PANTALEON Entertainment AG: AMAZON Announces Launch of PANTALEON Production 'You Are Wanted'

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PANTALEON Entertainment AG: AMAZON Announces Launch of PANTALEON Production "You Are Wanted"

- PANTALEON thriller series to launch exclusively on Amazon Prime Video March 17, 2017

- First in-house production of a German series for a global video streaming service

- Start of a successful cooperation between PANTALEON, Amazon and Warner Bros.

Berlin, January 17, 2017 - Amazon has announced the launch date of PANTALEON production You Are Wanted. The six-part series is the first in-house production of a German series for a global video streaming service. All six episodes of You Are Wanted will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on March 17, 2017. The main actor, director and producer Matthias Schweighöfer stars as Lukas Franke, a young hotel manager and family man, who is suddenly torn out of his every-day life when an anonymous hacker hijacks his personal data and starts ruining his life. The cast of the thriller series also includes well-known actors Alexandra Maria Lara, Karoline Herfurth and Tom Beck.

"Just as in our major movie productions, we gave our best to make You Are Wanted gripping, exciting entertainment and suspense with high production quality for a wide audience. We share the vision with Amazon and Warner Bros. of providing big-screen for video-on-demand," says PANTALEON Entertainment AG CEO and producer Dan Maag.

Star Matthias Schweighöfer adds: "I was thrilled to produce You Are Wanted - a gripping German thriller series at international production quality. Amazon gave us a one-time opportunity to produce the first German Amazon Original with an A-list cast of German movie stars for a wide market. I really hope my fans like it. It is the series I always wanted to shoot."

"You Are Wanted is a bit of a landmark in media history," says Dr. Christoph Schneider, General Manager Amazon Video Germany. "It is the first German series at a global video streaming service, and its quality is outstanding. You Are Wanted is suspenseful, contemporary and offers a stellar cast. We can hardly wait to present our first German-language Amazon Original."  

"Together with PANTALEON we have produced You Are Wanted, the first German premium series for a video streaming service, and found for it the ideal streaming partner with Amazon," says Willi Geike, President and General Manager at Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH. "For Warner Bros., this is another great step forward in our strategy, of producing high-quality movies and TV series with the most innovative and creative German talents."  

You Are Wanted is produced by PANTALEON Films GmbH, Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH and Warner Bros. International Television Production Deutschland GmbH. Executive Producers are Dan Maag, Matthias Schweighöfer, Marco Beckmann and Willi Geike. Matthias Schweighöfer directed along with Bernhard Jasper, screenwriters Hanno Hackfort, Bob Konrad and Richard Kropf penned the script.

About PANTALEON Entertainment AG: PANTALEON Entertainment AG (XETRA: PAL, ISIN: DE000A12UPJ7) is one of the fastest growing media companies in Europe. The group, as a leading producer of feature films with world-class distribution partners such as Warner Bros. and Amazon Prime, developed high growth dynamics from the start. The financial success of the content division paid in for the formation of the disruptive video-on-demand (VoD) game changer pantaflix.com, a 100% daughter of PANTALEON that initiated its global rollout in 2016. For more information: www.pantaleonentertainment.com and www.pantaflix.com

Contact: PANTALEON Entertainment AG Katharinenstrasse 4 D-61476 Kronberg im Taunus Tel.:+49 6173 3945095 Fax: +49 6173 3945097 E-Mail: ir@pantaleongroup.com

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