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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNetflix and Finnish broadcaster YLE are set to co-produce “Dance Brothers,” a young adult dance drama series which marks Endemol Shine Finland’s first scripted commission. “Dance Brothers” is a 10-part Finnish language series created and produced by Max Malka, Endemol Shine Finland’s head of scripted. Filming is set to kick off in the Spring in Helsinki, Finland’s capital, with Taito Kawata on board to direct.

Florence + The Machine and Holly Humberstone are among the latest additions to the line-up for Flow Festival 2022.The Helsinki, Finland festival will return from August 12-14 this year, with the likes of Gorillaz, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Fontaines D.C. all set to perform.Florence + The Machine will headline on August 13, with Humberstone also joining the Flow Festival line-up for that day.The likes of Q, Vesala, Gettomasa, Gasellit, ibe, Arppa, F and Rosa Coste have also joined the bill today (January 26).Those acts join Michael Kiwanuka, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Bikini Kill, Sigrid, Little Simz, Fred again.., Pa Salieu and Princess Nokia on the Flow Festival line-up for 2022.A post shared by Flow Festival Helsinki (@flowfestivalhelsinki)Tickets for this year’s festival are on sale now from here.“Flow Festival, as well as other international festivals, are expecting a terrific festival summer and Flow’s production is going full speed ahead, as it would normally,” Suvi Kallio, CEO of Flow Festival, said in a statement.“The situation has definitely changed in a year.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentTake Two Studios, the recently launched Finnish production banner, has enlisted industry veteran Sara Norberg as partner and COO.The company was created last October by three of Finland’s top media executives, Eero Hietala, Lasse Koskinen and Ilkka Hynninen. Hietala and Hynninen previously co-founded Aito Media, where they produced the series “Almost True” and “Pirjo,” half-hour comedy “Mother-in-Paw” and procedural crime drama “Lakeside Murders.”Norberg, who has over 20 years in the entertainment industry, previously oversaw Finland’s Helsinki International Film Festival for six years.

Adam Rippon AND Jussi-Pekka Kajaala said yes! The Olympic figure skater, 31, revealed on Instagram that he and his longtime boyfriend, who lives in Helsinki, Finland, proposed to each other in December 2020 after finally reuniting amidst the pandemic. And yes, they both have gorgeous golden engagement rings. The proposal was magical, Adam said in a February 10 Instagram post.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLeading Finnish streaming company Elisa Viihde is partnering up with A+E Networks on a new original series, “Next of Kin,” a mystery drama set in the near future.The eight-part series is scheduled to begin filming this week in Helsinki, Finland, and will be distributed worldwide by A+E Networks.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Arclight Films will handle world sales on Bloody Hell, the horror-thriller from Alister Grierson, whose 2011 pic Sanctum grossed $100M global for Universal.The new pic is written by Robert Benjamin and is set between Boise, Idaho and Helsinki, Finland, following Rex Coen, played by Ben O’Toole (Hacksaw Ridge), a man with a mysterious past who flees the country to escape his own personal hell only to arrive somewhere much worse.Meg Fraser, Caroline

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Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based sales company has boarded Finnish-Iranian Hamy Ramezan’s debut feature “Any Day Now,” to be shown as a work in progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market, WHICH RUNS Jan 30.-Feb 2.