Fremantle Acquires 12 NENT Studios Production Outfits In The Nordics

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Jenkins is reuniting with his former Bunim/Murray colleague Russell Jay-Staglik.

Nightdive Studios, which is known for remastering classic FPS titles, is teasing a potential Exhumed remaster on Twitter.So far, Nightdive has remastered Doom 64, Turok 1 and 2, and System Shock: Remastered. According to a tease from Nightdive’s CEO on Twitter, the next project will be Exhumed.

Nnamdi Ofoborh won't feature "in the short term" after scans revealed an issue with his heart. The 21-year-old moved to Ibrox on a free transfer from Bournemouth this summer but hasn't featured in any of the pre-season friendlies.

Godhood Comics TV Development Deal For The Antagonists

Sony Pictures Classics said Thursday that it has acquired North America, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and Middle East rights to Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6, the Finnish film that just had its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The deal was struck with Totem Films.

Lala Lala, aka Lillie West, has announced that her new album I Want The Door To Open will be released this October on Hardly Art.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentSamuel Goldwyn Films has acquired all U.S. rights to Pan Nalin’s (“Samsara”) India-set tale “Last Film Show” which world premiered at Tribeca last month.

International and indie film distributor Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Korean film Escape From Mogadishu. It will open in theaters in the U.S. and Canada August 6 following a July 28 release in Korea.

is set in the outskirts of N’Djamena in Chad, where Amina lives alone with her 15-year-old daughter Maria. Her already fragile world collapses the day she discovers that Maria is pregnant.

Tribeca Festival parent Tribeca Enterprises has acquired creative brand studio m ss ng p eces (as in “missing pieces,” if you think you just read a typo).

Naman Ramachandran The Netherlands Film Fund and the Swedish Film Institute are among eight European public funders that are launching ‘New Dawn,’ an inclusion and equality production fund that aims to support under-represented groups in the world of film. Apart from the Netherlands and Sweden, the other founder funding bodies are from Slovenia, Denmark, Finland, French and Flemish Belgium, and Luxembourg.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentSF Studios has boarded “Ellen,” an inspirational period drama about an unsung Danish woman who saved Jews during WW II.

Mediawan & Leonine Studios, the joint venture between France’s Mediawan and Germany’s Leonine, has acquired 51% of UK drama producer Drama Republic.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAfter joining forces last year to launch a banner together, indie powerhouses Mediawan (“Call My Agent”) and Leonine Studios (“Dark”) have acquired a 51% stake in Drama Republic, the award-winning U.K.

Nandi Bushell has shared a video of her interviewing Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders, following her jam session with him last week.The Arctic Monkey visited Bushell at her home on Saturday (June 26), with the young musician teasing an interview and jam on her Instagram page.During the chat – which Bushell said was her first time conducting an interview – the two drummers discussed their top five favourite bands, the hardest drum beat they can play and more.When Helders selected ‘Brainstorm’

Manori Ravindran International EditorFremantle has swooped in for Nordic Entertainment Group’s unscripted assets, Variety can reveal.The RTL Group-owned “Got Talent” producer will use their new assets — 12 companies in all across Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark — to form Fremantle Nordics. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to close later this year.The Scandinavian NENT Group has had its unscripted assets on the sales block since early 2020.

EXCLUSIVE: L.A.’s Finest star Duane Martin has signed an overall deal with Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk Productions for scripted and unscripted content. The first two projects to be developed under the pact are The Free Agent and Deal Detective.

Nandi Bushell has shared the second part of her recent jam session with Arctic Monkeys‘ Matt Helders, doubling up on drums for a rendition of ‘Brianstorm’.Earlier this week, Bushell shared a video of the pair performing ‘I Bet That You Look Good On The Dance Floor’, revealing that more clips from their session would soon be released.In addition to ‘Brianstorm’, a performance of the band’s track ‘R U Mine’ is on the way.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentHBO Nordic has acquired AJ Annila’s searing international political thriller “Peacemaker” from REinvent International Sales.Set across Turkey, Syria and Spain, the timely show is headlined by Irina Björklund (“Bordertown”) who stars as Ann-Mari, a peacemaker struggling to defuse an escalating conflict between the Kurds and the Turks, and unexpectedly sparks a scandal by revealing a Finnish state-owned company’s involvement in the arms trade.“We are