ProSieben, Tandem, SCI FI Channel Align for New Production

MUNICH, March 6: Germany’s
ProSieben and Tandem Communications are working with SCI FI Channel in the U.S.
on Lost City Raiders, a new
$6.4 million movie starring Emmy- and Golden Globe-winner James Brolin.

Principal photography on
the two-hour movie is slated to begin on March 13. Lost City Raiders, to be distributed worldwide by Tandem
Communications, will be ready for delivery in October. Lost City Raiders chronicles the story of two brothers who go out to
salvage the past and end up fighting to save the future. It stars James Brolin
(Traffic, Category 7), Ian Somerhalder (Lost, Smallville), Ben Cross (Star Trek
2009, First Knight), Bettina
Zimmerman (P.I.—Post
Impact, Pompei), Jamie Thomas King (Tutors, Tristan
& Isolde), Elodie Frenck (War & Peace,
Possession) and Michael Mendl (The
Downfall, Pope John XXIII).

Behind the camera are Jean
de Segonzac (Law and Order: SVU,
Mimic 2, Ice), Christopher Morgan (Asteroid, Queen Sized) and producers Rola Bauer and Tim Halkin (The Company, Ring of the Nibelungs), who founded Tandem Communications.

“I’m very excited about Lost
City Raiders, which is an
elaborate and suspenseful event movie,” said Jürgen Hörner, the head of program
planning at ProSieben. “Tandem’s international co-production strategy makes
perfect sense for us: we can be an instrumental part of big-budget event
programs, with elements that are viable not only for the international market,
but also for the German market and our target audience. We are very proud to
have co-developed this project with Tandem.”

Added Bauer, the managing
director of Tandem, “Tandem’s strategy is to create international, event
programming, whereby American and European stars come together with European
and American broadcast partners. Lost City Raiders fulfills this strategy perfectly.”

—By Irene Lew