Hans Rosenfeldt, the creator and lead writer of Nordic Noir milestone “Broen” (“The Bridge”) and ITV and Netflix’s International Emmy winner “Marcella,” is set to see his first solo novel, “When Crying Wolf,” developed for the small screen by TV4 and CMore Entertainment.
Rosenfeldt’s first solo novel — after six crime novels penned with Michael Hjorth and co-writing on series such as “The Bridge” and “Marcella” — “When Crying Wolf” is set in Haparanda, Sweden’s nearly subarctic border region with Finland, where human remains are found inside a wolf. Police officer Hannah Wester traces them to a drug deal that went wrong in Finland.
The details of the adaptation and Rosenfeldt’s possible involvement in the makeover have yet to be finalized.
Both owned by telecom Telia Company’s TV4 Media, TV4 is the biggest free-to-air commercial channel in Sweden; CMore, previously Canal Plus, is one of Scandinavia’s...
Rosenfeldt’s first solo novel — after six crime novels penned with Michael Hjorth and co-writing on series such as “The Bridge” and “Marcella” — “When Crying Wolf” is set in Haparanda, Sweden’s nearly subarctic border region with Finland, where human remains are found inside a wolf. Police officer Hannah Wester traces them to a drug deal that went wrong in Finland.
The details of the adaptation and Rosenfeldt’s possible involvement in the makeover have yet to be finalized.
Both owned by telecom Telia Company’s TV4 Media, TV4 is the biggest free-to-air commercial channel in Sweden; CMore, previously Canal Plus, is one of Scandinavia’s...
- 12/23/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Five Scandi shows will be judged for the award.
Five Nordic drama series will compete for the second annual Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, which will be presented on Jan 31 at the TV Drama Vision conference in Goteborg.
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One drama series apiece from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden is nominated for the award, which comes with a prize of $25,000 (Sek 200,000) for the main writer(s) of the series. The first two episodes of each series are shown at the Goteborg Film Festival.
This year’s nominees are Borderliner from Norway, Deadwind from Finland, The Lawyer from Sweden, Ride Upon The Storm from Denmark, and Stella Blomkvist from Iceland.
This year’s jury includes Swedish acterss Sofia Helin (The Bridge); Walter Iuzzolino, the UK-based TV executive and curator of streaming service Walter Presents; and Finnish journalist Kirpi Uimonen Ballesteros.
Petri Kemppinen, CEO of Nordisk Film & TV Fond, said: “Initiating this prize...
Five Nordic drama series will compete for the second annual Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, which will be presented on Jan 31 at the TV Drama Vision conference in Goteborg.
Source: About Premium Content
Deadwind
One drama series apiece from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden is nominated for the award, which comes with a prize of $25,000 (Sek 200,000) for the main writer(s) of the series. The first two episodes of each series are shown at the Goteborg Film Festival.
This year’s nominees are Borderliner from Norway, Deadwind from Finland, The Lawyer from Sweden, Ride Upon The Storm from Denmark, and Stella Blomkvist from Iceland.
This year’s jury includes Swedish acterss Sofia Helin (The Bridge); Walter Iuzzolino, the UK-based TV executive and curator of streaming service Walter Presents; and Finnish journalist Kirpi Uimonen Ballesteros.
Petri Kemppinen, CEO of Nordisk Film & TV Fond, said: “Initiating this prize...
- 1/11/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Swedish production company Sf Studios is teaming with A Man Called Ove producer Niklas Wikström Nicastro for a new big-budget drama series called Alex with Easy Money actor Dragomir Mrsic tapped to star. Sf Studios, which created the Easy Money trilogy, will jointly produce the 6×44' Swedish-language thriller with Nevision. It will premiere on Modern Times Group-owned VOD service Viaplay in Spring 2018. Niklas Rockström (Before We Die) and Michael Hjorth (Sebastian Bergman…...
- 3/7/2017
- Deadline TV
Rakel Wärmländer co-stars in six-part corrupt cop drama from the Oscar-nominated producer of A Man Called Ove.
Edge Of Tomorrow actor Dragomir Mrsic will star in Alex, a six-part Swedish thriller from Sf Studios that will premiere on Scandi broadcaster Mtg’s streaming service Viaplay.
The police TV drama, which airs in spring 2018, co-stars Rakel Wärmländer (Gåsmamman) and is based on an idea by Mrsic and Mikael Cross.
The main writers are Niklas Rockström (Before We Die) and Michael Hjorth (Sebastian Bergman).
The plot centres on a corrupt cop (Mrsic) who decides to leave his life of crime, but his darkest connections keep pulling him back.
Nicklas Wikström Nicastro (Oscar-nominated for A Man Called Ove) will produce for Sf Studios, teaming with independent producer Nevision.
Film i Väst will co-produce and international distribution will be handled by About Premium Content and Lumière.
Mrsic said: “It’s so exciting to create a raw and tough thriller series that goes...
Edge Of Tomorrow actor Dragomir Mrsic will star in Alex, a six-part Swedish thriller from Sf Studios that will premiere on Scandi broadcaster Mtg’s streaming service Viaplay.
The police TV drama, which airs in spring 2018, co-stars Rakel Wärmländer (Gåsmamman) and is based on an idea by Mrsic and Mikael Cross.
The main writers are Niklas Rockström (Before We Die) and Michael Hjorth (Sebastian Bergman).
The plot centres on a corrupt cop (Mrsic) who decides to leave his life of crime, but his darkest connections keep pulling him back.
Nicklas Wikström Nicastro (Oscar-nominated for A Man Called Ove) will produce for Sf Studios, teaming with independent producer Nevision.
Film i Väst will co-produce and international distribution will be handled by About Premium Content and Lumière.
Mrsic said: “It’s so exciting to create a raw and tough thriller series that goes...
- 3/7/2017
- ScreenDaily
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We chatted to the Swedish creator of The Bridge about series 4, the Scandi-noir label and UK crime drama Marcella...
As his first English-language series Marcella comes out on DVD, we spoke to Swedish screenwriter and novelist Hans Rosenfeldt about the writing process, the differences between British and Swedish television production, and the future of his hugely acclaimed home-grown crime drama, The Bridge…
What did you find most appealing about Marcella when you first heard the pitch?
Well, I was pitched the idea by Nicola Larder (Marcella’s co-creator and executive producer). We met in Italy and were talking about The Bridge, and she actually pitched me an idea about this female detective being left by her husband and bringing back an old case. I really liked that because it sounded like something I could probably work with. The opportunity to work abroad was what really attracted me,...
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We chatted to the Swedish creator of The Bridge about series 4, the Scandi-noir label and UK crime drama Marcella...
As his first English-language series Marcella comes out on DVD, we spoke to Swedish screenwriter and novelist Hans Rosenfeldt about the writing process, the differences between British and Swedish television production, and the future of his hugely acclaimed home-grown crime drama, The Bridge…
What did you find most appealing about Marcella when you first heard the pitch?
Well, I was pitched the idea by Nicola Larder (Marcella’s co-creator and executive producer). We met in Italy and were talking about The Bridge, and she actually pitched me an idea about this female detective being left by her husband and bringing back an old case. I really liked that because it sounded like something I could probably work with. The opportunity to work abroad was what really attracted me,...
- 6/15/2016
- Den of Geek
In the wake of a new partnership between Starbreeze and Smilegate, Overkill's new The Walking Dead video game release has been pushed back from 2016 to the second half of 2017:
From the press release: As part of the strategic partnership, Starbreeze receives distribution rights on the Smilegate platform, enabling it to distribute its titles, including Payday 2 and Overkill’s The Walking Dead, in Asia.
Overkill’s The Walking Dead will be expanded with more content where an Asian version will be developed for simultaneous launch with the western version. To maximize the new opportunities, Starbreeze, 505 Games and Skybound have decided to release the game in all markets during the second half of 2017. The partners are convinced this will pave the way to success, maximize revenues and cement it as a tent pole product for the next decade to come.
“What the Starbreeze team has achieved in the last few years is amazing.
From the press release: As part of the strategic partnership, Starbreeze receives distribution rights on the Smilegate platform, enabling it to distribute its titles, including Payday 2 and Overkill’s The Walking Dead, in Asia.
Overkill’s The Walking Dead will be expanded with more content where an Asian version will be developed for simultaneous launch with the western version. To maximize the new opportunities, Starbreeze, 505 Games and Skybound have decided to release the game in all markets during the second half of 2017. The partners are convinced this will pave the way to success, maximize revenues and cement it as a tent pole product for the next decade to come.
“What the Starbreeze team has achieved in the last few years is amazing.
- 1/25/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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
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
The Weinstein Company announced today that it is partnering with Academy Award® winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese to present Daniel Espinosa‘s acclaimed Swedish crime thriller, Easy Money in New York on July 11, 2012 and Los Angeles, on July 13, 2012. Based on the international best-selling novel Snabba Cash by Jens Lapidus, Easy Money is a taut and alluring suspense thriller set in the world of organized crime starring Joel Kinnaman (AMC’s “The Killing”), Matias Varela (Storm), Dragomir Mrsic (Wallander), Dejan Cukic (The Trap), and Fares Fares (Safe House). The announcement was made today by TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein.
Easy Money (the English translation of “Snabba Cash”) interweaves the stories of three key players related to a Swedish drug trafficking ring. Lower-class business student Jw (Joel Kinnaman from AMC’s ‘The Killing’) falls in love with a sexy heiress while living a double life mingling with Stockholm’s wealthy elite. To keep up the facade of his lifestyle,...
Easy Money (the English translation of “Snabba Cash”) interweaves the stories of three key players related to a Swedish drug trafficking ring. Lower-class business student Jw (Joel Kinnaman from AMC’s ‘The Killing’) falls in love with a sexy heiress while living a double life mingling with Stockholm’s wealthy elite. To keep up the facade of his lifestyle,...
- 6/14/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Cologne -- The Scandinavian crime wave continues at Tre Vanner, the Swedish production company behind drug-dealing thriller "Easy Money," which on Tuesday announced a wide-ranging film and TV deal with bestselling crime author Camilla Lackberg.
Lackberg and Tre Vanner will develop a 10 x 90 minute television series based on the characters in her crime novels. The series, called "The Fjallbacka Murders" will be set in the small Swedish town of Fjallbacka, where Lackberg was born and where all her novels take place. Lackberg will write original storylines for the series. Michael Hjorth of Tre Vanner will executive produce the series, with Helen Ahlsson on board as lead producer. Tre Vanner will be selling "The Fjallbacka Murders" at Mipcom in Cannes next week.
In a separate deal Tre Vanner picked up film and TV adaptation rights to Lackberg's last three novels: "Fyrvaktaren" (The Lighthouse Keeper), "Sjojungfrun" (The Mermaid) and "Tyskungen" (The German...
Lackberg and Tre Vanner will develop a 10 x 90 minute television series based on the characters in her crime novels. The series, called "The Fjallbacka Murders" will be set in the small Swedish town of Fjallbacka, where Lackberg was born and where all her novels take place. Lackberg will write original storylines for the series. Michael Hjorth of Tre Vanner will executive produce the series, with Helen Ahlsson on board as lead producer. Tre Vanner will be selling "The Fjallbacka Murders" at Mipcom in Cannes next week.
In a separate deal Tre Vanner picked up film and TV adaptation rights to Lackberg's last three novels: "Fyrvaktaren" (The Lighthouse Keeper), "Sjojungfrun" (The Mermaid) and "Tyskungen" (The German...
- 9/28/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warner Bros. has picked up an untitled workplace comedy by Jason Filardi for Zac Efron to star in and produce. Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot are in negotiations to produce via their Offspring Entertainment banner.
Attaching himself to the Filardi workplace comedy is the latest move for Efron, who set up his production shingle at Warners in February but has quietly been putting the pieces together with his manager, Alchemy Entertainment's Jason Barrett.
The company now has a name -- Ninjas Runnin' Wild Prods. -- and has staffed up, with former Fox executive Jason Young coming aboard as head of development and to act as point person at Nrw. Young spent five years at Fox, working on "X-Men: The Last Stand," "Live Free or Die Hard" and "Max Payne," among other movies.
Angie Edgar, a former assistant and creative executive at Alchemy, has been tapped to act as Nrw's creative executive.
Attaching himself to the Filardi workplace comedy is the latest move for Efron, who set up his production shingle at Warners in February but has quietly been putting the pieces together with his manager, Alchemy Entertainment's Jason Barrett.
The company now has a name -- Ninjas Runnin' Wild Prods. -- and has staffed up, with former Fox executive Jason Young coming aboard as head of development and to act as point person at Nrw. Young spent five years at Fox, working on "X-Men: The Last Stand," "Live Free or Die Hard" and "Max Payne," among other movies.
Angie Edgar, a former assistant and creative executive at Alchemy, has been tapped to act as Nrw's creative executive.
- 7/12/2010
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Zac Efron is attached to star in and produce a remake of the Swedish film “Snabba Cash” for Warner Bros. Charles Roven and Richard Suckle of Atlas Entertainment are producing the project alongside the original film’s producer Fredrik Wikstrom. Michael Hjorth will be executive producing. The thriller “Snabba” was based on a novel by Jens Lapidus, following three interconnected storylines involving drugs and organized crime. The main story follows a young man, who will be played in the Warner Bros. version by Efron, hoping to strike it rich quick by becoming a runner for a coke dealer (played in the original by Joel Kinnaman). No other casting information has [...]...
- 4/15/2010
- by Costa Koutsoutis
- ShockYa
Zac Efron is attached to star in and produce a remake of Swedish crime thriller Snabba Cash at Warner Bros. Pictures. The original is based on a novel by Jens Lapidus and follows three interconnected storylines involving drugs and organized crime, with the main character a young financial wizard (Joel Kinnaman) who hopes to strike it rich quickly by becoming a runner for a coke dealer. Atlas Entertainment's Charles Roven and Richard Suckle are producing, along with original producer Fredrik Wikstrom. Michael Hjorth will executive produce.
- 4/15/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Get ready for Zac Efron, the money launderer.
Efron is attached to star in and produce a remake of "Snabba cash," the hot Swedish property that was the subject of a heavy Hollywood bidding war and has just found a home at Warner Bros.
Warners bought the remake rights for Efron to produce via the new Warners-based shingle he runs with manager Jason Barrett.
Atlas Entertainment's Charles Roven and Richard Suckle are producing along with original producer Fredrik Wikstrom. Michael Hjorth will exec produce.
"Snabba" is based on a novel by Jens Lapidus and was a major hit in its home country this year. The thriller follows three interconnected storylines involving drugs and organized crime, with the main character a young man (played in the original by Joel Kinnaman) who hopes to strike it rich quickly by becoming a runner for a coke dealer. Efron would play the runner in the WB version.
Efron is attached to star in and produce a remake of "Snabba cash," the hot Swedish property that was the subject of a heavy Hollywood bidding war and has just found a home at Warner Bros.
Warners bought the remake rights for Efron to produce via the new Warners-based shingle he runs with manager Jason Barrett.
Atlas Entertainment's Charles Roven and Richard Suckle are producing along with original producer Fredrik Wikstrom. Michael Hjorth will exec produce.
"Snabba" is based on a novel by Jens Lapidus and was a major hit in its home country this year. The thriller follows three interconnected storylines involving drugs and organized crime, with the main character a young man (played in the original by Joel Kinnaman) who hopes to strike it rich quickly by becoming a runner for a coke dealer. Efron would play the runner in the WB version.
- 4/14/2010
- by By Borys Kit and Matthew Belloni
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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