German Studio Leonine Hires Former NBC Universal & Sky Exec As Director Of World Sales

Hello, and welcome to the final International Insider of 2020. Jake Kanter and Tom Grater with you in the saddle to look back on another week of offerings from the film and TV biz. International Insider will return in New Year, but until then, we hope your holidays are happy and healthy.

EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s prominent far-right political party AFD (Alternative for Germany) is not impressed by the country’s International Oscar entry this year, And Tomorrow The Entire World.

German studio Leonine is acquiring Munich-based production company SEO Entertainment effective January 1, 2021.

Also Read: 'News of the World' Film Review: Tom Hanks Plays a Searcher Who Reads the Legends in Old-School Western“News of the World” was shot in New Mexico in late 2019 and features Hanks as a former soldier in post-Civil War Texas who travels from town to town reading stories from newspapers for gatherings of people.

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.

BERLIN -- German police have arrested one of two fugitive twins wanted in connection with the spectacular theft of 18th-century jewels from a Dresden museum last yearA spokesman for Dresden police, Marko Laske, confirmed Tuesday that a 21-year-old man had been arrested in Berlin late Monday. He said further details would be released later Tuesday.In a massive operation last month, German police arrested three people in connection with the Nov.

Amazon and Sky have become the latest streaming and pay TV bedfellows, signing a major multiyear deal that will see Amazon content integrated into the services of the Comcast-owned European giant. The partnership —which comes into force Dec.

Heidi Klum, 47, proved she has one good looking family when she shared an eye-catching selfie that included her mom Erna and 16-year-old daughter Leni! The German model was standing in the middle of her look-alikes as they all stared into a mirror and smiled for the camera, in the new snapshot. The ladies also wore black and white outfits and their matching blonde locks were all proudly on display as they showed off the gorgeous moment.

BERLIN -- A surrealist painting worth more than a quarter million euros (dollars) that was forgotten by a businessman at Duesseldorf's airport has been recovered from a nearby recycling dumpster, police said Thursday.The businessman, whose identity was not given, accidentally left behind the painting by French surrealist Yves Tanguy at a check-in counter as he boarded a flight from Duesseldorf to Tel Aviv on Nov.

Ed Meza @edmezavarFilm and TV productions in Germany have come back with gusto following the three-month COVID-19 lockdown earlier this year, albeit under stringent health protection requirements.Despite a second lockdown in November due to the rise in coronavirus cases, shooting continues around the country, both in studios and on location.