‘Swedish Dicks’ Backer Nordic Entertainment Group To Boost Drama Focus, Eyes Third Party Investment & Plans To Sell Non-Scripted Unit

The mere mention of Celtic brings a smile to Pierre Bengtsson’s face.

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The Universal Music Group's revenues passed $7.7 billion (€7.16 billion euros) in 2019, up 14% at constant currency and perimeter thanks to another strong surge in streaming revenue, which was up over 20% year over year.Recorded music revenues accounted for $6.11 billion (€5.6 billion) of UMG's total take, up 11.6% year over year, while the publishing division's revenues topped a billion -- $1.14 billion (€1.052 billion) -- an increase of 9.2%, both at constant currency and perimeter.That

Also this year the visit to Gay Pride Parades and CSD Events all over the world was at the top of our Gay Travel Bucket List. We are proud that we went hand in hand with our rainbow flag to a total of six Gay Pride parades in 2019. From Canada, the USA and Sweden to Amsterdam, we support the LGBTQ + community in their struggle for equality and acceptance and continue the LGBTQ+ history of the numerous lesbian, gay, trans and queer activists.

Recipients of the 29th Polar Music Prize were announced today and include 11-time Oscar nominated songwriter Diane Warren and Russian-born opera singer Anna Netrebko. The 2020 gala ceremony is scheduled for June 9 at Stockholm’s Grand Hôtel. Each Laureate receives prize money of one million Swedish Kroner (just over $100,000).

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Valentine's Day has some of the , especially when it comes to . The Swedish brand, known for making some of the , is sending out the good vibes this V-Day by offering up to 50% off its best-selling products through Februyary 20.If you don't know where to start, we'd recommend Lelo's currently on sale for $99.

Jennifer Aniston missed out on the 92nd Academy Awards but the Friends alum was present for the star-studded after party with co-star and friend Courteney Cox. The actresses twinned in black for the night as they attended the after party hosted by Netflix in West Hollywood, California. Jennifer and Reese Witherspoon, for a change, did not make an appearance. The duo celebrated the night with Marriage Story winner Laura Dern who took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. 

IKEA has revealed it is planning its first ever store closure in the UK.

GÖTEBORG, Sweden  — Norwegian helmer-writer Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Beware Of Children,” a complex, almost novelistic examination of how people reveal their true colors under pressure when crisis strikes, came away the biggest winner at the 43rd Göteborg Film Festival, scoring the generously endowed ($104,000) best Nordic film prize.

Swedish director-actor Mårten Klingberg (“Cockpit”) will find out if his latest dramedy is as big of an audience pleaser as early test screenings predict when he presents “My Father Marianne” as the closing night of the Göteborg Film Festival on Saturday, Feb. 1. Variety chatted to Klingberg  before the film’s bow.

GÖTEBORG, Sweden — Home to the most dynamic streaming markets in Western Europe, the Nordic region still posted solid box office returns in 2019, especially from Hollywood tentpoles “The Lion King,” “Avengers: Endgame” and “Joker,” which ruled on all top ten charts, except in Denmark. Local fare, however, lost ground in all five territories.

Lagardere Studios Distribution has boarded “The Machinery,” an action-packed thriller series headlined Kristoffer Joner (“The Revenant”) which was teased by Viaplay during a presentation at Goteborg’s TV Drama Vision conference on Thursday.

NENT Group’s streaming service Viaplay has ordered a second season of the Swedish crime drama “The Truth Will Out” which will be headlined by Robert Gustafsson, the star of “The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared.”

Norway’s Sara Johnsen has won the 2020 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for her writing on NRK’s “22 July,” a six-part painstaking – and often inevitably pained – reconstruction using fictional composite characters but often meticulously recreated scenes of how Norway reacted to its 2011 terror attacks.

Scandinavian major NENT Group has commissioned romantic drama “Harmonica” from Warner Bros. International Television Production Sweden.

GÖTEBORG, Sweden — Scandi sales shingle The Yellow Affair has added to its Göteborg lineup the Swedish series “The Chosen Ones” (“Det Utvalda”), currently playing on Swedish pubcaster SVT’s streaming service SVT Play.