An ever-present market flagbearer (a flag perhaps clutched by a bruised and bloodied hand), action film overlord Millennium Media appears to have emerged from the coronavirus pandemic even more battle-hardened than usual.
The indie studio may have seen a Milli Vanilli biopic with Brett Ratner go up in smoke earlier this year, but the wheels are now firmly spinning on another long-gestating project, sword and sorcery feature Red Sonja, now with Joey Soloway at the helm (they replaced Bryan Singer), Hannah John Kamen in the lead role and a shoot planned for spring 2022.
Then there’s arguably the biggest product in Millennium’s arsenal, The ...
The indie studio may have seen a Milli Vanilli biopic with Brett Ratner go up in smoke earlier this year, but the wheels are now firmly spinning on another long-gestating project, sword and sorcery feature Red Sonja, now with Joey Soloway at the helm (they replaced Bryan Singer), Hannah John Kamen in the lead role and a shoot planned for spring 2022.
Then there’s arguably the biggest product in Millennium’s arsenal, The ...
- 11/5/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
An ever-present market flagbearer (a flag perhaps clutched by a bruised and bloodied hand) action film overlord Millennium Media appears to have emerged from the coronavirus pandemic even more battle-hardened than usual.
The indie studio may have seen a Milli Vanilli biopic with Brett Ratner go up in smoke earlier this year, but the wheels are now firmly spinning on another long-gestating project, sword and sorcery feature Red Sonja, now with Joey Soloway at the helm (they replaced Bryan Singer), Hannah John Kamen in the lead role and a shoot planned for spring 2022.
Then there’s arguably the biggest product in Millennium’s arsenal, The ...
The indie studio may have seen a Milli Vanilli biopic with Brett Ratner go up in smoke earlier this year, but the wheels are now firmly spinning on another long-gestating project, sword and sorcery feature Red Sonja, now with Joey Soloway at the helm (they replaced Bryan Singer), Hannah John Kamen in the lead role and a shoot planned for spring 2022.
Then there’s arguably the biggest product in Millennium’s arsenal, The ...
- 11/5/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 6th edition of MipDrama, launching Friday as part of virtual conference and market event MipTV, showcases new series – most in post-production, a few wrapped – from some of the biggest and most exciting drama series players in the world. Few events will command more attention from buyers. The following are brief profiles of what they’ll be watching:
“Agatha Christie’s Hjerson”
Concept Creator: Patrik Gyllström
Prod Cos: Br•F (Sweden), TV4/CMore(Sweden), Nadcon (Germany), Zdf, Government of Aland, Agatha Christie Ltd.
Distribution Co: Zdfe
Main Broadcasters: TV4/CMore, Zdf
Move over Poirot. The latest Christie sleuth will be a dapper Finnish gourmet who, living in a modern-day Stockholm and hardly concealing his bisexuality, ushers the author and the whodunnit into the 21st century. A light and playful reimagining of a figure who only receives glancing references in Christie’s oeuvre, the series packs a powerful producer punch: Sweden...
“Agatha Christie’s Hjerson”
Concept Creator: Patrik Gyllström
Prod Cos: Br•F (Sweden), TV4/CMore(Sweden), Nadcon (Germany), Zdf, Government of Aland, Agatha Christie Ltd.
Distribution Co: Zdfe
Main Broadcasters: TV4/CMore, Zdf
Move over Poirot. The latest Christie sleuth will be a dapper Finnish gourmet who, living in a modern-day Stockholm and hardly concealing his bisexuality, ushers the author and the whodunnit into the 21st century. A light and playful reimagining of a figure who only receives glancing references in Christie’s oeuvre, the series packs a powerful producer punch: Sweden...
- 4/9/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Dynamite Entertainment's "Mars Attacks Red Sonja", available August 24, 2020 is written by John Layman and illustrated by Fran Strukan, with variant covers by Lucio Parrillo, Dustin Nguyen, Arthur Suydam, Luca Stratie, Barry Kitson and Alan Quah:
"...she is the red-haired warrior with a sword. They are the green-skinned invaders from the red planet.
"Now those 'Mars Attacks Martians' are attacking again.
"The Martians of old from the 'Hyborian Age'.
"And it's up to 'Red Sonja' to stop the attack.
"But how will the strength of steel steel stand against laser guns...
"...sci-fi technology and weird, weird Martian science?..."
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"...she is the red-haired warrior with a sword. They are the green-skinned invaders from the red planet.
"Now those 'Mars Attacks Martians' are attacking again.
"The Martians of old from the 'Hyborian Age'.
"And it's up to 'Red Sonja' to stop the attack.
"But how will the strength of steel steel stand against laser guns...
"...sci-fi technology and weird, weird Martian science?..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 6/30/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
How much do you know about Sonja Henie? The answer to that question may dictate to what degree you’ll enjoy the biopic Sonja – The White Swan. Directed by Anne Sewitsky and starring Ine Marie Wilmann, the film tells the story of a unique star within a standard structure. As a child in Norway, young Sonja learns how to skate with her brother. Quickly we jump into adulthood, our lead now a European sensation, ice skating to packed venues.
When she and her father (Anders Mordal) get the offer to expand the scope of Sonja’s celebrity from Arthur Wirtz (Malcolm Adams), it’s an easy decision. They move to Hollywood and are in the office of Darryl Zanuck (Aidan McArdle) before long. The studio mogul makes one offer. Sonja demands a bigger one. And she gets what she wants. Cut to a reenacted dance sequence from One in a Million,...
When she and her father (Anders Mordal) get the offer to expand the scope of Sonja’s celebrity from Arthur Wirtz (Malcolm Adams), it’s an easy decision. They move to Hollywood and are in the office of Darryl Zanuck (Aidan McArdle) before long. The studio mogul makes one offer. Sonja demands a bigger one. And she gets what she wants. Cut to a reenacted dance sequence from One in a Million,...
- 2/4/2019
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Before there was Michael Jordan or Serena Williams, before there was Cher or Madonna, Hollywood had a female sports star on its hands who pretty much dictated what she wanted, when she wanted and how she wanted it, even more so than contemporaries Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. And, arguably, it was Sonja Henie‘s hits that kept a major movie studio, 20th Century Fox, afloat for years on end.
Continue reading An Ice Princess Rules Hollywood In ‘Sonja: The White Swan’ [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading An Ice Princess Rules Hollywood In ‘Sonja: The White Swan’ [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.
- 1/26/2019
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
When Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie zipped into Hollywood, she was a talent the industry had never seen before, or since — a three-time Olympic ladies’ singles champion (a record she continues to hold) whose chipper, if chilly romantic comedy hits kept Twentieth Century-Fox solvent in the build-up to World War II, in part because she phoned up her pal Joseph Goebells to make sure her pictures played in Nazi Germany.
Was Henie a Nazi? No, says Anne Sewitsky’s shiny biopic “Sonja: The White Swan.” Henie was simply an opportunist, and a variety of other expletives depending on who you ask. Take, say, Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck, who here barges into Henie’s backyard to call her a “man-eating nymphomaniac.” That scene stretches credulity, but with a soundtrack that bops between ’80s rocker Billy Squier and the synthesizers that greet the snow queen’s arrival in L.
Was Henie a Nazi? No, says Anne Sewitsky’s shiny biopic “Sonja: The White Swan.” Henie was simply an opportunist, and a variety of other expletives depending on who you ask. Take, say, Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck, who here barges into Henie’s backyard to call her a “man-eating nymphomaniac.” That scene stretches credulity, but with a soundtrack that bops between ’80s rocker Billy Squier and the synthesizers that greet the snow queen’s arrival in L.
- 1/26/2019
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Fall actress Valene Kane, co-star of upcoming Sundance movie Sonja: The White Swan, has joined the cast of UK crime-thriller series Gangs Of London, created by The Raid director Gareth Evans and his regular DoP Matt Flannery.
Valene’s character Jacqueline Robinson belongs to one of the series’ key families. She is daughter to Game Of Thrones star Michelle Fairley’s character and sister to the character played by Joe Cole (A Prayer Before Dawn).
The Nun filmmaker Corin Hardy is directing three episodes of the Cinemax and Sky Atlantic gangland thriller which is produced by Pulse Films. Set in contemporary London as it is being torn apart by power struggles involving several international gangs, the ten-part series begins as the head of one criminal gang is assassinated and the power vacuum threatens the fragile peace between the other underworld organizations. Cast also includes Sope Dirisu (Humans).
Irish...
Valene’s character Jacqueline Robinson belongs to one of the series’ key families. She is daughter to Game Of Thrones star Michelle Fairley’s character and sister to the character played by Joe Cole (A Prayer Before Dawn).
The Nun filmmaker Corin Hardy is directing three episodes of the Cinemax and Sky Atlantic gangland thriller which is produced by Pulse Films. Set in contemporary London as it is being torn apart by power struggles involving several international gangs, the ten-part series begins as the head of one criminal gang is assassinated and the power vacuum threatens the fragile peace between the other underworld organizations. Cast also includes Sope Dirisu (Humans).
Irish...
- 12/13/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The Efp (European Film Promotion) has named its ten best up and coming talents to be honoured as European Shooting Stars during the 69th Berlin International Film Festival in 2019.
In its 22nd year, the European Shooting Stars has taken the best from Europe in the industry who they deem are ready to step out onto the international film scene by a jury of industry experts.
Elliott Crosset Hove from Denmark swayed the jury with his “raw ability to shift from transparent vulnerability to intimidation” in Winter Brothers, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Locarno and Vilinus Film Festivals, and a Robert, the Danish Academy Award.
Also in the news – Jodie Foster to take the helm on English language remake of ‘Woman at War’
Rea Lest-Liik from Estonia impressed with her “fierceness, forcefulness and passion” depicted in November.
The youngest up-and-coming star is Emma Drogunova from Germany.
In its 22nd year, the European Shooting Stars has taken the best from Europe in the industry who they deem are ready to step out onto the international film scene by a jury of industry experts.
Elliott Crosset Hove from Denmark swayed the jury with his “raw ability to shift from transparent vulnerability to intimidation” in Winter Brothers, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Locarno and Vilinus Film Festivals, and a Robert, the Danish Academy Award.
Also in the news – Jodie Foster to take the helm on English language remake of ‘Woman at War’
Rea Lest-Liik from Estonia impressed with her “fierceness, forcefulness and passion” depicted in November.
The youngest up-and-coming star is Emma Drogunova from Germany.
- 12/12/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Film support agency European Film Promotion has selected this year’s ten European Shooting Stars, the emerging talent roster celebrated during the Berlin Film Festival. Making the grade were Elliott Crosset Hove from Denmark, star of Winter Brothers; Estonian actress Lest-Liik, star of feature November; Emma Drogunova from Germany, star of The Tobacconist; and Kristín Thora
Haraldsdóttir from Iceland, star of And Breathe Normally. Also chosen were Aisling Franciosi from Ireland, whose credits include Games Of Thrones and The Nightingale; Macedonian actor Blagoj Veselinov of Secret Ingredient; Dawid Ogrodnik from Poland, star of Silent Night; Norwegian actress Ine Marie Wilmann, known for Sonja: The White Swan; Serbian actor Milan Marić from Dovlatov, which screened this year in competition in Berlin; and The
Charmer star Ardalan Esmaili from Sweden. Previous Shooting Stars include Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Domhnall Gleeson and Baltasar Kormákur. The 2019 jury included U.S. casting director Avy Kaufman,...
Haraldsdóttir from Iceland, star of And Breathe Normally. Also chosen were Aisling Franciosi from Ireland, whose credits include Games Of Thrones and The Nightingale; Macedonian actor Blagoj Veselinov of Secret Ingredient; Dawid Ogrodnik from Poland, star of Silent Night; Norwegian actress Ine Marie Wilmann, known for Sonja: The White Swan; Serbian actor Milan Marić from Dovlatov, which screened this year in competition in Berlin; and The
Charmer star Ardalan Esmaili from Sweden. Previous Shooting Stars include Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Domhnall Gleeson and Baltasar Kormákur. The 2019 jury included U.S. casting director Avy Kaufman,...
- 12/11/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman and Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Aisling Franciosi (“The Nightingale”), Ardalan Esmaili (“The Charmer”) and Elliott Crosset Hove (“Winter Brothers”) are among the 10 actors and actresses who have been named as the European Film Promotion’s Shooting Stars.
Previous Shooting Stars include Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Pilou Asbæk and Baltasar Kormákur. The new crop of up-and-coming talent for the 22nd edition of the program will be honored during the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.
Crosset Hove from Denmark won the best actor award at Locarno and a Robert prize (Denmark’s equivalent of the Oscars) for his performance in Hlynur Palmason’s “Winter Brothers.” The jury praised the actor for his “raw ability to shift from transparent vulnerability to intimidation.”
Franciosi, an Italian-born Irish actress, has been acclaimed for her performance in Jennifer Kent’s “The Nightingale,” which won two nods at the Venice Film Festival, including the Special Jury Prize. The jury said Franciosi, whose other...
Previous Shooting Stars include Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Pilou Asbæk and Baltasar Kormákur. The new crop of up-and-coming talent for the 22nd edition of the program will be honored during the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.
Crosset Hove from Denmark won the best actor award at Locarno and a Robert prize (Denmark’s equivalent of the Oscars) for his performance in Hlynur Palmason’s “Winter Brothers.” The jury praised the actor for his “raw ability to shift from transparent vulnerability to intimidation.”
Franciosi, an Italian-born Irish actress, has been acclaimed for her performance in Jennifer Kent’s “The Nightingale,” which won two nods at the Venice Film Festival, including the Special Jury Prize. The jury said Franciosi, whose other...
- 12/11/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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