His first series as director, the first German series on a streaming service, the first German Amazon Originals series: Matthias Schweighöfer presents Wanted on Germany's most popular video streaming service, Amazon Prime. The multi-award winning film star is one of Germany's most popular with lead roles in many blockbusters, including Vaterfreuden, Der Nanny and Kokowääh. Matthias Schweighöfer is here director, producer and lead actor. Wanted is an Amazon Original series from PANTALEON Entertainment AG, Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH and Warner Bros. International Television Production Deutschland GmbH.In Wanted, Matthias Schweighöfer plays Lukas Franke, whose professional and private life balances on the edge after a mysterious hacking attack. The thriller series with be available exclusively on Amazon Prime in 2017. With Amazon Prime members receive, alongside access to Prime Video, free premium delivery on millions of articles as well as free, unlimited storage for photos and unlimited access to more than a million songs on Prime Music and access to the Kindle rental library - all this for only € 49 a year. Every new member can test Amazon Prime for 30 days.
Munich / Berlin, 9th February 2016 — A milestone in the Video on Demand sector: Wanted is the first German series from a video streaming service. The Amazon Originals series with Matthias Schweighöfer (Der Nanny, Vaterfreunden, Kokowääh) celebrates its premiere on Amazon Prime in Germany and Austria at the start of 2017. Wanted is an Amazon Original Production from PANTALEON Entertainment AG (XETRA: PAL, ISIN: DE000A12UPJ7), Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH and Warner Bros. International Television Production Deutschland GmbH. Wanted also marks a milestone in the career of lead actor Matthias Schweighöfer: it is his series debut as director.
Says Matthias Schweighöfer: "It is a highly exciting challenge to direct a series, one I'm massively looking forward to and which I am very happy to take on, together with my production company PANTALEON.“
The Amazon Originals series revolves around a project manager at a Berlin congress centre, Lukas Franke (Matthias Schweighöfer). He is victim of a hacking attack, which seemingly by coincidence endangers both his professional success and private happiness - then he finds himself the centre of events which could cost him not only his family but also his life.
"This extraordinary cooperation with Matthias Schweighöfer, one of the most in-demand actors and directors in the German-speaking region, lifts Germany's most popular video streaming service, Amazon Prime, to a whole new level", says Christoph Schneider, CEO of Amazon Video Deutschland. "With our first regional Amazon Originals production we are not only translating into action the wish of many of our customers for exclusive German content, we are also expanding our service to new groups of viewers and, in addition, establishing Amazon Prime as an important partner for local producers and creatives."
Says Willi Geike, President and CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH: We are very looking forward to working with Amazon and our much experienced and extremely talented partner Matthias Schweighöfer and his production company PANTALEON . For Warner Brothers this is another step in our strategy to produce high quality, German-language feature films and TV-series with the most innovative and creative partners."
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