Live! co-host Kelly Ripa clashed with the crew and producer Michael Gelman over the mistakes that occurred on the talk show. She noticed a series of incidents that made her speak up.
Kelly and her husband Mark Consuelos couldn’t ignore. Suddenly, the couple got into a fit of giggles. Keep on reading to learn more.
Live With Kelly And Mark Gets Serious
Normally, the daytime talk show loves to joke around. Producer Michael Gelman loves to rile up the hosts of the ABC talk show.
It usually comes across as light-hearted banter that hints they’re all in on the joke. However, there are times when tensions rise on the set of the show.
Kelly Ripa sometimes gets irritated with the crew. She admitted that her day started on a bad note. Things got worse as the day went on. Kelly noticed an error that caused her to clash with the crew.
Kelly and her husband Mark Consuelos couldn’t ignore. Suddenly, the couple got into a fit of giggles. Keep on reading to learn more.
Live With Kelly And Mark Gets Serious
Normally, the daytime talk show loves to joke around. Producer Michael Gelman loves to rile up the hosts of the ABC talk show.
It usually comes across as light-hearted banter that hints they’re all in on the joke. However, there are times when tensions rise on the set of the show.
Kelly Ripa sometimes gets irritated with the crew. She admitted that her day started on a bad note. Things got worse as the day went on. Kelly noticed an error that caused her to clash with the crew.
- 3/23/2024
- by Chanel D. Adams
- Celebrating The Soaps
Kelly Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, were looking forward to a much-needed quiet weekend at home before this week’s Live with Kely and Mark shows.
The couple has completed two whirlwind months going from Las Vegas to London to Hollywood for the Academy Awards.
After a good rest over the weekend, Kelly was ready for the week to start with a live show, but things did not go as smoothly as she would have liked them to.
The production crew was less well-rested than Kelly and Mark and seemed to get in trouble after a couple of screw-ups.
Kelly is a professional at her job, having worked in television for decades, and has no patience for repeated mistakes.
She is not afraid to speak her mind when things go wrong, even daring to shush her producer, Michael Gelman, if he deserves it.
Kelly was upset and called out...
The couple has completed two whirlwind months going from Las Vegas to London to Hollywood for the Academy Awards.
After a good rest over the weekend, Kelly was ready for the week to start with a live show, but things did not go as smoothly as she would have liked them to.
The production crew was less well-rested than Kelly and Mark and seemed to get in trouble after a couple of screw-ups.
Kelly is a professional at her job, having worked in television for decades, and has no patience for repeated mistakes.
She is not afraid to speak her mind when things go wrong, even daring to shush her producer, Michael Gelman, if he deserves it.
Kelly was upset and called out...
- 3/18/2024
- by Pamela Roy
- Monsters and Critics
Exclusive: Industry training platform Stage 32 has revealed the 11 finalists selected for its inaugural Empowering Women Script Competition, running in collaboration with production company Catalyst Studios.
Beyond offering a competition platform, the initiative will also provide ongoing development support and mentorship to the female and non-binary finalists.
“It’s not just about finding the next great script. This program fosters the talents of promising artists and empowers their voices to change the world,” said Stage 32 Managing Director Amanda Toney.
The winning writer will receive a guaranteed $5,000 option for their script and is eligible for up to $3,000,000 in financing from Catalyst for production.
In addition to financial support, the Catalyst team will collaborate with the winning writer on development, while Stage 32 will provide educational support for script development.
The partners also announced that outgoing Berlinale Managing Director Mariette Rissenbeek has joined the program as a mentor for the winner.
Catalyst Studios...
Beyond offering a competition platform, the initiative will also provide ongoing development support and mentorship to the female and non-binary finalists.
“It’s not just about finding the next great script. This program fosters the talents of promising artists and empowers their voices to change the world,” said Stage 32 Managing Director Amanda Toney.
The winning writer will receive a guaranteed $5,000 option for their script and is eligible for up to $3,000,000 in financing from Catalyst for production.
In addition to financial support, the Catalyst team will collaborate with the winning writer on development, while Stage 32 will provide educational support for script development.
The partners also announced that outgoing Berlinale Managing Director Mariette Rissenbeek has joined the program as a mentor for the winner.
Catalyst Studios...
- 1/19/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The mark of an actor’s career, I think, is what extent their filmography can reflect the time they’re working. Matthew Modine is a prime case: we can point, first and most easily, to leading a Stanley Kubrick film, a title for which there are fewer living holders than men who’ve walked on the moon; there’s one of the all-time biggest box-office disasters; supporting roles for Christopher Nolan, Robert Altman, Oliver Stone; and aiding auteurs Abel Ferrara and Alan Rudolph as a star. This makes especially appreciable the Roxy Cinema’s retrospective The Many Faces of Matthew Modine, running Friday through Sunday with five films: Ferrara’s The Blackout, Rudolph’s Equinox, Cutthroat Island, Birdy, and his own feature If… Dog… Rabbit…
Having long admired Modine’s screen presence, I was happy to speak with him about this retrospective. But it engendered a longer, deeper conversation about...
Having long admired Modine’s screen presence, I was happy to speak with him about this retrospective. But it engendered a longer, deeper conversation about...
- 12/1/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Full Moon Features will world premiere The Primevals at Fantasia Film Festival – in a screening that represents the culmination of a longtime dream harboured by visual effects wizard David Allen, whose career stretched from 1970’s Equinox through Oscar-nominated work on Young Sherlock Holmes and beyond.
Allen first conceived The Primevals as a vehicle for his stop-motion talents in the 1970s. He finally began directing the movie, which he scripted with fellow effects artist Randy Cook (The Gate), in the 1990s under producer Charles Band, CEO and Founder of Full Moon Features, for whom he’d brought all manner of beasties to life in Laserblast, Puppet Master and many others. Sadly, the film’s completion was scuttled by Allen’s death from cancer in 1999 at just 54 years old.
Now, at last, Band and longtime Allen associate Chris Endicott have seen the film to completion, and it emerges as a glorious tribute...
Allen first conceived The Primevals as a vehicle for his stop-motion talents in the 1970s. He finally began directing the movie, which he scripted with fellow effects artist Randy Cook (The Gate), in the 1990s under producer Charles Band, CEO and Founder of Full Moon Features, for whom he’d brought all manner of beasties to life in Laserblast, Puppet Master and many others. Sadly, the film’s completion was scuttled by Allen’s death from cancer in 1999 at just 54 years old.
Now, at last, Band and longtime Allen associate Chris Endicott have seen the film to completion, and it emerges as a glorious tribute...
- 7/13/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
In the fall of 1979, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and the rest of the cast and crew arrived on location in the woods of Tennessee to make a movie called "The Evil Dead." It wasn't always called that; its original title was "The Book of the Dead," and there were more suggested titles along the way. Thankfully Raimi went for economy, and the title we know today matches the film: Concise, scary, and in-your-face.
It also wasn't the first time that Raimi and friends had embarked on such a project. A year earlier, the young filmmaker rustled up $1600 to make a 30-minute proof-of-concept called "Within the Woods" to showcase his team's talent and raise money for their first feature-length movie. It is only just about watchable, but it is fascinating to see some ideas and techniques that Raimi would later use taking shape in the trial run.
"Within the Woods" helped...
It also wasn't the first time that Raimi and friends had embarked on such a project. A year earlier, the young filmmaker rustled up $1600 to make a 30-minute proof-of-concept called "Within the Woods" to showcase his team's talent and raise money for their first feature-length movie. It is only just about watchable, but it is fascinating to see some ideas and techniques that Raimi would later use taking shape in the trial run.
"Within the Woods" helped...
- 4/18/2023
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
New and boosted tax breaks, plus state-of-the-art facilities and a lean, skilled crew base are drawing a growing number of productions to Scandinavia, a region whose content continues to be in high demand both locally and globally.
Denmark remains the exception and does not offer tax incentives or rebates for film and TV production. In addition, its production studios have been hard hit by a war over rights between talent and streamers that brought TV production to a virtual standstill in 2022.
Iceland, on the other hand, which upped its tax incentive from 25 to 35 last year, has seen its film industry grow by a whopping 85 over five years. An added benefit for productions is a 25 incentive for music recording, which includes studio costs, travel and lodging.
The first recipient of the enhanced tax break, “True Detective: Night Country,” Season 4 of HBO’s series, was entirely shot on location. It is the...
Denmark remains the exception and does not offer tax incentives or rebates for film and TV production. In addition, its production studios have been hard hit by a war over rights between talent and streamers that brought TV production to a virtual standstill in 2022.
Iceland, on the other hand, which upped its tax incentive from 25 to 35 last year, has seen its film industry grow by a whopping 85 over five years. An added benefit for productions is a 25 incentive for music recording, which includes studio costs, travel and lodging.
The first recipient of the enhanced tax break, “True Detective: Night Country,” Season 4 of HBO’s series, was entirely shot on location. It is the...
- 2/19/2023
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Fast-rising Danish production powerhouse Motor, led by scribe Christian Torpe and producer Jesper Morthorst, has unveiled a splashy five-pic slate, led by the Göteborg Film Festival’s closing film “Camino” by Birgitte Stærmose and Tea Lindeburg’s pic in development “The Seal Woman,” to be pitched at the Discovery strand of Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market (Feb. 2-5).
One of the hottest new Danish directors, Netflix “Equinox” series creator Lindeburg made waves on the festival circuit with her directorial debut “As in Heaven,” which scooped a double win in San Sebastian and best-Nordic statuette in Göteborg 2021, before wooing several buyers including Juno Films in the U.S.
Her anticipated sophomore feature “The Seal Woman,” based on her original screenplay, is inspired by a Faroese legend, which has it that those who drown themselves turn into seals. And once every year, they return to shore in their human shape.
The story...
One of the hottest new Danish directors, Netflix “Equinox” series creator Lindeburg made waves on the festival circuit with her directorial debut “As in Heaven,” which scooped a double win in San Sebastian and best-Nordic statuette in Göteborg 2021, before wooing several buyers including Juno Films in the U.S.
Her anticipated sophomore feature “The Seal Woman,” based on her original screenplay, is inspired by a Faroese legend, which has it that those who drown themselves turn into seals. And once every year, they return to shore in their human shape.
The story...
- 1/19/2023
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
2022 is flying by, as evidenced by the return of pumpkin spice lattes and the fact that Weezer are already in the fall phase of their yearlong Sznz project.
The Autumnal Equinox is upon us, so Rivers Cuomo and company have released their Sznz: Autumn, as well as the EP’s first single “What Happens After You,” which Weezer promptly premiered tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Throughout 2022, Weezer have dropped their Sznz EPs on the first day of each corresponding season. However, Weezer debuted some tracks off their Sznz: Autumn (and...
The Autumnal Equinox is upon us, so Rivers Cuomo and company have released their Sznz: Autumn, as well as the EP’s first single “What Happens After You,” which Weezer promptly premiered tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Throughout 2022, Weezer have dropped their Sznz EPs on the first day of each corresponding season. However, Weezer debuted some tracks off their Sznz: Autumn (and...
- 9/22/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film Forum
As new 35mm print of Brooke Adams-starrer Vengeance Is Mine screens, Montgomery Clift is given a retro featuring the greatest of Old Hollywood; the restoration of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Distant continues; The Music Man screens this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
Heat, Miami Vice, and Collateral all screen on 35mm for “Mann to Mann: The Manly Melodramas of Michael Mann,” while the great Dp James Wong Howe is given his dues in a new retrospective.
Film at Lincoln Center
A career-spanning Mike Leigh retro continues.
Japan Society
A print of Ozu’s Good Morning screens on Friday.
Roxy Cinema
Prints of Wild at Heart, Shivers, and M. Butterfly screen.
IFC Center
As the restoration of Inland Empire continues, Mulholland Dr., Perfect Blue, Paprika, and Enter the Void have late-night showings.
Metrograph
Wanda and Ozu’s Equinox...
Film Forum
As new 35mm print of Brooke Adams-starrer Vengeance Is Mine screens, Montgomery Clift is given a retro featuring the greatest of Old Hollywood; the restoration of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Distant continues; The Music Man screens this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
Heat, Miami Vice, and Collateral all screen on 35mm for “Mann to Mann: The Manly Melodramas of Michael Mann,” while the great Dp James Wong Howe is given his dues in a new retrospective.
Film at Lincoln Center
A career-spanning Mike Leigh retro continues.
Japan Society
A print of Ozu’s Good Morning screens on Friday.
Roxy Cinema
Prints of Wild at Heart, Shivers, and M. Butterfly screen.
IFC Center
As the restoration of Inland Empire continues, Mulholland Dr., Perfect Blue, Paprika, and Enter the Void have late-night showings.
Metrograph
Wanda and Ozu’s Equinox...
- 6/2/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Following the death of actor Fred Ward, several of his former costars, including Kevin Bacon, Matthew Modine, Lou Diamond Phillips, Richard E. Grant, and Kate Mulgrew, shared their memories of working with the charmingly gruff star.
Bacon shared a photo of himself and Ward from the 1990 cult hit “Tremors,” writing, “So sad to hear about Fred Ward. When it came to battling underground worms I couldn’t have asked for a better partner. I will always remember chatting about his love of Django Reinhardt and jazz guitar during our long hot days in the high desert. Rest In Peace Fred.” The two reunited in 2018 for a “Tremors” TV pilot that sadly was not picked up.
So sad to hear about Fred Ward. When it came to battling underground worms I couldn’t have asked for a better partner. I will always remember chatting about his love of Django Reinhardt and...
Bacon shared a photo of himself and Ward from the 1990 cult hit “Tremors,” writing, “So sad to hear about Fred Ward. When it came to battling underground worms I couldn’t have asked for a better partner. I will always remember chatting about his love of Django Reinhardt and jazz guitar during our long hot days in the high desert. Rest In Peace Fred.” The two reunited in 2018 for a “Tremors” TV pilot that sadly was not picked up.
So sad to hear about Fred Ward. When it came to battling underground worms I couldn’t have asked for a better partner. I will always remember chatting about his love of Django Reinhardt and...
- 5/14/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
High profile Danish playwright Christian Lollike spoke to Variety about his feature film debut “The Cake Dynasty” at the Goteborg Festival’s Nordic Film Market. Lollike is presenting the movie in the market’s work-in-progress sidebar.
Represented in international markets by LevelK, the immigration-themed satirical and romantic drama stars Nicolas Bro (“Riders of Justice”) as Neil, a middle-aged factory boss whose family-run cake factory is on the verge of bankruptcy. Deeply depressed, the man embarks on a desperate mission to save the business and starts selling low-calorie sweets, as well as hiring refugees to work in the factory. The seismic changes cause him to open his heart in a new way.
“I’ve wanted to make a sort of a fairy tale about the immigrant situation in Denmark for the last twenty years. In that sense, The film is a reflection on what we call Danish or European values,” says Lollike,...
Represented in international markets by LevelK, the immigration-themed satirical and romantic drama stars Nicolas Bro (“Riders of Justice”) as Neil, a middle-aged factory boss whose family-run cake factory is on the verge of bankruptcy. Deeply depressed, the man embarks on a desperate mission to save the business and starts selling low-calorie sweets, as well as hiring refugees to work in the factory. The seismic changes cause him to open his heart in a new way.
“I’ve wanted to make a sort of a fairy tale about the immigrant situation in Denmark for the last twenty years. In that sense, The film is a reflection on what we call Danish or European values,” says Lollike,...
- 2/4/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Showrun by “An Education” director Lone Scherfig and anchored by the performance of “The Killing” star Sofie Gråbøl playing opposite “Kon-Tiki” lead Pål Sverre Hagen, “The Shift’s” key talent credentials mark it out immediately as one of potential standout Scandinavian series of 2022.
Selection for both Berlinale Series and the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, announced Feb. 2, merely confirms that promise.
Sales company Beta Film shared a trailer with Variety just before the series’ presentation at the Göteborg Festival’s TV Drama Vision on Feb. 2.
In “The Shift,” Gråbøl plays Ella, a head midwife at Denmark’s best maternity ward who secretly yearning for her own.
She’s also having an affair with Norwegian paediatrician Jerry (Sverre Hagen) whose marriage is falling apart, a fact his religious community is not supposed to know.
But work goes on, mercilessly for a short-staffed unit. Ella delivers nine children in one day in Ep.
Selection for both Berlinale Series and the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, announced Feb. 2, merely confirms that promise.
Sales company Beta Film shared a trailer with Variety just before the series’ presentation at the Göteborg Festival’s TV Drama Vision on Feb. 2.
In “The Shift,” Gråbøl plays Ella, a head midwife at Denmark’s best maternity ward who secretly yearning for her own.
She’s also having an affair with Norwegian paediatrician Jerry (Sverre Hagen) whose marriage is falling apart, a fact his religious community is not supposed to know.
But work goes on, mercilessly for a short-staffed unit. Ella delivers nine children in one day in Ep.
- 2/1/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The director talks taking inspiration from ‘Carrie’, Islam and motherhood.
Danish director Tea Lindeburg’s feature debut As In Heaven – which receives its European premiere in the main competition at San Sebastian Film Festival today (September 19) – provides an unflinching look at the brutality of motherhood, as told through the eyes of a young teenage girl named Lise (Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl), living in Denmark’s countryside in the late 1800s.
Across the space of a single day, we see Lise’s life change forever when the girl, who is the eldest of a large brood of children, sees her mother...
Danish director Tea Lindeburg’s feature debut As In Heaven – which receives its European premiere in the main competition at San Sebastian Film Festival today (September 19) – provides an unflinching look at the brutality of motherhood, as told through the eyes of a young teenage girl named Lise (Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl), living in Denmark’s countryside in the late 1800s.
Across the space of a single day, we see Lise’s life change forever when the girl, who is the eldest of a large brood of children, sees her mother...
- 9/19/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
After the Viking conquest at July’s Cannes Festival, where Norway (“The Worst Person in the World”), Finland (“Compartment No. 6”) and Iceland (“Lamb”) collected kudos, more than 60 possible gems from the North are to be unveiled at the hybrid market New Nordic Films which will unspool over Aug. 24-27.
Scandinavia’s major film showcase, New Nordic Films runs parallel to Haugesund’s Norwegian Intl. Film Festival, which takes place Aug. 21-27.
Sony Pictures Classics’ Finnish pick-up “Compartment No. 6”, a Grand Jury Prize co-winner in Cannes, is set to kick-start the annual event and lead the pack of 24-plus finished titles. Most pics will screen online only, except those bowing in Haugesund cinemas as well, as fest official selections, such as “The Innocents,” “The Gravedigger’s Wife,” “Margrete-Queen of the North,” and “a-ha-The Movie.”
“It’s been a bit hard to finalize the market screenings, due to social distancing measures still in place in cinemas,...
Scandinavia’s major film showcase, New Nordic Films runs parallel to Haugesund’s Norwegian Intl. Film Festival, which takes place Aug. 21-27.
Sony Pictures Classics’ Finnish pick-up “Compartment No. 6”, a Grand Jury Prize co-winner in Cannes, is set to kick-start the annual event and lead the pack of 24-plus finished titles. Most pics will screen online only, except those bowing in Haugesund cinemas as well, as fest official selections, such as “The Innocents,” “The Gravedigger’s Wife,” “Margrete-Queen of the North,” and “a-ha-The Movie.”
“It’s been a bit hard to finalize the market screenings, due to social distancing measures still in place in cinemas,...
- 8/13/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Title is Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg’s debut feature.
LevelK has boarded international sales rights to Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg’s debut feature, As in Heaven, which has been confirmed for Toronto’s Discovery section and will also screen in the main competition at San Sebastian.
Writer/director Lindeburg has previously worked in television and is the creator and writer of the Danish Netflix production Equinox.
As in Heaven follows 14-year-old Lise, the eldest of her siblings, who experiences the harsh reality of farm life in the 19th century. She is poised to become the first in her family to go away to school,...
LevelK has boarded international sales rights to Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg’s debut feature, As in Heaven, which has been confirmed for Toronto’s Discovery section and will also screen in the main competition at San Sebastian.
Writer/director Lindeburg has previously worked in television and is the creator and writer of the Danish Netflix production Equinox.
As in Heaven follows 14-year-old Lise, the eldest of her siblings, who experiences the harsh reality of farm life in the 19th century. She is poised to become the first in her family to go away to school,...
- 7/28/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Frank Bonner, the actor who played the plaid-suited sales manager Herb Tarlek on the CBS comedy Wkrp in Cincinnati, died Wednesday of complications from Lewy body dementia at his home in Laguna Niguel, CA. He was 79.
His death was announced on Facebook by daughter Desiree Boers-Kort. “I’m deeply saddened to let you know that our beloved Frank Bonner passed away today at age 79,” she wrote on the Wkrp in Cincinnati home page. “He loved his fans and was still signing autograph requests up until the last few weeks of his illness. Thank you to all who followed his career. He will be forever missed.”
Born Frank Boers Jr. in Little Rock, Arkansas, Bonner made his acting debut in 1967’s horror film The Equinox … A Journey Into the Unknown (retitled Equinox in a largely re-shot 1970 version). Subsequent episodic TV appearances followed, including roles in the late ’60s-early ’70s series such as Mannix,...
His death was announced on Facebook by daughter Desiree Boers-Kort. “I’m deeply saddened to let you know that our beloved Frank Bonner passed away today at age 79,” she wrote on the Wkrp in Cincinnati home page. “He loved his fans and was still signing autograph requests up until the last few weeks of his illness. Thank you to all who followed his career. He will be forever missed.”
Born Frank Boers Jr. in Little Rock, Arkansas, Bonner made his acting debut in 1967’s horror film The Equinox … A Journey Into the Unknown (retitled Equinox in a largely re-shot 1970 version). Subsequent episodic TV appearances followed, including roles in the late ’60s-early ’70s series such as Mannix,...
- 6/17/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Frank Bonner, the veteran actor who became famous for portraying Herb Tarlek on the TV sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Wednesday. He was 79.
Bonner’s family confirmed to TMZ that the actor died as a result of complications from Lewy body dementia.
Desiree Boers-Kort, Bonner’s daughter, posted in a “WKRP In Cincinnati” Facebook group, saying that the actor “loved his fans and was still signing autograph requests up until the last few weeks of his illness. Thank you to all who followed his career. He will be forever missed."
Bonner appeared in 88 of the 90 episodes of “WKRP in Cincinnati,” which aired for four seasons from 1978-82. He also directed six episodes of the sitcom, which followed the misadventures of the staff of a struggling rock radio station in Cincinnati. Bonner’s character was a tasteless sales manager at the station who often failed to secure deals with major advertising agencies.
Bonner’s family confirmed to TMZ that the actor died as a result of complications from Lewy body dementia.
Desiree Boers-Kort, Bonner’s daughter, posted in a “WKRP In Cincinnati” Facebook group, saying that the actor “loved his fans and was still signing autograph requests up until the last few weeks of his illness. Thank you to all who followed his career. He will be forever missed."
Bonner appeared in 88 of the 90 episodes of “WKRP in Cincinnati,” which aired for four seasons from 1978-82. He also directed six episodes of the sitcom, which followed the misadventures of the staff of a struggling rock radio station in Cincinnati. Bonner’s character was a tasteless sales manager at the station who often failed to secure deals with major advertising agencies.
- 6/17/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
ITV Studios has acquired a controlling stake in Apple Tree Productions, the Danish production outfit founded by BAFTA-winning producer Piv Bernth.
ITV Studios previously had a 25% stake in the business, which has now risen to 51%. Apple Tree will now be part of ITV Studios’ international production group with bases in 12 countries, under managing director Lisa Perrin.
Bernth is one of the pioneers of the globally popular Nordic noir genre, having produced iconic shows like “The Killing” and “The Bridge.” Lars Hermann, producer and former deputy head of drama at Danish broadcaster Dr, co-founded Apple Tree in 2017 with Bernth.
“Expanding the international scripted footprint is very important to ITV Studios and this acquisition couldn’t be at a better time with Piv and Lars producing some of the best scripted content in the world right now,” said Perrin.
Shows produced by Apple Tree include Netflix supernatural thriller “Equinox.” Pre-production is also...
ITV Studios previously had a 25% stake in the business, which has now risen to 51%. Apple Tree will now be part of ITV Studios’ international production group with bases in 12 countries, under managing director Lisa Perrin.
Bernth is one of the pioneers of the globally popular Nordic noir genre, having produced iconic shows like “The Killing” and “The Bridge.” Lars Hermann, producer and former deputy head of drama at Danish broadcaster Dr, co-founded Apple Tree in 2017 with Bernth.
“Expanding the international scripted footprint is very important to ITV Studios and this acquisition couldn’t be at a better time with Piv and Lars producing some of the best scripted content in the world right now,” said Perrin.
Shows produced by Apple Tree include Netflix supernatural thriller “Equinox.” Pre-production is also...
- 3/1/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
ITV Studios has taken control of Apple Tree Productions, the Danish scripted producer founded in 2017 by The Killing and The Bridge producer Piv Bernth.
ITV Studios has upped its stake in the company from 25% to 51% and it will become a more integrated part of the production arm’s family of scripted producers. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Co-founded by Dr deputy head of drama and producer Lars Hermann, Apple Tree is behind Netflix supernatural thriller series Equinox.
Pre-production is also underway on an adaptation of Kerstin Ekman’s multi-award winning crime novel, Blackwater, for Svt in Sweden and Ard in Germany.
Bernth and Hermann said: “We hope that we, closer together now, can merge all our best efforts and make Scandinavian and international drama to viewers all over the world.”
Julian Bellamy, ITV Studios’ managing director, added: “The global appetite for the Nordics’ very distinctive style of storytelling has grown and grown,...
ITV Studios has upped its stake in the company from 25% to 51% and it will become a more integrated part of the production arm’s family of scripted producers. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Co-founded by Dr deputy head of drama and producer Lars Hermann, Apple Tree is behind Netflix supernatural thriller series Equinox.
Pre-production is also underway on an adaptation of Kerstin Ekman’s multi-award winning crime novel, Blackwater, for Svt in Sweden and Ard in Germany.
Bernth and Hermann said: “We hope that we, closer together now, can merge all our best efforts and make Scandinavian and international drama to viewers all over the world.”
Julian Bellamy, ITV Studios’ managing director, added: “The global appetite for the Nordics’ very distinctive style of storytelling has grown and grown,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
ITV Studios has boosted its Nordic credentials, taking majority control of Danish production company Apple Tree Productions, whose shows include Netflix supernatural thriller Equinox.
ITV has boosted its stake in Apple Tree from 25 percent to 51 percent, the company announced Monday, saying the move was part of a broader strategy to strengthen its global scripted production base.
Piv Bernth (The Killing, The Bridge) and Lars Hermann (Follow the Money), two of Scandinavia’s most successful TV producers, founded Apple Tree back in 2017 as a boutique shingle to develop and produce high-end Nordic drama for the local market and global streamers....
ITV has boosted its stake in Apple Tree from 25 percent to 51 percent, the company announced Monday, saying the move was part of a broader strategy to strengthen its global scripted production base.
Piv Bernth (The Killing, The Bridge) and Lars Hermann (Follow the Money), two of Scandinavia’s most successful TV producers, founded Apple Tree back in 2017 as a boutique shingle to develop and produce high-end Nordic drama for the local market and global streamers....
ITV Studios has boosted its Nordic credentials, taking majority control of Danish production company Apple Tree Productions, whose shows include Netflix supernatural thriller Equinox.
ITV has boosted its stake in Apple Tree from 25 percent to 51 percent, the company announced Monday, saying the move was part of a broader strategy to strengthen its global scripted production base.
Piv Bernth (The Killing, The Bridge) and Lars Hermann (Follow the Money), two of Scandinavia’s most successful TV producers, founded Apple Tree back in 2017 as a boutique shingle to develop and produce high-end Nordic drama for the local market and global streamers....
ITV has boosted its stake in Apple Tree from 25 percent to 51 percent, the company announced Monday, saying the move was part of a broader strategy to strengthen its global scripted production base.
Piv Bernth (The Killing, The Bridge) and Lars Hermann (Follow the Money), two of Scandinavia’s most successful TV producers, founded Apple Tree back in 2017 as a boutique shingle to develop and produce high-end Nordic drama for the local market and global streamers....
Danish helmer Janus Metz’s next feature project after Amazon Studios’ “All the Old Knives,” starring Laurence Fischburne and Chris Pine, will be the Danish drama “Bastard Love,” produced by Jesper Morthorst and Lise Orheim Stender for Motor.
“Bastard Love” will be Metz’s sophomore Scandinavian feature film after the multi-awarded ”Borg vs. McEnroe.” The project is co-penned by Metz and Danish author Kamilla Hega Holst from her acclaimed novel “På Træk,” winner of the 2015 Blixen Literary Award.
The intense psychological drama centers on a woman in her late thirties who leaves her failed marriage, ex-husband and two kids, and ends up in Pattaya, Thailand, where her retired grandfather is living with a Thai woman. There, she starts a relationship with a trans prostitute and throws herself into the dark underbelly of the city, where anything is possible, including redefining herself.
The Thai setting is familiar territory for Holst whose grandfather lived in Pattaya,...
“Bastard Love” will be Metz’s sophomore Scandinavian feature film after the multi-awarded ”Borg vs. McEnroe.” The project is co-penned by Metz and Danish author Kamilla Hega Holst from her acclaimed novel “På Træk,” winner of the 2015 Blixen Literary Award.
The intense psychological drama centers on a woman in her late thirties who leaves her failed marriage, ex-husband and two kids, and ends up in Pattaya, Thailand, where her retired grandfather is living with a Thai woman. There, she starts a relationship with a trans prostitute and throws herself into the dark underbelly of the city, where anything is possible, including redefining herself.
The Thai setting is familiar territory for Holst whose grandfather lived in Pattaya,...
- 2/7/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Poland’s Opus Film and Scandinavian distributor Scanbox are teaming with fast-rising Danish production house Motor on Mads Hedegaard’s directorial debut “Stranger,” co-penned with Jesper Fink. Tagged by Motor as “‘Apocalypto’ meets ‘The Revenant,’” “Stranger” will be pitched virtually on Feb. 5 by Hedegaard and producer Andreas Hjortdal, at the Discovery section of the Göteborg Film Festival’s Nordic Film Market industry showcase.
The film goes back to pre-historic times, 6,000 years ago, when migrant farmers virtually replaced the hunter-gatherer populations of northern Europe. When 16-year old Aathi and her family -the first farmers ever – arrive from the south in the country now known as Denmark, all except Aathi and her younger brother are killed by local hunters. To survive, the two youngsters are forced to live with the hunters’ tribe in the eerie forest and integrate. But when Aathi becomes pregnant and the child is forcefully adopted by the tribe,...
The film goes back to pre-historic times, 6,000 years ago, when migrant farmers virtually replaced the hunter-gatherer populations of northern Europe. When 16-year old Aathi and her family -the first farmers ever – arrive from the south in the country now known as Denmark, all except Aathi and her younger brother are killed by local hunters. To survive, the two youngsters are forced to live with the hunters’ tribe in the eerie forest and integrate. But when Aathi becomes pregnant and the child is forcefully adopted by the tribe,...
- 2/3/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Photo: ‘Equinox’/Netflix Sometimes we search for series that will stretch over years, sometimes even decades, giving us an abundance of seasons and episodes to look forward to. Other times we want an intriguing mystery and mythology that holds us for as long as it can, provides thrills and intrigue, and then wraps itself up in a bow and leaves us thinking “Short and sweet, but time well spent.” Such is ‘Equinox’, Netflix’s new Danish supernatural mini-series, adapted from the acclaimed podcast ‘Equinox 1985.’ The podcast was written and created by Tea Lingeburg, who steps in as a writer for the series as Søren Balle and Mads Matthiesen take the directing helm. The mystery serves its viewers with plenty of twists and turns, morally gray characters, and some unsettling del Torro-style imagery thrown in for good measure. Related article: ‘Ak vs Ak’: Anil Kapoor and Director-Turned-Actor Anurag Kashyap Star...
- 1/5/2021
- by Cat Sole
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
As we head into the first full week of January, let’s take a look back at everything that went up on Netflix over the past seven days.
Across the end of December and the first few days of 2021, a total of 50 new titles debuted on the streaming giant. That number includes a load of original content and in case you missed some real gems, here’s the full list of everything that was new on Netflix this past week.
December 28
A Love So Beautiful: Season 1 (New episodes weekly) *Netflix Original
Cops and Robbers *Netflix Original
Rango (2011)
December 30
Best Leftovers Ever! Season 1 *Netflix Original
Bobby Jasoos (2014)
Equinox: Season 1 *Netflix Original
Gameboys Level-Up Edition: Season 1
The Rope Curse 2 *Netflix Original
Transformers: War for Cybertron: Chapter 2 *Netflix Original
December 31
Alaska is a Drag (2017)
Best of Stand-Up 2020 *Netflix Original
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Part 4 *Netflix Original
Tarung Sarung (2020)
Too Handsome to Handle...
Across the end of December and the first few days of 2021, a total of 50 new titles debuted on the streaming giant. That number includes a load of original content and in case you missed some real gems, here’s the full list of everything that was new on Netflix this past week.
December 28
A Love So Beautiful: Season 1 (New episodes weekly) *Netflix Original
Cops and Robbers *Netflix Original
Rango (2011)
December 30
Best Leftovers Ever! Season 1 *Netflix Original
Bobby Jasoos (2014)
Equinox: Season 1 *Netflix Original
Gameboys Level-Up Edition: Season 1
The Rope Curse 2 *Netflix Original
Transformers: War for Cybertron: Chapter 2 *Netflix Original
December 31
Alaska is a Drag (2017)
Best of Stand-Up 2020 *Netflix Original
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Part 4 *Netflix Original
Tarung Sarung (2020)
Too Handsome to Handle...
- 1/3/2021
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
We’re closing in on the end of December, and in a month filled with such incredible Netflix additions as Chadwick Boseman’s final film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, two entries in the Jurassic Park trilogy, and David Fincher’s newest effort Mank, you’d be forgiven for already having enough to keep up with. Nevertheless, today marks one of the final content drops of the year for the streaming platform, and with it comes a total of three new series.
For starters is the first season of the Danish show Equinox, which follows a young woman who was traumatized after an entire school class suddenly vanished in 1999. Years later, she sets out on a quest to discover what really happened and unravel a mystery that’s defined much of her life. If nothing else, it certainly sounds like a compelling tale that could be worth a viewing.
Secondly is...
For starters is the first season of the Danish show Equinox, which follows a young woman who was traumatized after an entire school class suddenly vanished in 1999. Years later, she sets out on a quest to discover what really happened and unravel a mystery that’s defined much of her life. If nothing else, it certainly sounds like a compelling tale that could be worth a viewing.
Secondly is...
- 12/30/2020
- by Billy Givens
- We Got This Covered
Christmas may be over, but this coming week will still deliver a lot of gifts in terms of new Netflix releases. The streaming giant has got a bunch of titles arriving over the last couple days of the year and then it’s dropping more than 40 fresh releases on New Year’s Day. In total, then, there are 58 movies and TV shows making their way to Netflix subscribers this week and you can take a look at the full list below and then scroll down for a few of our highlights.
December 28th A Love So Beautiful (Season 1 – New Episodes Weekly) N Cops and Robbers (2020) N Rango (2011) December 30th Best Leftovers Ever! (Season 1) N Bobby Jasoos (2014) Equinox (Season 1) N Gameboys Level-Up Edition (Season 1) The Rope Curse 2 (2020) N Transformers: War for Cybertron (Chapter 2) N December 31st Alaska is a Drag (2017) Best of Stand-Up 2020 (2020) N Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Season 4) N...
December 28th A Love So Beautiful (Season 1 – New Episodes Weekly) N Cops and Robbers (2020) N Rango (2011) December 30th Best Leftovers Ever! (Season 1) N Bobby Jasoos (2014) Equinox (Season 1) N Gameboys Level-Up Edition (Season 1) The Rope Curse 2 (2020) N Transformers: War for Cybertron (Chapter 2) N December 31st Alaska is a Drag (2017) Best of Stand-Up 2020 (2020) N Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Season 4) N...
- 12/27/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Just because December is a time to celebrate festive movies, that doesn’t mean horror needs to take a back seat, and this month will be full of new genre offerings for fans to dig into.
Already available is Icelandic vampire film Thirst, where an addict accused of murdering her brother turns to an ancient vampire to bring him back, and Anything for Jackson, which sees an elderly couple kidnap a young pregnant woman to fuse the spirit of their dead grandson with the unborn child.
Out today, meanwhile, is Freaky – on VOD, at least, as it had a very limited theatrical run last month – a horror comedy where a high school girl and a serial killer swap bodies, Castle Freak, which follows a young woman who inherits a creepy old castle with connections to an ancient cult worshipping alien deities, What Lies Below, where a teenage girl comes to...
Already available is Icelandic vampire film Thirst, where an addict accused of murdering her brother turns to an ancient vampire to bring him back, and Anything for Jackson, which sees an elderly couple kidnap a young pregnant woman to fuse the spirit of their dead grandson with the unborn child.
Out today, meanwhile, is Freaky – on VOD, at least, as it had a very limited theatrical run last month – a horror comedy where a high school girl and a serial killer swap bodies, Castle Freak, which follows a young woman who inherits a creepy old castle with connections to an ancient cult worshipping alien deities, What Lies Below, where a teenage girl comes to...
- 12/4/2020
- by Andrew Marshall
- We Got This Covered
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