Leonine Picks Up ‘Asterix & Obelix, The Silk Road’ in Germany and Austria – Variety

The ‘cradle of the automobile’, Stuttgart is renowned for cars and motorcycles, with a number of big brands, including Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, housing their headquarters there. Spread across hills, valleys and parks, Stuttgart is home to some unusual and world-famous architecture.

Ladies and gents, it’s officially the weekend, which means less time off work for most South Africans and more time to do fun stuff. If you not sure or haven’t decided how you’re going to spend this weekend then worry not because we’ve got you covered. From the release of the highly anticipated Gretel and Hansel film to Spenser Confidential on Netflix and the Photo-booth Party taking place in Braam. Here are the top five picks for this weekend.

Viacom Intl. Studios has signed a deal with German broadcaster RTL’s TV Now SVOD service for a local adaptation of dating gameshow format “Are You the One?”

Manchester band Pale Waves have cancelled a series of upcoming gigs after they were involved in a 'serious bus accident' whilst on tour in Germany.

Our CSD Gay Pride Calendar Germany 2020 – A complete list of all Gay Pride Events in Germany. It’s time to get equipped with rainbow flags and stand up for equality! It is time to plan your Pride Week 2020 with our Gay Pride Calendar Germany! We checked the annual CSD agenda in the German cities and assembled as many CSDs we could find in one complete list sorted by states and cities.

“Running Wild with Bear Grylls” producer-distributor Propagate Content has struck a first-look deal with Munch-headquartered Constantin Entertainment for entertainment titles.

New German mini-major Leonine is teaming up with Christian Alvart's Syrreal Entertainment on Santiago, a modern-day adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' revenge classic The Count of Monte Cristo. The series, which is part of a co-development deal with Syrreal, is the first major TV project from Leonine.

Beta Cinema has sold the German box-office hit “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” by Oscar-winner Caroline Link to the U.S. Greenwich Entertainment picked up the rights to the feature, which has attracted almost one million admissions since its Christmas release in Germany alone.

At dawn in an orderly, middle-class suburb in regional Germany, three young people — a girl and two guys — stagger home from a night out. Two of them are siblings, two of them friends and two of them are falling in love.

Berlin’s European Film Market has gotten off to a slow start — but there are signs of life. Leonine, the new German studio formed last year by KKR’s acquisition and merger of German indies Tele Munchen Group and Universum, picked up German-speaking rights for the Gerard Butler action thriller Remote Control from STXinternational in a mid-seven-figure deal, the largest reported pact of the EFM so far.

Director Vadim Perelman and frequent Berlinale film star Lars Eidinger on Saturday championed their new Holocaust-set “Persian Lessons” as a timely, very German tale of how that dark history is closer to us than it seems, made uniquely possible by the fact that most of the film’s production team is not German.