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Exclusive: Lionsgate and Grindstone Entertainment have acquired rights to the comedy The Duel, exec produced by and starring Dylan Sprouse (Beautiful Disaster), in North America, as well as all other English-speaking and Latin American territories.

Marking Sprouse’s first project as EP, the film will hit theaters via Lionsgate and Iconic Releasing at the end of July. In support of its release, a number of cast members will be in attendance this weekend at the Indy 500 parade, which will include a car and racing helmets themed to the film. Those expected to attend include Sprouse, Hart Denton (Riverdale), Maria Gabriela de Faria (upcoming Superman), Rachel Matthews (Frozen II) and Christian McGaffney (Simón).

Marking the directorial debut of Justin Matthews & Luke Spencer Roberts, the co-writers of Amazon’s Upgraded, who also penned the script, The Duel is about a modern friend group falling apart and the craziest way to deal with it: by bringing back dueling.

Two heavyweights of German television and film are uniting.

Nico Hofmann and Jan Mojto are teaming with Jan Wünschmann, a producer at Mojto’s company Beta, to create films and TV series in Germany and Europe. Projects will be targeted at the international market.

Hofmann, was the longtime boss of German production giant UFA, and Mojto said they are “connected by half a lifetime of producing” title such as TV event series The Tunnel in the early 2000s and newer series such as Generation War, Dresden, The Tower and The Same Sky.

“Jan Mojto and I have been close colleagues and friends for more than 20 years – our eye for programming, uncompromising quality, and passion for our profession unites us,” said Hofmann. “It is the next logical step in my career to join forces and produce together with Beta Film. The individuals and their creativity are the building blocks for a long-lasting bond.

Iconic German film and TV executive Jan Mojto is launching a partnership with longstanding friend and UFA head Nico Hofmann that will produce German and European series and films for the international market.

They are joined in the unnamed venture by Beta producer Jan Wünschmann.

The partnership was announced Wednesday, on the eve of the annual Berlin Film Festival. No projects were disclosed.

Hofmann and Mojto are connected by half a lifetime of producing. With “The Tunnel”, the duo pioneered the TV event genre in Germany in the early 2000s. Since then, two dozen collaborative and internationally successful television and film productions have followed. These include hits “Generation War,” “Dresden,” “The Tower” and “The Same Sky.”

“This partnership is the fulfillment of a long-held wish. Nico Hofmann is one of the best German producers; He is a gifted storyteller. His professional and personal qualities, which I have known for more than 25 years,...

Nico Hofmann, the long-time CEO and current chair of German production giant UFA, maker of Generation War, Deutschland 83 and Charité, is leaving the Fremantle-owned company to go solo, setting up his own production house and joining forces with long-time collaborator Jan Mojto of Beta Film.

Hofmann will be stepping down as chairman of UFA on March 1 and has signed an exclusive first-look deal with Mojto’s Beta Film, producer of Babylon Berlin, that will see Hofmann, Mojto, and Beta producer Jan Wünschmann co-produce German and European series and films for the international market.

Hofmann and Mojto have a history going back decades. The duo pioneered event television and helped elevate German drama to international prominence with such limited series, as The Tunnel (2001), The Tower (2012) and Generation War (2013). These award-winning dramas, co-produced between Mojto’s Beta and Hofmann’s UFA-owned production group TeamWorx (now UFA Fiction), were also ratings hits in Germany and internationally.

Sascha Schwingel has been named the new CEO of German TV production giant UFA, replacing Nico Hofmann, who will become chair of the Berlin-based company behind such series as Generation War, Deutschland ’83 and Ku’damm 56. UFA is part of global production giant Fremantle.

Hofmann, who has been CEO of UFA since 2017, joined the company in 1998, setting up UFA’s serial fiction group teamWorx (now UFA Fiction). He is largely credited with helping turn UFA into Germany’s leading television producer, with shows across all genres and on air on virtually every German channel and streaming service.

The group consists of four production units: UFA Fiction, which produces high-end drama such as Deutschland ’83, Charité and the recent Disney+ series Sam – A Saxon; soaps division UFA Serial Drama, whose long-running serials include Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten and Unter Uns; UFA Show & Factual, which produce shiny floor shows including the local versions...

UFA’s long-serving CEO Nico Hofmann is stepping down from his post and becoming Chairman of Fremantle’s German powerhouse, with former Rtl and exec Sascha Schwingel replacing him.

Hofmann has been chief exec of the Deutschland 83 and Generation War maker since 2017 but has been with the company for more than a quarter of a century. In that sense, his exit from the CEO post marks the end of an era.

Hofmann had joined in 1998 to set up TeamWorx, which is now UFA Fiction, and went on to produce many of Germany’s best-travelling drama series. Notably Deutschland 83 was the first from the country to air on a U.S. network.

His replacement, Schwingel, was most recently Deputy Chief Content Officer of Rtl Deutschland, overseeing the likes of Rtl Television, Rtl+ and Vox, where he was previously CEO. He is well known to Hofman having started his career at TeamWorx.

COLOGNE, Germany -- German public broadcasters have again put their commercial rivals to shame, dominating the nominations for this year's German Television Awards, the nation's top TV honors. Pubcaster ZDF led the pack with nominations in 24 categories, including multiple noms for historic miniseries Dresden and telefilm Die Nachrichten (The News). Sister channel ARD was close behind with 21 noms, with such series as multicultural comedy Turkish For Beginners and legal drama Family Law among those singled out. Of the commercial channels, RTL was the best represented, with 10 nominations. While drama and news programming was dominated by the pubcasters, RTL excelled with such comedy and entertainment shows as hit sitcom Everyone Loves Jimmy, about a Turkish-German family, and Let Dance! the local version of Dancing With the Stars.

BERLIN -- German broadcaster ProSiebenSat .1 posted stronger profits and sales figures Thursday as speculation continued that the Munich-based channel group is about to be put up for sale by owner Haim Saban. Thanks to a mild recovery in the German advertising market, ProSieben managed to boost sales 8.2% in the first quarter to ?x20AC;465.3 million ($592.5 million) and inched up net profit to ?x20AC;30.7 million ($39.1 million) from ?x20AC;28.7 million in the same period last year. Berlin-based channel Sat.1 was the big earner for the group, with sales up 4% to ?x20AC;194.1 million ($247.2 million) and pre-tax profits up a staggering 68% to ?x20AC;32.8 million ($41.8 million). Sat.1's home-grown programming, particularly big-budget miniseries Dresden and red-hot Telenovela That's Life have boosted the channel's market share and, more importantly, pulled in a much younger demographic for the traditionally older-skewing net.

CANNES -- Britain's Channel 4 has picked up Dresden, the big-budget miniseries from pubweb ZDF on the Allied firebombing of the German city in 1945. Directed by Roland Suso Richter (The Tunnel) and starring German actress Felicitas Woll and Brit actor John Light, the two-parter was a ratings smash for ZDF, drawing 12.7 million viewers for a 31% market share on its airing March 5-6. That was the best performance for a TV movie in Germany since 1992. Dresden is the first dramatic retelling of the bombing from a German perspective. The subject is controversial. Some historians describe the bombings as a war crime because they deliberately targeted civilians and there was no military purpose to the attacks. Others say the Dresden air raids were justified as punishment for the Nazi Holocaust. Dresden is the latest in a wave of high-gloss historic miniseries out of Germany that have been generating mega ratings at home and significant interest abroad. Dresden producers teamWorx also scored with Storm Flood for RTL, about the devastating floods in Hamburg in 1962 and Airlift for Sat.1 on the 1948 American-run airlift to provide supplies to the citizens of West Berlin who had been cut off from the world by the Soviet army. Dresden has already sold to Canal Plus and France 2 in France, to Telecinco in Spain and Rai Cinema for Italy. Sales agent Beta Cinema says it expects to close several more territories during MIPTV.

COLOGNE, Germany -- Dresden: The Inferno, a $12 million miniseries from German production heavyweight teamWorx, set new standards for German-made telefilms Sunday night, grabbing a record audience of 12.7 million and a 32.6% market share for pubcaster ZDF. That represents the best-ever rating for a telefilm in Germany since local ratings agency GfK began collecting data in 1992. The second half of Dresden was to air Monday night. Directed by Roland Suso Richter, the mini recounts the devastating bombing of the city of Dresden by Allied forces in February 1945, shortly before the end of World War II. At least 35,000 people, virtually all of them civilians, were killed in the attack. Richter's miniseries breaks new ground by focusing on the suffering of ordinary Germans during the war. Dresden is the second historic success for teamWorx. Last month, The Storm Tide, the company's big-budget retelling of the catastrophic 1962 flooding of Hamburg, won an impressive 31.3% market share for commercial channel RTL, with 11.2 million viewers tuning in.