Christian Becker, born 1972 in Krefeld, began studying at Munich Film School after many years of experience in the film industry. At film school, he produced over 15 short films, commercials and numerous documentaries, including Dennis Gansel's first short films Wrong Trip and Living Dead, and their friend and fellow student Peter Thorwarth's If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer and Mafia, Pizza, Razzia. He also produced senior thesis films like Der Grosse Lacher by Benjamin Herrmann or Florian Gallenberger's Oscar®-winning Quiero Ser. No student in the history of Munich Film School has had more producer's credits than Christian Becker.
In 1997, Becker founded the Indigo and Becker & Häberle production shingles together with partner Thomas Häberle, whose projects included Gansel's Phantom or Thorwarth's theatrical features Bang Boom Bang and If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer. After projects like Kanak Attack and 7 Days to Live, Becker had become one of Germany's Top 10 producers by the year 2000. In August 2000, Becker and Häberle brought their production labels together under the name of F.A.M.E. AG, which went public on Germany's Neuer Markt stock exchange.
In 2001, Becker left Indigo and Becker & Häberle to ally with leading German production house Constantin Film AG, founding Rat Pack Filmproduktion and Westside Filmproduktion together with his team. Becker continued to produce successful TV and theatrical titles, such as TV event movie The Hunt for the Hidden Relic, two seasons of If It Don't Fit, Use A Bigger Hammer - The Series, Scratch: The New Sound of Terror and Code of the Templars. He also produced comedian Helge Schneider's music film Jazz Club – The Early Bird Catches The Worm, and Hammer-style thriller parody Der Wixxer, which spent nine weeks in the German theatrical Top 10, selling a total of 1.9 million tickets at the box office. He also produced Peter Thorwarth's Goldene Zeiten (2004) and Hui Buh – The Goofy Ghost (2005), directed by Sebastian Niemann. Sequel Neues vom Wixxer was shot in 2006 with an all-star cast and released theatrically in March of 2007.
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