Biography
Maxi about Maxi (in German)
Awards
Films
Spieltrieb (WT) (2012)
Welcome to Bavaria (2011/12)
Was weg is, is weg (2011)
RubbeldieKatz (2011)
War Horse (2011)
Resturlaub (2011)
etc.
Films and other work for TV
Theater
Books on Tape / Radio
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Photos - a future project
Maxi and I (in Bavarian)
German Filmball (New)
Magazines (New)
Links to other sides of Maxi's Life
His Agency
Photos - a future project
Maxi and I (in Bavarian)
German Filmball (New)
Magazines (New)
Links to other sides of Maxi's Life
His Agency
| ~ News ~ |
| Feb 19 | Print-Interviews
with Maximilian Brückner about his directorial debut
"Magdalena": In Hallo München, Merkur and Welt am Sonntag |
| Feb 15 | Videoclip of Maximilian and Florian Brückner, announcing the facebook page of their new film "Was weg is, is weg" (What's gone is gone). It will open on German movie screens on March 22. |
| Feb 12 | Audio-Interview with Maximilian Brückner about his directorial debut "Magdalena", premiering on Feb 23 and about being from Bavaria. Available as Audio-on-demand for the next 6 months thru Deutschlandradio. |
| Feb 10 | The trailer for "Was weg is, is weg" (What's gone is gone), written and directed by Christian Lerch, with Florian and Maximilian Brückner, is now available thru the website of Bavarian newspaper Abendzeitung. |
| Feb 8 | "War Horse" will be released on DVD/Blu-ray in the US on April 3. Source: mediabiz.de |
| Jan 29 | Photos and interviews with the German cast members Leonard Carow, Hinnerk Schönemann, David Kross, Rainer Bock and Maximilian Brückner of Steven Spielberg's "War Horse". |
| Jan 29 | b-roll of "War Horse" (Behind the Scenes) - From 03:00 min on you can see Maxi shooing horses and canons up a muddy hill - with sound! |
| Jan 26 | Photos of Maxi at the German Filmballs 2011 and 2012 in the hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich. Nice! |
| Jan 24 | Congratulations!
"War
Horse" is nominated for the Oscar in 6 categories: Best Picture: Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers. Art Direction: Production Design: Rick Carter, Set Decoration: Lee Sandales. Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski. Music (Original Score): John Williams. Sound Editing: Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom. Sound Mixing: Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson. The 84th Academy Awards will take place on February 26 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The show will air on ABC at 7e/4p. All nominees. |
| Jan 22 | Maximilian Brückner at the 39.
German Filmball in the hotel Bayerischen Hof in Munich on 21. January
2012 - WOW! WOW again! Pictured here with Florian David Fitz and Max von Thun ("vincent wants to sea" & "Measuring the World" and "Rubbeldiekatz", respectively). Beginning at 0:54sec he talks about the event on the Red Carpet. |
| Jan 21 | In
early November 2011, Maximilian
Brückner and his colleague Gregor Weber were kicked out of
their series "Tatort - Scene of the Crime"
without announcing any
understandable reasons by its producing TV network SR. Their last episode "Abducted - Verschleppt" will air tomorrow on German ARD, Austrian ORF2 and Swiss SF1, all at 8:15pm. One of many (German) articles about that in todays Munich newspaper AZ. |
| Jan 17 | UK
Box Office Chart - for week ending 17 January 2012. These are the
most popular movies at the UK box office over the last weekend: 1. War Horse (new) ; Gross: £3,9 Mio 2. The Iron Lady (last week: 3) 3. Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (last week: 2) 4. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (last week: 1) 5. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (last week: 4) US Box Office Chart - for week ending 16 January 2012: 1. Beauty and the Beast 3D 2. Contraband 9. War Horse (23 days/4th week) ; Gross: $67,338,000 |
| Jan 16 | The official movie poster for "Was weg is, is weg" (What's gone is gone) was now published. The film will be in German movie theaters from March 22, 2012 on. |
| Jan 15 | "War
Horse" received 5 nominations for the 2012 Orange British Academy
Film Awards (BAFTAs), but none in the major categories. Winners will be
announced on Sunday 12 February at London's Royal Opera House:
Original Music - John Williams ; Cinematography - Janusz Kaminski ;
Production Design - Rick Carter, Lee Sandales ; Sound - Stuart Wilson,
Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, Richard Hymns ; Special Visual
Effects - Ben Morris, Neil Corbould More: BAFTA Out of the 7 nominations for "War Horse" for the 17th Annual Critic's Choice Movie Awards 2012, only Janusz Kaminski (in tie with Emmanuel Lubezki for "The Tree of Life") won Best Cinematography. More: Critics Choice |
| Jan 9 | Clips from the European Royal premiere of Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" on Jan 8 at the Odeon Cinema at Leicester Square in London, in the presence of the Royal Highnesses Prince William and his wife Catherine: Reuters and Digital Spy, amongst many others. No sight of Maxi though. |
| Jan 5 | The cast for Maximilian Brückner's directorial debut "Magdalena" was announced. His brother Florian (recently in "The Three Musketeers", directed by Paul. W.S. Anderson) plays one of the leads. The premiere will be on Feb 23 at the Munich Volkstheater. |
| Jan 4, 2012 | The
Producers Guild of America nominates "War Horse" as Best Picture of the
Year, a.k.a. the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer Of The Year Award In
Theatrical Motion Pictures. The 23rd annual PGA Awards, which also
cover TV and news categories, will be handed out Jan. 21 at the Beverly
Hilton. Source: The Hollywood Reporter |
| January 2012 | On
January 10, Maxi will turn 33 years young. If you want to send him gratulations for his birthday, those should either be sent to: die agenten, c/o Maximilian Brückner, Ackerstr. 11b, 10115 Berlin, Germany or to: Münchner Volkstheater, c/o Maximilian Brückner, Brienner Str. 50, 80333 Munich, Germany |
| Dec 27, 2011 | US
Box Office Report: Spielberg's "War Horse" Gallops Out of Gate ... The big headline on Christmas day itself was Steven Spielberg's War Horse, which debuted to a stellar $7.5 million to come in No. 3 on Sunday behind Ghost Protocol and Warner Bros.' Sherlock Holmes-A Game of Shadows. Disney, which is distributing the DreamWorks film, estimates that War Horse will gross another $7.5 million on Monday - a national holiday - for a two-day cume of $15 million. "We're ecstatic. We expect to be the family film of choice going forward," said Disney senior vice president of distribution Dave Hollis, noting that War Horse received an A- CinemaScore. ... Source: The Hollywood Reporter, 12/26/2011 by Pamela McClintock |
| Dec 22 | The
European/UK premiere of "War Horse" will be a 'Royal
Premiere': On 8 January 2012, their Royal Highnesses Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, along with director Steven Spielberg, producer Kathleen Kennedy, actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, David Thewlis, Emily Watson, Niels Arestrup, Celine Buckens and others, also the author of the novel Michael Morpurgo and other members of the film crew will attend the premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square Cinema to benefit the Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry. The premiere will also welcome Joey the 'Hero Horse' who'll stroll the red carpet as well. Sources: The Walt Disney Company Germany and DreamWorks/Business Wire |
| Dec 19 | In German fashion magazine "Vogue", issue Jan. 2012, Steven Spielberg talks about how he found the two German actors David Kross and Maximilian Brückner for his latest movie "War Horse" (German title: Gefährten), and why he choose them. |
| Dec 15 | The
Hollywood Foreign Press Association has given "War Horse" two
nominations for the 2012 Golden Globes: 'Best Motion Picture - Drama'
and 'Best Original Movie Score'. The 69th Annual Golden Globes Awards will be held on January 15, 2012 in Los Angeles. Source: HPFA |
| Dec 14 | If
you live in the UK or the Republik of Ireland, you can win
tickets to the UK premiere of War Horse on Sunday, 8 January 2012 in
London. The deadline for entries is 10:00am (UK time) on Friday, 23
December 2011. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, 3 January 2012. National Army Museum. The film will open in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, 13 January 2012. |
| Dec 13 | The
Broadcast Film Critics Association has given "War Horse" seven
nominations for the 2012 Critics' Choice Movie Awards: Best Picture.
Best Director: Steven Spielberg. Best Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski.
Best Art
Direction: Production Designer: Rick Carter, Set Decorator: Lee
Sandales. Best Editing: Michael Kahn. Best Sound. Best Score: John
Williams. The 17th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards will be held on January 12, 2012 at the Hollywood Palladium and broadcast live on VH1. Sources: NextMovie, About.com, etc. |
| Dec 5 | Update on the international opening dates of Steven Spielberg's latest movie "War Horse". Maximilian Brückner is billed as 'Maximilian Brüeckner'. |
| Dec 1 | The US-Premiere of "War Horse" will take place on Sunday, Dec 4 in New York at the Avery Fisher Hall/Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The film will open in the US on Dec 25. The German opening date has been pushed back from Jan 5 to Feb 16, 2012. |
| Nov 28 | "Was weg is, is weg" (What's gone is gone) will open in German movie theatres on March 22, 2012. Set report and photos in Film & TV Kameramann, #12/2011 |
| Nov 27 | "Rubbeldiekatz" - Behind the scenes/Outtakes/Interview clip with Maximilian Brückner |
| Nov 26 | DreamWorks has released the first three US TV-Spots for Steven Spielberg's latest epic drama "War Horse". I still haven't found Maximilian Brückner in either of them though. |
| Nov 24 | Video of the title song L.O.V.E. of "Rubbeldiekatz", performed by The BossHoss & Nena, featuring all lead actors of the film, heard and seen both in snippets from the film and in new filmed bits in costumes but in a different look. |
| Nov 22 | DreamWorks
Pictures announced today that they will be presenting an advance
screening of Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" on Sunday, November 27th in
New York City. The event, which starts at 2:00 p.m. (EST), features a
live Q&A session with director Steven Spielberg following the
presentation of the film. The screening will start simultaneously in nine other cities - Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Boston, Washington DC, Seattle, Miami, Atlanta - and audiences in those cities will view the Q&A with Steven Spielberg live via satellite after the film and will be able to text their questions to the moderator. The Q&A session will also stream live on MSN.com with real time text translation provided by Ortsbo.com. Fans around the world will be able to submit their questions via a live chat function during the event. Source: PRNewsWire |
| Nov 18 | The official German website of "Rubbeldiekatz" finally went online. |
| Nov 11 | In
honor of Veterans Day, DreamWorks Pictures has contacted select
veterans organizations in 50 cities across the U.S. to extend a special
invitation for veterans to attend one of the advance screenings of
Steven Spielberg's epic adventure "War Horse." Veterans groups
interested in attending are invited to e-mail
warhorseveteransinvite@yahoo.com and include the name of their nearest
city for further information on screening dates, times and locations in
their vicinity. The feature film will open in theatres in the U.S. on December 25th. Source: Business Wire |
| Nov 10 | My review of "Rubeldiekatz". In German movie theatres from Dec 15, 2011 on. |
| Nov 9 | Maximilian Brückner and his colleague Gregor Weber were kicked out of their series "Tatort - Scene of the Crime" without announcing any understandable reasons by its producing TV network SR. Fans and German press alike are in rage about it. Some samples from the more than 1000 articles covering that: "Once upon a time - Maxi im Tatort". |
| Nov 1 | The
1st official trailer of "Rubbeldiekatz"
is now online. Premiere of the film is on 11/30/11 in the CinemaxX am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. |
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