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Iceland’s Glassriver and Romania’s IDEA Film co-produce Hot Stuff

Icelandic film and TV production company Glassriver have announced its new original series Hot Stuff, a co-production with Romania’s Idea Film. Icelandic media company SÝN has commissioned the series for their Channel 2 and Oble has picked up global distribution rights. Hot Stuff is a comedy-drama set in 1979, following a group of Icelanders who […]

April 8, 2025

Glassriver, Whatevergroup to start co-production on Avalanche

Icelandic film and TV production company has today announced its new original series Avalanche, a co-production with Finland’s Whatevergroup, starts production next week. Dynamic Television has picked up global distribution rights and Icelandic broadcaster Síminn has commissioned the series. Elin Hall, three-time nominee for Actress of the Year Eddan (The Icelandic Film Academy Awards) and […]

March 14, 2025

Glassriver announces Masquerade with Severance producer Weinstock and Lorber

Icelandic film and TV studio Glassriver has announced it will co-produce its scripted series Masquerade with Nicholas Weinstock, producer of Apple TV+’s Severance and with his Hollywood-based company Invention Studios, and The Art of Coproduction’s Marc Lorber. In Masquerade, a young American reporter arrives in a small Icelandic village, investigating the old unsolved abduction case […]

March 4, 2025

Tulipop announces new sales team

Tulipop Studios, creator and owner of the Icelandic character-based IP, Tulipop, has hired industry veterans Jonathan Abraham and Hannah Dubcoff to manage Tulipop’s global TV distribution. Jonathan and Hannah will be responsible for the global sales of the new Tulipop Tales TV preschool series (52 x 7’), which is already a hit show in numerous […]

January 30, 2025

Glassriver options Reykjavik Noir trilogy from Lilja Sigurdardottir

Icelandic film and TV production company Glassriver has optioned book trilogy Reykjavik Noir from bestselling author Lilja Sigurdardottir for a series adaption. Icelandic broadcaster Síminn has picked up the series. The first book in the series is Snare. After a messy divorce, young mother Sonja is struggling to provide for herself and win sole custody […]

December 20, 2024

Glassriver options book series Elma

Icelandic film and TV production company, Glassriver, has optioned the crime thriller book series Elma, from global bestselling author Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, for a series adaption. The first book in the Elma series is The Creak on the Stairs which is being adapted by screenwriter Karen Björg Eyfjörð Þorsteinsdóttir. The books have been translated into […]

November 29, 2024

Glassriver and SPi wrap production on Cold Haven

Iceland’s Glassriver and Portugal’s SPi today announce the completion of production on upcoming crime thriller series Cold Haven. Cold Haven is an 8-part crime thriller probing the immigration experience, following Icelandic detective Soffia as she attempts to solve a murder within the Portuguese community on Iceland’s Westman Islands. The series explores the conflict of balancing […]

November 26, 2024

yes Studios to distribute Icelandic series Haze

yes Studios has gone into partnership with Sigurjón Kjartansson’s production company S800 and has become the international distributor for Haze, an eight-part crime drama commissioned by Icelandic broadcaster RUV. yes Studios will formally launch the series – which has actor Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson (Succession, Game of Thrones) attached – to buyers at next week’s Content […]

November 25, 2024

Disney+’s A Murder at the End of the World premieres in November

Disney+ has annouced that FX’s A Murder at the End of the World, a murder mystery, limited series set at the remote and isolated compound of a reclusive billionaire, will premiere on November 14th exclusively on Disney+ in the UK and Ireland. The series, formerly known as Retreat, stars Emma Corrin, Clive Owen, Harris Dickinson […]

October 5, 2023By Nik Roseveare

Vodafone Iceland partners with XroadMedia

Vodafone Iceland, a leading provider in the Iceland telecommunications market, and XroadMedia, specialists in building innovative and ground-breaking content discovery and personalisation solutions, have announced a partnership for audiences to experience hyper-personalisation. Vodafone Iceland holds a strong local position both in the corporate and the consumer market and with its open innovation strategy, leads the […]

September 12, 2022