Mediaset Quietly Raises Stake in Germany’s ProSieben to 24%, Just Below Anti-Trust Threshold

Tonight, Lucasfilm announced that Gina Carano would not be returning for Disney+’s The Mandalorian after her controversial social media posts went viral.

Nearly 200 LGBTQ actors in Germany, including some of the country's biggest film and TV stars, staged a mass coming-out in a German national newspaper on Friday, in a public appeal for more diversity on stage and screen. The 185 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender actors — among them Babylon Berlin star Udo Samel, and Karin Hanczewski and Mark Waschke from No.

Ed Meza @edmezavarDanish-German company Adomeit Film is set to explore uncharted territory with what could be the world’s first romantic comedy set in Afghanistan.Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “Kabul Jan,” the third part in a planned pentalogy based on co-writer Anwar Hashimi’s autobiographical work, follows a young camera operator who falls in love with a married TV reporter twice her age.Set in the biggest private TV station in Kabul, the story explores the forbidden romance while also examining the

LONDON -- Dr. Martens boots have been valued by rebellious youth through the decades.

Germany’s major cinema organization HDF Kino has expressed concerns about a proposed model for the country’s exit from lockdown that places cinemas last in line.

Jamie Dornan, most recently seen facing comedic critical fire for his much-slated Irish accent in Wild Mountain Thyme, is heading down under. The Fifty Shades of Grey star isto lead The Tourist, the Australia-set mystery thriller from Two Brothers Pictures, the Emmy-winning production company behind Fleabag and The Missing.

Asbury Park Pictures, the U.S.-based production group from John Wick and Sicario producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, has signed an output deal with German mini-major Leonine Studios, giving Leonine exclusive German-language rights to Asbury Park's upcoming slate of mid-budget action titles.

Jamie Dornan (A Private War) has been tapped as the lead of The Tourist, the six-episode limited series from Fleabag production company Two Brothers Pictures.

Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner), Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) and Sean Harris (Mission: Impossible – Fallout) have joined Kristen Stewart in buzzed-about Lady Diana biopic Spencer, which is now filming in Germany.

BERLIN -- A German classical music foundation says it has found the rightful heirs of a Jewish woman who was forced by the Nazis to sell two scores by composer Franz Liszt before being deported to a concentration camp.Klassik Stiftung Weimar said Wednesday that researchers were able to trace relatives of Emma Frankenbacher living in Argentina, where her daughter and son-in-law had fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s.Frankenberger, who died at 67 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, sold the

Burns Supper to raise a glass to Scotland’s national bard.Coronavirus lockdown restrictions may have put mass gatherings to celebrate Robert Burns on hold - but that's not stopping Scots working at UK Embassies worldwide celebrating online.Scots working for the UK Government in countries including Bahrain, Chile, China, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Pakistan, Peru, Tunisia, and Turkey are among those participating in the virtual Burns Supper.Employees at FCDO’s