German production companies Pantaleon Films and Carte Blanche Intl. are separately developing two series projects from writer Katja Eichinger that delve into the Hamburg underworld and the city’s unique high security prison.
Pantaleon, part of actor-director Matthias Schweighöfer’s Pantaflix Ag entertainment group, has optioned Eichinger’s “Santa Fu,” about life in Hamburg’s notorious Justizvollzugsanstalt Fuhlsbüttel prison, commonly known as Santa Fu. Making the facility particularly unique is the fact that it has the only prison soccer team in Germany that plays in a regional league.
Stephan Wagner and Alexander van Dülmen’s Carte Blanche Intl., meanwhile, are developing Eichinger’s screenplay adaptation of “King of Snow,” the memoir of former drug kingpin Ronald “Blacky” Miehling, who amassed unimaginable wealth in the early 1990s as Hamburg’s premiere coke dealer before losing it all and, coincidently, ending up in Fuhlsbüttel.
Actor-director and Hamburg native Moritz Bleibtreu is set...
Pantaleon, part of actor-director Matthias Schweighöfer’s Pantaflix Ag entertainment group, has optioned Eichinger’s “Santa Fu,” about life in Hamburg’s notorious Justizvollzugsanstalt Fuhlsbüttel prison, commonly known as Santa Fu. Making the facility particularly unique is the fact that it has the only prison soccer team in Germany that plays in a regional league.
Stephan Wagner and Alexander van Dülmen’s Carte Blanche Intl., meanwhile, are developing Eichinger’s screenplay adaptation of “King of Snow,” the memoir of former drug kingpin Ronald “Blacky” Miehling, who amassed unimaginable wealth in the early 1990s as Hamburg’s premiere coke dealer before losing it all and, coincidently, ending up in Fuhlsbüttel.
Actor-director and Hamburg native Moritz Bleibtreu is set...
- 3/26/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Roger Donaldson, whose long career in Hollywood has encompassed movies including The Bounty, Species, Cocktail, Dante’s Peak and The World’s Fastest Indian, is attached to direct the German-produced and Vietnam-set TV series Nhiem.
The show comes from local producers Carte blanche International, which is at this week’s European Film Market in Berlin with its feature film Merkel, about the German premier, which Paramount is releasing locally.
Heinrich Hadding, who wrote the 2009 feature Pope Joan, is penning the screenplay with David Wenham and John Goodman. The series will follow titular character Nhiem, a 19-year-old film student who is forced to leave his studies and join the Vietnam War, eventually becoming the Viet Cong’s documentary eye.
Producers are Carte Blanche International’s Alexander van Dülmen and Stephan Wagner. Director Donaldson and van Dülmen previously collaborated on The World’s Fastest Indian starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Diane Ladd.
Donaldson most...
The show comes from local producers Carte blanche International, which is at this week’s European Film Market in Berlin with its feature film Merkel, about the German premier, which Paramount is releasing locally.
Heinrich Hadding, who wrote the 2009 feature Pope Joan, is penning the screenplay with David Wenham and John Goodman. The series will follow titular character Nhiem, a 19-year-old film student who is forced to leave his studies and join the Vietnam War, eventually becoming the Viet Cong’s documentary eye.
Producers are Carte Blanche International’s Alexander van Dülmen and Stephan Wagner. Director Donaldson and van Dülmen previously collaborated on The World’s Fastest Indian starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Diane Ladd.
Donaldson most...
- 2/23/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The film takes in the German chancellor’s decision to keep borders open to refugees.
Paramount has picked up German theatrical rights to Merkel, setting a March 28, 2020 release date for the political thriller.
Producers Carte Blanche International announced the deal at the Efm, where Bavaria Media International is hosting initial screenings for worldwide buyers in other territories.
Stephan Wagner directs Florian Oeller’s script, adapted from Robin Alexander’s 2017 book The Driven Ones.
It charts the 60 days leading to German chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision in 2015 to keep German borders open to refugees. Requiem star Imogen Kogge plays Merkel.
Wagner...
Paramount has picked up German theatrical rights to Merkel, setting a March 28, 2020 release date for the political thriller.
Producers Carte Blanche International announced the deal at the Efm, where Bavaria Media International is hosting initial screenings for worldwide buyers in other territories.
Stephan Wagner directs Florian Oeller’s script, adapted from Robin Alexander’s 2017 book The Driven Ones.
It charts the 60 days leading to German chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision in 2015 to keep German borders open to refugees. Requiem star Imogen Kogge plays Merkel.
Wagner...
- 2/21/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Stefan Ruzowitzky, director of the Oscar-winning “The Counterfeiters,” and “The Grudge” screenwriter Stephen Susco have boarded “Alone,” a remake of the 2007 supernatural Thai thriller by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom.
The new film follows conjoined twin sisters from an Asian family in Boston whose loving relationship is tested when one of them befriends a boy, leading to her demand for a surgical separation from her sibling. During the operation, the forsaken sister dies. Years later, the deceased girl’s vengeful ghost returns to haunt her twin.
Former 20th Century Fox exec Paul Higginson and Alexander van Dülmen and Stephan Wagner of Berlin-based Carte Blanche Intl. are producing the film. Budgeted at between $5 million and $10 million, “Alone” is set for a targeted 2021 Stateside shoot on the East Coast as a U.S.-European co-production.
Van Dülmen said he was a big fan of the original film and also acquired distribution rights...
The new film follows conjoined twin sisters from an Asian family in Boston whose loving relationship is tested when one of them befriends a boy, leading to her demand for a surgical separation from her sibling. During the operation, the forsaken sister dies. Years later, the deceased girl’s vengeful ghost returns to haunt her twin.
Former 20th Century Fox exec Paul Higginson and Alexander van Dülmen and Stephan Wagner of Berlin-based Carte Blanche Intl. are producing the film. Budgeted at between $5 million and $10 million, “Alone” is set for a targeted 2021 Stateside shoot on the East Coast as a U.S.-European co-production.
Van Dülmen said he was a big fan of the original film and also acquired distribution rights...
- 2/20/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The German director has been working on a TV film starring actress Imogen Kogge in the role of the Chancellor. Stephan Wagner’s Merkel has just wrapped principal photography. The German filmmaker has been particularly active in the television industry since the mid-1990s, and has been involved in the direction, production and writing of many successful shows, such as Tatort (2011-2019), Am Ruder (2017) and Polizeiruf 110 (2008-2009). His new project intended for the small screen is a drama set during the summer of 2015 and focused on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to open the German borders to nearly one million Syrian refugees. The move was welcomed by many but has been strongly criticised by extreme-right parties, inevitably undermining her leadership and affecting the political future of the European Union. The script, penned in its entirety by Florian Oeller, is based on The Driven Ones, a best-selling book written by journalist.
German theater star Imogen Kogge will play the most powerful woman in the world in an upcoming film about German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Kogge is starring in Merkel, a drama focused on the German leader and her decision, during the summer of 2015, to open Germany's borders to nearly a million Syrian refugees.
Stephan Wagner is directing the film, which has just wrapped principal photography. Carte Blanche International is producing Merkel together with German public broadcasters Rbb and Ndr.
Merkel is based on the Die Getriebenen (The Driven), a best-seller from German journalist Robin Alexander, and follows the most monumental decision in ...
Kogge is starring in Merkel, a drama focused on the German leader and her decision, during the summer of 2015, to open Germany's borders to nearly a million Syrian refugees.
Stephan Wagner is directing the film, which has just wrapped principal photography. Carte Blanche International is producing Merkel together with German public broadcasters Rbb and Ndr.
Merkel is based on the Die Getriebenen (The Driven), a best-seller from German journalist Robin Alexander, and follows the most monumental decision in ...
- 7/10/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Carte Blanche International (Cbi) the new production group set up by German industry veterans Alexander van Dulmen and Stephan Wagner, has secured the film and TV rights for Die Getriebenen, a non-fiction bestseller by German journalist Robin Alexander, which traces the political decisions made by German leader Angela Merkel during the 2015 refugee crisis.
Carte Blanche is looking to adapt the book, whose title roughly translates as “The Driven” both as a German mini-series and as international feature film, focusing on the crucial periods in Merkel's life. When millions of refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria began to flood...
Carte Blanche is looking to adapt the book, whose title roughly translates as “The Driven” both as a German mini-series and as international feature film, focusing on the crucial periods in Merkel's life. When millions of refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria began to flood...
- 2/16/2018
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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