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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)…

Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt, Hannibal) is leading the cast of Scandi pic Riders Of Justice, the latest feature from Oscar-Winning Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen. Jensen is a noted screenwriter with more than 30 feature credits; he has collaborated with the likes of Susanne Bier and Lone Scherfig. As a director, he…

Scandi sales outfit TrustNordisk has picked up Christoffer Boe's Danish feature A Taste Of Hunger, the romantic drama starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones) and Katrine Greis-Rosenthal (A Fortunate Man). The film, which is in pre-production, will follow a couple who sacrifice everything to achieve the…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a strong first English-language trailer for buzzed-about Scandi TV series Twin, which stars Game Of Thrones actor Kristofer Hivju (everyone’s favorite wildling Tormund Giantsbane). The suspense-drama follows a young mother who persuades her dead husband’s identical twin to take on his brother’s…

With a hefty 215,052 admissions in its opening week, crime-drama The Purity Of Vengeance has achieved the best ever opening for a Danish film at its home box office. Zentropa and Christoffer Boe's fourth installment in the Department Q-thriller franchise stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Fares Fares as chief detective Carl…

Rikke Ennis, CEO of leading Scandinavian banner TrustNordisk and an executive at Danish production powerhouse Zentropa, has decided to leave her post to start her own company which will work on development, financing and packaging, mainly focusing on TV series but also on features. Susan Wendt, Director of…

Genre market Frontières Platform (May 12-13), the co-presentation between the Fantasia International Film Festival and Cannes’ Marché du Film, will this year feature projects from Denis Côté, Ben Wheatley and Can Evrenol. The Frontières Buyers Showcase (Sunday May 13 at 4pm in Palais K) will feature 6 films, with…