Norway Film and TV Biz Thrives Despite Challenges

Get the United transfer latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free

Girl In Red recently took to the Late Night With Seth Meyers stage to perform ‘I’ll Call You Mine’.The Norwegian pop star appeared on the late night show on Monday night (September 20) with her band, performing the penultimate track off her debut album, ‘If I Could Make It Go Quiet’.Watch the performance below.Girl In Red – real name Marie Ringheim – has also revealed her supporting act on her upcoming US tour: British singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentTrustNordisk has closed key deals on John Andreas Andersen’s anticipated Norwegian disaster film “The North Sea.”Now in post-production, the ambitious movie is produced by Fantefilm Fiksjon, which previously delivered the Scandinavian blockbusters “The Quake” and “The Wave” that TrustNordisk sold around the world.The film, the trailer for which has just been unveiled by TrustNordisk, opens on Christmas Eve in 1969 as the Norwegian government announces

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentBanijay has boarded “Countrymen,” a new drama series produced by its Norwegian label, Rubicon, with a cast of Scandinavian stars, including Nader Khademi (“Ninjababy”), Ayaz Hussain (“Kasim Bæder”), Jonas Strand Gravli (“Ragnarok”) Arben Bala (“Lilyhammer”) and Erika Strand Mamelund. The show will world premiere at Cannes Series and has been commissioned by the public broadcaster NRK, in co-production with Arte France.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAlthough the pandemic has pole-axed many independent distributors, some like Alexandre Mallet-Guy at Paris-based Memento Distribution have managed to weather the storm.The company has had prestige auteur films playing in the festival circuit this year; at Cannes with multiple films in competition, including Jacques Audiard’s “Paris, District 13th,” Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s “A Hero” and Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s “The Worst

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

Get the United transfer latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free

Conan Exiles developer Funcom is working on an all-new Conan game after acquiring full rights to the Conan the Barbarian franchise.The Norwegian developer has announced its acquisition of Cabinet Group – along with access to its full range of intellectual properties, including Conan the Barbarian, Mutant Year Zero and Solomon Kane.As part of the announcement, Funcom revealed that it is “currently overseeing the development of an unannounced [Conan] game which will combine many of the characters

Gavin and Stacey star Mathew Horne, 43, has married longtime girlfriend Celina Bassili, 27, in a stunning ceremony in Norway.The couple opted to keep their nuptials, which took place in the country’s capital city of Oslo earlier this month, a secret at first.

Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing

Lise Pedersen Norway’s famous landscapes will be gracing screens around the world in a fresh crop of blockbusters and domestic productions set to be released internationally.Premiering in Venice out of competition, Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited “Dune” features scenes shot on the West Cape plateau, one of the most spectacular view points on the coast of Norway. The $165 million film will hit U.S.