Pictured above: The ‘Das Boot’ crew – Colin Teevan (head writer of season 2), Tom Wlaschiha (actor), Clemens Schick (actor), Oliver Vogel (Bavaria Fiction chief creative officer and Ep on ‘Das Boot’), Vicky Krieps (actor), Rick Okon (actor).
Bavaria Fiction celebrated its latest TV productions at a glitzy soirée at Soho House in Berlin on Monday.
The powerhouse TV division of Bavaria Film has enjoyed huge success with “Das Boot” and its newest series, “Freud,” opened this year’s Berlinale Series sidebar. It’s also rolling out “Arctic Circle,” a Finnish-German coproduction, which recently premiered on Zdf.
Bavaria Fiction focuses largely on the German-speaking market but it’s looking to further expand its portfolio.
“We moved into international productions four years ago with ‘Das Boot,’ a hugely successful series, being sold to over 100 countries, including Hulu in the U.S.,” says Bavaria Fiction managing director Jan S. Kaiser.
“Das Boot” season two premieres on Sky in April.
Bavaria Fiction celebrated its latest TV productions at a glitzy soirée at Soho House in Berlin on Monday.
The powerhouse TV division of Bavaria Film has enjoyed huge success with “Das Boot” and its newest series, “Freud,” opened this year’s Berlinale Series sidebar. It’s also rolling out “Arctic Circle,” a Finnish-German coproduction, which recently premiered on Zdf.
Bavaria Fiction focuses largely on the German-speaking market but it’s looking to further expand its portfolio.
“We moved into international productions four years ago with ‘Das Boot,’ a hugely successful series, being sold to over 100 countries, including Hulu in the U.S.,” says Bavaria Fiction managing director Jan S. Kaiser.
“Das Boot” season two premieres on Sky in April.
- 2/25/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Falk Hentschel & Florence Kasumba To Star In Syfy’s Global Drama ‘Spides’
Game of Thrones’ Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D’s Falk Hentschel, Black Panther’s Florence Kasumba and Bad Bank’s Désirée Nosbusch are to star in Spides, an alien invasion drama to air on Syfy globally.
The eight-part series will launch on the NBC Universal International Networks channel in the UK, France, Iberia, Germany, Latin America, Poland, Romania, Balkans, Middle East, Africa, Australia and Brazil in late 2019.
Set in modern-day Berlin, Spides follows Nora, played by Sellers, a young woman who wakes from a coma without any memory of her previous life after taking a mysterious drug. Hentschel plays local police detective David Leonhart, while Kasumba plays his partner Nique Navar, who are hunting down that drug in relation to dozens of missing teens. When Nora sets out to discover what happened to her, she begins to unravel a conspiracy of aliens who are...
The eight-part series will launch on the NBC Universal International Networks channel in the UK, France, Iberia, Germany, Latin America, Poland, Romania, Balkans, Middle East, Africa, Australia and Brazil in late 2019.
Set in modern-day Berlin, Spides follows Nora, played by Sellers, a young woman who wakes from a coma without any memory of her previous life after taking a mysterious drug. Hentschel plays local police detective David Leonhart, while Kasumba plays his partner Nique Navar, who are hunting down that drug in relation to dozens of missing teens. When Nora sets out to discover what happened to her, she begins to unravel a conspiracy of aliens who are...
- 11/27/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
German regional film fund Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg has announced €350,000 in funding support for high-end sci-fi series “Spides.”
The eight-part show is based on an idea by German director Rainer Matsutani. Matsutani will serve as show-runner and a director on the series, as well as producing alongside Alexander Kiening. Bernd Schlötterer, Wolfgang Behr, James Cabourne and Peter Hume serve as executive producers.
The synopsis for the show, which will air on NBCUniversal pay-tv channels worldwide in 2019, is currently being kept under wraps. It is set to begin production in Berlin and Brandenburg in the fall. Casting is currently underway.
“Spides” is a co-production between Spides Production, Katapult Filmproduktion and Red Sun Films, in co-operation with Palatin Media, NBCUniversal, Nevision Ltd, Baby Giant Hollyberg and Aventin Filmproduktion. Palatin Media handles worldwide distribution.
In 2015 Medienboard launched a financing program aimed at high-end television series production, providing independent producers with much-needed financial support for ambitious new scripted shows,...
The eight-part show is based on an idea by German director Rainer Matsutani. Matsutani will serve as show-runner and a director on the series, as well as producing alongside Alexander Kiening. Bernd Schlötterer, Wolfgang Behr, James Cabourne and Peter Hume serve as executive producers.
The synopsis for the show, which will air on NBCUniversal pay-tv channels worldwide in 2019, is currently being kept under wraps. It is set to begin production in Berlin and Brandenburg in the fall. Casting is currently underway.
“Spides” is a co-production between Spides Production, Katapult Filmproduktion and Red Sun Films, in co-operation with Palatin Media, NBCUniversal, Nevision Ltd, Baby Giant Hollyberg and Aventin Filmproduktion. Palatin Media handles worldwide distribution.
In 2015 Medienboard launched a financing program aimed at high-end television series production, providing independent producers with much-needed financial support for ambitious new scripted shows,...
- 5/9/2018
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
This doesn’t hold a lot of promise. Variety reports that Andy Fickman has been hired to direct Over My Dead Body, a U.S. remake of the 1995 German comedy Nur über meine Leiche. The movie follows a womanizer who ends up in Hell after dying and strikes a deal with the Devil himself: if he can fix the broken hearts of three women whom he wronged while he was alive in three days, he will be allowed a second chance at life. TV writers Jeremy Miller and Dan Cohn (HBO’s Entourage, the ABC show That Was Then) have also been hired to pen the screenplay (the 1995 original was written by Rainer Matsutani and Sebastian Niemann).
While Over My Dead Body doesn’t have the worst (or most original) premise in the world, Flickman’s resume is insanely spotty (The Game Plan, She’s the Man, You Again, Race to Witch Mountain...
While Over My Dead Body doesn’t have the worst (or most original) premise in the world, Flickman’s resume is insanely spotty (The Game Plan, She’s the Man, You Again, Race to Witch Mountain...
- 4/25/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
It's amazing to me that every time we see a film from Germany, there's either gonna be Nazis involved somehow or some gratuitous usage of techno music. You read the headline ... what do you think this latest import is rife with?
Below you'll find your first look at 205: Room of Fear, or 205 Zimmer der Angst as its known in its homeland, from director Rainer Matsutani. The flick stars Jennifer Ulrich, Julia Dietze, Inez Björg David, Marleen Loose, Hans Uwe Bauer, and André Hennicke.
Click here to watch the trailer and start raving.
Synopsis
What happened in Room 205? Why has no one lived there for over a year? Katrin couldn't care less; the 19-year-old student has landed a room in the dorm, and that means freedom! Freedom from home and her over-protective father. The semester is just beginning, and it's time to make new friends, go to parties, have sex,...
Below you'll find your first look at 205: Room of Fear, or 205 Zimmer der Angst as its known in its homeland, from director Rainer Matsutani. The flick stars Jennifer Ulrich, Julia Dietze, Inez Björg David, Marleen Loose, Hans Uwe Bauer, and André Hennicke.
Click here to watch the trailer and start raving.
Synopsis
What happened in Room 205? Why has no one lived there for over a year? Katrin couldn't care less; the 19-year-old student has landed a room in the dorm, and that means freedom! Freedom from home and her over-protective father. The semester is just beginning, and it's time to make new friends, go to parties, have sex,...
- 11/18/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
If you click here you'll find the trailer for Rainer Matsutani's 205 Room of Fear (205 Zimmer der Angst), a new German horror film starring Jennifer Ulrich, Julia Dietze, Inez Björg David, Marleen Loose, Hans Uwe Bauer, André Hennicke. In addition, by clicking the above image you'll find several photos and the official sales art. "What happened in Room 205? Why has no one lived there for over a year? Katrin couldn't care less: the 19-year-old student has landed a room in the dorm, and that means freedom! Freedom from home and her over-protective father. The semester is just beginning, and it's time to make new friends, go to parties, have sex, and, of course, go to classes. Then, strange things happen in her room, and she begins to understand why no one wanted to move into Room 205 before her."...
- 11/18/2011
- bloody-disgusting.com
What happened in Room 205? Well director Rainer Matsutani is gonna tell us just that with new German horror '205: Room of Fear' (Aka '205 - Zimmer der Angst'). The movie, which is in fact a remake of 2007 Danish chiller 'Room 207' (Aka 'Kollegiet') from director Martin Barnewitz, has revealed new teaser art to appease us horror fans. Along with the new artwork you can check out a selection of images of the gorgeous German actress Jennifer Ulrich and of course the trailer from the dorm room horror below. Jennifer Ulrich (below), Julia Dietze, Andre Hennicke, Tino Mewes, Inez Bjorg David, Marleen Lohse, Florian Jahr, Daniel Roesner, Aaron Hong Le and Lucy Ella von Scheele all star in the German redo. You fine people can uncover the assets below....
- 11/18/2011
- Horror Asylum
We’ve just scared up some new teaser art for veteran German director Rainer Matsutani’s latest horror 205: Room of Fear (aka ‘205 - Zimmer der Angst’) and so far - from watching the trailer - we have to say its shaping up to look like being quite and effective little (With some splatter thrown in for good measure) chiller. Poster, trailers and other assorted goodies below. Synopsis: What happened in Room 205? Why has no one lived there for over a year? Katrin could care less: the 19-year-old student has landed a room in the dorm, and that means freedom! Freedom from home and her over-protective father. The semester is just beginning, and it’s time to make new friends, go to parties, have sex, and, of course, go to classes. When strange things happen in her room, and she begins to understand why no one wanted to move into Room 205 before her.
- 11/18/2011
- 24framespersecond.net
Berlin -- Regional German funding body Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg has announced 1.8 million euros ($2.7 million) in subsidies for a total of 15 projects, with Rainer Matsutani's "Rox!" and Detlev Buck's "Wohin Du auch gehst" getting 300,000 euros ($440,000) and 200,000 euros ($293,000), respectively.
"Rox!," to be produced by Munich's Sam Film, is a teenage gang drama set in Berlin, but takes a different approach than previous German efforts to portray youth violence, taking a path "more like 'The Outsiders,' " according to its director. The film marks Matsutani's return to cinematic features after several high-profile television movies.
"Wohin Du auch gehst" tells the supposedly true story of a young German who falls in love with an HIV-infected Cambodian bar girl. David Kross, who plays the lead in the upcoming "The Reader" opposite Kate Winslet, will star.
"Rox!," to be produced by Munich's Sam Film, is a teenage gang drama set in Berlin, but takes a different approach than previous German efforts to portray youth violence, taking a path "more like 'The Outsiders,' " according to its director. The film marks Matsutani's return to cinematic features after several high-profile television movies.
"Wohin Du auch gehst" tells the supposedly true story of a young German who falls in love with an HIV-infected Cambodian bar girl. David Kross, who plays the lead in the upcoming "The Reader" opposite Kate Winslet, will star.
- 9/22/2008
- by By Karsten Kastelan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Berlin -- The German Federal Film Board (Ffa) today earmarked 400,000 euros ($623,660) for Constantin Films' "Pandorum," a sci-fi/horror hybrid to be directed by Christian Alvert ("Antibodies").
The co-production with Impact Pictures was shopped around at last year's American Film Market and will reportedly star Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster.
Another 350,000 euros ($545,700) will go to Berlin-based Herbstfilm Produktion for the omnibus film "Deutschland 09," a collection of stories focused on the current political and social situation in Germany to be directed by a who-is-who of Germany's young directing elite. Participating helmers include Fatih Akin, Wolfgang Becker, Dominik Graf, Dany Levy, Hans Steinbichler and Tom Tykwer.
Altogether, the Ffa provided 2,925,000 euros ($4,560,500) in this funding round for 10 projects, which also included works by filmmakers Rainer Matsutani, Matti Geschonnek and Detlev Buck.
The co-production with Impact Pictures was shopped around at last year's American Film Market and will reportedly star Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster.
Another 350,000 euros ($545,700) will go to Berlin-based Herbstfilm Produktion for the omnibus film "Deutschland 09," a collection of stories focused on the current political and social situation in Germany to be directed by a who-is-who of Germany's young directing elite. Participating helmers include Fatih Akin, Wolfgang Becker, Dominik Graf, Dany Levy, Hans Steinbichler and Tom Tykwer.
Altogether, the Ffa provided 2,925,000 euros ($4,560,500) in this funding round for 10 projects, which also included works by filmmakers Rainer Matsutani, Matti Geschonnek and Detlev Buck.
- 7/30/2008
- by By Karsten Kastelan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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