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PANTALEON Entertainment AG plans international feature film on the life of
the German Pope Benedict XVI.

- Exclusive rights to the Pope's biography secured

- Script already in development

- Global release planned

Kronberg im Taunus / Munich, 2nd June 2015 - PANTALEON Entertainment AG
(Frankfurt Stock Exchange: ISIN DE000A12UPJ7 / WKN A12UPJ) is planning a
feature film on the life of the German Pope Benedict XVI. and has secured
exclusive rights to Peter Seewald's biography due to be published in 2016
by Pattloch (part of the Droemer Knaur publishing group).

Together with RTL-Television's former Head of TV-Movies and Series, Peter
Alexander Weckert, PANTALEON producers Dan Maag, Marco Beckmann and Mathias
Schweighöfer intend to bring the extraordinary life of the German Pope to
the big screen as an international production.

To develop the script PANTALEON has signed the renowned scriptwriter
Johannes Betz (The Spiegel Affair, Hindenburg, The White Massai). Johannes
Betz will develop the script on the basis of the biography by the Pope's
confidante, Peter Seewald. The biography by the best-selling Seewald, whose
books have appeared in more than 30 languages, is scheduled for publication
in 2016 and contains new and previously unknown details of the former
Pope's life.

"The life of the German Pope Benedict XVI. up to his historic resignation
provides some of the greatest material of our times for an international
feature film," says Dan Maag, Chief Executive Officer of PANTALEON
Entertainment AG. "We are especially pleased to be developing this film on
the exclusive basis of Peter Seewald's biography. The Catholic church alone
has more than 1.2 billion members around the word, forming a gigantic
target group in itself. But we are also aiming far, far beyond this,
wanting to tell an exciting and multilayered story that also speaks to
people who are not close to the church."

"A courageous undertaking," is how Monsignore Georg Gänswein, Archbishop of
the Catholic Church, Chaplain of His Holiness, Prefect of the Papal