The Snow Girl is based on a 2020 novel by Spanish writer Javier Castillo. It tells the story of the abduction of a five-year old girl, Amaya Martín, from a crowded celebration for Twelfth Night. Twelfth Night is 5th January and it is the 12th day of Christmas, Christmas Day itself being the first (in case you ever wondered what the song or the Shakespeare play were on about). The Cabalgata de Reyes (Parade of Kings) is a Spanish festival held that evening that is especially popular with children, as during the colourful parade people playing the parts of the three kings from the story of the birth of Jesus hand out sweets to the crowd.
In 2010, it all goes horribly wrong for Ana and Álvaro when Álvaro briefly lets go of their daughter Amaya’s hand and Amaya disappears. The series follows the attempts of a young investigative journalist called Miren,...
In 2010, it all goes horribly wrong for Ana and Álvaro when Álvaro briefly lets go of their daughter Amaya’s hand and Amaya disappears. The series follows the attempts of a young investigative journalist called Miren,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
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The term “mini-major” gets bandied around a lot in the world of international film and television, but if the label applies to anyone, it applies to German group Constantin Film.
The producer-driven powerhouse is one of Germany’s, and thus Europe’s, leading independent producers of big- and small-screen content, with a deep slate that runs, on the film side, from video game adaptations, such as Monster Hunter and the juggernaut Resident Evil franchise, to the Oscar-nominated WWII drama Downfall, and in high-end TV from period dramas KaDeWe – Our Time Is Now and We Children From Bahnhof Zoo, produced for German public channel Ard and Amazon Prime, respectively, to YA fantasy series Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments and upcoming series on the events of the Nuremberg trials, produced with Frank Spotnitz’s Big Light Production (The Man in the High Castle), and Smilla’s Sense of Snow,...
The term “mini-major” gets bandied around a lot in the world of international film and television, but if the label applies to anyone, it applies to German group Constantin Film.
The producer-driven powerhouse is one of Germany’s, and thus Europe’s, leading independent producers of big- and small-screen content, with a deep slate that runs, on the film side, from video game adaptations, such as Monster Hunter and the juggernaut Resident Evil franchise, to the Oscar-nominated WWII drama Downfall, and in high-end TV from period dramas KaDeWe – Our Time Is Now and We Children From Bahnhof Zoo, produced for German public channel Ard and Amazon Prime, respectively, to YA fantasy series Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments and upcoming series on the events of the Nuremberg trials, produced with Frank Spotnitz’s Big Light Production (The Man in the High Castle), and Smilla’s Sense of Snow,...
- 10/19/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Everything you need to know about Stieg Larsson, the bestselling author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
▶ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was originally published in Sweden as Men Who Hate Women, a title English-language publishers rightly thought read, Don't Buy This Book. It is the first of the Millennium trilogy, a series of contemporary Swedish thrillers featuring Lisbeth Salander, a semi-psychotic hacker, and Mikael Blomqvist, a leftwing investigative journalist. The film adaptation opens on Friday.
▶ Stieg Larsson conceived the Millennium books as a series of 10 novels, but he died of a heart attack, aged 50, before the first volume was even published. Because he was himself an investigative journalist, there were unsubstantiated rumours Larsson had been murdered. An outline manuscript of the fourth book is believed to exist, but his partner, Eva Gabrielsson, refuses to let it be published.
▶ Despite the edgy nature of the protagonists and its...
▶ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was originally published in Sweden as Men Who Hate Women, a title English-language publishers rightly thought read, Don't Buy This Book. It is the first of the Millennium trilogy, a series of contemporary Swedish thrillers featuring Lisbeth Salander, a semi-psychotic hacker, and Mikael Blomqvist, a leftwing investigative journalist. The film adaptation opens on Friday.
▶ Stieg Larsson conceived the Millennium books as a series of 10 novels, but he died of a heart attack, aged 50, before the first volume was even published. Because he was himself an investigative journalist, there were unsubstantiated rumours Larsson had been murdered. An outline manuscript of the fourth book is believed to exist, but his partner, Eva Gabrielsson, refuses to let it be published.
▶ Despite the edgy nature of the protagonists and its...
- 3/9/2010
- by John Crace
- The Guardian - Film News
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