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Germany network Rtl Deutschland has struck a long-term strategic deal with Wiedemann & Berg Film and the producer’s parent, Leonine Studios.

The multi-year agreement covers free TV and streaming, and means Rtl Deutschland will have exclusive rights to German theatrical releases from the two companies, which produced or co-produced the country’s most successful film in each year between 2020 and 2023.

The pact includes the new comedy Alter Weisser Mann from director Simon Verhoeven starring Jan Josef Liefers, Nadja Uhl, Friedrich von Thun, Michael Maertens, Meltem Kaptan and Elyas M’Barek. It began shooting this month.

The film follows family man Heinz Hellmich, who tries show is ‘wokest’ side and prove he is not an ‘old white man’ to land the job he has longed for. Inviting his boss and colleagues to a dinner party, his family politically correct facade begins to crumble, causing chaos among the guests.

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The 3-cd set Occult Voices – Paranormal Music, compiled by Thomas Knoefel and Andreas Fischer, is the first and probably the most extensive collection of audio documents pertaining to alleged paranormal phenomenon and so-called “unseen intelligences.” Taken from a wide range of archival recordings as early as 1905 (which Fischer & Knoefel define as the “Big Bang of modern occultism”) and continuing through 2007, this collection documents an impressive and chilling range of bizarre events, including “trance speech, direct voices, clairvoyance, xenoglossy, glossolia including ethnological material, paranormal music, 'rappings' and other poltergeist manifestations, as well as so-called 'Electronic Voice Phenomena' [Evp].” Among the dozens of tracks compiled in the set are some seriously unnerving recordings from well-known cases, including the 1976 exorcism of Anneliese Michel (pictured above, the basis for Scott Derrickson's 2005 film The Exorcism of Emily Rose), and a ritual performed by infamous occultist Aleister Crowley in 1920. The entire collection can be streamed at audio archive UbuWeb Sound,...