Exclusive: Leonine Studios will handle world sales for Odeon Fiction’s new high-end German-language spy series Bonn.
The six-part political-thriller, which follows Odeon’s AMC+ series Spy City with Dominic Cooper, recounts the rise of Germany’s Federal Republic after the terror of World War II. It focuses on a young woman who struggles to find her own place in a male-dominated society in the 1950s and the political tug-of-war between German’s two rival intelligence services.
The acting ensemble comprises Mercedes Müller (Goodbye Berlin) in the lead role of Toni, Max Riemelt (Matrix 4), Sebastian Blomberg (The People Vs. Fritz Bauer), Juergen Maurer (Perfume), Katharina Marie Schubert (A Gift From The Gods), Inga Busch (I’m Your Man), Luise von Finckh (Deutschland 89), Julius Feldmeier (Babylon Berlin) and Johanna Gastdorf (The Wave).
Based on an idea by Gerrit Hermans, the series heralds from director and head writer Claudia Garde (The Window...
The six-part political-thriller, which follows Odeon’s AMC+ series Spy City with Dominic Cooper, recounts the rise of Germany’s Federal Republic after the terror of World War II. It focuses on a young woman who struggles to find her own place in a male-dominated society in the 1950s and the political tug-of-war between German’s two rival intelligence services.
The acting ensemble comprises Mercedes Müller (Goodbye Berlin) in the lead role of Toni, Max Riemelt (Matrix 4), Sebastian Blomberg (The People Vs. Fritz Bauer), Juergen Maurer (Perfume), Katharina Marie Schubert (A Gift From The Gods), Inga Busch (I’m Your Man), Luise von Finckh (Deutschland 89), Julius Feldmeier (Babylon Berlin) and Johanna Gastdorf (The Wave).
Based on an idea by Gerrit Hermans, the series heralds from director and head writer Claudia Garde (The Window...
- 8/17/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Emily Atef, whose latest film “3 Days in Quiberon” competed at the Berlinale in 2018, is getting ready to shoot “More Than Ever,” a melodrama headlined by Vicky Krieps (“Phantom Thread”) and Gaspard Ulliel (“It’s Only the End of the World”). Jesper Christensen (“Before the Frost”) and Liv Ullmann will also star.
The Match Factory is representing the project in international markets.
“More Than Ever” (formerly known as “Mister”) was penned by Atef and German scribe Lars Hubrich, whose screenwriting credits include Fatih Akin’s 2016 film “Goodbye Berlin.” The movie is produced by Xénia Maingot at Eaux Vives Productions, and co-produced by Nicole Gerhards at Niko Film, Jani Thiltges at Samsa Film and Maria Ekerhovd at Mer Film.
The film follows Hélène, a 33-year-old women who lives in Bordeaux, France, and is in a happy relationship. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she finds out that she suffers from a rare lung disease.
The Match Factory is representing the project in international markets.
“More Than Ever” (formerly known as “Mister”) was penned by Atef and German scribe Lars Hubrich, whose screenwriting credits include Fatih Akin’s 2016 film “Goodbye Berlin.” The movie is produced by Xénia Maingot at Eaux Vives Productions, and co-produced by Nicole Gerhards at Niko Film, Jani Thiltges at Samsa Film and Maria Ekerhovd at Mer Film.
The film follows Hélène, a 33-year-old women who lives in Bordeaux, France, and is in a happy relationship. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she finds out that she suffers from a rare lung disease.
- 3/4/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Stephen King adaptations keep on coming. The latest: Faith Akin, director of In the Fade and Goodbye Berlin, has been hired to helm a Firestarter remake for Universal Pictures and Blumhouse. The film will be another adaptation of King’s 1980 novel about a girl with pyrokinetic abilities. Drew Barrymore starred in the 1984 adaptation of the King novel. […]
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- 6/28/2018
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Feature centres a well-off Parisian who leaves her comfortable life for Norwegian village.
German-French-Iranian director Emily Atef, whose 3 Days In Quiberon has just premiered in competition at the Berlinale, is now gearing up for her first French-language production entitled Mister.
The new feature will revolve around the character of Hélène, a well-off Parisian, who turns her back on a comfortable life and loving husband and heads to a remote Norwegian village on being diagnosed with a life-threatening lung condition.
The production’s lead producer Xenia Maingot, who operates under the banner of Paris-based Eaux Vives Productions, says the film will revolve around the female-focused tropes and themes of Atef’s previous features such as 3 Days In Quiberon, Kill Me and The Stranger In Me.
“It’s a strong female story in which the protagonist’s life has hit a crunch point. It’s a beautiful, powerful tale about a woman striking out on her own and then asking...
German-French-Iranian director Emily Atef, whose 3 Days In Quiberon has just premiered in competition at the Berlinale, is now gearing up for her first French-language production entitled Mister.
The new feature will revolve around the character of Hélène, a well-off Parisian, who turns her back on a comfortable life and loving husband and heads to a remote Norwegian village on being diagnosed with a life-threatening lung condition.
The production’s lead producer Xenia Maingot, who operates under the banner of Paris-based Eaux Vives Productions, says the film will revolve around the female-focused tropes and themes of Atef’s previous features such as 3 Days In Quiberon, Kill Me and The Stranger In Me.
“It’s a strong female story in which the protagonist’s life has hit a crunch point. It’s a beautiful, powerful tale about a woman striking out on her own and then asking...
- 2/22/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Following the fizzle of his coming-of-ager Goodbye Berlin (Tschick) last year, Fatih Akin bounces back and bounces high with an edge-of-seat thriller inspired by xenophobic murders in Germany by a Neo-Nazi group. From the tense opening sequence of a bombing against Turks living in Germany, In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts) stands out from the work of the German-born director of Turkish origin for the anger and grief it brings to the story, which leave the audience shaken. Its concentrated passion and ability to move viewers portends solid box office returns for the Bombero/Warner Bros. Germany production, which has all...
- 5/26/2017
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Director Patricio Guzman’s Cordillera among winners in industry strands.
The 32nd Guadalajara Film Festival (March 10-17), bookended by fierce criticism of Us president Donald Trump by local and international industry, has feted Everardo Gonzalez’s documentary Devil’s Freedom (La Libertad Del Diablo) with best Mexican feature, best Ibero-American documentary and best cinematography as well as the Mexican film critics trophy.
The feature, about violence in Mexico, is handled by Films Boutique and received its world premiere in Berlin earlier this year where it won an Amnesty International award.
Carlos Lechuga’s Santa And Andres, about political dissent in Cuba, was named best Ibero-American feature and also won best script.
Nicaraguan director Jose Maria Cabral’s prison drama Carpinteros (Woodpeckers) won best Ibero-American director in addition to best actor for Jean Jean.
Mexican debutant Sofia Gomez’s The Blue Years (Los Anios Azules), a coming of age drama, garnered five awards including best director, the Fipresci...
The 32nd Guadalajara Film Festival (March 10-17), bookended by fierce criticism of Us president Donald Trump by local and international industry, has feted Everardo Gonzalez’s documentary Devil’s Freedom (La Libertad Del Diablo) with best Mexican feature, best Ibero-American documentary and best cinematography as well as the Mexican film critics trophy.
The feature, about violence in Mexico, is handled by Films Boutique and received its world premiere in Berlin earlier this year where it won an Amnesty International award.
Carlos Lechuga’s Santa And Andres, about political dissent in Cuba, was named best Ibero-American feature and also won best script.
Nicaraguan director Jose Maria Cabral’s prison drama Carpinteros (Woodpeckers) won best Ibero-American director in addition to best actor for Jean Jean.
Mexican debutant Sofia Gomez’s The Blue Years (Los Anios Azules), a coming of age drama, garnered five awards including best director, the Fipresci...
- 3/17/2017
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
The Little Witch (Die Kleine Hexe) will star German actress Karoline Herfurth and reunite the production team behind local box office hit Heidi.
Studiocanal is to co-produce and handle world sales on the first German live-action film adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s children’s classic The Little Witch (Die Kleine Hexe).
Published in 1957, Preussler’s tale centres on a witch who is a mere one hundred and twenty-seven years old and thus deemed too young to be allowed to dance with the others on the Hill of Witches during Walpurgis Night (30 April).
Before she can prove to the chief witch that she has what it takes to become a good witch, she must hone her magic skills, but she hadn’t reckoned with the mean weather witch Rumpumpel using every means to prevent her reaching her goal.
Studiocanal’s German production arm, Studiocanal Film, will co-produce with Munich-based Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion and Switzerland’s Zodiac Pictures after last...
Studiocanal is to co-produce and handle world sales on the first German live-action film adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s children’s classic The Little Witch (Die Kleine Hexe).
Published in 1957, Preussler’s tale centres on a witch who is a mere one hundred and twenty-seven years old and thus deemed too young to be allowed to dance with the others on the Hill of Witches during Walpurgis Night (30 April).
Before she can prove to the chief witch that she has what it takes to become a good witch, she must hone her magic skills, but she hadn’t reckoned with the mean weather witch Rumpumpel using every means to prevent her reaching her goal.
Studiocanal’s German production arm, Studiocanal Film, will co-produce with Munich-based Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion and Switzerland’s Zodiac Pictures after last...
- 4/29/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
While Fatih Akin‘s last feature, The Cut, finally arrived in theaters here in the United States last fall, it seemed to go quite under the radar. The Head-On director is now back this year with a new feature and it’s taking a much different tone than his last drama. An adaptation of Wolfgang Herrndorfs‘ novel Tschick, it tells the story of a pair of teenage misfits who steal a car and head out on a roadtrip.
While it hasn’t been picked up for U.S. distribution yet, it’ll arrive in Germany this fall and today brings the first trailer. Although there’s no subtitles yet, one can still get a solid grasp on what to expect, with a more vibrant tone in both the style and script. Starring Anand Batbileg, Tristan Göbel, and Nicole Mercedes Müller, check out the trailer below.
Tschick arrives in Germany on...
While it hasn’t been picked up for U.S. distribution yet, it’ll arrive in Germany this fall and today brings the first trailer. Although there’s no subtitles yet, one can still get a solid grasp on what to expect, with a more vibrant tone in both the style and script. Starring Anand Batbileg, Tristan Göbel, and Nicole Mercedes Müller, check out the trailer below.
Tschick arrives in Germany on...
- 2/29/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Tschick
Director: Fatih Akin
Writer: Hark Bohm
While Fatih Akin’s epic cap to his loose trilogy The Cut (2014) didn’t live up to expectations, we’re curious to see his latest, Tschick, an unexpected foray into ‘family film.’ Based on a cult novel by late writer Wolfgang Herndorfs, the story centers on 14-year-old Maik Klingenberg, part of a wealthy but dysfunctional family in Berlin. During this particular summer vacation his mom enters rehab while dad absconds on a romantic getaway with his secretary. Left to his own devices, Maik decides to take off with Tschick, a Russian immigrant classmate who shows up one day with a stolen car. The screenplay was adapated by actor/write/director Hark Bohm, who appeared in several feature by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Cast: Anand Batbileg, Tristan Gobel, Nicole Mercedes Muller
Production Co.: Lago Film
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Tbd (domestic) StudioCanal (international...
Director: Fatih Akin
Writer: Hark Bohm
While Fatih Akin’s epic cap to his loose trilogy The Cut (2014) didn’t live up to expectations, we’re curious to see his latest, Tschick, an unexpected foray into ‘family film.’ Based on a cult novel by late writer Wolfgang Herndorfs, the story centers on 14-year-old Maik Klingenberg, part of a wealthy but dysfunctional family in Berlin. During this particular summer vacation his mom enters rehab while dad absconds on a romantic getaway with his secretary. Left to his own devices, Maik decides to take off with Tschick, a Russian immigrant classmate who shows up one day with a stolen car. The screenplay was adapated by actor/write/director Hark Bohm, who appeared in several feature by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Cast: Anand Batbileg, Tristan Gobel, Nicole Mercedes Muller
Production Co.: Lago Film
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Tbd (domestic) StudioCanal (international...
- 1/7/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
As our coverage from this year’s Marrakech International Film Festival continues to flow in, they’ve begun providing videos that give some sense of what it’s like to be on the ground. Following a look at Park Chan-wook’s master class, we now have excerpts from a live talk with Fatih Akin — something the writer-director, feeling he’s “not a master,” would prefer to call an interview. The moderator — who looks so much like Dean Stockwell that I’m unable to focus on much else when it cuts to him — complies, and so what follows isn’t a hoity-toity handing-down of wisdom to those who are so lucky to be in his presence, but instead an illustration of process and intent.
It’s also worth noting that, while at Marrakech, Akin told THR about his next feature, Why We Took the Car. Although the feature (known as Tschick...
It’s also worth noting that, while at Marrakech, Akin told THR about his next feature, Why We Took the Car. Although the feature (known as Tschick...
- 12/9/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
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