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Keshet International (Ki) has completed high-profile licensing deals with WarnerMedia Latin America and Spain’s Filmin TV on “Pørni,” the heartwarming Norwegian comedy-drama created by and starring “Lilyhammer” actor Henriette Steenstrup.

Steenstrup, who won a Dragon Award at Goteborg Festival in 2020 for her performance in “Beware of Children,” stars in the bittersweet series as a middle-aged single parent of three teenagers.

The most-watched Norwegian Original series on Nent Group’s streamer Viaplay, “Pørni” screens next week at Series Mania 2021 in the Panorama competition. “Pørni” was previously part of the Berlinale Series Market Selects. Viaplay has ordered two more seasons of the show produced by Monster Scripted. Both seasons are set to premiere in 2022.

WarnerMedia Latin America acquired season one of the show exclusively for HBO Max. The WarnerMedia-owned streaming platform, which recently launched across 39 territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, has committed to picking up the second and third seasons of the popular show.

Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) has renewed its hit Norwegian comedy-drama series “Pørni” for a second and third season.

Distributed by Keshet International, the comedy-drama was created by Henriette Steenstrup (“Lilyhammer”) who also stars. It launched on Nent Group’s Viaplay streaming service in May and scored the most successful premiere for a Norwegian Viaplay Original.

The two new seasons of the show will continue the bittersweet story of Pørni, a middle-age single parent who always puts others first – even though she wants more from life for herself.

“The reception so far has been incredibly good and then suddenly the idea of making more ‘Pørni’ became extremely frightening, but of course it’s very exciting too,” said Steenstrup, who won the Dragon Award at Goteborg in 2019 for her performance in “Beware of Children.” “Pørni” marks her directorial debut.

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Another week of 2020, another week largely without movie theaters. Fortunately, it is a huge week for new movies making their way to streaming. While it may be from the comfort of home and not at a theater near you, there is no shortage of options when it comes to finding something to watch this weekend.

We have a brand new comedy from Seth Rogen, the latest from director David Ayer and an update to a classic tale. There is also a horror flick focused on killer crocodiles, a new documentary on Disney+ and a few recent acclaimed titles that are finally arriving on streaming services. Here at this week's streaming selections.

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It feels a bit like a broken record at this point in 2020, but here we have another big movie that was previously destined for...

An unexpected encounter forces a bereaved widower to remember a fateful summer with his father. Out Stealing Horses vividly captures the transition from innocent adolescence to hardened adulthood. Adapted from the prizewinning novel by Norwegian author Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses is a deeply spiritual, beautifully shot coming of age drama. It examines how tragic events irreparably shatter the bonds we hold dear, and changes the course of our lives.

The film opens on a snowy cottage near a rural Norwegian village. It is November 1999, a month before the new millennium. Trond (Stellan Skarsg&#229rd) has no interest in celebrating. His only desire is to be left alone. He's haunted by the car accident that killed his wife. Trond's troubled sleep is interrupted by shouting. He goes outside into the frosty night to find a man (Bj&#248rn Floberg) searching for his lost dog. The neighbor introduces himself as Lars.

"The way we carried on, something had to go wrong." Magnolia Pictures has released an official trailer for Out Stealing Horses, a Norwegian drama about a man thinking back on his life and his adolescence. The film originally premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year, and is finally getting a release in the Us this summer after opening in Norway originally more than a year ago. Stellan Skarsgård stars as a man living alone quietly in Norway, who meets a new neighbor that he recognizes as someone from his youth. This takes him back to the summer of 1948 when he was 15 years old, and the events that summer that changed his life forever. Also starring Bjørn Floberg, Tobias Santelmann, Jon Ranes, and Danica Curcic. This is an excellent trailer for this unique Norwegian film, more than just a coming-of-age story. I caught this at Berlinale and quite liked it,...

The film launched at the 2019 Berlinale.

Norway has chosen Hans Petter Moland’s flashback drama Out Stealing Horses as its submission for the best international feature award at the 2020 Oscars.

The film launched in Competition at the 2019 Berlinale, where it won the Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution for Thomas Hardmeier and Rasmus Videbæk’s joint cinematography.

The story is split between 1999, where self-isolated Trond discovers a new neighbour from his past, and Trond’s memories of 1948, when he turned 15 and his father prepared him for his forthcoming disappearance.

It is an adaptation of Per Petterson’s acclaimed 2003 Norwegian novel of the same name,...

Norway has picked Out Stealing Horses, a literary adaptation from director Hans Petter Moland starring Stellan Skarsgard, to be its candidate for next year's Oscar race in the international feature film category.

Adapted from Per Pettersen's classic Norwegian novel, the movie focuses on a widower who has withdrawn into a solitary life in the Norwegian woods (Skarsgard) who reflects on a summer some 40 years ago that changed his life forever. Jon Ranes plays Skarsgard's character as a 15-year-old boy, with Tobias Santelmann playing his father.

The drama premiered in Berlin this year, where it won the Silver Bear ...

Norway has picked Out Stealing Horses, a literary adaptation from director Hans Petter Moland starring Stellan Skarsgard, to be its candidate for next year's Oscar race in the international feature film category.

Adapted from Per Pettersen's classic Norwegian novel, the movie focuses on a widower who has withdrawn into a solitary life in the Norwegian woods (Skarsgard) who reflects on a summer some 40 years ago that changed his life forever. Jon Ranes plays Skarsgard's character as a 15-year-old boy, with Tobias Santelmann playing his father.

The drama premiered in Berlin this year, where it won the Silver Bear ...

Hans Petter Moland’s fourth feature to compete for the Golden Bear.

TrustNordisk has sold Hans Petter Moland’s Competition title Out Stealing Horses to four territories following its world premiere here.

The film has sold to China (Dd Dream), Benelux (September Films), Greece (Weird Wave) and Estonia (Estin Films). More deals are currently under negotiation.

Out Stealing Horses is Hans Petter Moland’s 11th feature and his fourth to compete for the Golden Bear.

Adapted from Per Petterson’s novel, the story follows 67-old widower Trond (Stellan Skarsgard) who discovers his neighbour (Bjørn Floberg) is someone he knew back...

Given that Hans Petter Moland just spent a few years remaking his own Euro-thriller as a commercially viable Liam Neeson vehicle, you might assume the prolific filmmaker is pivoting to a global audience. Not so fast. His latest feature — a tender and meditative drama that screened in Competition at the Berlinale less than 24 hours after “Cold Pursuit” opened in theaters — is nothing if not distinctly Norwegian. And, like so many of that country’s finer things, it may prove too particular for closed-minded audiences on the other side of the Atlantic.

Adapted from an acclaimed novel of the same name by one of Oslo’s most famous authors, “Out Stealing Horses” is as inextricable from its setting as the streams that run through it, the logs of timber they ferry across the Swedish border, and the violent Nazi history that’s embedded on either side of their shores. Even if...

At several points in “Out Stealing Horses,” a seemingly bland observation turns out to carry far more cutting emotional weight. “Fathers are great,” says one old man to another, shortly before an enfolded series of revelations that suggests both men can hardly believe such a thing. “That’s life, things happen,” says a father to a son, knowing full well that nothing in the immediate future is going to happen quite as it should. Norwegian novelist Per Petterson’s international bestseller made a bittersweet virtue of such plain language, evoking the inner lives of men not much good at articulating themselves; Hans Petter Moland’s loving film adaptation, meanwhile, effectively plays lush visual storytelling against its characters’ desolate interiors.

The result is a heartfelt, attractive arthouse item that ought to travel as widely as its much-translated source novel, boosted by the internationally familiar presence of Stellan Skarsgard in the lead role of 67-year-old widower Trond,...