Joachim Scheuenpflug is stepping down from his role as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of LEONINE Studios at the end of the year. Jens Mezger becomes the new Chief Financial Officer of LEONINE Studios Munich,......

Now the air is getting really thin for many production companies! The meagre order situation is smouldering, and unexpected new hotspots are emerging due to EU regulations that are making it more difficult to access subsidies: a potpourri of uncertain......

The official programme for the 3rd edition of the International Film Distribution Summit - IFDS has been announced. The IFDS is an international conference focussing on innovative distribution work in a changing......

At the festive PRIX EUROPA awards ceremony in Berlin's Rotes Rathaus on 11 October, a total of 15 media productions were honoured as the best European audio, digital media and video productions of the year. In addition, ......

With around 50 filming starts in September and over two dozen in October, the production industry is expecting a conciliatory end to the year for fiction productions after another very poor year. That this......

The production company UFA has founded UFA Mitte GmbH, which has emerged from the former UFA branch in Leipzig. Producer Katharina Rietz (e.g. "SOKO Leipzig") will take over the management. The development of new programmes......

According to a press release, the provisional collective agreement on working hours, bonuses, retirement provision in the broadcasting pension fund, salary increases, the collective agreement for actors and the collective agreement for young filmmakers have been rejected by the collective bargaining commission for filmmakers. Background: In the eighth round of collective bargaining for......

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) under the leadership of Charles Rivkin can welcome a new member to its ranks: Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios will join the umbrella organisation on 1 October......

At the traditional FFA presentation "Figures - Data - Facts" on developments in the arthouse cinema market, FFA Deputy Director Martin Michaelis and Norina Lin-Hi, Head of the FFA's Market Research and Statistics Department, were able to present good......

At this year's TIFF, the market for film acquisitions remained weak despite the return of Hollywood stars. Few deals were finalised and protests drew attention away from the festival. Streaming platforms appear to be increasingly dominating the cinema industry......