The 2 premiers in BERLIN and 5 days later in MUNICH marked a appropriate setting for the offical German theatrical start. Both screenings were a celebration and the parties were intense.

And even the heat-wave, which struck Germany couldn’t keep the crowd out of the cibemas. Both cities of course were leading the list in the number of viewers, followed by COLOGNE, which had a slower start. I guess the party was missing. But it seems 9to5 is a ‘city movie’. And due to the strong request of people, we are very glad to finally have a theatre in HAMBURG, the famous ABATON, playing it and starting Thursday 16th of July (check list below).

The day before, actually tomorrow, we also have a Q&A (question and answer) in the CINEMA in MÜNSTER, which also starts playing this week. Whoever wants to come, I will be there, ready to discuss with you and answer all your questions.

We are also very proud, that we kind of competed with Ice Age 3 with the media coverage. Some links below, just to give you a little hint, how great the movie has been appreciated, even by the most critical ones. OK – there were 3 or 4 not so good articles. But when I put it in relation to the hundred great ones, I am totally fine with it.

There have been more and more questions about the SOUNDTRACK. I hope we find a partner for this soon. Keep sending those mails. It helps!

Finally – I am very proud to be invited to 3nach9 – the great live talk on NDR TV Friday the 17th – have a look!

This is the list of theatres in Germany playing 9to5 at this moment:

Berlin (Central, Berlin-Mitte und Moviemento Kino, Berlin-Kreuzberg)

München (Monopol Kino, Feilitzschstrasse 7, Münchner Freiheit)

Köln (Filmpalette Kino, Lübecker Str. 15)

Hamburg (Abaton-Kino, im Grindelhof, Allendeplatz 3)

Dresden (Metropolis Kino, Am Brauhaus

Kassel (Filmladen, Goethestr. 31/ Ecke Querallee)

Freiburg (Harmonie Kino, Grünwälderstr. 16-18)

Nürnberg (Meisengeige Kino, Am Laufer Schlagturm 3)

Bochum (Endstation (Bahnhof-Langendreer e.V)

Münster (Cinema, Warendorfer Str. 45)

Leipzig (Kinobar Prager Frühling, Bernhard-Göring-Straße 152)

Weitere Städte: Heidelberg und Saarbrücken (beide im August)

These are a few media examples:

JENS HOFFMANN ZU GAST IN DER SENDUNG “3nach9″

Freitag, 17.07, 22:00 – 24:00.

http://www.radiobremen.de/fernsehen/3_nach_9/index.html

SENDUNG BAUERFEIND/ 3SAT

http://stream-tv.de/sendung/1258987/bauerfeind-9to5-days-in-porn

SENDUNG KULTURJOURNAL/ NDR Fernsehen

http://www3.ndr.de/sendungen/kulturjournal/archiv/film_und_fotografie/index.html

”Zu Recht wurde Hoffmann jüngst für den deutschen Kamerapreis nominiert.”

- SPIEGEL ONLINE -

“Entlarvend, spannend.”

- PRINZ -

“5 Sterne für Hoffmanns Bilder der Wahrheit,”

- STERN -

“Nie gesehene Einblicke in das Leben von Pornodarstellern. 4 von 5 Punkten.”

- WELT KOMPAKT -

“Die Charaktere werden in episodenhafter Tarantino-Ästhetik vorgestellt.”

- ROLLING STONE -

“Intim, schnonungslos. Eine Top-Doku über die US-Pornoindustrie und wie sie

wirklich ist.

- BILD -

“Ästhetische Bilder und cooler Soundtrack”

- EPD FILM -

First of all SORRY! for the longest time offline, since this blog exists. But the last 6 weeks were so intense. We had to solve the situation with the insolvency of our world distribution and all the consequences. But since today we are again official owners of our own movie.

So hopefully soon all the people who mail us, asking when the movie will be out in the USA and other European countries: This blog will be updated more frequebtly again and give you those informations soon.This also includes the festival situation.

Also we were busy moving out of our office in Munich.

But most important: The movie come to theatres in Germany starting 2nd of July in all major cities. Since we just have a very limited budget for copies. We hope that people cover all seats in the cinemas in Berlin, Munich Cologn and other nice cities in the next 2 weeks, so that we can afford and get booked by more cinemas all over the country.

Press is responding reallly well. A lot of major magazines (kultur-SPIEGEL, Rolling Stone, INTRO, PLAYBOY, etc.), radio shows and TV-stations (NDR, MDR, 3,SAT, BR, etc.) had or will have features in their cultural programs. If the audience is just reacting half as good as media, we should be very confident about the future of the movie.

In expectations to this we are celebrating a PREMIERE PARTY. After the screening in the CENTRAL Kino in BERLIN on the evening of the 2nd of JULY the official premiere party is happening in the WHITE TRASH and is presented by LoDown Magazine. Everybody is welcome and there is no red carpet crap or other completely unneccessary usual premiere-features. Just great DJs, including our friends from GOMMA and lots of beer! COME ON OVER and party with us.

We will also attend certain cinemas in Germany for screenings with a Q&A-session, where you can meet, talk and discuss with us starting at the MOVIEMENTO in Berlin Kreutzberg on this coming Friday the 3rd.

More about this by the end of the week.

We look very much forward meeting you!

J

Prior to the theatrical release in German in July there are a few exclusive previews. Her an updated list:

AUGSBURG – the Augsburger Filmtage have to screenings on the 8th and on the 9th of May, both at 22:30 in Thalia.

The  ‘Stranger than Fiction’  Festival tours hosts the following 3 screenings:

COLOGNE on the 10th of May in the MUSEUM LUDWIG at 8PM

MÜNSTER on the 12th of May in the Cinema

BOCHUM on the 16th of May in the Endstation Kino

BERLIN – a special preview will be on Friday the 15th of May at 3Pm in the afternoon at the Central Kino.

MUNICH – another special preview on Tuesday at 10:45 in the Monopol.

MEMMINGEN has the  ‘Open Air Filmtage’ and play it the night of the 6th of June

In Italy two nice festivals put the movie in their line-up. The BELLARIAfilmfestival in Bellaria from the 2nd to the 6th of June and the Biografilm Festival in Bologna from the 10th to the 15th of June.

Exact dates will be announced as soon as we know them.

I am in love with….Buenos AIres. Not just that BAFICI (Buenos AIres Festival de Cine Indepediente) is one of the best festivals ever. But the people, the atmosphere, just anything is just adorable. I guess this is also why ‘9to5′ found a great audience. The highlight was definitely the – of course – sold out night at the MALBA museum in Palermo. No words, just gooze bumps on my skin.

It was no question, that the stay in Argentina had to be extended for some days. 

But the beautiful spring back home in Munich made the switch a little easier. And not just the weather is heating up. It looks like Germany is finally open the doors for our movie:

ZORRO plans the theatrical release in bigger cities like Berlin, Munich, Cologne, etc. in the first week of July.

But we also have some special preview dates ahead a little earlier:

COLOGNE on the 10th of May in the MUSEUM LUDWIG at 8PM

MÜNSTER will play it during the ‘Stranger than Fiction’ days on the 12th of May in the Cinema

BOCHUM has a preview on the 16th of May in the Endstation Kino

MUNICH and BERLIN will be announced the next days, but will be around the same week (2nd week in May)!

MEMMINGEN has the  ‘Open Air Filmtage’ and play it the night of the 6th of June

I also wanted to post some links to some sites, which I want to support, which I like and which I definitely want to recommend.

Susannah Breslin writes a lot of good things and has some common friends in the valley:

http://reversecowgirlblog.blogspot.com/

Brant Bjork, who performs the first, the last and 3 other songs is just a great guy and has his own platform for great music we dig:

http://www.lowdesertpunk.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Chusy won an award at Sundance with his movie ‘Anywhere USA’. Truely independent and sooo goooood!

http://anywhereusathemovie.com/

Denis Côté, filmmaker from my beloved Quebec who I met in Buenos AIres and truly hit my taste with his inspiring movie ‘Elle veut le chaos’

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=35411175

Last Thursday  night we finally had the German premiere. Not the kind of ‘glamour party’ thing – we hope we have this soon with all our friends. It was an offcial screening for the Kassel Dokumentarfilmfest. And again the film proofed to be not just an audience magnet but also a crowd-pleaser. Organizers confirmed that it was the best visited show so far. Almost the entire late-night crowed stayed for a long Q&A. So far it was the most intellectual session.

This all makes us even more excited for the next weekend, when ‘9to5 – Days in Porn’ will be played at the EXGROUND FILMFEST in Wiesbaden on Saturday, the 22nd at 10PM.

So if you are from around Wiesbaden or Frankfurt, try to get tickets. It will probably take some time, until the movie will be released in Germany.

Also check out the bonus scenes we keep putting up on this blog. They are all very exclusive and mostly part of an earlier cut. The last two were from Belldaonna and Aiden, when they made a business trip to San Diego. The next one will be up next week, when we will also have some more news around the movie.