Christian Becker | |
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| Born | 1972 |
| Occupation | Producer |
| Years active | 1990–present |
Christian Becker (born 1972, Krefeld) is a German film producer. He is the co-owner of Rat Pack Filmproduktion together with German major studio Constantin Film.
Christian Becker | |
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| Born | 1972 |
| Occupation | Producer |
| Years active | 1990–present |
Christian Becker (born 1972, Krefeld) is a German film producer. He is the co-owner of Rat Pack Filmproduktion together with German major studio Constantin Film.
After working in the film business for many years, he enrolled at the University of Television and Film Munich in 1994, where he went on to produce over 15 short films, commercials and documentaries, including the shorts The Wrong Trip and Living Dead by directing student Dennis Gansel, and shorts by their mutual friend and fellow student Peter Thorwarth If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer and Mafia, Pizza, Razzia. He also produced graduating films like Benjamin Herrmann's The Big Laugh based on the Henry Slesar short story and Student Oscar winner Quiero ser (I want to be...) by Florian Gallenberger. No student in the history of Munich Film School has ever produced as many student films as Christian Becker.
In 1997, Becker founded Indigo Filmproduktion and Becker & Haeberle Filmproduktion together with partner Thomas Haeberle, with which he produced Dennis Gansel's TV movie Das Phantom , or Thorwarth's theatrical cult features Bang Boom Bang and If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer . After follow-ups including Kanak Attack based on Feridun Zaimoğlu's novel and Seven Days to Live , Becker was one of the most successful producers in the German industry at the age of 28. In August 2000, Becker and Häberle folded their production shingle into the entertainment conglom they co-founded, F.A.M.E. AG, and went public on Germany's Neuer Markt. In 2001, Christian Becker left Indigo and Becker & Häberle, going on to found Rat Pack Filmproduktion and Westside Filmproduktion together with leading German distrib Constantin Film and his close-knit band of filmmaking pros. [1]
Under the Rat Pack label, Christian Becker again had a remarkable string of successes, producing hit made-for-TV action-adventure The Hunt for the Hidden Relic (Jesus Video) based on Andreas Eschbach's bestseller, two seasons of the series spin-off Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht (If it don't fit, use a bigger hammer), Rats 2, and mystic actioner Blood of the Templars .
His theatrical features include box-office smash Hammer-style Edgar Wallace spoof The TriXXer (Der WiXXer), which sold a total of 3 million tickets with the sequel The VeXXer (Neues vom WiXXer), as well as Peter Thorwarth's satire Out of Bounds (2004) starring Dirk Benedict, hit kidpic Hui Buh - The Goofy Ghost (2005) and Dennis Gansel's Sundance entry and European box-office smash The Wave (Die Welle) (2008).
2009 saw the release of hit kidpic Max von der Grün's The Crocodiles , the screwball gangster comedy Mord ist mein Geschäft, Liebling (Killing is my business, honey), starring Rick Kavanian and Christian Tramitz as well as European film legends Bud Spencer and Franco Nero. [3]
He also produced the most successful German box office hit 2009 Vicky the Viking by director Michael Bully Herbig; the film made nearly 5 million admissions in Germany only with a total gross revenue of approximately $40,582,384. [4]
Vicky the Viking, known as Wickie und die starken Männer in Germany and Austria and Chiisana Viking Bikke in Japan, is an animated television series which tells the adventures of Vicky, a young Viking boy who uses his wits to help his Viking fellows. It is based on the novel Vicke Viking (1963) written by the Swedish author Runer Jonsson. It premiered on the German TV channel ZDF on 31 January 1974 and aired in various countries. In 2013–2014, the series also existed in 3D animation produced by Studio 100.
The Constantin Film AG is a German mini-major film production and distribution company based in Munich. The company, which belongs to Swiss media conglomerate Highlight Communications AG, is a large independent German maker and distributor of productions in the entire field of audio-visual fiction and non-fiction. Company activity is based on the five pillars of film production/procurement of rights, TV production, film distribution, home entertainment and licence trading/TV exploitation. Constantin Film AG has released 36 of the 100 most successful German films of the last 20 years, including four of the Top 5: Manitou's Shoe, Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1, Fack ju Göhte and Fack ju Göhte 2. The Fack ju Göhte trilogy was concluded in 2017 with Fack ju Göhte 3 and is now the most successful German film series of all time. Internationally, Constantin Film is best known for the successful Resident Evil film franchise, which has earned US$1.2 billion worldwide to date and is also known as the highest-grossing film series based on a video game. Most recent successes include TV series Shadowhunters, which won four People's Choice Awards in 2018, and the live action Resident Evil. Constantin has also been involved in 20th Century Fox's Fantastic Four film franchise. Other productions include bestseller adaption The Silence and Monster Hunter.
Christoph Maria Herbst is a German actor and comedian.
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Julia Thurnau is a French-German actress and artist. She grew up in a village close to Cannes, later moved to Munich where she did acting studies at the Schauspielstudio München, then actors training at the Ernst Busch acting school Berlin.
The Wave is a 2008 German socio-political drama thriller film directed by Dennis Gansel and starring Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Jennifer Ulrich and Max Riemelt in the leads. It is based on Ron Jones' social experiment The Third Wave and Todd Strasser's novel The Wave. The film was produced by Christian Becker for Rat Pack Filmproduktion. The movie was successful in German cinemas, and 2.3 million people watched it in the first ten weeks after its release.
Rat Pack Filmproduktion GmbH is a German film production company owned by Constantin Film.
Vicky the Viking is a 2009 German adventure comedy film directed by Michael Herbig, based on Runer Jonsson's Vicke Viking children's book series and its subsequent animated series adaptation Wickie und die starken Männer. Produced by Christian Becker of Rat Pack Filmproduktion it premiered in Munich on 9 September 2009.
The Deutscher Comedypreis is awarded by Brainpool TV. Because Brainpool's in-house productions have received extensive awards, the designation as the German Comedy Award is controversial. The awards ceremony takes place annually in Cologne.
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Heiko Maile is a German musician and composer. He is best known as a member of the band Camouflage and as the composer for the score of the films The Wave and We Are the Night and won the Deutscher Fernsehpreis for best music in 2017.
Fack ju Göhte is a 2013 German comedy film directed by Bora Dağtekin and starring Elyas M'Barek and Karoline Herfurth, while upcoming actors Max von der Groeben and Jella Haase appear in supporting roles. The film was produced by Rat Pack Filmproduktion in coproduction with Constantin Film.
Dominik Graf is a German film director. He studied film direction at University of Television and Film Munich, from where he graduated in 1975. While he has directed several theatrically released feature films since the 1980s, he more often finds work in television, focussing primarily on the genres police drama, thriller and crime mystery, although he has also made comedies, melodramas, documentaries and essay films. He is an active participant in public discourse about the values of genre film in Germany, through numerous articles, and interviews, some of which have been collected into a book.
Mareike Ann Carrière was a German actress, spokesperson and translator. She was perhaps best known for her television show appearances. She was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany.
Christian Zübert is a German film director and screenwriter.
Sat.1 Comedy was a pay-TV channel of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, which broadcast from 1 June 2006 to 3 May 2012. On 3 May 2012 20:15 the program was replaced by Sat.1 emotions, content successor was the same day started channel ProSieben Fun.
If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer is a 2002 German comedy film directed by Peter Thorwarth.
Martin Moszkowicz is a German film producer. He is the chairman of the executive board at Constantin Film. On 6 March 2019, he was appointed honorary professor at University of Television and Film Munich.
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