Newen Connect, which is attending Canneseries with Stefano Lodovichi’s mafia thriller “Christian” playing in main competition, is growing its slate of English-language and international shows through partnerships with third-party producers and talents.
Bringing together the commercial activities of Newen Group, TF1 Studio and ReelOne International, Newen Connect has just signed a deal with Swedish banner Mopar Studios to co-develop and distribute globally two ambitious political thrillers, “9th Dynasty” and “The Walls Between Us.”
An epic love story spanning 30 years in the late 20th century, “The Walls Between Us” follows the dangerous and compromised lives of three former students through the Cold War, rise of terrorism, and political shifts of the 1970’s and 1980’s.
“9th Dynasty,” meanwhile, deals with the abuse of personal data sharing and how destructive it can be. The series follows two young analysts – one English, one Chinese – who seek to uncover the truth about the murder...
Bringing together the commercial activities of Newen Group, TF1 Studio and ReelOne International, Newen Connect has just signed a deal with Swedish banner Mopar Studios to co-develop and distribute globally two ambitious political thrillers, “9th Dynasty” and “The Walls Between Us.”
An epic love story spanning 30 years in the late 20th century, “The Walls Between Us” follows the dangerous and compromised lives of three former students through the Cold War, rise of terrorism, and political shifts of the 1970’s and 1980’s.
“9th Dynasty,” meanwhile, deals with the abuse of personal data sharing and how destructive it can be. The series follows two young analysts – one English, one Chinese – who seek to uncover the truth about the murder...
- 10/11/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
It has been a busy week in Scandinavia as new CEOs are appointed at Sf Studios and the Goteborg Film Festival, and Film Vast’s popular CEO Tomas Eskildsson announced he will step down.
At Sf Studios, Michael Porseryd, the former CEO of Endemol Nordics and veteran of Metronome and Flow Networks, has been appointed as the company’s new CEO. He will take the post in the first quarter of 2017 .
He takes the top job after the June ousting of former CEO Jonas Fors following allegations of sexism and mismanagement of funds. Frida Westerberg, who had served as acting CEO, will go back to her previous role of deputy CEO and COO.
Porseryd said: “I’m extremely pleased and very excited to be entrusted with this opportunity. Sf Studios has a fantastic legacy of producing and distributing content. I strongly believe in their well-defined strategy where content continues to be core as well as their focus on...
At Sf Studios, Michael Porseryd, the former CEO of Endemol Nordics and veteran of Metronome and Flow Networks, has been appointed as the company’s new CEO. He will take the post in the first quarter of 2017 .
He takes the top job after the June ousting of former CEO Jonas Fors following allegations of sexism and mismanagement of funds. Frida Westerberg, who had served as acting CEO, will go back to her previous role of deputy CEO and COO.
Porseryd said: “I’m extremely pleased and very excited to be entrusted with this opportunity. Sf Studios has a fantastic legacy of producing and distributing content. I strongly believe in their well-defined strategy where content continues to be core as well as their focus on...
- 10/5/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The news follows Swedish media allegations of misuse of funds and an inappropriate company culture.
Sf Studios’ board of directors has ousted CEO Jonas Fors, who will depart the company immediately.
Frida Westerberg, Deputy CEO & COO, will take over as acting CEO while the search for a new CEO begins immediately.
Ulrika Saxon, who represents owner Bonnier on the board of directors for Sf Studios, said: “For Bonnier as majority owner, we have come to the conclusion that, considering the current situation, Jonas Fors can no longer successfully serve as leader for Sf Studios.”
Fors’ departure comes after recent media...
Sf Studios’ board of directors has ousted CEO Jonas Fors, who will depart the company immediately.
Frida Westerberg, Deputy CEO & COO, will take over as acting CEO while the search for a new CEO begins immediately.
Ulrika Saxon, who represents owner Bonnier on the board of directors for Sf Studios, said: “For Bonnier as majority owner, we have come to the conclusion that, considering the current situation, Jonas Fors can no longer successfully serve as leader for Sf Studios.”
Fors’ departure comes after recent media...
- 6/13/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Babak Najafi will direct the thriller for Nordic studio Svensk Filmindustri.
Svensk beat off other bidders to acquire the original spec script written by Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken, who recently wrote 10 Cloverfield Lane for Jj Abrams.
Horizon Line is a a suspense thriller that follows a couple on a small airplane that loses its way over the Pacific Ocean.
The film will soon start casting ahead of an autumn shoot.
Fredrik Wikström Nicastro will produce for Svensk Filmindustri and Jonas Fors, CEO of Svensk Filmindustri, will executive produce.
Najafi previously directed Berlin award-winner Sebbe and has London Has Fallen launching next month
Campbell and Stuecken reunite with Wikstrom Nicastro after having written the English-language remake Easy Money.
Wikstrom Nicastro said, “I am thrilled to continue the fruitful and creative collaboration with director Babak Najafi and such talented writers as Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken. Horizon Line is one of the most suspenseful, original scripts...
Svensk beat off other bidders to acquire the original spec script written by Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken, who recently wrote 10 Cloverfield Lane for Jj Abrams.
Horizon Line is a a suspense thriller that follows a couple on a small airplane that loses its way over the Pacific Ocean.
The film will soon start casting ahead of an autumn shoot.
Fredrik Wikström Nicastro will produce for Svensk Filmindustri and Jonas Fors, CEO of Svensk Filmindustri, will executive produce.
Najafi previously directed Berlin award-winner Sebbe and has London Has Fallen launching next month
Campbell and Stuecken reunite with Wikstrom Nicastro after having written the English-language remake Easy Money.
Wikstrom Nicastro said, “I am thrilled to continue the fruitful and creative collaboration with director Babak Najafi and such talented writers as Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken. Horizon Line is one of the most suspenseful, original scripts...
- 2/10/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Tim King joins as executive vice president production and Lars Bredo Rahbek has been appointed head of production for Denmark.
Swedish film production outfit Svensk Filmindustri has revealed two new appointments.
Danish producer Lars Bredo Rahbek [pictured left] - who has been a producer at Nimbus Film since 1997 working on titles including Flame And Citron – joins as the company’s new head of production for Denmark, effective from March 1.
Tim King [pictured right], formerly of McKinsey & Co and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, joins as executive vice president production, reporting to CEO Jonas Fors, effective immediately.
Fors said of the new hires: “Tim’s broad experience together with Lars’s strong history within Danish film and TV allows us to ensure we can manage both the challenges of our existing production businesses, together with ensuring the skills to manage the growth we want to achieve.”...
Swedish film production outfit Svensk Filmindustri has revealed two new appointments.
Danish producer Lars Bredo Rahbek [pictured left] - who has been a producer at Nimbus Film since 1997 working on titles including Flame And Citron – joins as the company’s new head of production for Denmark, effective from March 1.
Tim King [pictured right], formerly of McKinsey & Co and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, joins as executive vice president production, reporting to CEO Jonas Fors, effective immediately.
Fors said of the new hires: “Tim’s broad experience together with Lars’s strong history within Danish film and TV allows us to ensure we can manage both the challenges of our existing production businesses, together with ensuring the skills to manage the growth we want to achieve.”...
- 2/1/2016
- 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
Departures follow a reshuffle at the Scandinavian major.
Sf Film MD Michael Fleischer and Sf Norge MD Guttorm Petterson are to step down following a reshuffle at Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri.
The move follows last year’s purchase by Svensk of Tre Vänner, which saw the Swedish production company’s MD Jonas Fors named as the new CEO while Frida Westerberg took over as COO.
In a statement, the company said the two high level departures were “due to organisational changes and the centralisation of certain business-related functions”.
They will be replaced by country managers: in Denmark by Lars Bjørn Hansen and in Norway by Bente Hagen Stokke, at present financial directors in their own territories. In Finland, former financial director Lars Warelius will return to the company, taking on the position as country manager. Effective immediately, they will all report to Fors.
Speaking about the departures, Fors said: “Under the leadership of Michael and Guttorm, [link...
Sf Film MD Michael Fleischer and Sf Norge MD Guttorm Petterson are to step down following a reshuffle at Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri.
The move follows last year’s purchase by Svensk of Tre Vänner, which saw the Swedish production company’s MD Jonas Fors named as the new CEO while Frida Westerberg took over as COO.
In a statement, the company said the two high level departures were “due to organisational changes and the centralisation of certain business-related functions”.
They will be replaced by country managers: in Denmark by Lars Bjørn Hansen and in Norway by Bente Hagen Stokke, at present financial directors in their own territories. In Finland, former financial director Lars Warelius will return to the company, taking on the position as country manager. Effective immediately, they will all report to Fors.
Speaking about the departures, Fors said: “Under the leadership of Michael and Guttorm, [link...
- 4/22/2014
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
In the latest executive shuffle at Scandinavian mini-major Svensk Filmindustri, Antti Toiviainen has been named the new head of Nordic sales and distribution, effectively immediately. Toiviainen, who will report directly to Svensk CEO Jonas Fors, will oversee all Nordic sales and distribution activities, including theatrical, home entertainment and international sales, for the group while keep his old job as managing director for Svensk's Finnish distribution arm, Sf Film Finland. “Antti and his team have made excellent results in Finland and we are very happy to have him joining and strengthening our Nordic team,” said Jonas Fors. “Film
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- 1/27/2014
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Frida Westerberg, an executive at Swedish media giant Bonnier Group is moving to Bonnier subsidiary, the mini-major Svensk Filmindustri, where she takes over as Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately. Westerberg will report directly to Svensk CEO Jonas Fors and oversee Svensk's financing and production divisions as well as its new establishment and research operations. She joins Svensk as the company is going through a major reorganization following its merger with Swedish production company Tre Vanner, the group behind the hit Easy Money film trilogy and TV crime series the Fjallbacka Murders. Fors, former CEO of Tre Vanner, took over
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- 1/15/2014
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After Svensk Filmindustri’s recent acquisition of Tre Vanner, the company is now gathering all its Nordic production activities under one roof.
Charlotta Denward, who is currently head of production in Sweden, will head the new Nordic operations. She will be responsible for all the Sf and Tre Vänner feature film, TV and web productions in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, as well as for all the co-productions with independent production companies in the same markets.
”I am very pleased that Charlotta has agreed to lead the new Sf Nordic production organisation. It is a very demanding and challenging position and Charlotta has all the qualifications to make this work,” said Jonas Fors, President and CEO of Svensk Filmindustri.
Denward added: “Co-productions are very important for us. To work with different production companies and producers provides us with a range of possibilities and diversity which we do not possess in-house. In addition...
Charlotta Denward, who is currently head of production in Sweden, will head the new Nordic operations. She will be responsible for all the Sf and Tre Vänner feature film, TV and web productions in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, as well as for all the co-productions with independent production companies in the same markets.
”I am very pleased that Charlotta has agreed to lead the new Sf Nordic production organisation. It is a very demanding and challenging position and Charlotta has all the qualifications to make this work,” said Jonas Fors, President and CEO of Svensk Filmindustri.
Denward added: “Co-productions are very important for us. To work with different production companies and producers provides us with a range of possibilities and diversity which we do not possess in-house. In addition...
- 12/4/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Peter Possne, CEO and producer at Sweden’s Sonet Film is to leave the company after 29 years.
Possne, who was one of the founders of Sonet Film in 1984, said he wanted “to do something else with my life and be open to new and exciting experiences”.
Scandinavian major Ab Svensk Filmindustri acquired Sonet Film including all the film rights from Modern Times Group in 2007 with Possne as CEO. Sonet Film has since then operated as an independent film producer within Svensk Filmindustri.
Possne has produced and co-produced more than 70 Swedish feature films during his career including False Trail, Patrik Aged 1.5, The Importance of Tying Your Own Shoes, Simple Simon, The Hypnotist, Sebbe and current release Nobody Owns Me.
This year has seen Possne lay the foundation for a new TV drama department within Sonet, which is currently developing new projects based on the works of Kerstin Ekman, Henning Mankell, Håkan Nesser and Anne Holt among others.
In a...
Possne, who was one of the founders of Sonet Film in 1984, said he wanted “to do something else with my life and be open to new and exciting experiences”.
Scandinavian major Ab Svensk Filmindustri acquired Sonet Film including all the film rights from Modern Times Group in 2007 with Possne as CEO. Sonet Film has since then operated as an independent film producer within Svensk Filmindustri.
Possne has produced and co-produced more than 70 Swedish feature films during his career including False Trail, Patrik Aged 1.5, The Importance of Tying Your Own Shoes, Simple Simon, The Hypnotist, Sebbe and current release Nobody Owns Me.
This year has seen Possne lay the foundation for a new TV drama department within Sonet, which is currently developing new projects based on the works of Kerstin Ekman, Henning Mankell, Håkan Nesser and Anne Holt among others.
In a...
- 12/3/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- 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
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