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The Privilege is a Netflix horror film that combines supernatural and body horror elements, resulting in a unique viewing experience. The revelation that Finn, Lena, and Samira are adopted connects them to a larger conspiracy and mirrors themes of teenage depression and isolation. The film leaves it up to the audience to determine if the demon is real or if the events are hallucinations, while the cult's goal is to turn the kids into vessels for the demon. The ending suggests a larger message about the pharmaceutical industry and the contagious nature of depression.

The Netflix-exclusive German horror film The Privilege is jam-packed with familiar concepts found in other movies, but it features a truly wild ending that makes it unique. Released in 2022 and directed by Felix Fuchssteiner, The Privilege follows awkward teen Finn (Max Schimmelpfennig) as he uncovers a dark secret from his past that threatens his life in the present.

In today’s Global Bulletin, ESPN scores Laliga rights for the next eight years; the U.K. government looks to unload Channel 4; Bavaria Fiction wraps principle shooting on its Netflix horror feature “The Privilege”; and London to get 1,575-seater theater.

Sports

In a Disney earnings call on Tuesday evening, it was announced that ESPN had picked up a raft of sports broadcast and streaming rights in the U.S., including the next eight seasons of Spain’s top soccer competition Laliga.

With all matches to be made available live and on demand via ESPN Plus, several of the higher-profile games will also air across ESPN networks each season and be covered on established ESPN programs such as Sports Center and ESPN Fc, among others. ESPN Plus will also host complimentary programming including match previews and highlight shows.

The deal includes both English and Spanish-language broadcast and streaming rights and...

Bavaria Filmproduktion, whose latest film, Oskar Roehler’s “Enfant Terrible,” is part of Cannes’ Official Selection this year, is next producing projects from acclaimed filmmaker Hans Steinbichler (“The Diary of Anne Frank”) and writer-director duo Felix Fuchssteiner and Katharina Schöde, makers of the hugely popular “Ruby Red” fantasy-adventure trilogy.

Steinbichler is directing an adaptation of writer-actor Robert Seethaler’s bestseller “A Whole Life,” which spans a solitary man’s life in a remote Alpine valley. Bavaria Filmproduktion, the feature film unit of German entertainment giant Bavaria Film, is partnering on the project with Vienna-based Epo-Film, co-producer of Sky Deutschland’s murder-mystery series “Pagan Peak.”

“A Whole Life” reunites Steinbichler and Seethaler, who wrote the screenplay for the filmmaker’s 2008 drama “My Mother, My Bride and I.”

Seethaler’s works also include “The Tobacconist,” which served as the basis of Nikolaus Leytner’s 2018 release starring the late Bruno Ganz.

Bavaria Filmproduktion...

Exclusive: German actor David Kross, who appeared opposite Kate Winslet in Stephen Daldry’s Oscar-winning The Reader, has been cast as the legendary German-born goalkeeper Bernd ‘Bert’ Trautmann who was in goal for Manchester City from 1949 to 1964.

Trautmann will be Bavarian director Marcus ‘Rosi’ Rosenmüller’s first English-language feature film and will be produced by Munich-based Lieblingsfilm with UK producer Alex Boden’s Pistachio Pictures.

Principal photography is set to begin this autumn, with most of the shoot concentrated in Germany and some location work in Northern England. In addition, extensive visual effects will be deployed to recreate the period atmosphere of post-war England.

“The action on the football pitch will provide the backdrop for the story of the former German Pow Trautmann falling in love with his coach’s daughter Margaret,” producer Robert Marciniak told Screen. “This is a love that shouldn’t have been so soon after the end of Second World War.”

Rosenmüller and Marciniak...