Leonine, Syrreal Team on Count of Monte Cristo Series 'Santiago' (Exclusive)

German Films, the agency that promotes German cinema around the world, has unveiled the participants of the fifth edition of its Face to Face With German Films campaign, which this year is dedicated to screenwriters.

German Films, the agency that promotes German cinema around the world, has unveiled the participants of the fifth edition of its Face to Face With German Films campaign, which this year is dedicated to screenwriters.

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.

Franco German TV network Arte has boarded high-profile doc “Fellini of the Spirits” exploring Federico Fellini’s lifelong interest in everything metaphysical and featuring Oscar winners Damien Chazelle and William Friedkin among talking heads.

A classically trained singer with a fondness for rock, country and German theater songs, Hayley Thompson-King certainly draws from a diverse palette on her second album, Sororicide. And she came up with a concept that allowed her to explore all of it -- including the Country & Western weeper "Drink Her Away," premiering exclusively on Billboard today (Feb. 27).

The museum that preserves the site of the former German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz issued a statement condemning the recently released Amazon TV series, “Hunters.” Specifically, the people behind the museum took issue with a scene that shows a murderous game of human chess being played at Auschwitz, arguing that such a thing never took place there and that introducing it in the plot is dangerous and foolish.

The museum that preserves the site of the former German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz issued a statement condemning the recently released Amazon TV series, “Hunters.” Specifically, the people behind the museum took issue with a scene that shows a murderous game of human chess being played at …

WARSAW, Poland -- The museum of the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp is objecting to a scene in a new Amazon TV series that shows a murderous game of human chess being played there, insisting that no such thing took place at the camp.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The museum of the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp is objecting to a scene in a new TV series that shows a murderous game of human chess being played, insisting that no such thing took place at the camp.

By Tom Grater

Castle Falls, the Dolph Lundgren and Scott Adkins actioner, which Lundgren is also set to direct, has landed a number of international deals and found a home in the U.S.

By Andreas Wiseman, Tom Grater

Leonine, the new producer/distributor formed via multiple acquisitions by private equity giant KKR in Germany, has acquired all rights to Asterix & Obelix, The Silk Road for Germany and Austria.The all-rights licensing deal with Pathé Films was unveiled Friday during the European Film Market in Berlin.The film marks the fifth live-action adventure based on the comic book characters created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo and takes the heroes to China.

German media company Leonine has closed an all-rights licensing deal with Pathé Films on “Asterix & Obelix, The Silk Road” for Germany and Austria.

TVNow, the streaming platform from leading German commercial broadcaster RTL, has given the green light to its first big-budget event series, giving a six-episode order to Herzogpark from Letterbox Filmproduktion.Oscar-winning short film director Jochen Alexander Freydank (Spielzeugland) will direct the series from a script by Regina Dietl based on an original idea from Letterbox producer Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann.