X Films Creative Pool
X Films Creative Pool is a German television and film production company .
History of the company
The company was founded in 1994 in Berlin by the directors Tom Tykwer , Dani Levy and Wolfgang Becker and the producer Stefan Arndt . The idea behind X Films Creative Pool comes from the founders of United Artists . Both artistic and, above all, economic independence should enable more creative work. In 2000, however, 50.1% of the shares were sold to the Berlin Senator Film .
In 2000, the company's own film distribution company X Verleih was founded, which works closely with the German branch of Warner Bros. , Warner Bros. Pictures Germany, and makes use of their sales structure. X Films has also been working with Warner Home Video in the home entertainment segment since the end of 2001 and supplies the content that WHV Germany and WHV Switzerland distribute via their traditional channels.
Because of the bankruptcy of Senator Film 2004, the partners tried to buy back the company from the bankruptcy estate. However, since this did not succeed, Becker, Tykwer and Levy founded Y Films in February 2006 . In February 2008, Senator Film announced the separation from X Films, but the distribution cooperation was maintained. The current management of the company consists of Stefan Arndt, Wolfgang Becker, Dani Levy and Tom Tykwer. The managing directors are Stefan Arndt and Uwe Schott.
Film productions
The first film the company produced in 1995 was Dani Levy's Silent Night - A Festival of Love . In 1998, with the international success of Tom Tykwer's Lola Run , X Films became a synonym for a new, young German cinema. This was followed by other films that were successful at the box office and in some cases also with film critics such as Tykwer's Heaven , Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! and Levy's Everything on Sugar! .
Since 1995 she has produced feature films, television films and short films
- Silent Night - A Festival of Love (1995)
- Life is a Construction Site (1997)
- Winter Sleeper (1997)
- Run Lola (1998)
- Meschugge (1998)
- Absolute Giants (1999)
- Paul Is Dead (2000)
- The Warrior and the Empress (2000)
- Heidi M. (2001)
- Like Fire and Flame (2001)
- Heart (2001)
- Heaven (2002)
- Fathers (2002)
- Good bye Lenin! (2003)
- The old monkey fear (2003)
- learn to lie (2003)
- What use is love in thoughts (2004)
- True (Tykwer) (2004)
- Jargo (2004)
- Silent (2004)
- Edelweiss Pirates (2004) (co-production)
- En Garde (2004)
- Agnes and His Brothers (2004)
- Everything on sugar! (2004)
- The Red Cockatoo (2004)
- Underexposure (2005)
- Me too (2005)
- Who digs up the deadly nightshade (2006)
- A friend of mine (2006)
- Mein Führer - The Truly Truth About Adolf Hitler (2007)
- Goodbye Bafana (2007)
- Max Minsky and I (2007)
- The three robbers (2007)
- Love life (2007)
- My beautiful presents (2007)
- The Heart Is A Dark Forest (2007)
- March Melody (2008)
- Funny Games US (2008)
- The Mongol (2008)
- Age and Beauty (2008)
- Lulu & Jimi (2009)
- The Countess (2009)
- The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (2009)
- Life is Too Long (2010)
- Three (2010)
- Little Thirteen (2011)
- Love (2012)
- Night noise (2012)
- Cloud Atlas (2012)
- The Dark Valley (2014)
- Among Crooks (2015)
- We're fine (2016)
- Before the Dawn (2016)
- Tatort: The Truth (2016)
- Desired Children (2017)
- Crime Scene: Death Is All Our Lives (2017)
- Happy ending (2017)
- Babylon Berlin (2017)
- Crime scene: In the blind spot (2018)
- Crime Scene: Blood (2018)
- Alfons Zitterbacke-Chaos is back (2019)
- The Kangaroo Chronicles (2020)
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Star directors leave X Films ( Memento from January 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Netzeitung , February 6, 2006
- ↑ Senator and X Films end joint production activities. Senator Entertainment AG, February 7, 2008, accessed February 1, 2016 .