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Studio Babelsberg Nabs New ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel, Latest Schlöndorff Pic While Celebrating Wes Anderson’s Cannes Premiere
While Studio Babelsberg remains a key address for international productions, it's eager to increase collaborations with German producers.
The studio is not only celebrating the Cannes screening of its fifth collaboration with Wes Anderson, the “The Phoenician Scheme,” which was co-produced by and shot at Babelsberg, it has also just secured two other major productions scheduled to lens this year. Studio Babelsberg has also lured celebrated filmmaker and one-time CEO Volker Schlöndorff (“The Tin Drum”), who is likewise set to shoot his new work, “Heimsuchung,” there. Yet regional funding in Germany is still of great interest for even large U.S. studios, as demonstrated by the new “Hunger Games” pic, which just secured €800,000 ($893,975) in production coin from local funder Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
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