DGAP-News: PANTALEON Entertainment AG: 'Highway to Hellas' Big in Asia

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PANTALEON Entertainment AG: 'Highway to Hellas' Big in Asia

12.10.2015 / 14:45

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PANTALEON Entertainment AG: "Highway to Hellas" Big in Asia 

  - Audience Award at Busan International Film Festival

  - First Busan Award ever for a wholly German film

  - Asian distribution deals close to closing

Kronberg im Taunus, Oct.  12, 2015 - The PANTALEON Entertainment AG (XETRA:
PAL) comedy "Highway to Hellas" won the Audience Award at Busan
International Film Festival in South Korea on the very first festival
outing for the film, which will be released in Germany by Warner Bros. in
November.

Busan International Film Festival is Asia's most influential film festival.
Featuring 304 films from 75 countries around the world, the event drew a
record number of 227,000 visitors over 10 days. The award for the film with
the best festival audience rating in the "Flash Forward" section went to
"Highway to Hellas".

Not only is it the first award for a wholly German-produced film in the
festival's twenty-year history, it's also one of the rare instances a
German comedy was able to take home an audience award at a major
international festival outside of Europe.

The award has heightened buzz among numerous Asian distributors.
Negotiations for local rights are currently underway and look to be inked
soon, with the goal of getting Asian theaters on the "Highway to Hellas" as
well.

"Our success in Busan was a pleasant surprise which we didn't expect at
all," said PANTALEON Entertainment AG CEO Dan Maag. "We're thrilled the
Asian audience loves 'Highway to Hellas' so much, and think we may have an
international breakout hit on our hands. We are in intensive talks with
local distributors right now to bring this great comedy to local Asian
markets as soon as we can."

"Highway to Hellas" is a contemporary culture-clash comedy based on the
Greek debt crisis, starring top German comic Christoph Maria Herbst (star
of the German version of "The Office") as a Teutonic banker sent to a Greek
isle to make sure the collateral on a credit application really exists.
Produced by Dan Maag, Marco Beckmann and Matthias Schweighöfer and directed
by Aron Lehmann, the film will be released in Germany by Warner Bros. on
November 26, 2015.

About PANTALEON Entertainment AG:

PANTALEON Entertainment AG is a media enterprise mainly focused on
theatrical films. PANTALEON Entertainment AG and its subsids are mainly
active in the development and production of theatrical feature films, and
the exploitation of the rights to those films, mainly through leading
international film distributors in Germany and abroad, over all links of
the distribution chain. The foundation for PANTALEON Group was laid in 2009
with the incorporation of PANTALEON Entertainment GmbH in Berlin. As of
2015, PANTALEON has established itself as one of the leading German
production houses for theatrical feature films and innovative entertainment
formats. PANTALEON Group is headquartered in Kronberg by Frankfurt. From
its offices in Berlin, Munich and Frankurt, it has produced a slate of
blockbusters, including some of the most successful German films of recent
years. For more information, please see www.pantaleonentertainment.com

Contact:
PANTALEON Entertainment AG
Katharinenstrasse 4
D-61476 Kronberg im Taunus
Ph.:+4961733945095
Fax: +4961733945097
E-Mail: ir@pantaleongroup.com

Disclaimer:
Following information is not a sales offer and does not comprise
solicitation of offers to bid on or purchase shares of PANTALEON
Entertainment, but serves informational purposes only. This press release
may include statements and information about future events, designated by
terms such as "will", "want", "plan", "believe", "expect", "intend",
"anticipate", "estimate" or similar terms. Such forward-looking statements
are based on current expectations and assumptions that can not be
guaranteed and carry an inherent risk of change or inacurracy. Actual
results achieved by PANTALEON Entertainment can differ widely from
expectations expressed herein. PANTALEON Entertainment AG assumes no
responsibity for updating or correcting such forward-looking statements in
case of varying results.



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