producer/distributor formed via multiple acquisitions by private equity giant KKR in Germany, has acquired all rights to Asterix & Obelix, The Silk Road for Germany and Austria.The all-rights licensing deal with Pathé Films was unveiled Friday during the European Film Market in Berlin.The film marks the fifth live-action adventure based on the comic book characters created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo and takes the heroes to China.

German media company Leonine has closed an all-rights licensing deal with Pathé Films on “Asterix & Obelix, The Silk Road” for Germany and Austria.

“Black Mirror” and “Peaky Blinders” producer Endemol Shine Group has set up a new scripted label in Germany, Variety can reveal.

Berlin was planning to have a party, but tragedy changed the script.On the eve of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, a fatal mass shooting occurred Wednesday in the western Germany city of Hanau. A far-right extremist, deliberately targeting people from minorities backgrounds, killed 10 people before taking his own life.

TVNow, the streaming platform from leading German commercial broadcaster RTL, has given the green light to its first big-budget event series, giving a six-episode order to Herzogpark from Letterbox Filmproduktion.Oscar-winning short film director Jochen Alexander Freydank (Spielzeugland) will direct the series from a script by Regina Dietl based on an original idea from Letterbox producer Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann.

Hearts manager Daniel Stendel feels "the problem is not in the legs, it's more in the head" after they could only draw 2-2 with 10-man Hamilton Accies.

Joseph Vilsmaier, the German director of Stalingrad, The Harmonists and Marlene Dietrich biopic Marlene, has died. He was 81.Vilsmaier's agent on Wednesday confirmed media reports that the director "died peacefully at his home" in Bavaria on Tuesday.Born in Munich in 1939, Vilsmaier studied music and worked as a technician before gaining a foothold in the film business in the early 1960s, starting as a runner.