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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and Nordic streamer Viaplay has agreed a multi-year extension to their content partnership, bringing the likes of Kraven The Hunter, Madame Web and Morbius to the Nordics following their theatrical run and home entertainment windows. The extension of the deal, which has…

Nordic Entertainment (NENT) Group is to be paid around $64M in damages from TV2 Danmark over an ad rebate dispute, settling a case that has been dragging for more than 15 years. The settlement of 600M Swedish Krona, which Deadline has converted into dollars using a currency converter, is higher than NENT’s annual…

eOne Strikes Mega Content Deal With NENT Group Entertainment One (eOne) has struck its largest ever deal with NENT Group to bring 700 hours of content to the major Nordic player including The Newsreader, Family Law and Moonshine (pictured). NENT’s services in the Baltics, Poland and the Netherlands will have access to…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has acquired global distribution rights to the upcoming supernatural-psychological thriller series The Box, starring Anna Friel, from Shades of Blue creator Adi Hasak and Nordic Entertainment Group. The deal excludes the Nordics, Baltics and Poland, where The Box will premiere on NENT Group's streaming…

Crime novel Cell 8 by Swedish authors Roslund & Hellström is being be adapted as a Viaplay Original by Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group). The gritty crime drama, centered on the subject of the death penalty, is the second Roslund & Hellström novel to become a Viaplay Original after the drama Box 21. The series…

EXCLUSIVE: A trio of Sweden's biggest acting talents will headline Limbo, an original six-part drama series being made for Nordic major NENT Group's in-house streamer Viaplay. Rakel Wärmländer (Eva & Adam), Louise Peterhoff (The Truth Will Out) and Sofia Helin (The Bridge) will lead the show, which is produced by…

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) is rolling out its streaming service Viaplay into five new markets through 2023. Viaplay will launch in the UK in the second half of 2022 and then in Canada, Germany, Austria and Switzerland by the end of the following year. That will take its total footprint to 16 countries…

NENT Group, the company that operates leading Scandi streaming service Viaplay, announced today that it is committing to finance and produce two English language features films per year as it ramps up its international expansion strategy. The outfit is already ploughing a significant amount of money into its TV…

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), a leading digital player in Scandinavia, is committing to produce two English-language films per year that will debut directly on its Viaplay streaming service. The first project will be Hilma, a biopic of the revolutionary Swedish artist and feminist pioneer Hilma af Klint…

EXCLUSIVE: A number of Estonia's top creative talents are partnering with streamer Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) to create the first Estonian Viaplay Original. Helmed by director René Vilbre and written by Birk Rohelend, the crime drama Who Shot Otto Mueller? will star Jaan Rekkor, Tambet Tuisk and Märt…

EXCLUSIVE: Adi Hasak, creator of NBC series Shades Of Blue and USA Network thriller Eyewitness, is teaming up with Nordic Entertainment Group on supernatural anthology series The Box, which will star Emmy-winner Anna Friel (Marcella). The English-language series was green-lit off Hasak's series bible. Plot details are…