For many of us, the first mental image prompted by the name Karen Blixen is of a radiant Meryl Streep, resplendent in oatmeal linen and undulating safari hat, romantically lit in the tawny Kenyan dusk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nordisk has acquired rights to author and historian Tom Buk-Swienty's upcoming books about the pair. Currently in development are ...

Danish author Karen Blixen may be best known for her 1937 memoir “Out of Africa”— widely published under the pen name Isak Dinesen — and from its 1985 Oscar-winning screen adaptation, in which the ...

A Canneseries main competition contender, “The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen” begins with a voiceover from Connie Nielsen (“Gladiator,” “Wonder Woman”) reading, in beautifully cadenced Danish, a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Juno Films has claimed North America rights to The Pact, a film from Oscar and Palme d’Or-winning director Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror, House of Spirits), which is based on the true ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - "I wonder if I'll see Meryl Streep here," I think as I first behold the squatty, sprawling gray fieldstone bungalow where once lived Karen Blixen, the real-life heroine of Out of ...

Blixen’s life is ripe for theatrical interpretation. She herself played many characters during her life, publishing under multiple pseudonyms, most exhaustively as Isak Dinesen. She lived in Kenya for ...

It took six months of fasting and diving into the life and work of the acclaimed 'Out of Africa' author for the 'Wonder Woman' star to play her in the new biopic series. By Scott Roxborough Europe ...

Focusing on the Danish literary titan's toxic mentorship of young poet Thorkild Bjørnvig, Bille August's film is handsomely mounted but narratively inert. For many of us, the first mental image ...

Scandinavian powerhouse Nordisk Film is lining up English-language biopics of Danish icons Karen Blixen, writer of acclaimed memoir Out Of Africa, and physicist Niels Bohr. Nordisk has acquired rights ...