Andrea Bocelli was joined on stage this week by his son Matteo as the pair performed for dinner guests in Milan.
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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“Remember, you have been trained for this,” says a veteran cop to the rookies sitting in the back of a van as they approach a post-soccer match brawl at a local park.But in “Huss” nothing in her police academy lessons prepares Katarina Huss for her months as a trainee on the mean streets of Sweden’s Göteborg: Abduction, battery, corruption, betrayal, manslaughter and attempted murder.
And that’s just within the police force itself.Produced by
.Andrea Bocelli was joined on stage this week by his son Matteo as the pair performed for dinner guests in Milan.
Britt Ekland once underwent a "lip-plumping" procedure in Paris – and the experience left the former Bond girl scarred. The Swedish actress said she "ruined her face" after getting lip fillers, describing them as "the biggest mistake" of her life.
Before We Die actor Patrick Gibson has spoken about the possibility of a second season for the crime drama, teasing that the show "could develop". The OA and Tolkien star Gibson plays a man named Christian Radic, who gets involved with the local mafia, in the Channel 4 drama, which is based on the Swedish show of the same name.
Alexander Durie With over 250 screen adaptations featuring Sherlock Holmes, the fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the most famous characters to have graced a screen.
Mónica Marie Zorrilla Angelo Pizzo, screenwriter of “Hoosiers” and “Rudy” has been tapped to adapt Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins’ highly-acclaimed and rated book “The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, A People, A Nation.” It is the first film property that has been optioned by Ray Halbritter, Oneida Indian Nation Representative, CEO of Oneida Nation Enterprises and trustee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Museum, for his Standing Arrow Productions
Noomi Rapace and Nicholas Pinnock are joining Matthias Schoenaerts in the star cast of “Django,” an English-language reimagining of Sergio Corbucci’s classic 1966 Western. Set in the Wild West of the 1860s and ’70s, the project marks one of the biggest high-end European series of 2021.Star of “Prometheus,” “Sherlock Holmes” and “What Happened to Monday,” Sweden’s Rapace will play Elizabeth, who is described as a powerful and merciless enemy of John Ellis.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) is set to produce two major English-language films every year, kicking off with “Hilma,” a biopic of the revolutionary Swedish artist and feminist pioneer Hilma af Klint, starring Lena Olin (“Enemies”). Lasse Hallström (‘The Cider House Rules”), one of Sweden’s most celebrated directors, is on board to write and direct the film.
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), a leading digital player in Scandinavia, is committing to produce two English-language films per year that will debut directly on its Viaplay streaming service.
Lesson learned. Before marrying into the Duggar family, Jeremy Vuolo was arrested for harassing a police officer, but he says the incident was an important turning point in his life.
Millie Mackintosh has reflected on her early days as a first time mum with husband Hugo Taylor, 34, speaking out about the “ups and downs” of her journey throughout pregnancy and motherhood. The Made in Chelsea star, 31, said while she was the “happiest” she was also struggling when she felt “so low” which she says involved days filled with anxiety “creeping in”.
Leo Barraclough International Features EditorNew York City-based global documentary film sales agent Cargo Film & Releasing has nabbed world rights, excluding Denmark and Sweden, to Mads Hedegaard’s feature length documentary debut “Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest,” which premiered at last week’s CPH:DOX and plays this week at Hot Docs.The feel-good film centers on Kim Cannon Arm, who is not your average grandpa.
Jennie Punter Known as a producer of award-winning Canadian documentary and narrative films, a showrunner and, more recently, as the cofounder of Canada’s newly minted Black Screen Office, Jennifer Holness is chatting up her feature-doc directorial debut, “Subjects of Desire,” this week at Hot Docs where it screens in Special Presentations.In an interview with Variety before her industry conference Masterclass (now available on-demand to festival attendees), Holness confirmed that negotiations