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Paris-based About Premium Content (Apc) has acquired international rights to the Norwegian drama “Requiem for Selina,” due to bow at Lille’s Series Mania International Panorama competition program March 24.

A hot property on the pre-sales market, the youth-oriented TV show from “Skam” commissioner Nrk has already secured major distribution deals with AMC Networks International Southern Europe for Spain and Portugal, Dr for Denmark, Yle for Finland and RÚV for Iceland, while the domestic premiere on the Norwegian pubcaster is set for March 15.

Oslo-based creative studio Anti’s head of production Ingunn Rensel and head of development Emmeline Berglund are serving as producer and creator/co-writer respectively. Joining them are helmers Sebastian Kåss (credited for Anti’s earlier hit YA show “Heartbeat”) and Rikke Gregersen (“Ida Takes Charge”).

Toplining the cast are Elli Müller Osborne, Veslemøy Mørkrid Pål Sverre Hagen, Jon Øigarden as well as newcomer Oliver Sletvold Andersen.

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If we know anything, it’s that Viking movies and shows can certainly fit into many genres but if we are talking about it seriously, Vikings on its own is a separate genre because there is a different feel to any Viking-related movie or show that can only come from this specific genre. So, if you like Vikings-related movies or shows here are the absolute best movies and shows you can find on Netflix right now.

Norsemen (Series) Credit – Netflix

Norsemen is a Norwegian historical comedy series created by Jon Iver Helgaker and Jonas Torgersen. The Netflix series is set in the 8th century and it follows the Vikings village people as they experience political rivalries, social change, and the deaths of their fellow warriors in a pretty comedic manner. Norsemen stars Jon Iver Helgaker, Silje Torp, Kåre Conradi, Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, Kristine Riis, Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Jon Øigarden, Marian Saastad Ottesen,...

A Storm for Christmas is a series directed by Per-Olav Sørensen with Valter Skarsgård, Sus Wilkins, Jon Øigarden and Dennis Storhoi.

Numerous stories being told – Christmas is not the same for everyone. This is one refreshing season number.

Premise

Stranded at Oslo airport, only 24 hours before Christmas, people find themselves in each their dilemmas. Some are there to welcome their loved ones, some to fly home to their families, some work at the airport, and some who want to fly away and avoid the festivities. Their Christmas plans go awry.

About the Series

In six episodes we are offered this multiple narrative that covers a broad array of scenarios up to Christmas time. A refreshing Christmas story with its innovative premise. It is not a highly sophisticated production, but counts on good performances, and the varied characterizations make it more interesting as a story. True to the Christmas productions it retains a lighthearted tone,...

Exclusive: Viaplay has set its Norwegian Original film in the shape of World War II drama Gold Run (Gulltransporten), based on the true story of a group of unlikely resistance fighters who smuggled Norway’s gold reserves out of the country ahead of invading Nazi forces.

Jon Øigarden (Exit), Sven Nordin (Wisting) and Axel Bøyum (Delete Me) lead the all-star Norwegian cast in the feature-length production, which is due to begin filming in early 2022 with an exclusive premiere on Viaplay later in the year.

Pic will be directed by the Hallvard Bræin (The Giant) and is produced by Jørgen Storm Rosenberg and Kjetil Omberg at 74 Entertainment, with Tanya Nanette Badendyck as executive producer for Viaplay.

The movie is set on 9 April 1940 when German soldiers entered Oslo to seize three targets: the country’s king, government and gold. In just a few chaotic hours, parliamentary secretary Fredrik Haslund (Øigarden) assembled an improbable team,...

Freaks

It’s full scream ahead as Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event, returns to Glasgow Film Festival for a 14th fearful year, from Thursday 28 February to Saturday 2 March, 2019. Presenting a stunning and resonating two days of trauma, terror and tantalising thrills, this year’s line-up, once again housed at the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre, embraces the latest genre discoveries from around the world, spanning four continents, with two world, two European and six UK premieres.

Alan Jones, FrightFest co-director, commented:

Currently at its most vibrant and popular, the horror fantasy genre is constantly garnering critical acclaim, pushing boundaries and asking tough questions of audiences by reflecting relevant political and social issues. The genre isn’t just about escapism but a key tool to make sense of the chaos and confusion swirling around our everyday lives and FrightFest has known this for 20 years now, so it...

Paul Greengrass was stuck. It was early 2016, and he’d been exploring a possible project about the migration of refugees coming through Lampedusa, the Italian island that had become a landing point for many seeking asylum in Europe — as well as the site of numerous incidents involving sinking boats and mass deaths. (For a good overview of what was happening there, check out the documentary Fire at Sea.) Something, however, did not feel right. “I just had the sense that this was a small part of a bigger picture,” the director says,...

22 July Netflix Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Paul Greengrass Screenwriter: Paul Greengrass based on Asne Seierstad’s book “One of Us” Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Jon Øigarden, Jonas Strand Gravli, Maria Bock, Thorbjørn Harr, Ola G. Furuseth, Seda Witt, Isak Bakli Aglen Screened at: Park Ave., NYC, 9/25/18 Opens: October 20, 2018 There is no […]

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While most audience members know Paul Greengrass best as the director of the two best regarded Jason Bourne movies, that’s not where his true specialty resides. He’s far more at home crafting hard hitting docudramas. Bloody Sunday was his calling card film, while United 93 remains his finest hour. It’s in that vein that his latest work firmly sits. 22 July not only marks Greengrass’ return to this style of movie making, it also represents his first foray into putting something out on Netflix. A long and somber true story like this may not be your first assumption for a Netflix release, but the quality here should draw you in. If you don’t know what 22 July stands for, it represents the day that Norway suffered the worst terrorist attack in that country’s history. Taking place on July 22nd back in 2011, extreme right wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik...

Arrow Films has acquired U.K. rights to the black metal movie “Lords of Chaos” ahead of its British premiere at the London Film Festival next week. Gunpowder & Sky did the U.K. deal and has also now set a first-quarter 2019 U.S. release for the picture, which launched to acclaim at the Sundance Festival this year.

Jonas Åkerlund’s movie is centered on Norway’s brutal black metal scene in the 1990s and the band Mayhem. A sequence of events leads to church burnings, suicide and murder. Swedish film and music-video director Åkerlund helmed the film and wrote the screenplay. It is based on the book of the same name by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind.

The movie stars Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer and Sky Ferreira, alongside Valter Skarsgård and Jon Øigarden. The film went down well at Sundance: “Hail Åkerlund!,” Variety said in its review. “The...

Paul Greengrass can direct the hell out of action movies (see the last three Bourne films), but it’s his docudramas that that hit with gut punch force, starting with the troubles in Northern Ireland in 2002’s Bloody Sunday and moving onto 2006’s United 93, about the hijacked flight that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on 9/11, and 2012’s Captain Phillips, about the crew of the Maersk Alabama being taken hostage by pirates in the Indian Ocean.

22 July follows the Greengrass you-are-there approach as it re-enacts the 2011 massacre of 77 people in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik,...

Paul Greengrass, director of United 93 and Bloody Sunday, returns to the realm of the “too soon?” with 22 July, a clichéd and rather problematic film–with a frankly reprehensible first act–that dramatizes the attacks in Oslo on that awful day in 2011 when 77 people, mainly at the Utøya island youth camp, were murdered by a nationalist gunman named Anders Behring Breivik.

The tricky task of portraying Breivik has been given to Oslo native Anders Danielson Lie, an actor who can still boast at least one great calendar-related film with Oslo, August 31st (which premiered at Cannes the very same year of the tragedy). That movie’s director, Joachim Trier, managed to utilize Lie’s deep-set eyes and angular features to suggest a kind of profound melancholy. Greengrass, on the other hand, uses them in far less subtle ways, and it’s exactly that kind of heavy-handedness that makes 22 July so trivial.

The title is both a warning and a memorial. “22 July” might not carry as much visceral weight among American viewers as “United 93,” but it certainly will in Norway. That’s the date, just over seven years ago, when Anders Behring Breivik killed eight people in a van explosion targeting Oslo’s city center before gunning down 69 more at a summer camp on the nearby island of Utøya. If that doesn’t sound like fun subject matter for a film, it isn’t — but Paul Greengrass has a careful approach that gives voice to those who permanently lost their own.

Both a continuation of and departure from the writer-director’s signature aesthetic, the filmmaker’s latest docudrama is a movie in which Europeans speak accented English rather than their native tongue and speechify in a way their real-world counterparts likely did not. Beyond those minor transgressions, “22 July” proves an immersive...

In the industry’s long, curious history of “twin films” — near-simultaneous productions made, quite coincidentally, on the same subject or from the same material — there have been few bleaker subjects for accidental double-feature treatment than Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, and his two-part massacre of 77 civilians on July 22, 2011. But these are somber times we’re living in, and so it is that months after the premiere of Erik Poppe’s “U – July 22,” a formidably grueling reenactment of Breivik’s bloody attack on the Utøya youth summer camp, British action-vérité specialist Paul Greengrass has followed with “22 July,” a more expansive procedural examination of the atrocity, the ensuing justice process and its weighty effect on Norway’s national psychology. It’s intelligently stern, storm-gray filmmaking, as we’ve come to expect from Greengrass; if it feels a bit mechanical as well, perhaps this is a near-impossible story to film with both tact and soul.

22 July Trailer Paul Greengrass‘ 22 July (2018) movie trailer stars Thorbjørn Harr, Anders Danielsen Lie, Jon Øigarden, Lars Arentz-Hansen, and Anneke von der Lippe. 22 July‘s plot synopsis: based on the book by Åsne Seierstad, “In Norway on 22 July 2011, right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth [...]

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Launching on Netflix on Wednesday, October 10 is 22 July. Here’s your first look at the trailer.

In 22 July, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Paul Greengrass tells the true story of the aftermath of Norway’s deadliest terrorist attack. On 22 July 2011, 77 people were killed when a far-right extremist detonated a car bomb in Oslo before carrying out a mass shooting at a leadership camp for teens. 22 July uses the lens of one survivor’s physical and emotional journey to portray the country’s path to healing and reconciliation.

Written and directed by Paul Greengrass, 22 July is based upon the book “One of Us: The Story of an Attack in Norway – and Its Aftermath” by Åsne Seierstad. The film is produced by Scott Rudin, P.G.A., Paul Greengrass, P.G.A., Gregory Goodman, P.G.A., and Eli Bush, P.G.A., and stars Anders Danielsen Lie, Jon Øigarden, Jonas Strand Gravli, Maria Bock,...

Academy Award-nominated director Paul Greengrass tackles the true story of Norway’s deadliest terror attack since World War II in the first trailer for “22 July.”

On that day in 2011, a far-right extremist set off a car bomb in Oslo before carrying out a mass shooting at a leadership camp for teens. 77 people, many of whom were teens, were killed. The trailer, and the film itself, analyzes the attack through the eyes of one survivor, who has to go through a physical and emotional journey to heal.

“22 July,” which Greengrass also wrote, is based on the book “One of Us: The Story of an Attack in Norway — and Its Aftermath,” by Asne Seierstad.

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Anders Danielsen Lie, Jon Øigarden, Jonas Strand Gravli, Maria Bock, Thorbjørn Harr, Ola G. Furuseth, Seda Witt, Isak Bakli Aglen star.

Scott Rudin, Gregory Goodman, Eli Bush and Greengrass produced.

Netflix has released the first trailer for Paul Greengrass’s harrowing adaptation of the true story of the aftermath of Norway’s deadliest terrorist attack, 22 July.

Written and Directed by Paul Greengrass, the film is based upon the book “One of Us: The Story of an Attack in Norway – and Its Aftermath” by Åsne Seierstad. The film is produced by Scott Rudin, P.G.A., Paul Greengrass, P.G.A., Gregory Goodman, P.G.A., and Eli Bush, P.G.A., and stars Anders Danielsen Lie, Jon Øigarden, Jonas Strand Gravli, Maria Bock, Thorbjørn Harr, Ola G. Furuseth, Seda Witt, Isak Bakli Aglen.

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The film will debut Wednesday, October 10th on Netflix.

22 July Official Synopsis

In 22 July, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Paul Greengrass tells the true story of the aftermath of Norway’s deadliest terrorist attack.

Netflix has debuted an explosive first trailer for Paul Greengrass’ 22 July, which tells the true story of the aftermath of Norway’s deadliest terrorist attack.

The film tells the story of how 77 people were killed when a far-right extremist detonated a car bomb in Oslo before carrying out a mass shooting at a leadership camp for teens on July 22 2011.

The Captain Phillips and United 93 director uses the lens of one survivor’s physical and emotional journey to portray the country’s path to healing and reconciliation.

Written and directed by Greengrass, 22 July is based upon the book One of Us: The Story of an Attack in Norway – and Its Aftermath by Åsne Seierstad. It is produced by Scott Rudin, Greengrass, Gregory Goodman, and Eli Bush and stars Anders Danielsen Lie, Jon Øigarden, Jonas Strand Gravli, Maria Bock, Thorbjørn Harr, Ola G. Furuseth, Seda Witt, Isak Bakli Aglen.

22 July will debut Wednesday,...

After one film this year about the 2011 Norway attacks, in which right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 in the worst attack in the country since the Second World War, I’m not sure we need another. However, Paul Greengrass has proven to be adept at capturing harrowing real-life tragedies in the past, and we’ll find out soon if his new drama is a compelling retelling of this story as it premieres tomorrow at Venice.

Ahead of the debut, Netflix has released the first trailer for the film, based upon the book “One of Us: The Story of an Attack in Norway – and Its Aftermath” by Åsne Seierstad. Starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Jon Øigarden, Jonas Strand Gravli, Maria Bock, Thorbjørn Harr, Ola G. Furuseth, Seda Witt, and Isak Bakli Aglen, check out the preview below ahead of a global online release and limited theatrical run on October 10.

In 22 July, Academy...

The Killing is long gone, Borgen is done, and the last foreign drama to really capture the imagination of the British public - Channel 4's French spooker The Returned - won't be back on our screens until at least 2016.

So is our fascination with foreign fare over with - or could another international series be about to break through? Digital Spy takes a look at 8 contenders:

1. Deutschland '83

Where's it from? Germany.

What's it about? Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) is wrenched from the world he knows and sent to the West as an undercover Stasi spy at the height of the Cold War. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of Nato military strategy.

Could it be a hit in the UK? Talks with Brit broadcasters are currently ongoing, but a big factor here could be the news that Deutschland '83 is...

Drawing comparisons to the American political thriller All the President's Men, Mammon follows uncompromising investigative journalist Peter Verås (played by Jon Øigarden), one of the country's most well-respected writers, who uncovers evidence of serious financial fraud within the Norwegian government. To celebrate the DVD release of Mammon: The Complete Season 1 this coming Monday (5 May), we have Three DVD copies of the Norwegian crime series to give away to our tele addict readers, courtesy once more of the fine team at UK independent distributor Arrow Films. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.

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Coulson and the rest of the team are desperate to catch up with the Clairvoyant, and their mission leads them into danger.

Boarding a train that contains a sought after device in possession of evil billionaire Quinn, things turn deadly as the train looks headed for destruction.

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This Norwegian thriller follows six days in the life of journalist Peter Verås (Jon Øigarden), who released a fraud story involving the elite. His decision has dire consequences that go much further than he could have ever anticipated.

A young financial investigator is seen out jogging in the woods, and we see a man begin to follow her in a move that we can only speculate on.

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Channel 4 has acquired the UK broadcast rights to new Norwegian drama Mammon.

The six-part thriller, produced by Nrk Drama, was created by brothers Vegard Stenberg Eriksen and Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen.

Mammon follows journalist Peter Verås (Jon Øigarden) as, over the course of six days, he uncovers evidence of a large-scale financial fraud which implicates his own brother. Verås decides to pursue the story anyway, with devastating consequences for himself and his family.

Channel 4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt said: "With its compelling blend of political conspiracies and industry intrigue, and its examination of the damaging effects of chasing the story at all costs, Mammon is a complex, gripping and timely drama.

"We're thrilled to be bringing it to a UK audience."

Nordic World CEO Espen Huseby added: "In Norway, Mammon is attracting huge audiences, pulling in some of Nrk's highest ever ratings for a crime series.

"We have...

The Flick:

Blending reality and sensationalized fiction, Norwegian Ninja wins as a completely original film that takes its humor seriously. The title alone is an ingenious marketing device that sparks curiosity (Norway has ninjas?). Fortunately for the producing team behind Dead Snow, this interesting documentary styled late night classic works on every level.

The flick stars Mads Oussdal as Kommandør Arne Treholt, a character based on the real life Trehold, a Norwegian diplomat sent to prison for treason on behalf of the Soviet Union. Only, in director Thomas Cappelen Malling’s marvelous tale Trehold is actually the head of a covert ninja force that lives on an island protected by Feng shui. His team of ninjas work directly for King Olav and protect Norway from evil and communists. Everything is hunky dory, that is until Otto Meyer (Jon Øigarden), the head of an secret anti-communist group called Stay Behind, decide...

Strand Releasing's A Somewhat Gentle Man is our latest indie film feature this week. Hans Hans Petter Moland's comedy crime drama opens on January 14th in New York and is screenwritten by Kim Fupz Aakeson. We have new movie images in from the Paradox Produksjon film starring the versatile and talented Stellan Skarsgård as well as Bjørn Floberg, Gard B. Eidsvold, Jorunn Kjellsby, Bjørn Sundquist, Jon Øigarden and Kjersti Holmen. A Somewhat Gentle Man was a winner of the Reader Jury of the Berliner Morgenpost" award and nominee of the Golden Berlin Bear award at this year's Berlin International Film Festival. Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgard) is a somewhat gentle man, as far as gangsters go. Reluctantly back on the streets following a stint in prison, Ulrik's boss greets him with open arms and a plan to settle an old score...

Strand Releasing's A Somewhat Gentle Man is our latest indie film feature this week. Hans Hans Petter Moland's comedy crime drama opens on January 14th in New York and is screenwritten by Kim Fupz Aakeson. We have new movie images in from the Paradox Produksjon film starring the versatile and talented Stellan Skarsgård as well as Bjørn Floberg, Gard B. Eidsvold, Jorunn Kjellsby, Bjørn Sundquist, Jon Øigarden and Kjersti Holmen. A Somewhat Gentle Man was a winner of the Reader Jury of the Berliner Morgenpost" award and nominee of the Golden Berlin Bear award at this year's Berlin International Film Festival. Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgard) is a somewhat gentle man, as far as gangsters go. Reluctantly back on the streets following a stint in prison, Ulrik's boss greets him with open arms and a plan to settle an old score...