Competition films in Venice, Toronto, Montreal and San Sebastian

The fanbase is forever increasing: The ARD police series "Homicide Hills" (…) is gathering momentum.

Munich, 29 July 2010. Beta Film has acquired international film catalogues of the U.S. producer and distributor Porchlight and Spain's On Pictures/Zeta Group, and is offering the rights to nearly 70, mostly American, films for the first time at the forthcoming TV trade fair MIPCOM in Cannes.

Munich, 23 July 2010. The Icelandic film KING’S ROAD will celebrate its international premiere this summer at the Festival del Film in Locarno.

Autentic’s THE EYE 3D nabbed the award for Best 3D Picture at the Dimension 3D in Paris...

TAIPEI/MUNICH, June 17, 2010. The DTH operator DishHD and the German company UNITEL have signed a deal to distribute UNITEL’s premium classical music channel UNITEL CLASSICA HD via DishHD in Taiwan.

Munich, 15 June 2010. The documentary drama THE MIRACLE OF LEIPZIG has been honoured as Best Documentary at the World Television Festival in Banff/Canada.

Munich, 27 May 2010. Beta Cinema reports extensive sales throughout its current feature film line-up at this year’s Marché du Film at the International Film Festival in Cannes.

Munich, 19 May 2010. Beta’s crime series Homicide Hills has won yesterday’s primetime in Germany.

Munich, 13 May 2010. Beta Cinema has just added the new Icelandic film KING'S ROAD by director Valdis Óskarsdóttir (COUNTRY WEDDING) to its world-sales portfolio.

Munich, 6 May 2010. Beta Cinema is bringing the surprise hit of Germany's spring movie season to Cannes: the road movie VINCENT WANTS TO SEA will be given its international premiere at the Marché du Film.

Munich, 26 April 2010. The event miniseries Sisi has scored exceptional ratings in Spain and Italy.

Cannes, 12 April 2010. Effective immediately, the Beta Film joint venture AUTENTIC will be distributing the entire PBS International catalogue for Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland.

Cannes, 12 April 2010. Effective immediately, the Beta Film joint venture AUTENTIC will be distributing the entire PBS International catalogue for Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland.

Munich, 7 April 2010. Beta Film is bringing over a hundred hours of new high-caliber programs from four continents to this year's MIP TV in Cannes.

Munich, 17 March 2010. The feature film THE ROUND UP (French original title: LA RAFLE)has racked up fantastic numbers since its start in France, and is already the Number One film in the charts.

Munich, 1 March 2010. CBC’s crime series Republic of Doyle has been greenlighted for its second season. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. renewed the Newfoundland-based detective show, and will air twelve new episodes at its 9 pm primetime slot.

Munich, 26 February 2010. The Taiwanese film AU REVOIR TAIPEI (director: Arvin Chen) stands out as one of the surprise hits of this year's Berlin International Film Festival.

"Au Revoir, Taipei," a romantic comedy featuring Taipei City, won the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2010 Saturday, beating 11 other Asian entries.

Munich, 9 February 2010. Beta Film and producer Sam Davis ("A Light in Dark Places", "Pest – Die Rückkehr") have jointly founded a company to develop and produce scripted drama for television and cinema.

Munich, 8 February 2010. Beta Cinema is bringing four international premieres to this year's European Film Market.

Munich, 11 January 2010. The live gala of the TV contest "The Most Beautiful Operas of All Time" thrilled hundreds of thousands of viewers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and racked up extraordinary ratings for 3sat.

Munich, 4 Feb 2010. The TV movie Live is Life has won the primetime slot with exceptional ratings on public broadcaster ARD.

Munich, 20 Jan 2010. Beta Film’s Canadian series Republic of Doyle and Heartland have continued their success this winter by garnering blockbuster ratings on their home channel CBC.

Munich, 21 January 2010. Beta Cinema has acquired the international and German rights to the bittersweet love story AU REVOIR TAIPEI and is presenting the film in the Forum section of this year's Berlin Film Festival.

Munich, 21 December 2009. The event miniseries Sisi has obtained outstanding ratings at its premiere broadcast in Germany and Austria and won its time slot against Hollywood blockbusters like “Ice Age” and “James Bond”.

Munich, 9 Dec 2009. Mrs. Miracle, aired in prime time on the Hallmark Channel on December 5th, has put its US contenders in their place and scored the highest ratings among the ad-supported cable movies of the week, beating theatrical titles such as “The Holiday” (TBS), “The Santa Clause 3” (ABC Family), “Christmas With the Kranks” (FX), “War of the Worlds” (TNT), “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” (USA) and “Twelve Men of Christmas” (Lifetime).

Munich, 24 Nov 2009. Beta's Miniseries Wolves of Berlin has been honoured with an International Emmy Award as Best TV-Movie/Miniseries.

Munich-based sales company BETA CINEMA has taken on international rights to “North Face” director Philipp Stölz's next feature film “GOETHE !”...

Beta Film’s ROMY has garnered top prime time ratings in Germany...

Beta Cinema is premiering six films – from war drama to horror and romantic comedy – at this year's American Film Market (AFM)...

Beta Film has inked a number of high ranking deals at this year’s MipCom in Cannes...

The ndF: and Beta Film are pooling their activities in the children's and youth sector in a joint company...

Miniseries "Wolves of Berlin" has been nominated for the Emmy...

Strand Releasing has acquired U.S. rights to Florian Gallenberger's "John Rabe."

Beta Film is putting the accent on events this fall and heading to the industry trade fair MipCom in Cannes with five outstanding miniseries...

The Beta Film mini-series Wolves of Berlin is the big winner at this fall’s German TV Award ceremony...

Check out our new WunderBox catalogue!

The Mini Series "Wolves of Berlin" won in Monte Carlo...

After its success in Italy and Spain, the crime series Rex, A Cop's Best Friend has now made a dazzling comeback in Germany...

The miniseries November Conspiracy was awarded at the RomaFictionFest...

The pilot of Beta Film’s new drama series The Rheinbergs has become prime time winner in Germany...

In 2010 is the 100th anniversary of Mark Twains death...

With the passing of actress Farrah Fawcett, the world has lost someone very special...

Beta Film’s Love in Lion City garnered exceptional ratings in Germany...

Munich, 8 May 2009. The opera is back! As a priceless legacy of world culture, as a jet-set destination, as a topic of interest for high-brow press and mass media, as the hope of the music market!

Munich, 4 May 2009. Beta Cinema is presenting four international film premieres along with four-time German Film Award winner JOHN RABE at this year's film market at the Cannes Film Festival.

Florian Gallenberger’s epic drama JOHN RABE about the “Oskar Schindler of China” was the big winner at this year’s German Film Awards...

EOS, Sunset Austria and Publispei shoot with Cristiana Capotondi, Martina Gedeck, Fritz Karl and David Rott for ZDF, ORF and RAI

Economic crisis helps cable, VOD biz...

Beta Film is bringing nine series and more than 200 hours of new program content in total to this year's MIP TV market in Cannes.

Munich, March 13, 2009. Of the 45 nominations for the German Film Awards 2009 ("Lola"), 18 went to theatrical feature films which are sold internationally by Beta.

UNITEL CLASSICA and the Munich Philharmonic under its General Music Director Christian Thielemann will record all nine symphonies by Anton Bruckner for television, DVD and new media.

Munich/ Berlin, 26 February 2009. The recital of Arcadi Volodos of works by Skryabin, Ravel, Schumann and Liszt at Vienna's Musikverein on 1 March will be recorded by UNITEL CLASSICA, Sony Classical and the Japanese coproducer NHK.

Munich, 18 February 2009. With extensive sales throughout its latest film portfolio, Beta Cinema can look back on a successful European Film Market at this year's Berlin Film Festival.

Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Max Faerberboeck's "A Woman In Berlin" from Beta Cinema.

Giulio Andreotti pic won Cannes jury prize

Max Farberbock's second world war survival tale A Woman In Berlin was named best international film at the 24th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival

With JOHN RABE, EFFI BRIEST and HILDE, Beta Cinema boasts three world premieres as GALA presentations at this year's Berlinale Specials.

Cannes, 20 January 2009. Star violinist and UNITEL CLASSICA exclusive artist Julia Fischer was honored with the Midem Classical Award in Cannes.

JOHN RABE, the new film by Oscar winner Florian Gallenberger, has received two prestigious Bavarian Film Awards.

Marco Pontecorvo’s PA-RA-DA has risen attention at this years Mar del Plata Film Festival...

Beta Cinema announced its first U.S. sale at the American Film Market: Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo...

Beta Film continues to expand its international series portfolio...

As the American Film Market kicks off in Santa Monica, California, Beta Cinema announces the sale of the spectacular opera filming of La Bohème with world-famous singers Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón to film distributors in Great Britain and Japan...

Beta Cinema brings three world premieres to the American Film Market, which begins in Santa Monica, California, on 5 November...

Beta Film has sold its latest season of the successful TV-series “Rex – A Cop’s Best Friend” as well as the re-run rights for 123 episodes to France.

The TV rights distributor Beta Film is expanding its activity in the field of TV documentaries and special-interest channels and has founded a joint venture with former Discovery Germany CEO Patrick Hoerl.

Beta Cinema has picked up the rights of “Ceasefire," the first German-language feature to deal with the war in Iraq.

At this year’s summer festivals in Venice and Toronto, Beta Cinema will roll out the red carpet seven times for its movies.

The film Heart of Fire about the fate of a child soldier in Eritrea has won an Audience Award at the European Film Festival in Brussels.

With nearly 40 contracts concluded with distributors in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, Beta Cinema can look back on a very successful market at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

An intensely political film so wildly inventive and witty that it will become a touchstone for years to come, "Il Divo" is a masterpiece for maverick helmer-scribe Paolo Sorrentino.

The competition entry Il Divo about the legendary but highly controversial Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti tops Beta Cinema´s portfolio at this year´s Cannes Film Market.

For the second time in a row, international film distributor Beta Cinema boasts an Oscar winner in its portfolio.

Associated Press: ''The Counterfeiters,'' the Austrian tale of a master forger forced to work for Nazis in a concentration camp, won the foreign-language Oscar on Sunday.

After conquering the world's great stages, Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón are now laying claim to the big screen.

Beta Cinema is bringing no fewer than six highlights to this year's European Film Market (EFM).

The international film sales organization Beta Cinema has two of this year's Oscar candidates in its portfolio.

Beverly Hills — Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 80th Academy Awards®. Sixty-three films had originally qualified in the category.

The new TV-adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace has had fantastic ratings all over Europe.

"I don't just want it to sound beautiful, I want it to look beautiful as well – for music is an embodiment of beauty." (Herbert von Karajan)

Andrea Occhipinti (Lucky Red) has announced today that Beta Cinema will handle international sales on IL DIVO by Paolo Sorrentino

New US independent Dokument Films has acquired all North American rights to Achim Bornhak's biopic 8 Miles High (Das Wilde Leben). Dokument is a subsidiary of Illinois-based MPI Media Group.

Following on from its success with Downfall and The Lives of Others, German sales outfit Beta Cinema is scoring global heat on two new German epics.

The Works UK Distribution continues its AFM deals by picking up UK rights to Mongol.

Germany’s Hannes Stoehr's third feature Berlin Calling which shoots in Berlin this week, is to be sold internationally by Beta Cinema.

Sergei Bodrov’s Genghis Khan epic Mongol will launch at the Toronto International Film Festival (September 6 to 15) as a special presentation in association with the North American distributors Picturehouse / Odeon and international sales agent Beta Cinema. Beta Cinema has pre-sold the title to more than 30 territories and arrives in Toronto with freshly inked deals for France (Metropolitan Filmexport) and Italy (BIM Distribution).

Stefan Ruzowitzky's Second World War drama The Counterfeiters (Die Faelscher), which was first shown in competition at last February's Berlinale, has been selected as the Austrian entry for the 80th Academy Awards.

Directed by Hermine Huntgeburth, Julia Jentsch and Sebastian Koch will play the main roles Beta Cinema will distribute worldwide

The producer is Guenter Rohrbach (DAS BOOT, THE WHITE MASAI).The film is based on the autobiographical best-seller of journalist Marta Hiller, who passed away in 2001. It tells the story of a nameless young woman in Berlin at the time of Germany's capitulation in spring 1945.

The international sales company Beta Cinema is presenting 15 films from a variety of genres at this year's Marché du Film in Cannes (16 to 26 May).

Of the altogether 15 German Film Awards ("Lola") which were announced during a festive gala on Friday, 4th May, eight went to theatrical productions which are sold internationally by Beta Cinema.

The music production company Unitel is bringing a variety of new classical music productions to this year's television program market MIP TV in Cannes (16 to 20 April).

Stefan Ruzowitzky's forgery drama sold in 60 countries even before theatrical launch in Germany

Of the altogether 48 nominations for the German Film Prize ("Lola") which were announced today, 25 went to 6 theatrical productions which are sold internationally by Beta Cinema.

The event two-parter March of Millions has nabbed record ratings in Germany.

The Lives of Others (“Das Leben der Anderen") by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has received the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film.

Variety: Distributor Beta has the real deal with their buzz pic "The Counterfeiters."

Screen International: A serious contender for one of this year's Bears, even a Golden one, Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters retells the Nazi attempt to sink the Allied economy by flooding it with counterfeit money.

The Stasi thriller The Lives of Others made its successful theatrical debut in France.

Beta Cinema is presenting the Berlinale competition entry The Counterfeiters at this year's European Film Market.

Two weeks before the start of the Berlin Film Festival, Beta Cinema has scooped up the international sales rights to Eight Miles High.

The Lives of Others ("Das Leben der Anderen") by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has received an Oscar nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film.

Beta Cinema has acquired the international sales rights to the new Dani Levy film Mein Fuehrer – The Truly Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler.

Variety: The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has been nominated by representatives of the Hollywood-based foreign press (Hollywood Foreign Press Association) for the "Best Foreign Language Film Golden Globe Award".

Variety: The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck wins three European Film Awards 2006.

Beta Cinema posts a positive sales performance after the close of the American Film Market (AFM).

Beta Cinema ("Downfall") is bringing a wide range of programming and a number of high-ranking market premieres to this fall's American Film Market.

Starting in December the classical music TV-channel Classica on Premiere celebrates the height of the Mozart year with „Mozart 22“.

Unitel Classica, the TV station for classical music, is coming to Spain, where it will broadcast in Spanish under the name "Unitel Classica" on the DSL platform Imagenio.

Unitel/Classica, BFMI and the Salzburg Festival Present a Project of Superlatives: "Mozart 22"

Variety: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's hard-hitting feature debut "The Lives of Others," about East Germany's dreaded Stasi and its terrifying system of domestic spying, has been selected as Germany's entry in the foreign-language Oscar race.

After its outstanding success at the Shanghai Film Festival, the Chris Kraus film Four Minutes also performed sensationally at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Toronto Line-up with Four Minutes, Winter Journey and The Lives of Others

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter: Oscar hopefuls such as "Volver," "Babel," "Little Children," "The Last King of Scotland," "Infamous" and "Fur" had movie fans buzzing at the 33rd annual Telluride Film Festival, which wrapped in the Colorado Rockies resort Monday.

Screen Daily.com: Germany's Beta Cinema has taken on world sales for Marian Quinn's bittersweet comedy 32A which is now in principal photography in Ireland.

Beta Cinema closed more deals than ever before at this year's Marché du Film in Cannes.

The event miniseries "The Crown Prince" ("Kronprinz Rudolf") obtained truly royal ratings in Austria.

Beta Cinema has acquired the distribution rights to the Spanish Cannes Film Festival entry Salvador.

Beta Cinema comes to this year's Marché du Film in Cannes with a line-up of eight new films.

In the tradition of the original "The Three Tenors," world-class singers Plácido Domingo, Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón unite for a classical music highlight.

Beta Cinema takes over three new productions for world distribution.

Mongol, the film about the rise of the young Temudzhin to become Genghis Khan, is turning into one of the hottest-selling productions in the Berlinale's European Film Market.

Unitel, Bayerischer Rundfunk, and the classical music TV-channel Classica on Premiere resume their successful cooperation with Bayerische Staatsoper and the world-renowned singer Edita Gruberova.

Beta Cinema is attending this year's Berlinale with a line-up of black comedies, sweeping dramas and exciting adventures.

The star-violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter records in Salzburg the five violin concerts KV 207, KV 211, KV 216, KV 218, KV 219 and Sinfonia Concertante KV 364 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for Unitel/Classica and ZDF.

TV Series 'Rome' is the most explicit and expensive period drama in TV history.

The highlight of Salzburger Festspiele live on TV: the Premiere channel Classica broadcasts on this Sunday, August 7th, at 20.00 Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón in Verdi’s masterpiece „La Traviata“.

The movie Mongol - The Early Years of Genghis Khan will be released in the USA by Picturehouse.

Unitel, TV-producer of countless operas and concerts, produces again. The firm of Jan Mojto records the opera Roberto Devereux by Gaetano Donizetti in Munich's National Theatre in a joint project with Bavarian Public Radio and Bavarian State Opera.

Beta Cinema has acquired the world distribution rights to Mongol – The Early Years of Genghis Khan, the ten-million-dollar film project of the Russian production company CTB.

The international sales company Beta Cinema has worldwide distribution rights to "One Day in Europe", in competition at the Berlinale 2005.