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Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Magnolia Entertainment has signed German actress Harriet Herbig-Matten for management.

Herbig-Matten recently rose to international fame with her starring role in Maxton Hall, Prime Video’s series adaptation of the hit novel from Mona Kasten, which in May “achieved the largest first-week global viewership for an International Original in Prime Video history,” per the streamer, and was quickly renewed for a second season.

In the show from Germany’s UFA Fiction, which occupied the #1 spot of the Prime Video charts in more than 120 countries and territories, the actress plays Ruby, who unwittingly witnesses an explosive secret at her private school Maxton Hall. The arrogant millionaire heir James Beaufort (Damian Hardung) then has to deal with the quick-witted scholarship student, for better or worse. From that point on, he tries to buy Ruby’s silence, and they soon risk everything to be together.

Since the release of Maxton Hall,...

Maxton Hall: The World Between Us explores class differences through a unique enemies-to-lovers storyline. The show's talented cast brings depth to character dynamics, enhancing the intense relationship between Ruby and James. Maxton Hall's cast increases the show's tension and its messages about the differences in social classes.

Amazon Prime Video's Maxton Hall: The World Between Us centers around the classic enemies to lovers trope, but the show's cast helps its story feel memorably different. Maxton Hall is one of the most recent additions to the list of new shows on Prime Video, and it is already making a splash. Maxton Hall follows Ruby Bell (Harriet Herbig-Matten), who sees something she shouldn't, and James Beaufort (Damian Hardung), who tries to stop her from talking about it. It's the perfect setup to potentially make Maxton Hall one of the best TV shows on Amazon Prime Video.

A major theme of Maxton Hall...

Wim Wenders’ German film production company Road Movies and Berlin-based distributor-producer Dcm have launched a partnership sees Dcm take a stake in Road Movies and co-founder and partner Marc Schmidheiny become managing director of Road Movies.

Dcm released Wenders’ two most recent films Anselm - The Rush of Time and the Oscar-nonimated Perfect Days in German-speaking cinemas.

The first joint project will be the documentary The Secret Of Places (working title), Wenders’ long-term observation of the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.

Dcm was founded in 2010 by Dario Suter, Christoph Daniel and Marc Schmidheiny, later joined by Joel Brandeis. It has established...

U.S. giants Netflix and Nickelodeon are the world’s leading providers of children’s shows, more or less on a par. But the BBC’s kids’ brand Cbbc ranks second and is also much more balanced in terms of its output of kids’ originals.

Rankings and breakdown of product type were among the takeaways of the Fresh TV Kids digital panel held Tuesday as part of the virtual MipTV market by analyst Virginia Mouseler looking at what’s trending in kids’ TV.

The main current trend “is that Netflix has become the major provider of original kids programs on a par with Nickelodeon,” said Mouseler, CEO of research outfit The Wit. She noted that the two companies recently joined forced on “Glitch Techs,” the animation show about two kids recruited to battle video-game monsters that have found their way into the real world.

Mouseler also pointed out that in...

Picture Tree Intl. has added German romantic comedy “Cold Feet” (Kalte Füsse) to its market lineup at the Berlin Film Festival, where the sales agent will screen the film as a market premiere. Sony Pictures released the pic, directed Wolfgang Groos, in Germany on Thursday, and it garnered 100,000 admissions over its opening weekend.

“Cold Feet,” set in a snow-covered landscape, tells the story of petty criminal Denis, who breaks into the winter cottage of rich business man and stroke patient Raimund. Denis is mistaken for the new nurse by Raimund’s granddaughter Charlotte, a police-academy trainee. In order not to get busted Denis decides to play along. Then a snowstorm hits and a game of cat and mouse ensues in the snowbound house.

Denis is played by Emilio Sakraya, who previously appeared in “Heilstätten” and the “Bibi & Tina” movie franchise; Raimund is played by Heiner Lauterbach, whose credits include...

Amazon Prime has greenlit the first season of a live action series based on the hit German kids franchise Bibi & Tina.

German director Detlev Buck, who has helmed four hit feature films based on the Biba & Tina stories, is on board for the Amazon adaptation as creator and director. He will be joined by his Bibi & Tina screenwriter, Bettina Borgerding, and Peter Plate and Ulf Leo Sommer, who composed the soundtracks for all four films. 

Bibi & Tina will be the streamer's sixth original German-language series and will start production next year.

The Bibi & Tina stories follow the adventures ...

Amazon Prime Video has greenlit a first season of “Bibi & Tina,” a live-action series adaptation of the popular German franchise, which already boasts a number of films and an animated show.

The live-action family entertainment series, which will mark Amazon’s sixth German original series, follows the adventures of Bibi, a teenage witch, and her best friend, Tina. The show will reflect “the existing franchise’s central themes of the value of friendship, family, trust, tolerance, ecology and sustainability,” Amazon said in a statement.

The series was announced at a show-and-tell in London on Tuesday. “Bibi & Tina” will roll out exclusively on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories.

Dcm Pictures and Kiddinx Studios are producing the Prime Original series with Amazon Studios. Detlev Buck, the creative mind and director of the four “Bibi & Tina” movies, is on board to direct the series. Gabriele Salomon is executive producing.