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Exclusive: Prime Video has unveiled plans for a trio of docs from German producer Beetz Brothers Film Productions.

Here in Berlin at the inaugural Seriesly Berlin event, a November 10 launch was set for German Cocaine Cowboy on Prime Video Germany. A second doc, Billions Mike (aka Milliarden Mike), will debut a week later (November) before Killy My Doppelgänger debuts in 2025.

Prime Video has licensed the three docs, which from Leonine Studios-owned Beetz Brothers Productions.

German Cocaine Cowboys, a four-part documentary series about rise of Hamburg gangster Joe Marx to the top of the notorious Cali cartel in the 1990s and his subsequent return to Germany after years off jail time, was teased last month and footage is being shown to delegates her in Berlin today.

The producers are Christian Beetz and Georg Tschurtschenthaler for Beetz Brothers, and the director is Peter Dörfler. Production is supported by German Motion Picture Fund and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

Exclusive: Veteran television and film director Thor Freudenthal has returned to NBC to direct and executive produce the pilot for the network’s new drama series The Hunting Party, which began shooting today. He’ll remain as a producer for the remainder of the series. The high-concept crime procedural hails from JJ Bailey, The Endgame co-creator Jake Coburn and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

The Hunting Party marks Freudenthal’s third pilot for NBC, having previously helmed the Quantum Leap and La Brea pilots.

Created by Bailey, who wrote the pilot episode, The Hunting Party is a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Picked up to series in February, The Hunting Party stars Melissa Roxburgh,...

AGC Television is adapting an R.V. Bowman young adult novel trilogy into a live-action family series.

Hook’s Daughter: The Pirate Princess Chronicles will be created from the book of the same name, with Thor Freudenthal is attached to direct and Lucy Brown (Bride or Groom) is adapting the fantasy adventure trilogy.

AGC’s Chief Creative Officer Lourdes Diaz, YA division head Aghi Koh and CEO Stuart Ford will executive produce.

The synopsis reads: “When her Sea Captain father fails to show up for his annual visit at her boarding school, a 16-year-old girl breaks out to search for his whereabouts. She is shocked to find he is on a magical island called Neverland and is known as the villainous Captain Hook. But when she uncovers family secrets, she also discovers the real villain just might be Peter Pan.”

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AGC Television, the television production and distribution division of Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios, has added YA fantasy adventure trilogy “Hook’s Daughter: The Pirate Princess Chronicles” to its slate.

The series is based on R.V. Bowman’s popular book series of the same name. Thor Freudenthal is attached to direct and Lucy Brown (“Bride or Groom”) is adapting the books. AGC chief creative officer Lourdes Diaz, YA division head Aghi Koh and CEO Stuart Ford will executive produce.

The trilogy centers on a 16-year-old girl who, when her sea captain father fails to show up for his annual visit at her boarding school, breaks out to search for him. She is shocked to find he is on a magical island called Neverland and is known as the villainous Captain Hook. But when she uncovers family secrets, she also discovers the real villain just might be Peter Pan.

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Exclusive: A backpacker’s battle to escape the locked boot of a car and regain her memory is to be the plot of Amazon Prime Video’s latest German movie.

In high-octane thriller Trunk (working title), Sina Martens will play Malina, who wakes up disoriented to discover to her horror that she is missing more than her memory. With her mobile phone as her only link to the outside world, she wages a desperate battle for survival as the vehicle races inexorably towards a terrible mystery. Even if she makes it – she will never be the same.

The movie has echoes of claustrophobic single-location action features such as Ryan Reynolds’ Buried and is being produced by German indie Outside the Club. Marc Schießer is writing, directing and producing and Tobias Lohf will also produce.

Amazon Head of German Originals Philip Pratt said Trunk will “take viewers on...

Comedy actors Anke Engelke and Bastian Pastewka will star in a new German original series for Amazon Prime Video to be produced by Bildundtonfabrik.

The series is due to appear on the platform next year. Further details on the show have yet to be announced.

“Anke Engelke and Bastian Pastewka are a real dream team in front of the camera. Viewers can look forward to their first series project together on Prime Video,” said Philip Pratt, head of German originals for Prime Video.

News of the show was revealed by Pratt on Tuesday at a panel during the Berlin Film Festival about Prime Video’s international content strategy. Other speakers included head of Nordic Originals, Karin Lindström, and head of Nigerian Originals, Amazon Studios and Prime Video, Wangi Mba-Uzoukwu.

Amazon’s German shows have included thrillers such as the Matthias Schweighöfer starrer “You Are Wanted” and “Beat,” with Jannis Niewöhner,...

Amazon has unveiled its 2022-23 German originals slate as it up investment in the country, with new Prime Video comedy shows and the latest All or Nothing soccer doc among the highlights. At the same time, Prime Video Channels will soon offer Discovery+ and Paramount+ as add-ons.

At a Prime Video Presents Germany showcase event today in Munich, Prime Video Country Director Kaspar Pflüger said the company would “continue to invest massively in the German-speaking region,” as local content chief Philip Pratt revealed looks at fantasy series The Gryphon, 1980s-set drama series Luden and the adaptation of Sebastian Fitzek’s The Therapy, and announced several new shows, including another All or Nothing series in the soccer-mad country.

The All or Nothing docu-series will follow the German national football team’s journey to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, showing what goes on in front of and behind the scenes at the tournament.

Exclusive: Amazon’s Head of German Originals Philip Pratt says an upcoming slew of films and TV series are the culmination of two years’ work, as Prime Video seeks to “stand out in the face of a flood of content” and plots a major local unscripted push.

Later this evening, Pratt and Amazon German Country Manager Kasper Pflueger will unveil several shows and films at a Prime Video Presents event in Munich, including Silver, which Deadline broke the news of earlier today.

In an exclusive interview with Deadline, Pratt said he sees the slate as a culmination of a period of development and production that will position the SVoD uniquely against a field of other global streamers and revitalized local broadcasters, all of whom are spending significant sums on their own original shows. “The last two years have been about building and development and now we’re ready to go.