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Matt Brodlie and Jonathan Kier’s Upgrade Productions has signed up Mediawan and Leonine Studios co-pro exec Caroline Kusser to head up series. Kusser joins the fledgling LA shingle in the newly-created EVP, Head of Series post after spending less than a year with Mediawan and Leonine. Past employers…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon and German production and distribution force Constantin Film are teaming up on YA fantasy feature Silver (working title), based on the popular novel series of the same name by Kerstin Gier. Silver will chart the story of 17-year-old Liv who moves to London with her mother Ann and little sister Mia…

Industry vets Matt Brodlie and Jonathan Kier are joining forces to launch their own Los Angeles-based banner, Upgrade Productions, which will focus on international content. The company has backing from German major Constantin Film as well as a strategic partnership with Bron (more details to follow on the latter)…

Constantin Inks RTL Licensing Deal German mini-major Constantin Film has inked a multi-year licensing deal with local TV giant RTL that covers exclusive free-TV and streaming rights for all of Constantin's theatrical productions. The pact covers all of the producer’s in-house and co-productions that begin filming from…

Herbert G. Kloiber, former head of German distributor TMG, is teaming with Constantin Film to launch High End Productions, based in Vienna. The aim is for the new company to produce premium European fiction series for the international market under the guidance of MD Jonas Bauer. Bauer most recently worked at…

Belle and A United Kingdom filmmaker Amma Asante is set to direct Constantin’s latest drama series adaptation of Peter Höeg’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow. The series, which was already made into a 1997 feature from filmmaker Bille August and starring Julia Ormond, follows Smilla Jaspersen, whose investigation into the…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has made a key international hire: former Constantin exec Sasha Bühler is joining the streamer as Director of Original Film for Germany, France and Nordics. The hire was made by Netflix VP of International Original Film, David Kosse, whose team is overseeing international film production and…

Mackenzie Foy and Kate Winslet have been set to star in Black Beauty, the feature film update of the classic Anna Sewell novel that is being written and directed by Ashley Avis. Bolt Pictures and Constantin Film are teaming to produce the pic, which will mirror the events of the original 1877 book while bringing them…

EXCLUSIVE: Constantin Film is remaking the West Virginia cannibals movie Wrong Turn, a franchise which kicked off in 2003 with a theatrical release via Fox and spawned another five films, the last being in 2014. The franchise’s creator Alan McElroy has returned to pen the script, and Mike P. Nelson, who recently…

EXCLUSIVE: The year was 1994 and the Croisette was Roger Avary’s oyster. Not only did he have Pulp Fiction at the festival, the film he co-wrote with Quentin Tarantino which would go on to win the Palme d’Or, but he also made his feature directorial debut out of competition with the psychedelic heist pic Killing…

Voltage Pictures has come on board to co-finance and handle foreign sales on the Constantin Film/Don Carmody co-production Unwind, directed by Pulp Fiction Oscar winner Roger Avary.  He and his daughter Gala Avary also wrote the screenplay. Unwind is based on Neal Shusterman's award-winning novel, which imagines a…

With David Wnendt’s Adolf Hitler satire Look Who’s Back proving a box office phenomenon in Germany, Beta Cinema is taking on international sales ahead of AFM. The big-screen adaptation of Timur Vermes' bestselling novel that imagines the return of Hitler to modern-day Germany has garnered over 1 million admissions and…