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World premiere for ‘U – July 22’
Today, the film U – July 22 has its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. It is written by Siv Rajendram Eliassen together with Anna Bache-Wiig and directed by Erik Poppe.
The story takes place on July 22, 2011, when a heavily armed right-wing extremist attacked a youth Labour summer camp on Utøya island outside Oslo. We get to follow 19-year-old Kaja in her desperate search for her sister. Filmed in a single take, the story unfolds as seen through the eyes of the victims.
U – July 22 premieres in Norway on March 9.
‘1793’ No. 4 in Sweden
Niklas Natt och Dag’s thrilling debut 1793 stays on the Swedish bestseller lists during the first week of February. The novel is found at No. 4 on the hardcover fiction list as well as the e-book list.
‘Unwanted’ No. 4 in Norway
Kristina Ohlsson’s Unwanted is No. 4 on the official Norwegian paperback list. Unwanted is the first installment in the thrilling Fredrika Bergman series.
Jørn Lier Horst dominates in-store sales in January, joined by Bobbie Peers
The list of children’s books with the highest in-store sales in January is now official, and Jørn Lier Horst is the undeniable winner! A staggering 11 out of 15 books on the list are titles by Jørn Lier Horst, either from his CLUE series written by him alone, or his Detective Agency No. 2 series, in which he’s paired up with illustrator Hans Jørgen Sandnes.
Starting at No. 2, the titles featured on the January in-store sales list are: The Triangle Mystery (No. 2), Operation Ghost (No. 3), Operation Circus (No. 4), Operation Windblast (No. 5), Operation Sunset (No. 6), Operation Mummy (No. 7), Operation Shadowman (No. 8), Operation Plastic Bag (No. 10), Operation Thundercloud (No. 12), Operation Bronze Square (No. 13), and the short activity booklet The Search for the Abominable Snowman (No. 15).
Putting his own mark on the list is Bobbie Peers, who snatches two spots with his action-packed adventure series about William Wenton. The third and latest installment, William Wenton and the Orbulator Agent, claims the No. 9 spot, and the second book in the series, William Wenton and the Cryptoportal, the No. 11 spot.
‘Beartown’ No. 5 on The New York Times Best Seller List
Fredrik Backman’s compelling novel Beartown has made its first appearance on the New York Times Best Seller List for paperbacks, claiming the No. 5 spot. The paperback edition was published just last week.
‘Marcella’ season two premiere
The second season of Hans Rosenfeldt’s hugely popular London-set crime drama series Marcella premieres on February 19th on ITV and on Netflix in March. The series was created by Rosenfeldt and Nicola Larder, with Rosenfeldt also writing the script.
Marcella has become one of the most popular new British crime shows on ITV. The premiere episode had 8 million viewers in Britain and the average audience rating was 6,8 million viewers for the first season.
Marcella Backland is a detective who, in season one, returns to her job as a detective after 12 years. She suspects that the killer she once chased has returned as well.
‘1793’ and ‘The Thirst’ No. 2 and No. 4 in Sweden
The official Swedish bestseller lists for January have been released and Niklas Natt och Dag’s brilliant debut novel 1793 is No. 2 on the hardcover fiction list. 1793 also appears on the e-book bestseller list, where it comes in at No. 2. Jo Nesbø’s The Thirst meanwhile comes in at No. 4 on the paperback list.
‘In Every Moment We Are Still Alive’ a New York Times Recommended Title
The New York Times Book Review has chosen Tom Malmquist’s In Every Moment We Are Still Alive as one of their 12 New Books We Recommend This Week. Lauding In Every Moment We Are Still Alive as “harrowing” and a “searing autobiographical novel,” the list quotes The New York Times’ Katie Kitamura’s rave review of the novel:
“This is narrative as raw material […] A novel about permeability, ‘In Every Moment We Are Still Alive’ captures the jumbled sensory experience of being profoundly, catastrophically overwhelmed. … It’s clear that Malmquist is explicitly interested in what can’t be contained, what continues to trouble.”
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‘Unwanted’ No. 2 in Norway
Kristina Ohlsson’s Unwanted shoots up to No. 2 in its second week on the official Norwegian paperback list. Unwanted is the first installment in the thrilling Fredrika Bergman series.
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‘Hamilton’ TV series starts filming in 2018
Petter S. Rosenlund (The Heavy Water War) is head-writer for the international spy thriller series Hamilton which is based on Swedish author Jan Guillou’s books.
It has now been announced that Norwegian Jakob Oftebro will star as Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton, who trained with the U.S. Navy Seals to become part of an illegal black ops cell within the Swedish military.
Swedish broadcaster TV4 and its streaming service CMore have commissioned the first two seasons of the show and it’s their biggest international project so far.
Hamilton will start filming in the second quarter of 2018 in Sweden and other European locations. The series will premiere exclusively on CMore next year, with a later linear airing on TV4 and ZDF in Germany.