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Notorious German Director Uwe Boll’s ‘First Shift’ Faces Claim Over Unfair Labor Practices
Uwe Boll, it seems, is back. The notorious German director of Rampage, Postal and Far Cry has wrapped production on his new film, First Shift, a New York cop drama set over an intense 12-hour shift of a veteran NYPD officer and his rookie partner. It is Boll’s first U.S. film in five years, since […]
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Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Will Have World Premiere in Cannes
Martin Scorsese’s hotly anticipated new feature, Killers of the Flower Moon, will have its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, organizers confirmed Friday. The Apple Originals movie, an epic about the serial murders of the members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse […]
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Berlinale Co-Head Mariëtte Rissenbeek to Step Down After 2024 Fest
Mariëtte Rissenbeek, the executive director of the Berlin International Film Festival, will step down after next year’s Berlinale. The German culture ministry, which finances the festival, announced Thursday that Rissenbeek will not be renewing her current contract, which expires in March 2024. German Culture Minister Claudia Roth said she accepted the resignation “with great regret” […]
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Potential Writers Strike Presents Disruption (and Opportunity) to Global Content Creators
If Hollywood writers go on strike — a possibility as we close in on the May 1 deadline without a new deal between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) — the impact will be felt far beyond New York and Los Angeles. Around the world, producers and distribution […]
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Germany’s Bertelsmann Hits Revenue Record, Halves Profit in 2022
German media giant Bertelsmann closed out 2022 on a high, with overall revenue hitting $21.9 billion (20.2 billion euro), the highest in the company’s history. But the group, which controls European TV conglomerate RTL Group and production subsidiary Fremantle, music division BMG and leading publisher Penguin Random House, saw its profits more than cut in […]
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Film Producer and Activist Mike Downey Receives Lifetime Achievement Honor in Iceland
Irish producer and film industry activist Mike Downey has received the inaugural lifetime achievement award of the Stockfish Film Festival in Iceland for his contributions to the international film industry. The award, presented at a private ceremony Wednesday night, recognizes achievement from professionals in the “academe, production, distribution, film festival and market scenes.” Downey, founder […]
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Canneseries: Sarah Michelle Gellar to Receive Icon Award
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joey Soloway and Morfydd Clark will be honored this year as part of Canneseries 2023, the French TV festival that runs alongside international television market MIPTV. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Wolf Pack star Gellar will receive this year’s Canal+ Icon Award for her life’s work. Clark, best known for playing Galadriel […]
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2023 Series Mania: Four Key Takeaways
National protests in France threatened to disrupt the 2023 Series Mania television festival and international industry summit, but, in the end, the 2023 event went off without a hitch. Members of the global TV industry gathered in the northern French city of Lille to celebrate the best in new small-screen drama and ponder the future […]
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‘Measures of Men’ Addresses Forgotten German Genocide in Africa
Director Lars Kraume knows a bit about the hidden corners of German history. His award-winning 2015 drama The People Vs. Fritz Bauer looked at the role played by the eponymous German Jewish state Attorney General in tracking down and bringing Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice. And his 2018 The Silent Revolution followed the true […]
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Oscar Winner ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Leads German Film Awards Nominations With 12
To no one’s surprise, Edward Berger’s epic WWI drama All Quiet on the Western Front is the front runner for this year’s German film awards. The Netflix feature, which picked up nine Oscar nominations and won four — both records for a German movie — received 12 nominations on Friday for Germany’s top cinema honor, […]
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Casey Bloys Would Have Taken “Another Two Seasons” of ‘Succession’
Casey Bloys would have taken another two seasons of Succession. Speaking at a packed final keynote session at the Series Mania festival in Lille on Thursday, the HBO and HBO Max chairman and CEO said the decision to finish Jesse Armstrong’s award-winning and critically acclaimed dramedy, about the trials and tribulations of the Logan family […]
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Portugal’s Tage Studios Promises to Be Europe’s First Entirely Green Shooting Facility
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). Just outside of Lisbon, plans are underway to build Europe’s, and maybe the world’s, first truly green film studio. The €200 million ($215 million) Tage Studios project, which is set to begin breaking ground near the town of Palmela, […]
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