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Dark Star Pictures has acquired US distribution rights to Esben Tonnesen and Julie R. Olgaard’s crime thriller The Angel Maker.

Plans are underway for a late summer 2024 theatrical release.

A debut directorial feature for Danish actress Olgaard and a second feature for Tonnesen, The Angel Maker follows a detective suffering from postpartum depression who becomes involved in a case with her partner.

The film is written by Yusuf Othman and Olgaard based on Olgaard’s original idea.

It is produced by Olgaard for Denmark’s HitHero Productions. The Angel Maker was number one on Netflix in Denmark for two...

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Fashion designer Tom Ford makes his directorial debut to turn Christopher Isherwood’s novel of the same name into the lush and fashionable feature. Colin Firth stars as George Falconer, a depressed English college professor in 1960s Los Angeles grieving the death of his longtime partner, Jim. Julianne Moore co-stars as...

REInvent has closed a French deal on “The Angel Maker,” a psychological thriller starring a top Nordic cast including Julie R. Ølgaard (“The Killing”), Roland Møller (“Riders of Justice”), Christopher Læssø (“The Bridge”) and Stine Stengade (“Those Who Kill”).

The banner has sold the film to Koba Films in France and will be hosting a market screening at Cannes on the 18th.

“The Angel Maker” tells the story of crime detective Laura who is specialized within cybercrime. Laura is on sick leave with a psychosis after a birth depression and by coincidence she stumbles upon a case with a beastly serial killer which piques her interest and she decides that it is time for her to return to her job as a crime detective.

Produced by HitHero Productions, the film is directed by Esben Tønnesen and Julie R. Ølgaard. It will be released on June 8.

This is a reprint of our review from the London Flim Festival in 2011.

For fans of the crime genre, both on the page and on the screen, Scandinavia has been the hottest source of new material in recent years (although obviously not literally). Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy was a huge bestseller worldwide, and has already provided three Swedish films and David Fincher's remake "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo," while Kenneth Branagh has had great success on TV as Henning Mankell's "Wallander," and Danish series "The Killing" proved a huge hit at home and in the U.K, and was remade on AMC under the same name.

The latest hot ticket is Jo Nesbø, a Norwegian former journalist who sprung to fame with a series of novels focusing on Detective Harry Hole, a loose canon in the Oslo police force. The first of those books to break out internationally,...

Title: Headhunters Director: Morten Tyldum Cast: Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julie R. Ølgaard, Kyrre Haugen Sydness, Reidar Sørensen, Nils Jørgen Kaalstad Films tend to define themselves in their opening moments. The photography, the dialogue, the music, and other elements help to establish the tone and style, previewing what’s to come in the ensuing ninety to one hundred and twenty minutes. When a film becomes something entirely different than what it appears to be in its first scene, it can be jarring and disjointed. Yet when a film manages a seamless and subtle transition from one genre to an entirely separate one, it’s disarming in the best possible [ Read More ]...

The second trailer and sixth poster have been released for the upcoming Norwegian thriller Headhunters, which hits U.S. theaters April 27. Take a look at new footage from this adaptation of Jo Nesbo's novel, which stars Aksel Hennie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, along with the latest one-sheet.

Headhunters: Trailer 2

Headhunters stars the talented Aksel Hennie (Max Manus) as Roger, a charming scoundrel and Norway's most accomplished headhunter. Roger is living a life of luxury well beyond his means, and stealing art to subsidize his expensive lifestyle. When his beautiful gallery owner wife introduces him to a former mercenary in the possession of an extremely valuable painting, he decides to risk it all to get his hands on it, and in doing so discovers something which makes him a hunted man.

Headhunters comes to theaters April 27th, 2012 and stars Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julie Ølgaard, Kyrre Haugen Sydness, Reidar Sørensen,...

"Deliriously Entertaining!" A new UK trailer has arrived, originally via AICN on Yahoo now on YouTube, for a Norwegian crime thriller called Headhunters, based on Jo Nesbo's novel, about a corporate headhunter who moonlights as an art thief and gets into some serious shit while on one job. The film stars a mostly Scandinavian cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Synnøve Macody Lund, Julie R. Ølgaard and Aksel Hennie, who almost looks like a young Christopher Walken. This is a great trailer and builds on the story and intensity, ending on an excellent final note. I really want to see this, I always love a good heist. Check it out below! Watch the new UK trailer for Morten Tyldum's Headhunters, embedded via YouTube: An accomplished headhunter thief risks everything to obtain a painting owned by a former mercenary. Headhunters was directed by Norwegian filmmaker Morten Tyldum, of the films Fallen Angels, Buddy...

Director: Morten Tyldum Writers: Lars Gudmestad, Ulf Ryberg, Jo Nesbø (novel) Starring: Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julie Ølgaard, Eivind Sander, Kyrre Haugen Sydness, Torgrim Mellum Stene Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is a corporate headhunter who is currently looking for a new CEO of a Norwegian Gps technology conglomerate, Pathfinder. During his interviews Roger likes to compare personal art collections -- specifically if the candidate has any expensive artwork hanging in their home -- and whether or not the candidate owns any dogs. We soon discover why Roger cares about such details... To supplement his salary, Roger is an art thief. But even the two revenue streams are not significant enough for Roger to afford the mortgage on his lavish modernist home, especially since he feels the need to excessively shower his gorgeous and intelligent wife, Diane (Synnøve Macody Lund), with gifts. Roger's spending habits are to compensate...