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EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment has optioned rights to the English language remake of the 2017 Norwegian thriller Thelma, for I, Tonya and Lars and the Real Girl director Craig Gillespie to helm. Project is in the early stages, but they have just hired Christy Hall to write the script. Pic will be financed and…

Norwegian director Joachim Trier (Louder Than Bombs) will head the jury for the 57th Cannes Critics' Week (9-17 May), the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival which honours first and second films. The director, whose Louder Than Bombs competed for the Palme d'Or in 2015, is joined on the jury by actress and…

Known for such gorgeous, naturalistic independent films as Oslo, August 31st and Louder Than Bombs, critically lauded Norwegian director Joachim Trier made a significant, exciting stylistic departure with his latest feature, Thelma. Already selected as Norway’s Oscar play for Best Foreign Language Film, Thelma is both…

The Orchard has just released the trailer for Thelma, the psychological thriller from Joachim Trier that yesterday was selected by Norway to be its submission for the foreign-language Oscar race. The pic starring  Eili Harboe is having its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival that begins this week. It hits…

Joachim Trier's Thelma, which will have its international premiere at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival, is Norway's official submission for the Oscar Foreign Language race. The supernatural thriller will also hit the New York Film Festival before The Orchard bows it in U.S. theaters November 10. The pic stars Eili…

North Of Two has acquired distribution rights to Angela Shelton's Heart, Baby! ahead of its world premiere tomorrow at the Newport Beach Film Festival. A mid-November theatrical bow is in the works. The true-story pic stars The Wire‘s Gbenga Akinnagbe as George Lee Martin, who at the age of 18 received a 40-year…

Norwegian director Joachim Trier has been to Cannes before, with his hit Oslo, August 31st, but he returns this year as part of the Official Selection for the first time. Louder Than Bombs is also his English-language debut, and it stars Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid. The story…

Making his English-language debut, Oslo, August 31 director Joachim Trier is kicking off production today on Louder Than Bombs. Filming will take place in New York City with the previously announced Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg and Isabelle Huppert being joined by Amy Ryan, David Strathairn and newcomer Devin…