Denmark is the latest European country to push for a levy on streamers’ local turnover to fund local TV and film content. It’s now coming closer to pulling through a bill which could allow for extra subsidies to finance the production of Danish movies, fiction series and documentaries.
After failing to receive support with its proposal of a 6% levy in 2022, the government has now drafted a bill for a cultural levy ranging from 2% to 5%, depending on how much streamers have previously invested in Danish content.
If passed by the parliament, the bill will apply to global services like Netflix and Amazon, as well as local players such as Viaplay. The proceeds would go the Danish Film Institute and the Public Service Pool on an 80:20 basis.
Under the proposed bill, a basic 2% levy would apply to streamers that have been investing above 5% of their revenue in local content, while...
After failing to receive support with its proposal of a 6% levy in 2022, the government has now drafted a bill for a cultural levy ranging from 2% to 5%, depending on how much streamers have previously invested in Danish content.
If passed by the parliament, the bill will apply to global services like Netflix and Amazon, as well as local players such as Viaplay. The proceeds would go the Danish Film Institute and the Public Service Pool on an 80:20 basis.
Under the proposed bill, a basic 2% levy would apply to streamers that have been investing above 5% of their revenue in local content, while...
- 6/15/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
HanWay Films represents sales on Leigh’s feature debut.
Curzon has picked up UK and Ireland rights to Leo Leigh’s debut feature, Sweet Sue, from HanWay Films.
UK filmmaker Leigh is a cinematographer and photographer whose work includes documentaries Beautiful Liverpool and Swansea Love Story. He has also written and directed shorts including Bifa-nominated Mother and Channel 4-commissioned Sometimes Chinese.
Sweet Sue is a comedy drama starring Maggie O’Neill, whose credits include the UK’s Shameless. She plays a woman who finds herself back on the dating scene. She meets a mysterious biker at her brother’s funeral,...
Curzon has picked up UK and Ireland rights to Leo Leigh’s debut feature, Sweet Sue, from HanWay Films.
UK filmmaker Leigh is a cinematographer and photographer whose work includes documentaries Beautiful Liverpool and Swansea Love Story. He has also written and directed shorts including Bifa-nominated Mother and Channel 4-commissioned Sometimes Chinese.
Sweet Sue is a comedy drama starring Maggie O’Neill, whose credits include the UK’s Shameless. She plays a woman who finds herself back on the dating scene. She meets a mysterious biker at her brother’s funeral,...
- 6/5/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Former Mtg CEO Jorgen Madsen Lindemann takes over at Nordic streamer.
Viaplay CEO Anders Jensen has resigned after the Nordic streaming group announced a downgrade of its short-term outlook for 2023 and withdrew its long term guidance.
Jorgen Madsen Lindemann has been named as the new CEO of Viaplay Group with immediate effect. He is the former CEO of Mtg, which is the previous parent company of Viaplay Group.
Viaplay said that advertising revenues are expected to be down between 12% and 16% in the second quarter of 2023, citing a ”sharp and rapid deterioration in the TV and radio advertising markets.”
It also...
Viaplay CEO Anders Jensen has resigned after the Nordic streaming group announced a downgrade of its short-term outlook for 2023 and withdrew its long term guidance.
Jorgen Madsen Lindemann has been named as the new CEO of Viaplay Group with immediate effect. He is the former CEO of Mtg, which is the previous parent company of Viaplay Group.
Viaplay said that advertising revenues are expected to be down between 12% and 16% in the second quarter of 2023, citing a ”sharp and rapid deterioration in the TV and radio advertising markets.”
It also...
- 6/5/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Viaplay Group CEO Anders Jensen is stepping down immediately amidst an economic downturn that is causing rapid deterioration in the ad market and subscriber churn.
Jensen is departing after five years and will be replaced by Jorgen Madsen Lindemann, the ex-ceo of the nordic TV outfit’s former parent company Mtg.
Delivering the news via an update in the early hours of this morning, Viaplay posted expected Q2 sales of between 4.5Bn ($420M) and 4.6Bn Swedish Krona with negative Ebit of between 250M and 300M Swedish Krona. Advertising revenues are expected to be down between 12% and 16% on an organic basis, due to the “sharp and rapid deterioration in the TV and radio advertising markets,” added the group, with an update on the medium term outlook set to be provided on July 20.
Viaplay posited three factors impacting sales: lower demand in the Nordic and international streaming D2C subscriber markets and...
Jensen is departing after five years and will be replaced by Jorgen Madsen Lindemann, the ex-ceo of the nordic TV outfit’s former parent company Mtg.
Delivering the news via an update in the early hours of this morning, Viaplay posted expected Q2 sales of between 4.5Bn ($420M) and 4.6Bn Swedish Krona with negative Ebit of between 250M and 300M Swedish Krona. Advertising revenues are expected to be down between 12% and 16% on an organic basis, due to the “sharp and rapid deterioration in the TV and radio advertising markets,” added the group, with an update on the medium term outlook set to be provided on July 20.
Viaplay posited three factors impacting sales: lower demand in the Nordic and international streaming D2C subscriber markets and...
- 6/5/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Kidscreen Live Delayed Due To Omicron
The live element of Kidscreen 2022 in Miami has become the latest Omicron casualty, pushed back to July due to the “impact of the variant on the industry’s ability to travel internationally and meet in person.” The expo, which was due to take place from February 14 to February 17, will push on with its Kidscreen Summit Virtual in March and all attendees registered for the live event will be able to attend. “We recognize that it’s not the same experience as meeting in person, but our hope is that it still helps people make and maintain industry connections in Q1,” said Jocelyn Christie, Kidscreen’s SVP & Publisher. The rescheduled dates for the live offering are July 18 to July 21. Kidscreen becomes the latest big TV trade event to be impacted by Omicron, following NATPE Miami and Realscreen Austin. Last year’s Kidscreen was fully online,...
The live element of Kidscreen 2022 in Miami has become the latest Omicron casualty, pushed back to July due to the “impact of the variant on the industry’s ability to travel internationally and meet in person.” The expo, which was due to take place from February 14 to February 17, will push on with its Kidscreen Summit Virtual in March and all attendees registered for the live event will be able to attend. “We recognize that it’s not the same experience as meeting in person, but our hope is that it still helps people make and maintain industry connections in Q1,” said Jocelyn Christie, Kidscreen’s SVP & Publisher. The rescheduled dates for the live offering are July 18 to July 21. Kidscreen becomes the latest big TV trade event to be impacted by Omicron, following NATPE Miami and Realscreen Austin. Last year’s Kidscreen was fully online,...
- 1/10/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group), one of Scandinavia’s largest media groups, is set to pull out of non-scripted content, and focus on scripted drama and film production and distribution. The company is looking to bring a minority equity partner on board to bolster its scripted drama production business.
As part of the reorg, Nent Group will divest its businesses in non-scripted production, branded entertainment and events. The sales process for the non-scripted production and events businesses will be conducted during the first half of 2020.
The company has been ramping up investment in scripted drama for several years and grew closer to its subsidiary Viaplay, a leading streaming service in the Nordics.
Viaplay premiered 21 high-quality original productions in 2019, and expects to premiere more than 30 original productions in 2020. The streamer has the ambition to premiere a minimum of 40 original productions per year going forward. Some of Viaplay’s most successful drama...
As part of the reorg, Nent Group will divest its businesses in non-scripted production, branded entertainment and events. The sales process for the non-scripted production and events businesses will be conducted during the first half of 2020.
The company has been ramping up investment in scripted drama for several years and grew closer to its subsidiary Viaplay, a leading streaming service in the Nordics.
Viaplay premiered 21 high-quality original productions in 2019, and expects to premiere more than 30 original productions in 2020. The streamer has the ambition to premiere a minimum of 40 original productions per year going forward. Some of Viaplay’s most successful drama...
- 1/29/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Swedish Dicks backer Nordic Entertainment Group has refocused its studio division to focus on scripted drama and is to sell its non-scripted units.
The company, which has been ramping up its drama titles with projects including Perfect People from Shades of Blue creator Adi Hasak, and The Professionals, a Brendan Fraser-fronted remake of action movie Soldiers of Fortune, is also looking for a minority equity partner to help finance its scripted moves.
The company, which operates Scandinavian streamer Viaplay, is reorganizing its content production and distribution business that comprises 32 companies in 17 countries into a new organization focused on scripted drama production and distribution.
As part of the move, it will divest its non-scripted production, branded entertainment and events businesses.
Last year, Viaplay premiered 21 original productions, expects to premiere more than 30 original productions in 2020, and plans a minimum of 40 original productions per year in the future.
The new scripted production...
The company, which has been ramping up its drama titles with projects including Perfect People from Shades of Blue creator Adi Hasak, and The Professionals, a Brendan Fraser-fronted remake of action movie Soldiers of Fortune, is also looking for a minority equity partner to help finance its scripted moves.
The company, which operates Scandinavian streamer Viaplay, is reorganizing its content production and distribution business that comprises 32 companies in 17 countries into a new organization focused on scripted drama production and distribution.
As part of the move, it will divest its non-scripted production, branded entertainment and events businesses.
Last year, Viaplay premiered 21 original productions, expects to premiere more than 30 original productions in 2020, and plans a minimum of 40 original productions per year in the future.
The new scripted production...
- 1/29/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In this week’s International TV Newswire, Scandinavia’s Nent announces its latest Viaplay original, “Partisan,” DirecTV Go hits three new Latin American territories; “Blockbusters” will open the Edinburgh Intl. TV Festival; and Endemol Shine Poland announces theatrical for “How to Marry a Millionaire.”
Nent Announces Viaplay Original ‘Partisan’
Swedish broadcaster Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent) has ordered “Partisan,” an original five-part drama series to be produced for its Svod platform, Viaplay.
Fares Fares, star of “The Nile Hilton Incident” and HBO’s “Chernobyl,” will headline and act as creative producer on the series, and says he’s been looking for a project in Swedish for some time.Filming has already begun, headed by director Amir Chandin and produced by Johanna Wennerberg for Warner Bros. Sweden. It’s set to premiere on the platform in 2020.
Set in the secluded rural village of Jordnära, the five-part crime thriller will deconstruct the seemingly...
Nent Announces Viaplay Original ‘Partisan’
Swedish broadcaster Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent) has ordered “Partisan,” an original five-part drama series to be produced for its Svod platform, Viaplay.
Fares Fares, star of “The Nile Hilton Incident” and HBO’s “Chernobyl,” will headline and act as creative producer on the series, and says he’s been looking for a project in Swedish for some time.Filming has already begun, headed by director Amir Chandin and produced by Johanna Wennerberg for Warner Bros. Sweden. It’s set to premiere on the platform in 2020.
Set in the secluded rural village of Jordnära, the five-part crime thriller will deconstruct the seemingly...
- 8/9/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Nordic TV player Nent has inked new deals with MGM and NBCUniversal that guarantee it a raft of their content for its Viasat and Viaplay services. The MGM deal covers the James Bond catalogue as well as the upcoming “Bond 25,” and also gives Nent local rights to the studio’s upcoming TV series “Perpetual Grace” and “Four Weddings and a Funeral.”
MGM will also co-produce three original series with Nent and distribute them internationally. The pair already had a programming deal, but it mostly covered older series. The new agreement hands Nent new MGM movies in the first pay-tv window.
“Partnerships are at the heart of our vision to become the leading Nordic streaming service provider and content producer with a global appeal,” said Anders Jensen, Nent Group CEO. “Our cooperation secures some of the world’s most attractive films and series for Nent Group’s customers, while giving...
MGM will also co-produce three original series with Nent and distribute them internationally. The pair already had a programming deal, but it mostly covered older series. The new agreement hands Nent new MGM movies in the first pay-tv window.
“Partnerships are at the heart of our vision to become the leading Nordic streaming service provider and content producer with a global appeal,” said Anders Jensen, Nent Group CEO. “Our cooperation secures some of the world’s most attractive films and series for Nent Group’s customers, while giving...
- 3/11/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Creative team currently being assembled.
FilmNation Entertainment and Sweden-based Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) are forming a television joint venture based in the UK.
The entity will operate under the FilmNation brand and will develop, produce and finance scripted content aimed at the global market.
In a statement, the partners said they will “leverage their established talent relationships and build a dedicated television content pipeline while expanding their global footprints.” A creative team for the new venture is currently being assembled.
The joint venture plans to work with a variety of UK studios and co-financiers. Nent will have first option...
FilmNation Entertainment and Sweden-based Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) are forming a television joint venture based in the UK.
The entity will operate under the FilmNation brand and will develop, produce and finance scripted content aimed at the global market.
In a statement, the partners said they will “leverage their established talent relationships and build a dedicated television content pipeline while expanding their global footprints.” A creative team for the new venture is currently being assembled.
The joint venture plans to work with a variety of UK studios and co-financiers. Nent will have first option...
- 1/8/2019
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Arrival and The Big Sick studio FilmNation Entertainment is launching a UK-based television production business after partnering with Nordic Entertainment Group, the company behind Keanu Reeves-starring Swedish Dicks.
The two companies are forming a joint venture under the FilmNation brand to develop, produce and finance premium scripted television content for global audiences. The firms are currently assembling its creative team.
The joint venture will work with a wide variety of UK studios, talents and co-financiers, while Modern Times Group-backed Nordic Entertainment Group, which operates Scandinavian Svod Viaplay, will have first option on the exclusive Nordic media rights to all the joint venture’s productions.
Nordic Entertainment Group has been responsible for series including Veni Vidi Vici, which aired on Hulu in the U.S. and recently ordered Love Me, starring Borg vs McEnroe’s Sverrir Gudnason.
Meanwhile, FilmNation has a number of high-profile global television projects lined up...
The two companies are forming a joint venture under the FilmNation brand to develop, produce and finance premium scripted television content for global audiences. The firms are currently assembling its creative team.
The joint venture will work with a wide variety of UK studios, talents and co-financiers, while Modern Times Group-backed Nordic Entertainment Group, which operates Scandinavian Svod Viaplay, will have first option on the exclusive Nordic media rights to all the joint venture’s productions.
Nordic Entertainment Group has been responsible for series including Veni Vidi Vici, which aired on Hulu in the U.S. and recently ordered Love Me, starring Borg vs McEnroe’s Sverrir Gudnason.
Meanwhile, FilmNation has a number of high-profile global television projects lined up...
- 1/8/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Glen Basner’s FilmNation Entertainment and Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) are joining forces to launch a new U.K.-based TV company which will develop, produce and finance premium scripted TV content for global audiences.
The joint venture will operate under the FilmNation brand and is currently assembling its creative team. As both companies boast a deep knowledge of the global content marketplace and have successful track records, the new banner will work with a wide variety of U.K. studios, talents and co-financiers.
An independent film powerhouse founded by Basner 10 years ago, FilmNation has recently started focusing more on content creation, with B.O. hits such as “Arrival” and “The Big Sick,” and has a flurry of high-profile TV projects in the pipeline, notably “I Know This Much Is True” (currently in pre-production) starring Mark Ruffalo for HBO, and “Feminist Fight Club” and “The House of the Spirits” for Hulu.
The joint venture will operate under the FilmNation brand and is currently assembling its creative team. As both companies boast a deep knowledge of the global content marketplace and have successful track records, the new banner will work with a wide variety of U.K. studios, talents and co-financiers.
An independent film powerhouse founded by Basner 10 years ago, FilmNation has recently started focusing more on content creation, with B.O. hits such as “Arrival” and “The Big Sick,” and has a flurry of high-profile TV projects in the pipeline, notably “I Know This Much Is True” (currently in pre-production) starring Mark Ruffalo for HBO, and “Feminist Fight Club” and “The House of the Spirits” for Hulu.
- 1/8/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Ira Gladnikoff replaces Jonas Karlén, who has led Viaplay since 2015.
Ira Gladnikoff has become head of Viaplay, Modern Times Group’s (Mtg) Nordic video streaming service. She takes over from Jonas Karlén, who has led Viaplay since 2015.
Gladnikoff has been at Mtg since 2015 most recently serving as Viaplay’s chief commercial officer.
Anders Jensen, Mtg Evp, chairman of the Nordic Entertainment Management Board and Mtg Sweden CEO said: “We wish Jonas well in his new ventures and thank him for his nine years at Mtg and leading the successful development of Viaplay.
“It is great that we have a ready made successor in Ira, who has extensive experience in the online video entertainment space and, as Cco of Viaplay, has been responsible for so much of Viaplay’s commercial success.”
Gladnikoff added: “Viaplay is a passion of mine and I couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to lead such a great team. We provide...
Ira Gladnikoff has become head of Viaplay, Modern Times Group’s (Mtg) Nordic video streaming service. She takes over from Jonas Karlén, who has led Viaplay since 2015.
Gladnikoff has been at Mtg since 2015 most recently serving as Viaplay’s chief commercial officer.
Anders Jensen, Mtg Evp, chairman of the Nordic Entertainment Management Board and Mtg Sweden CEO said: “We wish Jonas well in his new ventures and thank him for his nine years at Mtg and leading the successful development of Viaplay.
“It is great that we have a ready made successor in Ira, who has extensive experience in the online video entertainment space and, as Cco of Viaplay, has been responsible for so much of Viaplay’s commercial success.”
Gladnikoff added: “Viaplay is a passion of mine and I couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to lead such a great team. We provide...
- 6/19/2017
- ScreenDaily
Danish star Jakob Cedergren first caught my eye in Dagur Kari's 2005 effort Dark Horse, a sly and understated sense of humor making him a standout in the piece. It turns out I'd already seen Cedergren at least once before that - in Thomas Anders Jensen's The Green Butchers - but Dark Horse is where it became clear that he was one to watch. And he has rewarded audiences since, anchoring films such as the stellar Terribly Happy and Submarino while proving himself one of the most reliable performers in the region.Cedergren appears next in a Swedish production, the dramatic thriller Sanctuary (Faro) by Fredrik Edfeldt. Faro is about a man who flees into the forest with his daughter to escape a prison sentence. Chased...
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- 1/28/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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