The second season of the German TV series “Sisi,” which follows the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (also known as Sisi), is currently shooting in Lithuania, Film New Europe reports.
The series is produced by Story House Pictures GmbH for Rtl+ and serviced by the Lithuanian company Uab Nordic Productions. The shoot is benefiting from Lithuanian Film Center’s tax incentives.
The six-part second season is directed by Sven Bohse (“Dark Woods”) and Miguel Alexandre (“Spy City”), and it is written by Elena Hell, Svenja Rasocha, Robert Krause and Andreas Gutzeit.
More than 100 Lithuanians are part of the international team, including production designer Algirdas Garbačiauskas and costume designer Daiva Petrulytė.
The main filming locations in Lithuania are Vilnius and its surroundings, as well as Trakai, Kernavė and Rokiškis. The series will also be filmed in Latvia, with Cinevilla Films providing services, and Poland.
“We have been shooting in Lithuania and Latvia for years now.
The series is produced by Story House Pictures GmbH for Rtl+ and serviced by the Lithuanian company Uab Nordic Productions. The shoot is benefiting from Lithuanian Film Center’s tax incentives.
The six-part second season is directed by Sven Bohse (“Dark Woods”) and Miguel Alexandre (“Spy City”), and it is written by Elena Hell, Svenja Rasocha, Robert Krause and Andreas Gutzeit.
More than 100 Lithuanians are part of the international team, including production designer Algirdas Garbačiauskas and costume designer Daiva Petrulytė.
The main filming locations in Lithuania are Vilnius and its surroundings, as well as Trakai, Kernavė and Rokiškis. The series will also be filmed in Latvia, with Cinevilla Films providing services, and Poland.
“We have been shooting in Lithuania and Latvia for years now.
- 6/17/2022
- by Neringa Kažukauskaite
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Amazon’s Undone and Netflix’s Apollo 10½ producer Submarine is developing a drama based on the Baader Meinhof Gang, the notorious German terrorist organization, with Oliver Stone collaborator Moritz Borman’s Krautpack.
The Dutch and German producers are taking Ghost Generation to global streamers and local networks this week, Submarine Founder Femke Wolting told Deadline, with AMC+/Zdf’s Spy City director Miguel Alexandre and BBC One’s The Split writer Jane Eden attached. Cast is not yet set.
Inspired by real life events about the notorious 1970s left wing German terrorist group, the series features two former German terrorists, now parents, who have spent the last two decades undercover but are being hunted by their former gang leader. When he tracks them down, having just been released from prison, he threatens to expose the truth to the world, forcing the couple to partake in a series of...
The Dutch and German producers are taking Ghost Generation to global streamers and local networks this week, Submarine Founder Femke Wolting told Deadline, with AMC+/Zdf’s Spy City director Miguel Alexandre and BBC One’s The Split writer Jane Eden attached. Cast is not yet set.
Inspired by real life events about the notorious 1970s left wing German terrorist group, the series features two former German terrorists, now parents, who have spent the last two decades undercover but are being hunted by their former gang leader. When he tracks them down, having just been released from prison, he threatens to expose the truth to the world, forcing the couple to partake in a series of...
- 2/10/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Smart and stylish, AMC+’s “Spy City” captures a tumultuous time and place in world history: Berlin just before the forming of the Wall in 1961. The title of the show comes to life in the way writer William Boyd (“Chaplin”) and director Miguel Alexandre present an interlocking story of espionage that brings in multiple operatives from governments around the world. In 1961 Berlin, the Brits, Russians, Americans, French, and Germans vied for power as the city itself was starting to divide even before it literally did so with a wall that stretched dozens of miles.
Continue reading ‘Spy City’: Dominic Cooper’s Pitch Perfect Performance Elevates AMC+’s Engrossing Espionage Tale [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Spy City’: Dominic Cooper’s Pitch Perfect Performance Elevates AMC+’s Engrossing Espionage Tale [Review] at The Playlist.
- 4/12/2021
- by Brian Tallerico
- The Playlist
FX released a trailer for the third and final season of “Pose,” which will debut on May 2.
Nearly two years after Blanca Evangelista’s (Mj Rodriguez) triumphant return to the ballroom, she gets a new job working at a hospital, while newly-engaged Angel (Indya Moore) and Papi (Angel Bismark Curiel) seem happy as ever. Following a health scare last season, Pray Tell’s (Billy Porter) fate is up in the air. “I knew this disease was gonna eat me alive, but I’m not going out without a fight,” he says in the trailer. Watch it in full below.
Also in today’s TV news roundup, Showtime announced a virtual farewell event featuring the cast of “Shameless,” taking place April 11 at 7 p.m. Pt., immediately following the series finale. Showrunner John Wells will join cast members William H. Macy, Jeremy Allen White, Ethan Cutkosky, Shanola Hampton, Steve Howey, Emma Kenney,...
Nearly two years after Blanca Evangelista’s (Mj Rodriguez) triumphant return to the ballroom, she gets a new job working at a hospital, while newly-engaged Angel (Indya Moore) and Papi (Angel Bismark Curiel) seem happy as ever. Following a health scare last season, Pray Tell’s (Billy Porter) fate is up in the air. “I knew this disease was gonna eat me alive, but I’m not going out without a fight,” he says in the trailer. Watch it in full below.
Also in today’s TV news roundup, Showtime announced a virtual farewell event featuring the cast of “Shameless,” taking place April 11 at 7 p.m. Pt., immediately following the series finale. Showrunner John Wells will join cast members William H. Macy, Jeremy Allen White, Ethan Cutkosky, Shanola Hampton, Steve Howey, Emma Kenney,...
- 4/6/2021
- by Haley Bosselman and Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: With AMC’s Preacher coming to a close this summer, Dominic Cooper is set to star in the six-part espionage Cold War series Spy City from Miramax and Germany’s H&v Entertainment and Zdf.
Novelist and screenwriter William Boyd is currently writing Spy City. German-Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Alexandre will direct, and Johanna Wokalek and Leonie Benesch (The Crown, Babylon Berlin) also star.
Cooper will play an English spy who is sent to Berlin in 1961 to sift out a traitor in the UK Embassy or among the Allies, shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall. The city, declared by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev as “the most dangerous place on earth,” is teeming with spies and double agents. One wrong move could trigger the looming threat of nuclear war as American,...
Novelist and screenwriter William Boyd is currently writing Spy City. German-Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Alexandre will direct, and Johanna Wokalek and Leonie Benesch (The Crown, Babylon Berlin) also star.
Cooper will play an English spy who is sent to Berlin in 1961 to sift out a traitor in the UK Embassy or among the Allies, shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall. The city, declared by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev as “the most dangerous place on earth,” is teeming with spies and double agents. One wrong move could trigger the looming threat of nuclear war as American,...
- 7/11/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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