News

Exclusive: Pachinko and The Morning Show Studio Media Res is building out its international division by hiring a Nordics boss, who has landed first project.

Anna-Klara Carlsten, whose credits include Spring Uje Spring and Tore, will lead the Nordics slate and report into Lars Blomgren, who runs international for Media Res.

Carlsten’s first project is an Svt adaptation of Let The Right One In author John Ajvide Lindqvist’s latest novel Summer of 1985, which will be directed by The Bridge co-creator Björn Stein. Published in 2023, the story centers on a group of friends preparing for an epic summer together in the Stockholm archipelago. When the discovery of a mythic creature with mysterious origins and abilities upends their lives, new experiences and pleasures induce the group at the increasing cost of their psyches. The book comes from the celebrated author of Let The Right One In, Let Me In and Border,...

Directed by Bjorn Stein, Whiskey on the Rocks is based on an absolutely true story, though the series quite honestly states that the creators have altered a few details here and there and taken creative liberties in certain places, majorly because they weren’t allowed to use the real names or disclose the real facts related to the case due to it being classified. What Bjorn and his team of writers have done is that instead of dealing with the issue in a serious manner, they have taken a satirical approach. It is hilarious to witness their over-the-top representation of the world leaders and how they dealt with the entire situation. So, let’s find out what happened in the series and if Sweden and the Soviet Union were able to come to a consensus.

Spoiler Alert

How did the Soviet submarine come to Sweden?

A Soviet submarine designated S-...

In 1981, a Soviet submarine entered Swedish waters, and that led to a 10-day standoff, escalating the already existing tensions between the East and the West. Whiskey on the Rocks, directed by Bjorn Stein, is a satirical take on the entire incident. The series gives a disclaimer at the beginning of each episode that it is inspired by true events, though quite a few creative liberties have been taken as there was some classified information that couldn’t be made public. The 6-part series makes us privy to what the leaders of Sweden, the Soviet Union, and the USA were thinking at that moment, how they wanted to tackle the conflict, and what they wanted to achieve out of it. So, let’s find out which of the events shown in the series happened in real life and which the creators invented merely to dramatize the narrative and make it more engrossing.

A certain section of the audience loves to claim that the world is becoming too woke, yet the decline in the number of political satires and the growing toothlessness of this subgenre of comedy say otherwise. Charles Chaplin did The Great Dictator in 1940, literally one year after World War 2 began. Stanley Kubrick made Dr. Strangelove in 1964 to comment on the Cold War, which officially ended in 1991. Sacha Baron Cohen did The Dictator and Borat to berate America for its relentless war on Iraq, and so did Abhishek Sharma with Tere Bin Laden. Then there was Quentin Tarantino, who did Inglourious Basterds, where he imagined Hitler being killed at a movie theater in Paris. Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen did something similar in The Interview, except the subject of the explosive death was Kim Jong Un instead of Hitler. Soon after that, Armando Iannucci released The Death of Stalin, which is pretty self-explanatory,...

Exclusive: When Whiskey-class Soviet submarine U137 ran aground in Sweden in 1981 it sparked a diplomatic fracas that threatened to ignite a global conflict. With nukes possibly in play, it was no laughing matter. The team behind Whiskey on the Rocks, a satirical take on the Cold War sub drama, beg to differ.

“Whiskey on the Rocks jokes about something as serious as when we stood on the threshold of a third world war, and it’s absolutely the right thing to do because the world needs more humor and self-awareness, not less,” Jonas Jonasson, the Swedish author of ‘The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared’, says, speaking exclusively to Deadline.

He wrote an original story, from which Whiskey on the Rocks has been forged. The ensuing six-part series was tipped for success by Deadline in its European dramas to look out for in 2025. It dropped on Svt over the festive period,...

Seasoned French-Swedish producer Patrick Nebout has inked a co-production pact with German powerhouse Odeon Fiction (Netflix’s “Kitz”) to jointly develop and produce the eight-part English-language dramedy “The Studio.”

The murder mystery and movie industry spoof will be Nebout’s first production for his Stockholm-based Dramanation, a boutique outfit specialised in the creation and packaging of quality European scripted dramas and features with a global appeal.

Under the agreement between Dramanation and Leonine Studios’ banner Odeon Fiction, the German outfit’s exec producer, head of international co-productions Britta Meyermann, will executive-produce and oversee the production alongside Nebout.

Currently in development, “The Studio” is the brainchild of Nebout and his long-time creative partner Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, writer of the duo’s much anticipated satire “Whiskey on the Rocks,” ordered by Swedish pubcaster Svt and Disney +. Their earlier hits include the Oscar-nominated pic “The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared...

In celebration of Women’s Day, put your feet up and dive into captivating stories celebrating Women’s strength, diversity, and resilience. From heartwarming journeys of self-discovery to nail-biting tales of fierce determination, this curated selection of films promises to empower, inspire, and uplift. So, grab your favourite snacks, settle in, and prepare to be captivated by the power of women’s voices.

Matilda

Directed by Danny DeVito, Matilda is a heartwarming film based on Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s book. It tells the story of Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson), a brilliant and advanced young girl with telekinetic powers. Neglected and mistreated by her parents and terrorized by the tyrannical headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, Matilda discovers the power of friendship and inner strength. With the help of her kind teacher, Miss Honey, Matilda learns to embrace her unique abilities and stand up to injustice. The film celebrates the power of intelligence,...

Passion and Perseverance, the two watchwords at this year’s TV Drama Vision in Göteborg will resonate across this year’s program where a record 700 delegates will take the pulse of what’s hot and upcoming from the Nordics and Europe.

Unfolding parallel to the Göteborg Film Festival, the Nordics’ biggest TV drama showcase and networking event will run Jan 30-31.

“This is what we need!” said TV Drama Vision honcho Cia Edström about the passion infused in the 60-plus series to be showcased – and about perseverance in the industry, to be debated by the 100 guest speakers – including U.S. streaming giants Netflix, Disney+– first time on-stage – Amazon and all key Nordic commissioners.

“Times are tough-not only in the Nordics but internationally. Our industry is going through profound changes,” she said, citing the microeconomic headwinds impacting drama investors’ coin, artificial intelligence, the halt in production-triggered among others by Hollywood strikes,...

Sweden’s Svt Orders ‘Whiskey On The Rocks’ From Skyverse Nordic

Sweden’s public service broadcaster Svt has boarded Skyverse Nordic comedy-drama Whiskey On The Rocks as its main commissioning broadcaster. The six-part series is still at script and production development stage and is being billed as a “premium, epic Cold War dramedy special event” directed by Björn Stein (Midnight Sun) and based on an original story from author Jonas Jonasson. It is among the first shows from Skyverse Nordic, which is a subsidiary of Sparkling, the Stockholm-based sister company to Humanoids that Deadline revealed back in May. The show reunites Jonasson with Skyverse boss Patrick Nebout and creative producer Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, who were collectively behind Sweden’s biggest export success, the Oscar-nominated The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. A Scandinavian and international cast are being sought to play the drama’s protagonists onboard the submarine and in Moscow.

One issue links four of the five contenders for the Nordisk Film & TV Prize this year, including “Sisterhood.” Given ease of travel and cost, co-produced series are four times more likely to be crime, thriller or suspense titles than any other genre, according to Ampere Analysis. The challenge then, is to stand out in this highly competitive field.

Nordic Noir achieved that over a decade ago, bringing a chillingly darker edge to comfy European procedurals. Yet almost as soon as it was consecrated, its founding fathers attempted to broaden its reach, adding a marked social edge; setting it in London with an iconic British actor; or opening up to issues such as international terrorism.

In ”Sisterhood,” first fruit of development-distribution alliance between Sky Studios and Iceland’s Sagafilm (“The Minister”), now part owned by Beta Film, lead writer Jóhann Ævar Grímsson simply stands Nordic Noir on its head.

In the title credit sequence,...

Netflix has set the cast for Vikings: Valhalla, a sequel to History’s hit series, from Vikings creator Michael Hirst and studio MGM Television. Sam Corlett (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Frida Gustavsson (Swoon), Leo Suter (The Liberator), Bradley Freegard (Keeping Faith), Jóhannes Jóhannesson (Cursed), Laura Berlin (Immenhof – The Adventure of a Summer), David Oakes (The Pillars of the Earth) and Caroline Henderson (Tuya Siempre) are set as series regulars and Pollyanna McIntosh and Asbjørn Krogh Nissen will recur. A premiere date has not yet been set but it’s expected to debut in late 2021 or 2022.

Vikings: Valhalla begins in the early 11th century and chronicles the legendary adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived – Leif Eriksson, Freydis Eriksdotter, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King William the Conqueror. These men and women will blaze a path as they fight for survival in the ever changing and evolving world.

Titles backed or produced by HBO Europe (“Welcome to Utmark”), NBCU (“Sisterhood”), Fremantle (“Cargo”) and ITV Studios (“Thin Blue Line”) have been nominated for the 5th Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, the most prestigious Nordic award for drama series screenwriting.

In a powerful smackdown, a fifth series, “Cry Wolf,” is produced by Dr Drama, the Danish producer of Nordic Noir icons “The Killing” and “The Bridge” as well as “Borgen.”

Adding another edge to competition, the five contenders are produced by companies based in the five main Nordic countries and backed by three of its biggest public broadcasters, Sweden’s Svt, Denmark’s Dr and Finland’s Yle, as well as pan-Nordic pay TV giant Viaplay, part of the Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent).

The winner of the award, which goes to the main writer, will be announced on Feb. 3 at Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival during its TV Drama Vision,...

We told you. Remember the rules. You didn’t listen. Now we’re Back with an all new batch of guest recommendations featuring Blake Masters, Julien Nitzberg, Floyd Norman, Tuppence Middleton and Blaire Bercy.

Please support the Hollywood Food Coalition. Text “Give” to 323.402.5704 or visit https://hofoco.org/donate!

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Wild Angels (1966)

Spirits of the Dead (1966)

The Trip (1967)

Mooch Goes To Hollywood (1971)

Stalker (1979)

The Candidate (1972)

The Parallax View (1974)

Network (1976)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Ace In The Hole (1951)

Margin Call (2011)

Death Wish (1974)

Death Wish (2018)

Seconds (1966)

Soylent Green (1973)

Rage (1972)

Assault on Wall Street (2013)

Repo Man (1984)

Elmer Gantry (1960)

The Train (1965)

Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

Strange Brew (1983)

To Have And Have Not (1944)

Singin’ In The Rain (1952)

Easter Parade (1948)

The Band Wagon (1953)

Guys And Dolls (1955)

On The Town (1949)

Casablanca (1942)

The Dirt Gang (1972)

Back To The Future (1985)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The Big Sleep (1946)

Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)

My Man Godfrey...

Cannes –Taylor Kitsch, Michael C. Hall and Nina Hoss are set to star in period thriller “Shadowplay,” one of the big series – with “War of the Worlds,” “Zero, Zero Zero,” “Years and Years” – on Studiocanal’s upcoming, event-series studded production slate.

Created by Måns Mårlind, co-creator of “The Bridge,” a banner Nordic Noir title, and “Midnight Sun,” one of Studiocanal’s biggest and best-received recent international co-productions, “Shadowplay” is set on a large-scale canvas, the bombed-out 1946 Berlin, one year after World War II, as its former Allies, the U.S, Russia rival for power in the wrecked city, and its survivors dare to hope to rebuild their lives.

Described by lead producers Tandem Productions and Bron Studios as a “gritty dramatic thriller,” and conceived by Mårlind as two “chapters” of eight-episodes, “Shadowplay’s” first chapter will shoot from April 30 in Prague and environs. Kitsch will play Max McLaughlin, an Brooklyn...

Exclusive: Taylor Kitsch and Michael C. Hall are set to lead the cast of Shadowplay, a gritty dramatic thriller series from The Bridge co-creator Måns Mårlind, Studiocanal’s Tandem Productions and Bron Studios in co-production with Zdf. Nina Hoss, Sebastian Koch, Tuppence Middleton, Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus) and Mala Emde round out the cast of the series’ first chapter.

Mårlind has conceived Shadowplay as a 16-episode series, told in two chapters. The initial eight-episode shoot will begin April 29 in Prague, and an additional eight episodes are planned for filming in 2020.

Created and written by Mårlin, Shadowplay is a character-driven thriller set in Berlin. It centers on the story of Max McLaughlin (Kitsch), an American cop who arrives in the city in the summer of 1946 to help create a police force...

Goteborg — The 20th Nordic Film Market, held parallel to the Göteborg Film Festival, closed Sunday after three days of screenings and pitchings of 48 Nordic films and projects. Following, five key takeaways or trends:

Standout Nordic Brand Quality

An excellent crop, better than 2018, with a large diversity of content, catering to arthouse/mainstream as well as local/international audiences – these were prevailing reactions from international buyers and programmers polled yesterday in Göteborg. A senior A festival programmer – who asked to remain anonymous- even said: “Today the Nordics are perhaps the strongest region in Europe creatively across TV drama, feature and documentary film.”

Although most titles had already been snatched by the big Nordic sellers – TrustNordisk, LevelK, New Europe Film Sales, The Yellow Affair, Sf Studios – a dozen small offers in post, or in development at the Discovery section, still open for negotiations, made the Göteborg stop-over – fully worthwhile for the 25-plus sales reps in attendance.

The $34,000 prize is aimed at promoting gender equality.

The Goteborg Film Festival will open with Miia Tervo’s Aurora from Finland, about a party animal Finnish woman in Lapland who meets an Iranian asylum seeker, on January 26.

The festival will close with the world premiere of Swedish directors’ Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein’s Swoon on February 4. The period romance is about two young lovers from families who own rival amusement parks.

The festival will screen 376 films from 83 countries.

Full lists of the films in the festival’s five competitions below.

The festival will host Eurimages’ Audentia Award competition for...

Netflix has joined forces with Lagardere Studios’ Atlantique Productions on “The Eddy,” the upcoming Paris-set musical drama series which will be directed by Oscar-winning helmer Damien Chazelle (“La La Land”), Variety has learned.

Atlantique Productions has been tapped to executive produce the series, which will start shooting during the first half of next year on location in Paris.

As previously reported in Variety, Chazelle will direct two episodes of the series, on top of exec-producing. Glen Ballard, the composer and producer of Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill” and Michael Jackson’s “Bad,” is composing the original score for the series and will also exec produce it, along with Alan Poul.

Written by Jack Thorne (“National Treasure”), “The Eddy” will revolve around a club, its owner, the house band, and the chaotic city that surrounds them. The show will feature dialogue in French, English and Arabic. Casting is underway.

Thorne...

Exclusive: Tully producer Bron Studios has teamed up with Studiocanal’s Tandem Productions on a global television thriller created by The Bridge co-creator Måns Mårlind.

The two companies are co-producing gritty, eight-part series Shadow Play for a slew of European broadcasters including France’s Canal+, Scandinavian digital platform Viaplay, Canal+ in Poland and Dutch public broadcaster Npo.

The character-driven period thriller is set in Berlin and centres on the story of Max McLaughlin, an American cop who arrives in the city in the summer of 1946 to help create a police force in the chaotic aftermath of the war. Max’s goal is to take down “Englemacher” Gladow, the Al Capone of post-war Berlin. At the same time, Max undertakes a secret crusade to find his missing brother, who is killing ex-Nazis in hiding. However, Max is completely unaware that he is being used as a pawn in what is...

Other Nordic works-in-progress presentations include Anne Sewitsky’s Sonja Henie biopic and Anna Magnusson’s new Bergman documentary.

Source: TriArt

‘Untitled Anna Odell project’

Provocative Swedish artist and filmmaker Anna Odell (The Reunion) unveiled footage from her forthcoming as-yet-untitled feature as part of the works in progress presentations at Goteborg’s Nordic Film Market.

The idea for the project has been mostly under wraps, except that it was to star the director with Mikael Persbrandt. Frida Bargo and Matthias Nohrborg of Sweden’s B-Reel produce and New Europe has come on board to handle international sales. The feature is editing now could be ready for summer/autumn. TriArt will release in Sweden.

Read more: Gabriela Pichler’s ‘Amateurs’ wins Goteborg’s Dragon Award

“I worked with a mix of reality and fiction and what people believe about Mikael Persbrandt, who is Sweden’s most famous male actor, and what people think about me as an artist known for doing...

17 projects selected for festival showcase.

A strong crop of works in progress projects are set to be presented at Goteborg’s Nordic Film Market, which runs Feb 1-4.

Source: Maipo Film

Queen Of Ice

The selection includes new films from Benedikt Erlingsson (Of Horses and Men), Michael Noer (R), and Anne Sewitsky (Happy Happy).

Presentations of clips by the directors/producers will be made to the industry attendees in Goteborg.

Erlingsson will present his new film Woman At War, an “arthouse action film” about an Icelandic woman on an environmental mission. Noer will discuss his new Danish period drama A Better Life starring Jesper Christensen as an 1850s farmer. Sewitsky will unveil footage of her Sonja Henie biopic Queen Of Ice.

The 17 projects are:

Swoon, dir Mans Marlind and Björn Stein, prod Kristina Aberg (Swe) Bergman, dir Jane Magnusson, prods Mattias Nohrborg, Fredrik Heinig, Cecilia Nessen (Swe) Happy People, dir Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm, prod Jakob Høgel (Den...

Author: Competitions

To celebrate the DVD & Digital release of acclaimed series Midnight Sun on Monday 8th May 2017, we are offering one lucky winner the ultimate crime box-set bundle containing Midnight Sun, Paranoid and The Five!

Following its broadcast on Sky Atlantic, Studiocanal are thrilled to be releasing the box set of Midnight Sun – the latest Scandi-noir crime-thriller from writers Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein (The Bridge). One of this year’s most anticipated shows in Europe, Midnight Sun secured high praise at the SeriesMania festival in Paris; winning the audience award for ‘Best Series’.

Kahina Zadi (Leila Bekhti – The Prophet, All That Glitters), a French police officer, travels to Kiruna, a small mining community in remote northern Sweden, to investigate a brutal murder of a French citizen. With the help of Anders Harnesk (Gustaf Hammarsten – Bruno, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), a Swedish DNA and a member of the Sami,...

Colcoa is keeping up with the times. Now in its twenty-first year, the lauded French film festival, sponsored by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, has added a pair of forward-thinking new categories for its newest edition. This year will include a virtual reality program and a web series competition, in addition to its Cinema, Television and Shorts competitions.

“These two new popular formats offer more opportunities to showcase the creativity of French producers and filmmakers as well as the diversity of French production,” said François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. “While entertainment is still the key word for the program, with a balanced mix of comedies and dramas, several topical issues will cover the program this year, including the environment, discrimination, racism, terrorism, and the role of the artist in society. More than ever, Colcoa will offer a unique opportunity to see these universal topics from different angles.”

Read...

Heartstone and Norwegian film-makers win big in Lübeck; Austerlitz takes home Golden Dove at Leipzig.

Lübeck’s 58th Nordic Film Days (Nov 2-6) has become the latest successful stop for Icelandic filmmaker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson’s Heartstone after premiering in the Venice Days in September and picking up three awards at Warsaw Film Festival last month.

Gudmundsson’s debut was awarded the €12,500 Ndr Film Prize by a jury including Swedish actress Inger Nilsson (who played the title role of Pippi Longstocking in the classic children’s films when she was nine years old), Munich-based producer Jörg Bundschuh (The Fencer) and film director Marc Brummund (Sanctuary), for a “feature film of special artistic quality”.

The intensely moving coming of age tale, which takes place over one summer at a remote fishing village in Iceland, is being handled by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique.

Three nods for Norway

Elsewhere, Norwegian filmmakers took home three awards from the largest Nordic...

Heartstone and Norwegian film-makers win big in Lübeck; Austerlitz takes home Golden Dove at Leipzig.

Lübeck’s 58th Nordic Film Days (Nov 2-6) has become the latest successful stop for Icelandic filmmaker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson’s Heartstone after premiering in the Venice Days in September and picking up three awards at Warsaw Film Festival last month.

Gudmundsson’s debut was awarded the €12,500 Ndr Film Prize by a jury including Swedish actress Inger Nilsson (who played the title role of Pippi Longstocking in the classic children’s films when she was nine years old), Munich-based producer Jörg Bundschuh (The Fencer) and film director Marc Brummund (Sanctuary), for a “feature film of special artistic quality”.

The intensely moving coming of age tale, which takes place over one summer at a remote fishing village in Iceland, is being handled by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique.

Three nods for Norway

Elsewhere, Norwegian filmmakers took home three awards from the largest Nordic...

Update: Andrew Davies tribute, Beta, Studiocanal deals; The Halcyon, Mata Hari set the tone for market awash with high-end drama.

Mipcom got off to a glamourous start this year with world premiere screenings of Sony Pictures Television’s The Halcyon followed by Julius Berg’s Mata Hari starring Vahina Giocante, Rutger Hauer and Christopher Lambert on Sunday.

These two premieres, on the eve of Mipcom’s official opening, set the tone for a market that will be more awash than ever with high-end dramas.

In the backdrop, one of the talking points is which platforms these series will be distributed on as part of Mipcom’s overall theme of “New Television”.

Sony Corporation president and CEO Kazuo Hirai, who kicked off Mipcom’s conference programme on Monday, said content and delivery were two sides of the same coin when it came to getting viewers to pay for they were watching.

“Consumers are willing...

The Goteborg Film Festival is adding TV drama to its usual public film programme for its 2016 edition.

Goteborg (Jan 29-Feb 8) is already well known as a meeting place for the TV industry, because of its industry TV Drama Vision two-day programme.

Now the festival’s new TV section will showcase several Nordic programmes. They include:

The Most Forbidden (Sweden)

A miniseries by Tova Magnusson written by Asa Lantz based on Kerstin Thorvall’s 1976 autobiographical novel about a middle aged woman’s desires.

Follow the Money (Denmark)

A drama series from Jeppe Gjervig Gram and Per Fly starring Bo Larsen as a detective investigating how a company might have been involved in a death on the Danish coast.

Occupied (Norway)

Based on a Jo Nesbo idea, this story looks at a Norwegian prime minister in a fictitious near future when he wants to shut down fossil fuel production, leading Russia to invade Norway.

Trapped (Iceland...

DC doesn't have the greatest track record with their cinematic endeavors, but when it comes to television, they've had some amazing hits. However, outside of animation, they didn't really branch out to many of their second tier heroes until Smallville hit the air. We were then introduced to not only the young Clark Kent, but eventually Green Arrow, Cyborg, Aquaman, Impulse and many other heroes before its ten year run ended. A year and a half later, producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg brought us Arrow, starring Steven Amell as Oliver Queen in a darker, grittier take on the hero (which has borrowed more than a little from the Batman comics), who has returned home to find that his city has been run down by corrupt politicians and a seedy criminal element. Taking on the guise of Arrow, he sets out on his own to take his city back, only...

Tom Cruise has been offered the lead role in "South China Sea," an action thriller described as "Fast & Furious set on water" for Millennium Films.

The Swedish directing duo of Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein ("Underworld: Awakening," "The Bridge (Bron)") will direct the project which has been put on the fast track towards production.

The present day set tale follows a legendary American pirate who was imprisoned in Hong Kong. A female police lieutenant offers him his freedom in exchange for helping her take down a formidable pirate gang plaguing shipping lanes across the South China Sea. If he does the assignment, he might also have a chance to save his estranged son who is at the center of all this.

Kerry Williamson and Michael Stokes penned the script, while Andrew Gunn is producing.

Source: Deadline...

Exclusive: Millennium Films has acquired South China Sea, an action film that will be directed by the Swedish helming team of Mans Marlind & Bjorn Stein.The film is on a fast track, with an offer made today to Tom Cruise to play the lead. I have no idea if he’ll do it but clearly they are aiming high. The duo directed Underworld: Awakening after creating cutting edge movies and TV in Sweden that includes Bron, the TV series that transplanted to the U.S .in the form of FX’s The Bridge. Freaky Friday‘s Andrew Gunn is producing, and the script is […]...

DVD Release Date: May 27, 2014

Price: DVD $49.99

Studio: MHz

Sofia Helin takes it to The Bridge.

The Bridge is the Scandinavian crime mystery television series that inspired the 2013 U.S. remake on FX that stars Demian Bechir and Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds).

Created and written by Hans Rosenfeldt, The Bridge is a production that is co-produced and financed by entities in both Sweden and Denmark. (Thus, in Scandinavia, it carries the title of Broen/Bron – “The Bridge” being translated into “Broen” in Danish and “Bron” in Swedish.)

The series was originally aired in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland in 2011. In the UK, the series was shown in weekly two-episode blocks on the BBC April, 2012, where it hailed as a serious smash.

The Bridge begins when a woman is found murdered in the middle of the Oresund Bridge, which is right on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Police from both...

Per Fly’s biopic leads Swedish film award nominations with 11 nods, followed by Shed No Tears, The Reunion and Hotell.Scroll down for full nominations

Waltz With Monica (Monica Z), from Danish director Per Fly, leads the race for the Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) – the Swedish national film awards, now in its 50th year – with 11 nominations.

The story of legendary Swedish singer-actress Monica Zetterlund stars Edda Magnason in her first film role.

The biopic has been nominated for best film, best director, best cinematography and best actress for Magnason. Its other nominations include two of the three slots in the best supporting actor category for Kjell Bergqvist and Sverrir Gudnason.

Shed No Tears (Känn ingen sorg), about a man who dreams of success in the music world, has secured nine nominations. The film is directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein, back from Hollywood after directing action sequel Underworld: Awakening.

The duo have been nominated for best director...

Cinelinx is totally freaked out by the new 6 Souls Blu-ray!

The Set-up

A psychologist (Julianne Moore) crosses the line into the surreal when she meets Adam (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a man with multiple personalities, who is not all that he appears to be. 

Directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein

The Delivery

6 Souls is an odd but entertaining scarefest from the producers of The Ring and starring Oscar nominee Julianne Moore and Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers. It is written by Michael Cooney (who also wrote the excellent yet similar Identity) and is directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein.

Moore plays Dr. Cara Harding, a practically-mided criminal psychologist who doesn't buy into radical theories and notions, including those of her father (Jeffrey DeMunn, The Walking Dead), also a criminal psychologist. She finds her personal beliefs turned upside-down when he introduces her to Adam (Rhys Meyers), a patient who...

6 Souls is the latest straight-to-home-video horror film from Underworld: Awakening directors Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein. This long-delayed and title-changed horror mystery contains very little — if any real horror, aside from the actual thought of having to devote two hours of your life to something this mundane.

6 Souls is a painfully simple film that flat-lines before it ever really has the chance to get up off the ground. Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers give the film little support as they both struggle to stay awake long enough to read their lines. 6 Souls is just another empty thriller begging to be rented for a dollar the next time you visit your local grocery store’s Redbox kiosk.

Cara Harding (Julianne Moore) is a forensic psychiatrist that comes across a patient (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) with some sort of multiple personality disorder. His case is a unique one though, because his identities...

There's nothing worse than a supernatural thriller that has you mesmerized for the first two acts only to lose your respect in the last two. That's exactly how I felt when I pressed "Stop" after watching 6 Souls. All the warning signs for a movie that doesn't deliver were there. For instance, it was originally released in 2010 with a different title (Shelter) and just now is seeing the light of day.

Dr. Cara Harding (Julianne Moore) is introduced to a patient named Adam (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who has multiple personalities. After researching some of them, she realizes they are all actual murder victims. Cara starts digging into the man's past to discover how or if his personalities all tie together somehow. Her investigations lead to encounters with the victim's relatives and mysterious religious fanatics.

Talk about a movie showing promise and then just falling off the deep end halfway through. 6 Souls...

Anchor Bay Entertainment and RADiUS- TWC’s DVD release of psychological thriller “6 Souls” is now available for purchase today, July 2. The film, from the producers of “The Ring,” is co-directed by Måns Mårlind and and Björn Stein (“Storm”) stars Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Frances Conroy. Here’s more on the film: “After the death of her husband, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Cara Harding’s (Julianne Mooore) faith in God has been shaken, but not her belief in science. In an attempt to open her up to accepting unexplainable psychiatric theories, her father introduces her to Adam (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a patient with multiple personalities, who takes on some of the [ Read More ]

The post Enter in ShockYa’s 6 Souls Twitter Giveaway! appeared first on Shockya.com.

6 Souls - Radius TWC - Blu-ray and DVD Director: Mans Marlind, Bjorn Stein Cast: Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeffrey DeMunn,Frances Conroy, Brooklyn Proulx. Full cast + crew 6 Souls - under its previous title of Shelter - first hit theaters back in March of 2010. That was in Japan, however. For some reason it took about three years for it to find a release in the U.S. That kind of delay is usually the sign of a stinker, but that's not quite the case here. 6 Souls isn't a grand slam, but there's plenty of reason it shouldn't have taken this long to journey to our shores. Some really standout performances by Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Jeffrey DeMunn, and an intriguing story of a psych patient whose multiple...

Read More...

Genre: Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Directors: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein

Writer: Michael Cooney

MPAA Rating: R

Run Time: 112 minutes

Summary:

After the death of her husband, Dr. Cara Harding’s faith in God has been shaken, but not her belief in science. In an attempt to get her more open to accepting unexplainable psychiatric theories, her father introduces her to Adam, a patient with multiple personalities who also takes on some of the physical characteristics of his other personalities. But Cara quickly discovers that his other personalities were murder victims and the more she finds out about Adam and his past, the closer she and her loved ones are to becoming murder victims themselves.

Trailer: 6 Souls – Available July 2nd on Blu-ray

Click here to view the embedded video.

I really like a good suspense movie now and then, and it never hurts to add a bit of the fantastic to the mix,...

That's right, kids! We're giving away several copies of the new spooker 6 Souls, and one lucky winner will be getting it with their very own Blu-ray player! How's that for scary and snazzy? Read on for details.

To enter for your chance to win, just send us an E-mail Here including your Full Name And Mailing Address. We’ll take care of the rest.

From the Press Release

Anchor Bay Entertainment and RADiUS- TWC announce the Blu-ray™ and DVD release of the gripping psychological thriller 6 Souls. From the producers of The Ring, 6 Souls stars multiple-Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe® Award winner Julianne Moore (HBO’s Game Change, Magnolia) and Golden Globe® Award winners Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Showtime’s “The Tudors,” Bend It Like Beckham) and Frances Conroy (HBO’s “Six Feet Under,” The Aviator). Written by Michael Cooney (Identity) and co-directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein (Storm), 6 Souls heads...

We're just a few days away from the release of 6 Souls on Blu-ray and DVD, and to celebrate the flick's long time coming arrival, we have three new clips for ya! Check 'em out!

From the Press Release

Anchor Bay Entertainment and RADiUS-twc announce the Blu-ray™ and DVD release of the gripping psychological thriller 6 Souls. From the producers of The Ring, 6 Souls stars multiple-Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe® Award winner Julianne Moore (HBO’s Game Change, Magnolia), and Golden Globe® Award winners Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Showtime’s “The Tudors,” Bend It Like Beckham) and Frances Conroy (HBO’s “Six Feet Under,” The Aviator). Written by Michael Cooney (Identity) and co-directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein (Storm), 6 Souls heads to retail on July 2, 2013, for an Srp of $29.99 for the Blu-ray™ and $24.98 for the DVD.

6 Souls also stars Jeffrey DeMunn (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile), Nathan Corddry (The Ugly Truth, The Invention of Lying...

After the death of her husband, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Cara Harding’s (Julianne Mooore) faith in God has been shaken, but not her belief in science. In an attempt to open her up to accepting unexplainable psychiatric theories, her father introduces her to Adam (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a patient with multiple personalities, who takes on some of the physical characteristics of his other personalities. Cara quickly discovers that Adam’s personalities are murder victims, and the more she finds out about him and his past, the closer she and her loved ones are to becoming murder victims themselves.

Wamg is giving away Two copies of 6 Souls on DVD!

6 Souls stars multiple-Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe® Award winner Julianne Moore (HBO’s Game Change, Magnolia), and Golden Globe® Award winners Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Showtime’s “The Tudors,” Bend It Like Beckham) and Frances Conroy (HBO’s “Six Feet Under,” The Aviator...

Not always the peppiest or scariest creation to shoot down the pipe, 6 Souls holds attention with thick mood and a finale that’s surprisingly satisfying. An entertaining film with flashes of competency, 6 Souls is hardly groundbreaking but a good time nonetheless. Julianne Moore stars as Cara Harding a female forensic psychiatrist who begins treating a young man named Adam (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and discovers that all but one of his multiple personalities are murder victims. The more she finds out about him and his past, the closer she and her loved ones are to becoming murder victims themselves.

I must admit admit that 6 Souls, while somewhat what I expected in terms for the aforementioned “chills,” was really a very well crafted movie with the first 15 minutes dedicated to an engrossing therapy session between Cara and Adam that cleverly foreshadows much of the horror to come. Directors Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 2, 2013

Price: DVD $$24.98, Blu-ray $29.99

Studio: Anchor Bay/The Weinstein Company

Julianne Moore gets inside Jonathan Rhys Meyers' head in 6-Souls.

Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Velvet Goldmine) and Frances Conroy (TV’s American Horror Story) star in the 2012 psychological thriller film 6 Souls.

After the death of her husband, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Cara Harding’s (Mooore) faith in God has been shaken, but not her belief in science. In an attempt to open her up to accepting unexplainable psychiatric theories, her father introduces her to Adam (Meyers), a patient with multiple personalities, who takes on some of the physical characteristics of his other personalities. Cara quickly discovers that Adam’s personalities are murder victims, and the more she finds out about him and his past, the closer she and her loved ones come to becoming murder victims themselves.

Written by Michael Cooney...

Anchor Bay Entertainment and RADiUS-twc announced today the Blu-ray and DVD release of the gripping psychological thriller, 6 Souls. From the producers of The Ring, 6 Souls stars multiple-Oscar nominee and Golden Globe Award winner Julianne Moore (HBO's Game Change, Magnolia), and Golden Globe Award winners Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Showtime's The Tudors, Bend It Like Beckham) and Frances Conroy (HBO's Six Feet Under, The Aviator). Written by Michael Cooney (Identity) and co-directed by M&#229ns M&#229rlind and Bj&#246rn Stein (Storm), 6 Souls heads to retail on July 2, 2013 for an Srp of $29.99 for the Blu-ray and $24.98 for the DVD.

After the death of her husband, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Cara Harding's (Julianne Moore) faith in God has been shaken, but not her belief in science. In an attempt to open her up to accepting unexplainable psychiatric theories, her father introduces her to Adam (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a patient with multiple personalities, who...

After sitting on the shelf gathering dust as Shelter for a few years, 6 Souls is finally coming home to Blu-ray and DVD here in the States and we have the artwork for you and more! Dig it!

From the Press Release

Anchor Bay Entertainment and RADiUS- TWC announced today the Blu-ray™ and DVD release of the gripping psychological thriller, 6 Souls. From the producers of The Ring, 6 Souls stars multiple-Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe® Award winner Julianne Moore (HBO’s Game Change, Magnolia), and Golden Globe® Award winners Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Showtime’s “The Tudors,” Bend It Like Beckham) and Frances Conroy (HBO’s “Six Feet Under,” The Aviator). Written by Michael Cooney (Identity) and co-directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein (Storm), 6 Souls heads to retail on July 2, 2013 for an Srp of $29.99 for the Blu-ray™ and $24.98 for the DVD.

After the death of her husband, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Cara Harding...

After a recent limited theatrical release, 6 Souls (starring Julianne Moore) will be headed to Blu-ray/DVD this July:

“Anchor Bay Entertainment and RADiUS- TWC announced today the Blu-ray™ and DVD release of the gripping psychological thriller, 6 Souls. From the producers of The Ring, 6 Souls stars multiple-Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe® Award winner Julianne Moore (HBO’s Game Change, Magnolia), and Golden Globe® Award winners Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Showtime’s “The Tudors,” Bend It Like Beckham) and Frances Conroy (HBO’s “Six Feet Under,” The Aviator). Written by Michael Cooney (Identity) and co-directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein (Storm), 6 Souls heads to retail on July 2, 2013 for an Srp of $29.99 for the Blu-ray™ and $24.98 for the DVD.

After the death of her husband, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Cara Harding’s (Julianne Mooore) faith in God has been shaken, but not her belief in science. In an attempt to open her up to accepting unexplainable psychiatric theories,...

The patently familiar new psycho thriller 6 Souls actually played film festivals back in 2010 under the title Shelter before collecting dust on a Weinstein shelf for a few years, only to pop up on VOD this week. In April of 2013. That's not meant to imply that every genre title that suffers a long release delay is a generic, tiresome, and already outdated piece of low-end cable TV fodder, but in the case of 6 Souls (as well as the recent John Cusack flick The Factory) the plain truth is that it would have been a forgettable turkey three years ago. Today it's just a three-year-old turkey with some mild curiosity value.

The curious will be rewarded with a psychological thriller about a man with multiple personalities that seem to correspond to a half-dozen murder victims. Jonathan Rhys Myers is the lunatic suffering from what I call "early-career Edward Norton" psychoses; Julianne Moore...

After a three year delay 6 Souls is finally available to watch here in the states. The film was released in the UK under the title Shelter back in 2010. When a movie sits on the shelf that long it’s usually the sign of something rotten in Denmark, but 6 Souls is actually a pretty fun movie with a killer cast. The story follows psychiatrist Clara (Julianne Moore) as she attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding a Dissociative Identity patient (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) with a unique set of symptoms. Directed by Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein (Underworld: Awakening) and written by Michael Cooney (Identity), the film also stars Jeffrey DeMunn and Frances Conroy. During a recent press day for the film I landed an exclusive phone interview with Michael Cooney. We talked about the similarities between 6 Souls and Identity, the film’s impressive cast, his research for the mystical elements of 6 Souls,...

For me, the horror bug is one I’ve been unable to kick in all the years since I’ve been infatuated with cinema, in spite of the fact that the genre has slid significantly from grace (and general watchability). Last year alone the four worst films I saw (of 145) were horror flicks and it’s come to the point where scouring the indie circles is close to the only way to find fare of note. I had no expectations when I ventured into 6 Souls, from the fact it hasn’t seen the light of the big screen despite being shelved since 2010 to the generally toxic reviews it had already received. The signs weren’t promising.

Imagine my amazement (as in check as it may have been) that 6 Souls, is actually far from a total disaster. It is in fact a compulsively watchable effort. More than I can say for most films of this ilk,...

12 clips and 6 photos from RADiUS-twc's upcoming thriller 6 Souls take you deeper inside this haunting tale from directors M&#229ns M&#229rlind and Bj&#246rn Stein (Underworld Awakening). Julianne Moore stars as a doctor who discovers six different personalities residing inside a troubled patient. As she begins to unravel his past, the physician soon realizes she's in imminent danger. Take a look at the photos and these first scenes from this haunting tale of a fractured psyche, also starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeffrey DeMunn, and Frances Conroy. 6 Souls is currently available on VOD formats before debuting in theaters April 5th.

6 Souls - No Need to Worry

6 Souls - You Don't Tell Me When to Feel Confused

6 Souls - There's No David Here

6 Souls - What Was That?

6 Souls - Lost Your Way

6 Souls - No Time to Be Playing Games

6 Souls - Poor Thing

6 Souls - I Was Here at Night...