Page 51 - Das Boot News Today

| 23 June 2021 In a coup for its on-demand and linear TV outlets, the BBC has acquired The Watch from BBC Studios, a high-concept drama inspired by characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett, and is bringing it to BBC iPlayer as a box set and also for BBC Two. The 8x45’ series follows an unlikely group, The City Watch, who are forced to find the guts to save the world, surprising even themselves in the process. The series pits trolls, werewolves, wizards and other improbable heroe...

Whether he's pulling off a heist with old Hollywood charm or running from the law as a bumbling goon, George Clooney is the perfect man for the job. These are his best movies ranked.

Bavaria Fiction hires Sky exec in rejig German production company Bavaria Fiction is reorganising its top management, with Marcus Ammon joining the company from Sky Deutschland as MD of content. Long-time overall joint MD Jan S Kaiser will become MD of production and finance once Ammon arrives in the autumn, while his fellow joint MD, Manfred Haus-Pflüger, will leave the company at the end of the financial year after five years. Ammon will assume responsibility for the content of all Bavaria F...

Camerimage: ‘Das Boot’ Cinematographer Jost Vacano to Be Honored for Lifetime Achievement Carolyn Giardina German cinematographer Jost Vacano, who lensed Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 film Das Boot, is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival, which is currently slated to be held Nov. 13-20 in Toruń, Poland. Vacano was Oscar nominated for Das Boot, for which he developed a gyro-stabilized camera system to capt...

I Kill Giants This week saw a few shows finish out for me and some other things start up while also continuing to watch the latest release of  Lucifer. I only watch an episode a day or so as I don’t want to burn through it too quickly and enjoy it. As for the week as a whole… Apple TV+ kicked off a new Stephen King series with Lisey’s Story, which is from a novel of his that he really likes – so much so that he wrote all the episodes for the series. It’s got a great cast with Julian...

With Memorial Day fast approaching, Americans may want to spend a few hours this weekend remembering some of our greatest war films.

So. Much. TV.

The two juries, made up of leading exponents from the worlds of television drama and news, will be officially presented during the Opening Ceremony, before starting to screen the next day all of the nominated Fiction and News content from across the globe. 

South African Drama Reyka to Open Monte-Carlo TV Festival ADVERTISEMENT This year’s Monte-Carlo Television Festival, which marks its 60th anniversary, will feature the worldwide premiere of the South African drama Reyka. Dominion, Downton Abbey) and Thando Thabethe ( How to Ruin Christmas: The Wedding). In the series, a flawed but brilliant criminal profiler, haunted by her past, returns to her hometown to solve a string of brutal murders committed by a serial killer amongst the sugarcane f...

The 100 Best International Movies of All Time By Molly Pennington, Stacker On 5/13/21 at 6:30 PM EDT International cinema has always had a profound influence on American movies. At the same time, many of the great films in languages other than English retool the styles and genres of popular American movies. Have you ever forgotten you were reading subtitles as you were swept up in the action on screen? Westerns, film noirs, and even romances tap into universal visual languages of movement, a...