‘The Departed’ & ‘300’ Producer Gianni Nunnari Acquires Novel ‘The German Girl’ For TV Adaptation

The German government of Chancellor Angela Merkel has extended and tightened COVID-19 lockdown measures in the country until at least April 18. The new lockdown regulations will see all shops and indoor activity shut down as of Monday, March 29.

Claudia Schiffer gave fans a very rare glimpse into life at home recently when she shared a stunning selfie soaking up the sun in her incredible backyard. The German supermodel, 50, wowed fans with her age-defying good looks - and her stunning garden - as she got wistful over the weather. MORE: Claudia Schiffer reveals she never thought she would make it as a model She wrote: "Sunny days in LA… when is the sun coming to England?"  WATCH: 10 of the most dazzling celebrity engagement ringsClaudia

Gallery: Yippee-Ki-Yay! Bruce Willis' top 10 films (BANG Showbiz)Syrreal CEO Christian Alvart will also direct the show, as well as produce alongside Sigi Kamml and Timm Oberwelland, while David himself will serve as executive producer. CBS have signed a first-look production deal with German production company Syrreal Entertainment, with 'Ze Entertainment' to be the first project under the partnership.

David Hasselhoff is going meta in Ze Network, a new German TV series in which he will star as Hollywood actor David Hasselhoff. The plot of the dark comedy sees the Hoff cast in a theater play in Germany only to be caught up in an international conspiracy of former Cold War assassins.

Amazon Prime Video has snapped up the rights to German coming of age series We Children From Bahnhof Zoo for the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, and Benelux.

CBS Studios and German producer Syrreal Entertainment are teaming to create a series for RTL streamer TV Now in which David Hasselhoff will star as himself in a fictional international conspiracy story.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFrancois Ozon, one of France’s most prestigious and prolific filmmakers, will next direct Isabelle Adjani and Denis Menochet (“Custody”) in “Petra Von Kant,” a film adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s cult play “The Bitter Tears.”“Petra Von Kant” will star Menochet as Fassbinder, while Adjani will play the German director’s muse, according to Satellifax, which was first to report the news.“The Bitter Tears” was previously adapted into a film by

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSnap wants to get Snapchat’s young-skewing user base to buy more stuff through the social app. As part of that strategy, Snap has acquired Fit Analytics, a German apparel size-recommendation engine that helps online shoppers virtually find the right clothing size.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.Founded in 2010, Berlin-based Fit Analytics provides a product called Fit Finder to over 18,000 retailers and brands.

Disney CEO Bob Chapek responded to a shareholder on Tuesday who accused Tinseltown, as well as the multimillion-dollar company, of a double standard in firing Gina Carano due to her political affiliation.

Disney CEO Chapek Bob Chapek Tuesday said he doesn’t “really see Disney as characterizing itself as left-leaning or right-leaning” – responding to a shareholder who accused Hollywood and the company of a double standard in firing Gina Carano from The Mandalorian because she’s a conservative.

Dieter Wedel, one of Germany's most successful television directors, has been indicted on suspicion of rape connected to allegations dating back to 1996. The public prosecutor's office in Munich brought the indictment before the 10th criminal chamber of the Munich I district court on Friday.

Alex Pettyfer and Toni Garrn are about to be parents!

Red Arrow Studios, the production group owned by German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1, took a €46 million ($55M) hit to its revenue in 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic halted production around the world.

Bill Burr has some thoughts about Gina Carano’s firing from The Mandalorian!

who was recently fired from the Disney+ show over controversial tweets. The 38-year-old mixed martial arts pioneer — who played ex-stormtrooper Cara Dune on the “Star Wars” spinoff — had tweeted in February that the treatment of conservatives in Hollywood was akin to that of Jews in Nazi Germany.

Bill Burr is the first actor from The Mandalorian to defend his former co-star Gina Carano after she was fired from the Disney+ show.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentGaston Pavlovich, famed for producing Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” and “The Irishman,” is joining Sophokles Tasioulis, producer of Terrence Malick’s “Voyage of Time,” to produce “The Hague.”The feature is set up at Tasioulis’ Sophisticated Films banner in Germany and Pavlovich’s Mexico-based international production banner Fábrica de Cine.“The Hague” is based on a story and treatment by Ilan Ziv, an Israeli who fought as a young man in the Yom

Anand Tucker’s (Hilary & Jackie) period-drama Curtain Call, which is due to star Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu and Simon Russell Beale, has been pre-sold by Culmination Productions to a host of key territories ahead of shoot later this year in the UK.