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It appears that the rumors about Elijah Wood and his longtime love Mette-Marie Kongsved are true!

Things aren’t going to plan for Aberdeen but Jimmy Thelin has insisted he has no regrets over his decision to swap Elfsborg for Pittodrie.

Jamie Carragher slaughtered Arsenal's David Raya by insisting goalkeepers should be BANNED from making risky passes to midfielders after his blunder led to a costly mistake against Newcastle.

Annika Pham Hollywood Icelandic mogul Joni Sighvatsson, producer of David Lynch’s Palme d’Or winner “Wild at Heart” and head of L.A.-based Palomar Entertainment, has partnered the Scandinavian powerhouse The Global Ensemble Drama and South Africa’s Diprente Media for the feature adaptation of Jonas Jonasson’s best-selling book “The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden.” The majority English-language project in development will be directed by high profile South-African talent Kagiso Lediga from a script by Karabo Lediga, both credited for Netflix’s first African series “Queen Sono.” “The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden” is the second Jonas Jonasson movie adaptation for Sighvatsson, after the executive produced “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared” which grossed over $51 million worldwide. Published in 2013 and sold by Albatros Agency to around 30 territories including to Harper Collins for English language countries, “The Girl…” is the empowering story of Nombeko Mayeki, “a young woman from Soweto who finds herself caught in an international whirlwind from South Africa to Sweden,” per the official logline.” “A heroine born in the slums of South Africa, she rises from obscurity to become the key player in an international nuclear conspiracy, accidentally saving the Swedish monarchy and averting global catastrophe with her quick-witted resourcefulness.” Nombeko’s journey is described as “an absurd and heart-warming tale of how one underestimated person can inadvertently save the world from disaster.

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions has hired former Audacy exec Jenna Weiss-Berman as head of its audio unit.

EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal has unveiled first images for French director Gilles de Maistre’s upcoming feature The Desert Child retelling the true story of a youngster raised by ostriches in the Sahara, ahead of launching the movie at the EFM.

Alesso has opened up about suffering from tinnitus, saying that he saw it as “a sign to slow down”.The Swedish DJ and producer (real name Alessandro Lindblad) shared a video update on Instagram yesterday (February 4), in which he explained his absence from social media and recent show cancellations.“I just wanted to be a little bit transparent on the situation,” he said.“So basically, two months ago, I woke up with the loudest ringing in my ears. I’m talking about 10 out of 10.

The Hives have shared a mashup of ‘Hate To Say I Told You So’ and Chappell Roan‘s ‘Hot To Go’ – listen below.The Swedish indie rock outfit paired their 2000 ‘Veni Vidi Vicious’ track with Roan’s imminently danceable ‘The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess‘ number, layering her vocals alongside their iconic guitar.Shared on X/Twitter yesterday (February 3), they spliced videos of Roan’s record-breaking Lollapalooza set with clips of themselves performing, much to the delight of fans, who dubbed it the “collab of the century” and joked that a better title, namely ‘Hate To Say I’m HOT TO GO’, was “RIGHT THERE” for them to use – check out the video below.HOT TO SAY I TOLD YOU GO.@ChappellRoan pic.twitter.com/Zv73e8ti3x— The Hives (@TheHives) February 3, 2025In 2023, The Hives shared ‘The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons’, marking their first new music after an 11-year hiatus, which they later followed up with a music video for their single ‘Rigor Mortis Radio’.The Filip Nilsson-directed video followed the band wrapping up a whole list of summer tour dates, acting as support for the Foo Fighters as they embarked on their North American tour.Prior to that, they also kicked off their UK and Ireland tour, and spoke to NME about their latest LP. During the interview, lead singer Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist called the Arctic Monkeys “the only good really popular band.”“We toured with them in South America about 10 years ago and had a great time, so I’m really happy they wanted us back,” he said.

EXCLUSIVE: Bergerac is returning with a 2025 makeover and plenty of networks are welcoming the iconic detective back.

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, the “16 Carriages” singer confirmed her highly-anticipated Cowboy Carter Tour 2025.It hasn't even been two years since the kicked off in May 2023, but is ready to bring her on tour in 2025. On February 4, Beyoncé shared the news through two Instagram posts the day before the 67th annual .Cowboy Carter, of course, is in the running for album of the year, while Beyoncé has also been nominated for record of the year, song of the year, and best country album, among others.

Marta Balaga Danish director Mads Hedegaard had to invent new languages for the Stone Age epic “Stranger.” “I have a background in documentaries [‘Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest’], so it had to feel real to the audience. I was like: ‘We’re not going to buy it if the actors talk in Danish or English,’” he explained to Variety before the film’s world-premiere at Sweden’s Goteborg, where it is the festival’s closing film. “There was a guy I knew; he has a PhD in Proto-Indo-European languages.

A man has been arrested after appearing to burn a copy of The Quran in Manchester city centre today. The act was advertised beforehand and streamed live on social media earlier today (Saturday).

Annika Pham After the hopeful signs of recovery over the last two years, attendance in all five markets dropped again in 2024, by a small margin of 3% in Denmark to nearly 13% in Norway. Post COVID effects and Hollywood strikes that led to a lack of U.S. tentpoles were blamed for the decline, however mitigated in some territories by the strong performance of domestic fare.

Annika Pham Two years after launch, Norway’s boutique production outlet Staer Film headed by Elisa Fernanda Pirir, is ramping up its activities by venturing into distribution and bigger budget movies. With a focus on visionary new and established auteurs, regional productions and international collaborations, the new Tromsö-based distribution outfit led by Eleanor Debreu will offer a home for Stær’s most artistically challenging co-productions, that will benefit from tailor-made innovative marketing strategies.

The Göteborg Film Festival’s Nordic Film Market announced its production award winners during a ceremony this evening and Holy Spider actor Zar Amir Ebrahimi was among the top honorees. 

Annika Pham “Honeytrap” will be like a skewed, tilted version of the more romantic films I’ve done before,” said the multi-awarded Danish writer-director Lone Scherfig to a packed audience of industry delegates Jan. 30, at the opening session of Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market Discovery program. In an express on-stage interview, the triple Oscar-nominated helmer of “An Education,” said “Honeytrap” will be her first ever Swedish project, based on a script by Pelle Rådström, credited for Netflix’s “Black Crab” and the Swedish show “Pressure Point” which just picked up the Nordic Series Script Award in Göteborg.

Marta Balaga Sara Beate Eira (Screaming Fox Productions) and Eva Åkergren (Nordisk Film Sweden) have boarded Finnish project “Máttáráhká,” aka “When Johan Johanaš Disappeared to the Mountains.” Directed by Suvi West, and Anssi Kömi, it’s produced by Julia Elomäki for Tekele Productions. Cinematographer Kerttu Hakkarainen, behind “Heartbeast” and “Natatorium,” will lens the film. In “Máttáráhká” – presented at Goteborg’s Nordic Film Market’s Discovery Co-production Platform – Máret, who’s a filmmaker, lives in a beautiful place where predators are always present.

Annika Pham In its latest bet on bold Scandi features, Copenhagen-based sales and aggregation house LevelK has picked up world rights to the Swedish feature “Live a Little” (“Leva lite”) which received a rapturous response at its world premiere in Göteborg last weekend, where it scooped the SEK 50,000 ($4,500) Angelo award from the Church of Sweden for best new Swedish cinema release. The pic is also a runner up for the festival’s hefty SEK 400,000 ($36,000) Dragon Prize-Best Nordic Film to be handed out Feb 1.

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World Weather Attribution, said that the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove fires in the Californian city were “35 per cent more likely due to warming caused primarily by the burning of oil, gas and coal.”The fires, which began on January 7, have left 28 people dead, more than 12,000 structures destroyed and saw the evacuation of more than 150,000 residents.Meanwhile, the number of music community members in the city being supported by MusiCares – the non-for-profit arm of The GRAMMYs – has more than doubled since the first week of the catastrophe.The burning of fossil fuels such as oil and gas is heating the planet, with the result a changing climate – which is seeing extreme weather events such as heatwaves, drought and become more frequent and more intense.World Weather Attirbution’s new study brought researchers together from countries including Brazil, The Netherlands, UK, the USA, Sweden and beyond to assess how climate change had propelled this month’s fires.The analysis said climate change is currently extending “fire-prone” conditions in Los Angeles by about “23 extra days a year” at the current global levels of heating. They concluded the threat of “fire season” is becoming “longer and more dangerous”.The report also noted Los Angeles’ water infrastructure was unable to “keep up with the scale and extreme needs” of the emergency.