Germany Advises On Potential Cinema Reopenings

Ed Meza @edmezavarDavid Hasselhoff is heading to Germany to star in a comedy spy series produced by Christian Alvart’s Berlin-based Syrreal Entertainment in what will be the first project from the company’s new international first-look deal with CBS Studios.A straight-to-series order for Mediengruppe RTL’s SVOD platform TVNow, “Ze Network” sees Hasselhoff playing himself as he travels to Germany to headline a stage production in what he believes is a major theater in East Berlin, only to

AstraZeneca doubts and said they would be costing lives by delaying the vaccine. Dr Hilary who appeared on both Good Morning Britain and Lorraine argued that there was no evidence to suggest the AstraZeneca vaccine caused blood clots.

Highland Film Group has secured multiple distribution deals for action-thriller Wash Me In The River, starring Robert De Niro, John Malkovich, Jack Huston, Quavo and Willa Fitzgerald.

Christopher Vourlias While the coronavirus pandemic briefly shut down local production last year and sent the exhibition industry into a tailspin, Artem Vasilyev, of Metrafilms, is among the many Russian producers who did not sit idly by in quarantine.“We had a very, very fruitful autumn in the industry,” says Vasilyev, who shot four features between August and November, including “30 Days and 30 Nights,” the new film from Venice Silver Lion winner Alexey German, Jr.

Davide Abbatescianni Rome-based international sales and production company TVCO has sold Dace Pūce’s debut feature “The Pit” to German independent distributor Arsenal Filmverleih.The drama, staged by Latvia’s Marana Production and Finland’s Inland Film Company, is based on a series of true stories published by Jana Egle.The plot follows a 10-year-old boy called Markuss (Damirs Onackis), who must adapt to starting a new life in the Latvian countryside with his strict grandmother (Dace Eversa).

Late Wednesday night there was a sliver of good news for the German film industry —and for anyone trying to sell films into Germany at this week's virtual European Film Market: Germany plans to re-open cinemas. Sort of.

Nick Jonas' recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon saw the handsome singer and actor discuss his latest outing, Chaos Walking, his epic Saturday Night Live appearance as both host and performer and his highly-awaited solo album, Spaceman. While quipping about how he had the most expensive album photoshoot ever for Spaceman, shot on Mars with Elon Musk funding the "extra wealthy shoot" (P.S.

Nick Jonas really missed his other half Priyanka Chopra while she was away in Germany shooting “The Matrix 4”.

Christopher Vourlias Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales continues its pre-sales of “The Peasants,” the hotly anticipated follow-up from Oscar-nominated “Loving Vincent” director Dorota Kobiela, selling rights for Germany and Austria to Koch Media.As reported earlier, New Europe brokered a deal with The Jokers for distribution in France of the buzzy animated feature.“The Peasants” is produced by BreakThru Films’ Sean Bobbitt and Hugh Welchman, who also co-wrote the script, using

StudioCanal Germany and local independent Prokino have signed a major deal that will see StudioCanal take over the physical and digital distribution of Prokino's back catalog for the German market. The deal, announced Thursday, includes more than 100 titles released by Prokino in German theaters in 2019 or earlier.

German film and TV studio Leonine have made a major executive appointment, naming Sebastian Heinlein, formerly of Constantin Entertainment, to its SEO Entertainment division as head of development and creative director. He takes over at the new position on April 1, 2021.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentREinvent International Sales has closed Germany on Charlotte Sieling’s anticipated epic period drama, “Margrete – Queen of the North,” starring Trine Dyrholm (“The Commune”), licensing the film to Splendid Film.The film stars Dyrholm, the award-winning actress of Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Commune” and May el-Toukhy’s “Queen of Hearts,” as Margrete I of Denmark, who is considered the most powerful ruler in Scandinavian history, as she gathered Denmark,