Final week, the Hollywood couple Nicole Clemens and Matthew D. Smith visited Hællæwood, also called Fredrikstad.

Nicole Clemens is the president of Paramount Tv Studios, identified for the collection “Jack Ryan”, “Reacher”, “The Supply” and “Station Eleven”.

Matthew D. Smith has served as assistant director on, amongst others, the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” collection, the newest “Ghostbusters” film and “Deadpool 2”.

He visited Zwart

It was, in reality, Hællæwood’s personal Hollywood couple Veslemøy Ruud Zwart and Harald Zwart who made Clemens and Smith go to Fredrikstad.

Nicole Clemens was beforehand an agent for the Zwart couple, earlier than turning into president of Paramount TV.

After listening to Harald and Veslemøy speak about Norway for a number of years, she was desperate to see the nation for herself. In Fredrikstad there was, amongst different issues, time for a visit to the Outdated City, dinner at Slippen and, in fact, a tour of Fredrikstad Kino.

The Harald Zwart present on the cinema will likely be an everyday cease when movie makers and different folks from Hollywood go to town of Harald and Veslemøy. The following journey was to the mountains with the Zwart household.

Nicole Clemens var begestret over kinoens samling av effecter og suvenirer fra Zwarts filmkarrière: I used to be delighted to see Harald’s various and wealthy physique of labor acknowledged and honored by his great hometown. He and Veslemoey are nationwide treasures. I used to be fortunate sufficient to be their agent.

Matthew D. Smith has labored as an assistant director, photographer and many others. in Hollywood for 35 years. The CV consists of, amongst different issues, the collection about “Obi-Wan Kenobi, the success of the spring movie “Ghostbusters: Afterlife”, Arley Quinn’s movie “Birds of Prey” and main movies similar to “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”, “Deadpool 2”, “Quick & Livid: Hobbs & Shaw and Venom”.

“Attractive Beast”

Nicole Clemens is the president of Paramount Tv Studios, a number one studio that creates movies and collection for all media platforms around the globe. Collection created underneath her course embody Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and Reacher, each for Prime Video, a number of collection for Paramount + together with The Supply, Deadly Attraction, Joe Pickett and Grease: Rise of the Emmy-nominated Pink Women. Nicole was additionally an govt producer for the British crime drama. “Attractive Beast”. She has additionally labored on the hit collection Halo and a number of other Star Trek collection.

Director Harald Zwart and Veslemøy producer Ruud Zwart have lived in Hollywood since their debut movie Hamilton in 1998, however they usually go to their hometown. the place they nonetheless have a cottage. They’ve their first occasion for all their movies at Fredrikstad Kino, with stars like Will Smith, Jackie Chan, Don Johnsen, Lily Collins, Samantha Fox and Jonathan Rhys Meyers on the purple carpet in Hællæwood.

Between Hollywood movies similar to “Karate Child”, “One Night time at McCool’s” with Michael Douglas and Liv Tyler, and “Pink Panther 2” with Steve Martin and John Cleese, Harald and Veslemøy have additionally been at house and on movies made in Norway.

Engaged on a brand new movie

Right here at house, “The twelfth Man” and the three movies “Lange flate ballær” have offered greater than 1.3 million cinema tickets. Internationally, Zwart’s movies have offered tickets for greater than 600 million {dollars} (about 6.5 billion Norwegian kroner) – and that doesn’t embody the “Lange flate ballær” trilogy…

Harald and Veslemøy are actually engaged on the animated movie “ViQueens”, for which they wrote the script along with their daughter Stella Ruud Zwart. “ViQueens” premieres within the fall of 2027.

Two years in the past, it was costume designer Christian Cordella who visited Hællæwood and Fredrikstad Kino throughout the summer time holidays, learn extra about that go to right here:

https://www.fb.no/christian-er-med-og-lager-storfilmer-i-hollywood-men-elsker-hallawood-fredrikstad-er-favorittbyen-i-norge/s/5-59-2669032