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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Miriam Margolyes & Stephen Fry Set For UK Short; Nordisk Film Production Hire; Federation Lands Latest Series From ‘Bad Sisters' Co-Creator
Miriam Margolyes & Stephen Fry Set For LGBTQ+ Short EXCLUSIVE: Miriam Margolyes (Harry Potter franchise) will lead upcoming British short film A Friend of Dorothy, with Stephen Fry (Wilde), Alistair Nwachukwu and Oscar Lloyd (Stranger Things: The First Shadow) also starring. The film, which shot at The Charterhouse in London and a private home in Kensington & Chelsea, follows the titular Dorothy (Margolyes), an elderly woman living alone who unexpectedly strikes up a friendship with young neighbor JJ (Nwachukwu) when his football lands in her garden. It explores themes of loneliness in old age, intergenerational friendship and LGBTQ+ issues. Pic is the writing and directorial debut of actor Lee Knight, who also serves as executive producer. He is best known for appearing opposite to Ian McKellen in Prime Video's Hamlet and for roles in two Harry Potter films. His Filthy Gorgeous Productions is making the short, in association with A Marlow's Production, Double Dice Films and Namesake Films. James Dean, Scottie Fotré and Max Marlow are producing. Vanessa Whyte is leading cinematography, Amanda Bernstein on production design and Francisco Rodriguez-Weil on costume design. Exec producers are Harry Burnett Rae, Charles Gordon, Nicky Hale, Soumia Majumdar, Nichola Martin, Elliott Linger and Ingrid Tarrant. More from Deadline 'How To Kill Your Sister': Director Of Canneseries Competition Entry Talks Timelessness, Roadtrips & The "Absurdity" Of Belgian Content Simon Pegg Film 'Angels In The Asylum' Halts Shoot Indefinitely After Funding "Crisis" Leaves Crew, Producers & Suppliers Out Of Pocket Federation Studios Strikes Deal With Taiwan's Content Agency Nordisk Film Production Expands Swedish Team Nordisk Film Production has hired film and TV producer Emma Nyberg for its team in Sweden. Nyberg is known for producing the likes of 2017 Swedish blockbuster Sunny Side and Emmy-nominated series Riding in Darkness. She is currently in post-production on Netflix series Diary of a Ditched Girl, which is based on Amanda Romare's novels and was part of a large Nordic slate unveiled a year ago. Nordisk is framing her hire as in line with its strategy further increase its status as a major producer in Sweden. With her hiring and the recent addition of Lejla Bešić, Nordisk now employs 23 producers in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. 'A dream came true when Emma finally decided to join us at Nordisk Film Production,' said Johanna Bergenstråhle and Marike Muselaers, co-managing directors of Nordisk Film Production Sweden in a statement. 'Her talent for finding the right projects, her experience, her network of top Swedish writers and her great personality will be a great contribution to our Swedish office.' Nordisk's slate includes the upcoming Brace Your Heart, Bamse and the Secret of the Sea and The Girl with the Needle. Federation Grabs Sales On Malin-Sarah Gozin Dramedy France's Federation Studios is heading into Canneseries with international sales rights to Dead End, the dark comedy-thriller from Malin-Sarah Gozin. The six-part series is in competition at the Cannes event, and will screen on Monday, April 28 at 3 p.m. local time. We previously reported that Caviar was selling the show, but Federation has confirmed it now has worldwide rights. Gozin – known as the creator of the Belgian series that Bad Sisters was based on, and as an exec producer on the Apple TV+ – will attend the fest as creator, screenwriter and director, alongside fellow director Hans Vercauter and actors Peter Van den Begin, Elise Schaap, Emilie De Roo, Marjan De Schutter and Ward Kerremans. The series follows Van den Begin as Ed Bex, a man who has the peculiar ability to see flashes of the past when he tastes something. He runs an unconventional one-man business, which gives grieving families a reconstruction of their loved ones final moments by sucking on their toothbrush or tasting their lipstick. When police come across a corpse in an airtight bag, they turn to Ed for help and request he tries out his gift on human flesh. Per the synopsis, 'As Ed 'sinks his teeth' into the case, he finds himself caught in a whirlwind of bizarre events, family trouble and mid-life struggles.' Series launched earlier this year on Play Media and Streamz in Belgium. Gozin, Brett Baer, Dave Finkel, Bert Hamelinck and Dimitri Verbeeck are the exec producers. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About Netflix's 'The Thursday Murder Club' So Far TV Show Book Adaptations Arriving In 2025 So Far Which Colleen Hoover Books Are Becoming Movies? 'Verity,' 'Reminders Of Him' & 'Regretting You' Will Join 'It Ends With Us'
Times
25-04-2025
- Health
- Times
Learning to breathe in Denmark
About 20km north of Copenhagen, splayed out on a yoga mat and listening to a quiet chorus of intentionally steady, guided breaths, I am overcome with the sense that I am about to experience something deeply uncomfortable. If only it was a flexibility-testing contortion. Instead, what's taking over my body are, oh God, feelings: rage, sorrow — and even chest-tightening anxiety. I've come to Denmark's Kurhotel Skodsborg, which was once a seaside sanatorium, for its new hot and cold Nordisk Retreat. So why, barely an hour out of my swift chauffeured car from the airport and in a stretch designed to free up my hip flexors, am I close to tears? 'We hold a lot of emotion in our glutes and hips,' says Tamara Harnett, the British women's health and performance coach who is leading the retreat's restorative movement and breathwork workshop, before suggesting I lean into the pose further with a strong, eight-count exhale. What follows is a surge of anger through my stomach and then … phew, relief. The tension dissipates and I enter the kind of zen calm I had hoped to experience over the weekend. This is going to be, I have quickly discovered, no straightforward spa break. The questions posed by the Nordisk retreat, a contrast-therapy and breathwork-focused programme, are pretty rudimentary in principle. Do you think you can breathe properly? And, more to the point — are you using that rudimentary bodily function effectively, beyond just, well, keeping you alive? Led by the pro rugby player turned breathwork influencer Richie Norton, the retreat combines two days of the Kurhotel's signature sauna treatments and standout wellness facilities (the vast spa is home to 16 kinds of state-of-the-art relaxation rooms from steam rooms to a salt cave and infrared chairs) with hands-on teaching and the practice of Norton's speciality: breathwork. For those who have never done breathwork before, this getaway is a great place to start. Over four one-hour sessions (two a day, one in the morning and another in the afternoon) our group is exposed to how our breath can challenge us, be strengthened and help us to cope with adversity, as well as to switch off. It's all executed with a practical, and not overly spiritual, touch. Norton's session is billed as strength training, but is held in a length pool rather than a gym. It is certainly not a water aerobics class, though. We practise holding our breath while swimming with hand weights underwater (exhausting but rewarding). Afterwards, Harnett's focus is yoga, restorative movement and flexibility — where you learn to breathe into those trickier stretches (as well as try to dislodge stress). In between sessions, in the spa, we are led by Kurhotel sauna experts — or gusmesters — in their speciality: steam and sauna practices. The former is a treat. In a warm, misty room of around 45C, we are gently whisked with birch leaves and eucalyptus, then offered aromatic facial and body scrubs with sugar, coconut oil, lavender oil and aloe vera, all of which is absorbed into the skin with the help of the enveloping steam. (Yes, heavenly.) The SaunaGus is a whole different ball game. In Denmark, these coal-heated wooden saunas are sacred and gusmesters are artists. In the 80C wooden box, one gusmester called Bo creates delicious-smelling steam by breaking tennis-ball-sized, scented ice chips on to the coals, then using a towel to whip hot waves of heat around us for 12 minutes. It's intense, but not as much as what follows — a dip in the outdoor plunge pool. I managed about 10 seconds in the 8C pool before taking myself, a little lightheaded, inside for a sit down and some warm tea. Then we did it all over again. In an ideal world that nippy dip would have been taken in the sea via the Kurhotel's private pontoon. Alas, during our stay, weather warnings prohibited access. No matter — everything else at the 96-room property was up for grabs. Ample downtime between Nordisk workshops can be spent in fitness classes (I hit up the reformer Pilates studio), drinking hot chocolate in front of a fire in the lounge, enjoying the spa and its treatments, or taking walks or a run through the Dyrehaven nature reserve. The hotel itself is 125 years old. Sometimes that shows — the decor can feel a little dated. But its unfussiness, when trying to unburden the mind and destress the body, is no bad thing. Most importantly, it is super comfortable. The best rooms are spacious, and come with a sea view, bathtub and very cosy beds. The service is also second to none. After realising I had lost a beloved bracelet in a dressing gown that had long been sent down to laundry, a concierge took it upon himself to find it and was, amazingly, successful. The food was particularly good. I was hesitant about the 'sleep-optimised' dinner, but the delicate beetroot starter and cod main were delicious, and there was plenty of bread or wine for those who wanted it. I stuck with the local sparkling tea and still slept like a rock. Probably because I'd so thoroughly exorcised my hips. Details Doubles at Kurhotel Skodsborg from DKK 2,045 (about £236) B&B, with access to the spa and fitness facilities and classes. The next retreat — in autumn 2025 — will cost from £496, including one night's accommodation
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Novo Nordisk Strikes $2B Deal for Obesity Drug
Novo Nordisk has signed an exclusive global licensing deal worth up to $2 billion for UBT251, a weight-loss drug developed by China-based The United Laboratories International Holdings Limited. UBT251 has been approved for U.S. clinical trials for adult type 2 diabetes, overweight or obesity, and chronic kidney disease. The announcement came as Novo Nordisk announced it was expanding its offer for cash-paying patients to access to its Wegovy (semaglutide) injection 0.25 mg, 0.5 mg, 1 mg, 1.7 mg, and 2.4 mg at local pharmacies for $499 per Nordisk (NVO) has signed an exclusive global licensing deal worth up to $2 billion for UBT251, a weight-loss drug developed by China-based The United Laboratories International Holdings Limited. U.S.-listed shares of Novo Nordisk, which produces obesity drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, are falling more than 2% in premarket trading Monday. Novo Nordisk will pay an up front $200 million, potential milestone payments of up to $1.8 billion, and also tiered royalties, the Danish drug developer said in a joint statement with the Chinese firm. The licensing deal does not include Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan, according to Monday's news release. The companies said UBT251 has been approved for clinical trials in China in adult type 2 diabetes, overweight or obesity, metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, and chronic kidney diseases. It has been approved for U.S. clinical trials for adult type 2 diabetes, overweight or obesity, and chronic kidney disease, according to the companies. The announcement came as Novo Nordisk announced it was expanding its offer for cash-paying patients to access to its Wegovy (semaglutide) injection 0.25 mg, 0.5 mg, 1 mg, 1.7 mg, and 2.4 mg at local pharmacies for $499 per month. Previously, the $499-per month offer was only open to patients at its NovoCare Pharmacy. Read the original article on Investopedia Sign in to access your portfolio
