Marcus Loges has been named the new head of production at storied German backlot Studio Babelsberg, the studio unveiled on Wednesday. On Jan. 1, he will take over from Henning Molfenter, who has run Babelsberg’s production operations for the past 20 years.
Loges has production credits on multiple features that shot at Babelberg, including on sci-fi epic Cloud Atlas, co-directed by the Wachowski siblings and German helmer Tom Tykwer, and on the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit. He worked on several Wachowskis-produced projects that shot in Germany, including as a producer on the Wachowskis’ Netflix show Sense8 and as a production manager on James McTeigue’s V for Vendetta and Ninja Assassin.
More recently, Loges worked as a line producer on the hit German series Babylon Berlin, co-created by Tykwer, Henk Handloegten, and Achim von Borries.
“It is a great honor and pleasure for me to return to Babelsberg – to a place that has always stood for the combination of tradition and innovation and for groundbreaking international cooperation like no other,” Loges said in a statement. “I am very pleased to be able to further strengthen and help shape this special location together with the team in my new role.”
Loges’ appointment follows that, last month, of Jörg Bachmaier as the new studio CEO. The corporate shuffling comes in the wake of the sale of the studio to U.S. investment group TPG Real Estate in 2022. TPG also owns Cinespace Studios in Chicago and Cinespace Toronto.
Loges will work closely with Babelsberg CEO Jörg Bachmaier and the studio board, particularly Eike Wolf, director of studio operations and marketing.
Bachmaier thanked Molfenter for his years of service to the studio. The veteran producer has been head of film and TV production at the German backlot since 2004 and was a key figure in reviving the studio by attracting big-budget Hollywood features to shoot there. He has production credits for such features as Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel and Asteroid City, the Russo Brothers’ Captain America: Civil War, and Chad Stahelski’s John Wick: Chapter 4.
