Nordic Film Council Nominates Five Movies for Prize

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNENT Group, the Nordic region’s leading streaming company, has ordered “Furia,” an original drama series created by Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen (“Mammon”) exploring the underworld of right-wing extremism in Europe.A co-production between Norway’s Monster Scripted and Germany’s X Filme Creative Pool Series and ZDF, “Furia” will premiere exclusively across the Nordics on NENT Group’s Viaplay streaming service in 2021.Repped by Keshet International, the

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMaipo Film, the leading Norwegian production banner behind “The Crossing” and “State of Happiness,” has acquired Oslo-based Friland Production, whose credits include the Nikolaj Coster-Waldau starrer “Headhunters.”Following Maipo’s acquisition, Christian Fredrik Martin, Friland’s owner and producer, is joining Maipo as a producer.Besides “Headhunters,” Friland’s track record also comprises Netflix’s romantic drama “Battle,” about a dance competition, and

Federal prosecutors claim three men based in Norway, the UK and the US ran a copyright infringement group called The Sparks Group, with which they pirated movies and TV shows for nine years.According to indictments that were unsealed on Tuesday (August 25), Umar Ahmad, George Bridi, and Jonatan Correa, among others, “successfully reproduced and disseminated hundreds of movies and television shows prior to their retail release date, including nearly every movie released by major production

James McClain Though they bought their current Beverly Hills residence barely 18 months ago, music phenom Justin Bieber and his model wife Hailey Baldwin have already scratched the itch to upgrade, shelling out millions for a supersized 90210 house in a particularly celebrity-infested neighborhood.Sited high in the mountains above Beverly Hills, the new Bieber-Baldwin estate lies within the illustrious Beverly Park, the guard-gated community known for its enormous mansions and famous residents

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Roar Uthaug, the director of “The Wave” and the “Tomb Raider” reboot with Alicia Vikander, will next direct a monster movie about Norwegian folklore called “Troll” for Netflix.The Norwegian language action and adventure film is set deep inside the mountain of Dovre as something gigantic awakens after being trapped for a thousand years. Destroying everything in its path, the creature is fast approaching the capital of Norway.

Tove Lo is set to make her acting debut in a new film remake of The Emigrants.Norwegian director Erik Poppe will direct Lo in the 2021 adaptation of Vilhelm Moberg’s 1950s novel of the same name.A bio describes the film as chronicling “the one and a half million Swedes who sought a better life across the Atlantic in the mid-19th century”.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentVenice Days pic “Beware of Children” and Sundance alumnus “Charter” are among the five new Nordic films nominated for the coveted Nordic Council Film Prize of 2020. “Beware of Children” was directed by Norwegian scribe/helmer Dag Johan Haugerud and produced by Yngve Sæther.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: UK distributor Signature has picked up five movies including recent Frank Grillo crime-thriller Body Brokers and noughties Brit comedy Scenes Of A Sexual Nature.Also new to the slate are Korean crime caper Lucky Grandma, Julie Delpy tear-jerker My Zoe and true-story drama Miss Virginia.Body Brokers, starring Grillo, Melissa Leo and Michael K Williams, charts the true story of a multi-billion-dollar drug and alcohol treatment scheme where former drug

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Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe Zurich and San Sebastian film festivals, which tend to overlap in their late-September slots and traditionally try to pool resources, are teaming once again to deliver a special market initiative that the orgs hope will contribute to rejuvenating the beleaguered international film biz.After months of pandemic disruption and cancellations, the European festival circuit is attempting to get going again, with Venice set to be the largest event to take place