Thousands gather in Denmark and Sweden for Worldwide 2021

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLe Pacte has boarded Juanjo Gimenez’s drama “Out of Sync,” which makes its world premiere at Venice Days, and the documentary biopic “Inferno Rosso: Joe d’Amato on the Path of Excess,” which will world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the Special Screenings section.“Inferno Rosso: Joe d’Amato on the Path of Excess,” directed by Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin and presented by Danish helmer Nicolas Winding Refn, sheds light on Aristide

Steve Clarke 's side never recovered from a quite disastrous start. Daniel Wass headed the hosts in front early on and Joakim Mæhle added a second just 92 seconds later.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentOne moment, Julie, just  18, a fashion influencer, 159,258 followers, is swanning down a street in Copenhagen, with her BFFs Constanze, Micke and Sofia. The next, her parents and big brother are dead, killed in a plane crash in Africa.Julie gets the family mansion, but can’t think of any good reasons for living.There’s a before and after, Julie says in “Kamikaze,” HBO Europe’s first Danish original.

It’s been nearly a year since Lars Blomgren was named Banijay’s head of scripted for the company and, according to the veteran TV exec, it’s been a fruitful start. He’s no stranger to the role, having previously been head of scripted EMEA at Endemol Shine Group, before Banijay seized control of that company in a mega $2.2BN deal last year.

Lindsey Buckingham has announced his first ever solo European dates.The 2022 tour will begin in Dublin, before he plays three UK shows in Glasgow, Liverpool and London. The self-titled tour then goes on to dates through Belgium, France, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.Pre-sale tickets will be available from September 1 from 10am for registered users on Buckingham’s website here.

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Three Scandinavian drama producers behind shows such as Modus and Occupied have set up a new production company backed by Endeavor Content.

Danish Oscar winner Bille August has been set to helm Ehrengard, the adaptation of Karen Blixen’s novel, which is being produced by SF Studios for Netflix.

In a first for the US version of Dancing With The Stars, dancer, singer and  YouTube personality JoJo Siwa will be part of the first ever same-sex dance  team to compete on the show. While Siwa is making history for the USA version, same-sex couples have  been featured on other international franchises of the show, including Italy,  Israel, Ireland, and Denmark (where Jakob Fauerby and Silas Holst took  home the Mirrorball trophy).

Naman Ramachandran Bille August, director of Oscar and Palme d’Or-winning film “Pelle the Conqueror,” is adapting Karen Blixen’s “Ehrengard” as a Netflix feature film. “Ehrengard” is one of the last works from Blixen (1885-1962), the author whose autobiographical memoir was filmed as “Out of Africa.” The story is set in the fairytale kingdom of Babenhausen where a young, self-appointed expert on love, Cazotte, is hired by the scheming Grand Duchess to help her secure an heir.

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In the teaser, we hear Gyllenhaal play a 911 dispatcher who gets a tearful, frantic call from a woman who has been abducted and locked in a trunk. What starts out as a tense call soon plunges down a path of truth and deception where nothing is as it seems.

Special Jury Mentions went to “The Staffroom,” actress Vinette Robinson for “The Boiling Point” and cinematographer Jelena Stankovic for “As Far as I Can Walk.”In the East of the West competition, a separate slate of films from Eastern Europe, the winner was “Nuuccha,” with a special jury prize to “Sisterhood” and a special mention to the documentary “Intensive Life Unit.”The jury that chose the main awards consisted of Argentinian producer Benjamin Domenech, Danish filmmaker Eva Mulvad, Polish

warmer weather and seasonal temperatures, thoughts of foreign travel are inevitably going to creep their way to the top of to-do lists now that the Scottish Government has announced more countries have been added to the 'green list' for travelling. Canada, Denmark and Switzerland are among the destinations that have now been moved from the amber list to the green list, after the number of coronavirus infections continues to drop.

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Making a movie in the middle of a pandemic was a tough job.

Annika Pham “Flee” multi-awarded Danish writer/director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, most recently nominated for the Nordic Council Film Prize, is set to take up the animated format and displacement theme with the project under the working title “Dane” (“Dansker”), spear-headed by Danish production outfit Ja Film (“LEGO Elves”).The animation feature project is based on “The Dane Trilogy” (“Dansker Trilogien”) comic books by rising Danish talent Halfdan Pisket, winner of the 2019 series prize at the