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Netflix is planning to begin sharing more data with producers regarding the performance of their content on its platform, a panel at Berlin Film Festival heard today. The streamer's famously opaque strategy of keeping data strictly for in-house usage has begun to soften recently. This week, Netflix said it would begin…

W&B Television, the German indie behind Netflix show Dark and the hit German drama 4 Blocks, has been commissioned to make a series tracing the beginnings of German hip-hop for TNT Serie. Turner Germany's series channel has ordered six-part series Almost Fly, which will be written and directed by Florian Gaag, who…

Endemol Shine has sold Wiedemann and Berg Television, the drama producer behind hit Netflix series Dark, to Leonine, the German media conglomerate backed by New York investment outfit KKR. This comes after Leonine, which was formed through the merger of Tele München Group, Universum Film, i&u TV, acquired Wiedemann…

EXCLUSIVE: Vikings star Erik Madsen has been cast in the lead role in eco-crime drama Maritime from Wiedemann & Berg, the makers of Netflix’s first German-language series Dark. Madsen will play troubled marine biologist Morten Solheim, who is fighting to save the world’s oceans and environment from corrupt governments…

Theatrical play for foreign-language movies is increasingly hard to come by in markets such as the U.S. and UK, despite the best efforts of a handful of dedicated distributors. There are bright spots on the horizon, however, attendees at the 2019 Zurich Summit heard yesterday. Wild Bunch chief Vincent Maraval told the…

Netflix’s remarkable international growth will continue apace, a packed industry event heard at the European Film Market in Berlin this morning. It was standing room only at the buzzy session titled ‘From Idea to Screen: Developing European Content for and with Netflix’, which gave industry an insight into the…

The duo behind Netflix’s first German original have set up their next project at the streamer. Dark creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar said today that 1899 will follow a migrant steamship heading west to leave the old continent from London to New York. The original series will follow the boat’s passengers, a…

The Bridge producer Lars Blomgren is looking to crack remakes of the hit Scandi crime drama in China and India as he moves into a new role at Endemol Shine Group designed to bolster its foreign-language drama slate. In a wide-ranging interview with Deadline, Blomgren, who previously headed ESG-owned Swedish producer…

Netflix has boarded Freud, a German-language period crime thriller that sees the young eponymous psychoanalyst involved in a nerve-racking investigation into a murderous conspiracy. The co-production from Satel Film/Bavaria Fiction for ORF and Netflix is set in Vienna and is the streaming service’s first Austrian…

Netflix has signed its first European overall series deal. The streamer has signed with Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, the German duo behind Dark, which the company says is one of its most-watched entirely non-English shows. The pair will produce new series and projects for Netflix's 125 million members…

David Wells, CFO at Netflix, offered a two-word explanation for the streaming giant’s decision to fork over up to $300 million to elite showrunner Ryan Murphy earlier this month: “customer joy.” Speaking at the Morgan Stanley media and telecom conference in San Francisco, Wells elaborated, “These deals are going to be…

Netflix has picked up a second season of its praised German mystery thriller Dark, which bowed at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival. Created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, Dark is set in a German town in present day where the disappearance of two young children exposes the double lives and fractured relationships…