The first trailer has dropped for Shia Labeouf’s next film, “Borg/McEnroe.” Directed by Janus Metz Pedersen, the biopic tells the story of the famous rivalry between Swedish tennis superstar Björn Borg and his biggest opponent, American player John McEnroe, during 1980’s Wimbledon Championships. Labeouf stars as McEnroe, while Sverrir Gudnason (“Monica Z,” “Gentlemen”) plays Borg. The film also stars Stellan Skarsgård and Tuva Novotny.
Read More: ‘Borg/McEnroe’: See First Image of Shia Labeouf as Tennis Star John McEnroe for Biopic
In an interview with Variety in October, Labeouf said, “[McEnroe and I have] everything in common. Passionate. Perfectionist. Narcissistic. I’m a bit of a caricature also. You look for parallels in your life, and I’m lucky because there is a lot here…I’m eager to meet him before we shoot. I got nothing but love and respect for him. The script is brilliant. We are all here because of that.
Read More: ‘Borg/McEnroe’: See First Image of Shia Labeouf as Tennis Star John McEnroe for Biopic
In an interview with Variety in October, Labeouf said, “[McEnroe and I have] everything in common. Passionate. Perfectionist. Narcissistic. I’m a bit of a caricature also. You look for parallels in your life, and I’m lucky because there is a lot here…I’m eager to meet him before we shoot. I got nothing but love and respect for him. The script is brilliant. We are all here because of that.
- 5/19/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Copenhagen Film Fund backs Per Fly’s Backstabbing For Beginners.
The Copenhagen Film Fund is investing $440,000 (€400,000) in Per Fly’s English-language thriller about economic corruption, Backstabbing For Beginners.
Ben Kingsley and Theo James are confirmed to star in the story of a Dane caught in a power struggle with corrupt colleagues while working for the Un’s Oil For Food programme.
Fly co-wrote the screenplay with Daniel Pyne and Fly directs for Danish production companies Creative Alliances and Parts & Labor Dk. Producers are Malene Blenkov, Lars Knudsen, Nikolaj Vibe Michelsen and Jay van Hoy.
Thanks to the Fund’s investment, the film is set to shoot large sections in the Copenhagen area starting in April. The project has already started shooting in Morocco.
Backstabbing For Beginners has a total budget of $8.5m (€7.7m) with other financing coming from the Danish Film Institute and Nordic, Us and Canadian investors.
Copenhagen Film Fund, set up three...
The Copenhagen Film Fund is investing $440,000 (€400,000) in Per Fly’s English-language thriller about economic corruption, Backstabbing For Beginners.
Ben Kingsley and Theo James are confirmed to star in the story of a Dane caught in a power struggle with corrupt colleagues while working for the Un’s Oil For Food programme.
Fly co-wrote the screenplay with Daniel Pyne and Fly directs for Danish production companies Creative Alliances and Parts & Labor Dk. Producers are Malene Blenkov, Lars Knudsen, Nikolaj Vibe Michelsen and Jay van Hoy.
Thanks to the Fund’s investment, the film is set to shoot large sections in the Copenhagen area starting in April. The project has already started shooting in Morocco.
Backstabbing For Beginners has a total budget of $8.5m (€7.7m) with other financing coming from the Danish Film Institute and Nordic, Us and Canadian investors.
Copenhagen Film Fund, set up three...
- 2/24/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Terence Davies' Emily Dickinson Biopic, 'A Quiet Passion,' to Premiere in Berlin "A Serious Game," the new film from Swedish actress and director Pernilla August, is sure to be extremely classy. Adapted from Hjalmar Söderberg's Swedish classic novel from 1912, "A Serious Game" is a timeless tale of two young people falling deeply in love with each other. Love is never as simple as we wish, and sacrifices soon have to be made. Starring Sverrir Gudnason ("Monica Z"), Karin Franz Körlof and Michael Nyqvist ("The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"), "A Serious Game" is sure to make all fans of foreign romance swoon. "A Serious Game" premieres at the Berlin International Film Festival starting on February 15. ...
- 2/12/2016
- by Bryn Gelbart
- Indiewire
"Divergent" hunk Theo James is in early talks to join Ben Kingsley in the political thriller "Backstabbing For Beginners" at Parts & Labor, Creative Alliance, and Scythia Films. James is taking over a role once earmarked for Josh Hutcherson, and filming is slated to begin shortly.
Per Fly ("Monica Z") helms and Daniel Pyne ("The Manchurian Candidate") pens this adaptation of Michael Soussan's memoir about a young idealist who lands his dream job as a program coordinator for the Un's Oil for Food program.
Thrown into an fraught post-war Iraq where others are circling the country's oil reserves like sharks, he seeks answers from his seasoned diplomat boss (Kingsley) and soon suspects a conspiracy at the highest level whilst at the same time falling in love with a Kurdish woman.
Source: Deadline...
Per Fly ("Monica Z") helms and Daniel Pyne ("The Manchurian Candidate") pens this adaptation of Michael Soussan's memoir about a young idealist who lands his dream job as a program coordinator for the Un's Oil for Food program.
Thrown into an fraught post-war Iraq where others are circling the country's oil reserves like sharks, he seeks answers from his seasoned diplomat boss (Kingsley) and soon suspects a conspiracy at the highest level whilst at the same time falling in love with a Kurdish woman.
Source: Deadline...
- 1/21/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Don Cheadle’s Miles Davies’ biopic to get international premiere.
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) has unveiled the eight-strong line-up for its Berlinale Special strand, which includes recent works by contemporary filmmakers and biopics of renowned personalities.
The programme includes the world premiere of Terence Davies’ drama biopic A Quiet Passion, which stars Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon as the celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson, charting her life from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive artist. Jennifer Ehle (Fifty Shades Of Grey) and Keith Carradine (Nashville) co-star.
The line-up also includes the international premiere of Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle’s directorial debut in which he also stars as jazz pioneer Miles Davis in late 1970s Manhattan, dealing with sycophants, industry executives, career highs and lows and memories of the love of his life, Frances Taylor.
Pernilla August’s A Serious Game will also world premiere...
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) has unveiled the eight-strong line-up for its Berlinale Special strand, which includes recent works by contemporary filmmakers and biopics of renowned personalities.
The programme includes the world premiere of Terence Davies’ drama biopic A Quiet Passion, which stars Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon as the celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson, charting her life from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive artist. Jennifer Ehle (Fifty Shades Of Grey) and Keith Carradine (Nashville) co-star.
The line-up also includes the international premiere of Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle’s directorial debut in which he also stars as jazz pioneer Miles Davis in late 1970s Manhattan, dealing with sycophants, industry executives, career highs and lows and memories of the love of his life, Frances Taylor.
Pernilla August’s A Serious Game will also world premiere...
- 1/18/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Get ready to meet... the boy. Scream Factory will release The Boy, produced by Chiller Films and Elijah Wood's company SpectreVision, on Blu-ray / DVD this spring. Also: Dark Blue first details, a new All Mistakes Buried poster, four images from Axeman II: Overkill, and Serial Kaller.
The Boy: Press Release: "From Elijah Wood's SpectreVision and Chiller Films comes a disturbing new vision exploring the birth of evil. On March 1st, Chiller Film’s enigmatic psychological thriller The Boy makes its Blu-ray and DVD debut courtesy of Scream Factory. Starring Jared Breeze, Rainn Wilson (Cooties, The Office)), and David Morse, the release also includes a behind the scenes featurette as a bonus feature. Fans of this creepily suspenseful film can pre-order their copies now by visiting ShoutFactory.com.
In the summer of 1989, nine-year-old Ten Henley (Jared Breeze, Cooties) and his father John (David Morse, True Detective, World War Z...
The Boy: Press Release: "From Elijah Wood's SpectreVision and Chiller Films comes a disturbing new vision exploring the birth of evil. On March 1st, Chiller Film’s enigmatic psychological thriller The Boy makes its Blu-ray and DVD debut courtesy of Scream Factory. Starring Jared Breeze, Rainn Wilson (Cooties, The Office)), and David Morse, the release also includes a behind the scenes featurette as a bonus feature. Fans of this creepily suspenseful film can pre-order their copies now by visiting ShoutFactory.com.
In the summer of 1989, nine-year-old Ten Henley (Jared Breeze, Cooties) and his father John (David Morse, True Detective, World War Z...
- 1/7/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Pernilla August and Lone Scherfig join forces on an adaptation of Hjalmar Söderberg’s 1912 novel.
Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason (Monica Z) and Karin Franz Körlof (Nobody Owns Me) are to play the leading roles in The Serious Game.
The film will be directed by Pernilla August (Beyond) and has been scripted by Lone Scherfig (An Education, The Riot Club).
Based on Hjalmar Söderberg’s novel, published in 1912, the story centres on a man and a woman who fall in love when young, and remain in love, but stay separated and marry others.
The book was previously adapted for a 1945 film directed by Rune Carlsten and a 1977 feature, titled Games of Love and Loneliness, directed by Anja Breien.
August said: “The Serious Game is about the dream and longing for the one great love. About Lydia and Arvid who say no, when we want them to say yes.”
Producers are Patrik Andersson and Frida Bargo for B-reel in cooperation...
Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason (Monica Z) and Karin Franz Körlof (Nobody Owns Me) are to play the leading roles in The Serious Game.
The film will be directed by Pernilla August (Beyond) and has been scripted by Lone Scherfig (An Education, The Riot Club).
Based on Hjalmar Söderberg’s novel, published in 1912, the story centres on a man and a woman who fall in love when young, and remain in love, but stay separated and marry others.
The book was previously adapted for a 1945 film directed by Rune Carlsten and a 1977 feature, titled Games of Love and Loneliness, directed by Anja Breien.
August said: “The Serious Game is about the dream and longing for the one great love. About Lydia and Arvid who say no, when we want them to say yes.”
Producers are Patrik Andersson and Frida Bargo for B-reel in cooperation...
- 10/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Here’s a case of good timing. Paradigm today signed Swedish actress Edda Magnason, whose name recognition went up shortly after when she was awarded the Shooting Stars Award at the Berlin Film Festival, the prize that spotlight’s Europe’s best young talent. She won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress (Sweden’s highest honor) for her portrayal of Swedish jazz singer/actress Monica Zetterlund in Monica Z, which was one of the country’s top-grossing films of last year. She’s up for the Swedish equivalent of a Grammy for the soundtrack and so far has released two albums and signed with Warner Music and Sony/Atv Music Publishing. She’s repped by Artisgruppen in Sweden. Here’s a trailer of her movie:...
- 2/10/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Anna Odell’s drama wins best film at the Guldbagge Awards; Per Fly’sWaltz for Monica (Monica Z) wins four.
Anna Odell’s feature debut The Reunion (Återträffen) received two top prizes at the 50th Guldbagge Awards in Sweden last night. The depiction of a class reunion after 20 years won Best Film and Best Screenplay.
Odell, who wrote the screenplay, said on stage: “I usually say things how they are, but I’m really bewildered. Long live art, life and liberty! And culture and everything.”
It marks the third consecutive year that a debut female filmmaker collected the Best Film statuette after Lisa Aschan’s She Monkeys (Apflickorna) and Gabriela Pichler’s East Sleep Die (Äta sova dö).
Produced by Mathilde Dedye, for French Quarter Film, The Reunion previously picked up the Fipresci prize for Best First Feature in Venice last August and is set to screen at the Rotterdam Film Festival (Jan 22 - Feb 2).
The night’s...
Anna Odell’s feature debut The Reunion (Återträffen) received two top prizes at the 50th Guldbagge Awards in Sweden last night. The depiction of a class reunion after 20 years won Best Film and Best Screenplay.
Odell, who wrote the screenplay, said on stage: “I usually say things how they are, but I’m really bewildered. Long live art, life and liberty! And culture and everything.”
It marks the third consecutive year that a debut female filmmaker collected the Best Film statuette after Lisa Aschan’s She Monkeys (Apflickorna) and Gabriela Pichler’s East Sleep Die (Äta sova dö).
Produced by Mathilde Dedye, for French Quarter Film, The Reunion previously picked up the Fipresci prize for Best First Feature in Venice last August and is set to screen at the Rotterdam Film Festival (Jan 22 - Feb 2).
The night’s...
- 1/21/2014
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Per Fly’s biopic leads Swedish film award nominations with 11 nods, followed by Shed No Tears, The Reunion and Hotell.Scroll down for full nominations
Waltz With Monica (Monica Z), from Danish director Per Fly, leads the race for the Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) – the Swedish national film awards, now in its 50th year – with 11 nominations.
The story of legendary Swedish singer-actress Monica Zetterlund stars Edda Magnason in her first film role.
The biopic has been nominated for best film, best director, best cinematography and best actress for Magnason. Its other nominations include two of the three slots in the best supporting actor category for Kjell Bergqvist and Sverrir Gudnason.
Shed No Tears (Känn ingen sorg), about a man who dreams of success in the music world, has secured nine nominations. The film is directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein, back from Hollywood after directing action sequel Underworld: Awakening.
The duo have been nominated for best director...
Waltz With Monica (Monica Z), from Danish director Per Fly, leads the race for the Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) – the Swedish national film awards, now in its 50th year – with 11 nominations.
The story of legendary Swedish singer-actress Monica Zetterlund stars Edda Magnason in her first film role.
The biopic has been nominated for best film, best director, best cinematography and best actress for Magnason. Its other nominations include two of the three slots in the best supporting actor category for Kjell Bergqvist and Sverrir Gudnason.
Shed No Tears (Känn ingen sorg), about a man who dreams of success in the music world, has secured nine nominations. The film is directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein, back from Hollywood after directing action sequel Underworld: Awakening.
The duo have been nominated for best director...
- 1/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Göteborg, Sweden – One of the year’s most anticipated films, Monica Z (also known as Waltz for Monica), made its Nordic premiere at Way Out West, a month before the theatrical release in cinemas across Sweden. From her simple life as a telephone operator in a small Swedish town, to becoming a national celebrity performing in jazz clubs in Stockholm and New York, the film chronicles the life of legendary Swedish jazz singer and actor, Monica Zetterlund. Monica played a major role in popularizing jazz in Scandinavia and beyond from the late 1950s. She was awarded a medal by the Swedish government for her contributions to the cultural life of Sweden.
Per Fly directs this fine biopic with the original script by Peter Birro. Fly’s film does a good job reproducing the style of each era portrayed in Monica Z. Centering on Monica’s dramatic and often turbulent journey...
Per Fly directs this fine biopic with the original script by Peter Birro. Fly’s film does a good job reproducing the style of each era portrayed in Monica Z. Centering on Monica’s dramatic and often turbulent journey...
- 10/9/2013
- by Marie Ferrer
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Cannes winner Blue is the Warmest Colour also picked up a prize at the 41st Norwegian International Film Festival (Niff) awards.
Danish director Per Fly picked up the Nordic Film Prize at the Niff awards last night [Aug 20] for his biopic Monica Z (Waltz for Monica).
The story of legendary Swedish singer-actress Monica Zetterlund stars Edda Magnason in her first film role. Monica Z will be released in Norway on Sept 13.
Fly will next direct Backstabbing for Beginners, based on the true story of Un whistleblower Michael Soussan who called for an investigation of the Un’s dealings with Saddam Hussein. Fly is working on the screenplay with Us writer Daniel Pyne (The Sum of All Fears) and it marks the first project developed for the international market by Creative Alliance - a new company created earlier this year by six Nordic directors and Us outfit Parts & Labor.
Other winners included Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Colour, which...
Danish director Per Fly picked up the Nordic Film Prize at the Niff awards last night [Aug 20] for his biopic Monica Z (Waltz for Monica).
The story of legendary Swedish singer-actress Monica Zetterlund stars Edda Magnason in her first film role. Monica Z will be released in Norway on Sept 13.
Fly will next direct Backstabbing for Beginners, based on the true story of Un whistleblower Michael Soussan who called for an investigation of the Un’s dealings with Saddam Hussein. Fly is working on the screenplay with Us writer Daniel Pyne (The Sum of All Fears) and it marks the first project developed for the international market by Creative Alliance - a new company created earlier this year by six Nordic directors and Us outfit Parts & Labor.
Other winners included Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Colour, which...
- 8/21/2013
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
The Norwegian International Film Festival (Niff) is to showcase the “diversity” of the region’s current output, according to programme director Håkon Skogrand.
The 41st Niff will run from Aug 15-22 in Haugesund, opening with the world premiere of Erik Skjoldbjærg’s oil rush thriller, Pionér (Pioneer) starring Aksel Henie.
The festival will close with Gunhild Westhagen Magnor’s Optimistene (The Optimists), a documentary about a volleyball club of ladies aged 66-98.
“There is currently an impressive diversity in Norwegian cinema,” declared programme director Håkon Skogrand
However, there has been an increasing emphasis on films from Norway and the Nordic countries in recent years and festival director Gunnar Johan Løvvik has decided to give each section equal status to address this.
The sections include the main selection, Cinemagi (for children), French Touch, New British Films, Nordic Focus and New Nordic Films.
In the international line-up Skogrand will present 23 films from 13 countries and wide-ranging environments – “from New York...
The 41st Niff will run from Aug 15-22 in Haugesund, opening with the world premiere of Erik Skjoldbjærg’s oil rush thriller, Pionér (Pioneer) starring Aksel Henie.
The festival will close with Gunhild Westhagen Magnor’s Optimistene (The Optimists), a documentary about a volleyball club of ladies aged 66-98.
“There is currently an impressive diversity in Norwegian cinema,” declared programme director Håkon Skogrand
However, there has been an increasing emphasis on films from Norway and the Nordic countries in recent years and festival director Gunnar Johan Løvvik has decided to give each section equal status to address this.
The sections include the main selection, Cinemagi (for children), French Touch, New British Films, Nordic Focus and New Nordic Films.
In the international line-up Skogrand will present 23 films from 13 countries and wide-ranging environments – “from New York...
- 8/14/2013
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Göteborg, Sweden – Celebrating it’s 7th year, Way Out West 2013 takes place from August 8-10th. This year’s festival will feature amazing musical talent such as Neil Young, Alicia Keys, Of Monsters and Men, Håkan Hellström, Phosphorescent and many more.
Way Out West is more than music, new this year is Way Out West Talks featuring lectures and interviews by some stimulating and inspiring personalities.
And of course, Way Out West Films features some exclusive premieres such as Wong Kar-Wai’s “The Grandmaster”.
Thursday 1pm at Capitol
Along with some special screenings like “Kiss of the Damned”
Director: Xan Cassavetes
Saturday 10:45 at Hagabion 2
And Nordic Premiere of “Monica Z”
Director: Per Fly
Saturday 12:30pm at Capitol
Way Out West 2013 takes place from August 8-10th, with films being screened at various theatres around central Göteborg. HeyUGuys will be providing coverage during the 3-day long festival.
Read the...
Way Out West is more than music, new this year is Way Out West Talks featuring lectures and interviews by some stimulating and inspiring personalities.
And of course, Way Out West Films features some exclusive premieres such as Wong Kar-Wai’s “The Grandmaster”.
Thursday 1pm at Capitol
Along with some special screenings like “Kiss of the Damned”
Director: Xan Cassavetes
Saturday 10:45 at Hagabion 2
And Nordic Premiere of “Monica Z”
Director: Per Fly
Saturday 12:30pm at Capitol
Way Out West 2013 takes place from August 8-10th, with films being screened at various theatres around central Göteborg. HeyUGuys will be providing coverage during the 3-day long festival.
Read the...
- 8/8/2013
- by Marie Ferrer
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Well, it's not Don Cheadle's Miles Davis project, or even a Miles Davis-centered film, but you should know that production is in full swing in Trollhättan, Sweden on a feature film titled Monica Z (full title Monica – A Lingonberry in a Cocktail) based on the life of the famous Swedish jazz vocalist and actress, Monica Zetterlund, whose career ran from the late 1950s until 2005, when she passed. Edda Magnason is playing the title role in a production that's being described as a powerful drama about a fascinating life story, based on an original screenplay by Peter Birro and directed by multiple award-winning director Per Fly. (yes, that's correct). ...
- 6/6/2012
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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