Due to Covid-19 cinema lockdowns or restrictions, box office in the Nordic region plummeted in 2020 year-on-year by 64% in Sweden, 57.6% in Iceland, 57% in Norway, 54% in Finland, and 47% in Denmark.The dearth of new U.S .tentpoles, combined with strong domestic titles such as “Another Round,” allowed homegrown movies to punch all-time record […]
Continue readingOther winners included ‘Undine’ actress Paula Beer and documentary ‘Collective’.Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round swept the European Film Awards on Saturday (December 12), winning four awards including best film, director, screenplay and actor for Mads Mikkelsen.Scroll down for full list of winnersAccepting the best screenplay prize via video link, sat alongside co-writer Tobias Lindholm, Danish filmmaker […]
Continue readingThe European Film Awards, unfolding virtually this year, reveals its major winners during a ceremony on Saturday, December 12. The European Film Academy previously doled out prizes for below-the-line crafts, short films, and more throughout the week. The 33rd annual European Film Awards this year are being emceed by German TV host Steven Gätjen out […]
Continue readingWhat a way for Disney to close out 2020, huh? This week on The Playlist Podcast, your trusty hosts, Charles Barfield, Mike DeAngelo, and Brian Farvour endure a four-hour Disney Investors Presentation so you don’t have to. And along the way, the guys discuss the nearly 60 projects highlighted by the Mouse House. Yes, that […]
Continue readingTrustNordisk has sold U.S. rights to “A Taste of Hunger,” an anticipated romantic drama starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”) and Katrine Greis-Rosenthal (“A Fortunate Man”), to Magnolia Pictures.Directed by Christoffer Boe, “A Taste of Hunger” has also been acquired in a raft of territories, including Germany (Koch Films), Spain (Adso Films), Brazil (Synapse) and […]
Continue readingWelcome to yet another episode of The Playlist Podcast. This week, you’re graced with Two new episodes. Earlier, we published an interview with director Darius Marder, who talked about his new film, “Sound of Metal.” And if you want to check that out, you can give that a listen now. But in the second new […]
Continue readingNo one can have it all, but if you’re Mads Mikkelsen, you can get pretty close. The 55-year-old Danish actor is a man in demand for some of the biggest names in cinema: James Bond, Marvel, Star Wars … and now Harry Potter. Mikkelsen called amidst production on the third “Fantastic Beasts” film, in which […]
Continue readingMads Mikkelsen is making the press rounds in support of Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round,” which represents Denmark in the 2021 Oscar race, but “Hannibal” is always a topic of conversation for the 55-year-old actor. Netflix began streaming all three seasons of Bryan Fuller’s cult-classic serial-killer drama this summer, further boosting the series’ popularity and reigniting […]
Continue readingAround these parts, we are big fans of actor Mads Mikkelsen. Whether he’s playing the best Hannibal Lecter (no shade aimed at Anthony Hopkins but Mikkelsen is next-level great in “Hannibal”) or starring in an offbeat dramedy such as the recent “Another Round,” the actor is regularly showing why he’s one of the most interesting […]
Continue readingSix further titles include Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘Another Round’.The European Film Awards has added six final titles to this year’s selection. They are Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round; Oskar Roehler’s Enfant Terrible; Charlene Favier’s Slalom; Francois Ozon’s Summer Of 85; Emmanuel Courcol’s The Big Hit; and Milcho Manchevski’s Willow.All received a Cannes 2020 label earlier this year, […]
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