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The NCIS franchise returns with NCIS season 22 and the debut of NCIS: Origins in the fall of 2024, but the two shows' release schedules change slightly following their premieres. As its title suggests, NCIS: Origins serves as a prequel to the original military police procedural series, taking place in 1991, a little over a decade before the events of NCIS season 1. NCIS: Origins is the sixth installment and fifth official spinoff in the NCIS franchise, following in the footsteps of NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS: Hawai'i, and NCIS: Sydney. However, it's the first prequel.

While NCIS season 22's story revolves around the Naval Criminal Investigative Service in the present day, NCIS: Origins' plot follows Leroy Jethro Gibbs at the start of his career at the Naval Investigative Service (the precursor to NCIS). The two TV shows are quite different, but they both have qualities that should...

As NCIS: Origins explores the foundational years of Gibbs and the titular agency, showrunners David J. North and Gina Lucita Monreal explain why the origin story will be a grittier affair than the main series. With Mark Harmon briefly returning to reprise the role of a now-retired Leroy Jethro Gibbs looking back on his career, Austin Stowell will take on the role of the younger Gibbs in 1991. Alongside the younger Gibbs, Kyle Schmid will take on the role of Mike Franks, Gibbs' mentor originally played by Muse Watson.

In an interview with TVLine, North and Monreal opened up about how the series promises to be a far different take on the world and characters. With the series having a darker tone and tale compared to its source material, they wanted to have a visual style that fits better with both the story and the setting.

North: and as proud as...

CBS has released the first official photos from NCIS: Origins starring Austin Stowell. Episode one, “Enter Sandman,” introduces Stowell as a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs at the beginning of his lengthy career. The new drama premieres on Monday, October 14, 2024 at 9pm Et/Pt with a special two-hour premiere.

New season one episodes will air on Mondays at 10pm Et/Pt.

In addition to Stowell, the latest addition to the NCIS franchise stars Kyle Schmid as Mike Franks, Mariel Molino as Special Agent Lala Dominguez, and Tyla Abercrumbie as Field Operation Support Officer Mary Jo Sullivan. Diany Rodriguez plays Special Agent Vera Strickland and Caleb Foote is Bernard “Randy” Randolf. Mark Harmon is the narrator.

Austin Stowell as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in ‘NCIS: Origins’ episode 1

Episode one was written by Gina Lucita Monreal and David J. North, with Niels Arden Oplev directing. Executive producers include Mark Harmon, Sean Harmon, David J.

In the wake of the original 1990 movie and the largely forgotten 2017 remake, the Flatliners saga will continue with Flatliners Resurrection, a new novel that’s currently in the works.

According to Deadline’s exclusive report this morning, the upcoming novel will be penned by J.D. Barker (Dracul), and it puts a fresh twist on the original Flatliners screenplay.

Deadline explains, “The original [movie] was released by Columbia, but Barker said that scribe Peter Filardi got back the rights to his original script, and the author swayed the scribe with a twist to the original tale that takes the reanimation tale down a different road than the original or a later remake. The novel is based on that script, not the movie, and Intellectual Property Group’s Joel Gotler will broker both the publishing and screen rights.”

“We’re thrilled to have J.D. Barker on board for this project,” said Filardi.

NCIS: Origins follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell) in 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS, and is narrated by Mark Harmon. In the series, Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid). NCIS: Origins stars Austin Stowell as young Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Kyle Schmid as Mike Franks, Mariel Molino as Special Agent Lala Dominguez, Tyla Abercrumbie as Field Operation Support Officer Mary Jo Sullivan and Diany Rodriguez as Special Agent Vera Strickland. Flagship series star Mark Harmon will narrate and executive produce. In addition to Harmon, Sean Harmon, David J. North and Gina Lucita Monreal will executive produce, with North and Monreal co-writing the premiere episode and serving as co-showrunners. Niels Arden Oplev will executive produce and direct the pilot.

Fincher's 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was the first of a trilogy that never took off due to box office disappointment. The 2011 film's critical success couldn't save it from being a financial letdown compared to Sony's expectations. Craig and Mara were recast in the 2018 follow-up, 'The Girl in The Spider's Web,' which failed to reboot the franchise.

David Fincher's celebrated 2011 film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was originally intended to be the first of a trilogy. Based on the Millennium book trilogy written by Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was Fincher's immediate follow-up to his Oscar-winning film The Social Network (2010) and also won the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Film Editing. It was released on December 21, 2011, and is currently streaming on Max.

Fincher is well known for his psychological thrillers such as Se7en, and Zodiac, and Gone Girl.

Vikings: Valhalla season 3 concludes the saga of Harald, Leif, and Freyds, exploring their destinies after a 7-year time jump. Relationships and characters evolve, offering opportunities for action and intrigue in the final season. Vikings: Valhalla provides a fitting end for its main stories, answering most questions about the characters' fates while adding to the show's mythology.

Vikings: Valhalla season 3 brings a fateful conclusion to the saga of three beloved leads. After six seasons of the hit series Vikings, the franchise was expanded with Vikings: Valhalla, which pulls from a new page of history. Set around 100 years after the exploits of Vikings legends like Ragnar Lothbrok, Bjrn Ironside, Ivar the Boneless, and more, Vikings: Valhalla explores the expansion of Christianity and the battle between the followers of the Old Gods and the Christians. Vikings: Valhalla season 3 marks the final adventure with Harald Sigurdsson, Leif Eriksson, and Freyds Eirksdttir.

Vikings: Valhalla

Cast Caroline Henderson,...

Thriller prequel A Quiet Place: Day One heads the openers at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, starting in 660 cinemas through Paramount.

That figure is up on the 526 sites for 2018’s A Quiet Place, which began with £2m from 526 sites at a £3,788 site average.

It is also an increase on the 561 sites of 2021’s A Quiet Place Part II, which was one of the first major releases following the long cinema closures at the start of that year. Part II started with £2.25m at a £4,012 average, providing an impressive increase from the first title in the challenging theatrical climate.

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Director Niels Arden Oplev has written movingly of his intimate knowledge of the mental illness, but this story is soaked in treacly good taste

Danish film-maker Niels Arden Oplev, director of the original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo with Noomi Rapace, has written movingly about the true story behind his very personal new film. It is inspired by his sister who has schizophrenia, perhaps triggered by heartbreak she experienced in her personal life as a teenager working in her gap year in France, but who in middle age went on a cathartic healing journey back to that country with her sister and brother-in-law.

Sofie Gråbøl (star of the Scandi noir TV hit The Killing) plays a fictional version: Inger has schizophrenia and lives in residential care; she is about to take a bus trip to France with her caring, if nervous, sister Ellen (Lene Maria Christensen) and Ellen’s bullish,...

NCIS: Origins follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell) in 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS, and is narrated by Mark Harmon. In the series, Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid). NCIS: Origins stars Austin Stowell as young Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Kyle Schmid as Mike Franks, Mariel Molino as Special Agent Lala Dominguez, Tyla Abercrumbie as Field Operation Support Officer Mary Jo Sullivan and Diany Rodriguez as Special Agent Vera Strickland. Flagship series star Mark Harmon will narrate and executive produce. In addition to Harmon, Sean Harmon, David J. North and Gina Lucita Monreal will executive produce, with North and Monreal co-writing the premiere episode and serving as co-showrunners. Niels Arden Oplev will executive produce and direct the pilot.

CBS has released videos teasing what’s ahead from various new shows including Matlock, NCIS: Origins, and the new Big Bang Theory/Sheldon Universe prequel series, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.

Learn more about the shows below.

Matlock

Matlock—a reimagination of the classic TV series of the same name— stars Kathy Bates as the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline “Matty” Matlock, who, after achieving success in her younger years, decides to rejoin the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within.

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Matty is assigned to Olympia (Skye P. Marshall), a senior attorney and key rainmaker with a thirst for justice, while Olympia’s ex-husband, Julian (Jason Ritter), the son of the head of the firm, is...

Exclusive: Verve has grown its partner roster.

The agency has promoted Parker Davis and Tyler Reynolds to partners.

Davis has been Co-Head of the Motion Picture Literary since 2022, while Reynolds is Head of Television Directing.

The move is the latest internal move at the agency, which hired Jenni Ferrari-Adler to its media rights team earlier this year.

Davis was employee number five at the company and was promoted to agent in 2012. His clients include Arkasha Stevenson (The First Omen), Emily Carmichael (Jurassic World: Dominion), James Morosini (I Love My Dad), Richard Wong (The Valet), Derek Connolly (The Legend of Zelda), Bragi Schut (Samaritan) and Sarah Streicher (The Wilds).

Reynolds joined Verve in 2021 through the acquisition of New Deal Mfg. Co. He has a big list of television directors including Fred Berner and Amy Durning, who produced Maestro, Arthur Forney and Anastasia Puglisi, who work with Wolf Entertainment, Allen Coulter (Tulsa...

L-r: Lene Maria Christensen as Ellen, Sofie Grabol as Inger, and Anders W. Berthelsen as Ellen’s husband, in the Danish film Rose. photo: Martin Dam Kristensen/Nordisk Film. Courtesy of Game Theory

The subtitled Danish dramedy Rose features an award-worthy performance from its star, elevating what could have been treacly melodrama. It’s often said that leading roles with some sort of disability provide Oscar bait. But that doesn’t always work out as well as it does here. For example, the Campbell Scott vehicle Dying Young still annoys me whenever I think about it, even though it’s been over 30 years since I sat through the thing.

Sofie Grabol stars as Inger, a schizophrenic woman living with, and closely monitored by, her parents. We learn that her condition was one of adult onset, with progressive insights into possible causative factors from her backstory. But when her sister Ellen...

Rose is a thought-provoking depiction of mental illness, specifically schizophrenia, and challenges the common misrepresentation of the condition in cinema. Sofie Gråbøl delivers a powerful performance as Inger, authentically portraying the complexities of schizophrenia with both comic flippancy and profound depth. The film showcases the impact of schizophrenia on the protagonist's life, alternating between empowering moments and harrowing experiences, while also highlighting society's demeaning and condescending treatment of those with the condition.

What initially appears to be a considerably more dramatic Danish version of the British reality show Coach Trip quickly becomes something far more poignant. Niels Arden Oplev's Scandinavian drama, Rose, is a thought-provoking and integrative depiction of mental illness. In an increasingly enlightened and progressive society that does more than just lend a sympathetic ear to those with mental health issues, whether the film industry will reciprocate this progression remains to be seen. This is a particularly...

Sofie Gråbøl as Inger (based on Maren Elisabeth) and Lene Maria Christensen as Ellen (based on Kirsten) in Rose Photo: Martin Dam Kristensen

A warm-hearted, often comedic drama which centres on a coach trip to Paris, Niels Arden Oplev’s latest film, Rose, is his most deeply personal work to date. it’s based on incidents in the lives of his two older sisters: Maren Elisabeth, who is schizophrenic, and Kirsten, who has been her lifelong carer. There’s much more to the two of them than that, of course, and it’s that which makes the film so unusual. We are all used to negative depictions of mental illness in cinema. Here it’s just one aspect of life – a challenging one, but one that doesn’t overwhelm the richness of their other experiences or the importance of their bond.

“I know that most times in cinema, mental illness...

Elliot Page writes in his new memoir, “Pageboy,” that filming the 2017 “Flatliners” remake was “a true mess from the very beginning” and a “shit show” due to unsafe stunt work and instances of racism and queerphobia on set (via Entertainment Weekly). Or, as Page puts it: “It went off the rails.”

In an entire chapter devoted to the making of the Niels Arden Oplev-directed thriller, Page alleges he and co-star Kiersey Clemons were put in unsafe working conditions during one stunt scene.

“We were getting ready for a car stunt when Kiersey and I realized that everyone had a built-in thick seat belt, except for us,” Page writes. “No restraints, a basic safety measure of the carefully orchestrated, expensive and elaborate stunt that hadn’t been thought through… We looked to the various stunt crew members strapping the others in, perplexed, questioning why we weren’t being secured for the scene.

Elliot Page does not have any fond memories of making the Flatliners reboot.

Per Entertainment Weekly, Page in his memoir, Pageboy, recalled his troubled experience appearing in the 2017 film based on Joel Schumacher's 1990 thriller starring Keifer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon and Julia Roberts. In a chapter solely devoted to the production, Page alleged that Flatliners was "a true mess from the very beginning," describing a set full of dangerous stunts, discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community and misogyny. "It went off the rails," Page wrote.

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Page singled out a situation on set where he and his co-star Kiersey Clemons performed a car stunt where they were not given safety belts by the stunt team. He alleged that the stunt team told the actors they would be "fine" and that the scene would look "even better if you aren't strapped in." After a dangerous first take,...

The 2023 Cannes market runs May 16-24.

Screen is rounding up the key packages launched before and during the 2023 Cannes market (which runs May 16-24).

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May 16 ’The Salt Path’

The feature debut of acclaimed theatre director Marianne Elliott stars Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs portraying the real-life couple who trekked 630 miles of UK coastline after being kicked out of their home. Black Bear are distributing in the UK.

World sales: Rocket Science

’The Rule Of Jenny Pen’

Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow star in James Ashcroft’s thriller as a conceited judging and a psychopath...

Exclusive: Star Wars actor Daisy Ridley is going sky-scraping again as we can reveal she is set to star in vertiginous action-thriller Cleaner from Casino Royale and GoldenEye filmmaker Martin Campbell.

The timely action-thriller, set in present-day London, will see radical activists take over an energy company’s annual gala at the Shard – the tallest skyscraper in Western Europe – seizing 300 hostages in order to expose the corruption of the hosts. Their just cause is hijacked by a zealous extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to send his anarchic message to the world. It falls to an ex-soldier turned window cleaner, Joey Locke (Daisy Ridley) – suspended 90 stories up on the outside of the building – to save those trapped inside and take down the killers, whilst also finding a way to bring the corrupt energy moguls to justice.

Anton is launching the hot Cannes package...

It’s based on a true story, set in Germany’s Weimar Republic in 1933.

UK production, financing and sales studio Anton is launching world sales at Cannes on Niels Arden Oplev’s upcoming thriller, Thirty Three.

Danish filmmaker Oplev, who directed the original version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, as well TV series Vikings: Valhalla and Mr Robot, will helm the feature with a cast including Mark Strong and Paula Beer, who won the Berlianle Silver Bear for her role in Christian Petzold’s Undine. The screenplay is by Tom Butterworth and Chris Hurford.

It is is based...

The Lighthouse International Film Festival have announced their Darkhouse programming block for this year's festival on Long Beach Island, New Jersey.    Our friend Ted Geoghegan's film Brooklyn 45 is one of four U.S. feature films in this year's lineup. The other three homegrown films include the unsettling life-sized puppet flick, Abruptio, animated dark fantasy, Unicorn Boy, and haunted adventure flick, Ghost Babe. The lone international title in the block is Enter Mycel from Austrian director Matt Kiel.    There will also be a special screening of Niels Arden Oplev's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Write ups about all five films are included in the announcement that follows.    2023 Lighthouse Film Festival Announces Darkhouse Programming   Fifteenth Edition of Premiere East Coast Film Festival Reveals...

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The Lighthouse International Film Festival has announced their second edition of Darkhouse this afternoon, a genre-centric screening category focused on the best in boundary-pushing horror, science fiction, and fantasy cinema.

The festival’s Darkhouse program, which will take place June 7-11 on Long Beach Island, NJ, will showcase five new features, one special spotlight screening, and 28 short films.

Selected titles include Ted Geoghegan’s SXSW hit Brooklyn 45, about a group of veterans who gather for a séance at the end of World War II; Evan Marlowe’s mannequin horror film Abruptio, featuring the voices of Jordan Peele, James Marsters, and Robert Englund; and Matt Kiel’s animated dark fantasy Unicorn Boy, starring Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, and Harold Perrineau. The programming block will also feature a special screening of 2009’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo with director Niels Arden Oplev in attendance.

In addition to their Darkhouse category,...

Exclusive: Verve has made several key promotions this week across the motion picture and television literary teams with Partners Felicia Prinz and Chris Noriega being upped to Co-Heads overseeing the Television Literary Team, Parker Davis and Liz Parker will assume the Co-Head mantle of the Motion Picture Literary Team, and Tyler Reynolds has been promoted to head the Television Director Team. Reynolds will report to Prinz and Noriega. In these newly created positions, Prinz, Noriega, Davis, Parker, and Reynolds will be responsible for the day-to-day management of their respective teams while working alongside the Partnership to streamline decision making, communication and to provide strategic support.

“As Verve continues to scale, we realize that empowering our valuable colleagues is the best way to maintain our unique work culture while providing the best creative representation in the business,” said the Partnership. “Felicia, Chris, Parker, Liz, and Tyler are highly respected by their colleagues,...

The deals include on titles ‘Talk To Me’, ‘Swimming Home’ and ‘Raised Eyebrows’

London-based sales agent Bankside Films has closed numerous deals off the back of Cannes, on titles including Talk To Me, Swimming Home and Raised Eyebrows.

Horror Talk To Me is directed by Australian YouTube sensations Danny and Michael Philppou (aka RackaRacka), and is in post-production.

It has sold to Altitude (UK-Ireland), the Gp Cinema (Baltics), Premiere Distribution (Benelux), McF (Former Yugoslavia), Alba Films (France), Capelight (Germany), Vertigo Media (Hungary), Koch (Italy), The Coup (Korea), M2 (Poland), Scanbox (Scandinavia), Praesens (Switzerland), A Really Good Film Company (Taiwan and...

Exclusive: Paramount+ has given a formal series green light to The Turkish Detective, an adaptation of Barbara Nadel’s Cwa Silver Dagger Award-winning novels featuring Detective Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman.

Haluk Biligner (Baba), Ethan Kai and Yasemin Kay Allen (The Usual Suspects) have been tapped to star in the series, set in modern-day Istanbul and produced by Miramax and leading Turkish production company Ay Yapim, in association with Vis, Paramount’s international studio. Filming is set to begin this month in Istanbul. The Turkish Detective is slated to debut globally on Paramount+ in 2023.

Written and executive produced by Ben Schiffer (Skins) and directed by Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), the eight-episode first season is based on the 24-novel series and depicts the lead character Inspector Cetin Ikmen (Biligner), his partner Mehmet Suleyman (Kai) and Detective Ayse Farsakoglu (Allen) going through ups and downs as they solve crimes.

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The real Leif Eriksson lived around 1000 Ce, about 200 years before the two medieval Icelandic stories known as The Vínland Sagas were written down, which is why there are different versions of his tale. The Saga of Erik the Red credits Leif with the discovery of America while on an expedition to convert the Greenlanders to Christianity. The Saga of the Greenlanders has someone else actually first sight America (Bjarni Herjólfsson) but didn’t land. It was Eriksson who landed and named it “Wineland” (Vínland) because he found lots of vines there.

While preparing for and filming the first season of Vikings: Valhalla, actor Sam Corlett found himself on a road of self-discovery at the same time his character was gradually getting a sense of his own destiny. A 2018 graduate from the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts (Waapa), he co-starred in Eric Bana...

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Held For Ransom (aka Daniel), a hostage thriller based on the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye, who was abducted by Isis in Syria in 2013 and held hostage for more than a year before he was released. An October 15 theatrical and digital release is planned.

Esben Smed (The Kindness of Strangers), Toby Kebbell (Kong: Skull Island), Sofie Torp and Anders W. Berthelsen star in the pic, which was co-directed by Niels Arden Oplev and Anders W. Berthelsen. Anders Thomas Jensen penned the screenplay adapted from a novel by Puk Damsgaard.

Rye (played by Smed) was captured by Isis in 2013 and held hostage for 398 days in Syria along with several other foreign nationals including American journalist James Foley, who was eventually beheaded by Isis in while in captivity. The film follows Daniel’s struggle to survive, his friendship with James (Kebbell...

Morten Kaufmann, Signe Leick Jensen produced for Toolbox Film.

Samuel Goldwyn Films announced has acquired from TrustNordisk US rights to hostage drama Held For Ransom aka Daniel directed by Niels Arden Oplev and Anders W. Berthelsen.

Anders Thomas Jensen adapted the screenplay from the novel by Puk Damsgaard about the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye who was held hostage for 398 days in Syria by Isis along with foreign nationals including American journalist James Foley.

The film follows Rye’s struggle to survive in captivity, his friendship with Foley, and the plight of the Rye family in Denmark as...

Exclusive: Verve has acquired veteran TV lit agent Paul Alan Smith’s New Deal Mfg. Co., a boutique lit agency representing a bevy of television and film directors.

New Deal’s founding partner Smith and agent Tyler Reynolds will join Verve where they will continue to represent their clients, some of whom have been with Smith for decades. New Deal’s other founding partner, Lee Rosenbaum, who has served as chief operating officer and general counsel to the firm, will continue as an adviser to the agency.

New Deal’s clients joining Verve include Niels Arden Oplev, Allen Coulter, Tawfik Abu Wael (Our Boys), Oded Ruskin, Adam Arkin (Rebel), Milena Govich (FBI), Elodie Keene (Glee), Leslie Libman (The Manson Murders), Daniel Syrkin (Tehran), Sheelin Choksey (Stargirl), Charles Burnett (To Sleep With Anger...

She will leave the Copenhagen-based festival after its upcoming 18th edition.

Tine Fischer, the founder and CEO of Cph:dox, will depart her post after this year’s festival to become the new director of the National Film School of Denmark from May 2021.

Fischer will continue to spearhead the 18th edition of Cph:dox, with its new dates of April 21-May 2.

Fischer said, “Needless to say, it’s been a difficult decision for me to leave the festivals. I founded Cph:dox in 2003, and in collaboration with amazing colleagues and partners from all over the world I have spent almost my entire adult...

Netflix has unveiled the cast for “Vikings: Valhalla,” the streaming service’s upcoming historical action-drama series.

The upcoming show will star Sam Corlett, Frida Gustavsson, Leo Suter, Bradley Freegard, Jóhannes Jóhannesson, Laura Berlin, David Oakes, and Caroline Henderson. Pollyanna McIntosh and Asbjørn Krogh Nissen will appear in recurring roles.

Per Netflix:

“Vikings: Valhalla” begins in the early 11th century and chronicles the legendary adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived: Leif Eriksson, Freydis Eriksdotter, Harald Hardrada, and the Norman King William the Conqueror. These men and women will blaze a path as they fight for survival in the ever-changing and evolving world.

Corlett will portray Leif Eriksson. Leif is a Greenlander who is raised on the outer fringes of the known world. Leif comes from a tightly-knit family steeped in the old pagan beliefs. An intrepid sailor and physically tough, Leif is the show’s entry...

“Vikings: Valhalla,” the upcoming follow-up to the History Channel’s recently concluded epic “Vikings” saga, has confirmed its cast members. The sequel, which is set in the 11th century (100 years after the events of its predecessor), will debut exclusively on Netflix. MGM Television is returning to produce.

Portraying some of the most famous Norse warriors that ever lived on their legendary adventures are actors Sam Corlett (Leif Erikkson), Frida Gustavsson (Freydis Eriksdotter), Leo Suter (Harald Sigurdsson), Bradley Freegard (King Canute), Jóhannes Jóhannesson (Olaf Haraldson), Laura Berlin (Emma of Normandy), David Oakes (Earl Godwin) and Caroline Henderson (Jarl Haakon). Actors slated for recurring roles include Pollyanna McIntosh as the calculating and ambitious Queen Ælfgifu of Denmark and Asbjørn Krogh Nissen as Jarl Kåre, described only as a “threat to the old pagan ways.”

“Vikings” debuted on the History Channel in 2013 and was notably the network’s first attempt at original scripted programming.

“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” alum Sam Corlett has been cast in the leading role of Leif Eriksson, one of the most famous vikings ever, in Netflix’s “Vikings: Valhalla,” the streaming service said Tuesday.

Per Netflix, the series, which is a spinoff of the History Channel’s “Vikings,” begins in the early 11th century and chronicles the legendary adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived – Leif Eriksson, Freydis Eriksdotter, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King William the Conqueror. These men and women will blaze a path as they fight for survival in the ever-changing and evolving world.

Corlett’s Leif Eriksson is described as, “A Greenlander, raised on the outer fringes of the known world, Leif comes from a tightly-knit family steeped in the old pagan beliefs. An intrepid sailor and physically tough, Leif is our entry into a Viking world in the throes of violent change.

Netflix has set the cast for Vikings: Valhalla, a sequel to History’s hit series, from Vikings creator Michael Hirst and studio MGM Television. Sam Corlett (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Frida Gustavsson (Swoon), Leo Suter (The Liberator), Bradley Freegard (Keeping Faith), Jóhannes Jóhannesson (Cursed), Laura Berlin (Immenhof – The Adventure of a Summer), David Oakes (The Pillars of the Earth) and Caroline Henderson (Tuya Siempre) are set as series regulars and Pollyanna McIntosh and Asbjørn Krogh Nissen will recur. A premiere date has not yet been set but it’s expected to debut in late 2021 or 2022.

Vikings: Valhalla begins in the early 11th century and chronicles the legendary adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived – Leif Eriksson, Freydis Eriksdotter, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King William the Conqueror. These men and women will blaze a path as they fight for survival in the ever changing and evolving world.

The family of a photojournalist held in Syria must raise a multimillion-dollar ransom after the Danish government refuses to negotiate

Over the last couple of decades, Danish cinema has increasingly proved to have a strong aptitude for emotive, nuanced drama and intelligent engagement, particularly through documentary-making, with conflicts abroad. This inspired-by-a-true-story feature, from journeyman director Niels Arden Oplev (who helmed the original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo film) skilfully combines those two strands to tell the story of Daniel Rye, a young Danish photographer who was captured by Isis in Syria in 2013.

Filmed in a wiggly, handheld fashion – such a signature of the Dogma 95 years it almost feels like a retro affectation – the plot tracks methodically through Daniel’s story, holding tight on the expressive face of Esben Smed, who rises to the physical challenges of the role. For starters, he has to convincingly pass as Rye when he was...

Stars: Esben Smed, Toby Kebbell, Amir El-Masry | Written by Anders Thomas Jenson | Directed by Niels Arden Oplev

I am a sucker for a true story and I am even bigger sucker for true stories I know of – ones I can remember seeing on the news or talking about with my friends. The Bin Laden compound raid was something you couldn’t miss, so when Zero Dark Thirty came out it was an absolute must. There has been no shortage of movies about the numerous conflicts across the years and while not all of them stick the landing, they tend to be compelling viewing if only to satisfy our morbid curiosity for an hour or two.

Daniel is a movie that definitely got my interest for a number of reasons. Firstly we have Toby Kebbell, an actor I’m fascinated by; next was the mention he was playing James Foley and...

"How much will they pay for him?" Signature Entertainment in the UK has unveiled an official trailer for the true story of journalism drama Daniel, made by filmmakers Niels Arden Oplev & Anders W. Berthelsen. This originally premiered last year and it already opened in Denmark last year, and is only now getting a release in the UK first (still no US release date set yet). The film tells the true story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye, who was captured by Isis in Syria in 2013 and held hostage for 398 days along with 23 other foreign nationals including the infamous and ill-fated journalist James Foley. The film follows Daniel's fight for survival and the alliance he formed with James before his public execution which made global headlines in 2013. Starring Toby Kebbell as Daniel, Esben Smed as James, as well as Sofia Asir, Arbi Alviati, and Henrik Birch. What a remarkably harrowing experience. Looks...

Exclusive: Bankside will launch sales at this week’s virtual AFM on Danish drama Rose from BAFTA-winning director Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo). The film is currently shooting in Paris and eastern Denmark.

Starring BAFTA winner Sofie Gråbøl (The Killing), the Danish-language film is set over the course of one week and follows two sisters, Inger and Ellen, and how their relationship is challenged on an anticipated coach trip to Paris.

When Inger announces her struggles with mental health to the group, the sisters are faced with pity from some but discrimination from others. On arrival in Paris, it soon becomes clear that Inger has a hidden agenda concerning a figure from her past, ultimately involving the entire group in her hunt for answers.

Oplev’s films include Daniel (2019), Speed Walking (2014), The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009) and Worlds Apart (2008). His TV work includes Flatliners in...

The Danish writer-director’s new feature is set in 1997 and follows a group of tourists travelling by bus from the northern provincial part of Denmark to Paris. Denmark’s Niels Arden Oplev is now working on his next feature, entitled Rose. The Oue-born director’s new endeavour follows in the wake of Daniel, a drama recalling the experiences of Daniel Rye, who was held hostage by Isis terrorists for 13 months and released last year. The shooting of Rose has started on the mainland of Jutland and will later include a short detour to Paris. The script, penned by the helmer himself and described as “a film about caring for each other despite our differences”, is set over the course of a week in the autumn of 1997 and follows a group of tourists travelling by bus from the northern provincial part of Denmark to the city of cities, Paris. In particular,...

In 2013, Daniel Rye, a Danish photographer in his mid-twenties, went to Syria to document the plight of civilian refugees and was kidnapped by Isis. Ransomed and held captive for 13 months, Rye was psychologically and physically tortured, starved and beaten by his captors, first on his own and then alongside several other international hostages, among them U.S. journalist James Foley.

This is the inherently dramatic true story told in Puk Damsgaard Andersen’s book “The Isis Hostage,” but it takes intelligence and paradoxical restraint from directors Niels Arden Oplev (Sweden’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”) and Anders W. Berthelsen, as well as a superb, exceptionally physical lead performance from Esben Smed, to adapt it into “Daniel,” . Partly, the balance between gritty, true-life fidelity and pacy, exciting storytelling is achieved because in Rye, to whom Eric Kress’ warm, compassionate camera clings so doggedly, we have such a sympathetic, human protagonist.

Charles and Thomas Guard will direct the thriller.

John Boyega, Felicity Jones, Jack Reynor, and Jodie Turner-Smith are set to star in Charles Guard and Thomas Guard’s UK revenge thriller Borderland, which aims to shoot on location in the UK early next year.

Known professionally as the Guard Brothers, the director pair previously made 2009 horror The Uninvited. They have co-written the screenplay for Borderland with Ronan Bennett, inspired by Steven S. Moysey’s book The Road To Balcome Street.

Reynor will play an Irish paramilitary whose wife is shot by a Sas sergeant, to be played by Boyega. The...

Latest round will support 20 fiction, one animation, and five documentary films.

New projects from Danish director Niels Arden Oplev and Portugal’s Miguel Gomes are among the 26 selected in the latest Eurimages co-production support funding round.

The 26 films have been awarded a total of €6.1m (£5.5m). 52% are directed by women, with those projects receiving €2.5m (£2.3m) – 41% of the total funding.

Arden Oplev’s new film Rose will receive €280,000, and is a co-production between Norway and his native Denmark. Oplev’s previous features include 2009’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and last year’s Daniel.

Also included is Gomes’ Savagery,...

New projects by Miguel Gomes, Ursula Meier, Joachim Lafosse, Philippe Faucon and Giordano Gederlini, among the selection. At its 159th meeting held online, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 20 fiction films, 1 animation film and 5 documentary projects for a total amount of €6,137,000. The share of eligible projects with female directors examined at this Eurimages Board of Management meeting was 39%; 52% of the projects supported were directed by women and €2,500,000 was awarded to these projects, representing 41% of the total amount awarded. The list of projects: Rose - Niels Arden Oplev (Denmark/Norway)A Reply to a Letter from Helga - Asa Hjorleifsdottir (Iceland/Netherlands/Estonia)Behind the Haystacks - Asimina Proedrou (Greece/Germany)Savagery - Miguel Gomes (Portugal/France)The Sacred Spirit - Chema Garcia Ibarra (Spain/France/Turkey) (read news)Bruxa - Cristèle Alves Meira (France/Portugal/Belgium)Dreaming Walls - Amélie Van Elmbt,...

Exclusive: Imagine a world where humans lose the capacity to store long-term recollections and instead are issued a government memory chip. This is the world of In Memoriam, a new drama in development at HBO Max.

The series comes from rising British playwright Charley Miles and Mr Robot director Niels Arden Oplev.

Produced by Buccaneer Media, whose Anna Friel-fronted drama Marcella is in its third season at Netflix, and Participant, the thriller is a returnable, serialised series set in the UK.

Miles, who was the Channel 4 Playwright-in-Residence at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2017, writes and Oplev, who also helmed the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie, directs.

The story is set in the near future. Whilst humanity was busy uploading photos to the cloud and digitising every book ever written, the human brain was quietly evolving, and we lost the capacity to store long-term memory. But...

Norwegian producer Gudny Hummelvoll, whose Hummelfilm shingle worked in tandem with Sweden’s Yellow Bird on hit climate-crisis thriller “Occupied,” has been elected President of the European Producers Club.

Hummelvoll is the first woman to head the organization of 130 prominent independent film and TV drama producers across Europe, including the U.K., who since 1993 have been jointly thrashing out pressing audiovisual industry issues and lobbying European Union legislators.

She replaces Spanish producer Alvaro Longoria, head of Spain’s prominent and prolific Morena Films, in the organization’s top role. Longoria is now one of Epc’s three vice presidents, alongside Dariusz Jablonski, head of Poland’s Apple Films, and Paula Vaccaro of Pinball London.

In her first interview as Epc leader Hummelvoll underlined the importance of working towards greater diversity as a group.

“The producer is at the heart of the industry,” she said. “She/he chooses subjects, and develops...

Amazon is developing a “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” series, TheWrap has confirmed.

The show will be based on the books by Stieg Larsson but will “take the iconic and much-loved character Lisbeth Salander and place her in today’s world – with a new setting, new characters, and a new story that will resonate with fans of the original and thrill a whole new generation.”

Amazon Studios and Left Bank Pictures will produce the series with Sony Pictures Television. Left Bank founder and CEO Andy Harries will serve as executive producer along with Rob Bullock. No writer has been attached to the project

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The “Millenium” series of novels comprises six books, the first three of which — “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest” — were authored...

Exclusive: Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res is building a physical production executive team as the indie studio’s portfolio has expanded to include multiple series at Apple TV+. Former Fremantle production exec Reid Shane has been set to head the department, with HBO/ABC/Mrc alum Tammy Ann Casper as head of Post Production and Amazon’s Marro Park as new VP Production Finance.

Shane will oversee all physical production for Media Res, which is gearing up to start filming Season 2 of The Morning Show, starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, for Apple TV+. The company has three upcoming series for Apple TV+: Life Undercover, starring and executive produced by Brie Larson; Pachinko, based on the international bestseller; and the just-announced Scott Z. Burns climate change limited series, which is nearing a series pickup at the streamer.

Prior to joining Media Res, Shane served as Evp Production at Fremantle,...

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.

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Denmark enjoyed another strong cinemagoing year in 2019, with overall revenues up 4% to Nok 1.18 billion ($175.1 million). After a record 2018, when Danish films punched a 30% market share, home-grown titles still retained 26% of the market – above the 25% average of the last decade, according to the Danish Distributors’ Assn., Fafid.

Boosted by the local animated sensation “Checkered Ninja,” total admissions for local fare reached 3.5 million. Created by comedian-turned director Anders Matthesen, a late 2018 kid’s movie release, sailed to the top of the 2019 Danish box office, earning $8.2 million and accounting for 17.7% of all tickets sold for Danish pics. Three other Danish...

May el-Toukhy became the first woman to win best director.

May el-Toukhy’s age-gap relationship drama Queen Of Hearts dominated the winners at the 36th Robert awards in Denmark, taking home nine prizes from 17 categories in which it was eligible.

el-Toukhy became the first woman to receive the best director prize since the category was introduced in 2001.

Scroll down for the full list of winners.

Her Sundance 2019 title also picked up best film, best actress for Trine Dyrholm, best supporting actor for Magnus Krepper, and best original screenplay for el-Toukhy and Maren Louise Käehne.

The film’s four further prizes were in best cinematography,...

Mads Mikkelsen is set to headline the dark comedy “Riders of Justice” written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, the well-known Danish helmer and screenwriter of Susanne Bier’s Oscar-winning “In a Better World.”

Mikkelsen will star in the film alongside Nikolaj Lie Kaas (“The Department Q Series”), Lars Brygmann (“That Time of the Year), Nicolas Bro (“Nymphomaniac”), Gustav Lindh (“Queen of Hearts”), Roland Møller (“Valhalla”) and the newcomer Andrea Heick Gadeberg (“Daniel”).

The story revolves Markus, a deployed military man who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck – but it turns out that it might have been a carefully orchestrated assassination, which his wife ended up being a random casualty of.

Produced by leading Scandinavian company Zentropa, the €5.3 million movie is represented in international markets by TrustNordisk which is describing the...