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The limited series The Signal features an intriguing international cast. The German sci-fi show landed on Netflix's U.S. Top 10 during the week it premiered. Florian David Fitz, Peri Baumeister, and Yuna Bennett are key cast members.

The The Signal cast is chock-full of unique international talent. The show, which is called Das Signal in the original German, is a limited series that premiered on Netflix in March 2024. While it has a small core cast, the science fiction drama features quite a few interlocking characters in a story that takes place across multiple timelines.

The Netflix sci-fi show has become a crossover hit, trending outside of its native Germany. During its first week on the platform, it landed on the service's Top 10 chart in the U.S. alongside English-language hits including The Gentlemen and Avatar: The Last Airbender. However, because it is an international production, many of its cast...

They're smarter, they're faster, and they're organized in a brief new look at director Zack Snyder's upcoming zombie heist flick, Army of the Dead. Due to the released to Netflix later this month, the movie promises to refresh the legacy of the undead as Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista and his band of gun-wielding adventurers attempt to steal and survive.

They're smarter. They're faster. They're organized. #ArmyOfTheDeadpic.twitter.com/W4XEBadvXr

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Army of the Dead is the exact kind of no-nonsense, simple premise that this kind of movie needs, and centers on a group of mercenaries plot a heist on a Las Vegas casino during a zombie outbreak. Featuring an ensemble cast including Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Theo Rossi (Luke Cage), Ana De La Reguera, Huma Qureshi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Garret Dillahunt, Raúl Castillo, Nora Arnezeder, Matthias Schweighöfer, Samantha Win, Rich Cetrone and...

A new trailer for Netflix and director Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead teases the balls-to-the-wall action and large ensemble cast that will tackle a major heist as well as a zombie apocalypse. Audiences don't have to wait too much longer to bask in the undead violence, with Army of the Dead due to hit Netflix in May. Now, thanks to the new trailer, we have a more detailed look at what to expect from the Netflix outing. There is a new breed of zombie that is faster, smarter and more organized. And this being Las Vegas, of course there are zombie tigers on the prowl.

The outline of Army of the Dead is the exact kind of no-nonsense, simple premise that this kind of movie needs, and centers on a group of mercenaries plot a heist on a Las Vegas casino during a zombie outbreak. Snyder has also...

Army of the Dead lead and Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista has offered some interesting insight into what drew him to the Netflix project, alongside a new image from director Zack Snyder's upcoming zombie flick. The image depicts an intense looking Bautista, with the actor revealing that it is his love of the undead that ultimately persuaded him to sign on for Army of the Dead, having tried for years to be a part of AMC's The Walking Dead.

A new still from Zack Snyder’s ‘Army Of The Dead’ has been released.

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— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 15, 2021"I'm a zombie fan. I tried to get on Walking Dead for years. I said I would come and play a zombie for free, but they said, 'You're too big!'" And with Snyder's genre mash-up - promising scares, action, and heist-thriller twists...

Netflix is looking to make a real impact this year, with the streaming giant aiming to release a new movie every single week throughout 2021. One such release is director Zack Snyder's horror action flick, Army of the Dead, and while the movie has not yet been given an official release date, a newspaper clipping is currently doing the rounds on social media which seemingly reveals that the zombie outing will hit the streaming service in May.

While this has not yet been confirmed by Netflix themselves, the newspaper clipping, which highlights Huma S. Qureshi's role in Army of the Dead, seems pretty confident that the movie will be released in May 2021. How they were able to come by this information is unknown, but making the movie available in late May, around the start of the summer season, would certainly make sense.

Army of the Dead follows a group of...

Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista's respect and admiration for director James Gunn is no secret, but the actor has now revealed that the chance to lead the Army of the Dead was just too enticing, and ultimately led him to walk away from Gunn's next foray into comic book movies, The Suicide Squad. While Bautista was not initailly interested in taking on a role in Army of the Dead, a quick look at the script and the opportunity to work with Man of Steel director Zack Snyder quickly convinced him otherwise.

"I said I wasn't interested. I had this chip on my shoulder and was looking for juicy [dramatic roles]. Then I read the script and it was a lot deeper and had more layers than I thought. And also, to be quite frank, I wanted to work with Zack."

Not only did Bautista change his mind regarding Army of the Dead,...

Madrid — In the long run-up to February’s Berlin Festival, Picture Tree Intl. has rolled out multiple pre-sales on “100 Things,” which Warner Bros. Pictures bowed in Germany on Dec. 6 to a robust first eight-day €2.7 million ($3.07 million).

“100 Things” will receive a market screening at the Berlinale’s European Film Market.

The third feature from Florian David Fitz as a writer-director and actor, whose 2016 “The Most Beautiful Day” earned in Germany, “100 Things” was released in its original German language day-and-date with Germany in Belgium (Kino Scala) and Luxembourg (Utopia).

Of major territories, Picture Tree Intl. has also closed Cis and the Baltic States with Volgafilm, which has scheduled a theatrical release in Russia in the first quarter of next year, and with China’s Red Apollo Group, which aims to release “100 Things” in Chinese theaters third-quarter 2019.

Inspired by the Finnish documentary “My Stuff,” “100 Things” has also closed former Yugoslavia (2i Film D.

Picture Tree International line-up also includes Jakob Lass’ Tiger Girl.

Picture Tree International (Pti) has confirmed its line-up for the upcoming edition of Efm at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (February 9 - 19, 2017).

In its fourth year, the Berlin-based sales and distribution company returns with a slate including Jakob Lass’ Tiger Girl, which will receive its world premiere as a Panorama Special in Berlin; action-comedy Hot Dog, starring Til Schweiger and Matthias Schweighöfer; and Zaza Urushadze’s (Oscar nominated for 2013 drama Tangerines) The Confession.

Tiger Girl, for which Pti has acquired international rights, is Lass’ second feature, following Love Steaks (2013).

In Hot Dog, Schweiger and Schweighöfer will play two friends who make it their mission to free the daughter of the Moldovan ambassador from her kidnappers.

The film is currently being shot in Berlin and is expected to be released in autumn 2017 by Warner Bros. Pictures Germany.

The Confession (formerly titled Monk) centres on a former film director...

Simon Verhoeven’s Welcome to the Hartmanns becomes the year’s No 1 local-language film in Germany, earning more than $20m at the domestic box office

A comedy about the refugee crisis has become Germany’s biggest homegrown film of the year. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Willkommen bei den Hartmanns (Welcome to the Hartmanns) – which follows a well-to-do woman’s decision to take in an African refugee – has broken the $20m barrier at the German box office. This puts it some distance ahead of the second-placed Der Geilste Tag (The Most Beautiful Day) as the most successful German language film of 2016 at the domestic box office.

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