Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset Boosts Stake in Germany's ProSiebenSat.1

coronavirus.In Cologne, the western city whose Carnival festivities are perhaps the best known, Mayor Henriette Reker appealed for residents to stay home and bide their time until next year’s celebrations.“As a Carnival fanatic, my heart is bleeding today,” she said on Twitter.One of Germany’s first superspreader events stemmed from a Carnival celebration in a town west of Cologne last February where many people came in contact with an infected man.This year authorities were taking no chances.

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.

Valve have announced that they have released the uncut version of Left 4 Dead 2 in Germany, 11 years after it was cut to ensure release.After appealing to German authorities, Valve have had the game re-evaluated.

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.

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.

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

TheWrap’s Awards and International Screening Series. “I have to do films that react to what is happening in Germany, and I have to also be an activist again with my skills now.

Jamie Lang The Walt Disney Company Germany has picked up a pair of Beta Films series for its Fox pay TV network for German-speaking territories: Spanish YA drama “Alive and Kicking” and Russian thriller “Dead Mountain – The Dyatlov Pass Incident.” Both series were presented to buyers at Mipcom in October and several more deals for each are in advanced negotiations, and expected to be announced shortly.A Movistar Plus original series from Spain, “Alive and Kicking” will participate in the

And Tomorrow The Entire World, the engaged latest film from writer-director Julia von Heinz, is something close to transfixing, as it zeroes in on the vital distinction between being a weekend radical and a truly committed game-changer. Germany’s Best International Feature Film Oscar entry made an impression at last year’s Venice Film Festival and should connect strongly with younger audiences in many parts of the world.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTop Italian private broadcaster Mediaset has quietly raised its stake in German broadcasting giant ProSiebenSat.1, in which the Berlusconi-owned company now holds an overall 24% share, just below the 25% threshold beyond which it would need authorization from German regulators to exceed.Mediaset’s Mediaset Espana subsidiary on Thursday evening said it had acquired a 3.43% share in ProSieben for which it paid €104 million euros ($126 million), raising

Ed Meza @edmezavarSony Pictures Entertainment Germany has picked up “Hide and Seek,” Ukraine’s first crime noir series, in a deal struck with ZDF Enterprises.The show is expected to air on the Sony Channel, available on German pay TV via cable and satellite, this fall in both German and original Russian language.Filmed in over 80 locations in the Ukraine, “Hide and Seek” is a tension-filled story about children who mysteriously disappear from a small industrial town and the two determined

ProSiebenSat.1 has taken the unusual step of providing some insight on its fourth-quarter earnings before the financials have been audited. And it’s good news for the German broadcasting giant, which said its revenue of €4 billion ($4.9B) topped expectations despite the tumult of the coronavirus pandemic.

Naman Ramachandran Despite a 2020 blighted by COVID-19, German broadcasting giant ProSiebenSat.1 Group posted revenues of €4.04 billion ($4.91 billion) and adjusted earnings of €700 million ($850.9 million) for the full year, according to preliminary, unaudited figures.In the third quarter of 2020, the group had targeted revenues of approximately €3.85 billion ($4.52 billion) for the full year, with an EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) of €650 million

Heidi Klum is hard at work on the new season of Germany’s Next Top Model!