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Röyksopp is kicking off the year with a brand new album!

Following the surprise release of their ambient album Nebulous Nights (An Ambient Excursion into Profound Mysteries) at the end of 2024, the electronic duo announced a new album called True Electric, due out on April 11.

The electronic group is launching their announcement with “What Else Is There?” featuring Fever Ray, a new version of the classic Röyksopp track from their 2005 album, The Understanding.

The accompanying Stian Andersen-directed visualizer was recorded on location at the band’s 2023 True Electric show in Athens, Greece.

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True Electric features 19 studio versions of the music from their True Electric tour in 2023, featuring previously unreleased track “The ‘R’” as well as reworked versions of originals and remixes from their discography, including Robyn collaboration “Do It Again” and “Running To The Sea” featuring Susanne Sundfør, as well as several tracks...

To celebrate the release of Three Wishes for Cinderella, we spoke with the stars and the director of this new fantasy film.

Based on the original Norwegian fairytale, Three Wishes for Cinderella revolves around a young girl made to serve her wicked stepmother and stepsister. One day she is granted magical hazelnut, of which she could make a wish. There she sets about to change her fate.

We spoke with superstar Astrid about playing a fairytale princess who also fights and stands-up for herself. We also spoke with Ellen Dorrit Peterson about finding empathy with a villain and her wickedly good hairstyle.

We then chatted with director Cecilie A. Mosli about working with the snow and her great performance as several different animals.

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Exclusive: Shout! Studios has acquired all North American rights to the feature documentary Refuge from levelFILM, Katie Couric Media and Artemis Rising Foundation. The multi-platform entertainment distribution and production arm of Shout! Factory plans to release the film in theaters and across all major digital platforms early next year.

Directed and produced by award winners Erin Bernhardt and Din Blankenship, Refuge is set in the most diverse square mile in America — Clarkston, Georgia — and follows a Syrian Kurd, a former Klansman, and a town of refugees who seek belonging in a country that blames them for its problems. Swimming against the current of an increasingly polarized and isolated America, each must decide whether they will risk knowing and being known by those who oppose them. Ultimately, Refuge uncovers what is possible when we leave the security of our tribes, and what is at stake for our country if we don’t.

Helping a selection of five European films to connect to Latin American distributors, Efp’s Film Sales Support (Fss) program has awarded grants to three sales agencies to step up their digital campaigns for this year’s hybrid Ventana Sur market.

Two companies from Germany have received support this year, as well as one from Spain. The unspecified amounts are to help the companies to “broaden their online presence and solidify business communications with buyers from Latin America attending Ventana Sur this year,” according to a press statement.

The new initiative underscores the fact that Ventana Sur has become an ever larger distribution springboard for European salles agents and their European films. “Ventana Sur is also a platform for European films, and this year sales are happening online. The onsite part is more focused on projects, pitching, and networking. Marketing is even more important to make films visible when going online,...

International sales agency Sola Media, which is taking part in Hong Kong’s Filmart this week, has boarded the Norwegian remake of Czech classic film “Three Wishes for Cinderella,” with pop music star Astrid Smeplass, better known as Astrid S, playing Cinderella.

Smeplass’ tracks have generated more than 2.3 billion streams with hit singles such as “Hurts So Good,” “Think Before I Talk” and “Emotion.”

Smeplass said of Václav Vorlícek’s 1973 classic: “It is such an important film. When I was young, I admired the original version of Cinderella a lot, and I hope that we will reach a wide female audience who will see that they can be just as brave and courageous as she.“

Sola’s Solveig Langeland, who acts as an executive producer on the film, said it would be “an incredibly modern and feminist yet charming and atmospheric fairy-tale.”

Langeland said that Cinderella would be portrayed as “kind and beautiful,...

Norwegian singer Astrid S will play the title role in a modern-day remake of the 1973 Czech film. TV director and actress Cecilie Mosli (the TV series Thin Ice) is now shooting a new family film entitled Three Wishes for Cinderella. The project, a modern remake of the 1973 Czech feature of the same name directed by Václav Vorlíček, was penned by Kamilla Krogsveen and Karsten Fullu alongside writing duo Anna Bache-Wiig and Siv Rajendram Eliassen. The story follows Cinderella, who, armed with a great deal of courage, and empowered by her three magical hazelnuts, is able to break free from her cruel stepmother's tyranny and rescue the prince (Cengiz Al) from his gilded cage. Three Wishes for Cinderella is being produced by Frederick Pn Howard and Petter J Borgli for Oslo-based outfit Storm Films. The film...