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TrustNordisk has picked up international sales rights to Ole Bornedal's psychological thriller sequel Nightwatch — Demons Are Forever, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The flick started shooting in Denmark earlier this week and is a sequel to Bornedal's 1994 Nightwatch film, which followed a student who took a job as a…

EXCLUSIVE: Bangkok-based Night Edge Pictures, a new distributor and production outfit focused on horror and thriller titles, is launching this week with its first release, Kate Dolan's You Are Not My Mother, which is opening in Thailand on August 11. Headed by former T&B Media Global executive Hans Audric Estialbo in…

Spanish Filmin Buys Lars Von Trier’s ‘The Kingdom’ Trilogy Spanish SVoD Filmin has acquired the entire Lars Von Trier catalogue including The Kingdom trilogy. The deal was struck with Scandi distributor TrustNordisk and includes never-before-seen restored versions of season one and two of The Kingdom, along with the…

Mads Mikkelsen is set to star in a new period drama King's Land (working title) which will reunite the prolific Danish actor with A Royal Affair director Nikolaj Arcel. The €8M ($8.5M) historic feature, which is produced by Zentropa and will be shopped internationally by TrustNordisk, is penned by Arcel with Anders…

TrustNordisk has boarded suspense drama Birthday Girl, directed by Michael Noer and led by Danish star Trine Dyrholm. The company will handle international sales rights on the feature about a mother’s persevering quest for justice. Noer, who co-wrote Birthday Girl (working title) with Jesper Fin, is known for such…

Scandinavia’s TrustNordisk has picked up international sales rights to an upcoming Zentropa dramedy series about a struggling Danish agent to the stars. The eight-part Agent, which has a budget of €5.7M ($6M), comes from actor, director and writer Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Riders of Justice Department Q) and stars Esben Smed…

Lars von Trier's The Kingdom, the TV show set on the neurosurgical ward of a Copenhagen hospital which ran for two seasons in the 1990s, is to return for a third and final five-episode run that will shoot in 2021. The cult show, which was released as a five-hour movie in some territories, had originally been planned…

Telepool Consolidates Int’l Distribution Business Telepool's international distribution division Global Screen has consolidated all sales and acquisition activities across both TV and film content, with Julia Weber appointed to run the entity as Head of International Acquisitions and Sales. Alexandra Heidrich…

Here you can see footage of Mads Mikkelsen back in his native Denmark for Anders Thomas Jensen’s comedy Riders Of Justice. He stars as a military man who returns home to his teenage daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. When he meets another passenger from the wrecked train, he concludes that it must…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first look still for Everybody Hates John, the Norwegian animated comedy that TrustNordisk is launching sales on at the forthcoming Toronto Film Festival. The movie chronicles the life of Johan, a small town loner with a flair for dynamite who finds himself in constant conflict with the rural…

TrustNoridsk has boarded international sales on Christian Tafdrup's upcoming psychological horror Speak No Evil. The project had been shooting on locations in Denmark and the Netherlands but had to pause due to COVID-19; the plan is to resume in the Netherlands and then Italy once restrictions allow. The budget is…

Scandi major TrustNordisk will handle world sales on The Marco Effect, which is based on Jussi Adler-Olsen's bestselling crime-thriller novel of the same name. Danish filmmaker Martin Zandvliet, whose credits include the Oscar-nominated war pic Land Of Mine, is helming the project, which is budgeted at $8.1m (€7.4m)…