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Vital support from local film commissions for distribution and sales, bolstering co-production opportunities and the fragile state of geoblocking were among the issues highlighted at the inaugural industry programme at the French Nordic Film Days in Paris.

More than 300 French and Nordic film industry professionals gathered in the French capital from March 5-7 for the event organised by France’s Cnc with the Five Nordics.

The industry programme, which ran alongside a series of screenings and filmmaker Q&As designed to spark interest in Nordic titles among French audiences, was held at Paris’ Swedish Institute and Cnc headquarters.Top of...

Prague-based firm Filmotor has boarded international sales on Arjun Talwar’s Letters From Wolf Street.

The film has its world premiere in Panorama Documentary this afternoon, with further screenings on Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.

The producers have signed distribution deals with Barnsteiner-film for Germany, and So Films for Poland.

Indian filmmaker Talwar immigrated to Poland 10 years ago. In Letters From Wolf Street, he documents his struggles to fit in by filming his neighbours on his central Warsaw street, seeking to overcome his feelings of alienation.

The Polish- and English-language film is produced by Karolina Smigiel and Jaroslaw Wszedybyl for Poland’s Uni-Solo Studio,...

Thierry Machado’s Pipaluk, The Girl Who Raced The Wind about a young girl who enters Greenland’s biggest dog sledding race, David Roux’s marriage drama Mrs, and Alain Ughetto’s 3d-animated Rose And The Marmots headline the debut EFM slate of new French sales outfit Lucky Number.

Pipaluk, The Girl Who Raced The Wind, is a Greenlandic-Kalaallisut-language film produced by France’s Agat Films – Ex Nihilo and Galatée Films with Denmark’s Snowglobe and Greenland’s Ánorâk Film. Shooting will kick off in Greenland later this year. Lucky Number is positioning it as a commercial film aimed at families and children.

New projects from Lone Scherfig and Hlynur Palmason are among the 55 projects selected for Goteborg Film Festival’s Nordic Film Market (January 29-31).

Scherfig will present Honeytrap in the Discovery - Films In Development strand. The film is produced by Rebecka Hamberger for Sweden’s Art & Bob, with few details currently available on the project. Scherfig’s last feature was 2023’s The Movie Teller, with 2019 Berlinale opener The Kindness Of Strangers prior to that.

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Icelandic director Palmason will present The Love That Remains in the Works in Progress strand. The film is...

[This story contains spoilers up to the sixth episode of Grotesquerie.]

When the opportunity to audition for the role of Merritt Tryon in Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie first came to Raven Goodwin, she had a few questions

“It didn’t say ‘Grotesquerie.’ It said, ‘Snow Globe,’ and I was kind of confused. Like, is this for American Horror Story? Is this something completely different? But when I finally read the script, I absolutely loved it,” Goodwin tells The Hollywood Reporter of the secrecy surrounding the FX series that’s now midway through its run.

The same goes for the producing team’s reaction to Goodwin’s audition tape, including Niecy Nash-Betts, who stars in the lead role as Lois Tryon, Goodwin’s onscreen mother, and is an executive producer.

“Niecy called me and asked me, was it something that I really wanted to do? And I’m like, ‘duh,’” says Goodwin of the opportunity to work with Murphy and Nash-Betts.

Feature film projects from Godland filmmaker Hlynur Palmason and Small Body director Laura Samani are among 31 titles that have received a combined €8.8m in the latest session of Council of Europe co-production fund Eurimages.

Iceland’s Palmason received €500,000 for On Land And Sea. Produced by France’s Maneki Films, Denmark’s Snowglobe and Iceland’s Still Vivid, it will shoot this autumn. Set at the turn of the 19th century, the film will follow a family which transforms its house into a raft and goes looking for a new place to live.

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Grab your booties, and don’t eat the yellow snow because the South Park gang is back with a brand-new video game that takes non-stop action to snow-covered streets! South Park Digital Studios & Thq Nordic GmbH debuted a South Park: Snow Day! trailer on Thursday, highlighting the wintery setting, strategy, and outrageous action of a new South Park video game coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S|X, and PC on March 26, 2024.

Here’s the official description for South Park: Snow Day!:

Join Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny in three-dimensional glory to celebrate the most magical day in any young child’s life – a snow day! Grab up to three friends and battle your way through the snow-piled streets of South Park on a quest to enjoy a day without school.

In today’s South Park: Snow Day! trailer, Kyle informs his fellow South Park residents that someone...

Maryam Touzani’s “The Blue Caftan,” a drama revolving around the love between a closeted man and his wife, has sold more than 500,000 tickets around the world.

The Arabic-language movie, which world premiered at Cannes in 2022 and won the Fipresci prize, has sold the most admissions overseas than any other Moroccan film in recent history, according to French promotion org Unifrance. “The Blue Caftan” was particularly successful in France, where it sold 214,000 admissions, followed by the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Japan.

Produced by leading Moroccan filmmaker Nabil Ayouch, “The Blue Caftan” stars Lubna Azabal (“Incendies”) and Saleh Bakri.

Touzani’s follow-up to Un Certain Regard title “Adam,” “The Blue Caftan” tells the story of Halim and Mina, a married couple running a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. The talented apprentice...

Exclusive: German broadcasting network Ard has been accused of censorship following its decision to pull a scheduled broadcast of Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s 2017 feature Wajib due to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

The film’s German co-producer Titus Kreyenberg told Deadline that Wajib had been due to air this Sunday (November 19), with the programming slot set for months and already announced in TV listings.

“It’s been taken off the schedule. Internally, we were told that it was decided that this was not the time to show a Palestinian film,” said Kreyenberg who works under the banner of Berlin and Cologne-based Unafilm with recent credits including Octopus Skin and A Woman.

Deadline has contacted Ard – a joint network involving 10 German regional public broadcasters – as well as Hamburg-based member Ndr, which backed the production. The networks have yet to respond.

Jacir’s drama Wajib is a gentle comedy-drama capturing the reality of Palestinians living within Israeli borders.

Freeform’s 2023 “25 Days of Christmas” lineup includes holiday favorites Home Alone, The Santa Clause trilogy, and classic animated offerings Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The network’s December lineup also includes all four Toy Story films, Frozen I and II, and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Noelle starring Anna Kendrick and Godmothered with Jillian Bell will screen this December on Freeform. 2018’s Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch and a batch of Santa Paws films will help put viewers in a winter holiday mood.

A scene from ‘Frozen’ (Photo Credit: Disney)

Freeform’s “25 Days of Christmas” Lineup

Friday, Dec. 1

7:00 a.m. – “Unaccompanied Minors”

9:00 a.m. – “Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish”

11:00 a.m. – “Eloise at Christmastime”

1:00 p.m. – “The Star” (2017)

3:00 p.m. – “Disney’s A Christmas Carol”

5:00 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

7:00 p.m. – “Home Alone”

9:30 p.m. – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York...

The film was a standout title from Cannes’ Un Certain Regard line-up in 2022.

Hlynur Palmason’s Cannes Un Certain Regard 2022 standout Godland will be the Icelandic contender in the 2024 Oscar race for best international feature.

The film also played at Telluride and Toronto 2022. In the US, Janus Films handled the theatrical release in early 2023, followed by a Criterion Channel streaming premiere.

Godland is produced by Katrin Pors, Eva Jakobsen and Mikkel Jersin of Denmark’s Snowglobe and Anton Máni Svansson of Iceland’s Join Motion Pictures. The companies previously collaborated on A White, White Day (also Iceland’s Oscar submission...

Licorice Pizza and If Beale Street Could Talk producer Sara Murphy arrives at TIFF this week with the intimate yet ambitious feature Mother, Couch, the first project produced under Fat City, the production label she launched last year alongside War Pony producer Ryan Zacarias.

Starring Taylor Russell, Ewan McGregor, and Ellen Burstyn, the pic is written and directed by Swedish filmmaker Niclas Larsson in his feature film debut. The story is adapted from a novel of the same name by Swedish filmmaker Jerker Virdborg.

“The book is very different from the film,” Larsson said of his adaptation. “In fact, the first thing I asked Jerker was how free I could be with the adaptation, and he said, ‘Look, steal whatever you want to steal, and go with it.’ So that’s that’s what I did.”

The biggest change Larsson made on screen was moving the story from Sweden to the US.

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Titles include Ken Loach’s ‘The Old Oak’ and Molly Manning Walker’s ‘How To Have Sex’.

The Cannes Film Festival will have a strong UK presence in 2023, with directors Ken Loach, Molly Manning Walker, Steve McQueen and Jonathan Glazer all heading to the Croisette, plus a peppering of heavyweight UK-produced titles in Official Selection. It follows the 2022 Competition in which no films by UK directors made the cut.

Two-time Palme d’Or winner Loach is in competition, as expected, with The Old Oak. Loach’s 15th film at the French festival focuses on the arrival of Syrian refugees to a once thriving,...

Oscar nominee Eskil Vogt – who co-wrote “The Worst Person in the World” with Joachim Trier, and directed Cannes selected “The Innocents” – delivers another love story, but he goes darker in “Copenhagen Does Not Exist,” a Snowglobe production directed by Martin Skovbjerg, recently awarded at Göteborg Film Festival following its world premiere at Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam.

“So many movies, because of how the culture has changed, are trying to be very clear-cut. This one dares to show that humans can be complex and paradoxical, egotistical and gentle. We are fucked up beings,” he says.

In the film, a young woman suddenly disappears. Her father is looking for answers, especially from her boyfriend, Sander, who agrees to be questioned by him. Angela Bundalovic, Jonas Holst Schmidt and Zlatko Burić star, while TrustNordisk handles sales.

“I have been in this dark place for so long. I am just happy to be out again,...

Freeform is set to deck the halls with its annual 25 Days of Christmas programming extravaganza.

The festive schedule includes multiple showings of Home Alone (and its various sequels), Jingle All the Way, Love Actually, The Preacher’s Wife and the Santa Clause trilogy. You’ll also find beloved Rankin/Bass classics — including Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town — and marathons of The Simpsons and Family Guy.

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Freeform is set to deck the halls with its annual 25 Days of Christmas programming extravaganza, which includes a dozen or so showings of holiday faves like Home Alone and The Santa Clause (and their myriad sequels).

Not enough Tim Allen for you? The Home Improvement and Last Man Standing star can also be seen in Christmas With the Kranks and heard in the Toy Story trilogy, both of which make multiple appearances throughout the cable network’s festive lineup.

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It's time to get merry and jolly, because Freeform just unveiled their 25 Days of Christmas schedule. Seeing how many great movies are on the lineup this year, we wouldn't blame you if you just decided to sit on the couch and watch TV all winter long. There are holiday classics like Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as well as some nostalgic gems like The Santa Clause films. I'm personally excited to rewatch Dr. Seuss' The Grinch just for the great quotes alone. See the full schedule ahead.

Tuesday, Dec. 1

11:00 a.m. – Disney's A Christmas Carol

1:00 p.m. – Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

3:30 p.m. – Home Alone

6:00 p.m. – Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

8:30 p.m. – Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

12:00 a.m. – Deck the Halls (2006)

Wednesday, Dec. 2

7:00 a.m. – It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas

11:00 a.

Libertad

Screenwriter Clara Roquet, who co-wrote Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000km (2014) and Jaime Rosales’ Petra (notably premiered in Cannes 2018 in Directors’ Fortnight) makes her directorial debut with Libertad, produced by Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno, Stefan Schmitz and Maria Zamora through Barcelona’s Lastor Media, Madrid’s Avalon and Snowglobe. Roquet’s title stars Nora Navas, Vicky Pena, Nicolle Garcia, Maria Rodriguez Soto and David Selvas. The film (which landed a prize at the San Sebastian’s 7th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum) is lensed by Gris Jordana. Roquet’s Libertad is the highest-ranking directorial debut on our list.

Gist: Roquet’s debut is described as “a story of feminine friendship and loss of innocence” when a young girl is forced to come of age thanks to her relationship with the family maid’s wild teen daughter.…...

Paris-based powerhouse MK2 Films has picked up international distribution rights to Felipe Gálvez’s Chilean Western “Los colonos” (“The Settlers”), one of the most buzzed-about projects to come out of Chile in recent years.

“We are very proud to be representing such an artistically ambitious period film and one of such crucial importance and vital necessity today, when the wounds of colonization are still fresh,” said Juliette Schrameck, managing director of MK2 Films.

Lead produced by Giancarlo Nasi at Santiago-based Quijote Films

“Having MK2 on board gives us a final boost for the financing process but also confirms what we always believed: that ‘The Settlers’ is a film of the highest artistic standard together with being audience appealing,” Nasi said.

Nasi described the film’s co-producers – Argentina’s Rei Cine, Denmark’s Snowglobe and France’s Cine-Sud Promotion – as a “dream team,” who have a record of backing important Latin American films.

Suicide Tourist

Danish director Jonas Alexander Arnby assembles an impressive cast and crew for his sophomore feature Suicide Tourist. The Scandinvaian-German-French co-pro is produced by Eva Jacobsen, Mikkel Jersin and Katrin Pors for Denmark’s Snowglobe, while Germany’s Dcm, Norway’s Mer Film, France’s Charades, and Sweden’s Film i Vast and Garagefilm International have also been involved in production. Arnby returns to work with his When Animals Dream Dp Niels Thastum as well as composer Mikkel Hess. Greece’s Yorgos Mavropsaridis serves as editor. A stellar cast consists of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Tuva Novotny, Sonja Richter, Jan Bijvoet, Kaya Wilkins, Robert Aramayo, Sobørg Højfeldt, Lorraine Hilton and Johanna Wokalek.…...

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister in “Game of Thrones,” heads a distinguished European cast in “Suicide Tourist,” a mystery drama with romantic elements from Copenhagen-based Snowglobe, whose production credits include “Thelma,” “The Untamed” and “Birds of a Passage.”

Described by Snowglobe in a statement as its most ambitious film to date, “Suicide Tourist” marks Danish director Jonas Alexander Arnby’s follow-up to his breakout debut “When Animals Dream,” which played in Cannes Critics’ Week and sold to Radius for the U.S. and to another score of territories. Paris-based Charades has acquired world sales rights to “Suicide Tourist” and will introduce the title to buyers at next week’s American Film Market in Santa Monica.

Coster-Waldau stars opposite Sweden’s Tuva Novotny, co-star of international productions such as “Borg vs. McEnroe” and Alex Garland’s “Annihilation.”

Arnby’s “When Animals Dream” proved catnip to distributors because of its director-driven...

San Sebastian — Pablo Fendrik’s “Hermano Peligro,” Jayro Bustamante’s “La Llorona,” Matthias Huser’s “The Jungle” and Clara Roquet’s “Libertad” took one prize a piece at San Sebastian’s 7th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, which wrapped Wednesday night.

Meanwhile, “The Sharks,” the first feature of Uruguay’s Lucia Garibaldi, swept San Sebastian’s Films in Progress.

While awards in the past have sometimes gone to little-known projects, this year saw plaudits shared by four of the strongest projects at the market in terms of director reknown, prestige producer backing or even, in the case of “La Llorona,” a sales market deal.

Winner of the Co-production Forum Best Project Award, “Hermano Peligro,” for instance, comes from a director. Pablo Fendrik, whose first three films, “The Mugger,” “Blood Appears” and “Ardor” have all been selected for the Cannes Festival, before he went on to co-direct two of the most distinguished...

San Sebastian — Denmark’s Snowglobe is teaming with Argentina’s Rei Cine to produce writer-director Pablo Fendrik’s “Hermano Peligro” (Brother Danger).

Currently at first-draft screenplay, the title weighs is as one of the big potential crossover project propositions at this year’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum, which tales place Sunday Sept. 23.

The co-production also links two of the most prestigious and internationally energetic upscale film companies currently working in the Spanish-speaking world.

Headed by Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, and Matías Roveda, Buenos Aires-based Rei Cine, “Hermano Peligro’s” lead producer, has over the last year produced Lucrecia Martel’s “Zama” and Natalia Garagiola’s “Hunting Season,” both 2017 Venice hits, then Sundance-selected “The Queen of Fear,” from Valeria Bertuccelli and Fabiana Tiscornia, and Gonzalo Tobal’s 2018 Venice competition player “The Accused.”

A Copenhagen-located co-producer of some of the highest-profile and boldest Latin American movies in the last two years – Carlos Reygadas’ “Our Time,...

ABC Family is developing a new show called Maid In Miami. The project focuses on a young cleaner who dreams of being a singer, Deadline reports. Musician Christina Milian, who has guest starred in shows such as Smallville and Charmed, is reportedly in talks to take on the lead role. Milian has also appeared in the ABC Family movies Snowglobe and Christmas Cupid. Maid In Miami is being written by Stan (more)...

Honoring positive portrayals of Latinos and Latino culture in entertainment, the Imagen Foundation has

announced the winners of the 24th annual Imagen Awards. At the event held at Beverly Hilton on Friday night, August 21, Walt Disney Pictures' "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" has been hailed as Best Feature Film.

The adventure comedy film also nailed a Best Supporting Actor prize for the actor who plays Sam Cortez, Manolo Cardona. Though grabbing two kudos at the awards, "Chihuahua" failed to secure the Best Actor prize despite the fact that two of its leading stars, George Lopez and Andy Garcia, were nominated for the category. The prize went to Luis Guzman of "Maldeamores".

Feature film category aside, ABC's television series "Ugly Betty" claimed back the title of Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress with America Ferrera and Ana Ortiz grabbing the prize respectively. The two actresses have won similar title back in 2007, but in...

Los estrellas were out in force Thursday night for the 23rd annual Imagen Awards as the tiny drama "La Misma Luna" dominated with five awards, including best picture.

Such Latino luminaries as John Leguizamo, Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, Lupe Ontiveros, Eva La Rue and Cesar Millan were in attendance at the Beverly Hilton as 18 awards were handed out for achievement in features and television.

"Luna," written by executive producer Ligiah Villalobos. won five Imagens on the feature side: best actor for Adrian Alonso, best actress for Kate Del Castillo, best supporting actor for Eugenio Derbez, best director for Patricia Riggin and best picture. The film set a record for North American opening by a Spanish-language film when Fox Searchlight and the Weinstein Co. released it in March.

The TV awards were more widely dispersed, with ABC's "Ugly Betty" collecting honors for best primetime program and best supporting actor for Tony Plana.

Matt Keeslar and Natalie Morales have been tapped to star in ABC Family's light drama pilot "The Middleman".

Mary Pat Gleason also has been cast in the one-hour project, which is based on "Medium" writer-producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach's graphic novels for Viper Comics that were illustrated by Les McClaine. The project was ordered to pilot last month (HR 9/14).

"Middleman" centers on Wendy Watson (Morales), a twentysomething struggling artist recruited by a secret agency to fight comic book-type villains. Keeslar will play the title character, a sci-fi superhero who serves as her guide. Gleason will play Ida, the robotic gatekeeper and veteran assistant to Keeslar.

Grillo-Marxuach, co-executive producer on "Medium", is exec producing "Middleman".

Keeslar recently completed filming the ABC Family movie "Snowglobe", opposite Christina Milian, and next appears in the movie "Deadly Suspicion" for Lifetime. He is repped by Domain Talent and manager Holly Shelton at Precision Entertainment.

Morales' credits include CBS' "CSI: Miami". She is repped by Diverse Talent and managers Ken Treusch and Vincent Nastri at Bleecker Street Entertainment.