Scandinavian Streamer Viaplay Launches on Amazon’s Prime Video Channels in Germany – Mipcom Bulletin
Viaplay Lands in Germany
Viaplay Content Distribution has launched its Viaplay channel as an add-on subscription to Prime Video via Prime Video Channels in Germany. Prime Video Channel subscribers can access Viaplay’s offering of Scandinavian and European series and films starting today, Oct. 22.
Viaplay’s German offering includes high-quality and impactful Nordic series and films, including award-winning Nordic noir dramas such as “End of Summer,” “Face to Face,” “The Bridge,” “Gåsmamman,” “Furia,” “Trom,” “Stockholm Requiem,” “The Sandhamn Murders,” “Unit One,” “The Team,” “Wallander,” and “Darkness: Those Who Kill.” The platform will also host three films from the Millennium/The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo franchise.
Other titles included at launch are the YA series “Threesome” and “Delete Me”; dramas “Seaside Hotel,” “Love Me,” “Pörni Seasons,” “The Beach Hotel” and “Lyckoviken”; and documentaries “The Prize of Silence,” “Operation Cannabis” and “Wozniacki & Lee.”
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Viaplay Content Distribution has launched its Viaplay channel as an add-on subscription to Prime Video via Prime Video Channels in Germany. Prime Video Channel subscribers can access Viaplay’s offering of Scandinavian and European series and films starting today, Oct. 22.
Viaplay’s German offering includes high-quality and impactful Nordic series and films, including award-winning Nordic noir dramas such as “End of Summer,” “Face to Face,” “The Bridge,” “Gåsmamman,” “Furia,” “Trom,” “Stockholm Requiem,” “The Sandhamn Murders,” “Unit One,” “The Team,” “Wallander,” and “Darkness: Those Who Kill.” The platform will also host three films from the Millennium/The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo franchise.
Other titles included at launch are the YA series “Threesome” and “Delete Me”; dramas “Seaside Hotel,” “Love Me,” “Pörni Seasons,” “The Beach Hotel” and “Lyckoviken”; and documentaries “The Prize of Silence,” “Operation Cannabis” and “Wozniacki & Lee.”
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- 10/22/2024
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Kaimana, Rachel House, Oscar Kightley, David Fane, Beulah Koale, Will Arnett, Elisabeth Moss, Uli Latukefu, Chris Alosio, Lehi Makisi Falepapalangi, Rhys Darby | Written by Taika Waititi, Iain Morris | Directed by Taika Waititi
Released in 2014, Next Goal Wins was a phenomenal documentary from directors Mike Brett and Steve Jamison which followed the American Samoa football team as they attempted to persevere following a historic 31-0 loss to Australia. Much in the vein of Grey Gardens, Man On Wire, and Marwencol, the acclaimed documentary has been dramatised into a feature film, this time by Taika Waititi and The Inbetweeners co-creator Iain Morris.
Next Goal Wins focuses on Dutch American coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender), whose only option to evade being fired is to coach the American Samoa team. As he arrives with a bad attitude and a drinking problem, it soon dawns on Thomas that he may be able...
Released in 2014, Next Goal Wins was a phenomenal documentary from directors Mike Brett and Steve Jamison which followed the American Samoa football team as they attempted to persevere following a historic 31-0 loss to Australia. Much in the vein of Grey Gardens, Man On Wire, and Marwencol, the acclaimed documentary has been dramatised into a feature film, this time by Taika Waititi and The Inbetweeners co-creator Iain Morris.
Next Goal Wins focuses on Dutch American coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender), whose only option to evade being fired is to coach the American Samoa team. As he arrives with a bad attitude and a drinking problem, it soon dawns on Thomas that he may be able...
- 4/10/2024
- by James Rodrigues
- Nerdly
Criminal Code is Brazil’s new entry in the sea of police procedurals on Netflix. The show follows Benício, a cop who lost his partner in a crossfire in a prison about three months earlier. Now, he is keen on catching the guy who killed him, but it’s all mixed up in a large robbery scheme that is transborder. The Foz police department is in for something huge as they try to solve a massive robbery that links to the underworld of crime syndicates that have taken over the Brazil-Paraguay border. The show begins with a massive robbery at Progard that leads our lead detective, Benício, to the heart of his search for the guy who killed his dear partner. He’s also guilt-ridden because his partner was hungover thanks to his own greed for more on the night before that terrible day.
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- 11/16/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
Dr Sales, the commercial arm of the Danish broadcaster, has teamed with the up-and-coming Danish-Swedish banner Nevis Productions on “Nordland ’99,” a sinister crime series set in a fictional town in rural Denmark.
Directed by rising talent Kasper Møller Rask (“Lemon World”), the show is being produced by Iben Søtang (“Lemon World”) and Anni Faurbye Fernandez, whose credits include Scandinavia’s biggest TV hits, from “The Millennium Trilogy,” to “Wallander,” “Wisting,” and “Atlantic Crossing.” The pair are producing “Nordland 99” at Nevis Productions.
Set at the turn of the 21st century, the stylized series unfolds in the aftermath of the disappearance of 18-year-old Alex. His friends, Lukas and Kris, team up with Alex’s sister Emma to find their missing friend. Both Alex’s ex-girlfriend, the town’s pusher, and Emma’s family have information that they suspect may be connected to Alex’s disappearance. Their journey will lead them to uncover terrible crimes and secrets.
Directed by rising talent Kasper Møller Rask (“Lemon World”), the show is being produced by Iben Søtang (“Lemon World”) and Anni Faurbye Fernandez, whose credits include Scandinavia’s biggest TV hits, from “The Millennium Trilogy,” to “Wallander,” “Wisting,” and “Atlantic Crossing.” The pair are producing “Nordland 99” at Nevis Productions.
Set at the turn of the 21st century, the stylized series unfolds in the aftermath of the disappearance of 18-year-old Alex. His friends, Lukas and Kris, team up with Alex’s sister Emma to find their missing friend. Both Alex’s ex-girlfriend, the town’s pusher, and Emma’s family have information that they suspect may be connected to Alex’s disappearance. Their journey will lead them to uncover terrible crimes and secrets.
- 9/16/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Janus Films has acquired North American rights for Hlynur Pálmason’s “Godland,” which bowed at Cannes and is bound for Telluride and Toronto.
The film follows a young Danish priest in the late 19th century who travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
It stars Elliott Crosset Hove (“Winter Brothers”), Ingvar Sigurðsson, Vic Carmen Sonne (“Holiday”), Jacob Hauberg Lohmann (“Shorta”), Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Waage Sandø “The Team”) and Hilmar Guðjónsson (“Sóttkví”).
Janus Films plans a theatrical release to be followed by a Criterion Channel streaming premiere.
The film is is produced by Katrin Pors, Anton Máni Svansson, Eva Jakobsen and Mikkel Jersin. Production entities include Snowglobe (Dk) in collaboration with Join Motion Pictures (Is) and in co-production with Maneki Films (Fr), Film I Väst...
The film follows a young Danish priest in the late 19th century who travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
It stars Elliott Crosset Hove (“Winter Brothers”), Ingvar Sigurðsson, Vic Carmen Sonne (“Holiday”), Jacob Hauberg Lohmann (“Shorta”), Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Waage Sandø “The Team”) and Hilmar Guðjónsson (“Sóttkví”).
Janus Films plans a theatrical release to be followed by a Criterion Channel streaming premiere.
The film is is produced by Katrin Pors, Anton Máni Svansson, Eva Jakobsen and Mikkel Jersin. Production entities include Snowglobe (Dk) in collaboration with Join Motion Pictures (Is) and in co-production with Maneki Films (Fr), Film I Väst...
- 9/2/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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Lenny Von Dohlen, star of Twin Peaks and Electric Dreams, has died. He was 64.
He died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles after a long illness, according to his longtime manager Steven J. Wolfe.
Von Dohlen made his film debut in Bruce Beresford’s Tender Mercies, a performance that landed him the leading role in MGM/UA’s Electric Dreams.
He also scored leading roles for Under the Biltmore Clock, Blind Vision, Jennifer 8, Ed Zwick’s Leaving Normal, David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and the title role in Billy Galvin, where Von Dohlen starred opposite Karl Malden.
Born in Augusta, Georgia and raised in Goliad, Texas, Von Dohlen grew too tall to realize a childhood dream of becoming a jockey.
So after majoring in drama at the University of Texas, he turned to theater. In New York, he created roles in Asian Shade,...
Lenny Von Dohlen, star of Twin Peaks and Electric Dreams, has died. He was 64.
He died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles after a long illness, according to his longtime manager Steven J. Wolfe.
Von Dohlen made his film debut in Bruce Beresford’s Tender Mercies, a performance that landed him the leading role in MGM/UA’s Electric Dreams.
He also scored leading roles for Under the Biltmore Clock, Blind Vision, Jennifer 8, Ed Zwick’s Leaving Normal, David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and the title role in Billy Galvin, where Von Dohlen starred opposite Karl Malden.
Born in Augusta, Georgia and raised in Goliad, Texas, Von Dohlen grew too tall to realize a childhood dream of becoming a jockey.
So after majoring in drama at the University of Texas, he turned to theater. In New York, he created roles in Asian Shade,...
- 7/8/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lenny von Dohlen, who played Harold Smith on Twin Peaks and its 1992 spinoff pic Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and starred in the 1984 rom-com Electric Dreams during a four-decade screen career, has died. He was 63.
His manager Steven Wolfe said von Dohlen died July 5 at his Los Angeles home after a long illness.
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Born on December 22, 1958 in Augusta, Ga, and raised in Goliad, Texas, Von Dohlen made his screen debut in the 1981 telefilm Kent State and had a small role in the Robert Duvall country music pic Tender Mercies before getting his big break in Electric Dreams. He starred as Miles Harding, an architect whose new PC becomes self-aware and develops a love triangle his Miles’ neighbor (Virginia Madsen). The romantic comedy was the debut feature of prolific music video helmer Steve Barron, who went on to direct for TV, earning an Emmy nom for Merlin.
His manager Steven Wolfe said von Dohlen died July 5 at his Los Angeles home after a long illness.
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Born on December 22, 1958 in Augusta, Ga, and raised in Goliad, Texas, Von Dohlen made his screen debut in the 1981 telefilm Kent State and had a small role in the Robert Duvall country music pic Tender Mercies before getting his big break in Electric Dreams. He starred as Miles Harding, an architect whose new PC becomes self-aware and develops a love triangle his Miles’ neighbor (Virginia Madsen). The romantic comedy was the debut feature of prolific music video helmer Steve Barron, who went on to direct for TV, earning an Emmy nom for Merlin.
- 7/8/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Munich-based sales agency Global Screen has sold crime drama “Dark Woods” to streaming service Walter Presents for the U.K., where it’ll be shown on Channel 4’s All 4 platform, and across the Nordic Region, via C More.
The drama, which was produced by ConradFilm and Bavaria Fiction on behalf of Ndr and Ard Degeto for Das Erste, was the most-watched show on Ard’s catch-up service in Germany this year, and was the German TV Award winner.
Julia Weber, head of acquisitions and sales at Global Screen, said: “We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of this highly original and sought-after series, across Scandinavia and in the U.K., where crime drama has proved to be a key genre and is hugely popular with viewers of all ages.”
The show, inspired by real-life-events, starts out in the summer of 1989, when the sister of high-ranking Hamburg police officer Thomas...
The drama, which was produced by ConradFilm and Bavaria Fiction on behalf of Ndr and Ard Degeto for Das Erste, was the most-watched show on Ard’s catch-up service in Germany this year, and was the German TV Award winner.
Julia Weber, head of acquisitions and sales at Global Screen, said: “We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of this highly original and sought-after series, across Scandinavia and in the U.K., where crime drama has proved to be a key genre and is hugely popular with viewers of all ages.”
The show, inspired by real-life-events, starts out in the summer of 1989, when the sister of high-ranking Hamburg police officer Thomas...
- 11/30/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Italian producer Domenico Procacci, after shepherding more than 100 movies and several TV series, including Netflix’s upcoming Elena Ferrante adaptation “The Lying Life of Adults,” via his Fandango shingle, is debuting as a director with six-part documentary series “The Team.” Variety speaks to Procacci exclusively about what prompted him to go behind the camera for what he says is just a one-off experience as a director, and debuts the English-language subtitled version of the trailer, above.
The project is a deeply researched reconstruction of the complex – and sometimes comical – dynamics behind the Italian tennis team that won the 1976 Davis Cup and reached the finals for this trophy three other times between 1976 and 1980.
In “The Team,” which is being presented as a work-in-progress at the Torino Film Festival, the protagonists are the team’s players, Adriano Panatta, Corrado Barazzutti, Paolo Bertolucci, Tonino Zugarelli, and its captain, Italian tennis legend Nicola Pietrangeli.
The project is a deeply researched reconstruction of the complex – and sometimes comical – dynamics behind the Italian tennis team that won the 1976 Davis Cup and reached the finals for this trophy three other times between 1976 and 1980.
In “The Team,” which is being presented as a work-in-progress at the Torino Film Festival, the protagonists are the team’s players, Adriano Panatta, Corrado Barazzutti, Paolo Bertolucci, Tonino Zugarelli, and its captain, Italian tennis legend Nicola Pietrangeli.
- 11/28/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The quality rebounds as the focus narrows as Young Justice: Outsiders starts barrelling towards its season finale.
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This Young Justice: Outsiders review contains spoilers.
Young Justice Season 3 Episode 22
Grading on a relative scale, last week's episode of Young Justice was a debacle. It was too busy and too rushed. This week's episode, "Antisocial," fixes almost every problem with "Unknown Factors" by dramatically narrowing its scale. It sacrifices some action in doing so, but this episode really starts thundering towards the finale and pushing plot lines to their inevitable conclusions.
The action starts out focused at the Outsider's Hollywood headquarters. Everyone is recovering from their ordeal in Granny's X-Pit, but the only one nearing death is Dick. Batman grabs Oracle, Robin, Aquaman and Miss Martian for a private conference, and Black Lightning pieces everything together. He figures out that the resignations were staged, and that the team has...
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This Young Justice: Outsiders review contains spoilers.
Young Justice Season 3 Episode 22
Grading on a relative scale, last week's episode of Young Justice was a debacle. It was too busy and too rushed. This week's episode, "Antisocial," fixes almost every problem with "Unknown Factors" by dramatically narrowing its scale. It sacrifices some action in doing so, but this episode really starts thundering towards the finale and pushing plot lines to their inevitable conclusions.
The action starts out focused at the Outsider's Hollywood headquarters. Everyone is recovering from their ordeal in Granny's X-Pit, but the only one nearing death is Dick. Batman grabs Oracle, Robin, Aquaman and Miss Martian for a private conference, and Black Lightning pieces everything together. He figures out that the resignations were staged, and that the team has...
- 8/13/2019
- Den of Geek
While the international media industry grapples with the tectonic shifts triggered by the growing proliferation of streaming services, Zdf Enterprises is riding the wave of change by seizing opportunities, creating new business models and forging partnerships with the likes of Netflix and other digital players.
As the world sales, licensing and co-production arm of German broadcaster Zdf, Zdfe has long established itself as an independent player in both domestic and global markets and it is quickly adapting to the sector’s new reality.
The company has also expanded its sales and production operations through key acquisitions as part of its overall growth strategy.
“We have tried to embrace the changes, the disruption that these platforms have brought to the market through digitization and streaming possibilities, to recognize the opportunities rather than the threat,” Zdfe President and CEO Fred Burcksen tells Variety. “We have so far been able to profit from that.
As the world sales, licensing and co-production arm of German broadcaster Zdf, Zdfe has long established itself as an independent player in both domestic and global markets and it is quickly adapting to the sector’s new reality.
The company has also expanded its sales and production operations through key acquisitions as part of its overall growth strategy.
“We have tried to embrace the changes, the disruption that these platforms have brought to the market through digitization and streaming possibilities, to recognize the opportunities rather than the threat,” Zdfe President and CEO Fred Burcksen tells Variety. “We have so far been able to profit from that.
- 4/8/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Goteborg, Sweden — After “Borgen” and “Ride Upon the Storm,” Dr Drama’s next ambitious show is a fictional-character driven drama set against a terror attack in a Copenhagen restaurant. Penned by “Dicte” co-creators Ida Maria Rydén and Dorte W. Høgh, the series explores the lives of eight characters before and after the attack, and how their lives and fates interweave.
“When the Dust Settles” will be pitched at Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision (Jan. 30-31) as a work in progress.
Inspired by Altman’s “Short Cuts,” “When the Dust Settles” is among the first multi-plot structured Danish shows. “The Team”’s Stinna Lassen is producing for Dr Drama. Conducting the show is concept director Milad Alami.
“First I found the story to have believable characters; they felt like real people you pass on the street, with diverse social background, sexual orientation, race and age. Alami told Variety, explaining why he was on board.
“When the Dust Settles” will be pitched at Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision (Jan. 30-31) as a work in progress.
Inspired by Altman’s “Short Cuts,” “When the Dust Settles” is among the first multi-plot structured Danish shows. “The Team”’s Stinna Lassen is producing for Dr Drama. Conducting the show is concept director Milad Alami.
“First I found the story to have believable characters; they felt like real people you pass on the street, with diverse social background, sexual orientation, race and age. Alami told Variety, explaining why he was on board.
- 1/30/2019
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
"Away Mission" hits the right balance between Young Justice: Outsiders action and character growth.
This Young Justice review contains spoilers.
Young Justice Season 3 Episode 5
So far, Young Justice: Outsiders has wasted no time reminding us of how good the show is in every way. The writing is top shelf, the animation is excellent, and every episode, a different voice actor gives us an exceptional performance. In the first episode, it was Khary Payton. Last episode, Zehra Fazal (Halo) shone. And in "Away Mission," Jason Spisak returns as something completely different.
When we talked to the folks behind Young Justice: Outsiders about this season, they made a point of bringing up that Spisak was giving one of their favorite performances of the show, and it's not hard to figure out why this episode. He was the voice of Wally West for the first two seasons. He was in...
This Young Justice review contains spoilers.
Young Justice Season 3 Episode 5
So far, Young Justice: Outsiders has wasted no time reminding us of how good the show is in every way. The writing is top shelf, the animation is excellent, and every episode, a different voice actor gives us an exceptional performance. In the first episode, it was Khary Payton. Last episode, Zehra Fazal (Halo) shone. And in "Away Mission," Jason Spisak returns as something completely different.
When we talked to the folks behind Young Justice: Outsiders about this season, they made a point of bringing up that Spisak was giving one of their favorite performances of the show, and it's not hard to figure out why this episode. He was the voice of Wally West for the first two seasons. He was in...
- 1/12/2019
- Den of Geek
The World Cup is right up there with the Olympics when it comes to the most-watched sporting events on the planet.
The global in-home audience for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil was 3.2B and the final attracted more than 1B (23M in the U.S.). Russia 2018 (June 14-July 15) gets underway today with Lionel Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar among fan favourites set to captivate audiences the world over.
U.S. ratings are expected to be down on the record-breaking 2014 due to the Stars and Stripes’ first no-show since 1990 and the time difference — Moscow is seven hours ahead of New York.
But with eight teams from the Americas in the mix and the NFL and NBA in off-season, soccer’s growing stateside fan-base (a surprising nugget on that line: U.S. nationals have bought the second-most tickets for the competition) could still deliver decent numbers for Fox, which is going all in on its coverage.
The global in-home audience for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil was 3.2B and the final attracted more than 1B (23M in the U.S.). Russia 2018 (June 14-July 15) gets underway today with Lionel Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar among fan favourites set to captivate audiences the world over.
U.S. ratings are expected to be down on the record-breaking 2014 due to the Stars and Stripes’ first no-show since 1990 and the time difference — Moscow is seven hours ahead of New York.
But with eight teams from the Americas in the mix and the NFL and NBA in off-season, soccer’s growing stateside fan-base (a surprising nugget on that line: U.S. nationals have bought the second-most tickets for the competition) could still deliver decent numbers for Fox, which is going all in on its coverage.
- 6/14/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Need a quick horror fix? Look no further than the new Netflix series Tabula Rasa, which we are calling the Dutch American Horror Story. It has all the trappings of the Ryan Murphy thriller, complete with haunted house, mental asylum, and a seemingly possessed child. Don't say you haven't been warned. The show premieres on March 15 and centers around Annemie D'Haeze, portrayed by actress Veerle Baetens, who loses her memory following a car accident. However, she quickly becomes a key figure in a missing person case and must reconstruct her memories to clear her name. This makes sense since the Latin phrase Tabula Rasa translates to "clean slate." The only problem: a seriously haunted house where she lives with her husband and child — who don't believe Annemie when it comes to the red powder she sees falling from the ceilings or the red riding hood-esque demons she encounters in the hallways.
- 3/8/2018
- by Anna Quintana
- Life and Style
Danish outfit has a busy slate at Cannes, including the fantasy family film based on Lene Kaaberbøl’s best-selling book series.
Danish production outfit Good Company is plotting a $3.5m fantasy family film, Wild Witch, to be directed by Kaspar Munk [pictured] (You & Me Forever) from a script by Bo H. Hansen based on Lene Kaaberbøl’s best-selling book series.
The story follows a 12-year-old girl who realizes she is a wild witch with the ability to communicate with animals. Good co-produces with Sweden’s Yellow Bird and Hungary’s Proton. The project will start shooting from February 2017, partially in Hungary. Backing comes from Nordisk Film, TV2 and the Danish Film Institute.
Good is also developing Iran-born filmmaker Milad Alami’s debut feature The Charmer, a thriller about a mysterious man who climbs the social ladder. It will start shooting in August; Alami was in Directors’ Fortnight in 2014 with short Void.
The slate also...
Danish production outfit Good Company is plotting a $3.5m fantasy family film, Wild Witch, to be directed by Kaspar Munk [pictured] (You & Me Forever) from a script by Bo H. Hansen based on Lene Kaaberbøl’s best-selling book series.
The story follows a 12-year-old girl who realizes she is a wild witch with the ability to communicate with animals. Good co-produces with Sweden’s Yellow Bird and Hungary’s Proton. The project will start shooting from February 2017, partially in Hungary. Backing comes from Nordisk Film, TV2 and the Danish Film Institute.
Good is also developing Iran-born filmmaker Milad Alami’s debut feature The Charmer, a thriller about a mysterious man who climbs the social ladder. It will start shooting in August; Alami was in Directors’ Fortnight in 2014 with short Void.
The slate also...
- 5/13/2016
- by [email protected] (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Award-winning Belgian star to make directorial debut on novel adaptation.
Veerle Baetens, voted European actress of the Year in 2013 for her role in The Broken Circle Breakdown, is to make her directorial debut with the big-screen adaptation of Lize Spit’s debut novel The Melting (Het smelt).
The revenge drama reunites Baetens with producer Dirk Impens of Ghent-based Menuet, the company behind Oscar-nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown and Code 37, which both starred the Belgian actress.
Menuet also recently produced Belgica, Café Derby, Coppers and In Flanders Fields. The Dutch co-producer is Topkapi Films. Baetens is to script the feature but it is yet to be decided whether she will act in it.
Baetens is also known for films including The White Queen and Berlinale entry News From Planet Mars, and has appeared in TV series The Team and the upcoming Beyond the Walls (Au-delà des murs) and Tabula Rasa, which she co-wrote...
Veerle Baetens, voted European actress of the Year in 2013 for her role in The Broken Circle Breakdown, is to make her directorial debut with the big-screen adaptation of Lize Spit’s debut novel The Melting (Het smelt).
The revenge drama reunites Baetens with producer Dirk Impens of Ghent-based Menuet, the company behind Oscar-nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown and Code 37, which both starred the Belgian actress.
Menuet also recently produced Belgica, Café Derby, Coppers and In Flanders Fields. The Dutch co-producer is Topkapi Films. Baetens is to script the feature but it is yet to be decided whether she will act in it.
Baetens is also known for films including The White Queen and Berlinale entry News From Planet Mars, and has appeared in TV series The Team and the upcoming Beyond the Walls (Au-delà des murs) and Tabula Rasa, which she co-wrote...
- 4/8/2016
- by [email protected] (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Nordic co-production readies spring shoot.
WestEnd Films has acquired worldwide rights to drugs thriller Mules, produced by Everest and Contraband director Baltasar Kormakur [pictured].
Commercials director Börkur Sigthorsson, who collaborated with Kormakur and Johansen on hit Icelandic TV series Trapped, will take the reins on the Icelandic, Danish and Swedish co-production, which is due to shoot in all three countries in the spring.
In Mules, two antagonistic brothers decide to smuggle drugs into their native Iceland using a young Polish girl as their mule. When everything goes off the rails, the brothers’ fate spirals out of control in a life-or-death race against time.
Kormakur will produce the Icelandic-language thriller with fellow Rvk Studios producer Agnes Johansen (Virgin Mountains).
Co-producers are Anni Faurbye Fernandez (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Headhunters) and Stinna Lassen (The Team) for Good Company Films in Denmark and Mimmi Spång (Call Girl) and Rebecka Lefrenz (Call Girl) for Garage Film in Sweden.
The...
WestEnd Films has acquired worldwide rights to drugs thriller Mules, produced by Everest and Contraband director Baltasar Kormakur [pictured].
Commercials director Börkur Sigthorsson, who collaborated with Kormakur and Johansen on hit Icelandic TV series Trapped, will take the reins on the Icelandic, Danish and Swedish co-production, which is due to shoot in all three countries in the spring.
In Mules, two antagonistic brothers decide to smuggle drugs into their native Iceland using a young Polish girl as their mule. When everything goes off the rails, the brothers’ fate spirals out of control in a life-or-death race against time.
Kormakur will produce the Icelandic-language thriller with fellow Rvk Studios producer Agnes Johansen (Virgin Mountains).
Co-producers are Anni Faurbye Fernandez (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Headhunters) and Stinna Lassen (The Team) for Good Company Films in Denmark and Mimmi Spång (Call Girl) and Rebecka Lefrenz (Call Girl) for Garage Film in Sweden.
The...
- 2/11/2016
- by [email protected] (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Shoot begins in Denmark on $4.4m film which reunites the stars and creator of The Killing.
After several international assignments, Danish actors Lars Mikkelsen and Sofie Gråbøl return home to star in Zentropa’s $4.4m drama, The Day Will Come.
Shooting will continue for a total of nine weeks in Denmark.
Danish director Jesper W Nielsen, who last made Norwegian film Through a Glass, Darkly in 2009 and since has worked on television series such as Borgen, will shoot the script by Danish screenwriter Søren Sveistrup (The Killing).
After performing in BBC’s Sherlock, Netflix’s House of Cards (as the Russian president) and Nordisk Film’s European series The Team, Mikkelsen will renuite with Gråbøl, who has been in Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude and played Scottish Queen Margaret in James III on stage in Edinburgh and London.
The pair previously starred together in the first season of The Killing in 2007.
The Day Will Come is set in...
After several international assignments, Danish actors Lars Mikkelsen and Sofie Gråbøl return home to star in Zentropa’s $4.4m drama, The Day Will Come.
Shooting will continue for a total of nine weeks in Denmark.
Danish director Jesper W Nielsen, who last made Norwegian film Through a Glass, Darkly in 2009 and since has worked on television series such as Borgen, will shoot the script by Danish screenwriter Søren Sveistrup (The Killing).
After performing in BBC’s Sherlock, Netflix’s House of Cards (as the Russian president) and Nordisk Film’s European series The Team, Mikkelsen will renuite with Gråbøl, who has been in Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude and played Scottish Queen Margaret in James III on stage in Edinburgh and London.
The pair previously starred together in the first season of The Killing in 2007.
The Day Will Come is set in...
- 3/17/2015
- by [email protected] (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Danish director’s final TV series to be premiered later this month by Danish pubcaster Dr.
Danish director Kathrine Windfeld has died at 48 after a short illness. According to local press, she suffered from a brain tumour.
Windfeld, whose latest television series (as conceptual director) The Team (Mord uden grænser) – a European Dr-zdf-svt-orf-arte co-production starring Danish actor Lars Mikkelsen – will be premiered by Danish pubcaster Dr on Feb 22, left her imprint both in feature films and television drama.
“With her insisting power and energy she was on the threshold of realising the full potential of an already impressive career,” wrote managing director Henrik Bo Nielsen of the Danish Film Institute. “Her infectious humour and sometimes furious energy will be remembered and missed.”
Educated at the National Polish Film School in Lodz, adding a Ma in Film Production at the Northern School of Film & TV at the University of Leeds, Windfeld made several shorts and documentaries while working...
Danish director Kathrine Windfeld has died at 48 after a short illness. According to local press, she suffered from a brain tumour.
Windfeld, whose latest television series (as conceptual director) The Team (Mord uden grænser) – a European Dr-zdf-svt-orf-arte co-production starring Danish actor Lars Mikkelsen – will be premiered by Danish pubcaster Dr on Feb 22, left her imprint both in feature films and television drama.
“With her insisting power and energy she was on the threshold of realising the full potential of an already impressive career,” wrote managing director Henrik Bo Nielsen of the Danish Film Institute. “Her infectious humour and sometimes furious energy will be remembered and missed.”
Educated at the National Polish Film School in Lodz, adding a Ma in Film Production at the Northern School of Film & TV at the University of Leeds, Windfeld made several shorts and documentaries while working...
- 2/6/2015
- by [email protected] (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Danish director’s final TV series to be premiered later this month by Danish pubcaster Dr.
Danish director Kathrine Windfeld has died at 48 after a short illness. According to local press, she suffered from a brain tumour.
Windfeld, whose latest television series (as conceptual director) The Team (Mord uden grænser) – a European Dr-zdf-svt-orf-arte co-production starring Danish actor Lars Mikkelsen – will be premiered by Danish pubcaster Dr on Feb 22, left her imprint both in feature films and television drama.
“With her insisting power and energy she was on the threshold of realising the full potential of an already impressive career,” wrote managing director Henrik Bo Nielsen of the Danish Film Institute. “Her infectious humour and sometimes furious energy will be remembered and missed.”
Educated at the National Polish Film School in Lodz, adding a Ma in Film Production at the Northern School of Film & TV at the University of Leeds, Windfeld made several shorts and documentaries while working...
Danish director Kathrine Windfeld has died at 48 after a short illness. According to local press, she suffered from a brain tumour.
Windfeld, whose latest television series (as conceptual director) The Team (Mord uden grænser) – a European Dr-zdf-svt-orf-arte co-production starring Danish actor Lars Mikkelsen – will be premiered by Danish pubcaster Dr on Feb 22, left her imprint both in feature films and television drama.
“With her insisting power and energy she was on the threshold of realising the full potential of an already impressive career,” wrote managing director Henrik Bo Nielsen of the Danish Film Institute. “Her infectious humour and sometimes furious energy will be remembered and missed.”
Educated at the National Polish Film School in Lodz, adding a Ma in Film Production at the Northern School of Film & TV at the University of Leeds, Windfeld made several shorts and documentaries while working...
- 2/6/2015
- by [email protected] (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Good Company Films will combine the producers behind The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Lar von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark; three projects already in development.
Anni Fernandez, who stepped down CEO of Sweden’s Yellow Bird last week, has quickly resurfaced as the CEO and producer at new Danish production outfit Good Company Films.
Based in Copenhagen, Fernandez has launched the new company with Vibeke Windeløv, Stinna Lassen and Ole Søndberg.
Windeløv has produced more than 35 titles for directors including Lars von Trier and Susanne Bier and joins the company as executive producer.
Lassen, who recently finished producing the first season of new crime series The Team, joins Good Company as a producer.
Søndberg, founder of Yellow Bird and executive producer of the Wallander and Millennium franchises, joins as executive producer.
In a joint statement, the partners said: “Scandinavian film has during the past years enjoyed a tremendous amount of success, and it is our...
Anni Fernandez, who stepped down CEO of Sweden’s Yellow Bird last week, has quickly resurfaced as the CEO and producer at new Danish production outfit Good Company Films.
Based in Copenhagen, Fernandez has launched the new company with Vibeke Windeløv, Stinna Lassen and Ole Søndberg.
Windeløv has produced more than 35 titles for directors including Lars von Trier and Susanne Bier and joins the company as executive producer.
Lassen, who recently finished producing the first season of new crime series The Team, joins Good Company as a producer.
Søndberg, founder of Yellow Bird and executive producer of the Wallander and Millennium franchises, joins as executive producer.
In a joint statement, the partners said: “Scandinavian film has during the past years enjoyed a tremendous amount of success, and it is our...
- 9/1/2014
- by [email protected] (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Erich Pommer Institut (Epi) in association with MediaXchange presents the European TV Drama Series Lab (TV Lab) for its third edition starting yesterday in Berlin. The nominated participants – top writers, producers and broadcasters from across Europe – will get valuable insights into the latest trends and up-to-date success stories of the TV series industry by internationally acclaimed TV experts.
The Erich Pommer Institut and MediaXchange designed and established the European TV Drama Series Lab to become one of the major international TV training programs, which hit the nerve of the industry. It annually generates new potential and ideas. No wonder, the line-up of confirmed speakers for July 2014 consists of a range of renowned TV experts who are willing to share their experiences and expertise: Glen Mazzara, Executive Producer "The Walking Dead,""Hawthorne"and "The Shield," U.S.; Nicolas Brown, Director, Film & TV - Neal Street Productions (formerly Director, UK Drama Production BBC); Peter Nadermann, Executive Producer "The Bridge" I, II, III, "The Team", CEO, NadCon-Film GmbH, Germany; Zak Shaikh, Head of U.S Consultancy, Attentional, U.S; Jean Philippe De Tender, Director Television, Vrt, Belgium.
Already in prior years, top industry players were part of the TV Lab. Some of the figures : Piv Bernth ("Borgen") Denmark; Anne Bjørnstad ("Lilyhammer"), Norway; Carol Flint ( "The West Wing","ER".), USA; James Manos Jr. ("Dexter", "The Sopranos"); U.S, Simon Mirren ("Criminal Minds", "Without a Trace"), U.K/Us; Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files,), U.S/U.K.
The TV Lab is aimed at screenwriters, producers and commissioning editors and examines the components that are essential for a successful TV series. Think Tanks provide the participants with the opportunity to apply their gained knowledge to the European market. Brand new European case studies will pave the way to innovative and successful series formats. Moreover, the participants will profit from an excellent networking opportunity – an essential factor for success. The program is supported by the Media 2007 Program of the EU and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
An Open Session will be held on July 3, 2014 for the local industry and reporting journalists and is organized in co-operation with the Creative Europe Desk Berlin-Brandenburg and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
The Erich Pommer Institut and MediaXchange designed and established the European TV Drama Series Lab to become one of the major international TV training programs, which hit the nerve of the industry. It annually generates new potential and ideas. No wonder, the line-up of confirmed speakers for July 2014 consists of a range of renowned TV experts who are willing to share their experiences and expertise: Glen Mazzara, Executive Producer "The Walking Dead,""Hawthorne"and "The Shield," U.S.; Nicolas Brown, Director, Film & TV - Neal Street Productions (formerly Director, UK Drama Production BBC); Peter Nadermann, Executive Producer "The Bridge" I, II, III, "The Team", CEO, NadCon-Film GmbH, Germany; Zak Shaikh, Head of U.S Consultancy, Attentional, U.S; Jean Philippe De Tender, Director Television, Vrt, Belgium.
Already in prior years, top industry players were part of the TV Lab. Some of the figures : Piv Bernth ("Borgen") Denmark; Anne Bjørnstad ("Lilyhammer"), Norway; Carol Flint ( "The West Wing","ER".), USA; James Manos Jr. ("Dexter", "The Sopranos"); U.S, Simon Mirren ("Criminal Minds", "Without a Trace"), U.K/Us; Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files,), U.S/U.K.
The TV Lab is aimed at screenwriters, producers and commissioning editors and examines the components that are essential for a successful TV series. Think Tanks provide the participants with the opportunity to apply their gained knowledge to the European market. Brand new European case studies will pave the way to innovative and successful series formats. Moreover, the participants will profit from an excellent networking opportunity – an essential factor for success. The program is supported by the Media 2007 Program of the EU and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
An Open Session will be held on July 3, 2014 for the local industry and reporting journalists and is organized in co-operation with the Creative Europe Desk Berlin-Brandenburg and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
- 7/2/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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