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Fifth Season’s banner Nordic Drama Queens and Swedish channel TV4 have unveiled exclusively to Variety the trailer of “Cry Wolf,” (“Vargasommar”), an action thriller starring British musician-turned-actor Eliot Sumner, Eva Melander (“Border”) and Henrik Dorsin (“Triangle of Sadness”).

An adaptation of Hans Rosenfeldt’s first solo novel of the same name, “Cry Wolf” is repped at Mipcom by Fifth Season’s global distribution arm, ahead of the show’s world premiere at the Stockholm Film Festival and follow-up launch on TV4 Play on Dec. 25.

Set in the remote northern Swedish town of Haparanda, the story turns on police investigator Hanna Wester, as she makes the macabre discovery of human remains in the stomach of a dead wolf. The remains are soon linked to a bloody drug deal across the border in Finland. Tension escalates in sleepy Haparanda as a professional killer comes to town to recover three valuable bags.

Netflix has unveiled a suite of Nordic features and series, partnering on projects with the likes of Working Title, Jo Nesbø, Milad Alami, Dome Karukoski and Sf Studios.

Little Siberia, a Finnish film from Finnish-American director Dome Karukoski, whose credits include Goteborg premiere Tom Of Finland and Jrr Tolkein origin story Tolkein, directs an adaptation of Antti Tuomainen’s novel of the same name. The everyday life of the small village of Hurmevaara is shaken when a meteorite falls through the roof of a car one night.

Cast includes Eero Ritala, Malla Malmivaara, Tommi Korpela and Martti Suosal, with Ina Sohlberg,...

Netflix announced six new Nordic feature film productions at its Next on Netflix showcase in Stockholm on Monday.

The showcase, which followed similar events in Germany and London last week, gave updates on 26 titles across film and TV, including 12 new titles. For the new Nordic TV line-up, read here.

On the cinema front, new Nordic movies include an adaptation of the Key Series crime whodunnit books about Private detective Julia Stark, by Alex Ahndoril, the pseudonym for husband and wife writers Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril.

Working titled The Key Series, the debut feature-length instalment will see Julia Stark hired by a wealthy family to solve a murder been committed at their estate in the northwest of Sweden.

Banijay company Filmlance is lead producing. Casting and the delivery date has yet to be confirmed.

The platform is also getting behind Little Siberia from Finnish director Dome Karukoski, whose feature...

The duo behind the hit Nordic franchise “Snabba Cash,” helmer Jesper Ganslandt and screenwriter Oskar Söderlund, have re-teamed on “Cry Wolf,” an action thriller series starring British musician-turned-actor Eliot Sumner (“No Time to Die”).

Ordered by Swedish broadcaster TV4, “Cry Wolf” is based on “Vargasommar,” the anticipated debut novel of Hans Rosenfeldt, the BAFTA-nominated creator of “Bron” (“The Bridge”) and British series “Marcella.” Fifth Season has boarded international sales.

“Cry Wolf” will also star Eva Melander (“UFO Sweden”) and Henrik Dorsin (“Triangle of Sadness”). It will start filming in in Haparanda, near the border of Finland, in July. Melander is set play Hannah Wester, a 54-year-old police officer whose quiet life in Haparanda gets turned upside down after a wolf is found dead. The ordinary investigation becomes a sprawling criminal case connected to a bloody drug deal in Finland and sparks a series of brutal events.

Ganslandt said he “wanted...

Ashton Kutcher is now an entrepreneur, producer and actor but got his start as a model. The That 70s Show alum recalled his male modeling days posing for the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog and said Triangle of Sadness is an “accurate depiction” of what the industry is like.

“If you actually want to see an extraordinarily accurate depiction of what it’s like to be a male model, watch the first 10 minutes of Triangle of Sadness,” he said during an interview with Esquire.

Kutcher continued, “I remember living that scene. The depiction is so accurate, it’s terrifying.”

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Ruben Östlund’s second Palme d’Or winner, Triangle of Sadness, inherits its name from a witty Swedish saying that describes the wrinkles that form between a person’s eyebrows when they are worried or stressed.

“You get it if you have had a lot of trouble in your life. But you can fix it with Botox in 15 minutes,” Östlund preciously told Deadline of the phrase.

“It’s a term that comes from cosmetic surgery — not plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery — and I thought it was comical. Like, a dark, comical comment about surface and beauty: our obsession with beauty, and our obsession with looks, and our belief that our inner problems will be solved if we construct a great shell around ourselves.”

The term is...

Triangle of Sadness is a 2022 comedy movie written and directed by Ruben Östlund starring Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Woody Harrelson and Zlatko Buric. The film won the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Hierarchies are inversed, norms are challenged in this interesting and humorous film that does not shy away from commenting on human folly and social norms.

Premise

The fashion celebrity couple and influencers, Carl and Yaya, are invited on a luxury yacht cruise exclusively for the top 0.9 in the wealth hierarchy. Onboard they will meet some interesting characters: Dimitry, the Russian oligarch and his wife Vera, the elderly British couple Clementine and Winston the arms dealer, and the lonely tech billionaire, Jarmo. At the helm of the crew and yacht is the rather unbalanced Captain Smith. What initially appears instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.

Triangle of Sadness...

Dir: Ruben Östlund. Starring: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Zlatko BuriÄ., Henrik Dorsin, Vicki Berlin, Woody Harrelson. 15, 147 minutes.

This year’s Palme d’Or winner, Triangle of Sadness, is a class satire atop a river of vomit and faeces. A handful of the ultra-rich – among them a tech bro, a grenade manufacturer, and a (literal) manure peddler – have sailed off on a luxury cruise aboard a 250m yacht. They expect a captain’s dinner, but the captain himself has remained too drunk to make an appearance until the one day choppy seas are predicted. What happens next is a raging hurricane of bodily functions. A few spittles choked out quietly in the corners of the dining room build up to more thunderous chunks. The torrent calms, only for the guests to realise that the yacht’s plumbing is now unsalvageably backed up.

I’m happy to admit that...

Triangle of Sadness Review — Triangle of Sadness (2022) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Ruben Östlund and starring Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Woody Harrelson, Vicki Berlin, Dolly De Leon, Timoleon Gketsos, Alicia Eriksson, Zlatko Buric, Sunnyi Melles, Carolina Gynning, Iris Berben, Amanda Walker, Oliver Ford Davies, Henrik Dorsin and Arvin Kananian. Swedish [...]

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Charlbi Dean, a young, up-and-coming South African actor who most recently starred in this year’s Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness,” died Monday in New York from an unexpected illness, Variety has confirmed. She was 32.

Dean also appeared in the DC Comics series “Black Lightning” on The CW. She played the highly skilled assassin Syonide throughout nine episodes over two seasons.

She made her acting debut in the South African film “Spud” in 2010 and returned in the 2013 sequel

“Spud 2: The Madness Continues.”

“Triangle of Sadness,” a satirical dark comedy directed by Ruben Östlund, marked her first major film. Dean was the co-lead, opposite Harris Dickinson. They played a high-fashion, celebrity couple, Carl and Yaya, who are invited on a cruise for the ultra-rich, which at first seems like paradise for the wealthy, social media influencers. However, they soon discover that their shipmates include a Russian oligarch, British arms dealer,...

Triangle of Sadness Trailer — Ruben Östlund‘s Triangle of Sadness (2022) movie trailer has been released by Neon. The Triangle of Sadness trailer stars Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Zlatko Buric, Henrik Dorsin, Vicki Berlin, and Woody Harrelson. Crew Ruben Östlund wrote the screenplay for Triangle of Sadness. “Produced by Philippe Bober and Erik Hemmendorff.” Poster Triangle [...]

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"We will clean the sails!" Neon has unveiled the first official trailer for Triangle of Sadness, the latest wacky wild Ruben Östlund comedy straight from the Cannes Film Festival. This won the top prize Palme d'Or at Cannes, the second time Ruben has won following his victory with The Square a few years ago. This time he skewers the rich and wealthy in a comedy about how ridiculous their lives are, focusing mainly on what happens when a group of them spend time on a fancy yacht with a drunken captain. A special cruise for the super-rich flounders thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island. The ensemble cast features Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Zlatko Burić, Henrik Dorsin, Vicki Berlin, and Woody Harrelson as the doesn't-give-a-fuck captain. This isn't my favorite Östlund film, but it is absolutely hilarious and there are a...

The Sarajevo Film Festival has set Ruben Östlund’s Triangle Of Sadness as its opening night film for its 28th edition, which kicks off on August 12. The film was the winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Swedish director Östlund, who was president of Sarajevo’s Jury Competition program a few years ago, will be presented with an Honorary Heart of Sarajevo award at the opening ceremony of the festival this year, just before the screening of the film.

Triangle Of Sadness, which is directed and written by Östlund, is a satire that reveals roles and classes: Carl and Yaya, a couple of models, go through the excitement of Milan Fashion week before arriving on an exclusive yacht cruise in the Caribbean. There are well-to-do passengers on board and the ship is maintained flawlessly but when bad weather results in passengers getting seasick, the...

There’s a reason why Cannes Competition title “Triangle of Sadness” just sold big to Neon after an extended bidding war among A24, Searchlight, and others.

It’s the Scene. After the first screenings at Cannes, audiences came out laughing, and they kept telling people about the Scene. It takes its time. It builds. And builds. It starts on a yacht cruise, during the Captain’s Dinner, as the seas start to roil and exquisite seafood is served to the champagne-sipping black-tie passengers. The waiters lift the gold lids on briny octopus as the cabin starts to tip up and down. Soon a few guests start to feel queasy. One throwing up inspires another. And another. Meanwhile the Marxist captain (Woody Harrelson) engages in a drunken dialectic quote-throwing contest with a Russian oligarch (Zlatko Buric).

And that’s just the beginning. Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, whose Palme d’Or winning,...

US distributor caps a busy Cannes with acquisition of Ruben Ostlund satire.

Neon has acquired the North American distribution rights to Ruben Östlund’s satire Triangle of Sadness after the film’s world premiere in competition at Cannes.

Östlund, who previously won the Palme d’Or for The Square, wrote and directed Triangle, with Imperative Entertainment producing in association with Film i Väst, BBC Film, 30West and Plattform Produktion.

The Square stars Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Woody Harrelson, Vicki Berlin and Henrik Dorsin and is set on a luxury yacht where two models and influencers mix with vacationing passengers and an eccentric captain.

Neon has acquired North American rights to Ruben Östlund’s buzzy satire, Triangle of Sadness, following its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film centers on Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), a couple of models and influencers who are invited on a yacht for a luxury cruise after Fashion Week. While the crew takes great care of the vacationers, the captain refuses to leave his cabin as the famous gala dinner approaches. Events take an unexpected turn, and the balance of power is reversed when a storm rises and endangers the comfort of the passengers…

Östlund, who previously won the top prize in Un Certain Regard for Force Majeure and the Palme d’Or for the Academy Award-nominated The Square, wrote and directed the film, with Imperative Entertainment producing in association with Film i Väst, BBC Film, 30West and Plattform Produktion. The filmmaker’s...

The deals at Cannes keep coming.

Neon has now acquired the North American distribution rights to Ruben Östlund’s satire “Triangle of Sadness,” which is playing in the main competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The English-language film from the Palme d’Or winning director of “The Square” and “Force Majeure” stars Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Woody Harrelson, Vicki Berlin, Henrik Dorsin, Zlatko Burić, Jean-Christophe Folly, Iris Berben, Sunnyi Melles, Amanda Walker, Oliver Ford Davies, Arvin Kananian, Carolina Gynning, Ralph Schicha and a break-out performance by Dolly De Leon.

“Triangle of Sadness” is a social commentary about the 1 and luxury culture told in three chapters in which a social-media influencer couple on a cruise for the super-rich wind up ship-wrecked and trapped on a deserted island. The film shocked and wowed Cannes audiences with its gross-out humor. Here’s the full synopsis:

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Ruben Östlund might like his fish in a barrel but he’s a ruthless shot. Following a Palme d’Or win for The Square, the Swedish filmmaker returns to Cannes in competition, and if the contemporary art scene had taken the brunt of that sometimes brilliant, sometimes baggy film (the rare example of an art satire that actually worked), his latest has both the fashion world and the 1 solidly in its sights. With a title derived from an industry term for the worry lines on a person’s forehead, Triangle of Sadness is a film as vast as the sea itself, Östlund’s first real epic. It is his White Lotus, his “wafer-thin mint,” and his Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie rolled into one: a scatological rinsing of wealth and hubris from a filmmaker who, with each passing effort, only further cements himself as contemporary cinema’s auteur of such things.

After a complicated pandemic-affected shoot, Palme d’Or-winning Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund has wrapped his new movie Triangle Of Sadness, a satire set in the world of high fashion.

The project first rolled cameras on February 4 in Sweden, completing its initial 25-day leg as lockdowns were being implemented across Europe. Cast member Woody Harrelson was unable to fly to the Scandi nation until June to shoot his part, while the Greek leg was delayed until late September, when it finally began its nine-week shoot.

Also starring are Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Vicky Berlin, Dolly De Leon, Zlatko Buric, Iris Berben, Amanda Walker, Oliver Ford Davies, Henrik Dorsin, Jean-Christophe Folly and Sunnyi Melles. Pic follows two models who are invited on a luxury cruise. As the yacht sinks, they are left stranded on a desert island with a group of billionaires and a cleaning lady. In the fight for survival, hierarchy is turned upside-down.

Studiocanal will be launching sales at the Toronto Film Festival for The Jonsson Gang, the latest pic from Tinker Tailor Solider Spy filmmaker Tomas Alfredson.

Sf Studios is handling the project’s Swedish release, which is set for December 2020.

The pic is a reboot of a successful Swedish film comedy series. Following a failed heist, a man ends up in prison. Once released, his gang has become law-abiding citizens and he has to continue on his own. An attempt at a simple burglary turns out to be something a lot better than he thought.

Project was written by Alfredson, Henrik Dorsin and Rikard Ulvshammar, and produced by Anna Carlsten, Pontus Edgren, Joshua Mehr and Fatima Varhos. It is an Flx production in co-production with Another Park Film, Dorsin Enterprises, Tonefilm, Sf Studios and TV4, in collaboration with C More, Chimney and Studiocanal, with support from Swedish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV fond...

Sf Studios will release the comedy in Sweden in December.

Studiocanal is launching world sales on Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish-language feature The Jonsson Gang as Toronto gets underway today.

The film is in the final stages of post-production.

It is a reboot of a Swedish comedy film series which began in the 1980s, and produced eight feature titles. Sf Studios is releasing the title in Sweden this December.

The Jonsson Gang is about a thief who, on release from prison, finds his gang have become law-abiding citizens and he must continue on his own. But when he is tasked with a bigger job than expected,...

Studiocanal will handle worldwide sales at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival on “The Jonsson Gang” from “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “Let The Right One In” director Tomas Alfredson.

A reboot of a successful Swedish film series, “The Jonsson Gang” follows a gang gone legit who reunite for one last heist. It stars Henrik Dorsin (“Triangle of Sadness”), Hedda Stiernstedt (“The Restaurant”), David Sundin (“Taskmaster”), Myanna Buring (“Downton Abbey”) and Lena Olin (“Chocolate”).

Alfredson said: “‘The Jonsson Gang’ is based on a film series from the 1980’s that practically every living Swedish person has seen. An international audience mostly knows my work with intimidating vampires and sullen spies, while most of my work has been comedic. It’s been a lot of fun to return to something laughable and we look forward to finding a worldwide audience with Studiocanal.”

The film is written by Alfredson, Henrik Dorsin and Rikard Ulvshammar,...

After a great deal of acclaim with Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, about everything that could go wrong did indeed go wrong with Tomas Alfredson’s next project, the puzzling crime drama misfire The Snowman. The Swedish director is now hopefully bouncing back, taking on a comedy with a reboot of Jönssonligan–itself a remake of the Danish series, which followed a group of criminals as they plan a heist.

Titled Se upp för Jönssonligan (which loosely translates to Watch Out for the Jönsson Gang), the film is based on the series, which launched in the early 1980s and went for eight films, with another reboot coming out just three years ago. Ahead of a Christmas release in Sweden, the first trailer has now landed (albeit without subtitles) for what is the fifteenth entry in the series, and it seems like Alfredson is having a great deal of fun.

The Swedish director moves from the world of art to the fashion milieu in his follow-up to The Square, which will star Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean and Woody Harrelson. Update (5 February 2020): The international cast of Ruben Östlund’s new film Triangle of Sadness has been announced. The international ensemble is led by rising stars Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean together with three-time Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson, and also includes Henrik Dorsin, Zlatko Buric, Iris Berben, Sunnyi Melles, Dolly De Leon, Vicki Berlin and Oliver Ford Davies. The film is an epic satire set against the world of fashion and the uber-rich. Production will start on 19 February in Gotheburg and Trollhättan in Sweden, followed by shootings on a yacht on the Adriatic Sea and in Greece. The movie is being produced by Erik Hemmendorff for Plattform Produktion and Philippe Bober for Coproduction Office, in co-production with Film i Väst,...

In today’s film news roundup, Woody Harrelson will star in a satire, Kaitlyn Dever will be honored, and the docs “Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band” and “Before the Plate” find distribution.

Castings

Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean have signed to star in Ruben Östlund’s upcoming satire “Triangle Of Sadness.”

The movie, set against the world of fashion and the uber-rich, will start production in Sweden, on Feb. 19, marking the start of a 70 day shoot which will move to Greece and a yacht on the Adriatic. Östlund, who won the Cannes Palme d’Or with his 2017 comedy “The Square,” also wrote the film.

Producers are Erik Hemmendorff at Plattform Produktion and Philippe Bober at Coproduction Office. The film is Östlund’s first in the English language. The cast also includes Croatia’s Zlatko Buric, Germany’s Iris Berben and Sunnyi Melles, Sweden’s Henrik Dorsin, The Philippines’ Dolly De Leon,...

BBC Films and BFI are backing the new film from the Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker.

Triple Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson, Screen Star of Tomorrow 2017 Harris Dickinson and South African model and actress Charlbi Dean have signed to star in Ruben Östlund’s first English-language film Triangle Of Sadness.

Dickinson and Dean will play a glamourous couple who are invited on a luxury cruise, helmed by a Marxist captain, played by Harrelson, When the group becomes stranded on a desert island, the hierarchies are turned upside down when only the cleaning lady can help as she knows how to fish. And...

The Square and Force Majeure writer-director Ruben Ostlund is – quite literally – about to set sail on wild, fashion-world satire Triangle of Sadness. Palme d’Or winner Ostlund will begin the film’s 70-day shoot on February 19 in Sweden and Greece, where cameras will roll on the Adriatic Sea.

Leading cast in the English-language movie will be rising Brit actor Harris Dickinson (The King’s Man), South African actress Charlbi Dean (Black Lightning) and three-time Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson, we can reveal.

The film, which has a brilliantly wicked premise, will follow fashion model couple Carl (Dickinson) and Yaya (Dean) who are invited on a luxury cruise. When the yacht sinks they become stranded on a desert island with a group of billionaires and a cleaning lady (De Leon). In the fight for survival, old hierarchies are turned upside down since the cleaning lady is the only...

Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund, winner of the 2017 Cannes Palme d'Or for The Square, has cast Woody Harrelson and newcomers Charlbi Dean and Harris Dickinson in his satire Triangle of Sadness.

The feature film set against the world of fashion and the super rich also includes Henrik Dorsin, Zlatko Buric, Iris Berben and Sunnyi Melles.

Triangle of Sadness is Ostlund’s first English language film, and his sixth feature after The Guitar Mongoloid, Involuntary, Force Majeure and The Square, another satire, this time on the art world and featuring Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West.

The cameras will start rolling on Ostlund's latest ...

Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund, winner of the 2017 Cannes Palme d'Or for The Square, has cast Woody Harrelson and newcomers Charlbi Dean and Harris Dickinson in his satire Triangle of Sadness.

The feature film set against the world of fashion and the super rich also includes Henrik Dorsin, Zlatko Buric, Iris Berben and Sunnyi Melles.

Triangle of Sadness is is Ostlund’s first English language film, and his sixth feature after The Guitar Mongoloid, Involuntary, Force Majeure and The Square, another satire, this time on the art world and featuring Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West.

The cameras will start rolling on Ostlund's ...

After two of the greatest films of the century thus far, Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, there hasn’t been a fall from grace quite like what Tomas Alfredson experienced with The Snowman. Thankfully, his disappointing (to put it mildly) crime thriller didn’t put him in director jail, rather just provided Film Twitter for endless jokes, courtesy of Universal’s marketing. The director has now found his next project, and no, it won’t be another Jo Nesbø adaptation.

Rather, the Swedish director will be taking on a comedy with a reboot of Jönssonligan–itself a remake of the Danish series–which followed a group of criminals, including an explosions expert with alcoholism, as they plan a heist. The series launched in the early 1980s and went for eight films, with another reboot coming out just three years ago. With Alfredson going back to...