EXCLUSIVE: Off the back of yesterday’s HBO Max European launch event, which featured previews of a host of new content coming to the platform, today we can reveal a first look at one of the streamer’s upcoming local originals, Lust.
17.09.2021 - 14:13 / variety.com
Ed Meza @edmezavarIcelandic film production company Sagafilm and Sweden’s LittleBig Productions are developing a historical series about 17th-century Icelanders abducted by Barbary corsairs and sold into slavery in North Africa.Tentatively titled “Salé” — a city on the North African coast that was also a haven for pirates — the series is inspired by true events.
It begins in the summer of 1627, when several hundred people in settlements along Iceland’s coast are captured by Barbary privateers
.EXCLUSIVE: Off the back of yesterday’s HBO Max European launch event, which featured previews of a host of new content coming to the platform, today we can reveal a first look at one of the streamer’s upcoming local originals, Lust.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLily Cole (“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”), Rebecca Calder (“I May Destroy You”), Maeve Dermody (“The Beast Must Die”) and Catherine Chalk (“Hereafter”) have joined the cast of “Hilma,” Lasse Hallström’s English-language biopic of the revolutionary Swedish artist and feminist pioneer Hilma af Klint.As previously announced, Lena Olin (“Enemies”) and Tora Hallström will play Klint at different ages of her life.Now shooting in Stockholm and Vilnius (first still
With winter just around the corner, we can end up feeling a little down.Three in 100 suffer from depression due to the cold weather, with many others feeling sapped of enthusiasm and energy. But freezing Iceland consistently ranks among the world’s top-five happiest countries – so if anyone can teach us about enjoying life, it’s Icelanders.
Monica Lewinsky is opening up in more detail about seeing her real-life scandals play out on the small screen. The 48-year-old serves as a producer on the FX series "Impeachment: American Crime Story." It follows the story of the former White House intern’s affair with President Bill Clinton and the subsequent impeachment trial that came about in December 1998.
Kaia Gerber, the model and daughter of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, is the latest newcomer to join the franchise. The 20-year-old budding actress didn’t just join one installment, however, she made back-to-back appearances in the spinoff,, as the murderous ghost Ruby and in the tenth season of the original series,, as the studious luddite Kendall.
Netflix assassin thriller The Mother has added several familiar faces to its cast. The thriller from Mulan director Niki Caro casts J-Lo as a retired assassin who re-emerges from hiding to protect her daughter (Lucy Paez) from a crew of dangerous men.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentSF Studios has unveiled the trailer for the action thriller “Omerta 6/12,” one of the biggest-budgeted Finnish films ever. The film is directed by Aku Louhimies with a cast headlined by Finnish star Jasper Pääkkönen (“BlacKkKlansman”) and Swedish actors Nanna Blondell (“Black Widow”) and Sverrir Gudnason (“Borg vs.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterShowtime has ordered the American version of “Let the Right One In” to series, Variety has learned.The 10-episode series, based on the hit Swedish novel and film of the same name, was originally ordered to pilot at the premium cabler back in March.
Marta Balaga Finnish series “Mister8,” produced by It’s Alive Films and sold internationally by Federation Entertainment, will celebrate its international premiere at Canneseries. The series festival will take place on Oct.
Evan Peters earned his first Emmy Award tonight in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie category for his role as Detective Colin Zabel in Mare of Easttown. This marks the HBO series’ second win tonight, following Julianne Nicholson’s win for Supporting Actress.
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Jennifer Yuma editorNetflix announced that the upcoming limited series “True Story” will premiere on Nov. 24.Starring Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes, “True Story” follows a tour stop in Kid’s (Hart) hometown of Philadelphia.
Warning spoilers below!)During the episode, the drama and gore were at an all-time high after Harry and Doris welcomed their second child, a baby boy. Since things in the family were already rocky, the baby’s arrival caused even more of an upheaval, especially with Alma, who was later caught feeding from her little brother’s leg!However, there was one scene in particular that caused fans to turn to social media in complaint.
Ryan Murphy, exec producer of TV hits ranging from “Glee” to “American Horror Story” to “Pose”, has a new show in the works that promises to bring fresh frights to the small screen.
Linda Tripp passed away last year, so she won’t be able to see how she’s portrayed in the new FX series Impeachment: American Crime Story, but her daughter is speaking out.
Naman Ramachandran Director Max Newsom (“Plunge: The Movie”) returns with new film “Iceland Is Best,” featuring a winning turn from Judd Nelson (“The Breakfast Club”) and a fresh young cast. The film follows 17-year-old Sigga who tells her parents she is leaving her beautiful Icelandic fishing village to become a poet in California as her grandfather has just given her enough money to buy a plane ticket.
Manori Ravindran International EditorHBO Max is coming to Europe on Oct. 26, and the first launch markets will be Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra, Variety can reveal.The next crop of 14 European countries will receive the WarnerMedia-owned streamer in 2022.
“Why does it take so long to break up? Why does no one talk about the fact that [divorce] is endless trauma?” Jessica Chastain asks in a heartbreaking moment from HBO’s devastating marital and breakup mini-series “Scenes From A Marriage.” A modern adaptation of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman’s brutally emotionally honest 1970s series, now written, directed, and executive produced by Israeli filmmaker Hagai Levi, (“Our Boys,” “The Affair,” and “In Treatment”), this new HBO version is intimate,
“Ray Donovan,” “The Morning Show” “The 100” — and five seasons of FX’s “American Horror Story” franchise — had a seemingly short stint on this season of “AHS.” “I read the script without knowing which role I was assigned,” Porter, 50, told The Post. “And then I fell in love with the Chief and hoped that was the one that I got.