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‘Vampire Academy’ Adds ‘Modern Family’s’ Sarah Hyland, Gabriel Byrne & More To Cast

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Saturday May 18, 2013 @ 11:32am PDTTags: Gabriel Byrne, Modern Family, Sarah Hyland, The Weinstein Company, Vampire Academy, Vikings

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company‘s Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters has added the final pieces to its casting puzzle. Modern Family‘s Sarah Hyland and Vikings’ Gabriel Byrne will now also be sinking their teeth into the movie based on the books by Richelle Mead. Byrne will play Victor, one of the leaders of the Academy while Hyland will play Natalie, Victor’s daughter and the best friend of the lead Rose and Lissa characters. Lucy Fry and Zoey Deutch have already been announced as Lissa and Rose. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’s Joely Richardson and Dominic Sherwood have also joined the film. Richardson will play Queen Tatiana, leader of the Moroi Vampires. Sherwood will be playing Christian, Lissa’s love interest. These latest cast additions come on the heels of the announcement last week that Sami Gayle (Blue Bloods), Cameron Monaghan (Shameless), Ashley Charles (White Buffalo) and Claire Foy (White Heat) had joined the ensemble cast. The film also stars Oblivion’s Olga Kurylenko and Danila Kozlovski. Mead’s best-selling books tell the tale of Rose Hathaway, a teen who has a mental and spiritual bond with her vampire best friend Lissa. The two attend a special school for vampires who are attempting to keep some of their humanity while other of their species are becoming more wild. Filming on Vampire Academy is scheduled to start next week. Byrne is repped by Paradigm. Hyland is repped by WME and RKM and attorney Lev Ginsburg. 

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LoveFilm To Stream ‘Vikings’ In UK & Germany

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday May 10, 2013 @ 7:10am PDTTags: Amazon, Lovefilm, Vikings

In the company’s first such deal, Amazon-owned LoveFilm has acquired exclusive streaming rights to History‘s Vikings for the UK and Germany. The Netflix rival will make all nine episodes of the hit … Read More »

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History’s ‘Vikings’ Season Finale Attracts 3.6M Viewers

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday April 30, 2013 @ 8:08am PDTTags: History, TV Ratings, Vikings

History’s Vikings ended its first season with 3.6 million viewers Sunday. The first scripted series for the channel pulled in 1.8 million viewers in the adults 25-54 demo and 1.7 million adults 18-49 in its finale, making … Read More »

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History Renews ‘Vikings’ For 2nd Season

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday April 5, 2013 @ 10:47am PDTTags: History Channel, Vikings

History Channel announced today that it is picking up another season of Vikings. The first scripted drama for the network, Vikings will return for 10-episode second season next year. Production is set to begin this summer. The show’s first-season finale will air April 28. The renewal comes five episodes into what has been a successful run for the series. With a lead-in from the Mark Burnett-produced The Bible, Vikings had 6.2 million viewers, 2.5 million adults 18-49 viewers and 2.7 million adults 25-54 catch its March 3 debut. That topped the broadcast networks at 10 PM in the 18-49 demo. The series has emerged as the No. 1 new cable series of the year. Read More »

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History’s ‘The Bible’ & ‘Vikings’ Slip In Week 4

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 26, 2013 @ 7:29am PDTTags: History, The Bible, TV Ratings, Vikings
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Both The Bible and Vikings were down a notch in their fourth airings, but overall the History series have demonstrated impressive ratings holds after their blockbuster premieres. Sunday’s installment of The Bible drew 10.3 million total … Read More »

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History’s ‘The Bible’ & ‘Vikings’ Rise In Week 3

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday March 19, 2013 @ 9:55am PDTTags: History, The Bible, TV Ratings, Vikings

History’s Sunday night was a historical cable powerhouse with both The Bible and Vikings up from the previous week. The third two-hour episode of the 10-part miniseries The Bible garnered 10.9 million total viewers, up from the 10.8 million … Read More »

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History’s ‘The Bible’ & ‘Vikings’ Slip In Week 2, Still Tower Over Competition

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 12, 2013 @ 7:09am PDTTags: History, The Bible, TV Ratings, Vikings
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The second two-hour installment of History‘s 10-part miniseries The Bible on Sunday drew 10.8 million total viewers, 3.2 adults 18-49 and 3.8 million adults 25-54. That was down 18% in total viewers from the mini’s blockbuster opener … Read More »

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‘The Bible’ & ‘Vikings’ Open Big With 13.1 Million & 6.2 Million Viewers, Respectively

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 4, 2013 @ 1:54pm PSTTags: The Bible, Vikings
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The BibleIt was a big night for History, whose 10-hour miniseries The Bible opened with 13.1 million viewers and 4.6 million adults 25-54 to rank as the No.1 cable entertainment telecast of the year. It was followed by the debut of the network’s first original scripted series, The Vikings, which rode The Bible‘s coattails to draw 6.2 million viewers, 2.5 million Adults 18-49 and 2.7 million Adults 25-54, beating the broadcast networks at 10 PM in the 18-49 demo. The rollout was part of a new strategy by male-skewing History which is launching the bulk of its programming after the end of football season this year.
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Hot TV Clip: History’s ‘Vikings’ Opening

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday January 21, 2013 @ 1:39pm PSTTags: History, Vikings

History‘s first original scripted series Vikings premieres March 3 at 10 PM. It is set for nine episodes and follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel), his ambitions to discover civilizations across the great ocean to the west, and the inevitable conflicts that arise along the … Read More »

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History Series ‘Vikings’ Sets Premiere Date, Releases First Promo: Video

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 19, 2012 @ 8:39am PSTTags: History, Vikings
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History‘s first original scripted series, Vikings, will debut on Sunday, March 3 at 10 PM. A family saga at heart, the nine-episode drama follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel), a curious, compelling man who is always looking to break through barriers and discover new worlds to … Read More »

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‘The Deep’ Helmer Baltasar Kormakur Keeps Iceland Close To Heart

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 27, 2012 @ 2:29pm PDTTags: Baltasar Kormakur, The Deep, Vikings
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When offshore directors make a breakthrough film and start getting those big Hollywood studio offers, too often they lose the perspective that made their early films so worth discovering. That’s not going to happen to Baltasar Kormakur, the Icelandic helmer who continues to split time between making Hollywood fare and mining Iceland for homegrown stories. Kormakur’s latest film, The Deep, was just selected by Iceland as its entry for 2013 Best Foreign Language film. A harrowing fact-based adventure tale about an Icelandic man who was the sole survivor of a fishing boat crew that sank in the dead of winter off the south coast of Iceland in 1984, the film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month.

Related: APA Signs ‘The Deep’ Star Olafur Darri Olafsson

While many came to that festival to see Oscar-bait films including Argo, The Master and Silver Linings Playbook, there was quite a lineup of films that played Toronto and went on to become Foreign Film nominees including the Norwegian film Kon-Tiki by directors Espen Sandberg-Joachim Ronning, and the Danish film A Royal Affair by Nikolaj Arcel. And of course Michael Haneke’s Amour, Austria’s selection and what has to be considered the Foreign Film frontrunner.

The directors of Kon-Tiki and A Royal Affair will get their Hollywood shots, while Haneke just flat-out disdains what he feels are predictable and formulaic Hollywood films and will stay where he is. Kormakur is going at it in his own way: Read More »

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Five New Cast Members Join History’s ‘Vikings’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday June 28, 2012 @ 12:34pm PDTTags: Gabriel Byrne, George Blagden, History, Vikings

Travis Fimmel (The Beast, Baytown Outlaws) and Jessalyn Gilsig (Glee, Heroes, CSI: NY) are among the new cast members announced today for History’s upcoming scripted series Vikings. Fimmel will play the role of Viking leader Ragnar; Gilsig has … Read More »

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Gabriel Byrne Cast In History’s ‘Vikings’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday May 21, 2012 @ 3:39pm PDTTags: Gabriel Byrne, History, Vikings

Gabriel Byrne VikingsGabriel Byrne has been cast as Earl Haraldson in History channel’s first scripted series, Vikings, which premieres in 2013. Byrne will play a powerful figure in the historical telling of the Norsemen who raided … Read More »

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George Blagden Cast In History’s ‘Vikings’, Johann Urb Joins ‘Californication’, Charlie Weber To ‘Underemployed’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 10, 2012 @ 4:49pm PDTTags: George Blagden, Vikings

George Blagden is the first major casting for History’s Vikings, the 10-episode drama that marked the channel’s first scripted series order when it was picked up in March. The plot follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero … Read More »

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History Orders First Scripted Series — ‘Vikings’ From MGM TV And Michael Hirst

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 13, 2012 @ 12:36pm PDTTags: History, Vikings
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History Channel VikingsHistory is making its first foray into scripted series with Vikings, a 10-episode drama from MGM TV and The Tudors and Camelot masterminds Michael Hirst and Morgan O’Sullivan. The series, which will chronicle the world of the mighty … Read More »

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