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The Austrian-German crime thriller Woman of the Dead (Totenfrau ) premiered in 2022 on the Austrian Orf channel, after which it made its way to Netflix, where it also became a solid hit. Fans had been waiting for a new season of the acclaimed show and the wait is finally over.

The second season of the acclaimed series, also consisting of six episodes, premiered earlier this year on Orf and on March 19, 2025, it is going to appear – finally – on Netflix as well.

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The series has been created by Barbara Stepansky, Benito Mueller, and Wolfgang Mueller, and stars Anna Maria Mühe as Brünhilde Blum, Yousef Sweid as Reza Shadid, Romina Küper as Dunja, and Emilia Pieske as Nela Thaler.

“In a vengeful quest to find out who killed her husband, a...

Greenwich Entertainment has acquired Durga Chew-Bose’s directorial debut, Bonjour Tristesse, starring Chloë Sevigny (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans), Claes Bang (The Square), and Lily McInerny (Palm Trees and Power Lines), on the heels of its premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.

Based on the acclaimed 1954 novel from Françoise Sagan — which Otto Preminger previously adapted into a BAFTA-nominated feature — pic will hit U.S. theaters next summer via Greenwich as Elevation releases it in Canada. The film has sold to Spain (Filmin), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo) Mena (Falcon), Cis (Nashe Kino), Former Yugoslavia (McF MegaCom), Bulgaria (Cinelibri), and Airlines (Skeye), with Universal Pictures distributing internationally.

A Babe Nation Films and Elevation Pictures production, Bonjour Tristesse follows 18-year-old Cécile (McInerny), who at the height of summer, is languishing by the French seaside with her handsome father, Raymond (Bang), and his lover, Elsa (Naïlia Harzoune), when the arrival of her...

Greenwich Entertainment has acquired US rights to Toronto premiere Bonjour Tristesse starring Chloë Sevigny and Claes Bang, which has scored territory sales through Films Constellation.

Durga Chew-Bose directed the Babe Nation Films and Elevation Pictures production, based on Françoise Sagan’s novel.

Films Constellation has licensed rights to Spain (Filmin), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo) Mena (Falcon), Cis (Nashe Kino), former Yugoslavia (McF MegaCom), and Bulgaria (Cinelibri), with Universal Pictures distributing in other key territories.

Greenwich will release Bonjour Tristesse theatrically in summer 2025 and Elevation distributes in Canada.

Lily McInerny plays 18-year-old Cécile, who is spending the summer by the French seaside...

London and Paris based production, finance and sales outfit Film Constellation have revealed the first look of “Bonjour Tristesse,” which just wrapped principal photography. The adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s novel is directed by Durga Chew-Bose. Film Constellation is showing exclusive first promo footage to buyers during the European Film Market.

Academy Award nominee and Golden Globes winner Chloë Sevigny stars alongside Claes Bang with rising talent Lily McInerny in the role of Cécile. McInerny received a best breakthrough performance nomination at the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards.

This contemporary adaptation also stars Aliocha Schneider (“Greek Salad”) and Naïlia Harzoune (“Patients”).

The film is produced by Babe Nation Films’s Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott, Elevation Pictures’ Noah Segal and Christina Piovesan, Wolfgang Mueller and Benito Mueller of Barry Films and Cinenovo’s Julie Viez. Executive producers are Fabien Westerhoff for Constellation Prods., Suzanne Court, Elevation’s Omar Chalabi, Jesse Weening and Emily Kulasa,...

Exclusive: Oscar nominee Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don’t Cry), European Film Awards best actor winner Claes Bang (The Square), Sundance 2022 breakout Lily McInerny (Palm Trees and Power Lines) and French actress Nailia Harzoune (Gone For Good) are leading an English-language contemporary adaptation of French writer Françoise Sagan’s classic novel Bonjour Tristesse.

London and Paris-based outfit Film Constellation is launching sales in Cannes on the project written and to be directed by newcomer Durga Chew-Bose. UTA Independent Film Group is repping domestic sales alongside Film Constellation and Elevation Pictures.

The story follows Cécile (McInerny), a young woman spending the summer in a villa in the south of France with her widowed father Raymond (Bang) and his latest love interest, Elsa (Harzoune). Theirs is a lived-in compatibility—a world of ease and languor. But all that soon changes with the arrival of Anne (Sevigny), an old friend of Raymond and Cécile’s mother.

Woman of the Dead (Totenfrau) is a series created by Benito Mueller, Wolfgang Mueller and Barbara Stepansky. It stars Anna Maria Mühe. It is based on a novel by Bernhard Aichner and It is directed by Nicolai Rohde.

Another noir series offered to us by the streaming platform for this weekend. This Austrian drama, thriller series is a story of revenge set in the Alps. An earthy production, and with good performances this will be to the liking of noir thriller fans.

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In six episodes we follow Brünhilde, a Leichendiener (a morgue employee). As her beloved husband dies in a strangely off accident, she starts to suspect this was after all no accident. An so, starts her quest.

It is an unassuming series that is quite classic in narrative style, slow paced and no grand effects, we are given a realistic setting, but not much profundity in character study.

Lars Wiebe, Neflix’s newly installed manager of international original film for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, has set out the kind of projects that he is looking for.

Speaking at the Zurich Summit, Wiebe said the streamer leans into “interesting, new and fresh ideas – films that might not have been possible in the old traditional world.”

The streamer has had big international success recently with the release of German vampire and plane hijacking movie “Blood Red Sky.” Coming up is the first ever German language adaptation of “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

In post for the past two and a half months, Wiebe said that he was looking for a range of projects, and stressed that Netflix had the ability to greenlight films that might previously have struggled to put together funding.

Citing “Blood Red Sky,” he said: “Where else would you find a vampire action film on a plane made out of Germany,...

MGM Motion Picture Group president Pamela Abdy and chairman Michael De Luca are to open the Zurich Summit on Saturday with a keynote conversation with CAA Media Finance co-head Roeg Sutherland.

Billed as a boutique conference, the two-day Summit gathers around 100 film producers, sales executives and creators in film, TV and entertainment as well as technology entrepreneurs and financiers at The Dolder Grand.

The first day of the Summit features keynotes and panel sessions, while the second day includes networking activities such as a tennis tournament, a barbecue and a dinner.

Head of Zff Industry Reta Guetg says Zurich deliberately opts for a boutique feel to its Summit where people “have input on Saturday, and fun on Sunday and in the evenings” to create a point of difference with other major events in the festival and market calendar. The idea is to create an atmosphere where execs and creatives can...

Bruce Dern has joined Josh Hartnett and Margarita Levieva in Anthony Jerjen's crime thriller Inherit the Viper.

Owen Teague, Valorie Curry, Chandler Riggs and Dash Mihok have also been cast in the project, which features an original script by Andrew Crabtree. Michel Merkt and Benito Mueller are producing, with Barry Films' Wolfgang Mueller serving as executive producer. Principal photography has commenced this week.

Inherit the Viper peers into the prescription drug epidemic ravaging West Virginia by following three siblings (Harnett, Levieva and Teague) as they try to escape the opioids business after their father’s passing.

Dern — an Oscar nominee for Nebraska and Coming Home —...

Exclusive: Josh Hartnett and The Deuce‘s Margarita Levieva have been set to star in Inherit the Viper, a crime thriller revolving around the timely topic of the prescription drug epidemic ravaging the U.S. Swiss-born Anthony Jerjen is making his feature directorial debut on the pic, which is based on an original script by Andrew Crabtree. Elle and Toni Erdmann producer Michel Merkt is producing, with Benito Mueller also producing and Wolfgang Mueller executive producing…...

Shot in June in Los Angeles, The Force features Olivia Thirlby and Ben Feldman in the pole position as newly married urbanites with a faint degree of amnesia with a supporting cast familiar indie face offerings of Adam Goldberg, Analeigh Tipton, Scott Haze, Lesley Ann Warren, Betsy Brandt, John Ross Bowie, Jon Heder, Alison Sudol and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. Latin American/Los Angeles transplanted AFI alumni visual artist and painter Rafael Palacio Illingworth got his start with another relationship-themed dramedy with the micro budgeted Macho (2009) and in-between features he filmed some commercial spots and put out a pair of shorts with one bringing him to the Venice Film Festival.

Gist: Thirlby and Feldman play a couple confronted by the fear that settling down and getting married means their carefree days as city-dwelling young adults coming to an abrupt and depressing end. Both are tempted by the allure of another life...

Robert Pattinson’s character in “Life” shines behind the camera rather than in front of it, as the “Twilight” actor plays a photojournalist profiling James Dean. Directed by Anton Corbijn (“A Most Wanted Man”), the period drama set in the 1950s follows Dennis Stock (Pattinson) as he meets the up-and-coming Hollywood icon, played by Dane DeHaan. See-Saw Films and First Generation Films produced “Life,” which also stars Oscar winner Ben Kingsley and Alessandra Mastronardi (“To Rome With Love”). Luke Davies wrote “Life,” and it is co-produced by Wolfgang Mueller and Benito Mueller of Barry Films. Also Read: Ben Kingsley Joins Robert Pattinson,...

The man, the myth, the legend, Slash is launching a crowdfunding campaign for his second feature film, The Hell Within. Also: details on both The Dark Below Fantasia world premiere and Vintage Tomorrows Comic-Con 2015 screening.

The Hell Within: Press Release: "Iconic guitarist Slash announced today that he will produce his second feature film “The Hell Within” and is looking to engage fans in the making of the film from start to finish. Fans will have a variety of unique on-going incentives and exclusive rewards that will be offered starting today and expanding through every stage of the film’s completion at TheHellWithin.com.

The campaign commences today with a selection of opportunities with more to be unveiled over the coming weeks. Many of the rewards will provide unprecedented access behind the scenes of both “The Hell Within” film and Slash’s concerts. On-going reward opportunities include: private screenings, premiere tickets,...

Guitar god and now film producer Slash has unveiled a crowdfunding campaign for his second horror film The Hell Within, which he is producing under his SlashFiction banner in partnership with Benito Mueller and Wolfgang Mueller of Barry Films. Directed by Dennison Ramalho (ABCs Of Death 2) and written by The Midnight Meat Train scribe Jeff Buhler, it centers on a woman from New York on a quest into the heart of the Brazilian jungle to save a missing girl, only to discover…...

Entertainment One Films has picked up North American rights to Walter, starring The Walking Dead‘s Andrew J. West with a supporting cast that includes William H. Macy, Virginia Madsen, Neve Campbell, and more. West stars as Walter, a movie theater ticket taker who believes he’s the son of God and that it’s his duty to judge whether people are bound for Heaven or Hell. Anna Mastro directed and Paul Shoulberg adapted the screenplay from his own short story. Peter Facinelli, Justin Kirk, Jim Gaffigan, Milo Ventimiglia, and Levin Rambin also star. Ryan Harris, Brenden Patrick Hill, Christine Holder, Mark Holder and Benito Mueller produced Walter and Bill Johnson, Jennifer Laurent, Michel Merkt and Wolfgang Mueller executive produced. A day and date theatrical/VOD release is planned for the spring. EOne’s Katharyn Howe negotiated the deal with CAA on behalf of the filmmakers. Beta Cinema will rep...

Anton Corbijn-directed feature stars Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan.

Ben Kingsley and Alessandra Mastronardi are the latest additions to the cast of Life, the James Dean biopic directed by Anton Corbijn that has begun principal photography.

The feature is produced by See-Saw Films and First Generation Films, from a script by Luke Davies (Candy), and stars Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan, as first reported by ScreenDaily last September.

It is inspired by the true story of a friendship that developed between Magnum photographer Dennis Stock (Pattinson) and actor James Dean (DeHaan) when Stock was commissioned to photograph the actor for Life magazine in 1955. The assignment took the pair on a journey across the Us, from La to New York and on to Indiana.

Producers are See-Saw Films’ Iain Canning and Emile Sherman with Christina Piovesan of First Generation Films and is co-produced by Wolfgang Mueller and Benito Mueller of Barry Films.

The project...

Ottawa - Ben Kingsley and Alessandra Mastronardi (To Rome with Love) have jumped on board the Robert Pattinson-starrer Life, now shooting in Toronto. The latest feature from director Anton Corbijn tells the story of a freelance photographer, Dennis Stock (Pattinson), on assignment for Life Magazine, and his unlikely friendship with the actor James Dean, played by Dane DeHaan. The German/Canadian/Australian co-production comes from Australian writer Luke Davies. Life is produced by See-Saw Films' Iain Canning and Emile Sherman, with Christina Piovesan of First Generation Films, and is co-produced by Wolfgang Mueller and Benito Mueller of Barry Films.

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Principal photography has begun on Anton Corbijn's "Life," an American road movie which stars Robert Pattinson as Life Magazine photographer Dennis Stock and Dane DeHaan as free spirit James Dean. The film about their iconic 1955 photo shoot and friendship will be shot in in Los Angeles and Toronto. Alessandra Mastronardi and Ben Kingsley also star.  Corbijn debuted his latest film "A Most Wanted Man," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, in Sundance. Other films include "The American," and "Control." Pattinson starred in the "Twilight" series and "Cosmopolis," and will next be seen in "The Rover." DeHaan has broken out in the last year in "Kill Your Darlings" and "The Place Beyond the Pines."  Produced by See-Saw Films' Iain Canning and Emile Sherman ("Shame") with Christina Piovesan of First Generation Films ("The Whistleblower") and co-produced by Wolfgang Mueller and Benito Mueller of Barry Films, "Life" is written by Luke Davies ("Candy...

Anton Corbijn’s Life also set to get direct government investment from Screen Australia.

Many Australian filmgoers were today thrilled to hear that director Clayton Jacobson and his brother, the actor Shane Jacobson, the two brains behind the good-natured local box office hit Kenny [pictured], are finally going to be making a followup.

The family movie Oddball is one of two features to get direct government investment from Screen Australia, it was announced today. In the other, the official co-production Life, starring Robert Pattinson of Twilight fame, Australia and Germany are minority partners alongside Canada.

“Oddball has the perfect mix to really carry across to an international audience,” Clayton Jacobson told Screendaily. “It is your classic four quadrant film. Both Shane and I were invited on board for the ride… We are thrilled to be able to work together again. It’s not every day someone pays you to hang out with family.”

Kenny was made...

Screen Australia board.s first meeting since Graeme Mason was hired as CEO was eventful as the agency approved $11 million investment in four feature films, four adult dramas and one children.s series.

All told, that will trigger $70 million in production. The features include family film Oddball from the team who made Kenny, starring Shane Jacobson and directed by his brother Clayton; and See-Saw Films. Life, which stars Dane DeHaan and Robert Pattinson.

Two theatrical documentaries were funded: Only the Dead, which explores the career of Australian war correspondent Michael Ware; and Sherpa: In the Shadow of the Mountain, which looks at the drama of a high altitude Everest expedition from the point of view of the Sherpas.

.This is a strong line-up of character-driven feature projects coming from an incredibly talented mix of filmmakers,. said Mason.

Scripted by Peter Ivan, Oddball centres on an eccentric chicken farmer who saves...

William H. Macy, Virginia Madsen, Peter Facinelli and Andrew J West have all joined Anna Mastro's dramedy "Walter".

Based on a short story by Paul Schoulberg, the action follows a movie theater worker who believes that he is actually the son of God.

As such, the eternal destiny of everyone he encounters is his responsibility — along with a neurotic mother, and a growing but unspoken affection for his co-worker.

Neve Campbell, Leven Rambin and Milo Ventimiglia also star in the film which Paul Schoulberg is adapting.

Mark Holder, Christine Holder, Brendan Patrick Hill, Ryan Harris and Benito Mueller are producing. Filming is currently underway in Indiana and Los Angeles.

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The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Richard Linklater's Bernie as the opening night film for the 2011 festival.

The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.

The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.

"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...

John Carpenter will serve as the executive producer on the Brazilian/German thriller co-production "The Hell Within" for Barry Films.

The story follows a woman who goes on a quest into the heart of a Brazilian jungle to save a girl, only to discover that the girl was just the bait.

Award-winning Brazilian director Dennison Ramalho helms from a script by Jeff Buhler ("Midnight Meat Train").

Benito Mueller and Wolfgang Müller will produce. Shooting will take place on location in the Amazon jungles of Brazil.

Master of Horror John Carpenter is teaming up with award-winning Brazilian director Dennison Ramalho and “Midnight Meat Train” writer Jeff Buhler for a new horror movie called “The Hell Within” for producers Benito Mueller and Wolfgang Mueller of Barry Films. This is in addition to Carpenter recently announcing that he’ll be directing a live-action version of the comic book “DarkChylde”. The plot of “Hell” goes thusly: The Hell Within tells the story of a woman who goes on a quest into the heart of a Brazilian jungle to save a girl, only to discover that the girl was just the bait. See, this is why I always ignore a girl screaming for help. Nothing good ever comes from it. According to director Dennison Ramalho, “The Hell Within” has “components” of Carpenter’s “The Thing”, which is never a bad thing to say about your upcoming horror/monster movie. Carpenter,...