DGAP-News: PANTALEON Entertainment AG / Key word(s): Miscellaneous PANTALEON Entertainment AG Shooting Action Comedy with Til Schweiger 29.11.2016 / 08:00 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PANTALEON Entertainment AG Shooting Action Comedy with Til Schweiger - Top German star to play lead in "Hot Dog" (WT) - Matthias Schweighöfer plays second lead role - Warner Bros. plans theatrical launch 2017 Berlin, November 29th, 2016 - PANTALEON Entertainment AG (XETRA: PAL, ISIN: DE000A12UPJ7) is producing "Hot Dog" (working title), the next comedy with Til Schweiger, the most successful German actor in recent decades. Shooting on the action comedy started in Berlin and surroundings yesterday, set to last until January 31st, 2017. Alongside Til Schweiger, Matthias Schweighöfer, the PANTALEON Entertainment AG co-founder and shareholder, will play the second male lead in "Hot Dog" (WT). The cast also includes Tim Wilde, Samuel Finzi, Heino Ferch, Anne Schäfer and Lisa Tomaschewsky. "Hot Dog" (WT) is Torsten Künstler's feature film directing debut. The comedy will be produced by Dan Maag, Matthias Schweighöfer and Marco Beckmann, whose last film "The Best Day Ever" was the highest-grossing German feature film of the first half of 2016. It is co-produced with Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany, Barefoot Films GmbH, and Erfttal Film & Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co. KG. "Hot Dog" (WT) will mark a whole new type of German action comedy and a watershed in the corporate history of PANTALEON Entertainment AG, with the biggest budget in the company's history. "We're very excited about 'Hot Dog' (WT), our first collaboration with Til Schweiger at PANTALEON. Til is the most successful German actor at the moment. Both he and Matthias Schweighöfer, often working together, have made a series of blockbuster comedies, which delighted many millions of movie-goers", says PANTALEON Entertainment AG CEO Dan Maag. "With this project, we will further strengthen our production pipeline this year. On a corporate level, it means our production slate is going ahead full steam, along with the global roll-out of our Video-on-Demand platform pantaflix.com." "Hot Dog" (WT) is the next major production by PANTALEON Entertainment AG this year after the first German-produced Amazon Originals series "You Are Wanted", and SAT.1 TV event film "Jack the Ripper" (debuts today, November 29th, 2016), as well as a series still under wraps for one of the world's biggest IT companies, setting a new production record in the company's history. About PANTALEON Entertainment AG: PANTALEON Entertainment AG 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 just recently initiated its global roll-out. 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: [email protected] Investor Relations: CROSS ALLIANCE communication GmbH Susan Hoffmeister Freihamer Strasse 2 D-82166 Gräfelfing/Munich Tel.:+49 89 89827227 E-Mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29.11.2016 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: PANTALEON Entertainment AG Katharinenstr. 4 61476 Kronberg Germany Phone: 06173 - 394 50 95 Fax: 06173 - 394 50 97 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.pantaleonentertainment.com ISIN: DE000A12UPJ7 WKN: A12UPJ Listed: Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange; Open Market (Entry Standard) in Frankfurt End of News DGAP News Service --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 524957 29.11.2016