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Jamie Lang Outsider Pictures has struck a deal with Berlin-based international sales agent Picture Tree International for U.S. distribution rights to a pair of Scandinavian dramas, “Stormskerry Maja” and “The Missile.” Both films will get limited theatrical runs next spring.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Tom Tykwer’s “The Light” will open the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. The German-French production, Das Licht (“The Light”) will be presented as a Berlinale Special Gala out of competition in the Berlinale Palast.

Nao has announced headline tour dates in the UK, Europe and North America for 2025 – you can find all the details below.The east London singer-songwriter is due to hit the road early next year, shortly after releasing her fourth album ‘Jupiter’ on February 21 (pre-order/pre-save here).She’ll begin the European leg of the trek in Amsterdam on February 25 before heading to Brussels, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Berlin and Paris ahead of five UK gigs in early March.Nao is scheduled to perform at Birmingham’s O2 Institute, Manchester’s New Century Hall, Glasgow’s Saint Luke’s and Bristol’s O2 Academy. The BRIT and Mercury-nominated artist will then head to London for a hometown concert at the O2 Academy Brixton on March 12.In April, she’ll visit North America for shows in Atlanta, New York, Toronto, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles and other cities in the US and Canada throughout that month and into early May.Tickets go on general sale at 3pm GMT/4pm CET/10am EST this Friday (December 6).

A new ER is expected to open its doors on Apple: The streamer has set a February 26 premiere date for Berlin ER, a German-language medical drama co-created by former emergency room physician-turned-screenwriter Samuel Jefferson, together with Viktor Jakovleski.

Parcels have announced a huge 2025 European arena tour, including a date at Wembley Arena – see the full list below.The Berlin-based band will play a string of six dates across the continent in September and October next year, kicking off in Dusseldorf’s Mitsubishi Electric Halle on September 25.They stop off in Amsterdam, Berlin and Brussels, headline London’s OVO Arena Wembley on September 27, and finally wrap up in Paris’ Accor Arena on October 8.Tickets for the shows go on general sale on Friday (December 6), and you can find yours here.SEPTEMBER 202525 – Dusseldorf, Mitsubishi Electric Halle26 – Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome27 – London, OVO Wembley ArenaOCTOBER 20254 – Berlin, Max-Schmeling-Halle7 – Brussels, Forest National8 – Paris, Accor ArenaThe new dates follow on from a series of festival announcements for Parcels in 2025, including Paris’ We Love Green and Lollapalooza’s South American line-ups. The band will also be playing at Coachella 2025.The band recently released the EP ‘Leaveyourlove’ via Because Music, which saw them work with a range of artists.Their last full-length album remains 2021’s ‘Day/Night’, which NME awarded four stars, and noted: “True to its core concept, the album is cyclical as the sweeping strings of closer ‘Inside’ roll back into the first track as soon as it’s over.

Days of Our Lives on Monday reached its milestone 15,000th episode with sentimental appearances by Victoria Konefal (Ciara Brady), Gloria Loring (Liz Chandler), Bryan Dattilo (Lucas Horton), Maree Cheatham (Marie Horton) and Stephen Schnetzer (Steven Olson).

The Black Keys have announced details of a UK and European tour, set to take place across summer 2025. Find a list of shows and ticket details below.Announced today (December 2), the shows come following the release of their latest album ‘Ohio Players’, which arrived earlier this year and contained singles including ‘Beautiful People (Stay High)’.In total, 15 new shows have been confirmed for next year, running between June and July.

Naman Ramachandran Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 29th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), adding to her impressive collection of career recognitions that includes the Venice Film Festival’s career Golden Lion. The award, which comes with a cash prize of INR1 million ($12,000), a sculpture, and a citation, will be presented by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at the festival’s opening ceremony on Dec. 13 at state capital Thiruvananthapuram’s Nishagandhi Auditorium.

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EXCLUSIVE: The makers of Latvian breakout drama Soviet Jeans are ironing out the creases on a second season.

The premise of The Performance, which is based on a 2002 Arthur Miller short story, is intriguing and more than a little pertinent for these times even though it is set in 1937.

AI video transformation and stylization start-up Mago has secured a $1.57M (€1.5M) pre-seed round from Atlantic Labs, a leading European first-round investor headquartered in Berlin.

The Berlin Film Festival will occupy two new venues across the German capital during next year’s edition. 

Ellise Shafer The Berlin Film Festival has added a new screening venue and hub ahead of its 75th edition in February. In a press release on Tuesday, it was announced that the festival would be “revitalizing” its Potsdamer Platz location with two new additions, the Stage Bluemax Theater and the Berlinale Hub75. Located at Marlene-Dietrich-Platz, the Stage Bluemax Theater will be a new premiere screening venue with 500 seats.

If you're looking for a truly enchanting and cheap winter break to help take away some of those daylight savings time blues, then you can't go wrong with the hidden gem city of Wroclaw in Poland.

Annika Pham TALLINN, Estonia — Industry @ Tallinn & Baltic Event, one of the leading industry events in Northern Europe, closed Nov. 22 with an awards ceremony where the focus country Germany dominated the list of 15 winning projects at various stages of development or post-production, on top of two accolades to promising producers.

Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures have unveiled five first-look photos from The Wedding Banquet, their remake of Ang Lee’s classic romantic comedy, starring Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) and Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live).

Jamie Lang Powerhouse indie producer Khadija Alami‘s K Films has boarded “Bardi,” Tala Hadid’s follow-up to the 2017 Berlin-selected documentary “House in the Fields.” The new feature, currently being edited, is participating in this year’s Atlas Workshops at the Marrakech Film Festival. “I’m thrilled to come on board ‘Bardi,'” Alami told Variety. “Tala is a great filmmaker and artist, and the film promises to be very special.” “Khadija truly supports Moroccan filmmakers, and often young ones who are just starting out,” said Hadid.

EXCLUSIVE: German production house Beetz Brothers Film Production is readying an ARD and Arte crime doc series about Operation Eureka, the largest international police operation against Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ on Wednesday announced The Honey Trap: A True Story of Love, Lies and The FBI, a new feature documentary from Emmy-nominated filmmaker Chris Moukarbel (Gaga: Five Foot Two) that will premiere on the Paramount+ with Showtime plan on Friday, December 6th, debuting on-air at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter WWE star Jade Cargill has signed with Paradigm‘s newly launched The Sports Group for representation in all areas, Variety has learned exclusively. Cargill is the latest WWE wrestler to sign with Paradigm, joining the likes of Drew McIntyre, Liv Morgan, Tiffany Stratton, Damian Priest, and CM Punk. Cargill has only been in the pro wrestling business since 2020, but she has quickly made a name for herself and risen to the top of the industry.