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Manori Ravindran International EditorGerman investment and co-production outfit Night Train Media has fully acquired Swedish distributor Eccho Rights, buying Korean media group CJ ENM’s majority stake in the business in the process, Variety can reveal.The Stockholm-headquartered Eccho Rights is best known for a rich catalogue of Turkish content — which travels extremely well internationally — as well as Scandinavian, Western European and Korean programs. CJ ENM bought a majority stake in the company in December 2018 as part of a drive to expand in Europe, but has now fully sold that stake into Night Train Media.The deal for Eccho comes almost exactly a year after Night Train Media, which is backed by private equity company Serafin Group, bought a majority stake in Paul Heaney’s London-based distribution outfit BossaNova.

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based playwright, screenwriter, and novelist Lila Raicek has signed with CAA for representation.

Bastille’s Dan Smith has shared two new songs from his upcoming solo album ‘&’ and announced a series of live shows for the project. Check out the tracks ‘Blue Sky & The Painter’ and ‘Leonard & Marianne’ below, alongside NME’s exclusive chat with Smith.‘&’ finds the musician writing about the stories of real and mythological people throughout history, including Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen, Marie Curie, Edvard Munch and Chinese pirate Zheng Yi Sao.“I’ve always written music via other stories and nodded towards history or pop culture and narratives that we know, the lives of my friends, and mixed in things I read in the news,” Smith told NME.

Bastille‘s Dan Smith recently played a new unreleased song while onboard a Greenpeace ship in the Bermuda Triangle.Titled ‘Blue Sky & the Painter’, Smith performed the track while sat on the prow of the iconic Greenpeace ship with his acoustic guitar. The video sees him on the boat as the sun is setting with the vast Atlantic Ocean is around him.The area is famous as the home of the Bermuda Triangle – where ships and planes have supposedly disappeared without a trace.Speaking about the track in a press release, Smith shared: “The song is about Edvard Munch finally seeing a crack of light in life after a long period of darkness, and it felt like a theme that resonated with this particular opportunity that we now have to protect these vast blue spaces that we all depend on.”He continued: “I was invited onto this iconic ship to learn and help out, but when we found ourselves in unusually calm water within the Bermuda Triangle, 240 nautical miles away from the nearest land, it just felt like an ideal opportunity to collaborate with the crew on capturing this song.”Smith joined a voyage with Greenpeace UK on the ship the Arctic Sunrise to learn more about the importance of ocean protection.

“Scream” franchise began in 1996 with the late great Wes Craven at the helm, chronicling notorious killer Ghostface as they terrorized high school students and murdered classmates in the small town of Woodsboro.The man (or woman) donning the mask reminiscent of artist Edvard Munch’s 1893 painting “The Scream” is often someone connected to their victims. With six “Scream” flicks and more in the works, the horror franchise has been in theaters for more than 25 years and its legacy has forever become a staple of the spooky season.Main character Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has been at the center of Ghostface’s murder spree for much of the series, but every time she almost always comes out unscathed as the ultimate Final Girl.While there are a lot of killers in the series to keep track of, this handy guide will keep you straight.Keep reading to learn about every murderer in the franchise. Warning: Spoilers ahead for the “Scream” movies. Read at your own risk …Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) was Sidney’s boyfriend for the first flick and is the original Ghostface.

“We have too much scripted content,” new Viaplay CEO Jørgen Madsen Lindemann said today as he was pressed by investors on the state of the embattled Nordic outfit’s finances and future sustainability.

This year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the 16 films selected for its flagship Tiger Competition. Scroll down for the full list.

EXCLUSIVE: Edvard Munch, painter of the iconic The Scream, is to have his life portrayed in a Norwegian feature film from Viaplay.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor“Images of a Nordic Drama,” the debut documentary by Oscar-nominated Norwegian director Nils Gaup, has debuted its teaser trailer, ahead of its international premiere at Hot Docs.The film follows art collector Haakon Mehren who faces unexpected resistance while championing the work of an unknown Norwegian artist after finding a cache of paintings in a barn.Despite success abroad, the undiscovered work of Aksel Waldemar Johannessen, a contemporary of Edvard Munch, takes nearly three decades to launch in Norway. The painter’s depictions of prostitutes and drunks living in miserable poverty offend the aesthetics of Norway’s art establishment and challenge the canon to the point of sabotaging his rediscovery.

Rachel Riley, who became Carol Vorderman's successor when she joined the show, is renowned for her sharp mathematical skills. Yet now, the 36-year-old has announced she will appear as a special guest on ITV's notoriously racy TV show Celebrity Juice.Some have suggested that the show is not quite on brand for Rachel, but although she knows her choice might be divisive, she is relishing the idea of diversifying and trying out new TV experiences.Using an open-mouthed emoji modelled on the Edvard Munch painting The Scream, she retweeted an ad for the show, while exclaiming: "Ruh-roh!""End of career time… well I had a good run," she joked in view of her 696,300 Twitter followers.The admission on her appearance sparked a deluge of responses from fans.@DaveBaker was adamant that Rachel shouldn't worry, quipping: "End of your career? No way! That's when u have to go on I'm a celebrity...! Hopefully you're years away from that!"@Johnny_J181 didn't see the same career catastrophe that she had imagined, quipping: "Well you could potentially be a future juice team captain then!"Meanwhile @PhilCox53180247 assured her: "I'm sure you added much needed touch of class to the proceedings!"However not everyone had a sense of humour about Rachel's decision.@GlennGregory admitted candidly: "Love you, Rachel, but hate this show.

Actress Daisy Ridley has made her long-awaited return to social media after a nearly six-year hiatus.The 29-year-old actress was less than a year removed from her first major film role as Rey in 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, where she played Rey, when she deactivated her Instagram in August 2016.She made quite the surprising return on Monday, sharing new snaps, with her first post already amassing nearly 50K likes in just under a day. Daisy returns:Actress Daisy Ridley has made her long-awaited return to social media after a nearly six-year hiatusHer first post was seemingly from a posh hotel as she relaxed in a white robe while sipping a hot beverage, wearing unique 'glasses' that emitted a red glow on her face.'Coming out of social media hibernation refreshed, recharged, and ready for what I’m calling my “Year of Yes”.

Space is a luxury when it comes to property, but this home's tiny garden is stretching the truth a little too far for some house hunters online.