Terminated ‘Matrix 4,’ ‘Uncharted’ Film Crews Demand Help From Studio Babelsberg

The Coronavirus pandemic that has taken various parts of the world into its clutches, has resulted in many concerts being cancelled or pushed ahead. The highly contagious virus that originated in China's Wuhan city, spread across the globe in no time.

By Kaleem Aftab

The story of Chris and Gus brings us back to the US, this time to the east coast, to Florida to be more precise. But this isn’t actually the beginning of their story together.

A German court on Tuesday proposed ending a criminal trial resulting from a fatal mass panic at the 2010 Love Parade techno music festival, citing questions over when the proceedings could resume in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus or not, the German film industry has determined that the show must go on. Germany will still hand out its equivalent of the Oscars, the German Film Awards, in a live ceremony in Berlin on April 24, despite the country being on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

By Tom Grater

Farce is not a genre we commonly associate with the Germans, but then, as “Curveball” reminds us at the outset, this wildly atypical Teutonic satire — which plays like a cross between “Wag the Dog” and “Dr. Strangelove” in its portrayal of incompetence at the highest levels — is “A true story.

Although Chris Brown isn’t currently able to be with his son, Aeko Brown, he’s getting sent constant updates about the little boy from Ammika Harris! Ammika and Aeko are riding out the coronavirus quarantine in Germany, while Chris remains in California. However, Ammika has been posted a lot of updates to social media, and seems to be sending Chris videos and pics of the little guy, as well, since he’s been sharing them on his page, too.

For Berlin-based American writer-producer Anna Winger, creating the Netflix series “Unorthodox” offered a unique opportunity to tell a Jewish story in Germany.

By Nancy Tartaglione

About 20 years ago, a collector found something quite rare at a flea market: a group of 55 photos taken on the set of the seminal 1920 German Expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Set to air in April on Germany’s ARD, Beta Film has sold Dreamtool series “The Turncoat” throughout Scandinavia to public broadcasters NRK in Norway, SVT in Sweden, DR in Denmark and YLE in Finland. Negotiations are underway in the U.K. and U.S.

Day by day, Aeko Brown just keeps getting cuter. The four-month-old’s parents, Chris Brown and Ammika Harris, have been keeping us updated on the baby with regular Instagram posts, and Chris shared a new one on March 30. In the pic, Aeko has his eyes closed and appears to be sleeping, but he must have been dreaming about something good — because he has a big smile on his face, too! “Dream in COLOR,” Chris captioned the image.

MADRID — In one of the first detailed breakdowns from a major European company of marketing strategies in the Series Mania/MipTV online marketplace, Germany’s Beta Film has announced that it will stage a virtual Beta Brunch on March 31.

MADRID — In one of the first detailed breakdowns from a major European company of marketing strategies in the Series Mania/MipTV online marketplace, Germany’s Beta Film has announced that it will stage a virtual Beta Brunch on March 31.

Germany’s Beta Film, a prime mover of this and next week’s virtual TV marketplace, has sold “Cryptid,” produced by Dramacorp for the Nordic Entertainment Group’s Viaplay SVOD service, to Joyn, the new German AVOD venture launched in 2019 by Discovery and ProSiebenSat.1.

BERLIN — German collection society GEMA is rolling out a €40 million euro emergency aid program in an effort to help support its members during the coronavirus pandemic."It is already foreseeable that the economic consequences of the pandemic will be devastating for the entire creative industry," said Dr. Harald Heker, GEMA CEO.