German Film and TV Company Leonine Secures Financing Totaling $222 Million

In a rare bit of good news for the coronavirus-hit commercial television business, German TV giant ProSiebenSat.1 posted third-quarter figures Thursday that show ad revenue bouncing back.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorThe international news media today is utterly fixated on the U.S. presidential election that was still undecided as Tuesday night spilled into Wednesday.

Maddie summit” has taken place between British, German and Portuguese police as they hunt for evidence against their prime suspect.Detectives met in Lisbon to “fine-tune” Christian Brueckner’s profile in a bid to discover where Madeleine McCann’s body could be buried.The British youngster vanished from her parents’ holiday apartment at the Ocean Club complex in Praia da Luz in May 2007.German prosecutors say they are sure Brueckner, a convicted paedophile, abducted and murdered her.But despite

health system if left unchecked.Tino Kraemer, 49, heads the circus that has been in his family for seven generations.

Can a repentant law-breaker find forgiveness in the blind prejudice of provincial America? Although the slow-starting drama Home never really catches fire, it patiently draws the viewer into the story of a young ex-con struggling for normalcy and acceptance, thanks to emotionally convincing turns by leads Jake McLaughlin, Kathy Bates and Derek Richardson.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorGerman major Leonine says it has “rearranged its long-term group financing” with €190M ($222M) in loans and revolving credit lines.The new backing will cover growth and film production financing but will exclude publicly listed Odeon Film, for which Leonine has raised separate funds.

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll, it seems, never go out of style. We Children from Bahnhof Zoo, one of the hottest new television series being screened for buyers at this year's MIPCOM international television market, looks back on the hedonist world of West Berlin in the late 1970s and early '80s.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorGerman Films has released a list of ten films that were submitted by German producers for consideration to become the country’s International Feature Oscar contender.Among the front-runners for selection are likely to be Julia Von Heinz’s And Tomorrow The Entire World, Caroline Link’s When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Burhan Qurbani’s Berlin Alexanderplatz and Christian Petzold’s Undine.The ten films:•    WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT – Caroline Link (Sommerhaus

crash in the Highlands on Monday has been named by police. Melina Rosa Päprer, 24, died when the blue Citroen C3 in which she was a front-seat passenger in, collided with a grey Honda CRV travelling north on the A82 near Borlum Farm, Drumnadrochit, around 3.15 pm.Cops say the family of Melina, who came from from Luneberg, in Germany, have been informed.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorIn a move to expand diverse voices in the romance novel industry, writer Bobby Smith Jr.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Mama Weed,” Jean-Paul Salomé’s comedy starring Oscar-nominated actor Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”) as a French-Arabic translator working for the anti-drug squad in Paris, has been thriving at the box office in France, Germany and Austria. “Mama Weed,” based on Hannelore Cayre’s popular novel, follows the story of Patience Portefeux (Huppert), who gets embroiled in a failed drug deal, inheriting a pile of marijuana.

Ed Meza @edmezavarWith depictions of pandemic catastrophes, war, failing empires, the divide between rich and poor, shooting rampages and massive power outages, Germany’s newest TV shows appear to reflect the current apocalyptic zeitgeist.German broadcasters and streaming services alike are going heavy on suspense, crime, psychological thrillers, action and adventure, often colored by themes of societal disruption and armed conflict.Showrunner Christian Alvart (“Dogs of Berlin”) was in

Ed Meza @edmezavarReal Film, the Berlin-based co-producer of the hit Emmy-winning Netflix series “Unorthodox,” looks set to continue its recent success with a slew of hard-hitting fact-based series.The Studio Hamburg subsidiary is focusing on German-language productions aimed at the international market, including a take on one of the biggest automotive industry scandals in history and an exploration of Germany’s role in international money laundering.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentBeta Film has closed multiple pre-sales deals on “Atlantic Crossing,” the prestige Norwegian period drama starring Sofia Helin (“The Bridge”) as Crown Princess Märtha, and Kyle MacLachlan (“Twin Peaks”) as U.S. President Franklin D.

Bette Greene was an author of children’s and young adult books including the 1973 National Book Award finalist “Summer of My German Soldier.”“Summer of My German Soldier” takes place in Arkansas during World War II, following a young Jewish girl as she develops a relationship with a German POW and hides him in her garage. Greene later said that the story was autobiographical.

Constantin Film, Germany's leading independent studio, has brought up the release of three films —including Monster Hunter starring Milla Jovovich—to help local theaters fill the void left by studios pushing their 2020 tentpoles to next year. Constantin will release Monster Hunter in Germany Dec.3, three weeks ahead of Sony's U.S.release of the film on Dec.