It has been a while since “The Queen’s Gambit,” but as proven by “Rematch,” viewers’ love for chess is certainly not diminishing.
The show, dedicated to confrontation between famous chess player Garry Kasparov and Ibm’s supercomputer Deep Blue, was named the winner at Series Mania.
A somewhat lukewarm reception of “Apples Never Fall” didn’t stop Annette Bening from being crowned as best actress. The Peacock offering, also featuring Sam Neill and Alison Brie, is the latest adaptation of “Big Little Lies” and “Nine Perfect Strangers” scribe Liane Moriarty. Now showing a perfect family who, following its matriarch’s disappearance, needs to face some uncomfortable questions. Including this one: Did their beloved father have something to do with it?
Jury member Berenice Bejo read out a brief message of thanks from Bening who described the series as a “labor of love.”
Kamel El Basha, who plays the more progressive...
The show, dedicated to confrontation between famous chess player Garry Kasparov and Ibm’s supercomputer Deep Blue, was named the winner at Series Mania.
A somewhat lukewarm reception of “Apples Never Fall” didn’t stop Annette Bening from being crowned as best actress. The Peacock offering, also featuring Sam Neill and Alison Brie, is the latest adaptation of “Big Little Lies” and “Nine Perfect Strangers” scribe Liane Moriarty. Now showing a perfect family who, following its matriarch’s disappearance, needs to face some uncomfortable questions. Including this one: Did their beloved father have something to do with it?
Jury member Berenice Bejo read out a brief message of thanks from Bening who described the series as a “labor of love.”
Kamel El Basha, who plays the more progressive...
- 3/22/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Based on the book by Magnus Montelius, Swedish series “8 Months” seemed more like a fantasy than political thriller. Not for long.
“I read this book on vacation and I was intrigued by the idea that you could use a political consultant to find a new foreign minister. The only problem was that it was about NATO. I thought: ‘Nobody cares about that,’” writer Jens Jonsson tells Variety at Series Mania.
“I was skeptical, but we decided to take a gamble. Suddenly, we were pretending that Sweden joined NATO, that they were wondering if we should have nuclear weapons as well. [Broadcaster] TV4 agreed. After the show was greenlit, Ukraine was invaded by Russia and people started to ask: ‘Should we join?’ And look at us now.”
Sweden became a full member of NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] on March 7, 2024. It now counts 32 countries among its members.
The producers have shared first-look photos with Variety.
“We...
“I read this book on vacation and I was intrigued by the idea that you could use a political consultant to find a new foreign minister. The only problem was that it was about NATO. I thought: ‘Nobody cares about that,’” writer Jens Jonsson tells Variety at Series Mania.
“I was skeptical, but we decided to take a gamble. Suddenly, we were pretending that Sweden joined NATO, that they were wondering if we should have nuclear weapons as well. [Broadcaster] TV4 agreed. After the show was greenlit, Ukraine was invaded by Russia and people started to ask: ‘Should we join?’ And look at us now.”
Sweden became a full member of NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] on March 7, 2024. It now counts 32 countries among its members.
The producers have shared first-look photos with Variety.
“We...
- 3/19/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: More citizens will head to the polls this year for elections than any other in history, and the political fever has reached Series Mania.
This year’s event in Lille, France contains four political dramas in competition — not surprising given almost 50% of the world will vote for new leaders in more than 64 elections (including the European Union), according to Time magazine.
“It is all things political in 2024,” said Leona Connell, Chief Commercial Officer at Newen Connect, the sales arm of TF1 Group’ owned French sales house’s Newen Studios that will representing two of the highest profile political titles at Series Mania, In the Shadows and 8 Months.
In the Shadows (Dans L’Ombre) comes from Versailles and Rembrandt director Pierre Schoeller, who adapted a novel from former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and Gilles Boyer, a political insider who served as Philippe’s advisor.
The series stars Swann Arlaud as...
This year’s event in Lille, France contains four political dramas in competition — not surprising given almost 50% of the world will vote for new leaders in more than 64 elections (including the European Union), according to Time magazine.
“It is all things political in 2024,” said Leona Connell, Chief Commercial Officer at Newen Connect, the sales arm of TF1 Group’ owned French sales house’s Newen Studios that will representing two of the highest profile political titles at Series Mania, In the Shadows and 8 Months.
In the Shadows (Dans L’Ombre) comes from Versailles and Rembrandt director Pierre Schoeller, who adapted a novel from former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and Gilles Boyer, a political insider who served as Philippe’s advisor.
The series stars Swann Arlaud as...
- 3/17/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Project based on novel about Russia infiltrating Swedish politics.
Sweden’s Jens Jonsson will direct The Doctrine, a political thriller series adapted from Magnus Montelius’ novel Eight Months.
Jonsson has credits including series Young Wallander and Blinded, and films Easy Money III and Sundance award-winner The King Of Ping Pong.
The novel, published in 2019, presented a then-far-fetched idea that Sweden would join NATO; given world events, the premise is now eerily contemporary.
Erik Magnusson of Anagram Sweden produces.
Backers are TV4/Cmore, Anagram, Film i Väst, Aurora Studios and Beside Productions. With investment from Finnish Impact Film Fund and support from Nordic Film&tv Fund.
Sweden’s Jens Jonsson will direct The Doctrine, a political thriller series adapted from Magnus Montelius’ novel Eight Months.
Jonsson has credits including series Young Wallander and Blinded, and films Easy Money III and Sundance award-winner The King Of Ping Pong.
The novel, published in 2019, presented a then-far-fetched idea that Sweden would join NATO; given world events, the premise is now eerily contemporary.
Erik Magnusson of Anagram Sweden produces.
Backers are TV4/Cmore, Anagram, Film i Väst, Aurora Studios and Beside Productions. With investment from Finnish Impact Film Fund and support from Nordic Film&tv Fund.
- 2/21/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Julia Ragnarsson and Erik Enge (“Tiger”) are the two leading stars of “End of Summer,” a psychological thriller series based Anders de la Motte’s bestselling Swedish novel of the same name. The show has been ordered by Viaplay and is being produced by Harmonica Films with Sf Studios and Film i Skåne co-producing.
Björn Carlström (“The Hunters”) and Stefan Thunberg (“Hamilton”) are the head writers on the series which shot in Skåne in the southern part of Sweden and will premiere in the fall on Viaplay.
The cast also includes Simon J Berger (“Exit”), Torkel Petersson (“A Swedish Defence”), Per Ragnar (“Let the Right One In”), Linus James Nilsson, Anna Granath, Emelie Garbers, Henrik Norlén, Bahador Foladi, Vilhelm Blomgren and Lars Schilken.
The six-episode series opens on a summer evening in 1984 when a 5-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors,...
Björn Carlström (“The Hunters”) and Stefan Thunberg (“Hamilton”) are the head writers on the series which shot in Skåne in the southern part of Sweden and will premiere in the fall on Viaplay.
The cast also includes Simon J Berger (“Exit”), Torkel Petersson (“A Swedish Defence”), Per Ragnar (“Let the Right One In”), Linus James Nilsson, Anna Granath, Emelie Garbers, Henrik Norlén, Bahador Foladi, Vilhelm Blomgren and Lars Schilken.
The six-episode series opens on a summer evening in 1984 when a 5-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Scandinavia’s leading streamer Viaplay has ordered “End of Summer,” a psychological thriller based Anders de la Motte’s bestselling Swedish novel of the same name.
Jens Jonsson (“Young Wallander”) and Henrik Georgsson (“The Bridge”) are on board to direct the series which is penned by Björn Carlström (“Jägarna”) and Stefan Thunberg (“Wallander’) as head writers. Per Janérus at Harmonica Films is producing with Sf Studios and Film i Skåne.
A Viaplay Original, “End of Summer” will premiere on the platform in 2023. A prominent cast will be announced at a later stage. Worldwide sales are handled by Viaplay Content Distribution.
The show opens on a summer evening in 1984 when a 5-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors, suspicion and a grieving family. Twenty years later, the boy’s older sister Vera is leading a group therapy session in Stockholm,...
Jens Jonsson (“Young Wallander”) and Henrik Georgsson (“The Bridge”) are on board to direct the series which is penned by Björn Carlström (“Jägarna”) and Stefan Thunberg (“Wallander’) as head writers. Per Janérus at Harmonica Films is producing with Sf Studios and Film i Skåne.
A Viaplay Original, “End of Summer” will premiere on the platform in 2023. A prominent cast will be announced at a later stage. Worldwide sales are handled by Viaplay Content Distribution.
The show opens on a summer evening in 1984 when a 5-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors, suspicion and a grieving family. Twenty years later, the boy’s older sister Vera is leading a group therapy session in Stockholm,...
- 6/29/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Kurt Wallander is set to take on more cases after European drama Young Wallander was renewed at Netflix for a second season.
The streamer launched the first season of the series, produced by Banijay-backed Yellow Bird UK and based on Henning Mankell’s novels, in September.
Swedish actor Adam Pålsson stars as the eponymous detective with Argo’s Richard Dillane and Black Mirror’s previously Leanne Best also starring. Pålsson takes on the mantle of Wallander after he was played by Kenneth Branagh in a BBC adaptation of Mankell’s books.
The show is a modern reimagining of the detective story with Kurt Wallander navigating the increasingly violent environment of present-day Sweden. In the first season, after he was unable to save a teenager from a gruesome attack, Wallander had to learn to cope with his guilt in order to solve the crime.
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The first...
The streamer launched the first season of the series, produced by Banijay-backed Yellow Bird UK and based on Henning Mankell’s novels, in September.
Swedish actor Adam Pålsson stars as the eponymous detective with Argo’s Richard Dillane and Black Mirror’s previously Leanne Best also starring. Pålsson takes on the mantle of Wallander after he was played by Kenneth Branagh in a BBC adaptation of Mankell’s books.
The show is a modern reimagining of the detective story with Kurt Wallander navigating the increasingly violent environment of present-day Sweden. In the first season, after he was unable to save a teenager from a gruesome attack, Wallander had to learn to cope with his guilt in order to solve the crime.
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The first...
- 11/6/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
A little-known slice of history is given a rousing retelling in this thriller about a Scandinavian film star’s infiltration mission
For British history buffs interested in what the rest of northern Europe got up to during the second world war, The Spy would makes a solid double bill alongside Black Book, Paul Verhoeven’s similarly sexed-up tale of Dutch resistance. Directed by a Swede, Jens Jonsson, and scripted by two Norwegians, Harald Rosenlow-Eeg and Jan Trygve Royneland, it turns the (mostly) true adventures of Norwegian-Swedish actress Sonja Wigert (Ingrid Bolso Berdal), into a rollicking, border-hopping espionage thriller.
For British history buffs interested in what the rest of northern Europe got up to during the second world war, The Spy would makes a solid double bill alongside Black Book, Paul Verhoeven’s similarly sexed-up tale of Dutch resistance. Directed by a Swede, Jens Jonsson, and scripted by two Norwegians, Harald Rosenlow-Eeg and Jan Trygve Royneland, it turns the (mostly) true adventures of Norwegian-Swedish actress Sonja Wigert (Ingrid Bolso Berdal), into a rollicking, border-hopping espionage thriller.
- 6/24/2020
- by Ellen E Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
"You have to choose which side you're on." Signature Ent. from the UK has debuted an official trailer for a WWII espionage thriller titled The Spy, the latest from Swedish filmmaker Jens Jonsson. This premiered at the Göteborg Film Festival in Sweden earlier this year, and arrives on VOD in the UK this summer. Norwegian actress Ingrid Bolsø Berdal stars as Sonja Wigert, a diva and actress living in Stockholm when WWII breaks out. rapidly getting attention from the Nazi officer Josef Terboven. She's recruited by Swedish intelligence as a spy, but she starts falling for the German officer she has been ordered to seduce. He orders her to spy on the Swedes. The Spy explores the murky field of love, espionage and double crossing. The cast includes Rolf Lassgård, Damien Chapelle, Alexander Scheer, Erik Hivju, Edvin Endre, Johan Widerberg, and Gitte Witt. Looks like another compelling WWII spy movie...
- 4/7/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Swedish helmer Jens Jonsson, who is currently editing Netflix’s “Young Wallander,” is set to direct the political thriller “Eight Months” (“Åtta månader”), based on acclaimed Swedish author Magnus Montelius’ suspense eponymous novel. Swedish scribe Erik Ahrnbom will be adapting for television.
Published last year by Albert Bonniers Förlag, the book was recently voted best foreign suspense novel by the Danish Crime Academy and tagged by Swedish crime guru Leif G.W. Persson as “literary entertainment at its best.”
Established Swedish production company Anagram has just closed the book deal and received development coin from Swedish broadcaster TV4 and Svod service CMore.
The deal was announced today at Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision confab.
“Eight Months” is a thriller about power and the people who are prepared to do anything to conquer it. Thanks to a tip off, journalist Nina Wedén publishes the scoop of the year, exposing Sweden’s foreign minister as a sex client.
Published last year by Albert Bonniers Förlag, the book was recently voted best foreign suspense novel by the Danish Crime Academy and tagged by Swedish crime guru Leif G.W. Persson as “literary entertainment at its best.”
Established Swedish production company Anagram has just closed the book deal and received development coin from Swedish broadcaster TV4 and Svod service CMore.
The deal was announced today at Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision confab.
“Eight Months” is a thriller about power and the people who are prepared to do anything to conquer it. Thanks to a tip off, journalist Nina Wedén publishes the scoop of the year, exposing Sweden’s foreign minister as a sex client.
- 1/30/2020
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix has found its Young Wallander – the Svod service has cast Swedish actor Adam Pålsson in the role alongside Argo’s Richard Dillane and Black Mirror’s Leanne Best.
Pålsson, who starred in Svt drama Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves as well as The Bridge, takes on the role previously played by Kenneth Branagh in the adaptation of Henning Mankell’s novels.
The six-part series, which has just started filming, tells the story of detective Kurt Wallander’s first case and is produced by Banijay-backed Yellow Bird UK. The story focuses on the formative experiences – professional and personal – faced by Wallander as a recently graduated police officer in his early twenties. It launches on Netflix in 2020.
Pålsson plays Kurt Wallander, Dillane, who also starred in The Dark Knight and Peaky Blinders, plays Superintendent Hemberg and Best, who also starred in Line of Duty and Tin Star,...
Pålsson, who starred in Svt drama Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves as well as The Bridge, takes on the role previously played by Kenneth Branagh in the adaptation of Henning Mankell’s novels.
The six-part series, which has just started filming, tells the story of detective Kurt Wallander’s first case and is produced by Banijay-backed Yellow Bird UK. The story focuses on the formative experiences – professional and personal – faced by Wallander as a recently graduated police officer in his early twenties. It launches on Netflix in 2020.
Pålsson plays Kurt Wallander, Dillane, who also starred in The Dark Knight and Peaky Blinders, plays Superintendent Hemberg and Best, who also starred in Line of Duty and Tin Star,...
- 9/11/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The Eurimages Lab Award at Haugesund has gone to Norwegian director Guro Bruusgaard for Him.
Norwegian director Guro Bruusgaard has won the Eurimages Lab iAward at Haugesund for Him.
The award—which is only eligible for a select group of work-in-progress projects that are more experimental in form or content – comes with a grant worth $55,500.
Him looks at the roles of contemporary men in society through stories of a boy, a 30-year-old man and a 60-year old man during one day in Oslo. The jury said Him offered a “relevant discussion made in a witty, intelligent and compassionate style”. No sales company is attached yet.
Norwegian director Guro Bruusgaard has won the Eurimages Lab iAward at Haugesund for Him.
The award—which is only eligible for a select group of work-in-progress projects that are more experimental in form or content – comes with a grant worth $55,500.
Him looks at the roles of contemporary men in society through stories of a boy, a 30-year-old man and a 60-year old man during one day in Oslo. The jury said Him offered a “relevant discussion made in a witty, intelligent and compassionate style”. No sales company is attached yet.
- 8/23/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The 25th New Nordic Films, unspooling Aug. 20-23 parallel to the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, will kick off with the critically-lauded “A White, White Day” by Hlynur Pálmason. The Icelandic drama which world premiered at Cannes’ Critics’ Week, is among 19 films set to screen, of which 13 are world market premieres such as Jesper W. Nielsen’s thriller “The Exception,” Venice Critics Week’s pick “Psychosia,”, Venice Days’ entry “Beware of Children”, Jens Jonsson’s “The Spy” and Jesper Ganslandt’s “438 Days”.
The hot Works in Progress session has 20 titles to be pitched to more than 300 attendees. Gauging this year’s crop, New Nordic Films’ managing director Gyda Velvin Myklebust underlines the large number of local films, genre-driven and reality-based stories, as well as the healthy gender balance -half the films are female directed. “There are many new female talents to watch out for,” says Myklebust, citing the...
The hot Works in Progress session has 20 titles to be pitched to more than 300 attendees. Gauging this year’s crop, New Nordic Films’ managing director Gyda Velvin Myklebust underlines the large number of local films, genre-driven and reality-based stories, as well as the healthy gender balance -half the films are female directed. “There are many new female talents to watch out for,” says Myklebust, citing the...
- 8/13/2019
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
A hit Swedish thriller series Snabba Cash —also known as Easy Money —is to get a new lease of life as a Netflix original series.
The story of a young man drawn into the world of crime and "easy money" —based on the novels by bestselling author Jens Lapidus —was turned into a trilogy of hit films. The first Snabba Cash movie, directed by Daniel Epsinosa in 2010, launched the international career of star Joel Kinnaman (RoboCop, Suicide Squad). Kinnaman returned for two Snabba Cash sequels in 2012 and 2013, directed by Babak Najafi and Jens Jonsson, respectively....
The story of a young man drawn into the world of crime and "easy money" —based on the novels by bestselling author Jens Lapidus —was turned into a trilogy of hit films. The first Snabba Cash movie, directed by Daniel Epsinosa in 2010, launched the international career of star Joel Kinnaman (RoboCop, Suicide Squad). Kinnaman returned for two Snabba Cash sequels in 2012 and 2013, directed by Babak Najafi and Jens Jonsson, respectively....
- 6/20/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The director of The Square will shoot the shipwreck comedy in 2020.
Ruben Östlund’s next feature Triangle Of Sadness is being lined up for a 2020 shoot, and will be his first film fully in the English language.
Triangle of Sadness was one project on the slate of Film I Vast, Scandinavia’s leading film funD presented in Cannes yesterday.
The film will partially shoot in a studio in Trollhatten, Sweden as well as on location on an island and on a luxury yacht in the Mediterranean.
The team describes it as a “a surrealist comedy, looking at what happens when...
Ruben Östlund’s next feature Triangle Of Sadness is being lined up for a 2020 shoot, and will be his first film fully in the English language.
Triangle of Sadness was one project on the slate of Film I Vast, Scandinavia’s leading film funD presented in Cannes yesterday.
The film will partially shoot in a studio in Trollhatten, Sweden as well as on location on an island and on a luxury yacht in the Mediterranean.
The team describes it as a “a surrealist comedy, looking at what happens when...
- 5/19/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
This year’s Mip TV in Cannes is facing a major challenge as a slew of the largest international companies have shunned the April market and A-list buyers and producers have joined them.
The increasingly active London screenings in February have taken a noticeable chunk out of the market for the bi-annual Reed Midem-organized show, which is struggling to attract the volume, and quality of participants that attend its October equivalent Mipcom. The spring confab has always been quieter than the fall event but this year many of the big companies are treating it as a secondary sales market rather than the glitzy launch pad for their hot new shows.
Next week’s event will be without the full participation of Endemol Shine Group, BBC Studios and Fox Networks Group Content Distribution, while the beachside will be very quiet as Fremantle is sending less staff than usual and Disney...
The increasingly active London screenings in February have taken a noticeable chunk out of the market for the bi-annual Reed Midem-organized show, which is struggling to attract the volume, and quality of participants that attend its October equivalent Mipcom. The spring confab has always been quieter than the fall event but this year many of the big companies are treating it as a secondary sales market rather than the glitzy launch pad for their hot new shows.
Next week’s event will be without the full participation of Endemol Shine Group, BBC Studios and Fox Networks Group Content Distribution, while the beachside will be very quiet as Fremantle is sending less staff than usual and Disney...
- 4/5/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Hot projects include Runar Runarsson’s Echo, Grimur Hakonarson’s The County and Hlynur Palmason’s A White, White Day.
The three Icelandic films presented at Goteborg’s Works In Progress were some of the most buzzed about by festival programmers and buyers.
Runar Runarsson’s Echo is a stylistic departure for the Volcano and Sparrows director. He paints a portrait of contemporary society by presenting 59 difference scenes, in a mix of fiction and documentary. Jour2Fete handles sales.
The County will mark Grimur Hakonarson’s follow-up to his international hit Rams. The film, previously pitched at Les Arcs’ works in progress,...
The three Icelandic films presented at Goteborg’s Works In Progress were some of the most buzzed about by festival programmers and buyers.
Runar Runarsson’s Echo is a stylistic departure for the Volcano and Sparrows director. He paints a portrait of contemporary society by presenting 59 difference scenes, in a mix of fiction and documentary. Jour2Fete handles sales.
The County will mark Grimur Hakonarson’s follow-up to his international hit Rams. The film, previously pitched at Les Arcs’ works in progress,...
- 2/4/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The 20th Nordic Film Market in Göteborg, unspooling Jan. 31-Feb 3, will showcase 16 works in progress including Hlynur Pálmason’s “A White, White Day”, Grímur Hákonarson’s “The County”, Mikael Håfström’s “The Perfect Patient” and Jesper Ganslandt’s “438 Days.”
Iceland is well represented this year with top directors and festival darlings Pálmason (“Winter Brothers”), Hákonarson (“Rams”) as well as “Volcano”’s Rúnar Rúnarsson, who will pitch their latest projects at Göteborg’s Biopalatset where last year Benedikt Erlingsson first introduced “Woman at War.”
“I simply had to select the three films by Pálmason, Hákonarson and Rúnarsson as they are on the top list of many festival programmers and buyers and their films are very different from one other, displaying the wide breath of talents from Iceland,” said Nordic Film Market’s head of industry Cia Edström.
“A White, White Day” stars Ingvar E. Sigurðsson (“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald”) as an off-duty police chief,...
Iceland is well represented this year with top directors and festival darlings Pálmason (“Winter Brothers”), Hákonarson (“Rams”) as well as “Volcano”’s Rúnar Rúnarsson, who will pitch their latest projects at Göteborg’s Biopalatset where last year Benedikt Erlingsson first introduced “Woman at War.”
“I simply had to select the three films by Pálmason, Hákonarson and Rúnarsson as they are on the top list of many festival programmers and buyers and their films are very different from one other, displaying the wide breath of talents from Iceland,” said Nordic Film Market’s head of industry Cia Edström.
“A White, White Day” stars Ingvar E. Sigurðsson (“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald”) as an off-duty police chief,...
- 1/17/2019
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Matias Varela and Julia Ragnarsson will star in “Blinded,” the much-anticipated Swedish thriller following a journalist on the trail of corruption in the world of high finance. Ragnarsson and Varela will take the lead roles, with the former playing the journalist Bea Farkas, who detects irregularities at a high-profile bank. Varela is Peder Rooth, the bank’s CEO.
The series is based on the books by economics journalist Carolina Neurath. Production starts later this month. Flx, which made Netflix’s first Swedish original, “Quicksand,” is producing for C More and TV4. All3Media International is also on board and handling international distribution of the series, its first move into Scandi drama. Film Capital Stockholm is a co-production partner.
Varela had a breakout role in TV4 series “New Times” before embarking on a career in film and TV that includes “Point Break” and, more recently, Netflix series “Narcos,” in which he played Jorge Salcedo.
The series is based on the books by economics journalist Carolina Neurath. Production starts later this month. Flx, which made Netflix’s first Swedish original, “Quicksand,” is producing for C More and TV4. All3Media International is also on board and handling international distribution of the series, its first move into Scandi drama. Film Capital Stockholm is a co-production partner.
Varela had a breakout role in TV4 series “New Times” before embarking on a career in film and TV that includes “Point Break” and, more recently, Netflix series “Narcos,” in which he played Jorge Salcedo.
- 10/17/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
TrustNordisk has come on board to handle international sales on Jens Jonsson’s thriller “The Spy” (Spionen) about Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia’s acclaimed actress who turned into a double agent during World War II.
The film was produced by Karin Julsrud, Turid Øversveen and Håkon Øverås at 4½. “The Spy” toplines a prestigious Nordic cast, including Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (“Westworld”), Rolf Lassgård (“A Man Called Ove”), Alexander Scheer (“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Edvin Endre (“Vikings”), Gitte Witt Julsrud (“The Impossible”), Johan Widerberg (“Ocean’s Twelve”), Thomas Arnold (“Thor: The Dark World”), plus Ingrid Vollan and Anders T. Andersen (“Mammon”).
Written by Harald Rosenløw Eeg and Jan Trygve Røyneland (“Occupied”), the film charts the journey of famed Scandinavian actress Wigert who became a spy for Swedish intelligence after her father was imprisoned by the Germans. As she infiltrated deeper into the German spy network, threats and rumors...
The film was produced by Karin Julsrud, Turid Øversveen and Håkon Øverås at 4½. “The Spy” toplines a prestigious Nordic cast, including Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (“Westworld”), Rolf Lassgård (“A Man Called Ove”), Alexander Scheer (“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Edvin Endre (“Vikings”), Gitte Witt Julsrud (“The Impossible”), Johan Widerberg (“Ocean’s Twelve”), Thomas Arnold (“Thor: The Dark World”), plus Ingrid Vollan and Anders T. Andersen (“Mammon”).
Written by Harald Rosenløw Eeg and Jan Trygve Røyneland (“Occupied”), the film charts the journey of famed Scandinavian actress Wigert who became a spy for Swedish intelligence after her father was imprisoned by the Germans. As she infiltrated deeper into the German spy network, threats and rumors...
- 5/12/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
David Dencik (Top of The Lake: China Girl), Jonas Karlsson (The Snowman) and Alba August (Becoming Astrid) will star in Quick.
David Dencik (Top of The Lake: China Girl), Jonas Karlsson (The Snowman) and Alba August (Becoming Astrid) will star in Quick for director Mikael Håfström (Evil), which TrustNordisk is selling.
Quick is among the new projects backed by Film i Väst, Scandinavia’s leading film fund, which is based in Trollhättan in West Sweden.
Quick, produced by Helena Danielsson for Brain Academy, is described as a “character-driven journalistic thriller and psychological drama.” Director Håfström told Screen, “Thomas Quick was Sweden’s worst serial killer,...
David Dencik (Top of The Lake: China Girl), Jonas Karlsson (The Snowman) and Alba August (Becoming Astrid) will star in Quick for director Mikael Håfström (Evil), which TrustNordisk is selling.
Quick is among the new projects backed by Film i Väst, Scandinavia’s leading film fund, which is based in Trollhättan in West Sweden.
Quick, produced by Helena Danielsson for Brain Academy, is described as a “character-driven journalistic thriller and psychological drama.” Director Håfström told Screen, “Thomas Quick was Sweden’s worst serial killer,...
- 5/12/2018
- ScreenDaily
The company will manage worldwide distribution for the series.
Independent distributor All3Media International is partnering with Flx, C More, TV4 and Filmregion Stockholm - Mälardalen/ Film Capital on new coproduction Blinded, marking the company’s first major investment in Scandinavian language drama.
Flx is co-developing the series with local streaming service C More and Swedish broadcaster TV4. Blinded is directed by Jens Jonsson (Easy Money 3) and written by Flx’s Jesper Harrie (The Bonus Family, Solsidan), alongside co-writers Maria Karlsson (Easy Money) and Jonas Bonnier (The Helicopter Heist).
Blinded is a thriller following journalist Bea Farkas as she attempts...
Independent distributor All3Media International is partnering with Flx, C More, TV4 and Filmregion Stockholm - Mälardalen/ Film Capital on new coproduction Blinded, marking the company’s first major investment in Scandinavian language drama.
Flx is co-developing the series with local streaming service C More and Swedish broadcaster TV4. Blinded is directed by Jens Jonsson (Easy Money 3) and written by Flx’s Jesper Harrie (The Bonus Family, Solsidan), alongside co-writers Maria Karlsson (Easy Money) and Jonas Bonnier (The Helicopter Heist).
Blinded is a thriller following journalist Bea Farkas as she attempts...
- 4/9/2018
- by Adam Weddle
- ScreenDaily
The company will manage worldwide distribution for the series.
Independent distributor All3Media International is partnering with Flx, C More, TV4 and Filmregion Stockholm - Mälardalen/ Film Capital on new coproduction Blinded, marking the company’s first major investment in Scandinavian language drama.
Flx is co-developing the series with local streaming service C More and Swedish broadcaster TV4. Blinded is directed by Jens Jonsson (Easy Money 3) and written by Flx’s Jesper Harrie (The Bonus Family, Solsidan), alongside co-writers Maria Karlsson (Easy Money) and Jonas Bonnier (The Helicopter Heist).
Blinded is a thriller following journalist Bea Farkas as she attempts...
Independent distributor All3Media International is partnering with Flx, C More, TV4 and Filmregion Stockholm - Mälardalen/ Film Capital on new coproduction Blinded, marking the company’s first major investment in Scandinavian language drama.
Flx is co-developing the series with local streaming service C More and Swedish broadcaster TV4. Blinded is directed by Jens Jonsson (Easy Money 3) and written by Flx’s Jesper Harrie (The Bonus Family, Solsidan), alongside co-writers Maria Karlsson (Easy Money) and Jonas Bonnier (The Helicopter Heist).
Blinded is a thriller following journalist Bea Farkas as she attempts...
- 4/9/2018
- by Adam Weddle
- ScreenDaily
All3Media International is getting into the Nordic drama business, investing in “Blinded,” the buzzy Swedish thriller. All3Media International will join the co-production, its first non-English-language drama project, which comes from Flx, the Stockholm-based producer behind Netflix’s first Swedish original “Quicksand.
Streaming service C More and broadcaster TV4 are also backing the drama, which is based on the book by investigative journalist Carolina Neurath. Inspired by real events and set in Stockholm’s financial district, the eight-part drama follows journalist Bea Farkas as she reports on a major bank engaged in questionable activity.
The series is directed by Jens Jonsson (“Easy Money”) and written by Flx’s Jesper Harrie (“Solsidan”), with co-writers Maria Karlsson (“Easy Money”) and Jonas Bonnier (“The Helicopter Heist”).
All3Media International will handle international sales on the drama series. CEO Louise Pedersen said the company is looking to make strategic investments in non-English-language fare.
Streaming service C More and broadcaster TV4 are also backing the drama, which is based on the book by investigative journalist Carolina Neurath. Inspired by real events and set in Stockholm’s financial district, the eight-part drama follows journalist Bea Farkas as she reports on a major bank engaged in questionable activity.
The series is directed by Jens Jonsson (“Easy Money”) and written by Flx’s Jesper Harrie (“Solsidan”), with co-writers Maria Karlsson (“Easy Money”) and Jonas Bonnier (“The Helicopter Heist”).
All3Media International will handle international sales on the drama series. CEO Louise Pedersen said the company is looking to make strategic investments in non-English-language fare.
- 4/8/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
The deal is expected help Nordic major Sf Studios expand internationally.
Nordic major Sf Studios has partnered with investment outfit Anton Corp to co-finance English-language productions.
The films will be produced by Sf Studios, sold internationally by Sf Studios with Anton Corp, and co-financed by both companies.
The partnership is part of Sf Studios’ plan to create films and TV shows for the international market with top Nordic stars and based on Nordic intellectual properties. The company is currently developing projects with Babak Najafi (London Has Fallen), Daniel Espinosa (Child 44, Safe House) and Jens Jonsson (Easy Money III: Life Deluxe).
The first film from the partnership will be announced soon.
In a statement, Frida Westerberg, Deputy CEO and COO at Sf Studios said: “In just a few years [Anton Corp] have established themselves as one of the main financing partners in Europe with close to 200 films invested in. With our ambitious international strategy, this partnership...
Nordic major Sf Studios has partnered with investment outfit Anton Corp to co-finance English-language productions.
The films will be produced by Sf Studios, sold internationally by Sf Studios with Anton Corp, and co-financed by both companies.
The partnership is part of Sf Studios’ plan to create films and TV shows for the international market with top Nordic stars and based on Nordic intellectual properties. The company is currently developing projects with Babak Najafi (London Has Fallen), Daniel Espinosa (Child 44, Safe House) and Jens Jonsson (Easy Money III: Life Deluxe).
The first film from the partnership will be announced soon.
In a statement, Frida Westerberg, Deputy CEO and COO at Sf Studios said: “In just a few years [Anton Corp] have established themselves as one of the main financing partners in Europe with close to 200 films invested in. With our ambitious international strategy, this partnership...
- 1/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
Co-pros include English-language Easy Money, Henning Mankell TV series.
Svensk Filmindustri (Sf) and Studiocanal have entered an agreement that includes an all rights, output distribution deal for Sf on all new Studiocanal films in the Nordic market (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland) and the digital distribution by Sf of Studiocanal catalogue titles.
The deal also comprises coproduction based on English-speaking Nordic features and TV-series from Sf properties.
Sf will handle the Nordic markets for the co-productions and Studiocanal will distribute them internationally.
StudioCanal’s upcoming titles to be distributed by Sf include Paddington, Shaun the Sheep, Our Kind of Traitor, Macbeth, Legend and Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino’s Untitled Pantelleria).
Two feature co-productions are currently being developed: Easy Money (Snabba Cash), the English-language remake of the Swedish 2010 box office hit, and the Ibiza-set thriller The White Island, to be directed by Jens Jonsson.
Sf and Studiocanal are also developing two TV series. This first is...
Svensk Filmindustri (Sf) and Studiocanal have entered an agreement that includes an all rights, output distribution deal for Sf on all new Studiocanal films in the Nordic market (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland) and the digital distribution by Sf of Studiocanal catalogue titles.
The deal also comprises coproduction based on English-speaking Nordic features and TV-series from Sf properties.
Sf will handle the Nordic markets for the co-productions and Studiocanal will distribute them internationally.
StudioCanal’s upcoming titles to be distributed by Sf include Paddington, Shaun the Sheep, Our Kind of Traitor, Macbeth, Legend and Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino’s Untitled Pantelleria).
Two feature co-productions are currently being developed: Easy Money (Snabba Cash), the English-language remake of the Swedish 2010 box office hit, and the Ibiza-set thriller The White Island, to be directed by Jens Jonsson.
Sf and Studiocanal are also developing two TV series. This first is...
- 9/4/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Swedish production company announces first English-language projects.
Sweden’s Tre Vänner, producer of the hit Easy Money (Snabba Cash) trilogy, has announced the launch of two international thrillers - the company’s first in the English-language.
They include a thriller from acclaimed Swedish director Jens Jonsson and an English-language remake of the first Easy Money film, the first part in a planned trilogy.
Both projects will be produced by Tre Vänner and Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri, with Svensk handling Scandinavian distribution. The two companies merged in 2013.
Jonsson’s Ibiza-set thriller The White Island centres around two female characters.
The film-maker, who won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2008 with The King Of Ping Pong and also directed Snabba Cash III - Life Deluxe, the third film in the trilogy, co-wrote the script with Matthew Ian Cirulnick based on extensive research.
“We will take the audience behind the curtain of Europe’s wildest party island,” producer...
Sweden’s Tre Vänner, producer of the hit Easy Money (Snabba Cash) trilogy, has announced the launch of two international thrillers - the company’s first in the English-language.
They include a thriller from acclaimed Swedish director Jens Jonsson and an English-language remake of the first Easy Money film, the first part in a planned trilogy.
Both projects will be produced by Tre Vänner and Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri, with Svensk handling Scandinavian distribution. The two companies merged in 2013.
Jonsson’s Ibiza-set thriller The White Island centres around two female characters.
The film-maker, who won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2008 with The King Of Ping Pong and also directed Snabba Cash III - Life Deluxe, the third film in the trilogy, co-wrote the script with Matthew Ian Cirulnick based on extensive research.
“We will take the audience behind the curtain of Europe’s wildest party island,” producer...
- 5/18/2014
- ScreenDaily
Göteborg, Sweden – The 37th annual Göteborg International Film Festival(Giff) is fast approaching! As the leading film festival in Scandinavia, Giff’s aim is to introduce new Nordic films to the world while inviting international films to Gothenburg. Visitors will have the opportunity to see films they wouldn’t find in the ‘big’ theaters.
With over 500 films from 80 different countries and a packed program of seminars, venues and industry activities, Giff offers something for everyone!
Here are a few films we are looking forward to, check back soon for all of our reviews from the festival.
Snabba Cash – Livet Deluxe
Director: Jens Jonsson, Sweden, 2013
A Touch of Sin
Director: Jia Zhangke, Japan, China, 2013
The Best Offer Director: Giuseppe Tornatore, Italien, 2013
Skytten
Director: Annette K. Olesen, Denmark, 2013
The 2014 Göteborg International Film Festival takes place January 24th-February 3rd with films being screened at various locations in Göteborg, Sweden’s second largest city.
With over 500 films from 80 different countries and a packed program of seminars, venues and industry activities, Giff offers something for everyone!
Here are a few films we are looking forward to, check back soon for all of our reviews from the festival.
Snabba Cash – Livet Deluxe
Director: Jens Jonsson, Sweden, 2013
A Touch of Sin
Director: Jia Zhangke, Japan, China, 2013
The Best Offer Director: Giuseppe Tornatore, Italien, 2013
Skytten
Director: Annette K. Olesen, Denmark, 2013
The 2014 Göteborg International Film Festival takes place January 24th-February 3rd with films being screened at various locations in Göteborg, Sweden’s second largest city.
- 1/23/2014
- by Marie Ferrer
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Swedish deal will see Tre Vänner boss Jonas Fors replace Rasmus Ramstad as Svensk CEO.
Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri is to acquire 90% of Tre Vänner, the Stockholm-based production outfit behind the smash hit Snabba Cash franchise.
As part of the deal, Tre Vänner managing director Jonas Fors will become CEO of Svensk from Oct 1, replacing Rasmus Ramstad.
The agreement unifies a film and TV conglomerate founded in 1919, with subsidiaries in Norway, Denmark, and Finland, and a production company set up in 1995 by three scriptwriters, with the aim to make films with a local and Nordic flavour as well as international potential.
Tre Vänner’s latest feature, Jens Jonsson thriller Livet De Luxe (Life Deluxe) concludes the Snabba cash (Easy Money) trilogy from author Jens Lapidus’ Stockholm Noir series. It opened last week at the top of the Swedish box office with 85,000 admissions over the weekend.
“Svensk is a well-known brand with a catalogue of more than 1,200 films...
Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri is to acquire 90% of Tre Vänner, the Stockholm-based production outfit behind the smash hit Snabba Cash franchise.
As part of the deal, Tre Vänner managing director Jonas Fors will become CEO of Svensk from Oct 1, replacing Rasmus Ramstad.
The agreement unifies a film and TV conglomerate founded in 1919, with subsidiaries in Norway, Denmark, and Finland, and a production company set up in 1995 by three scriptwriters, with the aim to make films with a local and Nordic flavour as well as international potential.
Tre Vänner’s latest feature, Jens Jonsson thriller Livet De Luxe (Life Deluxe) concludes the Snabba cash (Easy Money) trilogy from author Jens Lapidus’ Stockholm Noir series. It opened last week at the top of the Swedish box office with 85,000 admissions over the weekend.
“Svensk is a well-known brand with a catalogue of more than 1,200 films...
- 9/4/2013
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Swedish deal will see Tre Vänner boss Jonas Fors replace Rasmus Ramstad as Svensk CEO.
Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri is to acquire 90% of Tre Vänner, the Stockholm-based production outfit behind the smash hit Snabba Cash franchise.
As part of the deal, Tre Vänner managing director Jonas Fors will become CEO of Svensk from Oct 1, replacing Rasmus Ramstad.
The agreement unifies a film and TV conglomerate founded in 1919, with subsidiaries in Norway, Denmark, and Finland, and a production company set up in 1995 by three scriptwriters, with the aim to make films with a local and Nordic flavour as well as international potential.
Tre Vänner’s latest feature, Jens Jonsson thriller Livet De Luxe (Life Deluxe) concludes the Snabba cash (Easy Money) trilogy from author Jens Lapidus’ Stockholm Noir series. It opened last week at the top of the Swedish box office with 85,000 admissions over the weekend.
“Svensk is a well-known brand with a catalogue of more than 1,200 films...
Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri is to acquire 90% of Tre Vänner, the Stockholm-based production outfit behind the smash hit Snabba Cash franchise.
As part of the deal, Tre Vänner managing director Jonas Fors will become CEO of Svensk from Oct 1, replacing Rasmus Ramstad.
The agreement unifies a film and TV conglomerate founded in 1919, with subsidiaries in Norway, Denmark, and Finland, and a production company set up in 1995 by three scriptwriters, with the aim to make films with a local and Nordic flavour as well as international potential.
Tre Vänner’s latest feature, Jens Jonsson thriller Livet De Luxe (Life Deluxe) concludes the Snabba cash (Easy Money) trilogy from author Jens Lapidus’ Stockholm Noir series. It opened last week at the top of the Swedish box office with 85,000 admissions over the weekend.
“Svensk is a well-known brand with a catalogue of more than 1,200 films...
- 9/4/2013
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Swedish production powerhouse also planning autumn shoot for heist film Mastermind.
Swedish outfit Tre Vänner, producer of the hit Snabba Cash trilogy, will next shoot The Boy With The Golden Trousers, a family adventure movie based on the classic Swedish novel.
The story of a young boy who finds a pair of trousers with magical money-giving pockets, the film will start shooting in Sweden in early September with Ella Lemhagen (Patrik, Age 1.5) directing. It is a Swedish-Danish co-production with Cosmo Film.
In early October Tre Vänner will also start production on Mastermind, a heist film about a criminal about to pull off a big bank job with some of the best criminals in Sweden. The director and cast will be announced shortly.
“Genre-wise it’s more kind of Headhunters than Snabba Cash,” Tre Vänner’s head of film Fredrik Wikström Nicastro told ScreenDaily at Gothenburg’s Way Out West festival, where [link=tt...
Swedish outfit Tre Vänner, producer of the hit Snabba Cash trilogy, will next shoot The Boy With The Golden Trousers, a family adventure movie based on the classic Swedish novel.
The story of a young boy who finds a pair of trousers with magical money-giving pockets, the film will start shooting in Sweden in early September with Ella Lemhagen (Patrik, Age 1.5) directing. It is a Swedish-Danish co-production with Cosmo Film.
In early October Tre Vänner will also start production on Mastermind, a heist film about a criminal about to pull off a big bank job with some of the best criminals in Sweden. The director and cast will be announced shortly.
“Genre-wise it’s more kind of Headhunters than Snabba Cash,” Tre Vänner’s head of film Fredrik Wikström Nicastro told ScreenDaily at Gothenburg’s Way Out West festival, where [link=tt...
- 8/21/2013
- ScreenDaily
Gothenburg music and film festival Way Out West wrapped on Saturday (August 10) after holding the world premiere of Snabba Cash: Life Deluxe, the third and final instalment in the hit Swedish crime trilogy (known as Easy Money in English).
Source: Photo by Carla Orrego Veliz
The team behind Snabba Cash: Life Deluxe
Directed by Jens Jonsson, Snabba Cash: Life Deluxe was produced by Tre Vanner and is released locally by Nordisk Film on August 30.
Way Out West screened around 30 films in total including Scandinavian premieres of films such as Per Fly’s Waltz For Monica, a biopic of legendary Swedish singer Monica Zetterlund, Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster, Stephen Soderbergh’s Behind The Candelabra and music documentaries such as Shane Meadows’ Made Of Stone and Reincarnated: Snoop Lion.
The festival also held Swedish premieres of Before Midnight, The East, The Broken Circle Breakdown and Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer.
Screenings were held...
Source: Photo by Carla Orrego Veliz
The team behind Snabba Cash: Life Deluxe
Directed by Jens Jonsson, Snabba Cash: Life Deluxe was produced by Tre Vanner and is released locally by Nordisk Film on August 30.
Way Out West screened around 30 films in total including Scandinavian premieres of films such as Per Fly’s Waltz For Monica, a biopic of legendary Swedish singer Monica Zetterlund, Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster, Stephen Soderbergh’s Behind The Candelabra and music documentaries such as Shane Meadows’ Made Of Stone and Reincarnated: Snoop Lion.
The festival also held Swedish premieres of Before Midnight, The East, The Broken Circle Breakdown and Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer.
Screenings were held...
- 8/12/2013
- ScreenDaily
Gothenburg music and film festival Way Out West wrapped on Saturday (August 10) after holding the world premiere of Snabba Cash: Life Deluxe, the third and final instalment in the hit Swedish crime trilogy (known as Easy Money in English).
Source: Photo by Carla Orrego Veliz
The team behind Snabba Cash: Life Deluxe
Directed by Jens Jonsson, Snabba Cash: Life Deluxe was produced by Tre Vanner and is released locally by Nordisk Film on August 30.
Way Out West screened around 30 films in total including Scandinavian premieres of films such as Per Fly’s Waltz For Monica, a biopic of legendary Swedish singer Monica Zetterlund, Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster, Stephen Soderbergh’s Behind The Candelabra and music documentaries such as Shane Meadows’ Made Of Stone and Reincarnated: Snoop Lion.
The festival also held Swedish premieres of Before Midnight, The East, The Broken Circle Breakdown and Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer.
Screenings were held...
Source: Photo by Carla Orrego Veliz
The team behind Snabba Cash: Life Deluxe
Directed by Jens Jonsson, Snabba Cash: Life Deluxe was produced by Tre Vanner and is released locally by Nordisk Film on August 30.
Way Out West screened around 30 films in total including Scandinavian premieres of films such as Per Fly’s Waltz For Monica, a biopic of legendary Swedish singer Monica Zetterlund, Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster, Stephen Soderbergh’s Behind The Candelabra and music documentaries such as Shane Meadows’ Made Of Stone and Reincarnated: Snoop Lion.
The festival also held Swedish premieres of Before Midnight, The East, The Broken Circle Breakdown and Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer.
Screenings were held...
- 8/12/2013
- ScreenDaily
Easy Money 3 Life Deluxe Trailer, Snabba Cash 3 Livet Deluxe Trailer. Jens Jonsson‘s Easy Money 3: Life Deluxe / Snabba Cash 3: Livet Deluxe (2013) teaser trailer stars Joel Kinnaman, Dejan Cukic, Matias Varela, Hanna Hedin Hillberg, and David O’Donnell. Easy Money 3: Life Deluxe‘s plot synopsis: “Jw now lives in [...]
Continue reading: Easy Money 3: Life Deluxe / Snabba Cash 3: Livet Deluxe (2013) Teaser Trailer...
Continue reading: Easy Money 3: Life Deluxe / Snabba Cash 3: Livet Deluxe (2013) Teaser Trailer...
- 2/20/2013
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Film festival darling Jens Jonsson is on board to write and direct "The Leisure Seeker" for Sharp Independent at HarperCollins, the News Corp.-based banner of "Boys Don't Cry" producer Jeffrey Sharp.
"Seeker," based on Michael Zadoorian's new novel, combines elements of "Gran Torino" and "About Schmidt." It tells the story of an elderly couple who, against the advice of their family, take a road trip down Route 66 to spend their remaining time on their own terms.
Rights to the movie and book sold simultaneously last year to Sharp Independent and HarperCollins division William Morrow, and several reviews have suggested various actors who might play the lead roles. The film is expected to follow in the footsteps of a number of recent hits about the rigors and redemption of aging, including "The Bucket List" and "Torino."
Jonsson is a mainstay on the global fest scene. The Swede took the world...
"Seeker," based on Michael Zadoorian's new novel, combines elements of "Gran Torino" and "About Schmidt." It tells the story of an elderly couple who, against the advice of their family, take a road trip down Route 66 to spend their remaining time on their own terms.
Rights to the movie and book sold simultaneously last year to Sharp Independent and HarperCollins division William Morrow, and several reviews have suggested various actors who might play the lead roles. The film is expected to follow in the footsteps of a number of recent hits about the rigors and redemption of aging, including "The Bucket List" and "Torino."
Jonsson is a mainstay on the global fest scene. The Swede took the world...
- 2/12/2009
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chicago -- "Hunger," a U.K./Ireland film, won the Gold Hugo at the 44th annual Chicago International Film Festival.
Directed by Steve McQueen, the film about a hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Hm Prison Maze in 1981 was singled out by the festival jury Saturday for its "uncompromisingly disturbing story of the courage to fight for one's belief."
The festival, which began Oct. 16, concludes Wednesday.
In the documentary category, a U.S. film, "Valentino: The Last Emperor," won the Gold Hugo. Directed by Matt Tymauer, it is a glimpse into the life of fashion designer Valentino Garavani.
"Tokyo Sonata" (Japan/Netherlands/Hong Kong), directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, won the Grand Jury Prize. The film used the story of a humble family as a metaphor for global anxieties.
Henrik Ruben Genz won a Silver Hugo for direction for "Terribly Happy" (Denmark), a genre mix centering on a Copenhagen policeman who is re-assigned to a provincial town.
Directed by Steve McQueen, the film about a hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Hm Prison Maze in 1981 was singled out by the festival jury Saturday for its "uncompromisingly disturbing story of the courage to fight for one's belief."
The festival, which began Oct. 16, concludes Wednesday.
In the documentary category, a U.S. film, "Valentino: The Last Emperor," won the Gold Hugo. Directed by Matt Tymauer, it is a glimpse into the life of fashion designer Valentino Garavani.
"Tokyo Sonata" (Japan/Netherlands/Hong Kong), directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, won the Grand Jury Prize. The film used the story of a humble family as a metaphor for global anxieties.
Henrik Ruben Genz won a Silver Hugo for direction for "Terribly Happy" (Denmark), a genre mix centering on a Copenhagen policeman who is re-assigned to a provincial town.
- 10/26/2008
- by By Duane Byrge
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London -- The European Film Academy unveiled the 44 movies on this year's long list for the upcoming European Film Awards, scheduled for Dec. 6 in Copenhagen.
The 44 titles come from 27 countries across the continent including four from the U.K.
Joe Wright's "Atonement," Nick Broomfield's "Battle for Haditha," Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky" and Steve McQueen's "Hunger" will all hope to make the nominations' list with titles such as Kornel Mundruczo's "Delta" from Hungary and Andrzej Wajda's "Katyn" from Poland vying for a place.
In the 20 countries with the most Efa Members, members have voted one national film directly into the selection list.
To complete the list, a selection committee consisting of Efa board members and invited experts have included 24 other titles.
Over the next few weeks, the 1,800 members of the European Film Academy will vote for the nominations in the different award categories.
The nominations will then be announced Nov.
The 44 titles come from 27 countries across the continent including four from the U.K.
Joe Wright's "Atonement," Nick Broomfield's "Battle for Haditha," Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky" and Steve McQueen's "Hunger" will all hope to make the nominations' list with titles such as Kornel Mundruczo's "Delta" from Hungary and Andrzej Wajda's "Katyn" from Poland vying for a place.
In the 20 countries with the most Efa Members, members have voted one national film directly into the selection list.
To complete the list, a selection committee consisting of Efa board members and invited experts have included 24 other titles.
Over the next few weeks, the 1,800 members of the European Film Academy will vote for the nominations in the different award categories.
The nominations will then be announced Nov.
- 9/4/2008
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Asian films have dominated the Tiger Awards at this year's Rotterdam Film Festival in Holland, with a total of six movies up for nomination.
A total of 15 films from countries around the world are competing at the festival, which seeks to recognise a director's first or second films.
Among the contenders include Malaysian director nm1356503 autoLiew Seng Tat[/link]'s Flower In The Pocket, Chinese filmmaker Wemg Shou-ming's Fujian Blue, Japanese director nm1115569 autoShingo Wakagi[/link]'s Waltz In Starlight, Filipino director nm2336847 autoJohn Torres[/link]' Years When I Was a Child Outside, and Thai moviemaker nm0039775 autoAditya Assarat[/link]'s Wonderful Town.
Danish filmmaker nm1494245 autoOmar Shargawi[/link] (Go With Peace Jamil), Swedish nm0429634 autoJens Jonsson[/link] (The King of Ping Pong) and the Ukraine's Igor Podolchak + nm0440061 autoDean Karr[/link] (Las meninas) are also up for awards.
The festival will take place between 23 January and 3 Feburary, and winners will take home a prize of $22,000 (GBP11,000).
A total of 15 films from countries around the world are competing at the festival, which seeks to recognise a director's first or second films.
Among the contenders include Malaysian director nm1356503 autoLiew Seng Tat[/link]'s Flower In The Pocket, Chinese filmmaker Wemg Shou-ming's Fujian Blue, Japanese director nm1115569 autoShingo Wakagi[/link]'s Waltz In Starlight, Filipino director nm2336847 autoJohn Torres[/link]' Years When I Was a Child Outside, and Thai moviemaker nm0039775 autoAditya Assarat[/link]'s Wonderful Town.
Danish filmmaker nm1494245 autoOmar Shargawi[/link] (Go With Peace Jamil), Swedish nm0429634 autoJens Jonsson[/link] (The King of Ping Pong) and the Ukraine's Igor Podolchak + nm0440061 autoDean Karr[/link] (Las meninas) are also up for awards.
The festival will take place between 23 January and 3 Feburary, and winners will take home a prize of $22,000 (GBP11,000).
- 1/8/2008
- WENN
- There were 983 submissions from 15 countries in this category and apart from a couple of names, I know not one of the final selections below. World Cinema Dramatic Competition"Absurdistan" (Germany), directed by Veit Helmer, written by Helmer, Zaza Buadze, Gordan Mihic and Ahmet Golbol, about a sex strike by village women that threatens a young couple's first night together."Blue Eyelids" (Mexico), directed by Ernesto Contreras, about the ramifications of a single woman's winning of a beach trip for two."Captain Abu Raed" (Jordan), directed and written by Amin Matalqa, concerning an aging airport janitor who relates tall tales to local kids who think he's a pilot."The Drummer" (Hong Kong), directed and written by Kenneth Bi, the story of a young man who matures from reckless gangster to serious grownup due to the influence of Zen drumming."Elite Squad" (Brazil), directed by Jose Padilha ("Bus 174") and written by Braulio Mantovani and Padilha,
- 11/28/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
NEW YORK -- Sundance Institute and Japan's NHK have selected 12 finalists for the 2007 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards. The annual awards, which will be announced at the Jan. 27 awards ceremony at the Sundance Film Festival, recognize emerging artists on the international cinema scene.
Four winners will be chosen, one from Europe, Japan, Latin America and the U.S. The winning director from each region will receive a $10,000 award and a guarantee from NHK to purchase the Japanese television broadcast rights upon completion of their project. In addition, Sundance Institute will work closely with the award recipients, providing ongoing resources and support in seeking out opportunities to finance and distribute their projects.
The finalists from Europe include Jens Jonsson (The Ping-Pong King, Sweden), Dagur Kari (The Good Heart, Iceland) and Ursula Meier (Home, Switzerland).
The Japanese finalists are Isamu Hirabayashi (The Care and Feeding of Insects), Tomoko Kana (Two by the River) and Yoshinori Saitou (Chicken Choice).
The Latin American entrants are Josue Mendez (Dioses, Peru) as well as Lucia Cedron (Agnus Dei) and Jorge Gaggero (Dog Security), both from Argentina.
Four winners will be chosen, one from Europe, Japan, Latin America and the U.S. The winning director from each region will receive a $10,000 award and a guarantee from NHK to purchase the Japanese television broadcast rights upon completion of their project. In addition, Sundance Institute will work closely with the award recipients, providing ongoing resources and support in seeking out opportunities to finance and distribute their projects.
The finalists from Europe include Jens Jonsson (The Ping-Pong King, Sweden), Dagur Kari (The Good Heart, Iceland) and Ursula Meier (Home, Switzerland).
The Japanese finalists are Isamu Hirabayashi (The Care and Feeding of Insects), Tomoko Kana (Two by the River) and Yoshinori Saitou (Chicken Choice).
The Latin American entrants are Josue Mendez (Dioses, Peru) as well as Lucia Cedron (Agnus Dei) and Jorge Gaggero (Dog Security), both from Argentina.
- 11/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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