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Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorWhile Universal’s Dolittle and Warner Bros’ reissue of Interstellar were the big kahunas in China this weekend, Russell Crowe-starrer Unhinged hit the road in 19 new markets over the session. Among them, the UK, Australia, Netherlands and New Zealand where the Solstice Studios pic was No.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: International cinema giant Vue has weighed in on the controversial Universal-AMC window crunch, announced earlier this week.Universal and AMC put aside bad blood to sign a multi-year deal that will allow the studio’s films to premiere on premium video on-demand within three weeks of their theatrical debuts.Like Cineworld, before it, the move has bemused Vue, which accounts for 2,000 screens in 10 major international markets, including UK, Germany,

Naman Ramachandran German media operator ProSiebenSat.1 noted some bright spots amid the general coronavirus-induced gloom as it revealed its financial results for the second quarter of 2020.The group’s total video view time — the number of minutes viewed across the group’s linear channels and digital entertainment platforms — grew by 3.4% in the first half of the year, driven by high prime time numbers for “Promis unter Palmen” and “The Masked Singer.”Subsidiary technology company NuCom showed

Andreas Wiseman International EditorHDF Kino, Germany’s largest cinema association, has called for a reduction to the 1.5M social distancing measures in cinemas to ensure that exhibitors “survive” the Covid crisis.The organization, which has 620 members who account for more than 3,200 cinema screens across Germany, has made the call in light of a new study by the Hermann Rietschel Institute at the Technical University of Berlin, which claims that cinemas are safer than offices when it comes to

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorEXCLUSIVE: Germany-based production and distribution powerhouse Constantin Film has renewed the contracts of long-serving CEO Martin Moszkowicz and Management Board member Oliver Berben early, and for an extended period of several years. The Supervisory Board of the Resident Evil producer extended Moszkowicz’s contract this month, taking effect from January 1, 2021.

Biohackers, the German sci-fi thriller debuting on August 20. “Mia goes to medical school to get close to a professor she suspects had a hand in her past family tragedy and gets tangled in the world of biohacking,” reads the Netflix description.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorEXCLUSIVE: Lots of movement on the international box office front this past weekend, and into the beginning of the week. Korean zombie sequel Peninsula, as we reported Sunday, made a meal of five overseas markets with a $21M Wednesday-Sunday frame.

Also Read: Mark Wahlberg Says 'Uncharted' Movie Will Be 'Tenfold Better' Than Previous VersionsAlso co-starring in “Uncharted” are Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali and Tati Gabrielle. The film is based on the Naughty Dog video game series for Playstation and stars Holland as a younger version of the adventurer Nathan Drake.

MUNICH — German concert promoter CTS Eventim and ABBA co-founder Björn Ulvaeus are joining forces for the dinner theater franchise Mamma Mia! The Party. CTS Eventim has now acquired 49 percent of the production from the previous minority shareholders, while Ulvaeus remains the majority shareholder with 51%. The show combines dining and the classic songs of ABBA with in

Werner Herzog is one of Germany’s great filmmakers. French director Francois Truffaut called Herzog “the most important film director alive” and legendary film critic Roger Ebert was a huge fan of Herzog’s work.

If you're old enough to remember a time when Nazis were scary enough all by themselves, you may be a bit flummoxed by Ghosts of War. Combining war and horror movie tropes in an awkward manner more silly than scary, this belated sophomore feature from writer/director Eric Bress (2004's The Butterfly Effect) makes you long for the days when American G.I.s didn't have to fight supernatural beings as well as German soldiers.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorIMDb TV, Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service, has swooped for U.S. rights to Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television’s young-adult espionage series Alex Rider.The adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s bestselling teen spy novels has also been picked up as an Amazon Prime Video original in Latin America, Germany and Austria.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorStocks, which had surged more than 500 points earlier in the day in a solid rally, reversed course suddenly and late in the session on dishearteninng news that Calliforina was reinstating a lockdown as COVID-19 cases continued to rise in the state.The DJIA had been up 564 points as earnings kicked off and as two drug companies, Pfizer and Germany’s Biontech, said they were fast tracked by the U.S.

Also Read: 'Greyhound' Trailer: Tom Hanks Brings 'Hell Down From On High' in First Look at WWII Film (Video)In “Greyhound,” Hanks plays the commanding officer of an American destroyer in WWII whose job is to escort a convoy of commercial boats and troop transports across the Atlantic.