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.
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.
- 3/13/2024
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix Germany unveiled a pair of feature films, including Wiedemann & Berg title Brick, true-crime docs and a reality competition series this evening at a showcase in Berlin.
The sizeable slate announcement, which comes a day before a similar UK event, is notable given that Germany’s TV producers have seen the likes of Sky Deutschland pull out of originals and Paramount+ changing direction in their local production efforts.
Among the new titles is feature Brick (working title), which is currently being filmed and stars the likes of Matthias Schweighöfer, Ruby O. Fee and Frederick Lau. Slated to launch in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Dach) in 2025, the film follows a couple, Tim and Olivia, whose apartment building suddenly surrounded by a mysterious brick wall. They are forced to work with their neighbors to find a way out.
Philip Koch is the creator and Director of Photography. He produces alongside Quirin Berg,...
The sizeable slate announcement, which comes a day before a similar UK event, is notable given that Germany’s TV producers have seen the likes of Sky Deutschland pull out of originals and Paramount+ changing direction in their local production efforts.
Among the new titles is feature Brick (working title), which is currently being filmed and stars the likes of Matthias Schweighöfer, Ruby O. Fee and Frederick Lau. Slated to launch in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Dach) in 2025, the film follows a couple, Tim and Olivia, whose apartment building suddenly surrounded by a mysterious brick wall. They are forced to work with their neighbors to find a way out.
Philip Koch is the creator and Director of Photography. He produces alongside Quirin Berg,...
- 3/13/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
A skid row hotel best known for its grisly Netflix true crime examination of a young woman’s mysterious death is now for sale.
The Cecil Hotel was the subject of an episode in the the 2021 Netflix series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. The story examined Elisa Lam, a Canadian student who went missing in the hotel under mysterious circumstances before later being discovered drowned in a rooftop water tank.
The Cecil Hotel was transformed in recent years into a privately funded supportive-housing complex for the formerly homeless. A new owner would be required to take over the 99-year ground lease, which allows its long-term use and development.
No price has been set for the hotel, but the property’s land and improvements were assessed at $31 million in 2023.
The building opened in the 1920s as a luxury hotel, but quickly became something less as the scene of several murders,...
The Cecil Hotel was the subject of an episode in the the 2021 Netflix series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. The story examined Elisa Lam, a Canadian student who went missing in the hotel under mysterious circumstances before later being discovered drowned in a rooftop water tank.
The Cecil Hotel was transformed in recent years into a privately funded supportive-housing complex for the formerly homeless. A new owner would be required to take over the 99-year ground lease, which allows its long-term use and development.
No price has been set for the hotel, but the property’s land and improvements were assessed at $31 million in 2023.
The building opened in the 1920s as a luxury hotel, but quickly became something less as the scene of several murders,...
- 3/9/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Berlin-based sales agency Picture Tree Intl. has picked up “Woodland” (“Wald”), written and directed by Elisabeth Scharang, which has its world premiere in the Centrepiece section at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film’s trailer has also just been launched.
Picture Tree Intl. also handled world sales on Scharang’s sophomore feature film, “Jack,” which also played at Toronto.
“Woodland” is inspired by the novel “Wald” from bestselling author Doris Knecht, and the personal experience of Scharang, who witnessed the attack of a terrorist shooter in Vienna in 2020 in which four people were killed and 23 others were injured. The film marks Scharang’s second collaboration with Dop Jörg Widmer, who is a frequent collaborator with Terrence Malick.
Brigitte Hobmeier as Marian Malin in “Woodland”
In “Woodland,” Marian Malin (Brigitte Hobmeier) has everything she could wish for — a passion, a job and love — until she and her husband (Bogdan Dumitrache...
Picture Tree Intl. also handled world sales on Scharang’s sophomore feature film, “Jack,” which also played at Toronto.
“Woodland” is inspired by the novel “Wald” from bestselling author Doris Knecht, and the personal experience of Scharang, who witnessed the attack of a terrorist shooter in Vienna in 2020 in which four people were killed and 23 others were injured. The film marks Scharang’s second collaboration with Dop Jörg Widmer, who is a frequent collaborator with Terrence Malick.
Brigitte Hobmeier as Marian Malin in “Woodland”
In “Woodland,” Marian Malin (Brigitte Hobmeier) has everything she could wish for — a passion, a job and love — until she and her husband (Bogdan Dumitrache...
- 8/10/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
A motion by city officials for Los Angeles to enter into a master lease with the Skid Row-adjacent Cecil Hotel for a permanent housing program to address homelessness on Thursday advanced in the Homeless and Poverty Committee.
The hotel, a historic building which has attracted public fascination for its sordid past, has been the inspiration for a number of film and TV productions. American Horror Story: Hotel, Season 5 of the FX anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, was based in part on the Cecil Hotel. The building was also the subject of the 2021 Netflix documentary series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, which explored the 2013 death of 21-year-old Canadian student found in the property’s water tank. In 2017, Investigation Discovery did a three-episode crime series called Horror at the Cecil Hotel.
The property was converted into an affordable housing complex last December, but six months later,...
The hotel, a historic building which has attracted public fascination for its sordid past, has been the inspiration for a number of film and TV productions. American Horror Story: Hotel, Season 5 of the FX anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, was based in part on the Cecil Hotel. The building was also the subject of the 2021 Netflix documentary series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, which explored the 2013 death of 21-year-old Canadian student found in the property’s water tank. In 2017, Investigation Discovery did a three-episode crime series called Horror at the Cecil Hotel.
The property was converted into an affordable housing complex last December, but six months later,...
- 8/13/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
The Cecil Hotel has been haunted by a dark history of grisly crimes and murders. Focused on the disappearance of Elisa Lam, Netflix's Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel also dives deep into the Cecil's disturbing history of serial killers. Episode three of the docuseries unpacks the terrifying case of the serial killer Jack Unterweger, who resided at the hotel during the Summer of 1991. Just years after Richard Ramirez terrified Los Angeles as the Night Stalker, Unterweger made his way into the hotel to study the nearby red-light district. Soon after Unterweger's arrival, sex workers started dying. So, who exactly was Jack Unterweger? To those who first met him in Los Angeles, he was simply an Austrian journalist on assignment.
Johann "Jack" Unterweger had a history. In 1974, he abducted and murdered 18-year-old Margret Schafer, claiming to see his mother's face in Schafer when he strangled her with her own bra.
Johann "Jack" Unterweger had a history. In 1974, he abducted and murdered 18-year-old Margret Schafer, claiming to see his mother's face in Schafer when he strangled her with her own bra.
- 2/10/2021
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Dubbed creepy nicknames such as "Hotel Death" and "The Suicide," the Cecil Hotel harbors a dark history as a hotbed for death, suicide, and murder. A magnet for crime, it was formerly home to serial killers such as Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger. In 2013, its notoriety hit off once more when 21-year-old Canadian traveler Elisa Lam was found dead in the hotel's water tank days after police released a chilling video of her in an elevator.
Lam's story is now the focus of Netflix's Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, which interviews experts and hotel workers to clarify the context around her case. But this docuseries isn't the first time we've seen the Cecil or Lam's story referenced on the small screen. Back in 2015, the Cecil actually inspired Ryan Murphy to create American Horror Story: Hotel, which focuses on the disturbing events at the fictional Hotel Cortez.
Lam's story is now the focus of Netflix's Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, which interviews experts and hotel workers to clarify the context around her case. But this docuseries isn't the first time we've seen the Cecil or Lam's story referenced on the small screen. Back in 2015, the Cecil actually inspired Ryan Murphy to create American Horror Story: Hotel, which focuses on the disturbing events at the fictional Hotel Cortez.
- 2/10/2021
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Netflix's Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel explores the strange and tragic case of Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old Canadian traveler who was found dead in the Cecil Hotel's water tank in early 2013. Lam's death, officially ruled an accidental drowning, was met with sensational speculation because of the Cecil's gruesome history. Given that the Cecil has been riddled with death and crime, many web sleuths were convinced by theories of ghosts and foul play. Episode two of Crime Scene especially unpacks how the hotel's dark past marred its reputation. Over the years, the Cecil has earned unsavory nicknames such as "Hotel Death" and "The Suicide." Management even rebranded part of the Cecil as a trendy youth hostel called "Stay on Main" to distance away from its unsettling background.
So, what were the unspeakable crimes at the Cecil? Whether or not the Cecil is haunted by ghosts, it has...
So, what were the unspeakable crimes at the Cecil? Whether or not the Cecil is haunted by ghosts, it has...
- 2/10/2021
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
(Spoiler alert: Do not read on if you haven’t seen Netflix’s “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.”)
Netflix’s documentary “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” goes live on the streaming service Wednesday, and while the series focuses mostly on the Elisa Lam case, the Cecil Hotel is a Los Angeles landmark that has a haunted history dating back to the 1930s.
The 21-year-old student Elisa Lam, the subject of the Netflix series, is now the Cecil Hotel’s most famous lodger. Lam was found floating dead and naked in the hotel’s water tower on the roof in February 2013 after a brief stay. The last recorded moments of Lam’s life were captured by a now-famous elevator security camera video, which shows Lam frantically pressing all the door buttons and apparently speaking to someone out of view.
Lam’s case is still cold — a killer was never identified,...
Netflix’s documentary “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” goes live on the streaming service Wednesday, and while the series focuses mostly on the Elisa Lam case, the Cecil Hotel is a Los Angeles landmark that has a haunted history dating back to the 1930s.
The 21-year-old student Elisa Lam, the subject of the Netflix series, is now the Cecil Hotel’s most famous lodger. Lam was found floating dead and naked in the hotel’s water tower on the roof in February 2013 after a brief stay. The last recorded moments of Lam’s life were captured by a now-famous elevator security camera video, which shows Lam frantically pressing all the door buttons and apparently speaking to someone out of view.
Lam’s case is still cold — a killer was never identified,...
- 2/10/2021
- by Samson Amore and Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Since opening in the 1920s, the Cecil Hotel has harbored a dark reputation with many robberies, assaults, murders, and suicides in its checkered history. In fact, it was home for serial killers such as Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger. Netflix's upcoming docuseries Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel unpacks the 2013 disappearance of Elisa Lam, contextualizing the historic building's haunting background that increased interest in the case. Given its notoriety, is the Cecil still open? While the Cecil officially closed its doors in 2017, it's currently being renovated for future guests and residents.
Interviewing former manager Amy Price, Crime Scene dives deep into the significant effort to repair the Cecil's reputation in 2011. The hotel's management decided to restructure the building and rebrand certain parts of it as a trendy hostel hotel called Stay on Main. Floors two and three were for tenants, four through six were for Stay on Main guests,...
Interviewing former manager Amy Price, Crime Scene dives deep into the significant effort to repair the Cecil's reputation in 2011. The hotel's management decided to restructure the building and rebrand certain parts of it as a trendy hostel hotel called Stay on Main. Floors two and three were for tenants, four through six were for Stay on Main guests,...
- 2/1/2021
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
The trailer for Netflix's next breakout documentary has arrived. Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, premiering Feb. 10, centers on the mysterious death of Elisa Lam. The Canadian college student disappeared during a trip up the California coast in 2013, and her last known location is just one of the many bizarre things surrounding the case.
Lam was staying at the Cecil Hotel, a once-glamorous hotel near Los Angeles's notoriously violent Skid Row. Over the decades, the Cecil had hosted numerous killers, including Night Stalker Richard Ramirez and Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger. Deaths (accidental or otherwise) at the hotel itself may stretch into the hundreds, but it's Elisa Lam's untimely death that led to countless theories by internets sleuths because of a tape the police released of her strange behavior in the hotel's elevator.
Whether you've heard of the case or not, the trailer will surely pique your interest.
Lam was staying at the Cecil Hotel, a once-glamorous hotel near Los Angeles's notoriously violent Skid Row. Over the decades, the Cecil had hosted numerous killers, including Night Stalker Richard Ramirez and Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger. Deaths (accidental or otherwise) at the hotel itself may stretch into the hundreds, but it's Elisa Lam's untimely death that led to countless theories by internets sleuths because of a tape the police released of her strange behavior in the hotel's elevator.
Whether you've heard of the case or not, the trailer will surely pique your interest.
- 1/26/2021
- by Maggie Panos
- Popsugar.com
When interviewing Arnaud Desplechin last fall, I briefly got word of the film that will follow his recently released My Golden Days. As it went:
“I formed this character. It’s about this character, and I was thinking about Vertigo. It’s a melancholy… it’s not melancholy. It’s quite a tragic character… no, it’s not a tragic character. It’s a strange character. It’s a strange woman. She disappeared for 20 years, and she’s back, and I started to write some good scenes with this material, this woman who’s back from the dead. She was supposed to be dead and she’s back. The guy is surprised. I’m calling him Ismael right now. Just right now; I will change it later. Right now I’m calling him Ismael, and I realized that this woman is coming from Sabbath’s Theater.”
This is now coming to fruition.
“I formed this character. It’s about this character, and I was thinking about Vertigo. It’s a melancholy… it’s not melancholy. It’s quite a tragic character… no, it’s not a tragic character. It’s a strange character. It’s a strange woman. She disappeared for 20 years, and she’s back, and I started to write some good scenes with this material, this woman who’s back from the dead. She was supposed to be dead and she’s back. The guy is surprised. I’m calling him Ismael right now. Just right now; I will change it later. Right now I’m calling him Ismael, and I realized that this woman is coming from Sabbath’s Theater.”
This is now coming to fruition.
- 5/4/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
After his writing received celebrity endorsement, Jack Unterweger left prison and worked as a crime reporter, while he murdered women across continents
Michael Fassbender will play Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger, known as the “prison poet” and the “Vienna Strangler” in new thriller Entering Hades, reports Variety.
Based on John Leake’s true crime novel of the same title, the story is currently being adapted by the Oscar-winning co-writer of Birdman, Alexander Dinelaris, from an original script by Bill Wheeler.
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Michael Fassbender will play Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger, known as the “prison poet” and the “Vienna Strangler” in new thriller Entering Hades, reports Variety.
Based on John Leake’s true crime novel of the same title, the story is currently being adapted by the Oscar-winning co-writer of Birdman, Alexander Dinelaris, from an original script by Bill Wheeler.
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- 5/4/2016
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
One glance at Michael Fassbender’s decorated and ever-growing resume will tell you that the actor isn’t one to shy away from difficult roles. From his breakout as Bobby Sands in Hunger almost a decade ago to numerous turns as the mercurial Magneto, Fassbender continues to be a compelling screen presence, making him the perfect fit to play Jack Unterweger in true crime story, Entering Hades.
Setting up shop at Broad Green Pictures, with production help from Storyscape Entertainment and Fassbender’s own Dmc Film, the real-life drama will pull inspiration from John Leake’s novel recounting Unterweger’s remarkable and frankly harrowing story. A celebrated journalist and best-selling author, the Austrian moonlit as a serial killer, racking up a body count of 11 – most of which were prostitutes – across multiple countries across Europe before he was convicted in 1974.
Bill Wheeler produced the original script for Entering Hades, though Variety...
Setting up shop at Broad Green Pictures, with production help from Storyscape Entertainment and Fassbender’s own Dmc Film, the real-life drama will pull inspiration from John Leake’s novel recounting Unterweger’s remarkable and frankly harrowing story. A celebrated journalist and best-selling author, the Austrian moonlit as a serial killer, racking up a body count of 11 – most of which were prostitutes – across multiple countries across Europe before he was convicted in 1974.
Bill Wheeler produced the original script for Entering Hades, though Variety...
- 5/4/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Michael Fassbender can be charming. Michael Fassbender can be dangerous. Can Michael Fassbender play a serial killer and would I pay to see that? Absolutely. The X-men: Apocalypse star is currently being eyed for that very role in Entering Hades, an adaptation of John Leake's novel which tells the true story of Jack Unterweger, "a celebrated Austrian journalist and bestselling... Read More...
- 5/4/2016
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
The company has acquired rights to John Leake’s true crime novel and set the Irish star to play the lead. Mister Smith Entertainment will handle international sales.
Storyscape Entertainment’s Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein will produce with Conor McCaughan and Daniel Emmerson of Fassbenbder’s Dmc Film.
Oscar-winning Birdman screenwriter Alexander Dinelaris (who shared the Academy Award with Alejandro Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bo) is rewriting the screenplay from Bill Wheeler’s original script.
Entering Hades is the true story of Jack Unterweger, an Austrian crime journalist who was a mass murderer.
The project is the first announced under the first-look deal between Broad Green and Storyscape.
Storyscape Entertainment’s Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein will produce with Conor McCaughan and Daniel Emmerson of Fassbenbder’s Dmc Film.
Oscar-winning Birdman screenwriter Alexander Dinelaris (who shared the Academy Award with Alejandro Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bo) is rewriting the screenplay from Bill Wheeler’s original script.
Entering Hades is the true story of Jack Unterweger, an Austrian crime journalist who was a mass murderer.
The project is the first announced under the first-look deal between Broad Green and Storyscape.
- 5/3/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Michael Fassbender is being eyed to play Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger in “Entering Hades,” a Broad Green Pictures project that the “X-Men” star is teaming with “Se7en” producer Richard Saperstein, among others, to produce. Broad Green has closed a deal for rights to “Entering Hades,” which is based on John Leake’s true crime novel. Bill Wheeler wrote the original script, which Oscar winner Alexander Dinelaris (“Birdman”) is rewriting with Fassbender in mind for the creepy lead role. Unterweger was a celebrated Austrian journalist and best-selling author who led a double life, investigating murders by day and killing by night.
- 5/3/2016
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Seems that Broad Green Pictures has acquired the film rights to the John Leake true crime novel Entering Hades, which will be rewritten by Oscar-winning Birdman scribe Alexander Dinelaris and shaped as a potential Michael Fassbender vehicle.
The project is the true story of Jack Unterweger, a celebrated Austrian journalist and author who led a double life investigating murders by day and killing by night – amassing a body count of eleven people across multiple continents.
Fassbender will be seen in X-men Apocalypse and then Assassin's Creed. He is currently shooting Alien: Covenant with Ridley Scott at the helm.
Source: Deadline...
The project is the true story of Jack Unterweger, a celebrated Austrian journalist and author who led a double life investigating murders by day and killing by night – amassing a body count of eleven people across multiple continents.
Fassbender will be seen in X-men Apocalypse and then Assassin's Creed. He is currently shooting Alien: Covenant with Ridley Scott at the helm.
Source: Deadline...
- 5/3/2016
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
Broad Green Pictures has acquired Entering Hades, a John Leake true crime novel that will be rewritten by Oscar-winning Birdman scribe Alexander Dinelaris as a potential star vehicle for Michael Fassbender. Fassbender’s Dmc Films partners Conor McCaughan and Daniel Emmerson will produce along with Storyscape Entertainment's Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein. Bill Wheeler wrote the original script. It’s the true story of Jack Unterweger, a celebrated Austrian journalist…...
- 5/3/2016
- Deadline
Broad Green Pictures has reportedly acquired the film rights to the John Leake true crime novel "Entering Hades" which will be shaped as a potential Michael Fassbender vehicle.
The story follows Jack Unterweger, a celebrated Austrian journalist and author who led a double life investigating murders by day and killing by night – amassing a body count of eleven people across multiple continents.
Oscar-winning "Birdman" scribe Alexander Dinelaris will pen a new draft of the script, taking over from Bill Wheeler. Conor McCaughan, Daniel Emmerson, Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein will produce.
Fassbender is currently shooting Ridley Scott's "Alien: Covenant" In Sydney.
Source: Deadline...
The story follows Jack Unterweger, a celebrated Austrian journalist and author who led a double life investigating murders by day and killing by night – amassing a body count of eleven people across multiple continents.
Oscar-winning "Birdman" scribe Alexander Dinelaris will pen a new draft of the script, taking over from Bill Wheeler. Conor McCaughan, Daniel Emmerson, Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein will produce.
Fassbender is currently shooting Ridley Scott's "Alien: Covenant" In Sydney.
Source: Deadline...
- 5/3/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
True story of the notorious killer and poet also set to screen at Toronto.
The 22nd Oldenburg International Film Festival (Sept 16-20) is to open with Elisabeth Scharang’s true life drama Jack.
The screen adaptation based on the life of the notorious killer and poet Jack Unterweger will open the festival as a German premiere
Austrian director Scharang’s second fiction feature after 2011 Holocaust drama In Another Lifetime charts the true story of Unterweger, a convicted murderer whose road to redemption, while imprisoned, was to write stories and poems.
The film stars Johannes Krisch in the leading role opposite Birgit Minichmayr and Corinna Harfouch, the film’s talent will attend the gala premiere.
Jack is a production of Epo and its worldwide sales are handled by Picture Tree International.
Following its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival (Aug 5-15), Jack will receive its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
The 22nd Oldenburg International Film Festival (Sept 16-20) is to open with Elisabeth Scharang’s true life drama Jack.
The screen adaptation based on the life of the notorious killer and poet Jack Unterweger will open the festival as a German premiere
Austrian director Scharang’s second fiction feature after 2011 Holocaust drama In Another Lifetime charts the true story of Unterweger, a convicted murderer whose road to redemption, while imprisoned, was to write stories and poems.
The film stars Johannes Krisch in the leading role opposite Birgit Minichmayr and Corinna Harfouch, the film’s talent will attend the gala premiere.
Jack is a production of Epo and its worldwide sales are handled by Picture Tree International.
Following its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival (Aug 5-15), Jack will receive its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
- 8/28/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Serbia has become the latest country to offer tax incentives to international film and television productions when they shoot in the territory.
The long-anticipated incentive, which offers a 20% rebate on the eligible spend while shooting in Serbia, came into effect on Thursday (Aug 13).
Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandr Vucic had already indicated during a state visit to Munich at the end of the end of July that the legislation would now come on to the statute books.
“The new government support for filmmaking will make Serbia an even more attractive choice for film and television producers,” said Bernie Stampfer, one of the co-founders of International Film Partners (Ifp).
This latest news could not be more timely since Ifp was recently hired as consultants for the strategic revamping of the historic Avala Film Studios in Belgrade.
A private group of investors in the It, telecommunications and media industries had acquired the studio complex last month with the aim...
The long-anticipated incentive, which offers a 20% rebate on the eligible spend while shooting in Serbia, came into effect on Thursday (Aug 13).
Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandr Vucic had already indicated during a state visit to Munich at the end of the end of July that the legislation would now come on to the statute books.
“The new government support for filmmaking will make Serbia an even more attractive choice for film and television producers,” said Bernie Stampfer, one of the co-founders of International Film Partners (Ifp).
This latest news could not be more timely since Ifp was recently hired as consultants for the strategic revamping of the historic Avala Film Studios in Belgrade.
A private group of investors in the It, telecommunications and media industries had acquired the studio complex last month with the aim...
- 8/17/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Swiss cinema is to be put in the spotlight in Mexico and Brazil over the next two years.
At the Locarno Film Festival (Aug 5-15), Swiss Films’ MD Catherine Ann Berger revealed details to ScreenDaily about how Switzerland will be a guest country at next year’s Guadalajara Film Festival (March 4-13) against the backdrop of the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Switzerland.
“To begin with, we will have a historical retrospective of Swiss cinema in the Cineteca in Mexico City this December, and then in March, there will be a programme in Guadalajara of Swiss films from the past two, three years,” Berger explained.
“In addition, there will be an industry dimension with co-production meetings and the opportunities for professionals from both countries to meet and discuss partnerships,” she added, pointing out that the focus in Mexico will be the first major project of its kind that she is preparing since coming to Swiss...
At the Locarno Film Festival (Aug 5-15), Swiss Films’ MD Catherine Ann Berger revealed details to ScreenDaily about how Switzerland will be a guest country at next year’s Guadalajara Film Festival (March 4-13) against the backdrop of the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Switzerland.
“To begin with, we will have a historical retrospective of Swiss cinema in the Cineteca in Mexico City this December, and then in March, there will be a programme in Guadalajara of Swiss films from the past two, three years,” Berger explained.
“In addition, there will be an industry dimension with co-production meetings and the opportunities for professionals from both countries to meet and discuss partnerships,” she added, pointing out that the focus in Mexico will be the first major project of its kind that she is preparing since coming to Swiss...
- 8/12/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Horror movies are often “based on” real-world experiences, but there are few sources of inspiration that are more unnerving than the chilling viral video that birthed this season of “American Horror story." “American Horror Story: Hotel” creator Ryan Murphy was on hand at today’s TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour to talk about the upcoming season, which he assured will “return to the Season 1 roots” and “tap into true primal fears.” He’s off to a good start in terms of inspiring a visceral sense of terror if the origin of this season’s story is anything to judge by. The idea for “Hotel” – which takes place in a downtown Los Angeles hotel and taps into “real American horrors” – came to Murphy after watching a viral video of Elisa Lam in what appear to be her final moments on Earth. Lam was a Canadian student whose body was discovered...
- 8/7/2015
- by Roth Cornet
- Hitfix
Back in May, Nicolas Winding Refn was in talks to direct The Bringing, a horror movie inspired by the real-life death of Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. Lam who was found in the water tanks on the roof in February 2013, and footage of her odd behavior in an elevator before her death (video below) quickly went viral. Noted serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger have spent time at the Cecil Hotel, and there have also been several suicides at the establishment....
- 8/22/2014
- by Jesse Giroux
- JoBlo.com
Last we heard (back in May), Nicolas Winding Refn was hovering around La's Cecil Hotel with the idea to directing The Bringing. Circumstances have changed since then, however, and the latest director in the frame for the true-events-inspired chiller is In Fear's Jeremy Lovering. The film is based on the strange case of 21 year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam, who was found dead in the water tanks on the roof of the Cecil, a month after her disappearance in January last year. The coroner's verdict was accidental drowning, but a video of her odd behaviour in one of the hotel's elevators hours before her death later went viral, and led worldwide conspiracy theorists and hauntologists to believe they know better.Adding to the spook factor is the notion that serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger were both reportedly residents at the hotel at one point or another. The Main Street...
- 8/22/2014
- EmpireOnline
Last weekend saw the opening of The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer (2010) starring John Malkovich, loosely speaking it is a play that merges baroque opera with dialogue telling the autobiographical tale if Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger. The play has met with critical success and is touring until November when Malkovich will then open with a new work in Paris.
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- 7/6/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
Apparently being John Malkovich is not always a walk in the park (or the Czech Republic). The Oscar-nominated actor, who plays what he calls "a jerk" in summer's Transformers: Dark of the Moon, discovered on Thursday that his Prague hotel room had been burglarized. So what'd the thieves take? Malkovich's passport and some personal belongings were among the items stolen from his room at the Mandarin Oriental, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Malkovich was in town to perform at the Prague Spring music festival in the play Infernal Comedy: Confession of a Serial Killer, in which he portrays Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger. An investigation into Malkovich's...
- 6/4/2011
- E! Online
London, March 14 – Oscar-nominated actor John Malkovich will be seen portraying the role of real life Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger on stage in London next year.
Unterweger was convicted of murdering a string of prostitutes in Austria and the Us between 1974 and 1992 before committing suicide in prison in 1994.
Director Graham Sheffield revealed that Malkovich’s one-man play ‘The Infernal Comedy’, in which he is backed by a Baroque orchestra and chorus, was also ‘curiously.
Unterweger was convicted of murdering a string of prostitutes in Austria and the Us between 1974 and 1992 before committing suicide in prison in 1994.
Director Graham Sheffield revealed that Malkovich’s one-man play ‘The Infernal Comedy’, in which he is backed by a Baroque orchestra and chorus, was also ‘curiously.
- 3/14/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
The Infernal Comedy, based on true story of Austrian serial killer, among highlights of Barbican's plans for coming year
It might not be the cheeriest night out, watching John Malkovich as a resurrected Austrian serial killer on stage with a baroque orchestra and two sopranos singing arias about murder and abandonment, but it will, the Barbican's artistic director cheerfully suggests, be one of his personal highlights.
"It's a kind of 21st-century version of an 18th-century melodrama," said Graham Sheffield. "Absolutely brilliant and completely unique."
The Malkovich piece, The Infernal Comedy – part drama, part concert – is based on the true story of Jack Unterweger, who killed at least 11 prostitutes. "Probably not a thing to take a person on a first date," Sheffield conceded.
The show was announced today as part of the Barbican's plans for the coming year, along with the return of big-name regulars such as Peter Brook, with The Magic Flute; Michael Clark,...
It might not be the cheeriest night out, watching John Malkovich as a resurrected Austrian serial killer on stage with a baroque orchestra and two sopranos singing arias about murder and abandonment, but it will, the Barbican's artistic director cheerfully suggests, be one of his personal highlights.
"It's a kind of 21st-century version of an 18th-century melodrama," said Graham Sheffield. "Absolutely brilliant and completely unique."
The Malkovich piece, The Infernal Comedy – part drama, part concert – is based on the true story of Jack Unterweger, who killed at least 11 prostitutes. "Probably not a thing to take a person on a first date," Sheffield conceded.
The show was announced today as part of the Barbican's plans for the coming year, along with the return of big-name regulars such as Peter Brook, with The Magic Flute; Michael Clark,...
- 3/12/2010
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Amid the classical music programme for the forthcoming season at the Barbican, in London, is an unexpected figure: John Malkovich. Next year he will appear in a work called The Infernal Comedy, described as a "stage-play for a baroque orchestra, two sopranos and an actor" (Malkovich starred in its premiere in Los Angeles in 2007). Based on the real case of Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger, the play, by Michael Sturminger, has Unterweger come back from the dead to launch his autobiography. Intriguing.
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- 2/2/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
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