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The theatrical market across the Nordics recovered in 2022 without reaching pre-pandemic levels, driven predominantly by U.S. fare, such as “Top Gun: Maverick,” the biggest hit in Denmark, Finland and Sweden, “Minions: The Rise of Gru” No 1 in Iceland, and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” No 1 in Norway.

As always Danish movies secured the biggest national market share (30), followed by Finland (27), Norway (23) Sweden (19.3), and Iceland (10). Revenues were often more equally split across a larger number of titles, reaching record levels in several territories, as a result of Covid, that created a bottleneck of new releases.

Denmark

After a quiet start of the year with theaters locked down for the first two weeks due to Covid, ticket sales kickstarted again and ended up at 10.23 million, which is 49 up over 2021, but 20 down on pre-pandemic levels.

Revenue-wise, the Danish market hit Dkk 994.67 million (144.3 million), up 52 from the 2021 annus horribilis for cinemas, but just 16 down on the 2019 trawl,...

Alaskan Nets, a documentary executive produced by Chris Pratt that centers on confluence of high school boys basketball and the culture of fishing on a Native reserve in remote Southeast Alaska, has won the audience award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

The 36th annual festival, which ran a hybrid in-person/virtual event that began March 31, wraps today with the unveiling of its juried awards. Alaskan Nets, directed by Jeff Harasimowicz, won the Audience Choice Award among a total of 11 categories that were represented.

“To say we are thrilled to win the audience choice award would be a vast understatement,” Harasimowicz said. “To see this film resonate with audiences is a deeply humbling experience. We are so honored to have had this special opportunity to share Alaskan Nets in Santa Barbara and I know it’s an experience my team, our families and the entire community of Metlakatla will never forget.

The documentary “Alaskan Nets,” set on a remote island where the Tsimshian Indians are focused on fishing and basketball, has won the Audience Choice Award at the 2021 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Sbiff organizers announced on Saturday.

The festival ran from March 31 through April 10 with a combination of virtual presentations and drive-in screenings in the coastal town north of Los Angeles. Audience members who viewed films both online and in drive-ins were eligible to vote for the Audience Choice Award.

The festival also announced an array of jury awards that were chosen by jurors Tony Anselmo, Antwone Fisher, David Freid, Li Cheng, Geoffrey Cowper, Patricia Rosema, Siqi Song, Mark Stafford, Rita Taggart, Paul Walter Hauser, Anthony and Arnette Zerbe. The Sbiff Best Documentary Award went to Nina Stefanka’s “Mirage” (“Miraggio”), a chronicle of West African refugees in Rome, while the award for the best international feature was given to...

The Santa Barbara Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Aaron Maurer’s documentary Invisible Valley, which profiles the stories of the disparate people that make up the Coachella Valley. It kicks off a festival that will run March 31-April 10 with a hybrid edition that includes online elements and screenings at a pair of pop-up beachside drive-in venues.

The full lineup revealed Tuesday features 47 world premieres and 37 U.S. premieres from 45 countries alongside the fest’s annual tributes featuring the likes of Bill Murray, Carey Mulligan, Sacha Baron Cohen and Amanda Seyfried which will be livestreamed online.

Every film screening will be offered for free this year, with a ticketed online component that will showcase the entire film lineup along with the tributes, industry panels and filmmaker Q&As.

The fest will close with a series of short documentaries by local filmmakers.

Here’s the trailer for Invisible Valley,...

Twelve films to receive their world premiere in competition at the festival.

Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (November 13-29) has unveiled the full lineup of its main competition strand as it prepares to go ahead as a mix of physical and online events.

The festival’s official selection comprises 12 world premieres, 12 international and two European premieres. Eight of these films were previously announced, including István Szabó’s Final Report.

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Titles set to receive their world premiere include rural drama Armugan from Spanish director Jo Sol, who won a best new director...

Queen Of Hearts star Trine Dyrholm plays woman who enlists in the army during World War One.

TF1 Studio has launched sales on Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz’s World War One drama Erna At War at the virtual Cannes market.

Top Danish actress Trine Dyrholm (Queen Of Hearts) stars as a mother whose mentally-challenged son is drafted into the army and sent to fight on the border between Denmark and Germany. In a bid to keep him safe, she disguises herself as a man, enrols and heads to the frontline.

The sales arm of French commercial TV giant TF1...

Exclusive: AMC has put in development The Burying Place, a thriller drama series based on Brian Freeman’s novel, from writer Kelly Masterson (Killing Kennedy), director David Semel (Goliath), producer Aaron Kaplan (A Million Little Things) and his Kapital Entertainment and AMC Studios.

Written by Masterson, The Burying Place is set in the haunting North Country of Minnesota, where a baby vanishes from her lakeside home. That same night, a rookie policewoman stumbles onto a serial killer. Against a ticking clock, Detective Jonathan Stride, haunted by demons of his own, leads fellow Detectives Serena Dial and Maggie Bei as they struggle to unravel the seemingly unrelated mysteries in a suspenseful game of cat and mouse.

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The international war drama, starring Trine Dyrholm in the lead role, began filming in and around Tartu on 29 August. A new war drama directed by Danish helmer Henrik Ruben Genz is now in the works. Principal photography began this week in and around Tartu, Estonia's second-largest city. Genz's new feature follows his 2017 dramedy Word of God, starring actors Søren Malling and Marie Askehave in the lead roles. In Erna at War, we follow the story of a strong woman called Erna (Trine Dyrholm), who goes to war dressed as a man to protect her intellectually disabled son Kalle (Sylvester Byder), called up to fight. Heading to the front disguised as private Julius Rasmussen, Erna must face not only the enemy but also the love of her life when she meets blacksmith Anton (Anders W Berthelsen) in the trenches. One of the story's antagonists...

Dyrholm recently won awards for her role in Sundance 2019 title ‘Queen Of Hearts’.

Danish star Trine Dyrholm will follow her award-winning role in Sundance award winner Queen Of Hearts by headlining the cast of Henrik Ruben Genz’s Erna At War.

She will play a powerful woman who tries to save her mentally disabled son during the First World War. The film is set in 1918, on the borderland between Germany and Denmark, where her son is mistakenly enrolled for the Prussian Army. She disguises herself as a man to join his regiment and keep her son safe.

The cast will...

Dark Star has acquired U.S. rights to Henrik Ruben Genz’s (“The Killing”) Danish drama-comedy “Word of God” from LevelK.

Based on the best-selling Danish book by the same name, “Word of God” stars the renowned Swedish singer Lisa Nilsson and Danish actor Søren Malling. It portrays a family’s life in suburbia and the madness that lurks behind their curtains when the patriarch decides to write his memoirs and considers calling them “Mein Kampf.”

“‘Word of God’ is a very unique snapshot of an oddball family. Highlighted by spectacular performances, sharp dialogue and brilliant cinematography; the film takes audiences on a roller-coaster through the full spectrum of emotions,” said Michael Repsch, president of Dark Star Pictures.

The film was produced by Signe Leick Jensen and Morten Kaufmann at Toolbox Film, in co-production with Deluca Film and with production funding from the Danish Film Institute. Scanbox Entertainment helmed the distribution in Scandinavia.

Music Box Films’s genre label Doppelgänger Releasing and Germany’s Ascot Elite have acquired U.S. and German distribution rights, respectively, to Finnish back metal comedy “Heavy Trip” from LevelK.

The film, which had its world premiere at SXSW, follows Turo, a musician from a small village in Northern Finland who takes his undiscovered heavy metal band on an eventful road trip to play at Norway’s biggest heavy metal music festival. The band went on to become the famed Finnish group Impaled Rektum. The movie stars Johannes Holopainen, Minka Kuustonen and Ville Tiihonen.

“We’ve been on the hunt for something a little different for Doppelgänger Releasing,” said Lisa Holmes of Music Box Films/Doppelgänger Releasing. “’Heavy Trip’ is such a fun combination of humor, heart and of course, heavy metal that we couldn’t resist the opportunity to bring this to American audiences.”

Ascot Elite Entertainment CEO...

The low-budget debut was made as part of Nordisk’s new-talent initiative Spring.

The influential Danish Cinema Club (Biografklub Danmark) has selected the 10 films for its 2017-2018 season. They are:

Breathe, dir Andy Serkis (May 31)Gud Taler Ud (literal translation God Speaks Out), dir Henrik Ruben Genz (Sept 28)The Guilty, dir Gustav MollerThe Journey, Nick Hamm (May 3)Never Again A Tomorrow, dir Erik Clausen (Aug 31)The Papers, Steven Spielberg (April 5)Sa laenge jeg lever, dir Ole Bornedal (March 8)̊Suburbicon, dir George Clooney (Dec 7)Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, dir Martin McDonagh (Jan 11)Victoria And Abdul, dir Stephen Frears (Nov 2)

It’s notable that the scheme has included amongst the starrier productions, The Guilty (pictured), a low-budget debut feature made as part of Nordisk’s new-talent initiative Spring.

The Guilty is the debut feature of Gustav Moller and is a real-time, contained thriller about an alarm dispatcher (Jakob Cedergren) who races against time to save a kidnapped woman. The...

Paolo Virzi’s Italian buddy movie starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Micaela Ramazzotti will open the roster of 47 films from the 28 EU member states at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The Us premiere of Henrik Ruben Genz’s Danish caper Satisfaction 1720 will close the 29th annual edition of the showcase, running from December 1-18.

The selection includes 14 foreign language Oscar submissions such as Maren Ade’s German comedy Toni Erdmann, Juho Kuosmanen’s Finnish biopic The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki and Italian documentarian Gianfranco Rosi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea.

Nine Us premieres include On The Other Side (Zrinko Ogresta, Croatia), Pericle (Stefano Mordini, Italy), Together For Ever (Lithuania), and Upstream (Marion Hänsel, Belgium).

The EU is represented in the United States by the Washington DC Delegation of the European Union, which works with the diplomatic missions of the 28 EU member states.

The...

The Killing’s Soren Malling leads the adaptation of Jens Blendstrup’s best-selling novel.

Terribly Happy director Henrik Ruben Genz starts shooting his next film Gud Taler Ud (literal translation:’God Speaks Out’) next week in Risskov, Denmark (a suburb of Aarhus).

The film is an adaptation of the 2004 best-selling novel by Jens Blendstrup, the story of a strong-willed patriarch whose family may revolt against him. Bo Hr. Hansen adapted the script.

Soren Malling from The Killing, Borgen and A War plays the protagonist - a psychologist with three sons who are ready to rebel against him - and Swedish singer Lisa Nilsson plays his wife. The cast also includes Marcus Gert, Jesper Asholt, Jacob Kvols and Maria Erwolter.

Signe Leick Jensen and Morten Kaufmann are producing for Toolbox Film, in co-production with Deluca Film and with production funding from the Danish Film Institute. It is produced in partnership with TV 2 and the West Danish Film Fund...

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Feed me, Seymour. Below, watch AMC's trailer for its new, original Feed the Beast TV series, premiering Tuesday, May 31, 2016, at 10:00pm Et/Pt. Starring David Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess, Feed the Beast features best friends Tommy Moran (Schwimmer) and Dion Patras (Sturgess) who take one last shot at their dream of opening a restaurant.

In addition to Schwimmer and Sturgess, the cast of Feed the Beast includes Michael Gladis, Lorenza Izzo, Christine Adams, John Doman, and Elijah Jacob. The show is inspired by the Danish TV series Bankerot, from Henrik Ruben Genz and Malene Blenkov. They are executive producing with writer Clyde Phillips and with Piv Bernth.Read More…...

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Check out these "first look" images (above and below) of David Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess in AMC's new Feed the Beast TV series. This friendship drama, set in a Bronx restaurant, is set to premiere on AMC, in May 2016. The series is produced by AMC Studios and Lionsgate in association with Clyde Phillips Productions. Executive producers are showrunner Clyde Phillips, Henrik Ruben Genz, Malene Blenkov, and Piv Bernth.

The cast of Feed the Beast also includes Michael Gladis, Lorenza Izzo, Christine Adams, John Doman, and Elijah Jacob. The show is based on Danish series Bankerot, from Genz and Blenkov.

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Nordic Film Market includes debut films by Force Majeure actress, the screenwriter of A Royal Affair and director of viral hit Las Palmas; CAA, UTA and ICM agents among attending industry.Scroll down for full list

More than 40 Nordic films and works in progress will be presented at the fruitful Nordic Film Market in Goteborg, which runs Feb 4-7 during to the Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 29 - Feb 8).

Often a productive staging post for impressive upcoming regional features and emerging talent, the 2016 lineup includes 17 finished features and 20 works in progress, plus eight titles presented as part of the Nordic Film Lab Discovery programme.

The works-in-progress presentations (see full list below) include ten debut films from the likes of A Royal Affair screenwriter Rasmus Heisterberg, viral hit Las Palmas director Johannes Nyholm, Force Majeure actress Fanni Metelius and Cannes Cinefondation alumni Juho Kuosmanen and Shahrbanoo Sadat.

Other works in progress will be presented from directors Mads Brugger ([link...

David Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess are set to star in AMC and Lionsgate’s upcoming drama “Feed the Beast.” Based on the Danish series “Bankerot,” the drama will be adapted by executive producer and showrunner Clyde Phillips. Henrik Ruben Genz, Malene Blenkov and Piv Bernth will also executive produce. The drama follows two best friends who take a chance on their dream of opening a restaurant in the Bronx. Also read: Why AMC Isn't Worried About 'Fear the Walking Dead' Going Against 'Game of Thrones' “David and Jim are each incredibly talented actors whose careers span theater, film and television.

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...

AMC's new Feed the Beast TV series (previously, Broke) will begin production in New York City, in February, with an eye on a May premiere. Feed the Beast is based on Danish series Bankerot, with writer, Clyde Phillips, set as showrunner.

Feed the Beast features friends who open a Bronx restaurant, after a tragedy. It is is produced by AMC Studios and Lionsgate with Clyde Phillips Productions. Executive producing are Phillips, Henrik Ruben Genz, Malene Blenkov, and Piv Bernth.

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It’s become a great breaking in the new year traditional here at Ioncinema.com. We begin our countdown to the our most anticipated foreign films (anything outside the U.S.) with our own Nicholas Bell curating the best bets for 2016. Here are the titles and filmmakers that didn’t make our final Top 100 cut, but are nonetheless “radar” worthy.

101. El Rey del Once – Daniel Burman

102. The Dancer – Stephanie Di Giusto

103. Le Cancre – Paul Vecchiali

104. While the Women are Sleeping – Wayne Wang

105. Tomorrow – Martha Pinson

106. Spring Again – Gael Morel

107. Crowhurst – Simon Rumley

108. Le Garcon – Philippe Lioret *

109. Marie and the Misfits – Sebastien Betbeder

110. Le Caravage – Alain Chevalier

111. Night Song – Raphael Nadjari

112. Réparer les vivants – Katell Quillevere *

113. Project Lazarus – Mateo Gil

114. Afterimages – Andrzej Wajda

115. Don’t Knock Twice – Caradog James

116. Detour – Christopher Smith

117. The Bride of Rip Van Winkle – Shunji Iwai

118. Three on the Road – Johnnie To

119. Le Vin et le Vent...

War drama to be submitted for the Best Foreign-Language Film category.

Denmark has selected Tobias Lindholm’s A War as its entry to the Best Foreign-Language Film Category at the 88thAcademy Awards.

The feature, which premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival in the Horizons competition, is the story of a Danish military commander who is captured by the Taliban and accused of a war crime when he returns to Denmark.

The national selection commitee selected the film, which was released in Denmark on Sept 10 and is headed for festivals in Zurich and Reykjavik.

A War was picked from a shortlist of three which also included Anders Thomas Jensen’s Men & Chicken and Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary The Look of Silence.

Henrik Bo Nielsen, CEO of the Danish Film Institute and chair of the committee, said the committee chose Lindholm’s drama as it believed the film “would have the greatest chance to seize the attention...

So what would you do if you found a substantial amount of money in the apartment of a recently deceased neighbour? Herein lies the premise to Henrik Ruben Genz’s first feature in the English language – one which places the viewer in the shoes of the protagonist, to make for an immersive, if wildly

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In Henrik Ruben Genz’s Good People James Franco and Kate Hudson play an American couple renovating a family home in London when hard times and an odd slice of luck collide and the pair have a hard choice to make. All it takes is a dead tenant and the unexplained thousands of pounds he had

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Fox

Fox has announced its Fall premiere dates with "Gotham" and "Minority Report" kicking off things on Monday September 21st followed by "Scream Queens" on Tuesday September 22nd and "Rosewood" and "Empire" on Wednesday September 23rd.

Things take a break for a few days before Sunday September 27th sees the return of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," "The Last Man on Earth," "The Simpsons," "Family Guy" and "Bob's Burgers". On Thursday October 1st comes the return of "Bones" and "Sleepy Hollow". [Source: The Live Feed]

Houdini and Doyle

Michael Weston ("House") and Stephen Mangan ("Episodes") have scored the two title roles in David Shore's true story period drama "Houdini and Doyle". Stephen Hopkins ("24," "Californication") has signed on as director.

The series revolves around master magician and paranormal debunker Harry Houdini (Weston) and prolific writer and paranormal aficionado Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Mangan) as they grudgingly join forces with New Scotland Yard to investigate inexplicable crimes with a supernatural slant.

Festival to include 18 world premieres and close with Us crime documentary 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets.

Amit Gupta’s One Crazy Thing (fka Nothing Like This) is to receive its European premiere as the opening film of the 14th East End Film Festival (July 1-12).

Starring and produced by Ray Panthaki, the romantic comedy also stars Daisy Bevan

Panthaki plays a former daytime TV star whose life has hit rock bottom until he meets his dream girl - and has to choose his moment to tell her about the leaked sex tape that made him an internet sensation.

Eeff will this year include 18 world premieres, 8 European premieres and 20 UK premieres.

The closing film will be Marc Silver’s 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets, which examines the aftermath of a tragic incident at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida, in which an unarmed 17-year old African-American was gunned down for playing loud music. It marks British documentary filmmaker Silver’s follow-up to Who...

Goteborg: Anticipated Nordic titles presented to industry.

A host of anticipated Nordic features were pitched to industry this week at the Works In Progress strand of the Gothenburg Film Festival.

Potential buyers and sellers heard about upcoming projects from directors including Antti Jokinen, Lisa Aschan and Mads Matthiesen.

Swedish outfit GarageFilm International is producing Aschan’s horror White People, currently in post-production.

Vera Vitali, Pernilla August and Issaka Sawadogo star in the feature about a woman’s clash with a corrupt head of security.

Aschan’s debut She Monkey’s received a special mention at the Berlinale and won Gothenburg’s Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film.

Solar Films’ period war-romance Wildeye, currently in post-production, comes from acclaimed Finnish features and music video director Antti Jokinen, best known for drama Purge and Hilary Swank starrer The Resident.

Set against the historical backdrop of The Lapland War in 1944-1945, Wildeye charts the story of a midwife who falls...

Tordenskiold

Director: Henrik Ruben Genz // Writer: Erlend Loe

Danish director Genz is best known for his 2008 film Terribly Happy, which earned him comparison to the Coen Bros. and David Lynch. This past year, he made the underwhelming English language debut, Good People, which came and went without making any conversation. We’re excited to see him return to Denmark about an 18th century naval hero. Set in the year 1720, the story is about what happens to 29-year-old Tordenskiold when the Great Northern War ends and he doesn’t know what to do with the rest of his life. His trusted valet persuades him to go on a European ‘road trip’ to search for a bride.

Cast: Jakob Oftebro, Martin Buch, Leonora Ployart

Producer: Nimbus Films’ Lars Bredo Rahbek (Itsi Bitsi)

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.

Release Date: With filming well underway, it’s hard to say where this will premiere,...

Jakob Oftebro (Kon-Tiki) plays the titular Danish-Norwegian Vice-Admiral

Henrik Ruben Genz is now shooting Tordenskiold, a drama about the famous 18th-century naval hero.

Jakob Oftebro (Kon-Tiki) plays the titular Danish-Norwegian Vice-Admiral Tordenskiold who was something of a rock star war veteran of his day, and who is still well known throughout Scandinavia.

Set in the year 1720, the story is about what happens to 29-year-old Tordenskiold when the Great Northern War ends and he doesn’t know what to do with the rest of his life. His trusted valet (Martin Buch) persuades him to go on a European ‘road trip’ to search for a bride. The cast also features Leonora Ployart.

“Tordenskiold is a towering legend in our shared Danish-Norwegian history,” said Genz, whose credits include Terribly Happy. “One thing about Tordenskiold always piqued my curiosity – his death! Tordenskiold dies at age 30 in an apparently accidental and pathetic duel. Why did this great hero end his days so...

James Franco is so clearly above the material in “Good People” — an unambitious, ultra-conventional block of blahness devoid of pretension or curiosity — that his appearance in this low-budget thriller opposite the professionally flailing Kate Hudson just might be some kind of performance art. Sure, great actors star in wretched material all the time, but Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz's English-language debut offers Franco little more than the chance to slum it in some genre schlock with grainy cinematography and a conspicuously limited number of backdrops. At least when the actor-writer-scholar-director played a very loose version of himself in...

Good People

Written for the screen by Kelly Masterson

Directed by Henrik Ruben Genz

USA, 2014

Tom and Anna Wright (James Franco and Kate Hudson) are a financially-struggling American couple giving UK life a try. The money from a robbery-gone-wrong ends up in their basement and they make the ill-fated decision to hold onto it, unaware that the cash will bring two separate criminal gangs and a worn police detective charging into their lives.

Good People plays out like a combination of A Simple Plan and Shallow Grave, though it has neither the cold irony of the former nor the sweaty shiftiness of the latter. Still, director Henrik Ruben Genz’s stateside debut is a capable thriller with sequences of strong suspense.

The opening scene may in fact be the strongest. Jack Witkowski (Sam Spruell) and crew prepare to rob a stash of heroin from drug importer Khan (Omar Sy). Genz...

If the movies have taught us anything, it’s that no good comes from finding a fortune in money that seems to have dropped into your lap. Bad things are sure to follow, and such is the case in the English-language film debut of acclaimed Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz (2008’s Terribly Happy). Starring James Franco and Kate Hudson as a couple who run afoul of French and British gangsters after coming upon a stash of some $400,000 in their deceased tenant’s basement apartment, Good People follows a familiar thriller template without managing to be particularly compelling. The central

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People Are People: Genz’s English Debut a Satisfactory B-Grade Noir

Expectations may a bet set a bit too high for Danish filmmaker Henrik Ruben Genz’s descent into the English language with his adaptation of Markus Sakey’s novel, Good People. Considering that 2008’s Terribly Happy, the director’s last film to play stateside, drew comparisons to the Coen Bros. and David Lynch, this latest effort pales severely in comparison, resembling more of a kitchen sink noir drowning in its own sea of dirty dishwater. Bereft of any vicious underpinnings or subversive class commentaries that would have at least presented something to chew on, we’re treated to the kind of deceptive web that doesn’t seem altogether probable from all its various angles.

Tom and Anna Reed (James Franco, Kate Hudson) are struggling to make ends meet after migrating to London to claim a sizeable home they’ve inherited.

Exclusive: Producer Lars Bredo Rahbek of Copenhagen’s Nimbus Film, whose Itsi Bitsi screened premiered at Tiff last night, is now developing a big-screen adaptation of In Search of a Distant Voice by author Taichi Yamada.

The film’s setting will be transplanted from Tokyo to Copenhagen and director Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm is attached to direct and working on the first draft of the script now.

The novel, first published in 1986, is well known in Japan and was translated into English in 2006.

Rahbek told Screen: “It’s a mixture of a drama with a ghost story. It also suits the talents of Samanou very well.”

“Sometimes I get envious that you can see certain genres of film like horror or ghost stories that are hard to envision in a small, modern country such as Denmark,” the producer, who is a fluent Japanese speaker, tells Screen. “I was scouting to see how we could bring elements of that...

As we look in the rearview mirror of the summer blockbusters, September heralds the start of the fall movie season. Filled with Hollywood heavyweights and A-listers, here’s our Big list of the most anticipated movies coming to cinemas this autumn and during the holidays.

Our exhaustive list includes films that are playing at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival as well the ones that already have a theatrical release date. With the awards season on the horizon, we also added a few bonus films at the end to keep your eye out for in the months ahead.

Pull up a chair, grab a pen and paper and get ready for Wamg’s Guide to the 100+ Films This Fall And Holiday Season.

We kick it off with what’s showing in Toronto at the film festival that runs September 4 – 14.

Maps To The Stars – September 2014 – Toronto International Film Festival; UK & Ireland September...

Includes films by Niels Arden Oplev, Pernille Fischer Christensen and Nils Malmros.

The Danish Oscar committee has shortlisted three films, one of which will be submitted as Denmark’s official entry for the 87th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

They include Niels Arden Oplev’s Speed Walking, Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Someone to Love You and Nils Malmros’ Sorrow and Joy.

The films were chosen from a longlist of 18 features and four documentaries. The committee is expected to name the final candidate on Sept 18.

Denmark has had a strong showing at the Oscars in recent years, with two nominations and a win for Susanne Bier’s In A Better World in 2011.

The announcement of the five foreign films nominated for the Oscar will be made on Jan 15, 2015. The awards ceremony will be held on Feb 22, 2015 in the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood.

Speed Walking is set in 1970s Denmark and follows adolescent Martin, whose mother...

Millennium Entertainment has released the first Good People trailer for director Henrik Ruben Genz’s crime thriller. The film stars James Franco and Kate Hudson as a cash-strapped couple living in London who come across a duffle bag full of money when their downstairs neighbor turns up dead. Initially thinking no one would miss the large sum, the two soon find themselves in over their heads. The London setting allows the film to stand out amongst the glut of other generic gritty thrillers, and Omar Sy (The Intouchables) appears to be playing a rather menacing villain. It’s still tough to tell whether Franco is half asleep or genuinely giving it his all, though. He does make a lot of movies. Hit the jump to watch the Good People trailer. The film also stars Tom Wilkinson and will be released in theaters and VOD on September 26th. Here’s the...

James Franco seems to be everywhere these days, from starring as George in the recent Broadway adaptation Of Mice and Men to signing on to play The Room director Tommy Wiseau in the upcoming comedy The Disaster Artist. A film based on his collection of short stories, Palo Alto, came out in limited release this weekend, and he keeps doing weird antics on social media, in case all of the exposure he was already getting was not enough. Currently, he has close to a dozen films in post-production, but the next time you can catch him on the big screen is in Good People, a thriller from Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz.

Franco stars as Tom Reed in the film. After moving into his wife’s London house – her name is Anna and Kate Hudson has the role – Tom falls into debt. However, the couple finds that the tenant beneath...

The first trailer for Danish director Henrik Genz's English-language film debut is out, and it's an eerie one. Good People stars James Franco and Kate Hudson as Tom and Anna, a couple experiencing money problems. In the teaser, we see them come across a dead neighbor, as well as his hidden pile of cash. The film takes an even darker turn when both the police (led by Tom Wilkinson) and some nefarious characters (including Omar Sy) come looking for the loot, no doubt teaching our leads that found money always comes at a price. The film, which was written by screenwriter Kelly Masterson (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) and based on the novel by Marcus Sakey, will be out later this year.

James Franco has been having a rough go of it lately. After a few months that included flirting with a 17-year-old girl over Instagram, releasing some naked selfies on the internet and playing a soccer coach who has an affair with one of his students, now it seems that Franco’s latest role has him getting in a whole new type of trouble. Can’t a man catch a break? As the first trailer for Henrik Ruben Genz‘s Good People so generously explains, Franco and his wife, Kate Hudson, aren’t having such a nice time. While they’re deeply in love, money don’t pay the bills. Their move to London to renovate a family home sees them falling further and further into debt, as someone forgot to tell them that it’s actually at least number two on the hella expensive cities of the world list. Their cruise through bummertown (population: two) continues when...

When a happy couple discovers a large sum of money that can help them survive, they find themselves in a load of trouble.

That’s the suspenseful premise of the upcoming film “Good People,” which stars James Franco and Kate Hudson.

The flick’s trailer just hit the web and displays plenty of thrilling scenes that get fans excited for more.

“Good People” is directed by Henrik Ruben Genz and also stars Anna Friel, Omar Sy and Tom Wilkinson. It’s set to hit theaters on July 25. Check out the trailer in the player above!

His new agents at CAA have certainly been busy, getting the man work in Hollywood, since he left France for the sun and fun of La living.One of a handful of upcoming projects Omar Sy is starring, or co-starring in, is Millennium Films' Good People, which is directed by Danish filmmaker Henrik Genz (Terribly Happy), his English-language debut. The film is described as a thriller which follows an American couple living in London who fall into deep debt while renovating her family’s home. When their downstairs apartment tenant dies, leaving 200,000 pounds in cash, the couple takes it, and then some very bad things start to happen. Based on a novel...

There's no doubt James Franco has been super busy lately. Last year alone, Franco appeared in the films Homefront, Oz: The Great and Powerful, This is The End, Lovelace, As I Lay Dying, Child of God and Palo Alto. This year he's not much less busy with Third Person on the way, and now we have the trailer for a new crime drama called Good People starring Franco and Kate Hudson (who also has Wish I Was Here this summer too). The film follows a down-on-their-luck couple in serious debt who stumble upon a huge stack of cash in the apartment of the now deceased tenant living below them. It seems to solve their financial problems and fix their lives at first, until they start getting chased by those who want the cash back. Watch! Here's the first trailer for Henrik Genz's Good People, originally from Apple: Good People...

Millennium Entertainment just unveiled the trailer for its upcoming "Good People" crime drama, starring James Franco, Kate Hudson, Omar Sy and Tom Wilkinson. Check it out below. Plot: The story follows a young American couple, Tom and Anna Reed (Franco and Hudson), who fall into severe debt while renovating Anna's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them is dead, and he's left behind a stash of cash - $400,000 worth. Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what's necessary to get them out of debt. But when they start spending the money and can't seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary . the thief who...

What do you do if you’re broke and about to lose your house? Steal a dead neighbor’s cash, of course! (Just kidding, please never do that.)

In upcoming thriller Good People, James Franco and Kate Hudson play a couple who are dealing with debt but soon discover their neighbor dead with $370,000 in cash left in his apartment. They take the cash, thinking they’ve solved all their money problems… and then things go downhill from there.

Omar Sy co-stars, and this will be Danish director Henrik Genz’s English-language debut. Good People is based on Marcus Sakey’s novel of the same name.

I can only assume the end result of Good People is that it's a generic action thriller considering it's got a pretty solid cast beginning with James Franco and Kate Hudson who find their downstairs tenant dead and 200,000 pounds worth of cash stuffed in his ceiling. When they decide to keep the money from the cops (Tom Wilkinson) the bad guy (Omar Sy) comes after them. amz asin="B001D6FIPW" size="small"Snowpiercer and Before the Devil Knows Your Dead screenwriter Kelly Masterson wrote the screenplay based on Marcus Sakey's novel. Henrik Ruben Genz ("The Killing") directs. Sakey recently saw his novel "Brilliance" optioned as a potential starring vehicle for Will Smith so his is a name generating some heat as of late. Millennium Films will release the picture later this year, but no firm release date has yet been set. Check out the trailer below and see what you think.

Young American couple Tom and Anna Reed (James Franco and Kate Hudson) fall into severe debt while renovating Anna's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them has been murdered and he left behind a stash of cash-$400,000 worth. Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what's necessary to get them out of debt. But when they start spending the money and can't seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary-the thief who stole it-and that's when very bad things start happening to good people. Check out the first trailer for Good People as the movie makes its debut in theaters later this year.

Good People...

James Franco has certainly been keeping very busy these days, churning out one movie after another at warp speed. Now the Oscar-nominated actor stars alongside Kate Hudson and Tom Wilkinson in Henrik Ruben Genz's heart-pounding thriller "Good People," which is set to come out this year. In "Good People," Franco and Hudson play a newlywed couple in England about to lose their home -- until an unexpected death leaves them with some seemingly good fortune, in the form of a bag of money. But much to their dismay, the story takes a dangerous twist when they learn that the money comes with a number of terrifying strings attached. Check out the trailer below:...

The first poster has arrived for the upcoming Good People which stars James Franco, Kate Hudson, Omar Sy and Tom Wilkinson. Henrik Ruben Genz directs the thriller from the Kelly Masterson script, which tells of a couple who find cash in their dead tenant's apartment and keep it for themselves. They end up becoming the target of the thief who stole it. Also on board the cast are Sam Spruell, Michael Jibson and Diarmaid Murtagh. Produces are Benhamin Forkner, Ed Cathell III, Avi Lerner, Tobey Maguire, Eric Kranzler and Thomas Gammeltoft.

James Franco and Kate Hudson are Good People. Wait, we’re talking about the upcoming contemporary thriller which comes from director Henrik Genz, and is (unfortunately) still without an official release date. But, at least we have some pretty cool set photos to share with you today – they laugh, they kiss, they run from a police officer… looks promising… Genz directs the movie from a script written by Kelly Masterson, which revolves around a couple in debt from several rounds of futile fertility treatments, who think their problems are solved when they stumble upon money found in their deceased tenant’s apartment. ...

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