TrustNordisk Boards Crime Thriller ‘The Marco Effect’ From Oscar-Nominated Director Martin Zandvliet

Ben Affleck said his ex-fiancee Jennifer Lopez should have been nominated for an Academy Award for her role in the 2019 film “Hustlers.” Affleck, 47, and Lopez, 50, were engaged to each other but called off the wedding in January 2004.The actor sat down for an interview with The New York Times’ Brooks Barnes recently and spoke at length about his past relationships and his storied career in Hollywood.

Liam Neeson (Taken) is set to star in action crime thriller Memory, to be directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, Goldeneye) from a script written by Dario Scardapane (The Bridge) and based on the original Dutch film The Memory of a Killer.Cathy Schulman (Crash), through her Welle Entertainment banner, Rupert Maconick and Arthur Sarkissian will produce.

He might be 34, recovering from injury and in his second spell at Copenhagen.

The singer performed alongside Idina Menzel at the 92nd Academy Awards

“Pictures are for entertainment — messages should be delivered by Western Union.” The line has been variously attributed to half a dozen old-school Hollywood producers, from Samuel Goldwyn to Frank Capra, but the sentiment captures how classic studio types endeavored to separate political statements from popular cinema.

EMMA TILLINGER KOSKOFFProducer, The Irishman, Joker. President of production, Sikelia ProductionsMy Day: Nov.

TrustNordisk has picked up international sales rights to Martin Zandvliet’s next crime-thriller “The Marco Effect” which is based on Jussi Adler-Olsen’s bestselling novel by the same name.

Director Daria Kashcheev’s Oscar-nominated animated short “Daughter” examines the relationship between a daughter and her father. It’s a story that forced Kascheev to look at her own relationship with her parents while she was writing the story.

The Hollywood stalwart Al Pacino recently revealed that he wants to play Hamlet, as he has a strong inclination to essay that Shakespearean character. The star who featured in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, said he wanted to play Hamlet as he has not yet dealt with that particular character.

GÖTEBORG, Sweden —  Norway’s Stian Kristiansen (“Homeground”, “The Man Who Loved Yngve”) has signed on to direct “Doppler” for long-time production partners at Motlys (“Louder than Bombs”, Homeground”).

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.

Harriet Frank Jr., the two-time Oscar nominee forHudandNorma Raewho partnered with her husband, the late Irving Ravetch, to form one of the great screenwriting teams in Hollywood history, has died. She was 96.Frank died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, her nephew, Michael Frank, told The New York Times.Frank and Ravetch worked on 17 features together, including eight directed by Martin Ritt over a 32-year span and three that were adapted from William Faulkner novels.

Harriet Frank Jr., who collaborated with her husband, Irving Ravetch, on the Oscar-nominated screenplays for “Norma Rae” and “Hud,” died on Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 96.

Allow me to say something a little counter-intuitive here. Don't read this. Just trust me and watch Into the Deep when it debuts on Netflix later this year. Not enough? Fine, but don't say I didn't warn you.

By Peter White

Variety has been given exclusive access to the international trailer of the Danish film “A Perfectly Normal Family,” due to compete both at Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition, and at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Competition. Malou Reyman’s debut feature has been a hot property for sales agent New Europe Film Sales, ever since it was sneak peeked a year ago as a work in progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market. “The market response so far has been fantastic and I’m happy that the film has a broader

By Matthew Carey