ProSiebenSat.1 To Own All Of German Streaming Service Joyn Following Warner Bros. Discovery Deal

In 2017, “Inglorious Basterds” star Diane Kruger teamed up with German director Faith Akin for “In The Fade” to great success. Kruger won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival that year for her portrayal of a woman out for revenge after her husband and son are killed in a racially motivated terrorist attack.

EXCLUSIVE: Production is underway in the UK on feature Wicked Little Letters, which reunites Oscar winner Olivia Colman with her Oscar-nominated Lost Daughter co-star Jessie Buckley (Chernobyl).

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has renewed German spy thriller Kleo for a second season.

K.J. Yossman Warner Bros. Discovery Intl President Gerhard Zeiler has set out the company’s post-merger strategy, re-iterating his belief in cinema as well as his commitment to “local stories,” despite the fact that HBO Max recently halted local original programming across a number of European territories, including in the Nordics, Central Europe, the Netherlands and Turkey. “If you want to be a global player, you have to have relevant local stories,” Zeiler said at the Royal Television Society’s (RTS) annual convention in London on Tuesday morning. “I mean don’t misunderstand me, the big kids will always be the Batmans, the Elvises, the Black Adams, which premieres next month here in the U.K.” He also pointed out that WBD invests in local films, citing productions in Japan and Germany, as well as streaming content.

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Juliette Binoche has admitted "it wasn't easy" working with late director Jean-Luc Godard on 1985's Hail Mary. The Breathless director passed away at his home in Rolle, Switzerland on 13 September at the age of 91. During a press conference at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain on Sunday, his Hail Mary star was asked about working with the French-Swiss filmmaker.

Doja Cat has spoken about the new music she has been making as she works on her fourth studio album. Speaking to CR Fashion Book in a new interview, Grammy winner Doja said she is "very into this ’90s German rave kind of vibe right now," noting that it is "really fun." Planet Her, Doja Cat's most recent album, was released in 2021. In the same interview Doja said the challenge facing her and her collaborators is that they have "so many ideas" making them "consistent" is proving difficult.

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's daughters Audrey and Gracie McGraw have shared their sadness following the death of French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard.MORE: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's daughter Gracie issues urgent warning to fans after alarming newsThe famous offspring took to their respective Instagram accounts on Tuesday shortly after Jean-Luc's passing was revealed to pay their respects to the filmmaker, who revolutionised post-war cinema in Europe.WATCH: Faith Hill & Tim McGraw share story on meeting daughter's boyfriendAudrey was first to mark Jean-Luc's death, sharing an old black and white photo of him on her Instagram Stories which she captioned with a broken heart emoji.Gracie also took to her Stories and shared an image of Jean-Luc, but let the picture speak for itself as she left no comment.MORE: Faith Hill's lookalike daughter Audrey stuns in red lace in intimate bedroom selfieSEE: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's mega-mansion is 10x bigger than average US homeJean-Luc passed away "peacefully at home" on Tuesday while surrounded by his loved ones, including his film-maker wife, Annie-Marie Miéville, in the Swiss town of Rolle. He was 91.His long-time legal adviser, Patrick Jeanneret, revealed he had chosen to end his life and died by assisted suicide, having suffered from "multiple disabling pathologies".

died Tuesday at age 91. The Franco-Swiss director, who helped usher in a new era of cinema with titles like “Breathless” (1960) and “A Woman is a Woman” (1961), was mourned and celebrated across social media by scores of fans and fellow artists.Edgar Wright called Godard “one of the most influential, iconoclastic film-makers of them all,” recalling the “Breathless/Godard” spoofs he made while he was in college.

Related: Jean-Luc Godard: ‘Film is over. What to do?’ Born in Paris in 1930, Godard grew up and went to school in Nyon, on the banks of Lake Geneva in Switzerland.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Group is to acquire the outstanding 50% of the shares in German streaming service Joyn from Warner Bros. Discovery.  The joint venture was established with Discovery in 2017, and has been operating under the name Joyn since 2019. Joyn has a free basic service, financed by advertising, as well as a premium subscription service.  With more than 30 million app downloads and 4 million unique users per month, the platform has firmly established itself on the market after three years.  In addition to content from ProSiebenSat.1 and other content partners, Joyn users will continue to have on-demand access to free, advertising-financed content from Warner Bros. Discovery. Users of the Joyn PLUS+ subscription option can also access streaming service Discovery+ for 12 months. 

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Franco-Swiss director and New Wave linchpin Jean-Luc Godard, who revolutionized world cinema with his ground-breaking debut, “Breathless,” and never stopped pushing the envelope of his creativity, has died. He was 91. The news was first reported in Liberation.

Liberation reports that people close to the Franco-Swiss director have confirmed that he died today (September 13).The filmmaker is known for movies including Breathless (1960) and Contempt (1963), which pushed cinematic boundaries.Godard’s films showcased handheld camera work, jump cuts and existential dialogue that revolutionised French cinema and filmmaking in the 1960s.As Reuters writes, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is often cited as one of a more recent generation of pioneering directors who were initiated by Godard and his Paris-based contemporaries.Godard was born into a Franco-Swiss family on December 3, 1930 in Paris’s plush Seventh Arrondissement. His father was a doctor, his mother the daughter of a Swiss man who founded Banque Paribas, then an illustrious investment bank.Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver) has paid tribute the late filmmaker, saying that he was “one of the most influential, iconoclastic film-makers of them all”.“It was ironic that he himself revered the Hollywood studio film-making system, as perhaps no other director inspired as many people to just pick up a camera and start shooting.”RIP Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential, iconoclastic film-makers of them all.

Lewis Milestone’s 1930 classic, All Quiet On The Western Front was based on the 1928 novel by Erich Maria Remarque and became the first adaptation of a book to win the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as the first Best Picture Oscar winner to also take Best Director. It has hardly been touched by filmmakers since then save for a TV Movie remake by director Delbert Mann in 1979 that starred Richard Thomas. Now that has changed, and in a significant way , as the book has finally been taken on by Germany with director Edward Berger’s (Patrick Melrose, Your Honor) adaptation (co-written with Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell) that finally shows us the perspective from the German side. It has already been selected as the German entry for the 95th Academy Awards Best International Film race, and just had its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival today.