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Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Magnolia Entertainment has signed German actress Harriet Herbig-Matten for management.

Herbig-Matten recently rose to international fame with her starring role in Maxton Hall, Prime Video’s series adaptation of the hit novel from Mona Kasten, which in May “achieved the largest first-week global viewership for an International Original in Prime Video history,” per the streamer, and was quickly renewed for a second season.

In the show from Germany’s UFA Fiction, which occupied the #1 spot of the Prime Video charts in more than 120 countries and territories, the actress plays Ruby, who unwittingly witnesses an explosive secret at her private school Maxton Hall. The arrogant millionaire heir James Beaufort (Damian Hardung) then has to deal with the quick-witted scholarship student, for better or worse. From that point on, he tries to buy Ruby’s silence, and they soon risk everything to be together.

Since the release of Maxton Hall,...

After kicking off with a feisty press conference, the Berlin Film Festival got even more political as three groups of protesters descended on Potsdamer Platz before the start of opening night festivities.

The first saw around 50 members of the film industry walk the red carpet holding hands. The demonstrators then turned on their phone flashlights and chanted “defend democracy!” while the same phrase was displayed on the Palast’s big screen. The red carpet’s music was turned off for the occasion, and the demonstrators wore pins stating “movies unite, hate divides.” Berlinale organizers had planned this demonstration to highlight their decision to disinvite members of the far-right political party AfD.

Among the talent was Jonathan Berlin, Meret Becker, Luisa Gaffron, Pegah Ferydoni, Roshanak Khodabakhsh Anne Leppin, Jannis Niewöhner, Murali Perumal, Katja Riemann, Lavinia Wilson and Jessica Schwarz.

A group of demonstrators at Berlin Film Festival chant “defend democracy” ahead of tonight’s opening ceremony.

Sky have released first look images for a new Sky Original drama, “Unwanted.”

Inspired by the book “Bilal,” an investigative book from journalist Fabrizio Gatti, the eight-part series tells the story of an undercover human rights defender who is helping migrants journey from Africa to Europe as they battle human traffickers and government officials.

Stefano Bises (“Gomorrah”) created and wrote the series in collaboration with with the collaboration of Alessandro Valenti, Bernardo Pellegrini and Michela Straniero. It has just gone into production in Milan, Italy. Marco Bocci (“Fino all’ultimo battito”), pictured above, Jessica Schwarz (“Romy”) and Dada Fungula Bozela (“Snabba Cash”) star alongside Sylvester Groth (“Inglourious Basterds”) and Scot Williams (“Memory”).

They are joined by Hassan Najib, Jonathan Berlin, Jason Derek Prempeh, Cecilia Dazzi, Francesco Acquaroli, Barbara Auer, Marco Palvetti, Denise Capezza, Nuala Peberdy, Samuel Kalambay, Amadou Mbow, Edward Apeagyei, Reshny N’Kouka, Onyinye Odokoro and Massimo De Lorenzo.

The characters of Biohackers are faced with such mystery in situations that are larger than anything they could’ve imagined, that they play God in their own journey of synthetic science. Big stuff.

This six-part German Netflix series is everything but what you would expect of a European sci-fi thriller. Created by Christian Ditter, instead of moving from planet to planet in an unbelievable this-will-never-happen flurry, Biohackers is a fast-paced thriller that touches on lust and young relationships, as well as heartbreak and loss, and it’s the better for it.

The show keeps the topic of modern science at its core, in a way attractive enough to keep even those disinterested with topics of biology engaged. By casting talented, young and diverse actors in the lead roles, Ditter creates a symphony of humour, gripping drama and romance.

Scene one of the first episode opens with a young seem-to-be couple on a train.

Exclusive: Biohackers, the latest buzzy Netflix original series out of Germany, has been renewed after a positive response to Season 1.

The show debuted on the platform globally August 20. It tells a story of revolutionary biohacking technology and intrigue at a German university, focusing on a mysterious student played by Luna Wedler.

Filming will start on Season 2 in the coming months in Freiburg and Munich.

Biohackers was created by Christian Ditter, who serves as showrunner, director and writer. Ditter is a German filmmaker who is established in the U.S. after helming the Dakota Johnson and Rebel Wilson romcom How To Be Single and the Lily Collins and Sam Claflin romance Love, Rosie, as well as the American Netflix series Girlboss.

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“It’s great that Biohackers will continue. Thematically, the second season will also deal with moral and ethical issues around biohacking and genome editing,...

Despite a good premise, the series fails to provide a coherent narrative and may leave viewers puzzled. Some might hope that Biohackers, the new TV series released on Netflix on 20 August, could be another unmissable German production building on the success of Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese’s Dark. Unfortunately, the six-part show, co-directed by Christian Ditter and Tim Trachte and written by Ditter himself with Nikolaus Schulz-Dornburg, Tanja Bubbel and Johanna Thalmann, offers an interesting premise but is far from fulfilling expectations. This sci-fi thriller revolves around a girl called Mia Akerlund (Luna Wedler) who enrols in Freiburg University’s prestigious medical school in order to get close to professor and visionary scientist Tanja Lorenz (Jessica Schwarz). Mia suspects that Lorenz was involved in the tragic death of her family years ago, and throws herself into a dangerous world where human...

The German TV series "Biohackers", following the rivalry of a medical student and a professor, stars Luna Wedler, Jessica Schwarz, Adrian Julius Tillmann, Caro Cult, Thomas Prenn, Sebastian Jakob Doppelbauer, Benno Fürmann and Jing Xiang, streaming August 20, 2020 on Netflix:

"...from 'Thc' chips to genetic enhancements, welcome to the world of 'Biohacking'. When 'Mia' (Wedler) begins her medical degree, she seems like any other student. But when she gains the trust of the brilliant Professor Lorenz (Schwarz), it becomes apparent that she's hiding a secret so big it could change the fate of humanity..."

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One aspect of Netflix that often goes unsung is the way it brings foreign TV shows to the US. This has resulted in some particularly cool television from Europe jumping the pond, including chillers like Marianne, Curon and Dark. Now, a new show looks set to join their ranks: Biohackers, a German production that explores the murky waters of biohacking, aka genetic experimentation.

Set in Freiberg, Germany, we follow medical student Mia Akerlund (Luna Wedler) as she immerses herself deep into the world of experimental genetic experiments. As she does, she investigates her brother’s mysterious death, which seems to be linked to the work of a top lecturer at the university. What follows looks like a pretty cool thriller, as Akerlund begins with custom-designed glow-in-the-dark mice and ends with hints of much more sinister DNA tinkering in later episodes.

Netflix describes it as so:

“From Thc chips to genetic enhancements,...

“Dark” creators Baran bo Odar (left) and Jantje Friese (right), “Berlin Station” actress Emilia Schuele and actor Nikolai Kinski, and Michael Mueller, Mayor of Berlin, were among the guests at the Studio Babelsberg Night Friday at Berlin’s Soho House. Hosting the event were Studio Babelsberg’s president and CEO, Charlie Woebcken, and its COO, Christoph Fisser. Canada Goose was event partner.

Speaking about Babelsberg’s year ahead, Fisser said: “We are in talks for several international and German productions, including feature films and high-end drama series, like the third season of Netflix’s ‘Dark.'”

He added: “We hope that Germany’s film production support system will continue to improve in order to meet the demands of a variety of productions.”

Other guests included actresses Franka Potente, Lea van Acken, Antje Traue, Claudia Michelsen, Iris Berben, Heike Makatsch, Nora von Waldstaetten, Christiane Paul and Jessica Schwarz.

The actors present included Mark Waschke,...

In today’s roundup, “Luke Cage” Season 2 released a trailer and TBS renews animated comedy “Final Space”

Casting

Osy Ikhile has been cast as a series regular on the upcoming Amazon series “The Feed,” Variety has learned exclusively. Ikhile’s past credits include the critically-acclaimed “Black Mirror” episode “USS Callister” and the mini-series “Childhood’s End.” He has also appeared in films like “The Legend of Tarzan” and “In the Heart of the Sea.” He is repped by Thruline Entertainment and the Curtis Brown Group.

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HBO will premiere the documentary “Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram” in fall 2018. The documentary follows the stories of 276 Nigerian school girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist insurgent movement, in 2014 from a school in Chibok, Northern Nigeria and hidden in the Sambisa forest for three years. The announcement comes on Monday, the one-year anniversary of 82 of the girls’ releases.

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Global Screen is to handle international sales on a reboot of the successful German Hanni & Nanni franchise based on Enid Blyton’s classic St Clare’s book series.

The latest adventures of the twins Hanni and Nanni Sullivan at the boarding school Lindenhof have been co-written by Katrin Milhahn and Antonia Rothe-Liermann, who previously collaborated on children’s film Ente gut! Mädchen allein zu Haus.

The $5.2m (€4.6m) German language production by Ufa Fiction with Hermann Florin’s Feine Filme, which will be distributed theatrically in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by Universal Pictures International, is being directed by Babelsberg Film University graduate Isabelle Suba, who made her feature debut in 2014 with the satire Men Show Films and Women Their Breasts.

“It has been our policy on the Hanni & Nanni films to give newcomers an opportunity to direct these films,” Florin explained. “That’s why we had Christine Hartmann for the first film, Julia von Heinz for the...

Rotterdam this year has offered one certifiable giant discovery in international cinema: German filmmaker Dominik Graf, revealed in a simultaneously introductory and interventionist retrospective programmed by Christoph Huber and Olaf Möller. An incredibly prolific filmmaker beginning in the late 1970s, Graf has interwoven his cinema into the fabric of the German television industry, producing a body of work ranging from television episodes, made-for-tv films, essay movies, documentaries, and a handful of films intended for the cinema.

Yet despite Graf's prodigious output of nearly sixty works, its primarily creation for national television has meant that it has been essentially unavailable to English-speaking audiences prior to Rotterdam's 17 film retrospective. The first film of his I saw was Komm mir nicht nach (Don't Follow Me Around) in the middle of the Dreileben trilogy in 2010, notably another for-television project, but one which had festival and theatrical ambitions beyond German living rooms, perhaps due...

Tribeca picks up Ian FitzGibbon's Death of a Superhero, starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Andy Serkis North American rights have gone to Tribeca Films for the live action/animated film which tells of a teen cartoonist battling cancer, reports Variety. Also in the cast of the film which made its premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival are Jessica Schwarz and Aisling Loftus. Tribeca wants to release the film adapted by Anthony McCarten, from his own novel, in theaters and VOD sometime next year. Philipp Kreuzer, Astrid Kahmke and Michael Garland produce the Bavaria Pictures and Grand Pictures movie.

Tribeca picks up Ian FitzGibbon's Death of a Superhero, starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Andy Serkis North American rights have gone to Tribeca Films for the live action/animated film which tells of a teen cartoonist battling cancer, reports Variety. Also in the cast of the film which made its premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival are Jessica Schwarz and Aisling Loftus. Tribeca wants to release the film adapted by Anthony McCarten, from his own novel, in theaters and VOD sometime next year. Philipp Kreuzer, Astrid Kahmke and Michael Garland produce the Bavaria Pictures and Grand Pictures movie.

Tribeca Film has acquired U.S. rights to "Death of a Superhero," which premiered at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, the company said Monday. Andy Serkis, who received strong reviews for his work in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," stars in the film, which includes animated sequences. The movie also stars Thomas Brodie-Sangster ("Love Actually"), Jessica Schwarz ("Perfume") and Aisling Loftus ("Oranges and Sunshine"). Ian FitzGibbon ("A Film With Me In It") directed the movie, based on the novel by Anthony McCarten, who also wrote the screenplay. The movie is about Donald,...

Critics are heaping praise on Irish productions following premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival. Ian Fitzgibbon's 'Death of a Superhero' had its world premiere at this year's Tiff and critics are giving rave reviews of the Irish feature. Variety lauded the Irish/German co-production saying that “Fitzgibbon has achieved something special…the pic's general appeal will lie in its honest and touching performances.” Cast in the feature include Andy Serkis (TinTin, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy), Thomas Brodie Sangster (Nowhere Boy), Aisling Loftus (Dice), Jessica Schwarz (Perfume) and Michael McElhatton (Parked, Happy Ever Afters).

Something For Everyone As Love Stories, Psychological Chillers, Political Thrillers, Comedies And An Autobiography Join The Festival.S Galas And Special Presentations Lineup

Toronto . The Toronto International Film Festival® announces the addition of 8 Galas and 17 Special Presentations to the high-calibre selection of crowd-pleasers premiering in September. Today.s announcement includes 14 World Premieres and reveals that Festival-goers will be treated to a programming lineup featuring world premieres from directors including Nick Murphy, Gary McKendry, Joel Schumacher, Gianni Amelio, Agnieszka Holland, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Pankaj Kapur, Anne Fontaine, Mathieu Kassovitz and Geoffrey Fletcher.

The films unveiled today feature onscreen appearances by Jason Statham, Robert De Niro, Clive Owen, Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Imelda Staunton, Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Deneuve, Shahid Kapur, Isabelle Huppert, Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel and James Gandolfini, among others.

This announcement brings the final number of Galas to 20, and the final number of Special...

As noted in the Visions lineup announcement, the Toronto International Film Festival (September 9 through 18) has released some of its most anticipated lineups today: Wavelengths, Contemporary World Cinema, Future Projections — and here, Galas and Special Presentations. We're taking them one at a time, first posting them program by program with descriptions provided by the festival — and then returning over the coming hours and days to add links and further notes.

Galas

Marc Forster's Machine Gun Preacher, an inspirational true story, about Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the saviour of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children. Gerard Butler (300) delivers a searing performance as Childers in Golden Globe®-nominated director Marc Forster's (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) moving story of violence and redemption. Machine Gun Preacher was previously announced as a Special Presentation.

David Hare's Page Eight. Tiff's Closing Night Film.

Rebecca Hall in The Awakening I may sound like a spoiled brat when I say this, but the fact neither Carnage or Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy were part of this morning's Toronto Film Festival announcement sort of bums me out. However, there are other films that were added that do make my ears perk up, none more so than the addition of Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress as well as a couple of films I didn't expect and some I had never heard of.

To begin, the closing night film which I guess will serves as something of a Tinker, Tailor replacement, David Hare's (screenwriter of The Hours and The Reader) Page Eight starring Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon, Ralph Fiennes and Judy Davis. The film tells the story of Johnny Worricker (Nighy), an MI5 agent who has learned to keep his observational skills perpetually operational. However,...

Tiff has just announced the final batch of films slated to hit the fest in September. The number of additions is overwhelming especially found in the completed Gala and Special Presentation lineups.

Some films that really stick out in my opinion are Rebellion by Mathieu Kassovitz who directed one of my favourite films of all time La Haine and Sleeping Beauty by Julia Leigh. Here is the press release.

Toronto – The Toronto International Film Festival® announces the addition of 8 Galas and 17 Special Presentations to the high-calibre selection of crowd-pleasers premiering in September. Today’s announcement includes 14 World Premieres and reveals that Festival-goers will be treated to a programming lineup featuring world premieres from directors including Nick Murphy, Gary McKendry, Joel Schumacher, Gianni Amelio, Agnieszka Holland, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Pankaj Kapur, Anne Fontaine, Mathieu Kassovitz and Geoffrey Fletcher.

The films unveiled today feature onscreen appearances by Jason Statham, Robert De Niro,...

After three separate announcements (here, here and here), the Toronto International Film Festival has announced the final line-up for their Galas and Special Presentations, as well as a few other categories. Most notable is Andrea Arnold‘s Fish Tank follow-up Wuthering Heights, the next film from Timecrimes director Nacho Vigalondo, as well as Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Alps.

We also get Whit Stillman‘s Damsels in Distress starring Greta Gerwig and Geoffrey Fletcher’s Violet & Daisy starring Saoirse Ronan and James Gandolfini. In what should be a little fun we have Gary McKendry‘s Killer Elite starring Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Jason Statham. We also get Owen’s horror flick Intruders and Joel Schumacher‘s Trespass starring Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage. Check out the full line-ups below.

Galas

Closing Night Film

Page Eight David Hare, United Kingdom

International Premiere

Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving M15 officer.

By Sean O’Connell

Hollywoodnews.com: The Toronto International Film Festival continued to fill out its slate Tuesday morning with multiple announcements of movies scheduled to screen in the Galas, Special Presentations, Contemporary World Cinema, Future Projections, and Visions programs.

As expected, the names of the talents we’re expecting to see on screen shine bright.

Tiff ’11 officially revealed that David Hare’s “Page Eight” will close the fest with a Roy Thompson gala. The spy thriller, which also plays the Edinburgh International Film Festival, stars Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon, Ralph Fiennes and Judy Davis.

Other galas announced for this year’s Tiff include:

The Awakening

Nick Murphy, United Kingdom (World Premiere)

Haunted by the death of her fiancé, Florence Cathcart is on a mission to expose all séances as exploitative shams. However, when she is called to a boys’ boarding school to investigate a case of the uncanny,...

The Door, directed by Anno Saul, is an inventive genre piece blending sci-fi, horror and magic realism.

Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) stars as an artist whose young daughter drowns in a garden swimming pool while he’s busy screwing a next door neighbour.

Crippled by guilt and remorse, he attempts to commit suicide only to be saved by his close friend Max. While escaping from a bar where his friend has taken him for a drink David stumbles across a mysterious door leading through a tunnel into an alternate reality. Then things get really messed up.

Suddenly realising where he, David saves his daughter from her imminent death while his 'other self' is busy shagging said next door neighbour. Upon the other's return David murders him and takes over as man of the house. His daughter immediately senses something’s wrong and others note the change while seeing nothing really out of place.

Based on the bestselling novel Die Damalstuer by Akif Pirincci (Germany’s equivalent of Stephen King) The Door follows successful artist David Andernach (Mads Mikkelsen) who seemingly has the perfect life; he has a beautiful wife and child and lives in a large home in an affluent suburb. However one day when he’s meant to be looking after his daughter Leonie (Veleria Eisenbart) whilst his wife Maja (Jessica Schwarz) is working; he decides to pay a visit to his neighbour and mistress Gia (Heike Makatsch) instead of taking his daughter out into the forest to catch butterflies. When he returns he finds that Leonie is nowhere to be seen and soon discovers that she has drowned in their pool.

Cut to five years later and we see David as a broken man who’s desperate for forgiveness from Maja, who he is now divorced from, and unable to paint.

The Door / Die Tür

Director: Anno Saul

Written by Anno Saul

2009, Germany

Glowering Danish sex god Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) comes face to face with himself in director Anno Saul’s German fantasy thriller, The Door. It’s one of many head-scratching moments in a film that flirts with different genres and ideas, from time-travel, horror and homicidal doppelgangers to old-fashioned redemptive drama. Narrative coherence isn’t its strong point, but The Door does deliver some genuinely heart-stopping moments.

Artist David Andernach (Mikkelsen), leaves his young daughter Leonie (Valeria Eisenbart) alone in the garden of their suburban house so he can visit his mistress. His afternoon delight turns into a nightmare, when he returns to find the girl drowned in the swimming pool. Five years pass, and a clumsily scripted scene reveals that David is now divorced from his wife Maja (Jessica Schwarz) and in a suicidal state. Then a...

Principal photography commences today, October 5th, on the German-Irish coproduction 'Superhero' in Dublin. Andy Serkis (TinTin, The Lord of the Rings trilogy) heads up the feature which is directed by Ian FitzGibbon (Perrier's Bounty), and written by Anthony McCarten. The film's other cast members include Thomas Brodie Sangster (Love Actually, Nowhere Boy), Aisling Loftus (Dive), Jessica Schwarz (Perfume, Off Beat) and Irish actor Michael McElhatton (Parked, Happy Ever Afters).

Zurich -- Yildiz Ozcan will take over as head of German production outfit Wuste Film Ost in October, replacing Sabine Holtgreve.

Her first feature in the new position will be "Dunkel" (Dark) -- a German thriller starring Katharina Thalbach, Mina Tander and Clemens Schick. First-timer Alex Schmidt will direct, with principle photography set to start in November.

Wuste Film Ost is the Potsdam-based satellite division of Hamburg's Wuste Film, whose credits include Fatih Akin's "Head-On," Danish World War II epic "Flame and Citron" (as co-producers) and Anno Saul's sci-fi thriller "The Door" starring Mads Mikkelsen and Jessica Schwarz.

Shanghai--Spanish TV movie "The Voice of the Pamano," won China's biggest small screen award Friday night at the closing night of the 16th Shanghai Television Festival.

In an awards ceremony Friday night hosted by festival organizers the Shanghai Media Group, the golden Magnolia Award for Best TV Film went to the Spanish drama depicting a schoolteacher uncovering the truth about the WWII era political conflict a small Pyrenees village.

The drama, produced by Televisio de Catalunya, Diagonal TV and Mallerich Films Paco Poch, also won the Magnolia award for Best Screenplay, honoring writers Xesc Barcelo and Eduard Cortes.

The Magnolia award for Best TV director went to Torsten Fischer of Germany of for his biopic of the late Austrian-born German actress Romy Schneider, played in "Romy," by actress Jessica Schwarz. The film is a production of the Phoenix Film in coproduction with Swr, Ard Degeto, Wdr, Ndr, Orf and France...

Bavaria Pictures will produce“Superhero,” a fantasy drama which is based on “Death of a Superhero,” the bestselling novel by New Zealand author and filmmaker Anthony McCarten. Freddie Highmore and Jessica Schwarz are attached to star in the McCarten helmed and written story of a teen comicbook artist who suffers from leukemia and finds escape from his life via his illustrated adventures. Here, the indestructible 'Miracle Man' battles a mad scientist called 'The Glove.' McCarten’s novel won the the Austrian Youth Literature Prize last year. Highmore was last seen in "The Spiderwick Chronicles" and has finished two follow-up films to Luc Besson's "Arthur and the Invisibles" in "Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard" and "Arthur and the Two Worlds War."...

A new fantasy drama film based on the bestselling novel by Anthony McCarten is set to hit theaters with Bavaria Pictures.

"Superhero," based on the New Zealand author's award-winning novel "Death of a Superhero," will be budgeted from million to million. McCarten will direct from his own script.

The story will center on a teenage comicbook artist suffering from leukemia who finds escape from the harsh realities of life in his illustrated adventures, wherein the indestructible Miracle Man fights his arch-nemesis, a mad scientist known as the Glove.

As per Variety, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" star Freddie Highmore and German actress Jessica Schwarz will be starring in the project.

Bavaria Pictures will produce“Superhero,” a fantasy drama which is based on “Death of a Superhero,” the bestselling novel by New Zealand author and filmmaker Anthony McCarten. Freddie Highmore and Jessica Schwarz are attached to star in the McCarten helmed and written story of a teen comicbook artist who suffers from leukemia and finds escape from his life via his illustrated adventures. Here, the indestructible 'Miracle Man' battles a mad scientist called 'The Glove.' McCarten’s novel won the the Austrian Youth Literature Prize last year....

Bavaria Pictures will produce“Superhero,” a fantasy drama which is based on “Death of a Superhero,” the bestselling novel by New Zealand author and filmmaker Anthony McCarten. Freddie Highmore and Jessica Schwarz are attached to star in the McCarten helmed and written story of a teen comicbook artist who suffers from leukemia and finds escape from his life via his illustrated adventures. Here, the indestructible 'Miracle Man' battles a mad scientist called 'The Glove.' McCarten’s novel won the the Austrian Youth Literature Prize last year....

Cologne, Germany -- Anja Uecker has taken over as managing director of Cinepool, the theatrical division of German sales giant Telepool. She will work closely with Irina Ignatiew, who heads up Telepool’s international TV sales operation.

Uecker will be part of the team Telepool takes to the European Film Market in Berlin next month, where it will be pushing its new slate, which includes Marleen Gorris’ “Within the Whirlwind” starring Emily Watson and mystery thriller “The Door’ from director Anno Saul featuring Mads Mikkelsen and Jessica Schwarz.