Netflix Nabs Norwegian Thriller From ‘The Karate Kid’ Director Harald Zwart

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Norwegian filmmaker Eva Sorhaug (90 Minutes) has been set to direct feature thriller Edge Of Normal, based on the novel by Carla Norton.XYZ Films (Mandy) is set to produce alongside Industry Entertainment (Messiah), with XYZ also handling world sales. The film will be produced in association with Bold Films (Whiplash), which made a splash this week with Netflix acquisition The Guilty.

Also Read: 'Cuties' Director Blames Poster for Right-Wing Attacks: 'People Judged Without Understanding the Real Message'“DNA” stars Fanny Ardant, Louis Garrel, Dylan Robert, Marine Vacth, Caroline Chaniolleau, Alain Françon, Florent Lacger, Henri-Noël Tabary, Omar Marwan and Maïwenn.Maïwenn directed from a screenplay she wrote with Mathieu Demy. “DNA” is a production of Why Not Productions and Arte France Cinéma.

The Banks Family is back: The “Father of the Bride” cast has reunited for a special “mini-sequel” written and directed by Nancy Meyers, which will launch Friday at 3 p.m. PT/6 p.m.

Already building buzz, the first trailer for Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin’s real-life legal drama “The Trial Of The Chicago 7” has arrived online.

Netflix has acquired the worldwide rights to Pieces of a Woman, which stars Shia LaBeouf and The Crown star Vanessa Kirby playing a couple shattered by the loss of their newborn baby. Also Saturday, Kirby was awarded the Volpi Cup for best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo's first English-language movie after his 2014 break-out film White Dog.

Netflix has dropped a new trailer for Ratched and we’ve already got a reminder set for 18 September.The series, from the creators of American Horror Story, will tell the origin story of one of cinema’s most iconic and evil characters to ever make it to screen – Nurse Mildred Ratched.The show teaser explains how Mildred landed in Northern California in 1947 seeking employment at a top psychiatric hospital ‘where new and unsettling experiments’ were taking place on the human mind.Mildred fools

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) and Aksel Hennie (The Martian) have been set to co-star in director Tommy Wirkola’s (Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters) Norwegian-language thriller The Trip, which XYZ will launch world sales on during TIFF.The film will follow a dysfunctional husband (Hennie) and wife (Rapace) who head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other.

The Karate Kid is having a big resurgence thanks to the Netflix‘s Cobra Kai, which brings back William Zabka and Ralph Macchio as Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso.

told the Associated Press Trump deserves the honor for working “for a peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel which opens up for possible peace in the Middle East.”Tybring-Gjedde is a Norwegian parliamentarian from the far-right Progress Party.Also Read: Donald Trump Jr. Defends Kenosha Shooter: 'He's a Young Kid' (Video)“No matter how Trump acts at home and what he says at press conferences, he has absolutely a chance at getting the Nobel Peace Prize,” he said.

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EXCLUSIVE: Global streamer MUBI has bought global rights on Knock Knock Knock, the latest project from Loev director Sudhanshu Saria.The unconventional pic runs at 40 minutes in length but in the days of duration agnostic platforms these things seem to matter less.

told Empire. “That genre-jumping thing is something I’ve had in my own work, and the connection made sense.”“Rebecca” has been adapted numerous times for the stage and screen, most notably in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 Oscar-winning film.

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlineArmie Hammer brings Lily James to Manderley in the first trailer for “Rebecca,” a modern take on Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic thriller novel.The Netflix film, directed by Ben Wheatley, follows a newly married woman (James) as she arrives at the English estate of her wealthy husband Maxim de Winter (Hammer).

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first look still for Everybody Hates John, the Norwegian comedy that TrustNordisk is launching sales on at the forthcoming Toronto International Film Festival.The movie is a hybrid animation / live action project, as you will see from the image. It chronicles the life of Johan, a small town loner with a flair for dynamite who finds himself in constant conflict with the rural community.

Amongst the upcoming films that suffered at the hands of the COVID-19 pandemic was Tom Cruise starrer Mission: Impossible 7. In February, production was supposed to kickstart in Venice before moving to Rome.

William Zabka has been playing misunderstood bully Johnny Lawrence for over 30 years.Zabka first rose to fame in 1984 as the motorcycle-riding black belt Johnny in “The Karate Kid,” facing off against the movie’s hero, new guy Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio).Zabka also starred in CBS’ “The Equalizer” from 1986-89, got an Oscar nod in 2004 for co-writing and producing the short film “Most” and appeared on “How I Met Your Mother” in 2013.His latest project “Cobra Kai,” currently on Netflix,

Netflix is taking viewers back to school in gritty new drama series “Grand Army”.

The landscape of the Peak TV era is cluttered, to say the least. For every major, big-budget series with an impressive cast (such as the upcoming series, “The Stand”), there are a dozen or more shows that would have likely been awards contenders a decade ago but are just lost in the shuffle.

on the way to Netflix this month, with Ratched, Enola Holmes and I’m Thinking of Ending Things, starring Jessie Buckley, landing very soon.Emily in Paris arrives on the streaming platform on 2 October.