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German major Leonine Studios has launched a documentaries label. Jochen Koestler, who joined from Constantin last year, will oversee Leonine Documentaries as the company pushes further into the space. It said it would focus on enhancing Leonine’s current docs offering while pushing ahead “with…

EXCLUSIVE: Picture Tree International (PTI) has boarded sales on German Iranian director Alireza Golafshan's comedy Everything's Fifty Fifty about a divorced couple who embark on a family vacation, ahead of the AFM. Laura Tonke (Jupiter) and Moritz Bleitreu (The Experiment, Manta Manta Legacy) play a…

It's been four years since ex-Constantin exec Fred Kogel established Leonine Studios in Germany and in that short time it's become one of the country’s biggest powerhouses, releasing between 20 and 25 films per year. It has since aligned itself with sister company Mediawan in France which, says Kogel…

EXCLUSIVE: Leonine Studios’ Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion has hired international doc expert Martin Pieper from public network ZDF. The experienced exec will exit ZDF after 20 years to join the German production house on October 1 as International Producer. Gebrueder Beetz is known for docs…

Multistory Media Bolsters Entertainment TeamITV Studios label MultiStory Media has bolstered its entertainment team. Simone Haywood has been promoted to Creative Director for MultiStory London, while Jon Cahn has joined as Executive Producer and Zinia Scroggs has been appointed Series Editor. Haywood was…

EXCLUSIVE: Fast-growing European production group Leonine Studios has bought into compatriot Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion, the company behind Netflix’s first German docuseries, we’ve learned. Munich-based Leonine has bought 50% of Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG (Berlin, Hamburg and…

With production underway on its Milli Vanilli biopic Girl You Know It’s True, Leonine Studios has revealed the first-look photos for the pic produced by Wiedemann & Berg Film. Newcomers Tijan Njie and Elan Ben Ali are set to portray the respective lead roles of Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan. Matthias Schweighöfer…

EXCLUSIVE: Leonine Studios is kicking on with a doc series about a global talent scouting program run by German soccer giants FC Bayern. FC Bayern World Squad is based on the second edition of the initiative of the same name, which enables young, talented soccer players from around the world to get closer to their…

Germany’s Leonine Studios is acquiring Berlin-based Hyperbole Medien. Effective June 1, Hyperbole will sit next to i&u TV, Madame Zheng Production, Odeon Fiction, SEO Entertainment, W&B Television and Wiedemann & Berg Film in the Leonine production group. Hyperbole focuses on socially relevant entertainment using a…

EXCLUSIVE: Leonine Studios has taken worldwide rights to German-Norwegian thriller series The Seed (working title), which is set around the explosive takeover of a seed company and comes from Chameleon writer Christian Jeltsch. The Germany-based producer-distributor joins its subsidiary Odeon Fiction, alongside…

Germany's Leonine Studios has acquired distribution rights to AGC Television's Australian crime drama Troppo. The eight-part series comes is based on the Crimson Lake novel series from writer Candice Fox and recently debuted on the ABC in Australia. In the U.S., it is set to go out on Amazon’s IMDb TV (soon to be…