Iceland boss issues bleak warning to anyone who buys its food

Iceland stores across Scotland will close on Boxing Day, the supermarket’s boss has confirmed. The firm’s managing director, Richard Walker, appeared on BBC’s Question Time last night.

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Will Tizard ContributorIn the Icelandic musical adventure “12 Hours to Destruction,” writer-director Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir revels in a wholeheartedly youthful story of a school band battling nasties to save their dance.The film, part of the Finnish Film Affair’s Nordic Selection of works in progress being held this week in Helsinki, is an ambitious project, produced by one of Iceland’s leading players, The Icelandic Film Company/Kisi Production, founded in 1991 by Julius Kemp and Ingvar

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Björk has announced new dates for her livestreamed orchestral shows, following multiple delays due to the coronavirus pandemic.The Orkestral series will see the musician perform with different collaborators over each of the four dates, including members of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Flute Septet Viibra and Hamrahlíð Choir.The gigs, performed at Reykjavik’s Harpa Hall to a live audience and livestreamed to fans worldwide, were first due to take place in August 2020, but have been delayed

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentDanish “Game of Thrones” star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, his wife Danish-Greenlandic multihyphenate Nukâka Coster-Waldau, who is a former Miss Greenland, and Baltasar Kormákur, the Icelandic filmmaker whose Hollywood credentials include “Everest,” have joined forces to put their promotional muscle behind the Arctic Indigenous Film Fund, established by the International Sámi Film Institute in Norway.The trio of top Nordic talents have come on board as

EXCLUSIVE: As part of Vince Totino and John Hegeman’s newly launched Wayward Entertainment and their new genre slate, we’ve learned that the studio will be going into a production on an English-language take on Erlingur Thoroddsen’s Icelandic horror movie Rift. Oscar winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will produce.

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.

Naman Ramachandran MGM has picked up several global territories on well-regarded comedy-drama “Queen Bees,” starring Ellen Burstyn, Jane Curtin, Loretta Devine, Ann-Margret and James Caan.The film is directed by Michael Lembeck and written by Donald Martin.

Arclight Films has sold Michael Lembeck’s comedy-drama Queen Bees to a host of international territories.

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.

Orkney beach is thought to have died after becoming entangled in rope.We told how the orca was discovered washed up on Papa Westray on Monday.It was recovered by the Scottish Marine Animals Stranding Scheme (SMASS), who performed a post-mortem to find out its apparent cause of death.They discovered the juvenile whale's most likely cause of death was drowning after becoming entangled in rope which could have came from fishing gear.The male was identified as one which regularly visits Shetland as

French TV event Series Mania came to a close yesterday with the handing out of its awards. Scroll down for the full list of winners.

car was reportedly 'set alight' in the middle of a day by a biker seen pouring petrol inside it at a car park. Emergency services were rushed to the scene after reports of a car on fire at approximately 12:17pm on September 2.