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Exclusive: Prime Video Germany’s upcoming feature about the Elevator Boys has danced its way into production.

Cameras began rolling on Elevator Boys on March 4, with filming taking place in locations including the international production-friendly Malta.

The Elevator Boys movie, which was unveiled locally last month, will follow the German boy band, who consist of Bene Schulz, Jacob Rott, Julien Brown, Luis Freitag, and Tim Schaecker.

The band found fame after posting videos on TikTok, going on to sell out Wembley stadium with the launch of their first single ‘Runaway’ in 2023 and become fashion icons. The band recently signed with CAA.

Amazon says the film will combined “music and adventure in a unique story” and will launch on streamer Prime Video in 2026. Full casting details are being kept under wraps.

Per the synopsis: “Since childhood, five best friends – Matteo (Julien), Jonas (Tim), Chris (Luis), Ben (Jacob), and Oliver (Bene) – have...

Exclusive: German Films, the agency that promotes German cinema globally, has revealed the seven participants for its annual Face to Face campaign, which include talents who have worked on projects such as Unorthodox, We Children From Bahnhof Zoo and Tides.

This year, which marks the 10th anniversary of the Face to Face initiative, will see German Films introduce seven burgeoning talents from the German film and TV industry to the international film community at the Berlin Film Festival next month. The initiative has long been considered a significant platform for showcasing German talents to the wider film and television spheres.

This year’s selection includes actors Aaron Altaras, Lea Drinda and Thea Ehre, writer-directors Leonie Krippendorff and Mariko Minoguchi, as well as director Mala Reinhardt and Director of Photography Tim Kuhn.

They are following in the footsteps of filmmakers and stars Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Burhan Qurbani, Saskia Rosendahl, Alexander Fehling,...

Exclusive: Prime Video has unveiled plans for a trio of docs from German producer Beetz Brothers Film Productions.

Here in Berlin at the inaugural Seriesly Berlin event, a November 10 launch was set for German Cocaine Cowboy on Prime Video Germany. A second doc, Billions Mike (aka Milliarden Mike), will debut a week later (November) before Killy My Doppelgänger debuts in 2025.

Prime Video has licensed the three docs, which from Leonine Studios-owned Beetz Brothers Productions.

German Cocaine Cowboys, a four-part documentary series about rise of Hamburg gangster Joe Marx to the top of the notorious Cali cartel in the 1990s and his subsequent return to Germany after years off jail time, was teased last month and footage is being shown to delegates her in Berlin today.

The producers are Christian Beetz and Georg Tschurtschenthaler for Beetz Brothers, and the director is Peter Dörfler. Production is supported by German Motion Picture Fund and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

The candy-colored look of Barbie delivered colorist Yvan Lucas of Company 3 the FilmLight Color Award for a theatrical feature.

The third annual awards — organized by FilmLight, the maker of the Baselight color grading system, in collaboration with Camerimage — were presented Sunday at the EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival in Toruń, Poland. From roughly 400 entries, honorees were selected by a jury chaired by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lawrence Sher (Joker, Joker: Folie à Deux), who presented the awards.

Of his award-winning work on Barbie, which was directed by Greta Gerwig and lensed by cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, Lucas tells The Hollywood Reporter, “Rodrigo Prieto and I both like to work together on the overall look of a film before production starts. Creating LUTs (Look Up Tables) that define the way color and contrast will be affected helps Rodrigo, the director and the department heads all work toward a common goal.

“For the majority of Barbie,...

You may not realize it, but the fantasy genre has a way of bridging boundaries between radically different groups of people. While worldly cultures and customs often collide with each other in a mess of expectations and misunderstandings, fantasy worlds offer an even playing field for telling a universally-understood story.

For example, in Prime Video's upcoming German original, The Gryphon, you won't have to understand the history of German culture and mannerisms to enjoy a classic story from one of the country's most prolific authors. It'd certainly help, but it's not necessary.

Yes, The Gryphon -- aka, Der Greif -- from acclaimed German author Wolfgang Hohlbein is hitting the small screen in an epic fantasy series produced by Amazon. Originally announced in 2021 alongside Luden and Gefesselt, the series will be developed by the same studio behind Netflix's critically-acclaimed series Dark, W&b Television.

If that wasn't enough of a draw,...

An ode to Germany’s most notorious red-light district of the '80s, The Pimp: No F**ing Fairytale (Luden: Könige der Reeperbahn) is available to watch on one particular streaming service. Keep on reading to find out which one you can catch it on.

The Pimp: No F**ing Fairytale takes you back to the days when instant gratification was a little harder to come by. One would have to leave the comfort of their own home and track down their particular favorite method of satisfaction instead of watching it on a little screen.

As the name boldly claims and inspired by true events, this new drama series is a gritty recreation of life in Germany’s most active red-light districts and follows the journey of Klaus Barkowsky (Aaron Hilmer), a fresh-faced bartender who has stumbled upon a new vocation, pimping.

Klaus is pretty down-and-out, sleeping in the...

Amazon has unveiled its 2022-23 German originals slate as it up investment in the country, with new Prime Video comedy shows and the latest All or Nothing soccer doc among the highlights. At the same time, Prime Video Channels will soon offer Discovery+ and Paramount+ as add-ons.

At a Prime Video Presents Germany showcase event today in Munich, Prime Video Country Director Kaspar Pflüger said the company would “continue to invest massively in the German-speaking region,” as local content chief Philip Pratt revealed looks at fantasy series The Gryphon, 1980s-set drama series Luden and the adaptation of Sebastian Fitzek’s The Therapy, and announced several new shows, including another All or Nothing series in the soccer-mad country.

The All or Nothing docu-series will follow the German national football team’s journey to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, showing what goes on in front of and behind the scenes at the tournament.

Exclusive: Amazon’s Head of German Originals Philip Pratt says an upcoming slew of films and TV series are the culmination of two years’ work, as Prime Video seeks to “stand out in the face of a flood of content” and plots a major local unscripted push.

Later this evening, Pratt and Amazon German Country Manager Kasper Pflueger will unveil several shows and films at a Prime Video Presents event in Munich, including Silver, which Deadline broke the news of earlier today.

In an exclusive interview with Deadline, Pratt said he sees the slate as a culmination of a period of development and production that will position the SVoD uniquely against a field of other global streamers and revitalized local broadcasters, all of whom are spending significant sums on their own original shows. “The last two years have been about building and development and now we’re ready to go.