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Johnny Marr has announced that he’ll be releasing a best-of compilation album, Spirit Power: The Best of Johnny Marr, on November 3rd via BMG. The album will feature some of Marr’s favorite recent songs, as well as two brand new tunes, including the album’s lead single, “Somewhere.” Stream it below.

Personally curated by Marr, Spirit Power will celebrate his past decade of output, focusing on highlights from the string of solo albums he released between 2013 and 2022. Joining those tracks are previously-released singles “Armatopia” and “The Priest,” as well as a 2015 cover of Depeche Mode’s “I Feel You.” For the deluxe 2xCD version of the album, fans will also get to hear a handful of previously-unheard demos and rarities. As for the two brand new songs — “The Answer” and the single “Somewhere” — they were both produced by Marr with his co-producer, James Doviak.

Arriving with a cheerful,...

In the summer of 2021, I stumbled onto the world cryptocurrency by accident. A friend of mine encouraged me to buy some Bitcoin at the height of the mania, and to be honest, I was tempted. According to media reports, a lot of knuckleheads seemed to be getting rich off these cryptos, whatever the hell they were. I had never paid them much mind before, but I have a degree in economics and these things sure didn’t act like currencies as I understood them. That piqued my interest. It was...

Festival runs November 9-20.

The Stockholm International Film Festival will present 130 films from 50 countries, opening on November 9 with Sweden’s international Oscar submission, Boy From Heaven by Tarik Saleh.

Political thriller Boy From Heaven premiered in competition at Cannes where it was awarded best screenplay.

Actor Fares Fares will receive the Stockholm Achievement Award on opening night. His credits include Easy Money, Safe House, Westworld and Chernobyl.

The Stockholm Visionary Award will go to Sam Mendes who will present the Nordic premiere of Empire Of Light.

Other notable selections include Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All; Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King...

Exclusive: Snabba Cash and The Rain star Evin Ahmad is to lead Netflix’s upcoming female-led action adventure series Palomino, with filming kicking off in Barcelona later this year.

The Swedish-Kurdish actress, a rising talent, will play Erin Collantes in the show from The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures, a British teacher in Spain who finds herself caught up in a supermarket robbery. When one of the robbers claims to recognize her, her life threatens to unravel and in Palomino, a town of secrets, she must fight to clear her name and protect her family.

Ahmad has made her name in a string of Scandi Netflix shows and Palomino will be her first streaming breakout beyond the region.

She played the lead of Leya, an aspiring tech entrepreneur, in Oskar Söderlund’s Snabba Cash and starred as Kira in seasons two and three of Danish post-apocalyptic thriller The Rain from Jannik Tai Mosholt,...

Daniel Espinosa is a director who likes what's real. Going back to his directorial debut, the Swedish crime picture "Snabba Cash" (presented by Martin Scorsese), he tends to go for real environments, car crashes, and stunts. Espinosa's first Hollywood action movie, "Safe House," emphasized practical effects. Even when the director made his sci-fi movie, "Life," he didn't want it to be a CG-fest.

Now, given all the CGI in "Morbius," Espinosa calls the new experience a bit surreal. It's his biggest movie to date, as well as hist most computer-generated. Even the titular monster's face is CGI, although Espinosa initially planned to go...

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The headline news for fantasy fans on Netflix UK this month is the arrival of eight-part adaptation Shadow and Bone, based on Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy. It’s the story of Alina, a girl who discovers she wields a mighty power that sees her targeted by a covetous foe. You can read more about the cast here. For families, at the end of the month there’s Sony’s latest animated feature The Mitchells Vs the Machines, which is made by the creators of excellent animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Comedy-wise, Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer co-star in regular-Joan-gets-superpowers movie Thunder Force. And for anybody looking to brush up their Spanish for a summer holiday, Netflix has the latest Harlan Coben mystery thriller, The Innocent.

On top of that, there’s a clutch of older films, from John Carpenter’s They Live to the Coen Bros.’ The Big Lebowski...

Netflix is the king of the streaming world until proven otherwise. But in recent months the streamer’s lists of new releases have looked relatively sparse as competing media conglomerates remove their titles from Netflix’s library. With its list of new releases for April 2021, however, Netflix appears to have its original production machine operating at high capacity once again.

There are plenty of intriguing Netflix original series and films this month. The one that appears to have the highest blockbuster potential though is the series Shadow and Bone on April 23. Shadow and Bone is adapted from Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha-verse trilogy and should bring another compelling sci-fi/fantasy universe to the streaming world.

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For TV, this typically is the lull period between the slew of winter program launches and the summer rush of originals. But spring is busier than ever this year as more and more series that restarted production in the fall after the Covid shutdown are ready to debut their new seasons.

That said, here is Deadline’s annual list of spring premiere dates for new and returning series. It covers more than 150 broadcast, cable and streaming programs debuting from April 1 through June 15. The list includes a few one-off specials, such as awards shows, but not movies.

Please send any additions or adjustments to erik@deadline.com. We’ll update the list as more dates are revealed.

April 1:

The United States of Al (CBS, new comedy series)

Manifest

Law & Order: Organized Crime

The Moodys (Fox, Season 2)

Made for Love

Prank Encounters

Worn Stories

Magical Andes

Top Chef (Bravo, Season 18)

Wipeout (TBS, new competition show revival)

Major League Baseball Opening Day (ESPN, live sports season premiere)

Creepshow (Shudder, Season 2)

The Great Pottery Throwdown

The Challenge: All Stars (Paramount+, new competition series)

Comedy Bars (All Def Women, new competition series)

Check the Chat

Momfessions

The Touch Up

Kanisha vs. Joncea

April 2:

Bellator Mma

Sky High

Ready to Love (OWN, Season 4)

The Barbarian and the Troll

Murdoch Mysteries (Acorn, Season 14; U.S. premiere)

Moment of Truth

April 3:

Pit Bulls & Parolees (Discovery/Discovery+, Season 16)

Celebrity Sleepover (NBC O&o stations, new talk show series)

April 4:

27th Annual SAG Awards

Gangs of London (AMC, new drama series)

Atlantic Crossing (PBS, new drama miniseries)

My Grandparents’ War (PBS, new documentary miniseries)

Birdgirl

April 5:

Family Reunion (Netflix, Season 3)

Hemingway

Reel South (PBS, Season 6)

Home & Family

Gutfeld!

Mira, Royal Detective

AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange

Only Foals and Horses

April 6:

Chad (TBS, new comedy series)

Wild N’ Out (VH1, Season 15B)

April 7:

Home Economics

Kung Fu

Exterminate All the Brutes

Snabba Cash

The Wedding Coach

This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist

Queen of the South

Making Good

April 8:

Rebel

No Activity (Paramount+, Season 4)

Motherland: Fort Salem

Everything’s Gonna Be Okay (Freeform, Season 2)

Chef Boot Camp (Food Network, new competition series)

Bringing Up Bates (UPtv, Season 10)

April 9:

Them (Amazon Prime, new anthology drama series)

April 10:

Iyanla: Fix My Life

April 11:

Fear the Walking Dead (AMC, Season 6B)

The Nevers (HBO, new drama series)

BAFTA Awards (ABC, awards special)

Saints & Sinners (Bounce, Season 5)

The People v. the Klan

Wild West Chronicles

Pet Peeves (Revry, new comedy series)

April 12:

Miz & Mrs.

TechCheck (CNBC, new daily business news series)

Keeping Faith

April 13:

Prodigal Son

My Love: Six Stories of True Love

Kate & Koji

Retro Tech (YouTube, Season 2)

April 14:

Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!

The Circle (Netflix, Season 2)

Bargain Block

April 15:

Younger

Restaurant Recovery

Wahl Street

Spy City (AMC+, new drama series)

April 16:

Big Shot

Van Helsing (Syfy, Season 5; final season)

The Year Earth Changed (Apple TV+, new documentary series)

Tiny World

Earth at Night in Color

Fast & Furious: Spy Racers

Frank of Ireland

The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs

April 17:

Ghost Brothers: Lights Out

April 18:

Academy of Country Music Awards

Mare of Easttown

Godfather of Harlem

Couples Therapy (Showtime, Season 2)

Luis Miguel: The Series

Snack Sized (History, new docuseries)

WWE’s Most Wanted Treasures (A&e, new docuseries)

Confronting a Serial Killer

April 19:

American Dad! (TBS, Season 18)

VH1 Couples Retreat

Black Ink Crew: New York (VH1, Season 8)

Off the Beaten Track

The Parker Andersons

Amelia Parker

April 20:

Sasquatch

Cruel Summer (Freeform, new drama series)

Storage Wars (A&e, Season 13)

Hustle & Tow (A&e, new docuseries)

Izzy’s Koala World (Netflix, Season 2)

Chopped 420

April 21:

Zero

April 22:

Rutherford Falls (Peacock, new comedy series)

Action Planet (Discovery+, new docuseries)

Life in Color with David Attenborough

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World (PBS, new documentary miniseries)

Big Trick Energy

Film Independent Spirit Awards

Bigger

The Bad Seed (Sundance Now, new drama series)

April 23:

Shadow and Bone

A Black Lady Sketch Show (HBO/HBO Max, Season 2)

Professional Fighters League (ESPN2/ESPN Deportes/ESPN+, new season)

April 25:

93rd Annual Academy Awards

90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?

Top Gear (BBC America, Season 30)

Worst Cooks in America: Best of the Worst

Extreme Sisters (TLC, new unscripted series)

April 26:

Inside Out (HGTV, new docuseries)

Bäckström

April 27:

Grace

April 28:

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Wizard of Paws

April 29:

Yasuke (Netflix, new anime series)

Deadhouse Dark

Duff’s Happy Fun Bake Time

Thin Ice

April 30:

The Mosquito Coast

Pet Stars

The Innocent

April Tba:

The Big Shot with Bethenny

Ellen’s Next Great Designer

Generation Hustle

Pray, Obey, Kill

May 2:

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

Pose (FX, Season 3; final season)

The Girlfriend Experience (Starz, Season 3)

Home Town Takeover (HGTV/Discovery+, new docuseries)

May 3:

Antiques Roadshow: Celebrity Edition

Donkey Hodie

May 4:

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

The Real Housewives of New York City

Survivalists

May 6:

Million Dollar Listing New York

May 7:

Dynasty

Mythic Quest (Apple TV+, new comedy series)

Jupiter’s Legacy (Netflix, new drama series)

Shrill (Hulu, Season 3; final season)

May 9:

Ziwe

May 12:

The Upshaws

May 14:

The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime, new drama limited series)

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

Selena: The Series

Trying (Apple TV+, Season 2)

Pride (FX, new documentary series)

May 16:

MTV Movie and TV Awards

Fall River

Good Witch (Hallmark Channel, Season 7)

May 21:

Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

May 23:

The Chi

Black Monday

Flatbush Misdemeanors

May 25:

Chopped Next Gen

May 28:

The Kominsky Method

Lucifer (Netflix, Season 5B)

May 31:

American Ninja Warrior

Housebroken (Fox, new animated comedy series)

Duncanville (Fox, Season 2)

Small Fortune (NBC, new competition series)

May Tba:

The Haves and the Have Nots (OWN, Season 8B; final season)

In Treatment (HBO, Season 4)

Baddies Atl (Zeus, new unscripted series)

June 1:

America’s Got Talent

June 3:

American Ninja Warrior

Making It

June 9:

In the Dark

June 11:

Loki (Disney+, new drama series)

Home Before Dark (Apple TV+, Season 2)

Love, Victor

Shrill (Hulu, Season 2)

June 14:

The Republic of Sarah

Spring Tba:

Diana

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In 2010, Swedish director Daniel Espinosa broke out in Hollywood with Snabba Cash (also known as Easy Money), a gritty international crime thriller starring a then-up-and-coming Joel Kinnaman. That film spawned a trilogy, and while an American remake was once in the works, that project never materialized. Instead, […]

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"Snabba Cash", is the new six-episode 'crime thriller' TV series, based on novels by author Jens Lapidus, set in Stockholm, Sweden, 10 years after events depicted in the "Snabba Cash" ('Easy Money') movie series, starring Evin Ahmad, Alexander Abdallah, Ali Alarik, Olle Sarri, Dada Fungula Bozela, Ayan Ahmed, Khalil Ghazal, Robin Nazari and Felice Jankell, streaming April 7, 2021 on Netflix: 

"...in the criminal undergrounds of Stockholm, people have become more obsessed with status and money. When tech entrepreneur 'Leya' (Evin Ahmad) kick starts her company with laundered money, she finds out there are no shortcuts to the top without paying the price.

"But Leya is determined to beat the odds no matter what the cost. Now when worlds collide, loyalty, friendships and business partners will all be tested in a never-ending quest for easy money..."

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Netflix has signed a distribution deal with Sf Studios to strengthen its offering of local film content in the Nordic region. Under the pact, Sf Studios will have its local and international films launch on Netflix following their runs in theaters and on video entertainment.

Sf Studios’ broad library is also part of the deal. Sf Studios and Netflix have been collaborating on the production of the feature film “Red Dot” and the original series “Snabba Cash.” The agreement becomes effective in 2021.

“We are very pleased to be able to expand our collaboration with Netflix to also include the distribution of our Nordic and international films,” said Fredrik Warstedt, EVP of acquisition and licensing at Sf Studios. “Both parties have the same view of the potential for Nordic film through our previous collaboration on the productions of ‘Red Dot’ and ‘Snabba Cash,'” said Warstedt.

Lina Brounéus, the director of co-productions and acquisitions at Netflix,...

Ryan Reynolds is one of the most popular actors on the planet, while Denzel Washington is one of the most respected and acclaimed talents to ever grace the silver screen, and both stars have an impressive track record of box office success. Throw them together in an old fashioned two-hander that doubles as a high concept action thriller, and a big hit with audiences is almost guaranteed.

Almost being the operative word, because Safe House was a solid if unspectacular movie that did decent business when it was released in 2012, but faded quickly from memory in no time at all. The glossy and stylish South Africa-set blockbuster hailed from Daniel Espinosa, who was making his Hollywood debut after being put on the map with Swedish heist flick Snabba Cash, which doubled as leading man Joel Kinnaman’s breakthrough role.

The $85 million Safe House arrived in February 2012 and eventually went on to earn $208 million globally,...

Exclusive: Los Angeles-based Swedish singer songwriter Tove Lo has been cast for her acting debut in The Emigrants, the $10M Scandi epic from local major Sf Studios.

Erik Poppe (Utøya: July 22) is helming the adaptation of Vilhelm Moberg’s classic novels which chronicle the one and a half million Swedes who sought a better life across the Atlantic in the mid-19th century. Production is scheduled to get underway in the Western part of Sweden in September.

One of Sweden’s biggest musical exports, Tove Lo’s hit singles include Habits (Stay High), which reached number three on the U.S. Billboard chart and has had close to 700 million streams on Spotify and Youtube, while she has also co-written songs including Lorde’s Homemade Dynamite and Ellie Goulding’s Love Me Like You Do, which was on the Fifty Shades Of Grey soundtrack and was Grammy and Golden Globe nominated.

Snabba Cash (Easy Money), the Swedish Netflix original series that is being produced by Sf Studios, is underway in Stockholm.

Evin Ahmad, known from the feature film Dröm Vidare and two Netflix series Quicksand and The Rain season 2, is playing the lead. The show is a reboot of a trilogy of feature films based on the Stockholm Noir books by Jens Lapidus. Nordic major Sf Studios produced the features and is also behind the TV adaptation.

Covid safety procedures being taken on the pic include many team members wearing masks, regular temperature checks, a nurse available on set as well as an appointed coronavirus guard who will ensure people keep distance, and the production team being divided up into zones to avoid unnecessary contact.

Lapidus’ bestselling Stockholm Noir trilogy, set in the city’s underworld, have been adapted into more than 30 languages. Events in the series will take place ten years after the films,...

The film landscape in Scandinavia is far from homogenous. In Sweden, where no drastic coronavirus restrictions were enforced, shoots were not suspended so long as no more than 50 people were assembled, while elsewhere in the Nordics, a lockdown was imposed and film productions were stopped.

On April 14, film production resumed in Denmark — after a pause that lasted more than a month — under a new set of rules relating to the coronavirus crisis that also apply to Sweden, according to the Nordic Film Guide, which was put together by the Swedish banner Hobby Film and based on information released by government bodies. Besides leaner crew numbers, the guidelines also require at least 4 square-meters (43 square-feet) between each person on interior shoots and no buffets or coffee stations on set. Crowd scenes are out of the question right now. Shooting in public places in Sweden is permitted, while Denmark is allowing such lensing on a case-by-case basis.

Netflix has placed an order for “Vinterviken 2021,” a contemporary adaptation of the acclaimed 1993 Mats Wohl novel, “Vinterviken,” the U.S. streaming giant announced Thursday.

In a coup for Endemol Shine’s Emea scripted division, “Vinterviken 2021” will be produced by Filmlance International, part of the Endemol Shine Group and producer of the original “The Bridge” (“Bron”/”Broen”), a milestone in Nordic Noir, as well as “Caliphate,” which earlier this year broke audience records on Swedish public broadcaster Svt’s VOD catch-up service Svt Play.

The original novel inspired a high-profile movie of the same title. The inclusion of the year in the new movie’s title looks like a declaration of intentions. A high school romantic drama, “Vinterviken 2021” plumbs social inequalities and prejudice which have only grown in the 25 years since the novel, doing so through a teen love story between Elisabeth and John-John where the audience discover, along with its...

Global film and TV executives, including “Elizabeth” producer Alison Owen and “Shakespeare in Love” producer David Parfitt, have spoken out about Harvey Weinstein’s guilty verdict, calling it a “seismic” victory that will bring about immutable change.

Monday’s long-awaited outcome to the U.S. trial, which saw Weinstein convicted of sexual assault and third-degree rape, has been regarded as a landmark victory that will continue to transcend borders and impact women in the international industry.

Monumental Pictures boss Owen, who has produced the likes of “Suffragette” and “Jane Eyre,” worked with Weinstein across five films and, in 2017, broke her silence on his “sleazeball” behavior on set. Owen’s sister-in-law Laura Madden, a former Miramax employee, was one of the first women to go on the record for the New York Times’ ground-breaking investigation into Weinstein.

“When I heard the news yesterday, it felt like the world had turned on its axis,...

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....

Completing a four scripted-format strategic sales deal with Televisa, producer-distributor Keshet. Intl. has licensed reversioning rights to the Mexican media giant on “Mythological Ex” and the “The A Word.” Both these Spanish-language adaptations will be broadcast in Mexico.

Televisa has already licensed from Keshet Intl., the global producer-distributor, a further two scripted formats, comedy dramas “Loaded” and “Easy Money,” recast as the locally-entitled “Mint,” a 10-hour drama, and “Mita y Mita,” a 13-seg half hour.

“We’ve loved the way Televisa’s visionary scripted team has already adapted ‘Loaded’ and ‘Easy Money,’ and we’re really looking forward to seeing how they work their magic on ‘Mythological Ex’ and ‘The A Word,’” said Kelly Wright, Ki’s VP of distribution and new business, Latin America. She went on: “Their adaptations are bold, stylish and bear the Televisa hallmark of warm, laugh-out-loud crowd-pleasers.”

Keshet Intl.’s four-format deal is also a...

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...

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...

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.

The CW is aiming to be a bit of a David in a sea of Sunday night Goliaths. The network is returning to Sunday nights this fall for the first time since 2009, which could be huge news for the producers and talent behind The CW’s existing shows and new pilots.

By adding two more hours to the network’s schedule (8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Et), The CW will program 12 hours of original scripted fare in-season — likely more than Fox in the fall, which will devote at least seven of its 15 hours to sports (and a few more hours toward reality fare).

“We’re increasing our scheduling by 20 percent,” The CW president Mark Pedowitz said. “That’s a big-sized bite. We will do this with the same quality programming we do on Monday through Friday, on Sunday nights.”

Sunday is already a competitive night for networks, with some of...

Daniel Espinosa made his directorial debut with Easy Money, originally called Snabba Cash. His Scorsese-presented gangster pic has an aggressive atmosphere, and it ultimately helped him land his second feature and first studio gig, Safe House. Since then, he’s directed Child 44 – a movie that reportedly had some difficulties – and his latest film, Life. Espinosa’s sci-fi horror thriller, which […]

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Swedish director Daniel Espinosa might have been another foreign filmmaker working in obscurity until his film Snabba Cash (Easy Money) caught the attention of Hollywood, and he was hired to helm Safe House, an action-thriller starring Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington that became a huge hit over here. (Espinosa’s next movie, the psychological thriller Child 44, failed to find much of an audience, more due to poor marketing than anything else.)

Now, Espinosa is back with Life, an outer space thriller starring Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson and more, which looks at what it might be like if life was discovered on Mars, and what might happen if that life turns out to be hostile. For the astronauts of the Iss (International Space Station), it becomes a life or death situation as a single cell organism starts growing and becoming stronger and smarter, as they have to figure out...

In the taut wilderness thriller Edge of Winter, Joel Kinnaman plays an unemployed, single dad with seething personal issues and more than a bit of a mean streak. It's another complex character in an increasingly long line of layered performances by Kinnaman, who always manages to bring humanity to his roles, no matter how flawed the characters may be.   After his breakout role in the Swedish crime thriller Easy Money (aka Snabba Cash), Kinnaman came to widespread attention for his portrayal of detective Holder in AMC's The Killing. Now, like many actors these days, he seems comfortable sliding between Hollywood tentpoles like Robocop and Suicide Squad, independent productions like Edge of Winter and even television with roles on House of Cards and the streaming service's upcoming cyberpunk show...

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Here's the first trailer for Edge of Winter, a new thriller starring Suicide Squad leader Joel Kinnaman (RoboCop remake, AMC's The Killing) and the McU's new Spider-Man, Tom Holland. Kinnaman plays a father who's struggling to retain visitation rights with his two sons (the other played by Percy Hynes White), and after they get stranded way out in the wintry woods, things go from bad to worse when they meet a new bunch of characters at a nearby cabin. This looks like Kinnaman has a lot of dramatic heft to throw around in this one, and this may be the most fascinating character he's played since he starred in Snabba Cash (aka Easy Money) back in 2010.

Recently divorced and laid off from his job, Elliot Baker (Joel Kinnaman) is desperate to spend more time bonding with his sons, Bradley (Tom Holland) and Caleb (Percy Hynes White). What starts as family...

If I had to name the film that’s causing agents the greatest amount of stress about their young, male British clients’ future — I don’t know why I have to name that film, but let’s just go with this for a second — it would be Christopher Nolan‘s Dunkirk, an IMAX-shot World War II actioner that Warner Bros. have given a prime summer spot on their 2017 slate. Although it already may have leads in the form of Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, and Tom Hardy, its large ensemble will primarily consist of unknowns — which is to say, “multiple opportunities for young, male British actors.”

And so Deadline has an update on its casting process, first telling us Jack Lowden (’71) has been eyed for one of two lead roles while Aneurin Barnard (with whom Lowden co-starred in the recent War & Peace miniseries adaptation) is also in talks. Then there’s...

When you release the biggest movie of the year (at least up to this point), one that could possibly revamp the way studios approach superhero movies (the R-rated option is being discussed far more than a few months ago), what do you do for an encore? Well, if you.re Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, you pen the sci-fi thriller Life. The project has already attracted some top shelf talent, but it just added another in the form of Jake Gyllenhaal. Daniel Espinosa, the man behind Snabba Cash and Safe House, will direct Life, and Variety reports that Jake Gyllenhaal has just joined the science fiction party. And he.s only the latest big name to sign up, as Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds has agreed to reteam with Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, and Mission: Impossible.Rogue Nation breakout star Rebecca Ferguson has also been cast in a...

“If with 'Deadpool' the goal was to make you laugh, with ‘Life’ the goal is to make you sweat,” co-writer Rhett Reese recently told us about the movie he penned with Paul Wernick. The duo, who are still basking in the smash success of "Deadpool," move in a totally different direction with their upcoming sci-fi flick, and it just got a whole lot more interesting with this latest cast addition. Read More: 'Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation' Star Rebecca Ferguson To Lead Sci-Fi 'Life' From 'Deadpool' Writers Jake Gyllenhaal is joining Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson in the project. Daniel Espinosa ("Snabba Cash," "Safe House") is directing "Life," which centers on the crew of an international space station who come across life from Mars that is more intelligent than expected. Judging by what Reese teases, what they find perhaps won't be too friendly. It's a heckuva trio for this one,...

If you've got a good thing going, don't rock the boat. Anyone would with an eye on the bottom line understands that sentiment, and everyone involved with the massive success of "Deadpool" this weekend is eager to get rolling on the next movie. Ryan Reynolds in particular has writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to thank for crafting him a great role, not to mention reviving his career, so it makes sense he'll star in another movie written by the pair. Read More: 'Deadpool' Starrring Ryan Reynolds, T.J. Miller, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein And Gina Carino Deadline reports that Reynolds has joined the cast for the sci-fi project "Life," for which Rebecca Ferguson is slated to star. Set to be directed by Daniel Espinosa ("Snabba Cash," "Safe House"), the Wernick- and Reese- penned story centers on the crew of an international space station who come across life on Mars.

The future keeps getting brighter for "Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation" star Rebecca Ferguson. She's currently filming "The Snowman" with Michael Fassbender, and later this year will appear in the already anticipated thriller "The Girl On The Train," not to mention she already has "Florence Foster Jenkins" with Meryl Streep in the can. But now the rising actress is getting her first major lead role. Read More: The 20 Best Breakthrough Performances Of 2015 Variety reports she'll star in the sci-fi feature "Life" for director Daniel Espinosa ("Snabba Cash," "Safe House"). Penned by "Deadpool" scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, the story centers on the crew of an international space station who come across life from Mars that is more intelligent than expected. Presumably it leads to some unexpected consequences. No word yet on when production will begin, but it's an intriguing premise. And...

It’s hardly uncommon for New Hollywood figureheads to support (often in the executive producer position) a project by young, up-and-coming filmmakers that recalls their own work. If only that list – which includes the Transformers series, Super 8 (Spielberg both), Willow (George Lucas), the Jeepers Creepers series (Francis Ford Coppola), and Snabba Cash (Martin Scorsese) – was a little better. (Our favorite example? Last year’s The Better Angels, which has Terrence Malick’s stamp of approval.) But the endorsement should count for something. Should.

It’s Scorsese’s executive producer credit that’s compelling us to share this trailer for The Wannabe, a New York-set, Gotti-era mob movie that features his (relatively speaking) Boardwalk Empire stars Vincent Piazza and Patricia Arquette. Reviews from its Tribeca showing have been respectful at best and shrugging at worst, which is, in some sense, perceivable from this preview — a bit of work that almost seems...

It’s hard to dislike Tom Hardy as an actor. Whatever cinematic challenge he takes on, from atypically brainy blockbusters like Inception and The Dark Knight Rises to taut dramas like Bronson and Locke, he always gives it his all, digging under his character’s skins with a diligence and canniness that elevates him above possibly any other actor of his generation. Along the way, he’s found particular success in embodying strong, silent types, the kinds of men who more resemble wild animals than well-mannered gentlemen. Hardy’s characters are like caged wolves – as much as you want to reach in and pet them, you might lose your hand if you do.

In Child 44, the actor is up to his usual tricks. As Leo Demidov, a dedicated security officer tasked with cracking down on traitors in Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union, Hardy plays another hardened man’s man,...

Tom Rob Smith's acclaimed novel Child 44 comes to the movies with Tom Hardy in the lead. Here's our review...

How does a state where 'there is no crime' handle an act like murder when it occurs not once but dozens of times? The answer is that the state – in this case, post-World War II Stalinist Russia – creates an 'official' story and buries the truth as capitalist propaganda.

That’s what happens in Child 44, the new political thriller based on the first in a trilogy of novels by Tom Rob Smith. Tom Hardy stars as Mgb agent Leo Demidov, who is busy at his job of routing out political dissidents when two major challenges come into his life: he is asked to denounce his own wife, Raisa (Noomi Rapace), as a traitor, and also stumbles upon a series of grisly child killings that seem to stretch across 20 years...

Until now, Daniel Espinosa has generally been known for gritty genre fare ("Snabba Cash," "Safe House," the upcoming "Child 44"), but for his next jaunt he's boldly going to outer space. The director is in talks to helm "Morningstar" for Warner Bros. The plot details of the script by David Birke ("Gacy," "13 Sins") are being kept under wraps, but it is said to have the vibe of a Cold War thriller and involve "world building." So basically, it sounds like it's an opportunity for Espinosa to expand the wheelhouse he's already in. [The Wrap] While yet another take on "David Copperfield" hardly sounds exciting, our interest is certainly piqued with Armando Ianucci ("Veep," "The Thick Of It") behind the camera. He'll helm a new take on the Charles Dickens classic with BBC Films honcho Christine Langan saying Ianucci's “sensibility usually runs very clearly through all his work. This won’t...

He flirted with the Assassin's Creed movie for a while, but Daniel Espinosa's desire to move off real-world thrillers and into something with a bit of a sci-fi tinge has ultimately led him in a different direction. He's in talks to direct Warner Bros.' top secret Morningstar project, from a screenplay by David Birke (13 Sins).Espinosa previously made the international hit Snabba Cash, followed by his mainstream debut Safe House, with Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington. Most recently he's been at work on Child 44, based on Tom Rob Smith's novel and sporting the pitch-hitting cast of Tom Hardy, Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace and Vincent Cassel. Ridley Scott is among the producers.In short, his is becoming an increasingly safe pair of hands where real-world thrillers are concerned, so something fantastical that calls for "world building" is a surprising tangent. While nothing is known about Morningstar's story,...

A few weeks ago, it seemed as if there was a new rumor about Suicide Squad every day. Tom Hardy was initially cast as Rick Flagg, then he bailed, and guys like Jake Gyllenhaal, Jon Bernthal, Joel Edgerton, and Karl Urban were being considered as replacements. But now The Wrap reports that The Killing and Robocop star Joel Kinnaman is in negotiations to take over the role in David Ayer's upcoming Warner Bros./DC supervillain movie.

The movie centers on a group of supervillains who work on secret government operations in exchange for a reduced sentence. Kinnaman will join Will Smith as Deadshot, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, and Jared Leto as the Joker. (Click here to hear Smith and Robbie's latest comments about Suicide Squad from earlier this morning.) Viola Davis is in talks to play Amanda Waller, while Jesse Eisenberg...

Just after we learned that Fast & Furious franchise star Tyrese Gibson was trying really hard to land the lead role in the eventual reboot of Green Lantern at Warner Bros. Pictures, the actor is heading to the studio that made the first adaptation of the DC Comics superhero for his next project. Deadline has word that Gibson is attached to star in Desert Eagle, an action spec script that the actor/rapper wrote with Mike Le. The story follows two border patrol agents sent to investigate a drug cartel being operated out of a Native American reservation casino. That sounds kind of like an old school thriller premise from the 90s. The script will now be rewritten by Matthew Stuecken and Josh Campbell (they also wrote the remake of Snabba Cash in development) with Ted 2 producer Scott Stuber on board as well, but the original script should be a...

Exclusive: Looking to get more mileage out of its relationship with Furious 7 star Tyrese Gibson, Universal Pictures has optioned Desert Eagle, an action spec scripted by Gibson and Mike Le. The plan is for it to serve as a star vehicle for the actor-musician. They’ve hired Matthew Stuecken and Josh Campbell to rewrite the script. Ted 2‘s Scott Stuber will produce via his Bluegrass Films banner. Gibson will be exec producer through his Voltron Filmz.

In Desert Eagle, a pair of border patrol agents investigate a drug cartel being operated out of a Native American reservation casino. Gibson last starred in 2013’s Fast & Furious 6, which grossed $788 million worldwide, as well as Fox Searchlight’s Black Nativity. Aside from reprising his Roman Pierce role in Furious 7, he co-stars with Jake Gyllenhaal in the Antoine Fuqua-directed Southpaw and opposite Kevin Hart and Ice Cube in the...

I've seen two films by director Daniel Espinosa — the Swedish thriller Snabba Cash, and his American studio debut Safe House — and I enjoyed them both. Child 44, his newest film, is an adaptation of the best-selling 2008 novel that stars Tom Hardy as a Soviet soldier trying to track down a child-murdering serial killer. Ridley Scott produced the film, which also stars Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman, and Vincent Cassel. Thanks to iTunes for the trailer. The film arrives in theaters on April 17th.

A politically-charged serial killer thriller set in 1953 Soviet Russia, Child 44 chronicles the crisis of conscience for secret police agent Leo Demidov (Hardy), who loses status, power and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa (Rapace), as a traitor. Exiled from Moscow to a grim provincial outpost, Leo and Raisa join forces with General Mikhail Nesterov (Oldman) to track down a serial killer who preys on young boys.

We're still waiting for Swedish-raised filmmaker Daniel Espinosa to make good on the promise of his 2010 thriller "Snabba Cash" (aka "Easy Money"). The movie launched the international career of Joel Kinnaman (2013’s “RoboCop”) and made Espinosa a much in-demand filmmaker for Hollywood studios —after juggling several offers, he directed “Safe,” starring Denzel Washington. But will Espinosa become of those acclaimed foreign filmmakers who devolve into the anonymous Hollywood hackwork (like, ahem, Baltasar Kormákur)? Maybe Espinosa will fare a little bit better with his upcoming film “Child 44.” Based on the first novel in author Tom Rob Smith’s trilogy featuring disgraced Mgb Agent Leo Demidov investigating a series of gruesome child murders in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, the movie stars Tom Hardy as Demidov and co-stars Noomi Rapace, Kinnaman, Gary Oldman and Vincent Cassel. Here's the official synopsis: A politically-charged serial killer...

Somehow, the sloppily assembled, unfunny "Let's Be Cops" earned over $120 million worldwide (Wtf), and since money talks in Hollywood, that means director Luke Greenfield gets to level up. And so he shall, setting up the movie "Slingshot," which is said to be in the spirit of "E.T." and "Back To The Future." No other plot details are available just yet, but let's just hope a little more craft is put into that effort. [Deadline] Daniel Espinosa ("Safe House," "Snabba Cash") has been tapped to direct "Boston Strong." The project was once set to star Casey Affleck, who has since dropped out of the movie that "follows the massive manhunt to apprehend the two men believed to be responsible for the bombings, as well as examining the city’s reaction following the events." “The Fighter” writers Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy penned the script, but no word yet on when production might begin.

Following a creative hiccup that resulted in the loss of director Fredrik Bond, the action sequel London Has Fallen is seemingly back on track with Scandinavian director Babak Najafi, director of the Snabba Cash sequel Easy Money II: Hard to Kill, behind the camera. We already knew Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman were all returning from Olympus Has Fallen, and now The Wrap has added a new cast member into the mix with Watchmen and A Nightmare on Elm Street remake star Jackie Earle Haley taking the role of Deputy Chief Mason. What are the odds that he ends up being the main bad guy? We're not sure, but casting an actor like that in what seems like a disposable role certainly raises our eyebrows. In addition, the trade has revealed that other returning cast members from the original film include Melissa Leo as Secretary of Defense Ruth...

Earlier this month, the Olympus Has Fallen sequel lost its director, Fredrik Bond, with just weeks before the film started shooting. Thankfully though Millennium and Gerard Butler have found a replacement in Scandinavian director Babak Najafi. He directed the Snabba cash sequel Easy Money II: Hard to Kill, but London Has Fallen will be his English-language debut.

As soon as Bond left London, the studio and Butler started looking for a new director to take over. But the actor wasn't liking the directing prospects so much so that he considered leaving the project entirely. Wayne Blair (The Sapphires) and Gary Fleder (Homefront, Runaway Jury) were considered, but Najafi led the race.

Written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, and Christian Gudegast. The Olympus sequel picks up in London, where the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances. His funeral is a must-attend event for leaders of the Western world.

Just last month, we learned that Charlie Countryman director Fredrik Bond would get behind the camera for London Has Fallen the sequel to Olympus Has Fallen, one of two White House-set thrillers that hit theaters in 2013. However, recently creative differences saw Bond leave the project weeks before production was slated to begin, prompting producers to quickly look for a replacement to step up and stay on schedule. Now it sounds like they've found one as THR reports Scandinavian director Babak Najafi, director of the Snabba Cash sequel Easy Money II: Hard to Kill, is now in talks to tackle the sequel instead. More below! This would mark the English-language feature film debut of Najafi, but he has also directed some episodes of the Cinemax action thriller series "Banshee," so he's not completely inexperienced. The sequel sounds like it has a lot of struggles to overcome, especially since star Gerard Butler...

Olympus Has Fallen sequel London Has Fallen has a director. Scandinavian helmer Babak Najafi, who directed the Snabba cash sequel Easy Money II: Hard to Kill is in talks to replace Fredrik Bond on the Millennium action movie. Bond left over a week ago with the movie weeks away from shooting. Millennium and star Gerard Butler immediately scrambled but last week, things were not looking good. Butler was not liking the directing prospects, and some sources say he was even mulling the idea of leaving the project. Najafi, Wayne Blair (The Sapphires) and Gary Fleder (Runaway Jury) were names that

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Exclusive: Looks like Gerard Butler won’t be alone for London Has Fallen, the Millennium Films sequel to the action hit Olympus Has Fallen. Babak Najafi, best known for helming Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (better known as the sequel to Snabba Cash) is now in discussions to helm the action film that is being transplanted to the Blighty.

This has been a hot open assignment since Charlie Countryman helmer Fredrik Bond bristled at the scale of the movie and exited. He got the job after the helmer of the original, Antoine Fuqua, didn’t like the sequel direction and decided not to take part.

Several up and comers went after the job, and were rumored to be getting on a plane and heading to meet Butler. One was Wayne Blair, helmer of The Sapphires. Now, I’m told that the job will belong to Najafi if his reps...

Jenny Stjernströmer Björk appointed new evp acquisition and co-production at Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri

Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri has increased its acquisition and Nordic co-production activities by appointing Jenny Stjernstömer Björk evp acquisition and co-production, effective immediately.

Stjernströmer Björk has previously worked in book publishing, as an agent and running her own publishing agency. Five years ago she joined production company Tre Vänner, first by taking responsibility for the acquisition of book rights like A Man Called Ove (currently in production) and the Karin Fossum Inspector Sejer series. She then took on the position as head of development at the company.

When the company was acquired by Svensk Filmindustri in autumn 2013 she moved with the Tre Vänner team to Svensk.

In her new role, she will head the acquisition and Nordic co-production activities and also supervise the company’s new business intelligence department.

Stjernströmer Björk is also on the Svensk Filmindustri Nordic Management team.

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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...