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Already finished your Suits binge on Netflix and/or Peacock? You’re in luck because the Gina Torres-starring spinoff Pearson is now available only on Peacock, making that streamer the exclusive home to all episodes of Suits and its offshoot.

The short-lived spinoff followed — spoiler alert if you’re still catching up on Suits! — disbarred powerhouse attorney Jessica Pearson (Torres) as she left her New York City law firm and got involved in the down-and-dirty politics of Chicago. There, she tried to atone for her past while taking on the role of right-hand fixer for the city’s mayor...

"We're gonna play the game until we figure a way out." Crackle has just released a new trailer and key art for their upcoming TV show The Oath.Executive produced by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, the crime drama "explores a world of gangs made up of those sworn to protect and defend and sheds light on corrupt and secret societies that are nearly impossible to join—only a select few make the cut—but once inside, members will do what they must to protect each other from enemies on the outside and from within their own ranks." The cast includes Sean Bean, Jj Soria, Ryan Kwanten, Cory Hardrict, and Katrina Law.Read More…...

The new Sony Crackle drama “The Oath” was on location filming in Puerto Rico around the time the region was devastated by hurricanes late last year, an ordeal the cast and creator said bonded them as a group, and with their primarily Puerto Rican crew and host country. “I think that we all felt very connected to our crew,” star Katrina Law told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday. “We were really very grateful that Sony and Crackle allowed us to go back after each evacuation, to go back into that environment and stay committed to...

50 Cent got himself mixed up in some serious gang warfare when he signed on to executive produce Sony Crackle’s new scripted original drama series “The Oath.” Well, police gang warfare. In the first trailer for “The Oath,” we get a peek inside the world of cops who have sworn to protect and defend the public, but are also part of corrupt secret societies. The gangs are almost impossible to join, but once you’re in, you’re in. And members must protect each other from enemies on the outside — and within their own crew. It doesn’t look like a great workplace environment, but...

Sony Crackle has two new series in the works, the streaming network announced on Sunday: the crime drama “The Butcher,” produced by Gary Oldman and Douglas Urbanski, and “Rob Riggle’s Jet Ski Academy,” created by and starring comedian Rob Riggle. Written by Charles Burmeister, “The Butcher” follows Los Angeles homicide detective Mitch Dixon as he attempts to find, hunt down, and kill a serial killer who has discovered the key to immortality, the price of which is consuming human flesh. Also Read: 50 Cent Gang Drama 'The Oath' Coming to Crackle (Video) “We are incredibly pleased to be working with the wonderful...

If you like your revenge stories centered around a strong emotional core, featuring well-defined characters, Baltasar Kormákur’s The Oath is one for you. In it, Kormákur directs himself as Finnur, a physician who finds his ethical standards tested when meeting his daughter’s new boyfriend, Ottar (Gisli Orn Gardarsson). Fed up with watching Anna (Hera Hilmar) waste her life on drugs and partying, Finnur decides to act in her best interest and attempts to break off the relationship with her drug-dealing lover. Violence ensues as Finnur’s professional and family life are put at risk. With fine performances in spades and lush cinematography to boot, The Oath is a thrilling character drama that forces viewers to contemplate the thin line between right and wrong. Check out an...

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Exclusive: Follow-up to Of Horses And Men sells to France, Denmark, Ukraine.

Benedikt Erlingsson’s A Woman At War has been pre-sold to France, where Jour2Fête has boarded theatrical rights and Potemkine will handle home video. In Denmark, Camera Film will distribute.

Producers Slot Machine sealed both of these early deals but Beta Cinema will handle the film’s international sales.

In Ukraine, Ufd will distribute; that deal was negotiated by the film’s Ukrainian co-producer Solar Media.

The film, now shooting, is Erlingsson’s follow-up to his debut feature Of Horses and Men, which won more than 20 awards including best new director at San Sebastián, best director in Tokyo, grand jury prize at Les Arcs, six Icelandic Edda awards and the lucrative Nordic Council Film Prize. It was Iceland’s submission to the foreign Oscar race in 2014.

A Woman At War will shoot for eight weeks, firstly on location in Iceland until the end of...

Back in 2015 we told you that Icelandic director/producer Baltasar Kormákur was prepping The Oath, a tense psychological thriller. Years later we finally have a pair of trailers and one-sheets for you. Kormákur directs from a script he wrote with… Continue Reading →

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Director’s RVK Studios, producer of TV series Trapped, buys space outside Reykjavik as potential home for local and foreign shoots.

Actor and director Baltasar Kormákur, founder of RVK Studios, has purchased four industrial buildings on 20,000 square metres of land on the outskirts of Reykjavik, where he plans to set up sound stages and post-production operations.

Speaking to Screen during the recent Reykjavik Film Festival, the Everest director said of the site, which sits within the borders of Iceland’s capital: “It’s a film village, but it’s also the beginning of a creative village, a village of creative industries for Reykjavik.”

RVK paid around $2.6m for the land and solid post-war buildings.

The former home of a fertiliser repository has at least one structure of 3,000 square metres, plus space in three other buildings for post-production of Icelandic and inward investment films shooting in the country.

Kormákur said that a hotel might also be built on the...

Rvk Studios, Tornasol, Euskadi team on period crime story.

Baltasar Kormákur’s Icelandic outfit Rvk Studios has struck a co-production deal with Eduardo Carneros CEO of Euskadi Movie Aie, and Javier Lopez Blanco, CEO of Tornasol Films, to team on feature Red Fjords.

The period crime story is based on one of the most infamous episodes in Icelandic history: the murder of 32 Basque whalers in 1615.

Red Fjords will be directed by Basque director Koldo Serra (Gernica) and chronicles the adventures of Ishmael, a young hunter who enlists as a whaler and sets sail for Iceland. After unwittingly engaging in an illegal deal the whalers came under attack.

Recent Rvk Studios credits include San Sebastian competition entry The Oath, Everest, and well received TV series Trapped.

Tornasol Films has produced more than 130 features including 2009 Oscar winner The Secret In Their Eyes and San Sebastian 2016 Zinemaldia selection May God Save Us.

The new film “Heartstone” follows Thor (Baldur Einarsson) and Christian (Blær Hinriksson), two pre-teen best friends who live in a small village in rural Iceland. They both have rough home lives — Thor suffers from absentee parenting and Christian has a drunk and abusive father — but the two find refuge in each other and their time spent loitering in the neighborhood, avoiding bullies, and hanging around the local diner. But when the two strike up romantic relationships with girls, it threatens to completely destroy their relationship. The film will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival next week. Watch the trailer below and check out the poster as well.

Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’

It is the directorial debut from Icelandic director Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson. He has previously directed the short films “Þröng sýn,” “Jeffrey & Beth,...

The Oath, the latest film from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (Everest and Jar City) is coming to Tiff this weekend. We have a trailer and a clip from the film to share with you.    The Oath marks the first time in eight years that Kormákur is stepping back in front of the camera taking the lead role in the film.    In The Oath, Kormákur plays the part of a father who sets off on a mission to try to pull his daughter away from the world of drugs and petty crime, only to discover that danger can be found in unexpected places.    The film debuts in the festival Saturday night at the Lightbox, and screens again on the 11th at Scotiabank 3 and...

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Exclusive: Everest helmer Baltasar Kormákur has stepped back in front of the camera for the first time in eight years to star in The Oath. He also directs, produces and co-scripted the Icelandic psychological thriller that’s premiering on Saturday at the Toronto Film Festival as a Special Presentation (check out the subtitled trailer above). Kormákur plays Finnur, a doctor who sets off on a mission to pull his daughter away from the world of drugs and petty crime, only to…...

Exclusive: In his first official interview, Film4’s new chief talks strategy, challenges and striking a balance between UK and Us shoots

Two months into his new job as the director of Film4, Daniel Battsek is feeling confident that the transition period between himself and former head David Kosse - who stepped down this year to become president of international at Stx Entertainment - has been “as seamless as we could make it”.

While his official start was early July, Battsek says he has effectively been “part of the overall team” since Cannes. The first few months have been spent familiarising himself with the material on Film4’s slate at various stages of development, getting to know the team “some of whom I know very well, and some of who I don’t know at all”, and meeting with the UK industry.

“I’ve really enjoyed being in the office getting to know the films, the great team...

Exclusive: Film4 boss talks strategy, challenges and striking a balance between UK and Us shoots

Two months into his new job as the new director of Film4, Daniel Battsek is already feeling confident that the transition period between himself and former head David Kosse - who stepped down this year to become president of international at Stx Entertainment - has been “as seamless as we could make it”.

While his official start was early July, Battsek says he has effectively been “part of the overall team” since Cannes. The first few months have been spent familiarising himself with the material on Film4’s slate at various stages of development, getting to know the team “some of whom I know very well, and some of who I don’t know at all”, and meeting with the UK industry.

“I’ve really enjoyed being in the office getting to know the films, the great team...

Exclusive: Film4 boss talks strategy, challenges and striking a balance between UK and Us shoots

Two months into his new job as the new director of Film4, Daniel Battsek is already feeling confident that the transition period between himself and former head David Kosse - who stepped down this year to become president of international at Stx Entertainment - has been “as seamless as we could make it”.

While his official start was early July, Battsek says he has effectively been “part of the overall team” since Cannes. The first few months have been spent familiarising himself with the material on Film4’s slate at various stages of development, getting to know the team “some of whom I know very well, and some of who I don’t know at all”, and meeting with the UK industry.

“I’ve really enjoyed being in the office getting to know the films, the great team...

Lee Sang-il, Bartosz M. Kowalski and Emiliano Torres also help complete competitive line-up.Scroll down for full list of titles

San Sebastian film festival (Sept 16-24) has added five titles to its competitive official selection, completing the line-up of films in line for the coveted Golden Shell.

The titles include The Oath (Eiðurinn) by Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, who competed at San Sebastian with The Sea in 2001.

In his latest feature, the director - who made last year’s Venice opener Everest - tells the story of a heart surgeon whose family begins to unravel when his daughter gets mixed up with a drug-dealing boyfriend.

Also in the running for the Golden Shell will be China’s Feng Xiaogang with contemporary fable I Am Not Madame Bovary (Wo Bu Shi Pan Jinlian), starring Fan Bingbing.

Feng’s The Banquet competed at Venice in 2006 while Aftershock was China’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2011.

Other...

A selection of films from the 2016 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has been unveiled, with films by Jim Jarmusch, Maren Ade, Tom Ford, Paul Verhoeven, Damien Chazelle, and many more.Opening NIGHTThe Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua)GALASDeepwater HorizonArrival (Denis Villeneuve)Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg)The Headhunter's Calling (Mark Williams)The Journey Is the Destination (Bronwen Hughes)Jt + The Tennessee Kids (Jonathan Demme)Lbj (Rob Reiner)Lion (Garth Davis)Loving (Jeff Nichols)A Monster Calls (J.A. Bayona)Planetarium (Rebecca Zlotowski)Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair)The Rolling Stones of Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America (Paul Dugdale)The Secret Scripture (Jim Sheridan)Snowden (Oliver Stone)Strange Weather (Katherine Dieckmann)Their Finest (Lone Scherfig)A United Kingdom (Amma Astante)Special PRESENTATIONSLa La LandThe Age of Shadows (Kim Jee-woon)All I See Is You (Marc Forster)American Honey (Andrea Arnold)American Pastoral (Ewan McGregor)Asura: The City of...

Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) programmers have served up the first picks from what will be a typically daunting menu in September.Scroll down for full list of Galas, Special Presentations

The world premiere of Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven will open the 41st Tiff on September 8. The western remake stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, and Peter Sarsgaard.

It marks a third visit to the festival for Fuqua, who previously screened Training Day and The Equalizer at Tiff.

The festival will close on September 17 with The Edge Of Seventeen, starring Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson and Kyra Sedgwick.

The coming-of-age comedy-drama marks the feature debut of writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig and is produced by Oscar-winner James L. Brooks (Jerry Maguire, As Good As It Gets).

Gala world premieres

Unveiling its first wave of titles, Tiff announced that world premieres in its Gala strand would include...

The Toronto International Film Festival — aka Tiff — has announced its first round of picks for this year’s festival, including Galas and Special Presentations, along with the festival’s opening night selection, Antoine Fuqua’s “The Magnificent Seven,” and their closing night pick, Kelly Fremon Craig’s feature directorial debut “The Edge of Seventeen.” Filled with early awards contenders, returning filmmakers and favorites from other festivals from around the globe, it’s a meaty selection of offerings that firmly announces the imminent arrival of the cinematic bonanza otherwise known as the fall festival season.

There are plenty of familiar faces here, including Denis Villeneuve, who will be bringing his “Arrival” to the same festival that has also screened his “Sicario” and “Prisoners” in previous years. The year after debuting his “Being Charlie” at Tiff, director Rob Reiner will return with his Woody Harrelson-starring biopic “Lbj.” Lone Scherfig, who has...

Filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur is in production on a new feature film in his native Iceland. The Oath is a psychological thriller, which he co-wrote with Olafur Egilsson and is directing, producing and starring, returning to acting after an eight year hiatus.

In The Oath Kormákur plays the part of a father who sets off on a mission to try to pull his daughter away from the world of drugs and petty crime, only to discover that danger can be found in unexpected places.

The film is produced under Kormákur’s Rvk Studios banner in partnership with Film4, UK with David Kosse as Executive Producer and Zdfe, Germany. World Sales are being handled by Xyz Films, who will be meeting with buyers about the project at this week’s European Film Market in Berlin.

Kormákur directed Everest which to date has grossed over $203 million worldwide since its launch in September.

Concurrently,...

Nordisk Film & TV Fond backs five new projects including a thriller starring Emmanuelle Riva.

Amour’s 88-year-old Oscar-nominated actress, Emmanuelle Riva, has joined the cast of Icelandic thriller Alma, the comeback film for director Kristin Johannesdottir, whose last feature was 1992 Cannes selection As In Heaven.

Alma is the story of a woman imprisoned in a forensic psychiatric unit for murdering her lover (even though she has no recollection of the crime). After seven years behind bars, she discovers her lover is still alive and escapes to kill him for real.

Newcomer Snæfriður Ingvarsdóttir, daughter of Ingvar E. Sigurðsson (Jar City, Of Horses and Men), plays the title role and the cast also features Hilmar Snær Guðnason (101 Reykjavik) and Kristbjörg Kjeld (Of Horses And Men).

Alma – set for delivery early 2017 — is co-produced by Iceland’s Pegasus Pictures, with France’s Arsam Film International, Sweden’s Little Big Productions, the UK’s Berserk Films, in collaboration...

Natalie Dormer of Mockingjay and Game Of Thrones will star in the thriller that the Los-Angeles-based company will introduce to buyers at the market next week.

Dormer co-wrote In Darkness with director Anthony Byrne.

42’s Ben Pugh and Josh Varney are set to produce alongside Byrne the story about a blind musician who seemingly stumbles into a world of violence after she hears a murder in progress.

UTA Independent Film Group handles Us sales and Rory Aitken and Josh Horsfield serve as executive producers.

Production is scheduled to begin in early 2016

Xyz Films is handling sales at Afm on Baltasar Kormákur’s Icelandic thriller The Oath, action-thriller 6 Days starring Jamie Bell, Mark Strong and Abbie Cornish and Pilgrimage starring Jon Bernthal, Richard Armitage and Tom Holland.

"Everest," directed by Baltasar Kormákur, has been selected as the opening film, out of Competition, of the 72nd Venice Film Festival (September 2-12 2015). The festival is directed by Alberto Barbera, organized by the Biennale, and chaired by Paolo Baratta.

The world premiere of "Everest" will be screened on September 2nd in the Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema) at the Lido. Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain,"Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.

"Everest" is a Working Title Films production starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley,Emily Watson and Jake Gyllenhaal, produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Baltasar Kormákur, Nicky Kentish Barnes, Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson. The story was adapted for the screen by William Nicholson ("Gladiator") and Oscar® winner Simon Beaufoy ("Slumdog Millionaire").

The film was shot on location in Nepal on the foothills of Everest, the Italian Alps and at Cinecittà Studios in Rome and Pinewood Studios in the U.K.Universal will distribute Everest worldwide, and it will be released in the U.S. exclusively on IMAX 3D and premium-large format 3D screens on September 18th. It will be released wide in the U.S.—including standard 2D and 3D—on September 25th. Italy releases the film on September 24th.

Born in Reykjavik, Iceland, Baltasar Kormákur is an actor, producer and director whose truly global work spans theater, movies and television. After "Everest," he will produce and direct "Vikingr," a big-budget action adventure set in the world of the famed Norse warriors that is inspired by the Iceland’s epic Sagas. He is also set to direct the eco-disaster film "Cascade" and write and direct a crime thriller based on the events that inspired the Filipino film "On the Job." Recently, Kormákur and his frequent collaborator, Agnes Johansen, produced the Icelandic comedy "Virgin Mountain," directed by Dagur Kari.

Kormákur has directed several feature films in the U.S: 2010’s "Inhale," an independent film produced by the L.A.-based 26 Films, starring Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger and Sam Shepard; 2012’s "Contraband"—starring Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, and Kate Beckinsale—which is a remake of Oskar Johansson’s "Reykjavik Rotterdam," written by Arnaldur Indridason, and in which Kormákur played the leading role and produced it with Agnes Johansen through his Blueeyes Productions. His last American film, the action-comedy 2013’s "2 Guns," starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, has grossed more than $131 million worldwide to date.

He also has several Icelandic projects in the works, including the psychological thriller "The Oath," which he plans to direct, from a script he co-wrote with Olafur Egillsson. Inspired by true events and set in modern Iceland, Kormákur will produce “The Oath” with Johansen.

The director graduated as an actor from Iceland’s National Academy of Fine Arts in 1990. He was immediately signed on by the National Theatre of Iceland, where he worked as one of the leading young performing artists until 1997. During the last two years of his assignment he also directed several ambitious works, after having produced and directed highly popular, independent stage productions alongside his projects with the National Theatre.

In 2000, he wrote, directed, acted in and produced the feature film "101 Reykjavik." Subsequently, Variety selected him as one of the “10 Directors to Watch.” Soon after, Kormákur formed Blueeyes Productions and has maintained his focus on feature film writing, producing and directing. His films "The Sea," "A Little Trip to Heaven," "Jar City" and "White Night Wedding" have all been very successful in Iceland and won numerous international awards. Kormákur’s "The Deep," which eerily captures the tragic real-life story of the lone survivor of a capsized fishing boat off the frigid Icelandic coast, premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and was shortlisted for the foreign language Academy Awards®.

Recently, Kormákur optioned Iceland’s beloved, Nobel Prize-winning book “Independent People” to develop as a feature film and will produce the American remake of "Jar City," along with CEO of Lava Bear Films, David Linde. He also partnered with Ccp Games to bring the "Eve Universe" game to television. The Rvk Studios team, in collaboration with Ccp, will create an original concept and storyline set in the "Eve Universe." Additionally, he also produced and directed the Icelandic original serialized crime drama "Trapped."

All of Kormákur’s films are made under his Rvk Studios (formerly Blueeyes Productions), which recently opened a television arm and partnered with Dadi Einarsson and the Icelandic VFX company Framestore, now called Rvx Studios.

Exclusive: Baltasar Kormákur is lining up an autumn shoot on the Icelandic and English-language crime-thriller, a late addition to the La-based company’s Croisette sales slate.

The Oath centres on a respected doctor in Reykjavík who makes a life-changing decision after his daughter introduces the family to her manipulative boyfriend.

Ólafur Egilsson co-wrote the screenplay with Kormákur, who produces with Agnes Johansen and Magnus Vidar Sigurdsson through Kormákur’s Rvk Studios banner in co-production with Dynamic Productions in Germany.

Ben Giladi of Len Blavatnik’s AI Film serves as executive producer alongside Aram Tertzakian and Nate Bolotin of Xyz Films.

Kormákur, whose credits include 2 Guns, Contraband and Icelandic hits 101 Reykjavik and Jar City, recently wrapped production on Universal’s September 18 release Everest. He will also direct the TV crime series Trapped.

AI Film’s portfolio includes Bill Condon’s Mr. Holmes and Martin Scorsese’s Silence, which is scheduled to wrap in Taiwan on May 15 and stars Andrew Garfield...