German Studio Leonine Secures $220M In Financing Through Loans & Credit Lines

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.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: TV Beats Forum, the drama series-focused industry element of Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, will this year host cases studies of international shows such as Netflix’s Stranger Things and German historical drama Deutschland 83.Running November 23-27, 2020, in a primarily digital format, the event will welcome international guests to discuss a variety of topics related to drama production.

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.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentGerman film and TV company Leonine Group, which was formed through the merger of Tele München Gruppe, Universum Film, i&u TV, Wiedemann & Berg Film and W&B Television, has rearranged its long-term group financing.The financing includes long-term loans and revolving credit lines totaling Euros 189 million ($222 million), which also cover the company’s film production financing, with the exception of the publicly listed Odeon Film AG, which also

Keanu Reeves and his girlfriend, Alexandra Grant, are as adorable as ever! The cute couple were spotted smooching in Germany over the weekend.The actor was photographed giving his ladylove a kiss goodbye through the window of her car, outside a hotel in Berlin over the weekend.Reeves, 56, rocked a pair of denim jeans, a black blazer and brown boots as he shared the cute moment of PDA with Grant, 47, who sat behind the wheel of the sedan.Reeves is currently in Berlin for the production of the

Keanu Reeves and girlfriend Alexandra Grant are stronger than ever after being spotted out in Berlin, Germany together over the weekend.

Rammstein have updated fans with what they’re working on after sharing a clip of drummer Christoph ‘Doom’ Schneider laying down some beats.The German metal legends are currently at France’s La Fabrique studios where they recorded last year’s ‘Untitled’ album, however, they’ve made no promises so far that a new record is on the way.A video clip shared via the band’s Instagram earlier this month shows the entrance of the palatial La Fabrique before the person filming travels to a different room to

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

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

Given the near-apocalyptic state of the world right now, the international television executives preparing for the global TV market MIPCOM Online+ are remarkably bullish. Ahead of MIPCOM 2020 —an all-virtual event this year, due to COVID-19, which runs Oct.

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.