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December was a great year for Netflix, as it premiered many popular titles. Among them, it was a disaster miniseries that became a huge streaming success.

The polarizing miniseries La Palma debuted on the platform on Dec. 12. Only five weeks later, after enjoying several weeks in Netflix's Top 10, La Palma joined a prestigious list: the Top 10 Most Popular Non-English Shows. The series is currently in eighth place. This comes after the Norwegian miniseries was the fifth most-watched series between the week of Dec. 19 and Dec. 25 on all streaming platforms.

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La Palma starred Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal. Martin Sundland (The Quake) created the four-episode miniseries with Lars Gudmestad (Headhunters), and Harald Rosenløw Eeg (The Wave). Kasper Barfoed (The Nurse) directed the series,...

Netflix’s La Palma is trending on a new TV ratings chart, despite having a less-than-stellar 28% audience score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The Norwegian disaster drama reached fifth place the week of Dec. 19 through Dec. 25, 2024, on Reelgood, which tracks audience interest, per Screen Rant.

Reelgood’s top five list also includes: Paramount+’s Dexter: Original Sin, Apple TV+’s Shrinking, and The Agency from Showtime. The top spot for the week of Dec. 19 to 25 went to Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone.

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A Fictional Tale of a Real-Life Place

Based on a real island called La Palma, the four-episode series is fictional and chronicles a Norwegian family vacationing on the island. The miniseries focuses on a volcano eruption in the Canary Islands and zeroes...

Netflix's latest disaster show is trending on a new streaming chart despite a weak reception from audiences. Stories of disaster, both real and fictional, have tended to find an audience on Netflix. Society of the Snow, from director J.J. Bayona, was the third most-watched Netflix film for the first half of 2024. The drama unfolds in 1972, focusing on the true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's experience in 1972 and their ordeal after a flight crashed in the Andes Mountains.

Under Paris was also not too far behind as the fourth most-watched film during that same period. Directed by Xavier Gens, who wrote the script with Yannick Dahan, Maud Heywang, Yaël Langmann and Olivier Torres, the French film centered on a grieving marine biologist who has to save Paris from a giant shark. As the new year begins, though, a miniseries, with only four episodes, is showing signs of success.

La Palma has been dominating the Netflix charts shortly following its release in December 2024. While it can be a quick binge for some, leaving them wanting more, the good news is that many other shows and movies like it exist. The Norwegian disaster drama miniseries, created by Martin Sundland, Lars Gudmestad, and Harald Rosenløw Eeg and directed by Kasper Barfoed, chronicles an imminent volcanic eruption that results in a tsunami, headed straight toward the island of La Palma, a part of Spain's Canary Islands. La Palma's characters include a Norwegian family on vacation and researchers who first discover the impending threat.

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A Norwegian family vacationing in La Palma faces chaos when a young researcher uncovers disturbing evidence of potential volcanic activity. As fears escalate, the possibility of a catastrophic eruption and tsunami looms, threatening...

When an imminent volcanic eruption threatens to create global catastrophe, a young scientist races to sound the alarm before it strikes. La Palma follows a group of geological researchers and a family of four confronting a potential ecological crisis. Created by Martin Sundland (The Quake), Lars Gudmestad (Headhunters), and Harald Rosenløw Eeg (The Wave), La Palma was directed by Kasper Barfoed (The Nurse). The series, co-written by Gudmestad and Rosenløw Eeg, stars Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal.

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On the picturesque island of La Palma, a freak accident kills tourists aboard a glass-bottomed boat. Days later, Fredrik (Baasmo) and Jennifer (Berdal) and their kids, Sara (Günther) and Tobias (Storm Lager), arrive for their annual vacation on the island and are feeling lucky when they get a major room upgrade. But their good fortune...

What does a perfect Christmas vacation look like? A white Christmas with snow in Colorado or a beach resort in Hawaii? The Netflix suspense, La Palma, follows a Norwegian family that vacation in the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands of Spain. The show was created by Martin Sundland, Lars Gudmestad, and Harald Rosenlow-Eeg and directed by Kasper Barfoed.

The miniseries starts off with two Norwegian girls who vacation on a tourist boat. One decides to jump into the water as they see the water turns acidic. The tourists realize they’re in a perilous situation and have no way of escaping the acidic waters as the boat collapses. There were no survivors.

The main Norwegian family, Frederik (Anders Baasmo) and Jennifer (Ingrid Bolso Berdal), along with their children Sara (Alma Gunther) and Tobias (Bernard Storm Lager), arrive in La Palma checking into their hotel. They have vacationed...

Netflix's La Palma includes a great cast of both seasoned and new actors. Directed by Kasper Barfoed, the non-English language Netflix original series follows a group of characters on the westernmost island in the Canary Islands called La Palma as they are faced with a dangerous ecological crisis. The series' combination of familial loyalty, great visual effects, and an engaging storyline has made it a hit on the streaming platform.

Although several movies and TV shows depict natural disasters, there is something unique about La Palma. The series is intriguing from its very first episode and gets better as more information is revealed. The Netflix miniseries’ cast members all give an outstanding performance and perfectly portray the fear that comes with knowing that the world might be coming to an end.

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In the Norwegian series La Palma, a family's tropical Christmas vacation is cut short by a volcanic eruption that triggers the largest tsunami in history. Directed by Kasper Barfoed (The Nurse), this disaster drama also follows the geological researchers and government officials who sound the alarm about the world’s worst natural disaster. So, does everyone succumb to the earthquakes, eruptions, and tsunami? Does anyone make it off the Spanish island unscathed? Read on to find out who lives to tell the tale.

Check out this guide to read about the cast and characters.

Despite a fatal boat accident off La Palma’s coast, everything else in the tropical locale appears hunky-dory. That is, until researchers Marie (Thea Sofie Loch Næss) and Haukur (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) visit the island’s volatile and active volcano, which last erupted in 2021. Marie notices there’s much more rainwater coming down the mountain — last...

La Palma, directed by Kasper Barfoed, made us aware of the volcanic eruption that occurred in the northwestern part of the Canary Islands and caused widespread damage to life and property. The volcanic eruption shown in the series did happen in real life, though the story is entirely fictional. The makers have taken creative liberties and weaved an imaginary narrative around some real-life events. So, let’s find out how much of what is shown in the series happened in real life, if the authorities were at fault, and if climate change had any role to play.

As stated in each and every episode of La Palma, an eruption occurred in 1949 in a region called Cumbre Vieja. The series called the region a ticking time bomb, which, according to a few researchers and geologists, is not true. Yes, it was speculated by experts that there was a threat of a...

Directed by Kasper Barfoed, La Palma makes you privy to what happens when we take nature for granted. I won’t say that the narrative of the Netflix miniseries is entirely unique or something the likes of which you have never seen, but it will definitely keep you entertained all the way through. I would have liked it if the makers had laid more stress on the climate change angle and hit people hard about the consequences of exploiting the flora and fauna of a specific place. That said, let’s find out what happened in the series and what kind of natural calamity hit the scenic island of La Palma.

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What was happening in La Palma?

At the beginning of the series, we saw that a boat carrying a group of tourists met with an accident on Bonita Beach. There was an eruption of gas, and it...

Netflix has dropped the trailer for La Palma, a four-part Norwegian disaster miniseries created by the team behind the popular films The Wave, The Quake, and The Burning Sea. The series, which premieres on December 12, sets a new standard for visual effects in Norway with its breathtaking and intense scenes.

La Palma stars Anders Baasmo, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, and Thorbjørn Harr. Directed by Kasper Barfoed, the series is written by Harald Rosenløw Eeg and Lars Gudmestad.

Harald Rosenløw Eeg & Lars Gudmestad, writers:

It’s been exciting for us to use the disaster genre in a TV series format where we can get even closer to the characters while telling the story on a massive scale. The series shows ordinary people’s limits being tested in the event of a disaster and how they push themself to overcome fears.

La Palma also pushes the boundaries of what...

Netflix has released the trailer for the four-part Norwegian disaster miniseries La Palma, created by the team behind the hit movies The Wave, The Quake, and The Burning Sea. The series premieres on December 12 and raises the bar for visual effects in Norway with stunning and thrilling scenes.

La Palma stars Anders Baasmo, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, and Thorbjørn Harr. It is directed by Kasper Barfoed.

Harald Rosenløw Eeg & Lars Gudmestad, writers:

It’s been exciting for us to use the disaster genre in a TV series format where we can get even closer to the characters while telling the story on a massive scale. The series shows ordinary people’s limits being tested in the event of a disaster and how they push themself to overcome fears.

La Palma also pushes the boundaries of what’s possible to achieve with visual effects in a Norwegian TV series.

Netflix has unveiled the official trailer for the four-part Norwegian disaster miniseries La Palma, which comes from the creators of The Wave, The Quake, and The Burning Sea. Netflix says that the series, which premieres on December 12, sets a new standard in visual effects in Norway.

La Palma stars Anders Baasmo, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, and Thorbjørn Harr. The series was directed by Kasper Barfoed.

The drama series follows Norwegian tourists caught in a massive volcanic eruption on the picturesque Canary Islands. Facing toxic ash, lava, and chaos, they must fight for survival as they race to safety.

“It’s been exciting for us to use the disaster genre in a TV series format where we can get even closer to the characters while telling the story on a massive scale. The series shows ordinary people’s limits being tested in the event of a disaster and...

Although Netflix is now in the midst of a writers’ strike by the WGA East and WGA West, it still has plenty of content on the streamer, and Kerri Russell‘s “The Diplomat” had little problem topping the English-language TV chart for a second week in a row. Read on for the Netflix Top 10 (Week of April 24) viewing chart analysis.

Season 1 of “The Diplomat” remained the chart-topper with 66.5 million global hours viewed, as Netflix’s hit spy thriller series, “The Night Agent,” dropped to fourth place with 37.7 million hours viewed. “The Diplomat” also bumped up to the #1 slot in the United States and Canada, while remaining in the Top 10 in 84 countries total. “The Night Agent” was the #1 series in Egypt, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia.

The second season of “Sweet Tooth” entered the chart with a hearty 48.3 million hours viewed, followed by “Firefly Lane” Season 2 with 43.5 million viewing hours. “Sweet Tooth...

True-crime stories are always the most interesting genre. A documentary, movie, or television show made in this genre is an embodiment of truth being stranger than fiction because not many of us are aware of what is going on in our vicinity. Unless there is a lot of noise made about something wrong happening, many crimes will go unnoticed. The Nurse is one such example of a limited series based on the true crime genre. Directed by Kasper Barfoed, this Danish Netflix original is all about a woman trying to unearth a supposed crime being carried out under the nose of her workplace administration. How will she get to the bottom of it, and will she confront the person who is carrying out the crime?

It is the year 2012. Arne, an elderly gentleman, returns home only to feel dizzy, and he faints. His brother Kenny immediately takes him to the...

True crime stories are always intriguing to watch. It takes the actual event from several years ago and presents it in a manner that would help us understand what exactly happened when the incident occurred. It takes us through details that many did not bother to know about. The Nurse, a Danish Netflix Original limited series, gives us a gripping tale of a woman who gathered the courage to bring a disturbing pattern of incidents that is happening in her place of work to everyone’s attention. Will she bear the brunt of speaking the truth?

The Nurse starts from the year 2012 in Nykøbing Falster, Denmark. An elderly gentleman named Arne faints in his home, and he is admitted to the Nykøbing Falster emergency ward. Arne is slowly recovering, and he is told that he will be discharged the very next day. But on the night before his discharge, someone...

The Nurse is a Danish series directed by Kasper Barfoed starring Fanny Louise Bernth and Josephine Park.

As it begins, it warns us: “based on real events” and it seems that what happened in The Good Nurse (with Jessica Chastain) is not the exclusive patrimony of Americans, and now we get this Danish version of a very similar story, but with very different protagonists and setting.

The Nurse About the Series

Four chapters very well executed, following the (television) rhythm properly and rigorously fulfilling the parameters that a movie “based on real events” requires. Do not expect eccentricity in the narrative or characters that are out of the ordinary, there is no story that surprises us by its originality or comes, ultimately, to tell us anything new.

Very different from The Good Nurse in rhythm and setting. The Nurse, much closer to the TV movie, much more “realistic” than the...

The Göteborg Film Festival’s series-focused, industry sidebar TV Drama Vision returned this week with two days of talks and panels centered on series production in Europe and the Nordic region.

The program featured over 60 on-stage speakers and was dominated by the presence of Netflix, which celebrated its 10th year in the Nordic region late last year.

“We had a great year,” Jenny Stjernströmer Björk, VP of Nordic Content at Netflix, said when asked about the streamer’s 2022 Nordic efforts on stage at the Grand Theater in Göteborg.

Björk went on to list what she described as some of the streamer’s most successful Nordic content, including the Swedish series Snabba Cash. The experienced exec also cited the Spotify origins series The Playlist, and Roar Uthaug’s folklore thriller Troll, which Björk said became the most popular non-English language film on Netflix in less than two weeks of its release.

Filmmakers Milad Alami, Kasper Barfoed and up-and-coming creatives Emma Sehested Høed and Jennifer Vedsted Christiansen are some of the Scandi talents plotting projects for the new Danish production banner Uma Film, formerly Good Company Films.

The Copenhagen-based shingle is run by three pedigreed female producers with a solid track record in Danish drama series and features. Stinna Lassen has produced for the Danish pubcaster Dr their biggest hit in the last six-to-seven years,“Carmen Curlers”, under the spotlight at this week’s Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision as contender for the Nordic Film & TV Fond Prize for best screenplay of a Nordic series. Her earlier productions take in Alami’s acclaimed feature debut “The Charmer” and series “When the Dust Settled.”

Lassen’s colleagues Claudia Saginario and Marie-Louise Gyldenkrone were respectively producer and line producer on another Dr’s smash local and international hit,“Cry Wolf.”

Uma Film’s fourth partner,...

High in the north Atlantic, nestled between Iceland and Norway, lie the moss-covered basalt cliffs of the Faroe Islands: a Danish fishing archipelago and the perfect setting for Viaplay’s new original series “Trom.” Based on Danish writer Jógvan Isaksen’s bestselling crime novels, and adapted for screen by creator and head writer Torfinnur Jákupsson and Donna Sharpe, “Trom” is a six-episode Nordic Noir produced and distributed by Denmark’s REinvent Studios in co-production with Faroe Islands-based Kyk Pictures, Iceland’s Truenorth and Germany’s Zdf/Arte.

In what has signalled a breakthrough for many Scandinavian series, the BBC acquired “Trom” in a deal announced just before the series’ premiere at February’s Berlinale Series Market Selects.

Co-directed by Kasper Barfoed (“The Chestnut Man”), Davið Óskar Ólafsson (“The Valhalla Murders”), and Peter Ahlén, “Trom”

follows rogue journalist Hannis Martinsson, played by Ulrich Thomsen (“The New Pope”). When Hannis receives an ominous...

BBC has acquired “Trom,” a crime drama set in the Faroe Islands, which will have its international premiere at the Berlinale Series Market Selects.

A Viaplay Original, “Trom” is produced by REinvent Studios with Kyk Pictures and Truenorth. REinvent International Sales represents worldwide rights. “Trom” will premiere on Viaplay on Feb. 13

Based on Jagvan Isaksen’s crime novels, “Trom” was created by Torfinnur Jákupsson and directed by Kasper Barfoed (“Dicte: Crime Reporter”) and Davíd Óskar Ólafsson (“The Valhalla Murders”). The cinematic show is headlined by Nordic stars including Ulrich Thomsen (“The New Pope”), Maria Rich (“Follow The Money”) and Olaf Johannessen (“The Exception”).

“We are thrilled and proud that the BBC has come on board ‘Trom,'” said Helene Aurø, sales and marketing director at REinvent International Sales. “BBC has broadcast some of the best Nordic series ever produced in the past and we hope ‘Trom’ will be a success as well.

The Nordic noir crime series is penned by Torfinnur Jákupsson and Donna Sharpe, and is based on the best-selling novels by Faroese novelist Jógvan Isaksen. Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) has announced the launch of its first-ever Faroese original drama production, a Nordic noir crime series entitled Trom and directed by Kasper Barfoed. In recent years, the Copenhagen-born helmer has worked on the features Summer of ’92 (2015) and The Numbers Station (2013) as well as on the TV series Dicte: Crime Reporter (2013-2014) and Gidseltagningen (2017). In detail, his new endeavour follows journalist Hannis Martinsson (played by Denmark’s Ulrich Thomsen), who unexpectedly receives a message from Sonja, a young Faroese woman who claims she is Hannis’s daughter and that her life is in danger. Reluctantly returning home to the Faroes to investigate, Hannis discovers Sonja’s body in the bloody waters of a whale hunt. His search for answers soon.

REinvent Studios’ anticipated crime series “Trom” is getting ready to shoot in the lush landscapes of the Faroe Islands with a cast packed with Nordic stars, including Ulrich Thomsen (“The New Pope”), Maria Rich (“Follow The Money”) and Olaf Johannessen (“The Exception”).

Based on Jagvan Isaksen’s crime novels, the series is created by Torfinnur Jákupsson and co-written with Donna Sharpe (“West of Liberty”). REinvent is producing the series with Kyk Pictures and Truenorth.

It will mark the first crime drama to be created in the Faroe Islands. Shooting will kick off on location in March. Kasper Barfoed (“Dicte: Crime Reporter”) and Davíd Óskar Ólafsson (“The Valhalla Murders”) are on board to direct the series.

The six-part show follows journalist Hannis Martinsson (Ulrich Thomsen), who unexpectedly receives a message from Sonja, his estranged daughter, claiming that her life is in danger. Hannis reluctantly returns home to the Faroes to investigate,...

To mark the release of Below the Surface Season 1 on 2nd April, we’ve veen given 3 copies to give away on DVD.

Below the Surface is directed by Kasper Barfoed. On a rainy October morning, fifteen Danes have their lives turned upside down when the metro train they are travelling on is hijacked by unknown perpetrators, who will threaten to kill each of them, one by one, if their demands aren’t met.

This is the beginning of a historic hostage situation that, over the course of one single week, changes Denmark forever. The politicians argue whether or not to negotiate with terrorists. In the press, there are discussions on where the line is drawn in portraying the captives and seeking out their families. Ordinary Danes are left thinking that it could have been them.

Among the hostages, the thoughts vary between rebellion, negotiation and apathy, but one thought is...

Stanley Tucci, Catherine Deneuve dramas join competition; TV dramas and Oleg Sentsov doc set to get world premiere.

The Berlin International Film Festival has finalised its competition and Berlinale Special strands.

Joining the festival in Out Of Competition berths are Stanley Tucci-directed Final Portrait and Catherine Deneuve drama Sage Femme.

James Gray’s The Lost City Of Z will have its interntional premiere while documentary The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov will have its world premiere.

Among TV world premieres are Amazon’s Patriot and BBC One’s SS-gb.

In total, 18 of the 24 films selected for Competitionwill be competing for the Golden and the Silver Bears. 22 of the films will have their world premieres at the festival.

For the third time, Berlinale Special Series will present a selection of TV series in the official programme. Six German and international productions will have their world premieres at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele this year...

Stanley Tucci, Catherine Deneuve dramas join competition; TV dramas and Oleg Sentsov doc set to get world premiere.

The Berlin International Film Festival has finalised its competition and Berlinale Special strands.

Joining the competition are

18 of the 24 films selected for Competition will be competing for the Golden and the Silver Bears. 22 of the films will have their world premieres at the festival.

The Berlinale Special will present recent works by contemporary filmmakers, documentaries, and extraordinary formats, as well as brand new series from around the world.

Berlinale Special Galas will be held at the Friedrichstadt-Palast and Zoo Palast. Other Special premieres will take place at the Kino International. Moderated discussions will follow the screenings at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

For the third time, Berlinale Special Series will present a selection of TV series in the official programme. Six German and international productions will have their world premieres at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele this year. Audiences...

Exclusive: Film about Danish journalist and her Syrian fixer will start shooting in February 2017 in Turkey and Morocco.

Danish writer/director Kasper Barfoed and producer Michel Schonnemann are launching production company The Lot by developing a feature film based on Danish journalist Puk Damsgaard’s bestseller Under A Crying Sun.

The journalistic autobiography is about the relationship between Danish journalist Damsgaard and her local fixer Nour during the start of the Syrian war.

The shoot for the $3m feature is planned for February 2017 in Turkey and Morocco. Casting has started in Denmark and Los Angeles, and the Danish Film Institute is supporting development.

The project marks Barfoed’s sixth feature; he had a huge hit in Denmark in 2015 with football story Summer of ’92 and past credits include The Numbers Station starring John Cusack.

Barfoed said: “Under A Crying Sun is a suspenseful, personal and deeply heartbreaking story about dreams, ideals and the desire for freedom. It’s a book...

The historical drama triumphed with six awards, while Oscar-nominated A War had to settle for one.Scroll down for full list of winners

Martin Zandvliet’s Land Of Mine triumphed at the 2016 Danish Film Awards, scooping six prizes including Best Film.

The historical war drama, which premiered in the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform section, also took home Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and the Blockbuster Audience Award.

The night’s other major awards were split between several titles.

Tobias Lindholm’s Oscar-nominated modern war-drama A War took the Best Actress prize for star Tuva Novotny, while Ulrich Thomsen won Best Actor, his third, for his performance in Kasper Barfoed’s football comedy Summer Of ’92.

The supporting awards went to Trine Dyrholm for Long Story Short and Nicolas Bro for Men & Chicken.

Kenneth Kainz’s children’s adventure film The Shamer’s Daughter was another big winner on the night, taking five prizes:...

Notable world premieres include Mads Matthiesen’s Teddy Bear follow-up The Model and Avalon director Axel Petersén’s Under the Pyramid.

Måns Månsson’s The Yard will open the 2016 Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 29 - Feb 8), which will screen some 450 films from 84 countries.

The film, which will have its world premiere at the Swedish festival’s Jan 29 opening, is adapted from Kristian Lundberg’s autobiographical novel about moving from cultural work to becoming a day laborer in Malmo harbour. Anders Mossling stars.

The festival’s closing film will be Henrik Ruben Genz’s Satisfaction 1720, Erlend Loe has written the manuscript for the film, about the post-war exploits of the “rock star of his day”, Vice-Admiral Tordenskjold.

Goteborg, the largest film festival in the Nordics and running for 11 days, is devoting special programmes to Italian cinema, Nigeria’s Nollywood and a new section on TV drama.

The eight films competing for the Dragon Award for Best Nordic film (which...

Other nominees include A War, The Idealist, Summer of ‘92, Men & Chicken and The Shamer’s Daughter; Summer of ‘92 leads critics’ Bodil nominees.

Toronto hit Land of Mine by Martin Zandvliet leads the nominations for the Danish Film Academy’s Robert Awards, which will be bestowed on Feb 7.

Land of Mine, about German teenagers forced to clear mines from Danish beaches after the Second World War, garnered 14 nominations.

Other nominees include Tobias Lindholm’s Oscar-shortlisted A War, Christina Rosendahl’s The Idealist, Kasper Barfoed’s Summer of ’92, Anders Thomas Jensen’s Men & Chicken as well as Kenneth Kainz’ The Shamer’s Daughter.

The nominees for best feature film are The Idealist, Land of Mine, Men & Chicken, Summer of ’92 and A War.

The best director race includes Rosendahl, Zandvliet, Lindholm, Michael Noer for Key House Mirror and newcomer May el-Toukhy for Long Story Short.

Best Original Screenplay nominees are Summer of ‘92 (Anders August & Kasper Barfoed); Men & Chicken (Anders Thomas Jensen); Land...

Danish director Kasper Barfoed’s Sommeren 92, about the Danish national football squad’s against-the-odds victory in the 1992 European Championships, has scored with Danish audiences. The UK-Danish co-pro is about to cross 300,000 admissions, repping 5% of the entire population and double the returns of the likes of big budget studio fare Mission: Impossible- Rogue Nation and Kingsman: The Secret Service. Barfoed, who was there to witness the national team’s unlikely…...

Former Scott Free London exec Liza Marshall and Kick-Ass and One Chance producer Kris Thykier are partnering in new UK-based production company, Archery Pictures. The pair will work across film and television with Thykier shuttering his PeaPie Films and moving both the staff and development slate over to Archery. He’s currently in post on Woman In Gold with Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds, is producing Kasper Barfoed’s Summer of ‘92, and exec producing John Wells’ Bradley Cooper-starrer Adam Jones for The Weinstein Company. Upcoming releases, Stephen Daldry’s Trash, and Asif Kapadia’s Ali & Nino will go out under the PeaPie banner.

Marshall is a respected exec who recently stepped down from her role as head of Ridley Scott’s Scott Free London which she established in 2009. Her producing and exec producing credits include Before I Go To Sleep with Nicole Kidman, Welcome To The Punch starring James McAvoy...

Thykier’s Peapie to merge into new company Archery Pictures.

Former Scott Free London head Liza Marshall has joined forces with Kris Thykier in new film and TV production company, Archery Pictures.

Marshall who recently stepped down from her role as head of Scott Free London will become joint managing director of the new company with Thykier, who will shutter his company PeaPie Films, and move his staff and slate across to the new outfit.

Key executives at Archery Pictures will include Pip Williams, senior development and production executive, Mairi Bett, head of physical production, and development executive Kitty Kaletsky.

Marshall established Scott Free London four and half years ago and went on to produce films including Before I Go To Sleep starring Nicole Kidman, Welcome to the Punch starring James McAvoy and the upcoming Get Santa starring Jim Broadbent.

Marshall’s television projects include BBC2’s Britain in a Day, Labyrinth and the...

Exclusive: Kaspar Barfoed will direct the story of the underdog Danish football team that became Euro 1992 champions.

Ulrich Thomsen is set to star as Danish national football team coach Richard Moller Nielsen in Summer of ’92.

Kris Thykier’s London-based PeaPie Films and Meta Louise Foldager’s Copenhagen-based Meta Film are producing.

HanWay handles international sales excluding Scandinavia.

Kasper Barfoed will direct the story based on a script he wrote alongside Anders Frithiof August. The film tells the story of the underdog Danish national football team thatbecame the surprise Euro 1992 champions.

“I am extremely pleased that we have Ulrich Thomsen in the role of Richard Møller Nielsen,” said Barfoed. “Ulrich is one of the best actors we’ve ever had in Denmark and this role will show sides of him we have not seen before.

“Richard Moller contained warmth, humour, ambition and single-mindedness, and it takes a brave actor to embrace this role. I am also...

  The Numbers Station (2013) Film Review, a movie directed by Kasper Barfoed and starring John Cusack, Malin Akerman, Hannah Murray, Liam Cunningham, Lucy Griffiths, Bryan Dick, Richard Brake, and Joey Ansah. The title of a movie is important. It puts a foot in the door, draws attention, and is one of the [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: The Numbers Station (2013): John Cusack Protects Akerman...

*full disclosure: a Blu-ray screener of this film was provided by Image Entertainment. Director: Kasper Barfoed. Writer: F. Scott Frazier. Cast: John Cusack, Malin Akerman and Liam Cunningham. The Numbers Stationis the latest film to receive a limited theatrical before moving to home video formats. This title was released in June of 2013 (DVD, Blu-Ray). And, the film stars John Cusack and Malin Akerman. Essentially, The Numbers Station is an indie thriller, from first time screenwriter F. Scott Frazier. The film is light on characters and the use of diverse sets. This title also offers character development in sparing portions. Yet, The Numbers Station still manages to be a solid thriller, despite a few drawbacks. The story for the film stays with Emerson (Cusack) and Katherine (Akerman). Both characters are CIA agents and they are assigned to a remote outpost in Suffolk, England. Here, they cloak orders for other CIA agents with ciphers.

No one gives world-weary like John Cusack. He wears his ennui with as much panache as his Ramones tees and those fabulous coats. Projects in search of an artist of a certain age – who can shoulder a burden of despair with a wry grin – need look no further than the tip of his quiff for their man.

Emerson Kent is the quintessential Cusack role – conflicted, tormented and ever so slightly beautiful. The field agent has been semi-retired by the agency after developing a conscience during an operation clean up. Too cool for Ptsd he instead lets the incident eat him up inside and wearily accepts an assignment in the English countryside babysitting a codebreaker as she sends encrypted shortwave transmissions out into the world. The new assignment is a conspicuous bone tossed at Emerson by his bemused boss (Liam Cunningham), intended to keep him on the payroll but limiting any...

When a thriller primarily revolves around two characters in a confined space fighting for their lives, special care needs to be taken to give the audience background on who they are if the stakes on whether they survive are to have any impact at all. Kasper Barfoed's The Numbers Station only manages to make us care about one half of its two-protagonist plot, and consequently what could have been a riveting and involving character study of trauma bringing two otherwise distant people together just ends up being a predictable distraction that's never too involving. John Cusack gives one of his better understated performances in years, but Malin Akerman is largely underserved with an almost complete lack of character development by a script that instead makes her more of a plot device than an actual human being.

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Kasper Barfoed’s The Numbers Station is John Cusack’s latest failed attempt at becoming an action star. The film’s main plot is a complicated mess, while the underlying character work proves to be semi-interesting thanks to Cusack and co-star Malin Akerman. Still, The Numbers Station rarely stretches past straight-to-dvd material due to its obvious budgetary restraints and inability to deliver a character arc that we haven’t seen done a million times before. Cusack tries and tries, but ultimately nothing adds up as the film slips into mediocrity.

Emerson (John Cusack) is a former black ops soldier turned glorified security guard for a top secret numbers base. His coworker Katherine (Malin Akerman) is in charge of sending a secret batch of coded numbers to various agents in the field and it’s Emerson’s job to make sure that the codes get sent and that the base is protected at all times.

Title: The Numbers Station Directed by: Kasper Barfoed Starring: John Cusack, Malin Akerman Running time: 89 minutes, Rated R, Available on DVD Special Features: The Making of The Numbers Station When CIA agent Emerson (Cusack) is given a kill order which he refuses, he is given a unfavorable psych eval and demoted to the task of protecting Katherine (Akerman), a woman who works as a broadcaster at the high security Numbers Station where she broadcasts a series of seemingly random numbers which spell out an ever changing code to field agents and assassins. When the security is breached, he is given the order to “retire the broadcaster,” which again he [ Read More ]

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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 28, 2013

Price: DVD $27.97, Blu-ray $29.97

Studio: Image Entertainment

Malin Akerman (Rock of Ages) and John Cusack (The Raven) headline the thriller movie The Numbers Station.

Cusack plays veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent whose last mission went horrible wrong. He gets one last chance to prove he can still do his job when he’s assigned to guard Katherine (Akerman), a code operator at a top-secret remote CIA “Numbers Station” where encrypted messages are sent and received.

But, after an elite team of heavily armed assailants attack the station, Emerson and Katherine end up in a life-or-death struggle to stop the deadly plot.

The first screenplay by F. Scott Frazier, R-rated The Numbers Station was directed by Danish filmmaker Kasper Barfoed (The Candidate). Games of Thrones‘ Liam Cunningham and Hannah Murray and True Blood‘s Lucy Griffiths also star in the independent film.

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Chicago – John Cusack’s new spy thriller is so routine, predictable, and dull that they could have called it “By-the-Numbers Station”. Too easy? How about “Paint-by-Numbers Station”? Ok, I’ll stop now before @FakeShalit comes after me. “The Numbers Station,” now available On Demand and opening in Chicago this Friday, isn’t an awful film (it’s better than Cusack’s last dud, “The Factory”) but it’s a remarkably boring one. Co-star Malin Akerman does her best to try and add some character but director Kasper Barfoed can’t figure out the tone of this non-action spy movie and Cusack looks visibly bored. If someone had a camera on you while you were watching it, you would look the same way.

Rating: 2.0/5.0

Casting against type, Cusack plays a CIA Black Ops agent named Emerson Kent. After an innocent bystander witnesses Kent performing a “job” and asks him why he’s doing it,...

Those crazy CIA guys and their murderous CIA ways. If you watch enough Hollywood movies, you’d swear that 90% of all deaths around the world can be attributed to the CIA and their legion of black ops killers, such as John Cusack’s Emerson in director Kasper Barfoed’s “The Numbers Station”. Natural disasters? Meteorites from outer space? Psst. Not even close. Emerson is no Jason Bourne, of course, but he’s pretty badass in his own right, though he makes the mistake of developing a conscience early in the film. In case you were wondering, that’s not a good thing for a guy who takes such pride in his ability to murder people for mom, country, and apple pie that he demands his partners “start the count” every time he goes off to do some murderin’. After he flubs a job because of that whole conscience thing, Emerson...

John Cusack’s spy actioner “The Numbers Station” opens April 26, 2013, though Image Entertainment already has the movie scheduled to hit DVD and Blu-ray a month later on May 28, 2013. A one-month window from theatrical release to DVD/Blu-ray? That makes me think the film isn’t going to get all that wide of a release come April 26th, but hey, I could be wrong. In any case, if you’re looking forward to watching John Cusack back in the ass kicking saddle, then Kasper Barfoed’s “The Numbers Station” is probably what you’re looking for. Sure, it’s a tad generic, what with the whole evil CIA conspiracy angle and everything. Kinda old hat after four “Bourne” movies, don’t you think? But in case you haven’t gotten enough of this plot yet, check out two clips and a featurette for “The Numbers Station”. After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong,...

Thanks to decades of being conditioned by TV shows and movies like those in the Mission: Impossible and James Bond franchises, we often assume that real spy organizations like Britain's MI6, Russia's Gru or our own CIA use only the most advanced technology in their efforts to clandestinely collect, alalyze and disseminate intelligence.

Organizations like these do, in fact, utilize cutting edge computer programs, robots, drones, lasers and satellites, as well as more esoteric devices like microwave-emitting "death rays" and acoustic weapons that fire "sound bullets," but it appears that they're also still using a form of technology that had its heydey back when the first passenger jets were just taking flight and Doo-wop was all the rage. Broadcasting into the airwaves from places unknown are long, sometimes continual, strings of numbers, letters, words and tones that anyone with a shortwave radio can intercept, but which only the spies who...

Image Entertainment has unveiled the first poster and six new photos from The Numbers Station, following the trailer debut yesterday. Kasper Barfoed directs this intense thriller about a disgraced CIA agent (John Cusack) who is assigned to protect a code operator (Malin Akerman) at a top-secret "numbers station," where encrypted messages are sent and received. When the station is attacked by an unknown enemy, they must work together to stay alive. Take a look at the one-sheet and the photos featuring these two stars in action.

The Numbers Station comes to theaters April 26th, 2013 and stars Malin Akerman, John Cusack, Hannah Murray, Liam Cunningham, Lucy Griffiths, Bryan Dick, Richard Brake, Joey Ansah. The film is directed by Kasper Barfoed.

The Numbers Station marks Danish director Kasper Barfoed’s English language debut, and he’s assembled a brilliant leading cast with which to do it in the form of John Cusack (High Fidelity) and Malin Åkerman (Watchmen).

The thriller will be arriving in Us theatres this spring, and now Yahoo Movies have debuted the first trailer and poster, giving us our first look at the film.

“After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong, veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent is given one last chance to prove he still has what it takes to do his job. His new assignment: guarding Katherine, a code operator at a top-secret remote CIA “Numbers Station” where encrypted messages are sent and received. When an elite team of heavily armed assailants lays siege to the station, Emerson and Katherine suddenly find themselves in a life-or-death struggle against an unknown enemy. With the station compromised and innocent lives at stake,...

The project has been in development since September of 2010 and now the first trailer is available for director Kasper Barfoed’s The Numbers Station. John Cusack took on the roleof an ex-cia black-ops agent when original star/producer Ethan Hawke dropped out from the first American effort from Danish filmmaker Barfoed, which also stars smokey-eyed actress Malin Akerman (who worked with Cage in Stolen) as a code operator. The script penned by video game producer–turned-screenwriter F. Scott Frazier follows a skilled-yet-disgraced black-ops agent Emerson Kent (Cusack) who is put on simple bodyguard duty for a woman named Katherine (Akerman) working at a secret CIA broadcast base...

Everybody keeps shooting at John Cusack. To get them to stop, he and Malin Ackerman are going to have to crack a long string of numbers because, as we all know, the left side of the brain is the sexiest. In The Numbers Station, Cusack plays a dishonored black ops agent who is biding time protecting Ackerman’s character as she works at a numbers station in the middle of nowhere. She’ll be glad to have him, though, when the station comes under attack and a plan to kill some important world figures gets set in motion. This action thriller has been a long time in the making (Ethan Hawke was first attached to it back in 2010), and it represents a test for some newcomers. The first is screenwriter F. Scott Frazier, who has nailed down some work since, but who will see his first script sale finally emerge on the big screen here. The...

The Bourne influence is still being felt in Hollywood as there is no shortage of modern spy movies being produced as of late. Here's another one that stars John Cusack as a CIA black ops agent who is assigned to protect a "Numbers Station" where top secret messages are encrypted and transmitted. Malin Akerman plays a cryptographer who comes under fire when the station is targeted by an unknown enemy. The Numbers Station is directed by Danish director Kasper Barfoed and written by first-time screenwriter F. Scott Frazier (who apparently used to be a video game Qa guy for Thq). The movie looks like it is bordering on direct-to-video territory (and based on Cusack's recent output, it could go either way), but the idea of these stations being used to pass messages is at least somewhat interesting. The Numbers Station hits select theatres on April 26th; check out the trailer...