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Kurz vor Weihnachten kommt Sönke Wortmanns „Der Spitzname“ in die deutschen Kinos. Auf dem Zurich Film Festival wurde gestern Weltpremiere gefeiert. Gleichzeitig wurde auch ein neuer Trailer veröffentlicht.

Regisseur Sönke Wortmann (re.) mit den Hauptdarstellern von „Der Spitzname“, Christoph Maria Herbst, Janina Uhse, Caroline Peters und Iris Berben (v.l.n.r.) bei der Weltpremiere auf dem Zurich Film Festival (Credit: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for Zff)

Auf dem Zurich Film Festival feierte gestern Abend Sönke Wortmanns „Der Spitzname“ (hier unsere Spot-Besprechung) seine Weltpremiere. Neben dem Regisseur freuten sich der Vorstandsvorsitzende der Constantin Film Ag, Oliver Berben, Constantin-Vorstand Martin Bachmann, die Produzenten Tom Spieß und Christoph Müller, Ko-Produzent Jakob Pochlatko sowie die Hauptdarsteller Iris Berben, Christoph Maria Herbst, Caroline Peters und Janina Uhse über den Applaus des Premierenpublikums.

In dem Nachfolger von „Der Vorname“ und „Der Nachname“ haben Anna (Janina Uhse) und Thomas (Florian David Fitz), die heiraten wollen,...

Zurich Film Festival (October 3-13) has added 11 titles to its line-up of gala premieres, including world premieres of Der Spitzname and Landesverräter.

Der Spitzname is a German comedy directed by Sönke Wortmann, who has previously premiered at Zurich with Family Affairs, Contra and How About Adolf? Janina Uhse and Florian David Fitz play a couple who invite their family to the Alps ahead of their impending wedding, only for familial bonds to quickly unravel.

Michael Krummenacher’s Swiss-German co-production Landesverräter will also world premiere. Set during the Second World War and based on a true story, a wannabe singer sells...

The Zurich Film Festival (Zff) has unveiled the eleven titles set to screen as part of its Gala programme during its upcoming 20th edition, running October 3 – 13.

The selection features Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winning feature Anora, starring Mikey Madison, Paul Weissman, and Lindsey Normington. Also screening is Steve McQueen’s Blitz. The film is set to open the London Film Festival and stars Saoirse Ronan, Elliot Heffernan, Harris Dickinson and Paul Weller.

The selection also features German filmmaker Edward Berger’s latest feature Conclave. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow. The official synopsis reads: Following the death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence (Fiennes) is tasked with leading the search for a new Pope in the far corners of the Vatican. Lawrence quickly finds himself at the center of a conspiracy, as the cardinals forge factions and foster rivalries to serve their own ambitions. As the political scheming intensifies,...

Pünktlich zu den Filmtagen KÖLN hat Constantin Film den ersten Trailer von Sönke Wortmanns Komödie „Der Spitzname“ veröffentlicht, der die Nachfolge von „Der Vorname“ und „Der Nachname“ antritt und das komplette Ensemble wiedervereint.

Aller guten Dinge… Sie wissen Bescheid! Nach den Erfolgen von „Der Vorname“ und „Der Nachname“ (860.000 Tickets) legt Sönke Wortmann mit „Der Spitzname“ nun einen dritten Teil des anhaltenden Vergnügens vor, in dem sich der Sensationscast um Christoph Maria Herbst, Janina Uhse, Florian David Fitz, Caroline Peters, Iris Berben und Justus von Dohnányi einmal mehr geschliffene Wortgefechte leifern, die diesmal eine geplante Traumhochzeit ins Wanken zu bringen drohen. Der Starttermin am 19. Dezember ist wohlgewählt, aber jetzt kann man sich pünktlich zu den Filmtagen KÖLN erst einmal über den allerersten Trailer freuen.

Aller guten Dinge sind Drei: „Der Spitzname“ von Sönke Wortmann (Credit: Constantin Film)

In der Startmeldung des Verleihs findet sich auch ein erster Inhalt:

Inhalt: Anna (Janina...

“Blame the Game” is a Netflix romantic comedy starring Janina Uhse, Dennis Mojen, Stephan Luca, Taneshia Abt and Edin Hasanović. It is directed by Marco Petry.

Blame the Game

“Blame the Game” is a classic comedic film on Netflix, reminiscent in style to the refined Hollywood classics of Ernst Lubitsch or Frank Capra. This refined and elegant comedy adopts a traditional farcical formula, with most of the action happening on one stage and spanning a single night.

This film, with its simple script and straightforward characters, is sure to entertain those who appreciate a retro-style comedy imbued with a modern narrative thread. Although not uproariously funny, it certainly aims to appeal more to a family audience rather than those seeking outlandish situations.

Plot Overview

The story revolves around a man named Jan who meets a woman named Pia. One night, Jan finds himself thrust into Pia’s circle of friends,...

Am 12. Juli starten Janina Uhse, Edin Hasanovic, Anna Maria Mühe oder Axel Stein einen besonderen „Spieleabend“ auf Netflix. Zur W&b Television Produktion gibt es jetzt den Trailer.

Pia (Janina Uhse) und Jan (Dennis Mojen) hat es so richtig erwischt: Die frisch Verliebten befinden sich in Phase 1 ihrer Beziehung und verbringen keine freie Minute ohne einander. Ein Spieleabend mit Pias Freund:innen soll das Liebesglück auch nach außen bekräftigen. Was als fröhliches Kennenlernen geplant war, geht aber komplett nach hinten los und Jan muss sich gleich mehreren Prüfungen stellen.

Auf Unterstützung von Karriere-Karo (Anna Maria Mühe), Spiele-Nerd Oliver (Axel Stein), der leichtgläubigen Sheila (Taneshia Abt), dem kuriosen Kurt (Max Bretschneider) oder Besserwisser-Ex Matthias (Stephan Luca) kann er dabei nicht bauen. Allein sein Kumpel Alex (Edin Hasanovic) gibt alles, um Jans Ehre zu verteidigen und das frische Liebesglück zu retten. Pech im Spiel, Glück in der Liebe – geht die Gleichung wirklich auf?...

Die prominent besetzte deutsche Liebeskomödie „Spieleabend“ von W&b Television hat jetzt einen Starttermin auf Netflix und gewährt auch einen ersten Einblick mit First-Look-Bildern.

Axel Stein hat Spaß (Credit: Sasha Ostrov/Netflix)

Die deutsche Netflix-Liebeskomödie „Spieleabend“ startet am 12. Juli weltweit auf dem Streamingdienst und präsentiert First-Look-Bilder. Die W&b Television Produktion mit Dennis Mojen, Janina Uhse, Edin Hasanovic, Anna Maria Mühe, Taneshia Abt, Axel Stein, Stephan Luca und Max Bretschneider in den tragenden Rollen wurde von Marco Petry nach einem Claudius-Pläging-Drehbuch inszeniert.

Zur Handlung: Was kann es Schöneres geben als eine neue Liebe? Pia (Janina Uhse) und Jan (Dennis Mojen) sind frisch verliebt – Herzrasen, Bauchkribbeln, Glücksgefühle! Bald verbringen sie kaum noch eine Minute ohneeinander. Bei einem Spieleabend soll Jan schließlich Pias Freunden offiziell vorgestellt werden. Was kann da schon schiefgehen?

In der Liebeskomödie wird das junge Glück auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Schnell wird klar, dass die eingeschworene Spielgemeinschaft sehr speziell ist.

Confirming Germany’s importance as a growth market, Netfix on Wednesday announced 17 new and returning shows and movies produced by some of the country’s leading producers, including docuseries “Kaulitz & Kaulitz,” about the Tokio Hotel popstar siblings, and sci-fi drama “Cassandra,” about an overzealous electronic household helper.

Netflix presented 17 feature films, series, documentaries and reality shows at a special event in Berlin.

“We have seen again and again how local stories can captivate viewers here and around the world,” said Katja Hofem, Netflix’s VP of content for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. “We aim to continue this successful journey together with our partners, sharing a common goal of creating exceptional entertainment that moves and inspires people.”

Produced by Constantin Entertainment and premiering in June, “Kaulitz & Kaulitz” accompanies Tokio Hotel frontmen Bill and Tom Kaulitz, twin brothers from Magdeburg, Germany, on tour with their band and in their new home in Hollywood.

The Zurich Film Festival has unveiled the first seven titles from its Gala Premieres section, a showcase of some of the year’s hottest auteur films. The films include the star-studded drama “The Banshees of Inisherin” by Oscar-winning director Martin McDonagh, the European premiere of the German film adaptation “All Quiet on the Western Front,” directed by Edward Berger, and the world premieres of Sönke Wortmann’s “Der Nachname” and “Die Goldenen Jahre” by Barbara Kulcsar.

Artistic director Christian Jungen said: “In recent years, the Zurich Film Festival has established itself as a springboard into the awards season. Of the last 10 winners of the Oscar for Best Film, six screened at the festival. This year, we will again present international auteur films that will later play a role in the Oscar race to the more than 120,000 visitors and the 600 accredited media.”

The complete program of the festival will be published on Sept.

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Irish drama The Banshees of Inisherin, from Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri director Martin McDonagh; Edward Berger’s German-language adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front; and Cannes winners Triangle of Sadness and Broker are among the titles getting the gala treatment at this year’s Zurich International Film Festival, which runs Sept. 22 – Oct 2.

Zurich has unveiled the first seven of the gala premieres for the 2022 fest. Most will be heading to Zurich after their world premieres elsewhere. Banshees of Inisherin will first bow in competition in Venice, while All Quiet on the Western Front, a Netflix film, kicks off its festival run in Toronto. Another Venice title, Argentina, 1985 — from director Santiago Mitre and featuring The Secrets in Their Eyes star Ricardo Darín — will also hit the Zurich red carpet (which is actually green) this year.

Among the Zurich 2022 galas are two...

German entertainment giant Ufa is continuing its push into feature films with a slew of high-profile projects, including an upcoming Siegfried and Roy biopic and a sequel to the 2014 historical epic “The Physician,” starring Tom Payne (“Prodigal Son”).

The ramp-up follows the huge box office success last year of Oscar winner Caroline Link’s “All About Me,” based on the childhood memoir of German comedian Hape Kerkeling, which became 2019’s second biggest local box-office hit with €31.25 million ($35.34 million) via Warner Bros.

Other upcoming titles include Leander Haussmann’s highly anticipated Cold War laffer “A Stasi Comedy,” which Constantin Film is set to release next year. Set in the 1980s, the film centers on a young agent of East Germany’s infamous state security service, played by David Kross (“Balloon”), who is sent to infiltrate East Berlin’s counterculture scene and who, years later, is confronted with the possibility of his...

German entertainment giant Ufa is continuing its push into feature film with a slew of high-profile projects, including an upcoming Siegfried and Roy biopic and a sequel to the 2014 historical epic “The Physician,” starring Tom Payne (“Prodigal Son”).

The ramp-up follows last year’s huge box-office success of Oscar-winner Caroline Link’s “All About Me,” based on the childhood memoir of German comedian Hape Kerkeling, which became 2019’s second biggest home-grown box-office hit grossing €31.25 million ($35.34 million) via Warner Bros.

Other upcoming titles include Leander Haussmann’s highly anticipated Cold War laffer “A Stasi Comedy,” which Constantin Film is set to release next year. Set in the 1980s, the film centers on a young agent of East Germany’s infamous state security service, played by David Kross (“Balloon”), who is sent to infiltrate East Berlin’s counterculture scene and who, years later, is confronted with the possibility of his secret Stasi past coming to light.

Fact-based “The Wolf of Wall Street” won criticism from some quarters for seeming to revel in its protagonist’s sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, while barely chiding him for the predatory, large-scale financial fraud that funded it. Cuneyt Kaya’s new “Rising High” offers a similar disconnect in its fictive tale of bold chicanery in the realm of high-end real estate, treating its heroes’ climb to ill-gotten wealth as a vicarious thrill ride, with scant attention paid to the victims they presumably bankrupt.

This new Netflix offering from Germany is slick and energetic. But even as a mostly less-than-serious (let alone credible) criminal caper, it has a distinctly second-hand feel. We’ve partied with more-or-less these same plucky, covetous nobodies before, watched lookalike scenes of wenching, snorting and bling-flaunting. Their familiarity breeds a certain contempt. This is a competently crafted movie too shallow to come up with much...

Netflix has wrapped filming on its first German Original film, Concrete Gold, starring David Kross (The Reader), Frederick Lau (Victoria) and Janina Uhse.

The Ufa-produced drama-thriller charts the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.

Cüneyt Kaya (Blockbustaz) wrote and directed the feature which is produced by Ufa Fiction’s Sebastian Werninger and Johannes Kunkel. Also among cast are Peri Baumeister, Detlev Buck, Samuel Finzi, Sophia Thomalla and Johanna Ingelfinger.

Kai Finke, Director of Content Acquisitions & Co-Productions at Netflix, said, “Working with Cüneyt Kaya and Ufa Fiction on Concrete Gold has been a joy. Cüneyt and our great cast have bough boundless energy to this fast-paced film and we thank the team of Ufa Fiction for creating such a high quality movie for Netflix. We are...

Netflix is making its first foray into German original films, unveiling a slate of three projects that it will produce with local film and TV powerhouses Ufa, X Filme and Zdf.

In the lineup are “Betongold” (“Concrete Gold”), a fast-paced satire about the world of real estate from Ufa Fiction; “Isi & Ossi,” a young-adult romcom from X Filme Creative Pool; and “Freaks,” a drama about a working-class mom with supernatural powers, from Zdf and Lüthje Schneider Hörl Film. The movies are set to start production this spring and will be released globally on Netflix from 2020.

The feature projects follow Netflix’s strong commitment to series in Germany, where it is currently producing a slew of shows, including supernatural hit “Dark” and gritty crime drama “Dogs of Berlin.”

“Concrete Gold,” written and directed by Cüneyt Kaya, follows three young real-estate grifters in Berlin, played by David Kross (“The Keeper”), Frederick Lau (“The Captain”) and Janina Uhse,...

Exclusive: The Drac Pack is coming to Cannes. For the third year in a row, Sony’s marketing team is pulling out the stops for a pre-film festival stunt that will showcase an upcoming title. In this year’s case, it’s Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. This follows similar plays with last year’s The Emoji Movie and 2016’s Angry Birds promo. HT3 tomorrow will stake out prime real estate during the lull in which much of the world’s media is prepping for the main event to open — and looking for photo ops.

Typically, this would be before the Wednesday kick off of the Cannes Film Festival, but the fest this year is going a day early, on Tuesday. And so, Sony stayed in step, planning its latest stunt for Monday.

At 3Pm local time tomorrow, folks from HT3 (whose full international title is Hotel Transylvania 3: A...