David Wnendt, the German director behind controversial coming-of-age movie “Wetlands,” Hitler satire “Look Who’s Back” and teen crime drama “Sun and Concrete,” is once again pushing boundaries with his next feature film project.
Backed by distributor-producer Constantin Film and with Seven Elephants lead producing, Wnendt has embarked on the feature film adaptation of the award-winning novel “Athos 2643” by Nils Westerboer.
Wnendt, who will both write the screenplay and direct the theatrical film, promises an “emotional and spectacular experience that will take the audience into the vastness of outer space,” according to a press statement.
“Athos 2643” has been described as “‘The Name of the Rose’ in Space.” In the distant future, a mysterious crime unfolds on the lonely Neptune moon of Athos. An artificial intelligence responsible for life support is suspected of murder. An inquisitor specializing in artificial intelligence is sent to solve the case.
In addition to sci-fi elements, the...
Backed by distributor-producer Constantin Film and with Seven Elephants lead producing, Wnendt has embarked on the feature film adaptation of the award-winning novel “Athos 2643” by Nils Westerboer.
Wnendt, who will both write the screenplay and direct the theatrical film, promises an “emotional and spectacular experience that will take the audience into the vastness of outer space,” according to a press statement.
“Athos 2643” has been described as “‘The Name of the Rose’ in Space.” In the distant future, a mysterious crime unfolds on the lonely Neptune moon of Athos. An artificial intelligence responsible for life support is suspected of murder. An inquisitor specializing in artificial intelligence is sent to solve the case.
In addition to sci-fi elements, the...
- 5/2/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
German box-office takings in 2023 rose by almost 25% compared to the previous year, according to provisional figures collated by Comscore.
Ticket sales for the period from January 5, 2023 to January 3, 2024 totalled €859m, up 23.7% on the result for 2022, while total admissions increased year-on-year by 18.5% to 87.2m.
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When comparing the cinemas’ performance in 2023 to that before the pandemic, Comscore reported box-office takings were 11% below the level for 2019 and 20.7% fewer admissions were registered in the past year than in 2019.
Warner Bros’ Barbie was the year’s most successful release with a gross of €55.3m, closely followed by Universal Pictures’ The Super Mario Bros. Movie...
Ticket sales for the period from January 5, 2023 to January 3, 2024 totalled €859m, up 23.7% on the result for 2022, while total admissions increased year-on-year by 18.5% to 87.2m.
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When comparing the cinemas’ performance in 2023 to that before the pandemic, Comscore reported box-office takings were 11% below the level for 2019 and 20.7% fewer admissions were registered in the past year than in 2019.
Warner Bros’ Barbie was the year’s most successful release with a gross of €55.3m, closely followed by Universal Pictures’ The Super Mario Bros. Movie...
- 1/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
German movie theaters staged an impressive comeback in 2023, with ticket sales rising 18.5 percent and box office revenue jumping 23.7 percent compared with 2022, according to preliminary results by box office analysis firm Comscore.
The figures, which cover the period from Jan. 5, 2023 to Jan. 3, 2024 show a total of 87.2 million tickets sold in the territory for a total box office take of $940 million (859 million euros). That’s slightly below Gower Street’s box office estimate for Germany, which put the market at $1.01 billion for 2023. Germany’s Federal Film Board, the Ffa, will publish official figures in early February.
The bump can be partially attributed to inflation, but average ticket admission prices in Germany only ticked up 4.4 percent last year, well below the general inflation rate in the country.
Greta Gerwig’s pink powerhouse Barbie, which earned $60.6 million (55.3 million euros) in Germany, and James Cameron’s sci-fi sequel Avatar: The Way of Water, which grossed...
The figures, which cover the period from Jan. 5, 2023 to Jan. 3, 2024 show a total of 87.2 million tickets sold in the territory for a total box office take of $940 million (859 million euros). That’s slightly below Gower Street’s box office estimate for Germany, which put the market at $1.01 billion for 2023. Germany’s Federal Film Board, the Ffa, will publish official figures in early February.
The bump can be partially attributed to inflation, but average ticket admission prices in Germany only ticked up 4.4 percent last year, well below the general inflation rate in the country.
Greta Gerwig’s pink powerhouse Barbie, which earned $60.6 million (55.3 million euros) in Germany, and James Cameron’s sci-fi sequel Avatar: The Way of Water, which grossed...
- 1/4/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Takings rise 42% in first six months with The Super Mario Bros. Movie the most successful release during the period.
German cinemas took a total of €422.3m from 41.5m admissions in the first six months of 2023, according to provisional figures collated by Comscore.
The first half-year’s box office takings represent a huge 42.1% year-on-year increase on the same period for last year (2022) – and are almost back to the same level as for the first six months in 2019 before the pandemic
Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie was the most successful new release between January and the end of June with...
German cinemas took a total of €422.3m from 41.5m admissions in the first six months of 2023, according to provisional figures collated by Comscore.
The first half-year’s box office takings represent a huge 42.1% year-on-year increase on the same period for last year (2022) – and are almost back to the same level as for the first six months in 2019 before the pandemic
Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie was the most successful new release between January and the end of June with...
- 7/31/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
‘All Quiet’ leads the way with 12 nominations, followed by Ilker Catak’s The Teachers’ Lounge with seven.
Edward Berger’s Bafta and Oscar award-winner All Quiet On The Western Front has garnered 12 nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas), including for best feature film, best direction, best lead actor (Felix Kammerer), and best cinematography.
Ilker Catak’s The Teachers’ Lounge, which premiered in the Berlinale’s Panorama section last month, received seven nominations, including best feature film, best direction, best screenplay and best lead actress (Leonie Benesch), while Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider has received four nominations for best feature film,...
Edward Berger’s Bafta and Oscar award-winner All Quiet On The Western Front has garnered 12 nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas), including for best feature film, best direction, best lead actor (Felix Kammerer), and best cinematography.
Ilker Catak’s The Teachers’ Lounge, which premiered in the Berlinale’s Panorama section last month, received seven nominations, including best feature film, best direction, best screenplay and best lead actress (Leonie Benesch), while Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider has received four nominations for best feature film,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
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, known as the Lola.
The film, the first German-language adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque classic 1929 anti-war novel, is the clear favorite going into this year’s Lolas. In addition to the Oscar sweep — the film won best international feature, best cinematography, best production design, and best score at this year’s Academy Awards — All Quiet on the Western Front dominated the 2023 Baftas, taking seven trophies, including for best film and best director.
All Quiet was nominated in every Lola category it qualified for, including best film, best director for Berger, and best actor...
The film, the first German-language adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque classic 1929 anti-war novel, is the clear favorite going into this year’s Lolas. In addition to the Oscar sweep — the film won best international feature, best cinematography, best production design, and best score at this year’s Academy Awards — All Quiet on the Western Front dominated the 2023 Baftas, taking seven trophies, including for best film and best director.
All Quiet was nominated in every Lola category it qualified for, including best film, best director for Berger, and best actor...
- 3/24/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
German cinema looks set for a major boom this year with a strong lineup of diverse works that span historical dramas, coming-of-age tales, high-octane nostalgia, animation and sci-fi fun.
The Berlin Film Festival is bowing a muscular selection of local titles, among them “Afire,” by Berlinale mainstay Christian Petzold (“Undine”), screening in competition. The films centers on a group of young people staying at a holiday house near the Baltic Sea during a hot, dry summer, exploring volatile emotions that start to sizzle when a wildfire spreads through the surrounding forest.
Likewise vying for the Golden Bear is Margarethe von Trotta’s biopic “Ingeborg Bachmann: Journey Into the Desert,” starring Vicky Krieps (“Corsage”) as the radical Austrian author. The film examines her relationship with Swiss writer Max Frisch and her 1964 journey of self-discovery through the Egyptian desert.
“Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything,” by Emily Atef (“More Than Ever”) and...
The Berlin Film Festival is bowing a muscular selection of local titles, among them “Afire,” by Berlinale mainstay Christian Petzold (“Undine”), screening in competition. The films centers on a group of young people staying at a holiday house near the Baltic Sea during a hot, dry summer, exploring volatile emotions that start to sizzle when a wildfire spreads through the surrounding forest.
Likewise vying for the Golden Bear is Margarethe von Trotta’s biopic “Ingeborg Bachmann: Journey Into the Desert,” starring Vicky Krieps (“Corsage”) as the radical Austrian author. The film examines her relationship with Swiss writer Max Frisch and her 1964 journey of self-discovery through the Egyptian desert.
“Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything,” by Emily Atef (“More Than Ever”) and...
- 2/19/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Leading German producer and distributor is prepping an ambitious 2023 slate.
One of Germany’s leading production and distribution companies, Constantin Film is delivering one of its “most ambitious” slates of films and series this year, according to executive chairman Martin Moszkowicz.
They include Berlinale gala screening Sun And Concrete (Sonne Und Beton), directed by David Wnendt, which Constantin co-producers and distributes, and Paul W.S. Anderson’s fantasy adventure In The Lost Lands, starring Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista. Hagen, a big budget feature and six-part series based on the epic German Nibelungen saga, has also started shooting, and Constantin is...
One of Germany’s leading production and distribution companies, Constantin Film is delivering one of its “most ambitious” slates of films and series this year, according to executive chairman Martin Moszkowicz.
They include Berlinale gala screening Sun And Concrete (Sonne Und Beton), directed by David Wnendt, which Constantin co-producers and distributes, and Paul W.S. Anderson’s fantasy adventure In The Lost Lands, starring Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista. Hagen, a big budget feature and six-part series based on the epic German Nibelungen saga, has also started shooting, and Constantin is...
- 2/14/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
2023 truly begins taking shape with next month’s Berlinale, which will run from February 16 to February 26 and feature more than a few of our most-anticipated films this year. Among them are Christian Petzold’s Afire (Roter Himmel), starring new muse Paula Beer; Hong Sangsoo’s In Water, which will appear in the Encounters section; and Philippe Garrel’s The Plough, once known as La lune crevée starring his three children Louis, Esther, and Lena, and (judging from the still) his first color feature since 2011’s A Burning Hot Summer. Meanwhile: Angela Schanelec will return with Music, and––six years after the wonderful Person to Person––it’s nice spotting a new feature from Dustin Guy Defa, The Adults.
Find the lineup below and head back next month for our coverage of the festival headed by Kristen Stewart’s jury.
Competition
20,000 Species of Bees (Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren)
The Shadowless Tower (Zhang...
Find the lineup below and head back next month for our coverage of the festival headed by Kristen Stewart’s jury.
Competition
20,000 Species of Bees (Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren)
The Shadowless Tower (Zhang...
- 1/23/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
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