Exclusive: Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson, now best known as the director behind beautiful, taut features like Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, wrote to Swedish screen legend Ingmar Bergman sometime in the early 2000s with an idea. Bergman’s response was characteristically colorful.
“What the hell is this? What do you mean?” Bergman told Alfredson.
Alfredson had told the Persona filmmaker that he wanted to remake Faithless, the 2000 feature Bergman had written about an imaginary woman who recollects her painful experience of adultery to an aging filmmaker. The pic played in competition that year in Cannes and was directed by Bergman’s ex-wife, actress Liv Ullmann.
“This was long before everyone was producing remakes, so it was a very unusual question, especially for Bergman,” Alfredson said.
Fast forward to February 2024 and Alfredson is deep into an edit of a contemporary TV adaptation of Faithless he has...
“What the hell is this? What do you mean?” Bergman told Alfredson.
Alfredson had told the Persona filmmaker that he wanted to remake Faithless, the 2000 feature Bergman had written about an imaginary woman who recollects her painful experience of adultery to an aging filmmaker. The pic played in competition that year in Cannes and was directed by Bergman’s ex-wife, actress Liv Ullmann.
“This was long before everyone was producing remakes, so it was a very unusual question, especially for Bergman,” Alfredson said.
Fast forward to February 2024 and Alfredson is deep into an edit of a contemporary TV adaptation of Faithless he has...
- 2/29/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Scandinavian production and distribution house Scanbox Entertainment has acquired a majority stake in Norwegian distributor Ymer Media.
Ymer Media’s management team will continue to lead the company with no operational changes, with Jarle Namtvedt and Cecilia Aas remaining shareholders and company owners.
Scanbox’s chief commercial officer Torben Thorup Jorgensen will become chairman of the board for Ymer Media.
Ymer Media will maintain its upcoming slate, which includes Alex Garland’s Civil War, Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black and Richard Linklater’s Hit Man; plus local titles Adil, Cinderella’s Stepsister and animation Kaja The Great.
Ymer Media’s management team will continue to lead the company with no operational changes, with Jarle Namtvedt and Cecilia Aas remaining shareholders and company owners.
Scanbox’s chief commercial officer Torben Thorup Jorgensen will become chairman of the board for Ymer Media.
Ymer Media will maintain its upcoming slate, which includes Alex Garland’s Civil War, Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black and Richard Linklater’s Hit Man; plus local titles Adil, Cinderella’s Stepsister and animation Kaja The Great.
- 2/17/2024
- ScreenDaily
Denmark’s REinvent International Sales has picked up international sales rights on Hercules Falling, a psychological drama starring Borgen actor Dar Salim.
The debut fiction feature of Danish filmmaker Christian Bonke, Hercules Falling will shoot this spring on the remote island of Stryno. Amalie Lyngbo Quist produces for Denmark’s Beo Starling.
Bonke wrote the script with Marianne Lentz.
The film follows a combat veteran wrestling with mental health challenges, who begins a journey of self-discovery on a remote island retreat. Germany’s Heimathafen Film co-produces, with support from the Danish Film Institute, Dr FilmFyn and Creative Europe.
Scanbox will...
The debut fiction feature of Danish filmmaker Christian Bonke, Hercules Falling will shoot this spring on the remote island of Stryno. Amalie Lyngbo Quist produces for Denmark’s Beo Starling.
Bonke wrote the script with Marianne Lentz.
The film follows a combat veteran wrestling with mental health challenges, who begins a journey of self-discovery on a remote island retreat. Germany’s Heimathafen Film co-produces, with support from the Danish Film Institute, Dr FilmFyn and Creative Europe.
Scanbox will...
- 2/16/2024
- ScreenDaily
Elizabeth Olsen and May December star Charles Melton will star in Todd Solondz’s next film, the darkly comic Love Child.
Rocket Science will launch sales on the project at this week’s European Film Market.
Love Child is produced by Cindy Bru of Volition Media, Christine Vachon of Killer Films and David Hinojosa of 2Am. Executive producers are Michael Jefferson, Adam Beasley, Atilla Yucer, Joshua Harris and Steven Farneth.
The film is fully financed by Volition Media and Gramercy Park Media. Rocket Science is handling international sales at EFM; Cinetic Media and WME co-represent US rights.
The story follows...
Rocket Science will launch sales on the project at this week’s European Film Market.
Love Child is produced by Cindy Bru of Volition Media, Christine Vachon of Killer Films and David Hinojosa of 2Am. Executive producers are Michael Jefferson, Adam Beasley, Atilla Yucer, Joshua Harris and Steven Farneth.
The film is fully financed by Volition Media and Gramercy Park Media. Rocket Science is handling international sales at EFM; Cinetic Media and WME co-represent US rights.
The story follows...
- 2/13/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Swedish Film Institute has appointed former Sveriges Television exec Anna Croneman as its new CEO. She will take up her post in mid-April 2024.
Croneman originally trained as a producer at the Swedish Institute of Dramatic Art. At Sveriges Television, Croneman served as Head of Drama. She held the role since 2017. Some of her commissioning credits at the broadcaster include Caliphate, Thin Blue Line, and Blackwater. Before that, she was with Avanti Film, a production company that she co-founded. She also previously served as Vice Chair of the Sfi board and the Swedish Film&tv-Producers Association.
“Swedish film is facing some huge challenges, and the task ahead feels quite overwhelming at this point. Having said that, it is, of course, a great honor to take over as CEO of the Swedish Film Institute,” said Croneman.
“I am grateful for this opportunity, and promise to do my utmost to establish a...
Croneman originally trained as a producer at the Swedish Institute of Dramatic Art. At Sveriges Television, Croneman served as Head of Drama. She held the role since 2017. Some of her commissioning credits at the broadcaster include Caliphate, Thin Blue Line, and Blackwater. Before that, she was with Avanti Film, a production company that she co-founded. She also previously served as Vice Chair of the Sfi board and the Swedish Film&tv-Producers Association.
“Swedish film is facing some huge challenges, and the task ahead feels quite overwhelming at this point. Having said that, it is, of course, a great honor to take over as CEO of the Swedish Film Institute,” said Croneman.
“I am grateful for this opportunity, and promise to do my utmost to establish a...
- 2/13/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The Swedish Film Institute (Sfi) has appointed Svt executive Anna Croneman as its new CEO.
Croneman will start in the role in mid-April. She is a permanent replacement for temporary CEO Asa Sjoberg.
Sjoberg had been in the role since the departure of Anette Novak, who left the role abruptly in September 2023.
”I have worked as a commissioner of tv-drama and feature films at Svt for seven wonderful years and I guess I am ready for the next big challenge,” said Croneman. ”The film industry is in a troubled state, from the pandemic, with new players entering and changing viewer habits.
Croneman will start in the role in mid-April. She is a permanent replacement for temporary CEO Asa Sjoberg.
Sjoberg had been in the role since the departure of Anette Novak, who left the role abruptly in September 2023.
”I have worked as a commissioner of tv-drama and feature films at Svt for seven wonderful years and I guess I am ready for the next big challenge,” said Croneman. ”The film industry is in a troubled state, from the pandemic, with new players entering and changing viewer habits.
- 2/13/2024
- ScreenDaily
What if crisis-whammies Nordic drama producers would now tap into other European stories instead of staying in the Nordic bubble and self-sufficient eco-system of mixed national and regional private and public coin? Would it be payback time for European partners who until now have bought into the Nordic Noir, without some form of reciprocity?
The question was raised by Belgium producer Helen Perquy from Banijay Benelux’s Jonnydepony at this week’s Göteborg TV Drama Vision, at a panel which looked into the current Nordic drama production mayhem and possible solutions.
“In Belgium, we do have soft money, tax shelters, Vaf [Flanders Audiovisual Fund], Screen Flanders but you guys in the Nordics have had way more money from broadcasters and global streamers, while we’ve had to be creative [with our financing],” said Perquy.
“For years we’ve watched your series and films, they’ve been up there,” noted the producer, raising her arm up in the air.
The question was raised by Belgium producer Helen Perquy from Banijay Benelux’s Jonnydepony at this week’s Göteborg TV Drama Vision, at a panel which looked into the current Nordic drama production mayhem and possible solutions.
“In Belgium, we do have soft money, tax shelters, Vaf [Flanders Audiovisual Fund], Screen Flanders but you guys in the Nordics have had way more money from broadcasters and global streamers, while we’ve had to be creative [with our financing],” said Perquy.
“For years we’ve watched your series and films, they’ve been up there,” noted the producer, raising her arm up in the air.
- 2/3/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
The eight partners will co-produce eight TV series annually from 2023, and distribute each other’s projects.
Eight European public service broadcasters have united on New8, a collaboration through which they will co-produce eight drama series annually.
Starting this year and on an initial three-year agreement, the broadcasters will work with each other on the series; with broad distribution of the created projects a key tenet of the deal. The first series will be greenlit in 2023 for broadcast in all participating territories in 2024.
The participating broadcasters are Zdf (Germany), Npo (Netherlands), Vrt (Belgium), Svt (Sweden), Dr (Denmark), Yle (Finland), Ruv (Iceland...
Eight European public service broadcasters have united on New8, a collaboration through which they will co-produce eight drama series annually.
Starting this year and on an initial three-year agreement, the broadcasters will work with each other on the series; with broad distribution of the created projects a key tenet of the deal. The first series will be greenlit in 2023 for broadcast in all participating territories in 2024.
The participating broadcasters are Zdf (Germany), Npo (Netherlands), Vrt (Belgium), Svt (Sweden), Dr (Denmark), Yle (Finland), Ruv (Iceland...
- 10/10/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Broadcasters from Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium have joined the Nordic Twelve group of European broadcasters to forge what they are calling the “biggest drama collaboration in Europe.”
Unveiling the news at a Mia Market press conference this afternoon, Zdf, Npo and Vrt from the three non-Nordic countries said they will join with Sweden’s Svt, Denmark’s Dr, Finland’s Yle, Iceland’s RÚV and Norway’s Nrk to form what is now titled the New8.
The octet of broadcasters will co-produce eight TV series a year and the initial agreement lasts three years. A “key aspect of the collaboration is ensuring broad distribution of each other’s projects,” the New8 said, with performance data set to be shared for all shows.
The first project will be announced in November at Content London, becoming available at the end of next year. Four series per year will come from the Nordics,...
Unveiling the news at a Mia Market press conference this afternoon, Zdf, Npo and Vrt from the three non-Nordic countries said they will join with Sweden’s Svt, Denmark’s Dr, Finland’s Yle, Iceland’s RÚV and Norway’s Nrk to form what is now titled the New8.
The octet of broadcasters will co-produce eight TV series a year and the initial agreement lasts three years. A “key aspect of the collaboration is ensuring broad distribution of each other’s projects,” the New8 said, with performance data set to be shared for all shows.
The first project will be announced in November at Content London, becoming available at the end of next year. Four series per year will come from the Nordics,...
- 10/10/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
EFM project ‘Maria Montessori’ has also sold robustly.
Paris-based Indie Sales has sold Belgian filmmaker Zeno Graton’s Berlinale Generation film The Lost Boys to Dark Star Pictures in the US, Pecadillo Pictures in the UK/Ireland and to the Filmin platform in Spain.
The film stars Khalil Gharbia alongside Julien de Saint Jean in a story of two young men attempting to keep their burgeoning relationship under wraps at a tough juvenile detention centre. The Lost Boys is produced by France’s Silex Films and Belgium’s Tarantula and will be released in Belgium by O’Brother and in...
Paris-based Indie Sales has sold Belgian filmmaker Zeno Graton’s Berlinale Generation film The Lost Boys to Dark Star Pictures in the US, Pecadillo Pictures in the UK/Ireland and to the Filmin platform in Spain.
The film stars Khalil Gharbia alongside Julien de Saint Jean in a story of two young men attempting to keep their burgeoning relationship under wraps at a tough juvenile detention centre. The Lost Boys is produced by France’s Silex Films and Belgium’s Tarantula and will be released in Belgium by O’Brother and in...
- 5/4/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
L.A.-based Dynamic Television has acquired worldwide rights to the Swedish series “The Pirate Bay,” about the notorious pirate BitTorrent site and its co-founders Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, and Gottfrid Swartholm.
The six-part series, set to go unto production this fall, is being produced by Stockholm and L.A.-based powerhouse B-Reel Films for Swedish pubcaster Svt. “I Am Zlatan” helmer Jens Sjögren is directing, from a screenplay by head-writer Piotr Marciniak (“Everything I Can’t Remember”), with Patrik Gyllström (“Agatha Christie’s Hjerson”) serving as episodic writer.
The character-driven show turns on Peter, Fredrik and Gottfrid, who ended up creating in 2003 one of the world’s largest BitTorrent indexes as a reaction to big business trying to take control file sharing over the Internet.
What was intended to ignite a revolution to let information flow freely, quickly became responsible for the illegal distribution of copyrighted films, music, books and software online.
The six-part series, set to go unto production this fall, is being produced by Stockholm and L.A.-based powerhouse B-Reel Films for Swedish pubcaster Svt. “I Am Zlatan” helmer Jens Sjögren is directing, from a screenplay by head-writer Piotr Marciniak (“Everything I Can’t Remember”), with Patrik Gyllström (“Agatha Christie’s Hjerson”) serving as episodic writer.
The character-driven show turns on Peter, Fredrik and Gottfrid, who ended up creating in 2003 one of the world’s largest BitTorrent indexes as a reaction to big business trying to take control file sharing over the Internet.
What was intended to ignite a revolution to let information flow freely, quickly became responsible for the illegal distribution of copyrighted films, music, books and software online.
- 4/6/2023
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Update, Exclusive: Norway’s Nrk has become the third Scandinavian public broadcasting network to join Those Who Stayed as a co-producer.
Previously, Exclusive: A pair of Nordic networks have boarded Those Who Stayed, the Ukraine invasion anthology series we first told you about last year.
Public broadcasters Svt in Sweden and Yle in Finland have joined Film.UA and Red Arrow Studios International on the project as co-producers.
Shooting on the comedy-drama anthology is planned to begin in March. Three production crews are being readied to allow for a fast turnaround and delivery in autumn of 2023 or winter in early 2024.
The scripted series tells stories from the early days of Russia’s attack on neighbour Ukraine nearly a year ago. We first revealed details in August.
The anthology comedy/drama will focus on the immediate aftermath of the February 24 invasion, with each episode telling the story of a group of characters...
Previously, Exclusive: A pair of Nordic networks have boarded Those Who Stayed, the Ukraine invasion anthology series we first told you about last year.
Public broadcasters Svt in Sweden and Yle in Finland have joined Film.UA and Red Arrow Studios International on the project as co-producers.
Shooting on the comedy-drama anthology is planned to begin in March. Three production crews are being readied to allow for a fast turnaround and delivery in autumn of 2023 or winter in early 2024.
The scripted series tells stories from the early days of Russia’s attack on neighbour Ukraine nearly a year ago. We first revealed details in August.
The anthology comedy/drama will focus on the immediate aftermath of the February 24 invasion, with each episode telling the story of a group of characters...
- 2/2/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Distributed by ITV Studios, “Blackwater,” the new banner series from Apple Tree producer Piv Bernth – behind iconic Scandinavian series “The Killing,” “The Bridge” and “Borgen” – opens in premonitory mode with the camera panning away from a falcon to take in the Lobber River’s white water and churning slate grey currents as a supernatural horror-movie chant bleeds into the soundtrack.
The foreboding anticipates a double murder on the river’s banks and conveys a broader sense sluicing the series of the menace of nature itself – both the chilling woods around Blackwater, a village in mid-Sweden, and latent human brutality.
In 1973, on Midsummer’s Eve, Annie, a young in-love schoolteacher who has just arrived in the area, discovers the bodies of two murdered tourists on the banks of the river. Glimpsing a man running away from the crime scene, she will live in fear for the next 20 years, sleeping with a shotgun beside her bed.
The foreboding anticipates a double murder on the river’s banks and conveys a broader sense sluicing the series of the menace of nature itself – both the chilling woods around Blackwater, a village in mid-Sweden, and latent human brutality.
In 1973, on Midsummer’s Eve, Annie, a young in-love schoolteacher who has just arrived in the area, discovers the bodies of two murdered tourists on the banks of the river. Glimpsing a man running away from the crime scene, she will live in fear for the next 20 years, sleeping with a shotgun beside her bed.
- 1/27/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based sales outfit Totem Films has boarded the new, as-yet-untitled project from “And Then We Danced” director Levan Akin, which has just wrapped shooting in Istanbul. Totem will present the film to buyers at next month’s European Film Market in Berlin.
The story is “about finding your family, not your blood relatives, but those that accept and love you unconditionally, without prejudice, for who you are,” the production company, French Quarter Film, said.
Akin said of the project: “My whole life, Istanbul and its inhabitants have held a special place in my heart, and I’m very excited to soon be able to share this world and its unique spaces with an audience.”
Totem Films said: “Levan perfectly knows how to capture genuine atmospheres and characters. We launched Totem in Cannes 2019 with ‘And Then We Danced.’ What a joy to continue our collaboration with this tribe!”
Akin’s Georgia-set...
The story is “about finding your family, not your blood relatives, but those that accept and love you unconditionally, without prejudice, for who you are,” the production company, French Quarter Film, said.
Akin said of the project: “My whole life, Istanbul and its inhabitants have held a special place in my heart, and I’m very excited to soon be able to share this world and its unique spaces with an audience.”
Totem Films said: “Levan perfectly knows how to capture genuine atmospheres and characters. We launched Totem in Cannes 2019 with ‘And Then We Danced.’ What a joy to continue our collaboration with this tribe!”
Akin’s Georgia-set...
- 1/25/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
More than 70 speakers from 17 countries, including “Skam” showrunner Julie Andem, “It Takes Two” game creator/filmmaker Josef Fares, and top commissioners from Viaplay, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Dr, Svt, Nrk and Yle will take center stage at Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision.
The festival’s flagship drama confab will run Feb. 1-2 both on-site in Sweden’s second largest city, and online, with all streamed sessions open to accredited professionals.
A record 542 delegates – including 39 online visitors – have signed up for the sold-out event, set under the overarching theme “Navigating Disruption and Cultivating Talent.”
”It’s been a challenge to set the core of this year’s program, considering the drastic changes in the drama industry, fuelled by the macroeconomic uncertainties, streaming wars and changing strategies,” acknowledges TV Drama Vision honcho Cia Edström. “But our top industry guests will offer inspiring best-practices on how to navigate these changing times, cultivate talent and innovate in storytelling.
The festival’s flagship drama confab will run Feb. 1-2 both on-site in Sweden’s second largest city, and online, with all streamed sessions open to accredited professionals.
A record 542 delegates – including 39 online visitors – have signed up for the sold-out event, set under the overarching theme “Navigating Disruption and Cultivating Talent.”
”It’s been a challenge to set the core of this year’s program, considering the drastic changes in the drama industry, fuelled by the macroeconomic uncertainties, streaming wars and changing strategies,” acknowledges TV Drama Vision honcho Cia Edström. “But our top industry guests will offer inspiring best-practices on how to navigate these changing times, cultivate talent and innovate in storytelling.
- 1/23/2023
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based sales company Indie Sales has boarded Swedish-Iranian filmmaker Milad Alami ’s sophomore feature “Opponent” ahead of the film’s premiere at the Berlinale. The banner has unveiled the trailer (below) for the movie which will bow in the Panorama section.
“Opponent” is headlined by popular Iranian actor Payman Maadi, who previously starred in Asghar Farhadi’s films such as “A Separation” and “About Elly.” The movie shot in English and Farsi.
The film follows Iman and his family who have been forced to flee Iran in the aftermath of a devastating rumor. As refugees, they end up in a run-down hotel in Northern Sweden. Despite feeling powerless, Iman tries to maintain his role as the family patriarch. To increase their chances of asylum, he breaks a promise to his wife and joins the local wrestling club. As the rumours start to resurface, Iman’s fear and desperation begin to take a hold.
“Opponent” is headlined by popular Iranian actor Payman Maadi, who previously starred in Asghar Farhadi’s films such as “A Separation” and “About Elly.” The movie shot in English and Farsi.
The film follows Iman and his family who have been forced to flee Iran in the aftermath of a devastating rumor. As refugees, they end up in a run-down hotel in Northern Sweden. Despite feeling powerless, Iman tries to maintain his role as the family patriarch. To increase their chances of asylum, he breaks a promise to his wife and joins the local wrestling club. As the rumours start to resurface, Iman’s fear and desperation begin to take a hold.
- 1/18/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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Ingmar Bergman’s Faithless is getting a TV adaptation from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Snowman), Sweden’s public broadcaster Svt and Denmark-based production company Miso Film (Netflix’s The Rain), part of Bertelsmann-owned Rtl Group’s Fremantle, unveiled Monday.
They are set to co-produce the drama series, with Alfredson responsible for directing all six 45-minute episodes and Norway’s Sara Johnsen (July 22) writing the script.
The project will explore the relationship between passion and love through an erotic triangle. “David falls in love with his best friend Mark’s wife, the beautiful Marianne,” according to the plot summary. “David and Marianne’s love affair has painful consequences for two families. The characters are driven by lust, jealousy, betrayal and love.”
“Sometime during the winter of 2001, I contacted Ingmar Bergman and asked if I could reinterpret his story.
Ingmar Bergman’s Faithless is getting a TV adaptation from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Snowman), Sweden’s public broadcaster Svt and Denmark-based production company Miso Film (Netflix’s The Rain), part of Bertelsmann-owned Rtl Group’s Fremantle, unveiled Monday.
They are set to co-produce the drama series, with Alfredson responsible for directing all six 45-minute episodes and Norway’s Sara Johnsen (July 22) writing the script.
The project will explore the relationship between passion and love through an erotic triangle. “David falls in love with his best friend Mark’s wife, the beautiful Marianne,” according to the plot summary. “David and Marianne’s love affair has painful consequences for two families. The characters are driven by lust, jealousy, betrayal and love.”
“Sometime during the winter of 2001, I contacted Ingmar Bergman and asked if I could reinterpret his story.
- 7/4/2022
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tomas Alfredson, the Swedish director of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “Let the Right One In,” is set to direct a TV series adapted from “Faithless,” a 2000 film written by Ingmar Bergman and directed by Liv Ullman.
Miso Film, a Fremantle company, is producing with Swedish broadcaster Svt.
Sara Johnsen (“July 22”) is writing the script of the six-part series. The project was revealed on July 2 at the annual Bergman Week on Fårö island, where Sara Johnsen, Tomas Alfredson and Svt’s head of drama Anna Croneman discussed the series.
“Faithless” explores the relationship between passion and love through an erotic triangle. David falls in love with his best friend Mark’s wife, the beautiful Marianne. David and Marianne’s love affair has painful consequences for two families.
“Sometime during the winter of 2001, I contacted Ingmar Bergman and asked if I could reinterpret his story. Initially he said it sounded like “a drunken idea,...
Miso Film, a Fremantle company, is producing with Swedish broadcaster Svt.
Sara Johnsen (“July 22”) is writing the script of the six-part series. The project was revealed on July 2 at the annual Bergman Week on Fårö island, where Sara Johnsen, Tomas Alfredson and Svt’s head of drama Anna Croneman discussed the series.
“Faithless” explores the relationship between passion and love through an erotic triangle. David falls in love with his best friend Mark’s wife, the beautiful Marianne. David and Marianne’s love affair has painful consequences for two families.
“Sometime during the winter of 2001, I contacted Ingmar Bergman and asked if I could reinterpret his story. Initially he said it sounded like “a drunken idea,...
- 7/4/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The 2022 Nostradamus report was launched in Cannes by the Göteborg Film Festival.
Transforming working conditions across the industry should offer financial, artistic, and efficiency benefits directly. That’s one message in the 2022 Nostradamus report, launched in Cannes yesterday by the Göteborg Film Festival.
The ninth report, which is usually published each January, looks at the near-future of the audiovisual industries by talking to industry experts with analysis by author Johanna Koljonen. This year’s report is entitled “Imagining a Sustainable Industry.”
Questions posed by the report include “How can we build a long-term sustainable industry, taking into consideration financial, social as well as environmental perspectives?...
Transforming working conditions across the industry should offer financial, artistic, and efficiency benefits directly. That’s one message in the 2022 Nostradamus report, launched in Cannes yesterday by the Göteborg Film Festival.
The ninth report, which is usually published each January, looks at the near-future of the audiovisual industries by talking to industry experts with analysis by author Johanna Koljonen. This year’s report is entitled “Imagining a Sustainable Industry.”
Questions posed by the report include “How can we build a long-term sustainable industry, taking into consideration financial, social as well as environmental perspectives?...
- 5/24/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The Göteborg Film Festival’s annual TV industry event, TV Drama Vision, has unveiled its program, which focuses on sustainability and healthy working conditions at a time of hyper-competition in the drama space.
TV Drama Vision is set to unspool both in-person and online over Feb. 2-3.
As opening keynote, Johanna Koljonen, author of the anticipated Nostradamus Report, will kickstart the event’s conference strand, which is also due to new paths for creative producers, public funding at a crossroads, green filmmaking, diversity, changing business models and storytelling.
“The program, designed as always in close collaboration with the industry, will reveal how the streaming disruption, accelerated by the pandemic, is affecting us all. It’s important for all partners to find common grounds and reflect on long-term plans to create a sustainable industry,” says Göteborg head of industry Cia Edström, who will be hosting the event with moderators Johanna Nunnu Karppinen,...
TV Drama Vision is set to unspool both in-person and online over Feb. 2-3.
As opening keynote, Johanna Koljonen, author of the anticipated Nostradamus Report, will kickstart the event’s conference strand, which is also due to new paths for creative producers, public funding at a crossroads, green filmmaking, diversity, changing business models and storytelling.
“The program, designed as always in close collaboration with the industry, will reveal how the streaming disruption, accelerated by the pandemic, is affecting us all. It’s important for all partners to find common grounds and reflect on long-term plans to create a sustainable industry,” says Göteborg head of industry Cia Edström, who will be hosting the event with moderators Johanna Nunnu Karppinen,...
- 1/25/2022
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Sf Studios (“Margrete – Queen of the North”) and Swedish broadcaster Svt are partnering up with Beta Film (“Atlantic Crossing”) on “Raoul,” a drama series about the internationally renowned Swedish diplomate Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jewish people during World War II.
The six-part series is based on Ingrid Carlberg‘s August Prize-winning biography “Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography.” Jesper Harrie (“Bonus Family”), Måns Herngren and Carl-Johan Vallgren co-created and penned “Raoul.” The period drama will start shooting next year with Herngren directing. Beta Film is handling international sales on the historical series.
Wallenberg was born into the powerful Swedish Wallenberg family but was never included in the family’s business empire. Perceived as a carefree and socially gifted man, he showed tremendous courage and compassion in 1944, when he was given the rescue mission to protect Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Within a few months, he was able to save tens of thousands through unconventional methods.
The six-part series is based on Ingrid Carlberg‘s August Prize-winning biography “Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography.” Jesper Harrie (“Bonus Family”), Måns Herngren and Carl-Johan Vallgren co-created and penned “Raoul.” The period drama will start shooting next year with Herngren directing. Beta Film is handling international sales on the historical series.
Wallenberg was born into the powerful Swedish Wallenberg family but was never included in the family’s business empire. Perceived as a carefree and socially gifted man, he showed tremendous courage and compassion in 1944, when he was given the rescue mission to protect Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Within a few months, he was able to save tens of thousands through unconventional methods.
- 11/29/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Neon has taken U.S. rights to Ninja Thyberg’s debut feature Pleasure, which debuted to strong reviews at Sundance Film Festival this year. The distributor will release stateside in 2022.
The film takes a look at the Los Angeles porn industry through the lens of newcomer Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel). Strong, self-confident but naive, Bella believes she can mold the corrupt system to satisfy her needs. But, in the end, she must confront whether she’ll pay with her soul for stardom, or not.
Plattform Produktion and Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, and Erik Hemmendorff produced the film. The film’s executive producers are Pape Boye and Violaine Pichon of Versatile. The co-producers are Leontine Petit and Erik Glijnis of Lemming Film, Peter Possne and Caroline Ljungberg of Film i Väst, Anna Croneman of Svt, and Frédéric Fiore and Eric Tavitian of Logical Pictures, as well as Grand Slam Film.
The...
The film takes a look at the Los Angeles porn industry through the lens of newcomer Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel). Strong, self-confident but naive, Bella believes she can mold the corrupt system to satisfy her needs. But, in the end, she must confront whether she’ll pay with her soul for stardom, or not.
Plattform Produktion and Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, and Erik Hemmendorff produced the film. The film’s executive producers are Pape Boye and Violaine Pichon of Versatile. The co-producers are Leontine Petit and Erik Glijnis of Lemming Film, Peter Possne and Caroline Ljungberg of Film i Väst, Anna Croneman of Svt, and Frédéric Fiore and Eric Tavitian of Logical Pictures, as well as Grand Slam Film.
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- 10/7/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Thyberg “happy and relieved” to find US distributor that will release “raw and uncut” version of porn industry drama.
Neon has picked up US rights to Ninja Thyberg’s feature debut and porn industry drama Pleasure and will release the director’s original verion “as intended”.
Pleasure will screen at AFI Fest in Los Angeles next month and stars Sofia Kappel as a newcomer to the porn industry who must reckon with how far she is willing to go to find stardom.
It originated as a short film of the same name in 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Canal+ Award.
Neon has picked up US rights to Ninja Thyberg’s feature debut and porn industry drama Pleasure and will release the director’s original verion “as intended”.
Pleasure will screen at AFI Fest in Los Angeles next month and stars Sofia Kappel as a newcomer to the porn industry who must reckon with how far she is willing to go to find stardom.
It originated as a short film of the same name in 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Canal+ Award.
- 10/7/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Global distributor, producer and streamer Mubi has snapped up major European markets for hot Sundance title “Pleasure,” which delves into the world of the porn industry in Los Angeles.
The service has acquired all rights to the provocative film in the U.K., Ireland, Italy and Turkey. Directed by Ninja Thyberg, the film recently received its world premiere as part of Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
Starring newcomer Sofia Kappel, “Pleasure” tells the story of a young woman (Bella Cherry) who moves from a small town in Sweden to Los Angeles in pursuit of stardom, and lands squarely in the porn industry. Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised “Pleasure” in his review, calling it an “intentionally stark” and “disturbingly authentic” look at what the porn industry has become.
“A movie like ‘Pleasure’ jerks the skeevy, compulsive porn world out of the closet in a way that few movies have,...
The service has acquired all rights to the provocative film in the U.K., Ireland, Italy and Turkey. Directed by Ninja Thyberg, the film recently received its world premiere as part of Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
Starring newcomer Sofia Kappel, “Pleasure” tells the story of a young woman (Bella Cherry) who moves from a small town in Sweden to Los Angeles in pursuit of stardom, and lands squarely in the porn industry. Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised “Pleasure” in his review, calling it an “intentionally stark” and “disturbingly authentic” look at what the porn industry has become.
“A movie like ‘Pleasure’ jerks the skeevy, compulsive porn world out of the closet in a way that few movies have,...
- 2/9/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
A24 has acquired U.S. rights to “Pleasure,” an explicit drama about the adult film industry, following its premiere at the virtual Sundance Film Festival.
A24 will release the full uncensored film, as well as an R-rated version, later this year.
Directed by Ninja Thyberg, “Pleasure” takes a look at the Los Angeles porn industry through the lens of newcomer Bella Cherry (portrayed by Sofia Kappel), who moves from a small town in Sweden to pursue her dreams of stardom.
Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised “Pleasure,” calling it an “intentionally stark” and “disturbingly authentic” look at what the porn industry has become.
“A movie like “Pleasure” jerks the skeevy, compulsive porn world out of the closet in a way that few movies have,” Gleiberman wrote. “That’s a brave thing to, and what makes it work is that Ninja Thyberg, revealing the instincts of a true filmmaker,...
A24 will release the full uncensored film, as well as an R-rated version, later this year.
Directed by Ninja Thyberg, “Pleasure” takes a look at the Los Angeles porn industry through the lens of newcomer Bella Cherry (portrayed by Sofia Kappel), who moves from a small town in Sweden to pursue her dreams of stardom.
Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised “Pleasure,” calling it an “intentionally stark” and “disturbingly authentic” look at what the porn industry has become.
“A movie like “Pleasure” jerks the skeevy, compulsive porn world out of the closet in a way that few movies have,” Gleiberman wrote. “That’s a brave thing to, and what makes it work is that Ninja Thyberg, revealing the instincts of a true filmmaker,...
- 2/8/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
A24 said Monday that it acquired U.S. rights to the Ninja Thyberg-directed 2021 Sundance Film Festival drama Pleasure. This was a film that had been announced as a Cannes title for 2020 before the fest was canceled because of Covid, and made its debut as part of virtual Sundance.
The drama stars Sofia Kappel as an aspiring porn star who arrives from Sweden determined to become a big star. While the drama’s point is to recognize the rape culture and degradation that women are put through in that line of business in Los Angeles, the film itself is about as close to a porn film as any that has been released theatrically in recent memory, with complete nudity and simulated sex that is shocking.
A24 will release the full uncensored version alongside a new R-Rated version later this year.
The film is produced by Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, and Erik Hemmendorff.
The drama stars Sofia Kappel as an aspiring porn star who arrives from Sweden determined to become a big star. While the drama’s point is to recognize the rape culture and degradation that women are put through in that line of business in Los Angeles, the film itself is about as close to a porn film as any that has been released theatrically in recent memory, with complete nudity and simulated sex that is shocking.
A24 will release the full uncensored version alongside a new R-Rated version later this year.
The film is produced by Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, and Erik Hemmendorff.
- 2/8/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
A24 has acquired the U.S. rights to “Pleasure,” Ninja Thyberg’s film about the pornography and adult entertainment industry in Los Angeles that was a selection of Cannes 2020 and made its world premiere at Sundance.
A24 will release an R-rated version of the narrative feature film as well as an uncensored version, which is sexually explicit in its examination of the porn industry and the predatory practices of managers and male-dominated sets.
Thyberg’s “Pleasure” stars Sofia Kappel as Bella Cherry, who relocates to LA from Sweden in the hopes of making it in the adult entertainment industry as the world’s next big porn star. In its description of the film, Sundance said that it uses nudity in order to “expose rather than titillate.” The film also features a supporting cast of other actors who have had experience in the porn industry.
In TheWrap’s review of the film,...
A24 will release an R-rated version of the narrative feature film as well as an uncensored version, which is sexually explicit in its examination of the porn industry and the predatory practices of managers and male-dominated sets.
Thyberg’s “Pleasure” stars Sofia Kappel as Bella Cherry, who relocates to LA from Sweden in the hopes of making it in the adult entertainment industry as the world’s next big porn star. In its description of the film, Sundance said that it uses nudity in order to “expose rather than titillate.” The film also features a supporting cast of other actors who have had experience in the porn industry.
In TheWrap’s review of the film,...
- 2/8/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Now Netflix title “Caliphate,” produced by the Endemol Shine-owned Swedish production company Filmlance, has smashed all-time viewing records on Sweden’s Svt Play, the catch-up VOD service of public broadcaster Svt, Endemol Shine Group confirmed Wednesday.
“Caliphate” was made available globally on Netflix on March 18.
The biggest success ever on Svt Play, Endemol Shine said, “Caliphate” bowed on Svt on Jan. 12 where it is already known to have attracted an average of over 600,000 adult viewers during its first month on Play, a record for the streaming service.
Svt figures at the time, published by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond newsletter, also underscored a clear shift from linear to online in the Swedish public as more episodes of the series were released.
That can be put down to “Caliphate” itself. On one hand, it is an edge-of-the-seat thriller, turning on the excruciating daily danger suffered by a young Swedish mother,...
“Caliphate” was made available globally on Netflix on March 18.
The biggest success ever on Svt Play, Endemol Shine said, “Caliphate” bowed on Svt on Jan. 12 where it is already known to have attracted an average of over 600,000 adult viewers during its first month on Play, a record for the streaming service.
Svt figures at the time, published by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond newsletter, also underscored a clear shift from linear to online in the Swedish public as more episodes of the series were released.
That can be put down to “Caliphate” itself. On one hand, it is an edge-of-the-seat thriller, turning on the excruciating daily danger suffered by a young Swedish mother,...
- 4/8/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
In this week’s International TV Newswire, Variety looks at Netflix’s moves in Argentina and Turkey, a new Amazon Prime Video docuseries featuring Fernando Alonso, Brown Bob’s Atlantic crossing and the Nordisk Film & TV Fond’s new board of directors.
Netflix Moves in Argentina, Turkey
Netflix announced it will be opening offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina, confirmed through a social media-circulated video featuring stars from various Netflix productions out of Argentina and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. In the video, Hastings – an occasional star in comedic company vidclips – placed Argentina in the top 10 most important nations in the world for Netflix.
The executive was in Argentina over Feb 18-20 where he presented Netflix’s forthcoming slate of Argentine productions led by “El Eternauta,” adapting the legendary graphic novel, and “Casi Feliz,” “El Reino,” “Cielo Grande” and Season 3 of “Go! Live Your Way”; feature films “La Corazonada” and “El...
Netflix Moves in Argentina, Turkey
Netflix announced it will be opening offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina, confirmed through a social media-circulated video featuring stars from various Netflix productions out of Argentina and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. In the video, Hastings – an occasional star in comedic company vidclips – placed Argentina in the top 10 most important nations in the world for Netflix.
The executive was in Argentina over Feb 18-20 where he presented Netflix’s forthcoming slate of Argentine productions led by “El Eternauta,” adapting the legendary graphic novel, and “Casi Feliz,” “El Reino,” “Cielo Grande” and Season 3 of “Go! Live Your Way”; feature films “La Corazonada” and “El...
- 3/13/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Annual report into the future of the screen industries and was unveiled at the Goteborg Film Festival.
The near future of the global film and TV industries will be a boom time of creativity and growing hours of content, but will also see an industry in chaos, according to thee 2020 Nostradamus report ’A Creative Explosion’.
The repprt was unveiled at the Nordic Film Market at the Goteborg Film Festival on Friday January 31.
“The next three to five years will be a time of creativity and chaos, with many artistic highs and unprecedented amounts of money invested in scripted content,” said the report.
The near future of the global film and TV industries will be a boom time of creativity and growing hours of content, but will also see an industry in chaos, according to thee 2020 Nostradamus report ’A Creative Explosion’.
The repprt was unveiled at the Nordic Film Market at the Goteborg Film Festival on Friday January 31.
“The next three to five years will be a time of creativity and chaos, with many artistic highs and unprecedented amounts of money invested in scripted content,” said the report.
- 2/3/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Annual Nostradamus report report looks into the future of the screen industries and was unveiled at the Goteborg Film Festival.
The near future of the film and TV industries will be a boom time of creativity and growing hours of content, but will also see an industry in chaos.
These are the predictions of the 2020 Nostradamus report – “A Creative Explosion” – which was unveiled on Friday (January 31) at the Nordic Film Market at the Goteborg Film Festival.
“The next three to five years will be a time of creativity and chaos, with many artistic highs and unprecedented amounts of money invested in scripted content,...
The near future of the film and TV industries will be a boom time of creativity and growing hours of content, but will also see an industry in chaos.
These are the predictions of the 2020 Nostradamus report – “A Creative Explosion” – which was unveiled on Friday (January 31) at the Nordic Film Market at the Goteborg Film Festival.
“The next three to five years will be a time of creativity and chaos, with many artistic highs and unprecedented amounts of money invested in scripted content,...
- 2/3/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Annual Nostradamus report report looks into the future of the screen industries and was unveiled at the Goteborg Film Festival.
The near future of the film and TV industries will be a boom time of creativity and growing hours of content, but will also see an industry in chaos.
These are the predictions of the 2020 Nostradamus report – “A Creative Explosion” – which was unveiled on Friday (January 31) at the Nordic Film Market at the Goteborg Film Festival.
“The next three to five years will be a time of creativity and chaos, with many artistic highs and unprecedented amounts of money invested in scripted content,...
The near future of the film and TV industries will be a boom time of creativity and growing hours of content, but will also see an industry in chaos.
These are the predictions of the 2020 Nostradamus report – “A Creative Explosion” – which was unveiled on Friday (January 31) at the Nordic Film Market at the Goteborg Film Festival.
“The next three to five years will be a time of creativity and chaos, with many artistic highs and unprecedented amounts of money invested in scripted content,...
- 2/3/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Powered by Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV Plus and Disney Plus, among others, the subscription video on demand market is booming. But in five years from now, it will have contracted with no single service fully dominating the landscape, according to the 7th Nostradamus Report, which forecasts trends in film and TV.
The thorough study was presented by its author, Johanna Koljonen, during the Nordic Film Market at the Göteborg Film Festival on Friday.
Entitled “A Creative Explosion,” the report highlights key trends for the next three-to-five years with six chapters dedicated to “Diversity Beyond 50/50,” “After The Streaming Wars,” “The Pain And Glory of Feature Film,” “The Irishman In the Window,” “Boom Year Problems” and “Insight As Leverage.”
The report is based on collected data and media analysis and built around a wide range of interviews with industry experts, including Alex Mahon, CEO of Channel 4; Lars Blomgren, Endemol Shine Group...
The thorough study was presented by its author, Johanna Koljonen, during the Nordic Film Market at the Göteborg Film Festival on Friday.
Entitled “A Creative Explosion,” the report highlights key trends for the next three-to-five years with six chapters dedicated to “Diversity Beyond 50/50,” “After The Streaming Wars,” “The Pain And Glory of Feature Film,” “The Irishman In the Window,” “Boom Year Problems” and “Insight As Leverage.”
The report is based on collected data and media analysis and built around a wide range of interviews with industry experts, including Alex Mahon, CEO of Channel 4; Lars Blomgren, Endemol Shine Group...
- 2/2/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
For the first time ever, a record number of 13 talent scouts -including U.S. reps from Wiip, CAA, Gersh- will set foot at Göteborg’s sold-out Nordic TV Drama Vision (Jan.29-30), where around 50 series in progress and in development will play to 420 industry delegates.
“This is the first time ever we have such a large presence of talent agents in Göteborg, but mirrors the worldwide trend of people trying to uncover and snap up the next big talent and stories, of which the Nordics abound,” said head of industry Cia Edström.
Heading the works in progress is HBO’s Swedish original “Beartown,” to be discussed by HBO Nordic’s commissioning editor & VP Original Programming, Hanne Palmquist, director Peter Grönlund, and Filmlance International’s producers Bonnie Skoog Feeney and Mattias Arehn. The adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s best-selling novel will bow on HBO later this year.
The dramedy “Dreaming of England,...
“This is the first time ever we have such a large presence of talent agents in Göteborg, but mirrors the worldwide trend of people trying to uncover and snap up the next big talent and stories, of which the Nordics abound,” said head of industry Cia Edström.
Heading the works in progress is HBO’s Swedish original “Beartown,” to be discussed by HBO Nordic’s commissioning editor & VP Original Programming, Hanne Palmquist, director Peter Grönlund, and Filmlance International’s producers Bonnie Skoog Feeney and Mattias Arehn. The adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s best-selling novel will bow on HBO later this year.
The dramedy “Dreaming of England,...
- 1/20/2020
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Series inspired by the true story behind the creation of a real-life iconic 1990s lesbian nightclub in Paris.
French drama project Purple, inspired by the true story behind the creation of a real-life iconic 1990s lesbian nightclub in Paris, has clinched the top €50,000 prize in the Co-Pro Pitching Sessions event of TV festival and industry event Series Mania, running March 22-30 in the northern French city of Lille.
A total of 16 projects were pitched at the project development and financing event, which continues today with one-on-one meetings and is a key pole of Series Mania’s three-day Forum industry programme.
French drama project Purple, inspired by the true story behind the creation of a real-life iconic 1990s lesbian nightclub in Paris, has clinched the top €50,000 prize in the Co-Pro Pitching Sessions event of TV festival and industry event Series Mania, running March 22-30 in the northern French city of Lille.
A total of 16 projects were pitched at the project development and financing event, which continues today with one-on-one meetings and is a key pole of Series Mania’s three-day Forum industry programme.
- 3/26/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
One Floor Below
Director: Radu Muntean // Writers: Radu Muntean, Rãzvan Rãdulescu, Alexandru Baciu.
With his four previous features, this Romanian director was flying under the shadow of some of the more notable New Romanian Wave names until the premiere of his last title, 2010’s Tuesday, After Christmas, (we interviewed him here) unveiled in Un Certain Regard at Cannes. While it went home empty handed, its slow international roll out snagged Muntean an increased reputation, eclipsing the solid reception of previous titles like Summer Holiday (2008), The Paper Will Be Blue (2006) and Furia (2002). His latest, One Floor Below, stars Teodor Corban (from 12:08 East of Bucharest) and concerns a middle-aged man who is the sole witness to a domestic quarrel that ends in murder.
Cast: Teodor Corban, Iulian Postelnicu
Producers: Multimedia East’s Dragos Valcu (Tuesday, After Christmas), Les Films de l’Apres-midi’s Francois D’Artemare (Children of Sarajevo), Beck Film...
Director: Radu Muntean // Writers: Radu Muntean, Rãzvan Rãdulescu, Alexandru Baciu.
With his four previous features, this Romanian director was flying under the shadow of some of the more notable New Romanian Wave names until the premiere of his last title, 2010’s Tuesday, After Christmas, (we interviewed him here) unveiled in Un Certain Regard at Cannes. While it went home empty handed, its slow international roll out snagged Muntean an increased reputation, eclipsing the solid reception of previous titles like Summer Holiday (2008), The Paper Will Be Blue (2006) and Furia (2002). His latest, One Floor Below, stars Teodor Corban (from 12:08 East of Bucharest) and concerns a middle-aged man who is the sole witness to a domestic quarrel that ends in murder.
Cast: Teodor Corban, Iulian Postelnicu
Producers: Multimedia East’s Dragos Valcu (Tuesday, After Christmas), Les Films de l’Apres-midi’s Francois D’Artemare (Children of Sarajevo), Beck Film...
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Humans. For as long as we've been inhabiting this planet someone or something has been wanting their chance to munch on our flesh. Why this is is anyone's guess as we're notoriously filthy animals, but hey, whatever.
Variety reports that Swedish helmer Mikael Marcimain will adapt Swedish suspense bestseller Stallo by Stefan Spjut.
Stallo, which has been compared with Let the Right One In, depicts a grey everyday Sweden with supernatural elements. Instead of vampires, fellow countryman Marcimain will have to deal with “stallos,” human-like creatures who like to eat people.
The sophomore novel already sold to 15 countries before its local release last week from Albert Bonniers, Sweden’s biggest publishing house. The film's producer is Anna Croneman at Stockholm-based production company Bob Film. Croneman told local newspapers the adaptation would be an international production, set to shoot in 2014-15.
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Variety reports that Swedish helmer Mikael Marcimain will adapt Swedish suspense bestseller Stallo by Stefan Spjut.
Stallo, which has been compared with Let the Right One In, depicts a grey everyday Sweden with supernatural elements. Instead of vampires, fellow countryman Marcimain will have to deal with “stallos,” human-like creatures who like to eat people.
The sophomore novel already sold to 15 countries before its local release last week from Albert Bonniers, Sweden’s biggest publishing house. The film's producer is Anna Croneman at Stockholm-based production company Bob Film. Croneman told local newspapers the adaptation would be an international production, set to shoot in 2014-15.
More as it comes.
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- 11/26/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Stallo stretches the borders of reality. Sounds good to me, and that’s exactly why I’m here – to inform you that Swedish director Mikael Marcimain (Call Girl) will adapt Stefan Spjut‘s bestselling novel titled Stallo. Boring – you say? Well, wait ’till you hear that we’re actually talking about a people-eating creature novel!
At this moment not much is known about the whole thing except that Anna Croneman from Stockholm-based production company Bob Film is on board to produce the project. The good thing is that Marcimain plans to shoot the movie in 2014.
What also sounds interesting is that Spjut’s novel has already been compared with Let The Right One In, which means – expect to see everyday Sweden with supernatural elements.
No vampires or zombies this time, only stallos (human-like creatures who like to eat people)!
Here’s the official description of Stallo novel, hope you’ll like it:
Gunnar Myrén,...
At this moment not much is known about the whole thing except that Anna Croneman from Stockholm-based production company Bob Film is on board to produce the project. The good thing is that Marcimain plans to shoot the movie in 2014.
What also sounds interesting is that Spjut’s novel has already been compared with Let The Right One In, which means – expect to see everyday Sweden with supernatural elements.
No vampires or zombies this time, only stallos (human-like creatures who like to eat people)!
Here’s the official description of Stallo novel, hope you’ll like it:
Gunnar Myrén,...
- 11/26/2012
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
A 105-year-old woman has been offered a place at her local preschool class. Anna Eriksson received a letter from the Central School in Tierp, confirming her spot among a class of 5- and 6-year-olds. She currently resides in a nursing home, according to The Local. The school had failed to notice that Anna was born in 1907 instead of 2007. School principal Marinna (more)...
- 11/19/2012
- by By Cheyenne Bunsie
- Digital Spy
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