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May 31, 2016 at 2:15 AM

DGAP-News: PANTALEON Starts Two Major New Productions: You Are Wanted and Jack the Ripper

DGAP-News: PANTALEON Entertainment AG / Key word(s): Miscellaneous PANTALEON Starts Two Major New Productions: You Are Wanted and Jack the Ripper 31.05.2016 / 08:00 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PANTALEON Starts Two Major New Productions: You Are Wanted and Jack the Ripper - First German Amazon Originals Series You Are Wanted Shooting in Berlin - Shooting Starts on SAT.1 TV Event Jack the Ripper in Lithuania Kronberg im Taunus, May 31th, 2016 - PANTALEON Entertainment has started shooting the first German Amazon Originals series You Are Wanted. Principal photography began last week in Berlin. Matthias Schweighöfer not only plays the lead alongside German A-listers Alexandra Maria Lara, Karoline Herfurth and Tom Beck - he is also directing his very first TV series. The cast also includes Toni Garrn, Catrin Striebeck, Katrin Bauerfeind, Louis Hofmann, Edin Hasanovic, Lucie Aron, Maximilian Meyer-Bretschneider and many others. The first six episodes of You Are Wanted will premiere on Amazon Prime in Germany and Austria. Matthias Schweighöfer plays the part of Lukas Franke, a happy and settled family man, whose life is suddenly turned upside down when he is hacked by a mysterious stranger and his entire identity kidnapped. A nightmare begins for Lukas, in which the borders between reality and deception disappear. Matthias Schweighöfer: "I'm extremely happy to have such a great cast on this project. As always, we strive to combine big names with terrific new faces in our productions, which we've pulled off with You Are Wanted again. And working with close personal friends like Alex, Karo and Tom naturally gives me a good feeling as director, too." You Are Wanted is produced by PANTALEON Entertainment AG, Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH and Warner Bros. International Television Production Deutschland GmbH. Producers are Dan Maag, Matthias Schweighöfer, Marco Beckmann and Willi Geike. Shooting on You Are Wanted will take place in Berlin and Brandenburg until August. Matthias Schweighöfer will co-direct with DoP Bernhard Jasper. The idea and screenplays were written by Richard Kropf, Hanno Hackfort and Bob Konrad. At the same time, PANTALEON Entertainment is launching another tentpole project: Shooting is also starting on SAT.1 TV Event Film Jack the Ripper in Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Starring Sonja Gerhardt as Anna Kosminski, it will retell the gripping story of the unsolved mystery of the 130-year old serial killing spree in a contempo fashion. The cast includes Vladimir Burlakov, Sabin Tambrea, Nicholas Farrel, Peter Gilbert Cotton and Falk Hentschel. It is the first made-for-TV tentpole film made by Pantaleon Films (producers Dan Maag, Matthias Schweighöfer, Marco Beckmann), who are co-producing with Fireworks Entertainment (producer Marian Redmann). It will be directed by Sebastian Niemann. "After our string of hit movies in co-operation with ProSiebenSat.1, tackling made-for-TV movies with them is a major strategic step in growing our partnership. Also, I'm extremely pleased to be working with Sebastian Niemann again. It's just the first step toward many other great projects we're planning," says PANTALEON Entertainment CEO Dan Maag. PANTALEON Entertainment AG: PANTALEON Entertainment AG is a media company with a strong focus on cinema. The core activity of PANTALEON Entertainment AG and its subsidiaries is the development and production of feature films as well as the exploitation of the rights arising therefrom, which are usually marketed by worldwide leading film distributors on a national and international basis along many steps of a chain of rights designed to best exploit them. The basis of the PANTALEON Group was formed in 2009 with the founding of PANTALEON Entertainment GmbH in Berlin. Today, 2016, PANTALEON belongs to the leading German companies in the production of feature films and innovative entertainment formats. The company is headquartered in Kronberg im Taunus. Feature films are developed at its offices in Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt am Main, the consistent quality of which makes them amongst some of the most successful national productions in recent years. In 2016, PANTALEON starts the global roll-out of its innovative cloud-based Video-on-Demand (VoD) platform, PANTAFLIX. You can find more information at www.pantaleonentertainment.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 Investor Relations Contact: CROSS ALLIANCE communication GmbH Susan Hoffmeister Freihamer Strasse 2 D-82166 Gräfelfing/München Tel.:+49 89 89827227 E-Mail: sh@crossalliance.com Disclaimer: This publication constitutes neither an offer to sell nor an invitation to buy securities or stocks. In the private placement only selected investors are addressed, who are specifically not US persons within the meaning of the US Securities Act of 1933. This release may contain forward-looking statements and information identified by words such as 'expects', 'wants', 'anticipates', 'intends', 'plans', 'believes', 'seeks', 'estimates', 'will' or similar terms. Such forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and certain assumptions, which may involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The actual results achieved by PANTALEON Entertainment AG may substantially differ from these forward-looking statements. PANTALEON Entertainment AG assumes no obligation to update these forward- looking statements or revise them due to differing or unexpected trends. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31.05.2016 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive at www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 467651 31.05.2016

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