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“Behind the Headlines,” Daniel Andreas Sager’s thrilling look at how German investigative journalists triggered a political earthquake in Austria that toppled the country’s government, is having its world premiere at Danish doc fest Cph:dox, where it’s competing for the Fact Award, before unspooling at Toronto’s Hot Docs Festival and opening next month’s Dok.fest München.

Sager is now at work on his next documentary project, a film that will accompany international peace mediators, workers and analysts from the battlefield to the European Parliament and Un Security Council.

“Behind the Headlines” focuses on two main protagonists, Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier of German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung — the reporters who broke the Panama Papers story in 2016. Sager remained embedded at the Sz for two years, initially following various journalists as they conducted research, interviews and followed up on potentially explosive leads. He traveled with Obermayer and Obermaier to Paris,...

Exclusive: Netflix has committed to finance and release The Laundromat, the Steven Soderbergh-directed drama about the Panama Papers scandal. David Schwimmer has just joined a killer cast that is led by Oscar-winning Darkest Hour star Gary Oldman, The Post‘s Meryl Streep and Life Itself‘s Antonio Banderas. Other cast circling include Will Forte and Earthquake Bird‘s Riley Keough. The film has a script by Scott Z. Burns, based on the Jake Bernstein book Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite. Producers are Lawrence Grey, Gregory Jacobs, Michael Sugar, Burns and Topic Studios.

Deadline first revealed the project back at Cannes and noted then that Netflix was hot and heavy in pursuit. This after Netflix previously set a movie on the scandal by German journalists Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, who broke the story and wrote the book Panama Papers:...

Exclusive: Alex Winter, Glen Zipper (Undefeated) and Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) have teamed up on documentary The Panama Papers, narrated by Elijah Wood.

Great Point Media will launch sales on the under-the-rader completed movie at Toronto. We can debut first footage from the film.

The talking-heads doc, which includes interviews with whistleblowers and key journalists on the investigation, will tell the story of the massive data breach which uncovered murky political and financial corruption, bribes, election rigging and murder. An unprecedented coordination of hundreds of journalists broke the story two years ago.

Interviewees include Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier who broke the original story from Süddeutsche Zeitung, Luke Harding, Juliette Garside and Paul Johnson from The Guardian, Kevin Hall from McClatchy DC and Marina Walker and Gerard Ryle from Icij.

Actor-turned-director Winter (Deep Web) is directing and producing. Robert Friedman (The Confirmation) of Bungalow Media + Entertainment also produces with Zipper of Zipper Bros Films.

Exclusive: One of the hot packages coming together has Gary Oldman, MerylStreep and Antonio Banderas circling The Laundromat, a Steven Soderbergh-directed drama about the Panama Papers scandal that has a script by Scott Z. Burns, based on the Jake Bernstein book Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite. Sources said that Netflix is among those circling the project, which is produced by Burns, Lawrence Grey, Soderbergh and Michael Sugar.

Netflix previously set a movie on the scandal by German journalists Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, who broke the story and wrote the book Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the World’s Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money. John Wells is producing that one.

The drama is the story of the revelations of reams of documents leaked from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca in April by an anonymous whistleblower that...