Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper attended today’s German Premiere of director David O. Russell’s newest movie American Hustle, the premiere was part of the “Berlinale Special” Section, where the festival shows new and extraordinary productions and honors great cinema personalities by showing their films.
The Berlin international film festival, or Berlinale 2014, started today with a grand opening, the world premiere of The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Members of the movie’s cast, like Bill Murray, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Willem Dafoe, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan and many more, together with this year’s International Jury, which will decide who will receive the Golden Bear and Silver Bears of the 2014 Berlinale Competition, were today’s special guests.
It’s 2014, welcome to a new year of exciting and interesting events and festivals in Berlin!
But let’s remember what happened last year, while movie premieres clearly dominated the year of 2013 and traditional events like the Green Week, St Patrick’s Day or the Oberbaum Bridge Water Fight were back in town, Berlin also had a good variety of new events, like the celebration of HOLI in Germany, President Barack Obama’s visit to Berlin, the European Kendo Championships or David Hasselhoff’s attempt to save the wall.
The year 2013 in Pictures.
The movie adaptation of the bestselling novel The Physician (de: Der Medicus) celebrated its World Premiere today, December 16, 2013 in Berlin.
The cast, consisting of Stellan Skarsgård, Tom Payne, Emma Rigby, Olivier Martinez, Elyas M’Barek, Dominique Moore, Fahri Yardim, Adam Thomas Wright together with director Philipp Stölzl were today’s special guests.
The newly reopened Zoo Palast was chosen to be the venue for this German production movie premiere.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (de: Das erstaunliche Leben des Walter Mitty), the movie adaptation of the 1939 released short story by James Thurber, celebrated its German Premiere today, December 11, 2013, in Berlin, at the newly reopened Zoo Palast.
Director Ben Stiller, who also plays the role of Walter Mitty and co-actress Kristen Wiig walked the carpet.
The cast from Marvel’s upcoming superhero movie, Thor – The Dark Kingdom (Thor: The Dark World) is on its way around the world and today’s stop was the Sony Center, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Tom Hiddleston (Loki) together with Natalie Portman (Jane Foster) and director Alan Taylor (who also directed the Game of Thrones TV series) walked the carpet.
Hundreds of fans waited up to 24 hours to get an autograph or even a picture with one of their beloved actors. The event was live-streamed on different websites and also in selected cinemas throughout Germany.
After several month, Roland Emmerich’s newest movie, White House Down, finally made its way to Germany. The German Premiere was celebrated today, September 2nd 2013, in Berlin at the Sony Center, Potsdamer Platz. Director Roland Emmerich, who also lives in Berlin, together with Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum walked the carpet.
The Lone Ranger, once a character in a US radio show back in 1933, now a hero on the big screen. The movie, directed by Gore Verbinski, celebrated its German Premiere in Berlin.
The Lone Ranger himself, Armie Hammer, together with Johnny Depp, Ruth Wilson, Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer walked the carpet on Friday, July 19th 2013, celebrated by many screaming fans.
World War Z, the apocalyptic horror movie directed by Marc Forster and written by Matthew Michael Carnahan celebrated its German-Premiere today in Berlin.
The Movie tells the story of a zombie pandemic, which spreads across the globe, threatening to destroy humanity itself.
Brad Pitt, of course together with Angelina Jolie (who celebrated her 38th birthday today), and the German-Swiss director Marc Foster walked the carpet through the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz.
Apple’s new flagship store opened its doors today in Berlin, at Kurfuerstendamm 26, which was once the first true movie theaters in the city, opened in 1913 under the name Filmbühne Wien, or Union Palast.
The Store, which is one of 406 Apple stores worldwide, 81 in Europe, is the biggest Apple store in the European region with 5000 m² sales area on 2 floors including a cinema and a briefing room.
According to Apple, about 200 employees from 20 different nations are working in that store, speaking 18 different languages. 40 Tables are showing off Apple’s products, they were made out of oak-wood from German forests and the interior and exterior walls are made of 100-year-old muschelkalk.