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Alfred Hitchcock, the late “Master of Suspense,” and Jiří Menzel, the late Czech director who won the foreign-language film Oscar for 1966’s Closely Watched Trains, will get some screen love during the 15th edition of the Beijing International Film Festival.

The “Homage-Restoration” section of the fest will feature, among others, Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller North by Northwest, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason, and late Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s Meetings With Anna, starring Aurore Clément and Jean-Pierre Cassel, in new 4K restorations.

Anna is about an emotionally unavailable filmmaker who is traveling through Western Europe to promote her new film, meeting with strangers, friends, former lovers, and family members. North by Northwest is known as a tale of mistaken identity, featuring a man pursued by agents of a mysterious organization.

The Beijing festival organizers also unveiled that this year’s “Homage” section will put a...

Iconic comedian, actor, writer, director and producer Chris Rock has signed with WME for exclusive representation in all areas including acting, directing, comedy touring, books and more, the agency announced on Friday.

Rock has won three Grammy Awards for “Roll With the New,” “Bigger & Blacker” and “Never Scared.” He also has four Emmy Awards for “The Chris Rock Show,” “Kill the Messenger” and two for “Bring the Pain.”

His groundbreaking stand-up specials and his work on “Saturday Night Live” have cemented his status as one of the top stand-ups in the world and one of the most influential voices in comedy. His 2023 special “Selective Outrage” premiered live on Netflix and made history as the platform’s first-ever global live-streamed event.

Lately, Rock has been positioning himself as more of a writer and director. He is currently attached to helm the U.S. remake of Oscar-winning Danish drama “Another Round” and...

Comedian Chris Rock has signed with WME for representation in all areas including acting, directing, comedy touring, books, and more.

Rock had been in play since December when his longtime agent Eddy Yablans was impacted by the CAA layoffs. (Yablans subsequently joined management company Lbi Entertainment as a partner.) Rock had been with Yablans for 30 years, at ICM and then at CAA, a tenure that included the record-setting at the time $40-million deal with Netflix in 2016 for two standup specials.

Rock’s 2023 Netflix special Selective Outrage also made history as the platform’s first-ever global live-streamed event.

He has won four Emmy Awards — for The Chris Rock Show, Kill the Messenger, and two for Bring the Pain — as well as three Grammy Awards for Roll with the New, Bigger & Blacker, and Never Scared..

Rock is set to direct and star in the feature Misty Green, based on an original script he wrote.

Heavy-hitter Marike Muselaers, VP international financing & co-production for the Scandi group Nordisk Film Production, has unveiled a solid slate of premium series, as its co-production “The Institute” is being pitched at Series Mania CoPro Pitching on Tuesday.

From Denmark, the four-parter “Snake Killer” is the first Prime Video Danish Original series, co-produced by Amazon MGM Studios, which holds first window rights in the Nordics. Anders Ølholm, credited for the hit thriller “Enforcement” (“Shorta”), is making his serialised debut as creator-helmer. In this crime show, toplining Pilou Asbæk, the story turns on Copenhagen’s mobile drug squad (Uropatruljen). A rogue cop, notorious for breaking the law to uphold it, rages war against a mysterious crime family after one of his informants is brutally killed.

The series illustrates Nordisk Film Production’s ambitions and unique leveraging power in a competitive market where financing decisions are back in the hands of producers, away from cash-shy broadcasters or streamers.

Extensively labeled as one of the best genres in the history of film, drama can connect audiences with interesting characters, meaningful narratives and well-constructed technical qualities that enhance the viewing experience of a movie. As the decade of the 2020s introduced moviegoers to wonderful films, there have also been great dramas to come along and make an impression; so much so, that a collection of acclaimed drama movies have already earned their placement as instant classics within the wider landscape of cinema.

Defined by cultural status and top-notch filmmaking, a classic drama film should captivate viewers at every turn and display timeless storytelling that always provokes an audience to rewatch said movie to gain some perspective. With several solid pieces of drama produced in the 2020s, fans can look at these works with excitement and depth.

Everything Everywhere All at Once Explores Family Drama Excitingly

Conceived as a fantastical reaction...

Paradise City Sales (rebranded from Memento International) has closed more deals for “The Ugly Stepsister,” Emilie Blichfeldt’s Cinderella-inspired horror film that premiered at Sundance and turned out to be one of the festival’s buzziest titles.

Previously acquired in a raft of territories, including North America, the U.K. and Australia/New Zealand with Shudder, “The Ugly Stepsister” was acquired for Benelux and Turkey (Mubi),

Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Greece (The Film Group), Ex- Yugoslavia (Discovery Films), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Bionaut / Zero Gravity), Ukraine (Svoekino), Bulgaria (Beta Film), South Korea (Happy Song),

Taiwan (Filmware International), Singapore (Shaw Organisation), Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos (Est N8) and Africa (What the Hero Wants). Paradise City Sales, whose team is led by Alexandre Moreau, is in negotiations to close the Middle East and India.

“The Ugly Stepsister” follows Elvira as she prepares to earn the prince’s affection at any cost.

The BBC has acquired Families Like Ours, a new Danish drama series created by acclaimed director Thomas Vinterberg, for BBC iPlayer and BBC Four. The series, set in a near-future Denmark facing catastrophic flooding, explores the human impact of forced evacuation and separation. Here’s the Lowdown: Families Like Ours, written by […]

BBC Grabs Dystopian Danish Drama Families Like Ours...

The BBC has bought the TV series Families Like Ours, which was made by Oscar-nominated Danish director Thomas Vinterberg. This is Vinterberg’s first time working on a TV show.

The show takes place in Denmark in the near future when rising water levels force the country to be evacuated. People must leave behind everything they know and love as they move to different places. It was filmed in five countries and was shown at film festivals in Venice and Toronto before airing in Scandinavia and on Canal+ last year.

The series stars Amaryllis August, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Magnus Millang, Esben Smed, Thomas Bo Larsen, David Dencik, Asta Kamma August, and Max Kaysen Høyrup.

Vinterberg shared his excitement about bringing the show to the UK, saying he has always felt a strong connection to the country. He is eager to see how...

The BBC has acquired “Families Like Ours,” the debut TV drama by Oscar-winning director Thomas Vinterberg for the U.K.

Written by Vinterberg and Bo Hr. Hansen and having first premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival, the 7-part “Families Like Ours” is set in a near-future Denmark where rising water levels can no longer be ignored and the country needs to be evacuated. As people disperse in all directions, they must bid farewell to what they love, what they know, and who they are.

It was shot across five countries and stars Amaryllis August, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Magnus Millang, Esben Smed, Thomas Bo Larsen, David Dencik, Asta Kamma August, and Max Kaysen Høyrup.

“I have a deepfelt connection with the U.K. and as you will see, it also plays a part in this series. Therefore, it is with eager...

The BBC has acquired Families Like Ours, the debut TV drama series from Oscar-winning director Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round).

Premiering at the Venice Film Festival last year, the series imagines a near future where rising sea levels force Denmark to evacuate the entire population of the country, turning their six million citizens into refugees, forced to seek shelter in whichever countries will have them. The seven-part series follows the fate of individual families as they struggle to find a home outside their native land.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Vinterberg said he strived to avoid “disaster film clichés” to focus on the human drama of climate change and mass migration, creating “a dystopia in slow motion.”

Vinterberg said he was initially inspired to write the series after seeing the response to Syrian refugees coming to Europe in the wake of the country’s civil war and wondering “what would happen if we were the refugees,...

The BBC has acquired Oscar-nominated director Thomas Vinterberg’s first TV series.

The corporation has picked up the apocalyptic Families Like Ours from Studiocanal.

Families Like Ours, which premiered at Venice and launched on Scandi broadcasters and Canal+ late last year, is set in Denmark in a not-too-distant future where rising water levels can no longer be ignored and the country needs to be evacuated. As people disperse in all directions, they must bid farewell to what they love, what they know, and who they are. Shot across five countries, the series was shown at Venice and Toronto. It stars Amaryllis August, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Magnus Millang, Esben Smed, Thomas Bo Larsen, David Dencik, Asta Kamma August, and Max Kaysen Høyrup.

Vinterberg said he has always had a “deepfelt connection with the UK and as you will see, it also plays a part in this series.

Anime adaptations can be a hit or miss most of the time. This also holds especially true for live-action adaptations that are on the rise. From One Piece to Cowboy Bebop, celebrated franchises are getting Westernized adaptations. And though it’s mostly a mixed bag, there might be upsides to it as well.

Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale | Credits: Eon Productions/MGM

To be specific, Mads Mikkelsen’s casting as an anime character would be nothing short of iconic as most fans have noted. This ties in well with his stark resemblance to the characters played by the seasoned voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda. It only highlights the diversity and versatility of the Va’s

Mads Mikkelsen is the personification of an anime character

We know him as Hannibal Lecter from Hannibal and Martin from Another Round but one thing is for sure. Mads Mikkelsen is one of...

In Hollywood, Mads Mikkelsen is seen as the face of evil. From Hannibal Lecter to Le Chiffre, he has played more bad guys than good guys in popular culture. However, he just needs to turn their attention to another side of his filmography to know just how talented he can be in the moral good.

Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter | Credit: NBC

He has been in several notable works in the Danish film industry. Most famously, he was a part of Thomas Vinterberg’s film, Another Round. The film is so beloved that it is now getting an English adaptation, directed by Chris Rock.

While the film is certainly very iconic, there is another Mikkelsen-Vinterberg that should get a remake. However, the timing might make it distasteful.

Mads Mikkelsen’s The Hunt needs a Hollywood remake

Mads Mikkelsen has played many guilty men in his career. From trying to destroy...

Samuel Joslin can be seen in the new movie, Paddington In Peru!

Released on Valentine’s Day (February 14), the actor reprises his role as Jonathan Brown, who he has now portrayed in all three movies, growing up before our very eyes.

Here’s a synopsis for the movie: “When Paddington discovers his beloved Aunt Lucy has gone missing from the Home for Retired Bears, he and the Brown family head to the wilds of Peru to look for her, the only clue to her whereabouts a spot marked on an enigmatic map. Determined to solve the mystery, Paddington embarks on a thrilling quest through the rainforests of the Amazon to find his aunt…and may also uncover one of the world’s most legendary treasures.”

Video: Watch the trailer here!

Now that the movie is out now, we’re getting to know more about Samuel Joslin with 10 Fun Facts.

Keep reading to find out more…...

Ever since director Bong Joon-ho's Parasite altered the Oscars landscape forever, several foreign films have benefited tremendously from a more inclusive Academy. Acclaimed dramas such as Drive My Car, The Worst Person in the World, Another Round, Rrr, and Godzilla Minus One have either won or been nominated in key categories. This year's foreign-language crossover hit is I'm Still Here. The Brazilian period drama scored three Oscar nominations, and has since emerged as one of the highest-grossing Brazilian films of all time.

Scandinavia’s leading sales agent TrustNordisk has swooped on the international sales rights of Amanda Kernell’s “Brace your Heart” (“Förbannelsen”) ahead of the European Film Market in Berlin.

The Swedish drama, which starts filming this week in the Kiruna region, Northern Sweden, is Kernell’s third pic after the Swedish Oscar entry “Charter” and her acclaimed debut “Sami Blood” (a best directing debut at Venice Days 2016) which firmly put her name among Scandinavia’s most promising female voices.

Based on Kernell’s own original script, the story is set in a remote Sámi village, high in the mountains.

When Ejva (20) inherits her father’s reindeer herd upon his death, she takes over the family tradition and struggles to keep it thriving. At the same time, the local leader Heaika develops romantic feelings for her, and though hesitant, she feels compelled to accept, says the logline.

Everything changes when Nejla,...

“The Ugly Stepsister” — the Cinderella-inspired horror that emerged from Sundance as one of the festival’s buzziest titles — has sold worldwide for Memento International.

From director Emilie Blichfeldt and a beauty-horror reimagining of the classic fairy tale — the film already sold to Shudder for North America, the U.K. and Australia-New Zealand before it’s world premiere in Park City, while Mer Film and Scanbox will release it in Scandinavia.

The film has also now sold to Esc FIlms (France), Capelight (Germany and Austria), Beta Films (Spain), Lev Cinema (Israel), Ads (Hungary), Cay Films (Romania), Cine Canibal (Latin America), New Select (Japan), House of M (Thailand), Pt Falcon (Indonesia), Estin Film (Baltics) and Vendetta Filmes (Portugal). Negotiations are reportedly ongoing in Italy, Greece and Ukraine, among others.

“The Ugly Stepsister” follows Elvira as she prepares to earn the prince’s affection at any cost. In a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business,...

“Probably the best co-producers in the world?” is the provocative title of one of the International Film Festival Rotterdam panels during “Pulling Focus,” IFFR Pro’s day dedicated to the global influence of Dutch cinema held on February 4.

The Dutch don’t normally boast; their lack of egotism is what can make them such excellent collaborators. Nonetheless, leading producers in the Netherlands agree they are indeed now adept at co-production - and that is partly because it has become a market necessity.

“Over the last 10 or 15 years, the Dutch have really oriented themselves toward the international market. In the past,...

When the Light Breaks, a quiet and haunting drama about grief from Icelandic filmmaker Rúnar Rúnarsson, won the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at the 48th Göteborg Film Festival. The award, which comes with a 400,000 Swedish krona ($36,000) cash prize, was announced during the closing gala Sunday night.

Shot on 16mm, When The Light Breaks stars Elín Hall (Cold, Let Me Fall) as a young art student confronted with a sudden loss who has to navigate love, friendship and grief over an endless long summer day in Iceland. The film premiered in the Cannes’ Un Certain Regard lineup.

The Göteborg jury, which included filmmakers Ella Lemhagen, Philippe Lesage, Athina Rachel Tsangari, cinematographer Jp Passi and actor Frida Gustavsson, praised the film for its “masterfully calibrated mise en scène, its sensitivity and delicate lightness, and its unexpectedly uplifting treatment of grief.”

The Audience Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film went to Eirik Svensson’s Safe House,...

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This February, Hulu is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated Steven Knight series A Thousand Blows to the much-awaited Season 4 of Shoresy. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Hulu this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the five best films that are coming to Hulu in February 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

The Grand Budapest Hotel (February 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92% Credit – Searchlight Pictures

The Grand Budapest Hotel is a comedy-drama film written and directed by Wes Anderson. The 2014 film follows Gustav H, a concierge working at Popular European. He is falsely accused of murder and now must prove his innocence. In his quest to clear his name, he becomes good friends with a lobby boy.

Exclusive: Pachinko and The Morning Show Studio Media Res is building out its international division by hiring a Nordics boss, who has landed first project.

Anna-Klara Carlsten, whose credits include Spring Uje Spring and Tore, will lead the Nordics slate and report into Lars Blomgren, who runs international for Media Res.

Carlsten’s first project is an Svt adaptation of Let The Right One In author John Ajvide Lindqvist’s latest novel Summer of 1985, which will be directed by The Bridge co-creator Björn Stein. Published in 2023, the story centers on a group of friends preparing for an epic summer together in the Stockholm archipelago. When the discovery of a mythic creature with mysterious origins and abilities upends their lives, new experiences and pleasures induce the group at the increasing cost of their psyches. The book comes from the celebrated author of Let The Right One In, Let Me In and Border,...

Acclaimed director Thomas Vinterberg and Goteborg’s artistic director Pia Lundberg addressed controversial remarks of Swedish Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand.

Lundberg admitted she was “surprised” by the Minister’s statement during the opening ceremony Jan. 24, which made for a “tumultuous” start of the event.

“The Swedish film industry [which has around $50.5 million a year in state support] is comparing itself to Denmark and Norway a lot. Denmark has twice as much money for local filmmaking production than Sweden. Norway has even more. Sweden is really far behind. Do you think Denmark could adopt Sweden on the film side?,” Lundberg asked Vinterberg during a public discussion.

“It was horrible, I heard,” he said. Vinterberg came to Sweden to pick up the Nordic Dragon Award.

“Ministers of Cultural Affairs… You quickly get rid of them. It’s a maximum of four years. She’ll vanish soon.”

According to Lundberg, Swedish industry is sometimes “jealous” of Danish films. But Vinterberg added:...

Thomas Vinterberg is the guest of honor at Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival where, this evening, he hosted a screening of his second feature Festen.

Directed by Vinterberg from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mogens Rukov, Festen debuted 26-year-ago in Cannes and famously launched, along with Lars von Trier’s The Idiots, the avant-garde Dogme 95 film movement.

“It was like a strike of enlightenment,” Vinterberg said of the launch of Dogme, which called on filmmakers to discard the modern trinkets of contemporary filmmaking for a stripped-back, traditional approach to cinema. The Danish filmmaker was in conversation this evening with Göteborg festival head Pia Lundberg.

However, Vinterberg said the journey to being accepted as a Dogme filmmaker wasn’t as smooth as the legend has it.

“It felt almost like a suicide mission. People were calling me before the success of Festen warning me that it could destroy my career. That...

Thomas Vinterberg is ready for “The Brothers Lionheart,” based on Astrid Lindgren’s fantasy novel.

“I’m writing it myself with the brilliant British writer Simon Stephens, so it’s a mix of things. The book is there, it’s not mine, but it’s a great journey we’re on. I really love it,” he tells Variety about his upcoming project.

Considered a children’s classic, Lindgren’s story focuses on two brothers and a mysterious land Nangijala where life conquers death.

“It’s about faith and doubt, which goes straight as an arrow right into my own life. This book has the courage to step into what every child is asking when they’re about 8 or 10 and about to go to bed. ‘What happens when we die?’ There’s so much courage in these characters and Lindgren’s story, and I hope it can be encouraging for viewers,...

It’s been a matter of faith for months that the current Oscar season has brought one of the most wide-open races in years. And when it comes to which film will win Best Picture, that’s true: At this point, as many as six films have a plausible chance to win the top award.

But if you’re talking about what’s going to be nominated, things aren’t quite so unpredictable. A consensus has formed around eight of the 10 Best Picture nominees, four of the five Best Actor ones, four of the five for Best Director …

And yet, who really knows? The Academy is much bigger than it was a decade ago, with 9,905 voting members as of December, and it’s far more international. And while the majority of members are still based in Los Angeles, how many of them made the effort to watch the movies and...

Mads Mikkelsen has been in several award-winning and critically acclaimed projects over the years. Be it playing a Bond villain in Casino Royale or starring as the legendary Hannibal Lecter, the actor has truly showcased his range to the world. However, if there is one project that perfectly encapsulates the skills that he possesses, it is 2020’s Danish classic, Another Round.

Mads Mikkelsen in a still from Another Round | Credit: Nordisk Film

The film gained him more than some recognition, earning two Oscar nominations and one win. Considering how iconic the film is, it is not surprising that Hollywood wants to make an English remake of it.

With Chris Rock at the head of it, the director of the original films apparently has some words to give to the comedian, and they are not very kind. In fact, he brought up quite a publicly humiliating moment in Rock’s professional career.

Thomas Vinterberg’s “Families Like Ours,” “Pressure Point” from the writer of “Black Crab” and Erik Poppe’s “Quisling” count among nominations for a high-powered Göteborg Nordic Series Script Award, the biggest plaudit for TV screenwriting in Scandinavia.

Replacing the Göteborg Festival’s Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, the Script Award nominations also take in feminist porn comedy “Money Shot,” a Canneseries winner, and “The School of Housewives,” co-written and directed by Iceland’s Arnór Pálmi Arnarson, who helmed “The Minister,” starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson.

With regard to artistic ambition, ranging broadly in style from “Families'” near-future survival drama-thriller to “Pressure Point’s” nervy and compelling true-events recreation and “Quisling’s” boldly-told period drama, these three series explore modern-times horror.

“Families” charts an apocalypse that tears Denmark’s upper middle class apart across Europe and plunges them into a merciless and sometimes violent new world; “Pressure Point” plumbs neo-Nazism, “Quisling...

Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Brady Corbet, and James Mangold are the 2025 Directors Guild Award nominees.

The Directors Guild announced the DGA Awards nominees on Wednesday, hours after the Screen Actors Guild Award revealed its 2025 nominations.

All nominees are first-time honorees at the Directors Guild. Audiard, a cherished French filmmaker, directed Netflix’s top awards contender, Emilia Pérez. Baker, a leading indie director of this era, helmed Neon’s wild comedy-thriller, Anora. Berger is recognized for the papal suspense film Conclave from Focus Features. Corbet, who recently won Best Director at the Golden Globes, is the 36-year-old auteur of the epic A24 release The Brutalist. Lastly, Mangold is the American veteran of the group, nominated here for A Complete Unknown, about Bob Dylan.

The Directors Guild is often a good barometer of future Oscar success — but it is rarely perfect. The last time the five DGA Awards matched the...

Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Brady Corbet and James Mangold have been nominated as the best feature film directors of 2024 by the Directors Guild of America, which announced its movie nominations on Wednesday.

Audiard was nominated for “Emilia Pérez,” Baker for “Anora,” Berger for “Conclave,” Corbet for “The Brutalist” and Mangold for “A Complete Unknown.”

The nominations make “Anora,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave” and “Emilia Pérez” the only films to be nominated in the top category by both of the major guilds that announced on Wednesday, the Directors Guild and the Screen Actors Guild. “The Brutalist” was not nominated in SAG’s ensemble category, while “Wicked” was nominated for SAG’s cast award but not for director Jon M. Chu.

Other directors who didn’t make the DGA list include Coralie Fargeat for “The Substance” and Denis Villeneuve for “Dune: Part Two.”

In the category for first-time feature directors,...

Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival will open with a world premiere screening of Norweigan filmmaker Eirik Svensson’s latest feature Safe House (Før mørket).

Set during the Central African Republic’s civil war in 2013, the film centers on a desperate Muslim man seeking refuge in a field hospital on Christmas Eve, while a threatening Christian militia gathers outside, demanding his life. At the heart of the events is Norwegian aid worker Linn, played by Kristine Kujath Thorp, who must make moral decisions to protect the man without endangering her colleagues.

The film will screen in satellite venues across Sweden at the same time as the Göteborg premiere. The film will also be available to watch through the festival’s digital platform.

Göteborg will this year also hand honorary awards to Thomas Vinterberg and Julie Delpy. The festival has said it is honoring Vinterberg for his deft talent for portraying “deeply...

The Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden’s leading film fest, has unveiled its 2025 lineup, which features several award season contenders, including Brady Corbet’s Golden Globe winner The Brutalist, Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle, and Luca Guadagnino’s Queer.

The Brutalist picked up three Golden Globes this Sunday, including for best picture, drama, best director for Corbet and best actor, drama for star Brody. In the historical epic, Brody plays László Tóth, a Jewish architect who arrives in America from Budapest after surviving World War II. The film co-stars Felicity Jones as László’s wife and Guy Pearce as billionaire Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr.

Daniel Craig scored a best actor, drama nomination at the Globes for his starring role in Queer as William Lee, based on William S. Burroughs’ alter ego, following his journey through Mexico and South America with Drew Starkey as Gene. The Girl with the Needle,...

Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival will open with a world premiere screening of Norweigan filmmaker Eirik Svensson’s latest feature Safe House (Før mørket).

Set during the Central African Republic’s civil war in 2013, the film centers on a desperate Muslim man seeking refuge in a field hospital on Christmas Eve, while a threatening Christian militia gathers outside, demanding his life. At the heart of the events is Norwegian aid worker Linn, played by Kristine Kujath Thorp, who must make moral decisions to protect the man without endangering her colleagues.

The film will screen in satellite venues across Sweden at the same time as the Göteborg premiere. The film will also be available to watch through the festival’s digital platform.

Göteborg will this year also hand honorary awards to Thomas Vinterberg and Julie Delpy. The festival has said it is honoring Vinterberg for his deft talent for portraying “deeply...

Exclusive: Danish heist pic The Quiet Ones, which debuted at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, is set for a February 21 release in the U.S. via Magnolia’s Magnet label.

The film is based on the real life story of the largest heist in Danish history. Starring are Gustav Giese, Reda Kateb (Django) and Amanda Collin (Raised By Wolves).

The synopsis reads: “In 2008, a group of men from Denmark and across Europe pulled off the biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. Kasper, a boxer with few chances left in life, is offered the opportunity to plan the robbery by its foreign initiators. At the risk of losing his family and everything that matters to him, he takes on the challenge in a bid to break all records and secure his place in the history books.”

Producers are Kasper Dissing of Zentropa (Another Round) and Thomas Kristensen. Frederik Louis Hviid...

Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Film is on the fast track for release in Taiwan after its best film win at the Golden Horse Awards, which allows it to skip the official lottery draws quota system designated for mainland Chinese films.

The film, which centres on theearly days of the Covid-19 lockdown in China, is scheduled to open on December 20 through local distributor Hooray Films.While it is labelled as a Singapore-Germany co-production, it is still considered a mainland Chinese production in Taiwan. Only 10 mainland Chinese films are allowed to release in Taiwan every year, following the signing of the...

The American remake of Another Round still has Chris Rock attached to direct, but it’s taken a while to find a new writer for it.

Pretty much since the superb Another Round first landed back in 2020, there’s been chatter about an American remake of the film. Starring Mads Mikkelsen and directed by Thomas Vinterberg, the comedy drama won an Oscar and rightly so. Considering the themes the film deals with, it’s astonishing it’s such an accessible and hugely entertaining film.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s company Appian Way swooped in quickly for the remake rights to the movie, and he’s going to be producing the new film. That deal was done a few years ago, but finally, there may be some sign of momentum here.

That’s because the new Another Round attracted the interest of Chris Rock, who signed up to direct the movie way back...

Exclusive: Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn (Proof) has been tapped to write a new draft of Another Round, the English-language remake of Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar-winning Danish drama from 2020, which has Chris Rock on board to direct.

Rock joined the project in January, as we were first to report. At the time, he had a draft in hand from Stuart Blumberg but was looking for another writer with which to partner. We’re told Auburn landed the job after a long search, beating out maybe 200 scribes in the process.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions secured the remake rights to Another Round shortly after the film landed the Best International Feature prize at the Academy Awards. We’re told that the project is picking up steam now that Auburn is involved, though Rock did just sign on to direct and star in Misty Green, a Hollywood drama for which he wrote the script,...

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service has bought “The Ugly Stepsister,” a sinister twist on the classic Cinderella story, ahead of the film’s world premiere at Sundance.

The movie, which is slated to open the Midnight Section in Park City, was picked up by Shudder for North American, U.K., and Anz rights. Memento International represents the film.

“The Ugly Stepsister” marks the feature debut from Norwegian writer and director Emilie Blichfeldt. It stars newcomer Lea Myren, along with Thea Sofie Loch Næss (“The Last Kingdom”) and Ane Dahl Torp (“The Wave”). Shudder will release the film in 2025.

“The Ugly Stepsister” follows Elvira as she prepares to earn the prince’s affection at any cost. In a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira will compete with the beautiful and enchanting Agnes to become the belle of the ball.

“I am beyond thrilled to bring ‘The Ugly Stepsister...

Miami-based FiGa Films has sold “Beloved Tropic” (“Querido Tropico”), the debut fiction feature of Panamanian documentary filmmaker Ana Endara, to Costa Rica-based Pacifica Grey ahead of its market debut at Ventana Sur.

Starring Chile’s Paulina Garcia, who clinched a Berlinale Best Actress Silver Bear for her turn in Sebastian Lelio’s “Gloria,” the drama was pounced on by Spain’s Vitrine prior to its debut at the San Sebastian Film Festival in September.

Said FiGa founder-ceo Sandro Fiorin: “I’m honored to be collaborating with Ana Endara, who I’ve admired for years. She’s a real talent, with a precise director’s touch. Ana is definitely going places, we’re lucky to have her as part of our family.”

For Pacifica Grey founder Marcelo Quesada, whose company acquired the rights to the drama for Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize and the Dominican Republic, “Beloved...

Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Fifth Season and Makeready have acquired the rights to Final Score, a crime thriller spec from Will Hettinger, which Nick Rowland is set to direct.

The project reunites the companies with Rowland after work on a project in a similar vein — the forthcoming crime thriller She Rides Shotgun, starring Taron Egerton, for which Makeready is currently finalizing the domestic deal. News also comes after word that Makeready has extended by three years its overall deal with Fifth Season, also bringing Topic Studios into the fold for a joint venture spanning features, television, and unscripted content.

Said to be tonally in the vein of Sicario, Final Score follows Gamen (50s), the leader of the FBI’s tactical operations team, who recruits ex-Special Forces soldier Andy (30s) to join his unit as they try to take down both the mob and a gang of bank robbers. Brad Weston...

Chris Rock is set to direct and star in “Misty Green,” described as a contemporary tale of Hollywood excess and inequity.

Based on an original script by Rock, “Misty Green” follows Misty, an undeniably talented actress whose vices have derailed every attempt to revitalize her career. Her best opportunity in ages arrives in the form of Jordan (Rock), a film director with the perfect role for her — were it not for their contentious past. Additional casting is underway.

Rock and seasoned exec and former Fox head Peter Rice will produce alongside James Lopez for MacRo Film Studios and Tommy Oliver for Confluential Films. Executive producers are Charles D. King for MacRo Film Studios and Codie Elaine Oliver for Confluential Films. Neon International will represent the foreign rights and introduce it at AFM next week while CAA Media Finance will represent the domestic rights.

Rock was last seen on the big...

Exclusive: Makeready, the production company led by producer Brad Weston and Netflix alum Collin Creighton, has extended by three years its overall deal with Fifth Season. Joining the party is Topic Studios; the Makeready deal is the first in a new multiyear joint venture between Topic and Fifth Season in which they’ll back production companies with financing and development funds to create premium television content.

Makeready has hired former Temple Hill exec Sydney Title to run its television division.

Makeready made its original deal with Fifth Season, and it yielded such films as the Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley starrer Killer Heat, which was Prime Video’s top film worldwide for two weeks. There also was A Thousand and One, the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner and debut feature from A.V. Rockwell. Upcoming films include Opus for A24, starring John Malkovich and The Bear’s Emmy winner Ayo Edebiri...

Between his two excellent Mads Mikkelsen-led dramas, The Hunt (2012) and Another Round (2020), Thomas Vinterberg has established himself as one of the finest filmmaking talents to come out of the Scandinavian region. His films exemplify the best of Danish artistic and cultural sensibilities, with their melancholic tones, dealing with deeply intense personal themes, yet not without slivers of hope and humor throughout.

Plex is gearing up for an exciting lineup of films and series in November 2024. Viewers can look forward to a variety of new additions, including Blue Ridge, But I’m A Cheerleader, Call Jane, and Empire State. Cult classics like The Grudge, Hard Candy, House of 1000 Corpses, and The Midnight Meat Train are also hitting the platform, alongside more recent hits like Wind River and Where’d You Go, Bernadette? For fans of horror, thrillers, and emotional dramas, there’s no shortage of options. However, Plex is also bidding farewell to a number of films and shows in November. Among those leaving are 24 Hours to Live, Drive Angry, The Devil’s Rejects, Snowpiercer, and USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage. If you’ve been meaning to watch these titles, now is the time to catch them before they disappear. For those looking to binge their favorites, many notable titles are still available for streaming.

Exclusive: Canada’s CBC is stocking its streaming service with dramas from Scandinavia and the UK.

CBC Gem will launch British comedy-drama Cheaters, Scandi co-pro comedy All and Eva and Danish drama Families Like Ours in coming weeks. All and Eva will lead off on Friday, November 1, followed by Cheaters amon November 8 and Families Like Ours on November 22.

All and Eva, from Warner Bros. International Television Sweden for Viaplay, is a six-part series in which a woman’s journey to discover her sperm donor and their unexpected relationship, despite his ignorance of his impending fatherhood. Viaplay Content Distribution shops it internationally.

It is created, written and directed by Johanna Runevard and stars Tuva Novotny, Joachim Fjelstrup, Sanna Sundqvist and Bengt Braskered.

The show has been gaining...

Fans of the entertainment industry have been crushing on Mads Mikkelsen for a while now and recently, his admirers have only grown in number. The man may be inching towards sixty but he sure is aging like fine wine and we really, really, can’t peel our eyes away from his charm. Honestly, villains have never looked better.

Another Round (2020) | Credits: Zentropa Entertainments

Back in 2020, Mads Mikkelsen starred in the Danish film, Another Round, where he played the role of Martin, a high school teacher who along with his peers decided to test out an interesting theory in school. Now, it was recently revealed that an English-language remake of the film is all set to be made with Leonardo DiCaprio starring in it. Despite the original film being heavily awarded, Mads Mikkelsen has made it clear that he has no intention of being a part of the remake.

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Thomas Vinterberg, the Oscar-winning Danish director of “Another Round,” will preside over the jury of the upcoming Marrakech International Film Festival, with which he has a longstanding rapport.

The Marrakech jury will award its Étoile d’Or to one of the 14 first and second films in the fest’s international competition. Recent winners include Moroccan director Asmae El Moudir’s “Mother of all the Lies” last year and French-Iranian helmer Emad Aleebrahim-Dehkordi’s “A Tale of Shemroon” in 2022.

It will mark the first time that Vinterberg attends the Marrakech Film Festival. The Danish filmmaker is one of Europe’s best known directors. He co-founder with Lars von Trier of the Danish Dogme 95 movement in the mid 1990s. His vast and widely praised filmography comprises “The Celebration,” aka “Festen,” (1998) for which Vinterberg won the Cannes jury prize when he was 28; “It’s All About Love (2003)”; “Dear Wendy” (2005); “When a Man Comes Home...

Oscar-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg has been announced as president of the jury at the 21st Marrakech International Film Festival, running from November 29 to December 7.

The jury awards the Étoile d’Or to one of the 14 first and second films in the international competition, recent winners of which have included Asmae El Moudir’s Mother of all the Lies (2023) and Emad Aleebrahim-Dehkordi’s A Tale Of Shemroon (2022),

“In this rapidly changing and increasingly divided world, festivals such as Marrakech provide a much-needed window into a wide variety of cultures,” said Vinterberg. “Films can describe what cannot be explained. Make us understand the unacceptable. And there is indeed a lot to understand right now.”

Marrakech has strong connections with the Danish cinema world. Last year it celebrated longtime Vinterberg collaborator Mads Mikkelsen with an honorary career achievement award. He spoke fondly of his connection with the director in his masterclass.

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"Hold me tight while your still beats and warms." Studiocanal has revealed the full trailer for an intriguing series called Families Like Ours, made by acclaimed Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg. It just premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival in their "Series" section, and debuts streaming in Denmark (more countries later) in October. In a not-too-distant future, Denmark faces total evacuation due to rising water levels (climate change is definitely going to ruin everything whether we like it or not). As the nation of ~6 million people prepares to leave their homes, high school student Laura must choose between her divorced parents and the boy she's fallen in love with. It's a clever flip on the refugee crisis the world is experiencing already - what if wealthy, white people in Denmark had to flee their homes and move to other countries. What would happen? The full ensemble cast includes Amaryllis August, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt,...

How do you confront the bleakest of challenges? A family faces a world altered by nature and fate in “Families Like Ours.” The series sees Denmark in crisis as rising water levels prompt mass evacuations. Suddenly, an entire country grapples with finding a new place to call home and the prejudices accompanying their plight. The series hails from celebrated filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg, whose previous efforts include the critically acclaimed films “Another Round” and “The Hunt.” Vinterberg directs all episodes — additionally co-writing ‘Ours’ with Bo Hr.

Continue reading ‘Families Like Ours’ Trailer: Thomas Vinterberg’s New Near-Future Disaster Drama Mini-Series Is Coming Soon at The Playlist.

Denmark has selected Magnus von Horn’s period drama The Girl With the Needle as its nominee for Best International Feature at the 2025 Oscars.

Set in Copenhagen in 1919, the feature stars Vic Carmen Sonne (Holiday, Godland) as Karoline, a young seamstress who is left high and dry when her wealthy lover (Joachim Fjelstrup) gets her pregnant but refuses to marry her. When she finds herself unemployed and expecting, Karoline has the choice of two bad options: Give herself an abortion with a knitting needle or work with the shady backstreet adoption agency.

The Girl With the Needle premiered in competition in Cannes and had its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month. The strong critical reception for the film — THR‘s review called it a “dark, urgently timely Danish drama” that “builds to a devastating climax, taut as piano wire” — as well as the timely subject...