Studio Babelsberg AG

STEVEN SPIELBERG HAS BEGUN FILMING IN BERLIN ON THE UNTITLED COLD WAR SPY THRILLER

(DGAP-Media / 27.10.2014 / 17:08)

Studio Babelsberg announced today that three-time Academy Award(R) winner
Steven Spielberg has begun filming in Berlin, Germany, on an untitled Cold
War spy thriller starring two-time Academy Award(R) winner Tom Hanks
(FORREST GUMP, PHILADELPHIA). The DreamWorks Studios production, which
wrapped six weeks of filming in New York October 17, also stars
Tony(R)Award winner Mark Rylance (JERUSALEM, INTIMACY), Academy Award(R)
nominee Amy Ryan (GONE BABY GONE, WIN WIN), Academy Award(R) nominee Alan
Alda (THE AVIATOR, M*A*S*H*), Sebastian Koch (UKNOWN, THE LIVES OF OTHERS)
and Burghart Klaußner (THE READER, THE WHITE RIBBON). The film will shoot
on locations in Berlin-Brandenburg and in Wroclaw, Poland, continuing
through the beginning of December.

Production in Germany was possible due to support from the German Federal
Film Fund (DFFF) and the local film funding institutions Medienboard
Berlin-Brandenburg and MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg. The German
company Pixomondo will work on the production's visual effects.

The film tells the true story of James Donovan, an attorney who finds
himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on
the near-impossible mission to negotiate the release of a captured American
U-2 pilot.

20th Century Fox is co-financing the film with DreamWorks in association
with Participant Media, and will distribute internationally. In addition to
directing, Spielberg will produce the film with Marc Platt and Kristie
Macosko Krieger. The executive producers are Adam Somner and Daniel Lupi.
Studio Babelsberg is the production services company for the filming in
Germany and Poland. Studio Babelsberg's executives Charlie Woebcken,
Christoph Fisser and Henning Molfenter act as co-producers. The screenplay
is by three-time Academy Award(R) winners Joel and Ethan Coen and Matt
Charman based on an original screenplay by Charman.

Steven Spielberg's crew includes director of photography and two-time
Academy Award(R) winner Janusz Kaminski, production designer and Academy
Award(R) nominee Adam Stockhausen, editor and three-time Academy Award(R)
winner Michael Kahn and costume designer Kasia Walicka-Maimone. The film
will be released in theaters autumn 2015.


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