Carl Woebcken
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Carl "Charlie" Woebcken, born in 1956, is a German film producer and President/CEO of Studio Babelsberg AG
and Managing Director of the production service subsidiary Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures as well as Babelsberg Film.
together with his business associate Christoph Fisser
in July 2004 from the French media group Vivendi
. They went public with the restructured Studio Babelsberg at the German stock exchange in 2005.
Before operating in Babelsberg, Charlie Woebcken worked as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group
and subsequently in the management board of the Roland Berger & Partner consultancy. From 1998 he served as Vice President of the production and distribution company TV Loonland AG in Munich and as CEO of the former Sony subsidiary Sunbow Entertainment in New York. With his involvement as producer and co-producer films like Petterson and Findus were produced.
As head of programming at Berlin Animation Film GmbH (BAF), he acted as co-producer on a range of projects from 2002 until 2004, including the CGI feature film Happily N'Ever After
.
Babelsberg Studios
The Studio Babelsberg, located in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany, is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world. Founded in 1912, it covers an area of about . Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel were filmed there...
and Managing Director of the production service subsidiary Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures as well as Babelsberg Film.
Biography
Charlie Woebcken acquired Studio BabelsbergBabelsberg Studios
The Studio Babelsberg, located in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany, is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world. Founded in 1912, it covers an area of about . Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel were filmed there...
together with his business associate Christoph Fisser
Christoph Fisser
Christoph Fisser, born in 1960, is a German film producer and Vice-President/COO of Studio Babelsberg AG. Christoph Fisser acquired Studio Babelsberg together with his business associate and present CEO Charlie Woebcken in July 2004 from the French media group Vivendi...
in July 2004 from the French media group Vivendi
Vivendi
Vivendi SA is a French international media conglomerate with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications, the Internet, and video games. It is headquartered in Paris.- History :...
. They went public with the restructured Studio Babelsberg at the German stock exchange in 2005.
Before operating in Babelsberg, Charlie Woebcken worked as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group
Boston Consulting Group
The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm with offices in 42 countries. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the world. It is one of only three companies to appear in the top 15 of Fortunes "Best Companies to Work For" report for...
and subsequently in the management board of the Roland Berger & Partner consultancy. From 1998 he served as Vice President of the production and distribution company TV Loonland AG in Munich and as CEO of the former Sony subsidiary Sunbow Entertainment in New York. With his involvement as producer and co-producer films like Petterson and Findus were produced.
As head of programming at Berlin Animation Film GmbH (BAF), he acted as co-producer on a range of projects from 2002 until 2004, including the CGI feature film Happily N'Ever After
Happily N'Ever After
Happily N'Ever After is a 2007 American computer-animated film based on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. It is a Vanguard Animation production, released by Lions Gate Films on January 5, 2007...
.
Selected credits
- V for VendettaV for Vendetta (film)V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian thriller film directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, who also wrote the screenplay. It is an adaptation of the V for Vendetta comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd...
(2005) - Casino RoyaleCasino Royale (2006 film)Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series and the first to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond...
(2006) - The CounterfeitersThe Counterfeiters (film)The Counterfeiters is a 2007 Austrian-German film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by the Nazis during the Second World War to destabilize Great Britain by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England bank notes.The film centres on a...
(2007) - Flame & CitronFlame & CitronFlame & Citron is a 2008 Danish drama/action co-written and directed by Ole Christian Madsen. The film, a fictionalized account based on fact, is about two Danish resistance movement fighters during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.- Plot :...
(2007) - Speed RacerSpeed Racer (film)Speed Racer is a 2008 American live action film adaptation of Tatsuo Yoshida's 1960s Japanese anime series of the same name, produced by Tatsunoko Productions. The film is written and directed by the Wachowskis...
(2007) - ValkyrieValkyrie (film)Valkyrie is a 2008 American historical thriller film set in Nazi Germany during World War II. The film depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country...
(2007) - The InternationalThe International (film)The International is a 2009 thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer. The film follows an Interpol agent and an American attorney who investigate corruption within the IBBC, a fictional merchant bank based in Luxembourg. It serves organized crime and corrupt governments as a banker and as an arms...
(2007) - The Reader (2008)
- Inglourious Basterds (2008)
- The Ghost WriterThe Ghost (2010 film)The Ghost Writer is a 2010 political thriller film directed by Roman Polanski. The film is an adaptation of the Robert Harris novel, The Ghost, with the screenplay written by Polanski and Harris...
(2009) - AnonymousAnonymous (film)Anonymous is a political thriller and historical drama which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011. Directed by Roland Emmerich and written by John Orloff, the movie is a fictionalized version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an Elizabethan...
(2010) - Happy People: A Year in the TaigaHappy People: A Year in the TaigaHappy People: A Year in the Taiga is a 2010 documentary film directed by Dmitry Vasyukov and produced by Werner Herzog. The film depicts the life of the people in the village of Bakhtin along the Yenisei River in Siberian Taiga....
(2010)