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The highly-anticipated standalone sequel to the 1996 disaster thriller film Twister is finally here. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith, Twisters is a disaster action thriller film and it follows the story of Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser who gets roped into chasing storms once again by her friend Javi to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. Kate soon meets the daredevil storm wrangler Tyler Owens and all of them team up to fight for their survival. Twisters stars Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, and Sasha Lane. So, if you loved the surviving thriller, disaster, and a bit of romantic element in Twisters here are some similar movies you could watch next.

Twister (Max & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Warner Bros.

Twister is a disaster thriller film directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay co-written by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin.

The fairy tale-inspired horror film Cinderella’s Revenge just reached theatres a few days ago and another Cinderella horror film called Cinderella’s Curse is right around the corner. Now we can add a third project to the list of movies that put a horror twist on the classic fairy tale: director Emilie Blichfeldt’s feature debut The Ugly Stepsister.

Variety reports that Memento International will be presenting this horror comedy to potential distributors at the upcoming Cannes Film Market. The film is said to be a gory, daring, and unexpected take on the world-famous tale, seen through the eyes of the Cinderella’s stepsister, Elvira. The story follows Elvira as she battles to compete with her insanely beautiful stepsister in a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business. She will go to any lengths to catch the prince’s eye.

Blichfeldt told Variety that she “immediately identified (with Elvira) after rediscovering...

In the wake of horror movie Cinderella’s Revenge hitting theaters over the weekend, Variety reports that a horror movie centered on Cinderella’s stepsister is also coming soon.

The feature debut of filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt, the film is titled The Ugly Stepsister, and Variety reports that Memento International is kicking off sales in Cannes this May.

Variety details, “Combining comedy and horror, the film is a daring and unexpected take on the world-famous tale, seen through the eyes of the Cinderella’s stepsister, Elvira.

“The gory film follows Elvira as she battles to compete with her insanely beautiful stepsister in a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business. She will go to any lengths to catch the prince’s eye.”

Lea Myren stars alongside Thea Sofie Loch Naess and Ane Dahl Torp.

“With this ‘beauty horror’ I want to seduce the audience into a “girl-dreaming-of-marrying-the-prince-fairytale,” before revealing its true and raw insides,...

Memento International has boarded “The Ugly Stepsister,” the ambitious feature debut of Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt. The company will kick off sales at this year’s Cannes.

Combining comedy and horror, the film is a daring and unexpected take on the world-famous tale, seen through the eyes of the Cinderella’s stepsister, Elvira.

The gory film follows Elvira as she battles to compete with her insanely beautiful stepsister in a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business. She will go to any lengths to catch the prince’s eye.

“The Ugly Stepsister” is produced by Maria Ekerhovd in Norway for Mer Film, and is co-produced by Lizette Jonjic for Zentropa Sweden (“Another Round”), Mariusz Włodarski for Poland’s Lava Films (“The Girl With The Needle”), Theis Nørgaard for Denmark’s Motor (“The Dead Don’t Hurt”), Zefyr and Film i Väst. With support from the Norwegian Film Institute, the Polish Cash...

REinvent International Sales has clinched a banner sale to Gussi for Latin America on the Norwegian pic “Storm,” which is screening at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films market, running Aug. 23-26.

The Norwegian suspense drama, penned by Johan Fasting, is the feature debut of Erika Calmeyer, episodic director of Netflix’s hit teen show “Young Royals” and creator of Nrk’s anthology show “Nudes.”

Headlining the pic is Ane Dahl Torp, cast as single mum Elin, faced with a terrible dilemma, following the death of her son Ulrik (6). The boy was playing with his sister Storm (10) when he drowned, but classmates claim that Storm actually pushed her brother into the river. Elin’s unconditional love for her daughter is challenged, as she has to face the truth about what happened by the river.

“Elin is faced with an impossible dilemma where she both tries to defend her daughter against serious accusations,...

Producers aiming for autumn 2022 shoot at convent on west coast of Denmark.

Jeppe Ronde’s next film Acts Of Love has won the best project award in the Nordic Co-Production Market at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films.

Inspired by his own family history, Ronde will tell the story of a young woman living in a religious community whose life is interrupted when her brother visits, forcing them to confront their childhood trauma. Ronde co-writes the script with Christopher Grøndahl.

The industry audience – 300 people both onsite and online – voted on the winner.

Julie Walenciak and Maria Møller Christoffersen will produce Acts Of Love for Paloma Pictures.

Two-time Academy-award nominated Norwegian actor Liv Ullmann, Ane Dahl Torp and model-turned actor Elsa Brisinger, have been cast in the forthcoming Swedish dark fable “The Nix.”

The eerie pic anchored in Scandinavian mythology was pitched on Wednesday at Haugesund’s Nordic Co-Production Market by rising Swedish talent Niclas Gillis, multi-awarded for his US-set short pics “The Cave” and “Hold Me Down,” the latter winning Best Short Film at Harlem Int’l Film Festival.

“The Nix” is being produced by Nordic Factory Film Sweden’s Helene Granqvist (“Granny’s Dancing on the Table”), president of Wift, and executive produced by Michael Huffington, former U.S. congressman, philanthropist and film producer, attached earlier to “Hold Me Down.” Non-Stop Entertainment serves as co-producer and distributor for the Nordics and Baltics.

Set in Dalecarlia, Sweden in 1868, a year of famine, the female-driven pic is an elevated horror about the Nordic ancient spirit of the woods,...

A mother abducts her own children in Charter, a riveting watch from writer-director Amanda Kernell (Sami Blood). Norwegian actress Ane Dahl Torp puts in a powerhouse turn as Alice, the desperate, impetuous divorcée who decides to take her daughter and son to Tenerife amid a bitter custody battle. The courts seem set to favor their father Mattias (Sverrir Gudnason), with whom they are currently living in Sweden. Alice grabs them out of school and on a plane to the Canary Islands, where they try to enjoy a holiday of sorts before the police can close in.

While there is plenty of tension in the basic set up to Sweden’s submission for the International Feature Oscar category, intrigue is added by the mysteries of Alice’s character. She’s a fascinating person to decode: unpredictable, playful, principled about certain things and not about others. Her driving force is her love for her children,...

Both films won three prizes each at Sweden’s top film awards.

Henrik Schyffert’s Run Uje Run has won best film at the 2021 Guldbagge Awards, Sweden’s top film accolade, which also saw Amanda Kernell’s Charter score a hat-trick including best director.

Run Uje Run, written by and starring Swedish musician Uje Brandelius, is an autobiographical comedy-drama that centres on a pop star who is diagnosed with Parkinson’s.

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The feature, which won the audience award and Fipresci prize when its debuted at Goteborg Film Festival last year, also scored the...

Sweden’s Guldbagge Awards

Sweden’s primary national film awards, the Guldbagge Awards, were held in Stockholm last night. Henrik Schyffert’s comedy drama Run Uje Run won Best Film as well as Best Actor (Uje Brandelius) and Best Screenplay (also for Brandelius). Amanda Kernell’s drama Charter was another of the big winners, taking Best Director, Best Actress (Ane Dahl Torp), and Best Cinematography (Sophia Olsson). Waad Al-Kateab’s For Sama won best International Feature, while I Am Greta took Best Documentary Film.

Fremantle-Backed Podcast Producer Storyglass Hires Audible Exec

Storyglass, the Fremantle-backed podcast production company, has hired Audible originals executive Steve Carsey as its managing director. He will report to Storyglass chairman Bob McCourt and will be responsible for overseeing Storyglass’ projects across all scripted and unscripted genres. Storyglass was fully-owned by Fremantle until last year, when it was spun out into a standalone company within the Bertelsmann Group.

After highlighting the most overlooked films of 2020, today we’re putting a spotlight on the films that need a home to be seen in the first place: the 40 or so films (and honorable mentions) that we loved on the festival circuit that are still seeking U.S. distribution.

Acting also as a 2020 preview, we hope that highlighting these titles spurs some distributor interests and a release in the next twelve months. Featuring favorites from Berlinale, SXSW, Sundance, TIFF, NYFF, Rotterdam, and beyond, make sure to follow us on Twitter to get the latest distribution updates. As we move into 2021, one can also track all of our upcoming festival coverage here.

200 Meters (Ameen Nayfeh)

In a time where the Israeli occupation of Palestine is still causing the deaths of children, the separation of families, and the oppression of Palestinian citizens, a film like 200 Meters becomes even more necessary and relevant.

Nominations for feature film and documentary up from five to six.

The nominations for the 2020 European Film Awards have been unveiled, with the size of two key categories extended as a result of the virus crisis.

The categories for best feature and best documentary have each been increased from five to six to offer more exposure to titles and artists impacted by cinema closures and release delays during the pandemic.

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The films nominated in the best European Film category are Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Berhan Qurbani’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, Jan Komasa’s Corpus Christi,...

The European Film Academy has unveiled the nominations for its 2020 awards, which will take place virtually across a series of online events December 8-12.

Leading the way are Another Round, Corpus Christi, and Martin Eden which have four nominations apiece, including for European Film 2020. Joining them in that main category are Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Painted Bird, and Undine.

Nominated for European Documentary are: Acasa, My Home; Collective; Gunda; Little Girl; Saudi Runaway; and The Cave.

In the European Director category, joining Thomas Vinterberg for Another Round, Jan Komasa for Corpus Christi, and Pietro Marcello for Martin Eden are Agnieszka Holland for Charlatan, Francois Ozon for Summer Of 85, and Maria Sødahl for Hope.

The European Actress nominees are: Paula Beer (Udine); Natasha Berezhnaya (Dau. Natasha); Andrea Bræin Hovig (Hope); Ane Dahl Torp (Charter); Nina Hoss (My Little Sister); and Marta Nieto (Mother).

Up for European actor: Bartosz Bielenia (Corpus Christi...

TrustNordisk closes a new round of deals on Amanda Kernell’s second feature.

TrustNordisk has confirmed new deals on Amanda Kernell’s Charter, which was has been selected as Sweden’s Best International Feature Oscar nominee.

The latest round of sales includes to: Greece and Cyprus (Rosebud), Spain (Filmin), Poland (Mayfy), Estonia (Estin Film), Mexico (Bestiario Films) and Israel (Yes Dbs Satellite Service).

Charter is Kernell’s second feature, after the acclaimed Sami Blood, and had its world premiere in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition.

The story follows a Swedish mother’s desperate move to abduct her own children...

Bookmark this page for all the latest international feature submissions.

Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.

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The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September.

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Charter, a child custody and abduction drama, will represent Sweden this season at the Oscars. It previously played at the Göteborg, Sundance, and Zurich film festivals. It's the second feature from Amanda Kernell who won several festival awards with her debut Sami Blood (2016). Familiar face and acclaimed Norwegian star Ane Dahl Torp headlines. 

Though Denmark is currently more popular with Oscar voters than Sweden, Sweden is the all-time leader among Scandinavian countries. That's due in large part to three auteurs: Ingmar Bergman, Jan Troell, and Bo Widerberg who were contemporaries in mid 20th century cinema. An investigation of Sweden's Oscar history after the jump...

Amanda Kernell’s family drama “Charter” has been selected as Sweden’s submission for an Oscar in the international feature film race.

“Charter” world premiered at Sundance and had its European premiere at Goteborg. It was also recently nominated for the Nordic Council Film Prize. The movie is represented in international markets by TrustNordisk.

The film centers around Alice (Ane Dahl Torp), who hasn’t seen her two children in months after a difficult divorce, as her ex-husband (Sverrir Gudnason) keeps them from seeing her, awaiting the final custody verdict in northern Sweden. When her son calls her in the middle of the night weeping, Alice takes action and abducts her children to venture on an illicit charter trip to the Canary Islands.

“‘Charter’ had a very strange start, premiering in Swedish cinemas just when the corona crisis hit. So I’m absolutely thrilled that the film continues to travel...

Bookmark this page for all the latest international feature submissions.

Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.

Scroll down for the full list

The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last...

The second feature from Sami Blood director Amanda Kernell is about a Swedish mother’s desperate move to abduct her own children.

TrustNordisk has closed deals on Amanda Kernell’s Charter for Benelux (September Films) and Lithuania (Scanorama).

The film had its world premiere in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition and also played in the Nordic competition at Goteborg.

The second feature from Sami Blood director Kernell is about a Swedish mother’s desperate move to abduct her own children on a trip to the Canary Islands because she fears she will lose custody of them.

Ane Dahl Torp...

One is eight years old, one’s 14. One clings to mom without knowing what else to do, the other resents her. They’d be stereotypes if they actually had some surroundings to ascribe their views, but as it stands, they’re something a little more than that. Meet Vincent (Troy Lundkvist) and Elina (Tintin Poggats Sarri), two siblings who have been living with their dad (Sverrir Gudnason) for the past few months. They haven’t seen their mom, Alice (Ane Dahl Torp), since she decided to go on her own for a while, but when she gets a call from him one night, she springs into caring.

That isn’t necessarily to say that she didn’t care before; it’s more that she didn’t realize she had to care more. Likewise, to get a call from a child declaring their disdain for their living situation isn’t so much a cry for help.

Charter

Sweden’s Amanda Kernell is poised to debut her sophomore feature Charter in 2020, produced by Lars Lindstrom and Eva Akergren. Kernell reunites with her Sami Blood (2016) Dp Sophia Olsson (who has worked with Runar Runarsson and Jesper Ganslandt) and the film stars Eva Melander, Ane Dahl Torp and Sverrir Gudnason. Kernell’s festival darling debut Sami Blood premiered in Venice Days, where it picked up the Label Europa Cinemas Award and the Fedeora Award for Best Director of a Debut Film.…...

The cast features Ane Dahl Torp (1001 Grams) and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg Vs McEnroe).

TrustNordisk has boarded sales for Sami Blood director Amanda Kernell’s new film Charter. Screen can reveal an exclusive first image from the film, above.

The film started shooting on January 21 in northern Sweden and will wrap its shoot on March 21 in Tenerife, Spain.

The cast features Ane Dahl Torp (1001 Grams) and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg Vs McEnroe) as well as newcomers Tintin Poggats Sarri and Troy Lundkvist.

Kernell reunites with many of the same team from her acclaimed debut Sami Blood: producer Lars G. Lindström, DoP Sophia Olsson,...

The Quake is an upcoming disaster film, from Norway. A sequel to The Wave (2015), this latest feature looks at how a 5.4 magnitude earthquake would effect Oslo. Taking a note from an actual earthquake in 1904, this film builds on the possible devastation, that would rock this Scandinavian city. The Quake will show this week in the U.S., while Canada follows suit at a later date. This film, from director John Andreas Andersen (King of Devil's Island), stars: Kristoffer Joner (The Revenant), Ane Dahl Torp (The Wave), Hang Tran and many more. Already released in Norway, more North American release details are available here. This film focuses on the Oslo Rift. Here, a fault line runs deeply. The Quake looks at what might happen here, if a seismic shift took place, shaking the city of Oslo. Producer Martin Sundland recently spoke of The Quake. At Nordisk Film, Sundland talks about competing...

Roar Uthaug’s 2015 “The Wave” revived the pleasures of the 1970s disaster-movie cycle in a form that seemed purer than the never-quite-dead genre’s recent Stateside incarnations — most of which seem to involve Dwayne Johnson in a generic pileup of CGI perils. “The Wave” wasn’t high art, but it was entertainment that delivered some standard satisfactions without treating the viewer like an easy mark.

“The Quake,” written by the same duo of John Kare Raake and Harald Rosenlow Eeg, is a “more of the same” sequel that’s just as good as the original, in nearly identical ways. Yes, there’s a tolerably talky buildup to wade through first, but once again it pays off in heightened human involvement when the mass destruction hits the fan. With Uthaug having defected to Hollywood and the “Tomb Raider” remake, this entry is helmed by veteran cinematographer John Andreas Andersen, whose second...

"Oslo has experienced this before. And now it's happening again." Magnolia Pictures has released the a new official Us trailer for The Quake, the "next big disaster movie from Norway" following the smash hit The Wave from a few years back. This movie is about a massive earthquake that hits Oslo, centered on a fault-line underneath the city of 1.7 million people. They had a big quake in 1904, but they still aren't prepared. The story follows various people trying to survive, of course. Also titled Skjelvet in Norwegian, the movie opened in Norway this summer, and it's opening in Us theaters this December. Starring Ane Dahl Torp, Kristoffer Joner, Hang Tran, and Jonas Hoff Oftebro. It's fun to see Norway promoting their country through Emmerich-esque disaster movies, at least it's a change from the cities we usually see. Check it out. Here's the official Us trailer ( poster) for John Andreas Andersen's The Quake,...

The unluckiest family in Norway decides to move to Oslo, which makes the fair citizens there quake in their boots. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the family that survived Roar Uthaug's terrific thriller The Wave (2015) is on hand for a sequel that looks to decimate an entire city (?!). Even though director Uthaug has moved on to other projects, lead actors Kristoffer Joner and Ane Dahl Torp have returned, which should ensure a continuity of good performances. Presumably the film is about more than just the quake itself and surviving the aftermath, but the new trailer does a good job of showcasing what can happen to a city when wide-scale disaster strikes. (I grew up in Los Angeles, so I never go...

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"But what if it's not the same strength as in 1904...?" Nordisk Filmdistribusjon already released an official trailer for a Norwegian disaster movie titled The Quake, the next big Norwegian disaster movie to follow the highly successful The Wave from 2015. As you might expect, the movie is about an Earthquake that hits Oslo, centered on a fault-line underneath the city of 1.7 million. Also known as Skjelvet in Norwegian, this is opening in August in Norway but still has no other international release plans set yet. Starring Ane Dahl Torp, Kristoffer Joner, Hang Tran, and Jonas Hoff Oftebro. The footage actually looks like a Roland Emmerich-esque disaster movie, so good work in that sense, but I'm not too sure it's going to be any good. Here's the official Norwegian trailer ( poster) for John Andreas Andersen's The Quake, from YouTube: Here's the terrifying official synopsis: In 1904 an earthquake of magnitude...

Seven series selected for TV strand.

The Berlin Film Festival (Feb 15-25) has unveiled the seven titles set to be screened in this year’s Berlinale Series programme.

Source: Hulu

The Looming Tower

Opening the festival’s TV strand is Australian series Picnic At Hanging Rock, FremantleMedia’s Natalie Dormer-starring TV adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel, which previously spawned Peter Weir’s Bafta-winning 1975 feature.

The series tells the story of a strict headmistress at a boarding school whose dark past catches up with her after three pupils mysteriously disappear during a school outing.

Also in the selection is Legendary Television and broadcaster Hulu’s The Looming Tower, which is based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer prize-winning book of the same name. Chronicling the lead-up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the series stars Jeff Daniels as counter terrorism expert John O’Neill and is being exec produced by Alex Gibney.

Further series in the...

Exclusive: Danish drama The Man has sold to China as one of several deals closed by the sales outfit.

Swedish sales company Sf Studio has sold Danish drama The Man [pictured], directed by Charlotte Sieling, to China (Lemontree Media), Mikkel Munch-Fals’ comedy-drama Swinger to South Korea (MediaSoft), and Hallward Braein’s comedy action film Borning to South Korea (Micon).

Starring Soren Malling, Jakob Oftebro, Ane Dahl Torp and Soren Pilmark, The Man had its world premiere at the recent International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Iffr Live section. The story is about a wealthy, well-known artist whose son suddenly shows up out of nowhere, disrupting his comfortable lifestyle and turning out to be the world-famous graffiti artist ‘The Ghost’.

Swinger is about 40-year-old Adam who feels his life is over until he falls in love with a young girl in the only place where no one should fall in love - a swingers’ club. The film stars...

Norway gets the old-fashioned disaster film genre up on its feet again with a well-made, scary story set in a Northern fjord, where a devastating tsunami is a genuine threat. Fine acting by fresh faces helps as well -- with no Bs or hype to get in the way, we find ourselves as anxious as the characters in the movie. The Wave Blu-ray Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 105 min. / Bølgen / Street Date June 21, 2016 / 26.97 Starring Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Edith Haagenrud-Sande, Fridtjov Såheim, Laila Goody, Arthur Berning, Herman Bernhoft. Cinematography John Christian Rosenlund Film Editor Christian Siebenherz Original Music Magnus Beite Written by John Kåre Raake, Harald Rosenløw-Eeg Produced by Are Heidenstrom, Martin Sundland Directed by Roar Uthaug

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Probably the most astounding natural disaster footage we've seen came from Northern Japan in 2011. Much of it is still up on the web. We're...

Roar Uthaug’s The Wave crashes on the shores of Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD on June 21st. Also in this round-up: production details on Jessica Cameron’s An Ending, release details for Sacrifice and The Divine Tragedies, and Kickstarter launch details for Night Wolf.

The Wave: “Nestled in Norway’s Sunnmøre region, Geiranger is one of the most spectacular tourist draws on the planet. With the mountain Åkerneset overlooking the village — and constantly threatening to collapse into the fjord — it is also a place where cataclysm could strike at any moment. After putting in several years at Geiranger’s warning centre, geologist Kristian (Kristoffer Joner) is moving on to a prestigious gig with an oil company. But the very day he’s about to drive his family to their new life in the city, Kristian senses something isn’t right. The substrata are shifting. No one wants to believe...

The Wave (Bølgen) Magnolia Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya d-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: C Director: Roar Uthaug Written by: John Kare Raake, Harald Rosenlow Eeg Cast: Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Oftebro Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 2/3/16 Opens: March 4, 2016 In perhaps the best disaster movie of recent times, “Force Majeure,” the emphasis is on human conflict rather than simply on the dynamics of avalanche and tsunami. When residents of a French alpine hotel are threatened by the imminent disaster, the father, refusing to scoop up his child and grab his wife instead runs in the other direction to save his own skin. This [ Read More ]

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Chicago – Last year, we witnessed the American disaster porn of “San Andreas,” an overwrought attempt to destroy California on film. Norway has an entry into the disaster genre – “The Wave” – and unlike the American special effects pile-on, it’s based on real possibilities, and features a family that won’t give up or give in.

Rating: 3.5/5.0

The film is two movies, pre-and-post the wave (tsunami) disaster, and the beginning is better and more tense than the post wave turmoil, but overall the film is absorbing in the way that all the better “what ifs” are. The Scandinavian emotions presented are much more pragmatic and less “heroic” – as would be seen in a modern American disaster movie. The depiction of the disaster is based on a real-world possibility, there are towns among some of high cliffs of Norway, and those cliffs are unstable (much like the relationships of the family in...

You may not know the name Roar Uthaug, but you're likely to hear a lot more of it. The rising Norwegian filmmaker has booked his first Hollywood gig, helming the upcoming "Tomb Raider" reboot, and that's in part due to his work on the disaster flick "The Wave." Today we have a taste of the picture that got him on many radars. Read More: Watch: New U.S. Trailer For Norway's Disaster Movie Oscar Entry 'The Wave' Starring Kristoffer Joner ("The Revenant"), Ane Dahl Torp ("Dead Snow"), and Thomas Bo Larsen ("The Hunt"), the film is centered around Geiranger, one of Norway's biggest tourist destinations that soon comes in the path of a deadly natural disaster, that will risk the lives of everyone in its path. Here's the synopsis: Nestled in Norway's Sunnmøre region, Geiranger is one of the most spectacular tourist draws on the planet. With the mountain Åkerneset overlooking the village — and constantly.

If we were to take a little field trip 40 years or so back in time, we’d see a different type of blockbuster film dominating the big screen. Superheroes had not yet conquered Hollywood. Back then, Mother Nature was the big box office darling. From earthquakes and tsunamis to disastrous fires and devastating accidents, we wanted to see massive amounts of Avenger-scale destruction that only the elements could concoct.

Fast forward to present day and we now watch Thor and Hulk destroy cities in the name of the good fight. Even Godzilla has returned to the cinema to continue his rapturous reptilian rampage. Monsters and heroes are what we seek today, but what of the good ole days when Planet Earth herself was what we feared most? There have been the occasional attempts to bring back that old school tale of man versus nature. The Perfect Storm was a memorable...

Over the past decade, Norway has managed to out-Hollywood the thrill-happy American film industry by producing their own big-budget spectacles. Works such as the 2010 found-footage oddity Troll Hunter, the 2009 dark horror comedy Dead Snow and its uproariously gory sequel, Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, and the 2013 action-adventure film Ragnorak recall the finer qualities of big domestic blockbusters, only with the extra cinematic advantage of pristine, breathtakingly photogenic scenery.

Now comes Scandinavia’s first-ever disaster movie, The Wave, which is also notable for its director, Roar Uthaug, Aka the helmer behind the forthcoming Tomb Raider reboot. Based in his past credits, including the alpine horror film Cold Prey and the period thriller Escape, Uthaug is no stranger to crowd-pleasing genre fare, and his latest showcases his knack for utilizing familiar, tried-and-true tropes.

The film opens in Geiranger, a Norwegian fjord-side tourist town situated at the foot of Åkerneset, a mountainous region known for its instability.

Stars: Kristoffer Joner, Fridtjov Såheim, Ane Dahl Torp, Thomas Bo Larsen, Fridtjov Såheim, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Arthur Berning, Edith Haagenrud-Sande, Lado Hadzic, Herman Bernhoft, Silje Breivik | Written by John Kåre Raake, Harald Rosenløw-Eeg | Directed by Roar Uthaug

In recent years Norway has been cranking out some fantastic genre films – Troll Hunter, Dead Snow and its sequel, Rare Exports, Thale and the Cold Prey series. All of which have been takes on American genre fare (zombies, slasher movies) or based on folk tales (Rare Exports, Thale). Until now. Director Roar Uthaug, the man behind the three Cold Prey movies, turns his hand from the horrors of the slasher movie to the horrors of nature with The Wave, a disaster movie of real-life proportions…

In the small mountain community of Geiranger, geologist Kristian works at an early warning centre keeping an eye out for rockslides causing potential dangers. The last catastrophe was...

It was only a matter of time. This looks epic! Magnolia Pictures has unveiled an official Us trailer for The Wave, a big disaster movie set in Norway. The film is about a giant wave of water that emerges when a fjord collapses, destroying everything in its path. The plot: "a geologist gets caught in the middle of it and a race against against time begins." Ten minutes extended to two hours! This is the closest we've seen to a Roland Emmerich disaster movie (except San Andreas) and it actually looks damn good. Starring Kristoffer Joner, Thomas Bo Larsen, Ane Dahl Torp and Fridtjov Såheim. Don't ignore this one, give it a look. Here's the first official trailer ( poster) for Roar Uthaug's The Wave, direct from Magnolia's YouTube: Even though awaited, no-one is really ready when the mountain pass of Åkneset above the scenic narrow Norwegian fjord Geiranger falls...

Remember Troll Hunter? André Øvredal’s Norwegian cult movie that offered a new spin on the found footage template, replete with jaw-dropping visuals and a palpable sense of scale. Fast forward six years and we have another potential genre gem coming out of the country, this time in the form of Roar Uthaug’s The Wave.

A disaster movie at its core, Uthaug – who made the headlines before the turn of the year after taking the reins of Warner Bros.’ as-yet-untitled Tomb Raider reboot – has peeled back the CG circus that often engulfs movies of this genre to focus on the story driving the destruction glimpsed on screen. Taking place in the picturesque tourist town of Geiranger, The Wave in many respects plays to the beats of your classic disaster movie – scientists warning of an imminent, earth-shattering event, humanity willfully ignores all common sense, and one family is thrust into peril.

The traditional Hollywood disaster flick goes to Norway, and is grim and gripping around all the time-honored ridiculous clichés crammed into it. I’m “biast” (pro): who doesn’t love a good disaster movie?

I’m “biast” (con): most disaster movies aren’t very good

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

It’s like Jaws, except the shark is a tsunami and Chief Brody is geologist Kristian (Kristoffer Joner, soon to be seen in The Revenant), who is all “We’ve got to close the beaches!” (so to speak, and speaking in Norwegian) when he suspects that a mountainside in the fjord near the postcard-pretty little town he lives in is about to collapse and send an 80-foot wall of water into the cafes and the marinas and the sightseers. His skeptical colleagues worry about false alarms scaring away tourist money — see also: Jaws — and even his wife,...

Exclusive: TrustNordisk rides more deals on Norwegian box office smash.

TrustNordisk has secured additional deals on Norwegian Oscar hopeful and local box office smash The Wave.

New deals have been closed for the UK (StudioCanal), Russia (Volga Film), Czech Republic (Film Europe) and Poland (Mówis Serwis Dystrybucja Spólka) on director Roar Uthaug’s disaster thriller about a violent tsunami which wreaks havoc at one of Norway’s most scenic tourist destinations.

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The well-received Toronto and Lff title, which debuted at Haugesund, has been the most successful film at the Norwegian box office this year, clocking more than 753,000 admissions over seven weeks.

The film is the fourth best-performer since 2003 and now ranks as the tenth best-performer of all-time in Norway.

Kristoffer Joner (King Of Devil’s Island) and Ane Dahl Torp (1001 Grams) star in the feature produced by Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm for Fantefilm Fiksjon in co-production with Fuzz, Filmkraft...

Roar Uthaug's Norwegian Oscar entry, disaster thriller, "The Wave" premieres tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival. Based on the 1934 real-life tsunami in Norway’s Tafjord that killed 40 people, the Nordic disaster movie opened last month’s Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund (August 16) and opened in Norway August 28 to strong box office. It's already the best domestic performer of the year, beating "Minions" and "Fast & Furious 7." Written by John Kåre Raake and Harald Rosenløw Eeg, the story focuses on a geologist who sends the alarm that a tsunami will hit in ten minutes. Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro and Fritjof Såheim star in Uthaug’s fourth feature, which was produced by Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm, for Fantefilm Fiksjon. Next up: Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas (September 24-October 1), and the BFI London International Film Festival...

Norway’s submission to the upcoming Academy Awards’ Best Foreign-Language Film category will be Roar Uthaug’s disaster movie The Wave.

The Norwegian Oscar Committee have decided to enter The Wave (Bølgen) as the country’s official candidate for nomination for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards.

The film beat competition from Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken’s Returning Home (Å Vende Tilbake) and Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick (De Nærmeste).

Dubbed Norway’s ‘first disaster movie’, The Wave is based on the real-life 1934 tsunami that hit Norway’s Tafjord, leaving 40 people dead.

Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro and Fritjof Såheim star in the film, which is director Uthaug’s fourth feature.

The film was written by John Kåre Raake and Harald Rosenløw Eeg and produced by Are Heidenstrom and Martin Sundland.

“[The Wave] is a genre film with a well-written script, superbly directed, with great acting performances, the committee...

After the initial slate for the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival was announced last month there were many observers, including this pundit, who wondered of the annual September event had once again lost the battle of premieres to its Fall festival cousins. While debuting Ridley Scott's "The Martian," Jean Marc Valle's "Demolition" and Michael Moore's "Where Do We Invade Next" is nothing to sneeze at the fact some of the most anticipated films of the year are heading to Venice and Telluride first has to be a bit disheartening. Especially when it's your 40th anniversary. Never fear fans of the Great White North, Toronto always seems to land some eyebrow raising last minute additions and this year is no different. Today Tiff announced that David Gordon Green's "Our Brand Is Crisis" with Sandra Bullock, Marc Abraham's "I Saw The Light" with Tom Hiddleston, Catherine Hardwicke's "Miss You Already...

The Toronto International Film Festival has added 5 Galas and 19 Special Presentations to its huge and highly anticipated international lineup including the Closing Night Film, Paco Cabezas’s Mr. Right.

In July, it was announced that Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition will open the 2015 Festival. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Judah Lewis, Demolition will have its world premiere on September 10 at Roy Thomson Hall.

Toronto audiences will be among the first to screen films by directors Ridley Scott, Deepa Mehta, Lenny Abrahamson, Brian Helgeland, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, Jason Bateman, Cary Fukunaga, Catherine Corsini, Stephen Frears, Tom Hooper, Hany Abu-Assad, Meghna Gulzar, Terence Davies, Jonás Cuarón, Julie Delpy, Rebecca Miller, Rob Reiner, Catherine Hardwicke, Pan Nalin, Lorene Scafaria, David Gordon Green, Matthew Cullen, Gaby Dellal, James Vanderbilt and Marc Abraham.

The various films listed below star Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Gary Oldman, Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore,...

The Wave Trailer. Roar Uthaug‘s The Wave (2015) movie trailer stars Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Eili Harboe, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, and Herman Bernhoft. The Wave‘s plot synopsis: “Based on the fact that mountain pass Åkneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will fall out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything […]...

Bent Hamer is easily Norway's Wes Anderson. Like Anderson, the Norwegian director's immaculate frames, with highly coordinated color palettes and obsessive symmetry, tell stories of off-beat characters through the lens of the comic absurd. The difference, though, is that while Anderson chooses fantasy, Hamer chooses to depict reality — albeit a reality bathed in such absurdity that it feels like fantasy. This is Hamer's particular form of magic. In the vein of his previous films "Kitchen Stories," about Swedish efficiency researchers, and "Factotum," a close reading of enigmatic Charles Bukowski, "1001 Grams" is another idiosyncratic character study in which Hamer dissects his protagonist's rigidly defined world. Thirty-something Marie (Ane Dahl Torp) works for the Norwegian Institute of Weights and Measures, where Norway's prototype of the kilo is harbored like a national treasure. Under the tutelage of her father, a revered scientist in the field,...

Deeply ambitious, Bent Hamer's 1001 Grams deserves recognition for pure nerve. Earning its place in the Gutsy Premises Hall of Fame, it's a straight-faced drama about a seminar on the kilogram held in Paris by the Bureau of International Weights and Measures. The seminar takes "pure kilograms" that have been constructed by various nations' measurement calibration organizations and uses them to construct an international standard for how much a kilo actually weighs. Representing Norway is Marie (Ane Dahl Torp), a scientist going instead of her father, Ernst (Stein Winge), a revered figure in the community. Ernst is ailing, and during the conference Marie finds her grief over her father's impending death inspiring her to reflect on her own loneliness. It isn't long ...

TrustNordisk also sells disaster movie to former Yugoslavia and Israel.

TrustNordisk has closed a number of deals on Norwegian disaster movie The Wave, in the wake of screening a short promo at the European Film Market (Efm) last month.

The film has now been sold to Former Yugoslavia (Cinemania Group), Israel (Shoval Film Production), Korea (Euro Communications Pictures) and Latin America (California Filmes).

Previous announced sales include France (Ab Group), Spain (Key2Media Audiovisual), China (New View TV and Media Group), Turkey (Medyavizyon), Middle East (Gulf Film), Hong Kong (Sundream Motion Pictures Limited) and Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam (Rain Film).

Directed by Roar Uthaug is based on real predictions of a natural disaster, based on events from 80 years ago when a number of villages in Norway were hit by a huge tsunami after a mountainside collapsed in the fjords. Geologists say that it is just a matter of time before it happens again.

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1001 Grams

Written and directed by Bent Hamer

Norway/Germany, 2014

Norwegian writer-director Bent Hamer’s 1001 Grams is a low-key but likeable romantic comedy, built around an endearing central premise. The protagonist Marie (Ane Dahl Torp) works for her father Ernst (Stein Winge) at the Norwegian Institute of Weights and Measures, performing calibrations on equipment ranging from petrol pumps to weighing scales. When he suddenly dies of a heart attack, Marie is required to attend an annual conference at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris, where she must safely take the national prototype – the Norwegian kilo – to be verified against the global standard.

The kilo is stored in a padded case and protected from contact with the outside world by a series of glass bell jars. Apart from causing issues for Marie when she tries to take it through customs, this arrangement reflects her own ordered but isolated lifestyle.