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Stefan Arndt Steps Down From ‘Babylon Berlin’ Maker X Filme Creative Pool, As Tom Tykwer Becomes Managing Director
Tom Tykwer has been named MD of X Filme Creative Pool as part of a restructure that sees company co-founder Stefan Arndt step down.
The pair co-founded the German production powerhouse 30 years ago, but Tykwer will now succeed Arndt in the MD role, and joins Uwe Schott on the management team in Berlin. Tykwer, a film director, screenwriter, composer and producer, counts features such as Die Tödliche Maria, Sleepers, Heaven, The International, Drei, Cloud Atlas and Win Hologramm Für Den König as credits, and has been shooting high-end TV shows since 2015, most notably on Netflix’s sci-fi series Sense8 and Babylon Berlin, the Sky Deutschland and ARD Degeto drama X Filme co-produces with Beta. In related news at X Filme’s distribution subsidiary X Verleih, board members Leila Hamid and Martin Kochendörfer have extended their contracts until the end of 2025.
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