Dr Sales has picked up “Piggy” (“Murk” in Norwegian), a quirky crime comedy from advertising, film and TV production banner The Oslo Company, credited for Netflix’s “Home for Christmas 1 & 2.”
The six-part series set to premiere on the commercial channel TV2 Norway March 17, will be sneak-peeked Feb. 9 at the Scandinavian Drama Series Showcase in Berlin, co-hosted by the Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision and the European Film Market.
Headlining “Piggy”’s Norwegian ensemble cast are Ine Jansen (“Mammon”), Trond Espen Seim, Jonis Josef (“Kasko”), John Carew (“Home Ground”), Iben Akerlie (“Norsemen”), and Lars Berge (“Wisting”).
“The Playlist” co-helmer Hallgrim Haug serves as concept director on the series, created by The Oslo Company founder Trond Kvernstrøm. Both shared the writers’ room with Marie Hafting (“Everything You Love”), Tobias Nordbø, Katie Hetland and Kjetil Indregard. The Oslo Company’s Ronny Johansen is producing.
The story turns on Lisa (Jansen) a...
The six-part series set to premiere on the commercial channel TV2 Norway March 17, will be sneak-peeked Feb. 9 at the Scandinavian Drama Series Showcase in Berlin, co-hosted by the Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision and the European Film Market.
Headlining “Piggy”’s Norwegian ensemble cast are Ine Jansen (“Mammon”), Trond Espen Seim, Jonis Josef (“Kasko”), John Carew (“Home Ground”), Iben Akerlie (“Norsemen”), and Lars Berge (“Wisting”).
“The Playlist” co-helmer Hallgrim Haug serves as concept director on the series, created by The Oslo Company founder Trond Kvernstrøm. Both shared the writers’ room with Marie Hafting (“Everything You Love”), Tobias Nordbø, Katie Hetland and Kjetil Indregard. The Oslo Company’s Ronny Johansen is producing.
The story turns on Lisa (Jansen) a...
- 2/14/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Prince William makes for quite the entertaining ultimate fan. The royal spent some time in the stands on Monday at the 2019 Efl Championship play-off final held at Wembley Stadium in London. The Duke of Cambridge was spotted in the sea of soccer enthusiasts watching as Aston Villa defeated Derby County on Monday. As a result of the victory, the team was simultaneously promoted to the Premier League, the English football league system's highest level. While fans were undoubtedly excited to see the win, it seems no one was more enthusiastic than Prince William, who was captured by cameras cheering and hugging former Aston Villa player John Carew. The smiling prince certainly did not hide his...
- 5/27/2019
- E! Online
Will Prince William and Kate Middleton give Prince George and Princess Charlotte a baby brother soon? The Duchess of Cambridge is expected to give birth to her and her husband's third child this month. They have not revealed the sex. On Tuesday, William watched his favorite soccer team Aston Villa take on Cardiff City at Villa Park with former Villa forward John Carew. Aston Villa player Jack Grealish scored a goal that cinched a 1-0 victory for his team. "I'm going to insist the baby is called Jack," William later said, according to The Mirror. According to the outlet, he then paused, and said, "or Jackie." At the game,...
- 4/12/2018
- E! Online
Seven series selected for TV strand.
The Berlin Film Festival (Feb 15-25) has unveiled the seven titles set to be screened in this year’s Berlinale Series programme.
Source: Hulu
The Looming Tower
Opening the festival’s TV strand is Australian series Picnic At Hanging Rock, FremantleMedia’s Natalie Dormer-starring TV adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel, which previously spawned Peter Weir’s Bafta-winning 1975 feature.
The series tells the story of a strict headmistress at a boarding school whose dark past catches up with her after three pupils mysteriously disappear during a school outing.
Also in the selection is Legendary Television and broadcaster Hulu’s The Looming Tower, which is based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer prize-winning book of the same name. Chronicling the lead-up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the series stars Jeff Daniels as counter terrorism expert John O’Neill and is being exec produced by Alex Gibney.
Further series in the...
The Berlin Film Festival (Feb 15-25) has unveiled the seven titles set to be screened in this year’s Berlinale Series programme.
Source: Hulu
The Looming Tower
Opening the festival’s TV strand is Australian series Picnic At Hanging Rock, FremantleMedia’s Natalie Dormer-starring TV adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel, which previously spawned Peter Weir’s Bafta-winning 1975 feature.
The series tells the story of a strict headmistress at a boarding school whose dark past catches up with her after three pupils mysteriously disappear during a school outing.
Also in the selection is Legendary Television and broadcaster Hulu’s The Looming Tower, which is based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer prize-winning book of the same name. Chronicling the lead-up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the series stars Jeff Daniels as counter terrorism expert John O’Neill and is being exec produced by Alex Gibney.
Further series in the...
- 1/18/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Park Entertainment has acquired international sales rights to the coming-of-age road trip film Petroleum Spirit.
The London-based sales and distribution company is now selling the film in Cannes.
Written and directed by Rob Sanders, Petroleum Spirit marges fantasy and reality told from the twisted world view of Errol – a sexually repressed teenager born in the wreckage of a Lada crash.
Raised in isolation by his nuclear-holocaust fearing mother at a remote petrol station, Errol yearns to explore the real world. When his mother dies in an accident, Errol learns that the father he thought dead is alive and sets off in the Lada to find him, leaving an unintended trail of destruction across the desolate backroads of 1980′s Britain.
When he finally does reach him, Errol’s violent-tempered father tries recruiting him to a criminal underworld, forcing Errol to choose what kind of man he wants to be.
Currently shooting in the UK, the film stars...
The London-based sales and distribution company is now selling the film in Cannes.
Written and directed by Rob Sanders, Petroleum Spirit marges fantasy and reality told from the twisted world view of Errol – a sexually repressed teenager born in the wreckage of a Lada crash.
Raised in isolation by his nuclear-holocaust fearing mother at a remote petrol station, Errol yearns to explore the real world. When his mother dies in an accident, Errol learns that the father he thought dead is alive and sets off in the Lada to find him, leaving an unintended trail of destruction across the desolate backroads of 1980′s Britain.
When he finally does reach him, Errol’s violent-tempered father tries recruiting him to a criminal underworld, forcing Errol to choose what kind of man he wants to be.
Currently shooting in the UK, the film stars...
- 5/17/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
London-based sales and distribution outfit to introduce buyers to an Mma doc with Ice T, a drama about jazz musician Richard Davis and a thriller starring footballer John Carew.
Park Entertainment, the London-based sales and distribution company, has acquired international sales rights to mixed martial arts documentary Enter the Jungle, narrated by and featuring rapper Ice T; the drama 3 Mile Limit based on the true story of Richard Davis; and the thriller Dead of Winter, featuring Norwegian football star John Carew in his first acting role.
Park Entertainment will screen all three films to foreign buyers for the first time at the Cannes market this week.
Directed and produced by Craig Newland and starring Matt Whelan and Belinda Crawley, 3 Mile Limit is set in the 1960s and tells the story of jazz musician Richard Davis.
Rapper Ice T narrates feature-length documentary Enter the Jungle, directed by Alex Harvey. Centred on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt fighter Wallid...
Park Entertainment, the London-based sales and distribution company, has acquired international sales rights to mixed martial arts documentary Enter the Jungle, narrated by and featuring rapper Ice T; the drama 3 Mile Limit based on the true story of Richard Davis; and the thriller Dead of Winter, featuring Norwegian football star John Carew in his first acting role.
Park Entertainment will screen all three films to foreign buyers for the first time at the Cannes market this week.
Directed and produced by Craig Newland and starring Matt Whelan and Belinda Crawley, 3 Mile Limit is set in the 1960s and tells the story of jazz musician Richard Davis.
Rapper Ice T narrates feature-length documentary Enter the Jungle, directed by Alex Harvey. Centred on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt fighter Wallid...
- 5/13/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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