Exclusive: Banijay-owned Yellow Bird UK has optioned the rights to Alison Gaylin’s forthcoming novel The Collective and is planning to develop it into a major TV series.
The If I Die Tonight and What Remains Of Me author’s latest work, which will be published in November, is centered around Camille Gardener – a grieving and angry mother who, five years after her daughter’s death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible.
Yellow Bird UK was launched in October 2017 and is led by Creative Director Berna Levin. Upcoming for the production house is a series telling the origin story of music-streaming service Spotify for Netflix. It is the sister company of Swedish drama production company, Yellow Bird, which has credits including Wallander and the Millennium trilogy.
Luke Franklin, Director of Development for Yellow Bird UK, commented: “In The Collective, Alison Gaylin has crafted an unputdownable,...
The If I Die Tonight and What Remains Of Me author’s latest work, which will be published in November, is centered around Camille Gardener – a grieving and angry mother who, five years after her daughter’s death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible.
Yellow Bird UK was launched in October 2017 and is led by Creative Director Berna Levin. Upcoming for the production house is a series telling the origin story of music-streaming service Spotify for Netflix. It is the sister company of Swedish drama production company, Yellow Bird, which has credits including Wallander and the Millennium trilogy.
Luke Franklin, Director of Development for Yellow Bird UK, commented: “In The Collective, Alison Gaylin has crafted an unputdownable,...
- 9/29/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Kurt Wallander is set to take on more cases after European drama Young Wallander was renewed at Netflix for a second season.
The streamer launched the first season of the series, produced by Banijay-backed Yellow Bird UK and based on Henning Mankell’s novels, in September.
Swedish actor Adam Pålsson stars as the eponymous detective with Argo’s Richard Dillane and Black Mirror’s previously Leanne Best also starring. Pålsson takes on the mantle of Wallander after he was played by Kenneth Branagh in a BBC adaptation of Mankell’s books.
The show is a modern reimagining of the detective story with Kurt Wallander navigating the increasingly violent environment of present-day Sweden. In the first season, after he was unable to save a teenager from a gruesome attack, Wallander had to learn to cope with his guilt in order to solve the crime.
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The first...
The streamer launched the first season of the series, produced by Banijay-backed Yellow Bird UK and based on Henning Mankell’s novels, in September.
Swedish actor Adam Pålsson stars as the eponymous detective with Argo’s Richard Dillane and Black Mirror’s previously Leanne Best also starring. Pålsson takes on the mantle of Wallander after he was played by Kenneth Branagh in a BBC adaptation of Mankell’s books.
The show is a modern reimagining of the detective story with Kurt Wallander navigating the increasingly violent environment of present-day Sweden. In the first season, after he was unable to save a teenager from a gruesome attack, Wallander had to learn to cope with his guilt in order to solve the crime.
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The first...
- 11/6/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is looking to fellow streamer Spotify for inspiration as it readies a new scripted series about the formation of the Swedish music giant.
The limited series will be based on a book titled Spotify Untold, which was written by business reporters Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud. The film will be produced by Yellow Bird UK, the studio behind another upcoming Netflix series titled Young Wallander, a crime series based on a series of Swedish novels. The Spotify project will be directed by Per-Olav Sørensen (Quicksand), who called Spotify “an ongoing fairytale in modern history about how Swedish wiz kids changed the music industry forever.” Berna Levin (Young Wallander) will serve as executive producer.
“The founding tale of Spotify is a great example of how a local story can have a global impact,” Tesha Crawford, Netflix’s director of international originals for Northern Europe, said in a statement. “We are...
The limited series will be based on a book titled Spotify Untold, which was written by business reporters Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud. The film will be produced by Yellow Bird UK, the studio behind another upcoming Netflix series titled Young Wallander, a crime series based on a series of Swedish novels. The Spotify project will be directed by Per-Olav Sørensen (Quicksand), who called Spotify “an ongoing fairytale in modern history about how Swedish wiz kids changed the music industry forever.” Berna Levin (Young Wallander) will serve as executive producer.
“The founding tale of Spotify is a great example of how a local story can have a global impact,” Tesha Crawford, Netflix’s director of international originals for Northern Europe, said in a statement. “We are...
- 12/11/2019
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
A new scripted miniseries about the creation and rise of Spotify is headed to Netflix, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The as-yet-untitled series will be based on the book Spotify Untold, which Swedish journalists Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud published this year. No director, showrunner or stars have been announced yet, although the series will be produced by Berna Levin and Per-Olav Sorensen. The production company, Yellow Bird UK, will produce after optioning the book rights this summer.
In a statement, Levin said of the series, “It’s the story...
The as-yet-untitled series will be based on the book Spotify Untold, which Swedish journalists Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud published this year. No director, showrunner or stars have been announced yet, although the series will be produced by Berna Levin and Per-Olav Sorensen. The production company, Yellow Bird UK, will produce after optioning the book rights this summer.
In a statement, Levin said of the series, “It’s the story...
- 12/11/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
In a case of one disrupter telling the story of another, Netflix has boarded a series about the creation of Spotify, the Swedish startup that’s become one of the world’s leading music services.
The as-yet-untitled limited series, to be directed by Per-Olav Sørensen (“Quicksand”), is inspired by the book “Spotify Untold” by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud, who are business reporters at Sweden’s Dagens Industri.
The series will follow young Swedish tech entrepreneur Daniel Ek and his partner, Martin Lorentzon, who revolutionized the music industry at a turbulent time when it was being damaged by piracy and controlled by heavy-hitters who were fighting each other for a bigger piece of the pie. The pair took the industry by storm by offering free and legal streamed music around the world.
Netflix said the series will be “about how hard convictions, unrelenting will, access and big dreams can help...
The as-yet-untitled limited series, to be directed by Per-Olav Sørensen (“Quicksand”), is inspired by the book “Spotify Untold” by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud, who are business reporters at Sweden’s Dagens Industri.
The series will follow young Swedish tech entrepreneur Daniel Ek and his partner, Martin Lorentzon, who revolutionized the music industry at a turbulent time when it was being damaged by piracy and controlled by heavy-hitters who were fighting each other for a bigger piece of the pie. The pair took the industry by storm by offering free and legal streamed music around the world.
Netflix said the series will be “about how hard convictions, unrelenting will, access and big dreams can help...
- 12/11/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix will tell the origin story of Swedish music streaming service Spotify in a yet-to-be-titled series from Young Wallander producer Yellow Bird UK.
The scripted series, which has echoes of Aaron Sorkin’s 2010 movie The Social Network, will be based on the book Spotify Untold, which was published this year by business journalists Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud.
It tells the story of how Swedish tech entrepreneur Daniel Ek and business partner Martin Lorentzon revolutionized the music industry through free and legal music streaming when they launched Spotify in 2006. Netflix said it is a drama about how hard convictions, unrelenting will and big dreams can challenge the status quo.
The untitled series will be directed by Per-Olav Sørensen, while Berna Levin (Young Wallander) is the executive producer. Luke Franklin is the producer.
Tesha Crawford, director of international originals Northern Europe at Netflix, said: “The founding tale...
The scripted series, which has echoes of Aaron Sorkin’s 2010 movie The Social Network, will be based on the book Spotify Untold, which was published this year by business journalists Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud.
It tells the story of how Swedish tech entrepreneur Daniel Ek and business partner Martin Lorentzon revolutionized the music industry through free and legal music streaming when they launched Spotify in 2006. Netflix said it is a drama about how hard convictions, unrelenting will and big dreams can challenge the status quo.
The untitled series will be directed by Per-Olav Sørensen, while Berna Levin (Young Wallander) is the executive producer. Luke Franklin is the producer.
Tesha Crawford, director of international originals Northern Europe at Netflix, said: “The founding tale...
- 12/11/2019
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has ordered a new, scripted series from Sweden on the story of music streaming service Spotify.
The as-yet-untitled limited series will be based on the book Spotify Untold by Swedish business reporters Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud. Yellow Bird UK, a division of pan-European group Banijay, will produce the Swedish and English-language series Netflix. Berna Levin (Young Wallander) will executive produce, with Per-Olav Sorensen (Quicksand) directing.
Swedish tech entrepreneur Daniel Ek and his partner Martin Lorentzon launched Spotify in 2006, at the height of online music piracy, when many were predicting the end of the music business. Instead, the ...
The as-yet-untitled limited series will be based on the book Spotify Untold by Swedish business reporters Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud. Yellow Bird UK, a division of pan-European group Banijay, will produce the Swedish and English-language series Netflix. Berna Levin (Young Wallander) will executive produce, with Per-Olav Sorensen (Quicksand) directing.
Swedish tech entrepreneur Daniel Ek and his partner Martin Lorentzon launched Spotify in 2006, at the height of online music piracy, when many were predicting the end of the music business. Instead, the ...
- 12/11/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix has found its Young Wallander – the Svod service has cast Swedish actor Adam Pålsson in the role alongside Argo’s Richard Dillane and Black Mirror’s Leanne Best.
Pålsson, who starred in Svt drama Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves as well as The Bridge, takes on the role previously played by Kenneth Branagh in the adaptation of Henning Mankell’s novels.
The six-part series, which has just started filming, tells the story of detective Kurt Wallander’s first case and is produced by Banijay-backed Yellow Bird UK. The story focuses on the formative experiences – professional and personal – faced by Wallander as a recently graduated police officer in his early twenties. It launches on Netflix in 2020.
Pålsson plays Kurt Wallander, Dillane, who also starred in The Dark Knight and Peaky Blinders, plays Superintendent Hemberg and Best, who also starred in Line of Duty and Tin Star,...
Pålsson, who starred in Svt drama Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves as well as The Bridge, takes on the role previously played by Kenneth Branagh in the adaptation of Henning Mankell’s novels.
The six-part series, which has just started filming, tells the story of detective Kurt Wallander’s first case and is produced by Banijay-backed Yellow Bird UK. The story focuses on the formative experiences – professional and personal – faced by Wallander as a recently graduated police officer in his early twenties. It launches on Netflix in 2020.
Pålsson plays Kurt Wallander, Dillane, who also starred in The Dark Knight and Peaky Blinders, plays Superintendent Hemberg and Best, who also starred in Line of Duty and Tin Star,...
- 9/11/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Yellow Bird U.K. has optioned the screen rights to tell-all book “Spotify Untold” with plans to develop it into a limited series for television. Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud’s novel details the story behind the Swedish start-up which became one of the world’s leading music services and its attempts to take on U.S. giants including Apple.
Spotify’s turbulent journey into the U.S. will be central to the drama of the show. Yellow Bird U.K. Cco Berna Levin will serve as executive producer on the series with Luke Franklin producing. Carlsson and Leijonhufvud will serve as consultants.
“The rise of Spotify is one of the greatest stories to come out of Sweden in the past ten years,” said Leijonhufvud. “It’s a saga of a young founder who came out of nowhere and beat Apple at their own game.”
Launched in 2018, Yellow Bird U.
Spotify’s turbulent journey into the U.S. will be central to the drama of the show. Yellow Bird U.K. Cco Berna Levin will serve as executive producer on the series with Luke Franklin producing. Carlsson and Leijonhufvud will serve as consultants.
“The rise of Spotify is one of the greatest stories to come out of Sweden in the past ten years,” said Leijonhufvud. “It’s a saga of a young founder who came out of nowhere and beat Apple at their own game.”
Launched in 2018, Yellow Bird U.
- 8/20/2019
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
Rolling off the Netflix original show “Young Wallander,” Yellow Bird U.K. is set to produce its second drama, “The Secret Woman,” a series adaptation of the Danish book of the same name written by Anna Ekberg.
Leading British screenwriter Adrian Hodges, whose credits include “My Week With Marilyn,” “The Musketeers,” “The Go-Between” and “Labyrinth,” has come on board to adapt the novel.
Launched a year ago, Yellow Bird U.K. is the Britain-based arm of the Banijay-owned thriving Scandinavian banner Yellow Bird Sweden which is behind such hits as “Wallander,” “Occupied,” “Millennium” and “Hidden.”
Berna Levin, the Cco of Yellow Bird UK, described “The Secret Woman” as a “luscious female-led murder mystery.” The novel centers on Louise Andersen, a forty-something woman who lives in a secluded village on the Danish island of Bornholm with Joachim, who is 10 years older than her. Their routinal life is disrupted by the arrival of Edmund,...
Leading British screenwriter Adrian Hodges, whose credits include “My Week With Marilyn,” “The Musketeers,” “The Go-Between” and “Labyrinth,” has come on board to adapt the novel.
Launched a year ago, Yellow Bird U.K. is the Britain-based arm of the Banijay-owned thriving Scandinavian banner Yellow Bird Sweden which is behind such hits as “Wallander,” “Occupied,” “Millennium” and “Hidden.”
Berna Levin, the Cco of Yellow Bird UK, described “The Secret Woman” as a “luscious female-led murder mystery.” The novel centers on Louise Andersen, a forty-something woman who lives in a secluded village on the Danish island of Bornholm with Joachim, who is 10 years older than her. Their routinal life is disrupted by the arrival of Edmund,...
- 4/8/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Banijay and its Scandinavian outfit Yellow Bird (“Millennium”) have unveiled the promo of the anticipated fantasy thriller series “Hidden,” which stars Izabella Scorupco (“GoldenEye”) and August Wittgenstein (“The Crown”).
Commissioned by Mtg Studios, “Hidden” is based on Filip Alexanderson’s novel “Förstfödd” and takes place in modern-day Stockholm, where people living on the margins discover they have supernatural forces.
Now in post-production, the eight-part series, which blends the paranormal with hard-hitting realism and psychological drama, was introduced to buyers at Mipcom in October. Scorupco told Variety that the 1970s-set series was a highly personal project and described her character in the show as “the most beautiful and compassionate” she’s ever played.
The series is rooted in Scandinavia’s mythology, and follows a subspecies of humans who have enhanced abilities. Although it’s a fantasy series, Scorupco said the show raised issues affecting today’s Scandinavia. “We have this amazingly well-off society,...
Commissioned by Mtg Studios, “Hidden” is based on Filip Alexanderson’s novel “Förstfödd” and takes place in modern-day Stockholm, where people living on the margins discover they have supernatural forces.
Now in post-production, the eight-part series, which blends the paranormal with hard-hitting realism and psychological drama, was introduced to buyers at Mipcom in October. Scorupco told Variety that the 1970s-set series was a highly personal project and described her character in the show as “the most beautiful and compassionate” she’s ever played.
The series is rooted in Scandinavia’s mythology, and follows a subspecies of humans who have enhanced abilities. Although it’s a fantasy series, Scorupco said the show raised issues affecting today’s Scandinavia. “We have this amazingly well-off society,...
- 12/10/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
John Niven is adapting his book “Straight White Male” for TV with the U.K. arm of “Wallander” producer Yellow Bird.
The author’s “Kill Your Friends” was adapted for the big screen in 2015, and he will now take “Straight White Male” to TV. The book follows the personal and professional misadventures of Kennedy Marr, an unreconstructed, hard-living Irish writer living in Los Angeles. To keep the the tax man at bay, he’s forced to return to England to accept a lucrative prize from a British university.
“I’ve long thought that ‘Straight White Male’ had all the ingredients for a great TV series, and that Kennedy Marr’s singular approach to life and love is more relevant than ever,” Niven said. “Getting the chance to develop the show with Yellow Bird U.K., who share my passion for this character, feels ridiculously fortunate.”
It is the second project...
The author’s “Kill Your Friends” was adapted for the big screen in 2015, and he will now take “Straight White Male” to TV. The book follows the personal and professional misadventures of Kennedy Marr, an unreconstructed, hard-living Irish writer living in Los Angeles. To keep the the tax man at bay, he’s forced to return to England to accept a lucrative prize from a British university.
“I’ve long thought that ‘Straight White Male’ had all the ingredients for a great TV series, and that Kennedy Marr’s singular approach to life and love is more relevant than ever,” Niven said. “Getting the chance to develop the show with Yellow Bird U.K., who share my passion for this character, feels ridiculously fortunate.”
It is the second project...
- 12/3/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Six-part serialised drama will be shot in English with British and Swedish cast.
Netflix has ordered Young Wallander, a new series from Yellow Bird UK based on Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander novels.
The six-part serialised drama will be shot in English with a British and Swedish cast. Yellow Bird UK, the Banijay Group company that produced the BBC’s Wallander series from 2008 to 2016, will start production next year.
Set in contemporary Sweden, Young Wallander will follow Mankell’s detective character on his first case. Mankell’s Wallander novels have been the source for several series and films,...
Netflix has ordered Young Wallander, a new series from Yellow Bird UK based on Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander novels.
The six-part serialised drama will be shot in English with a British and Swedish cast. Yellow Bird UK, the Banijay Group company that produced the BBC’s Wallander series from 2008 to 2016, will start production next year.
Set in contemporary Sweden, Young Wallander will follow Mankell’s detective character on his first case. Mankell’s Wallander novels have been the source for several series and films,...
- 11/28/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Sony has weaved a new trailer for Claire Foy-starrer The Girl In The Spider’s Web, offering a closer look at the titular outcast vigilante’s past. Check it out above. Fede Alvarez directs the adaptation of the novel by David Lagercrantz, who continued Stieg Larsson’s Millennium legacy with the bestseller. Steven Knight and Alvarez and Jay Basu wrote the screenplay.
Foy takes over as Lisbeth Salander, the defender who was previously played by Noomi Rapace and Rooney Mara. In Spider’s Web, she and journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Borg Vs McEnroe‘s Sverrir Gudnason) find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials. The new trailer has echoes of the first which dropped in June and introduced “the girl who hurts men who hurt women.” It also offers further insight into the plot that involves Lisbeth’s family.
Also starring are Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks,...
Foy takes over as Lisbeth Salander, the defender who was previously played by Noomi Rapace and Rooney Mara. In Spider’s Web, she and journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Borg Vs McEnroe‘s Sverrir Gudnason) find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials. The new trailer has echoes of the first which dropped in June and introduced “the girl who hurts men who hurt women.” It also offers further insight into the plot that involves Lisbeth’s family.
Also starring are Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks,...
- 9/17/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
A tattooed Claire Foy is delivering vengeance as Lisbeth Salander in the first trailer for Sony’s “The Girl in the Spider’s Web.”
The trailer showed Foy — best known for portraying Queen Elizabeth in Netflix’s “The Crown” — as she uses an intricate trap to capture a villainous husband, and then coldly telling him as he hangs upside down that he will turn over his assets to his abused wife.
“I’m a fan of yours — the CEO who beat up two prostitutes, but then got acquitted in court yesterday,” she says. “I’m transferring 20% of your cash to these two girls, the rest I’m transferring to your wife.”
She then tells the wife, who’s also been beaten up, “He won’t hurt you again.”
The studio decided two years ago to replace Rooney Mara with Foy as the precocious Swedish computer hacker for “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” sequel,...
The trailer showed Foy — best known for portraying Queen Elizabeth in Netflix’s “The Crown” — as she uses an intricate trap to capture a villainous husband, and then coldly telling him as he hangs upside down that he will turn over his assets to his abused wife.
“I’m a fan of yours — the CEO who beat up two prostitutes, but then got acquitted in court yesterday,” she says. “I’m transferring 20% of your cash to these two girls, the rest I’m transferring to your wife.”
She then tells the wife, who’s also been beaten up, “He won’t hurt you again.”
The studio decided two years ago to replace Rooney Mara with Foy as the precocious Swedish computer hacker for “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” sequel,...
- 6/7/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Claire Foy’s Lisbeth Salander certainly knows her way around a tangled web. In this new trailer for The Girl in the Spider’s Web — an adaptation of the bestseller from Stieg Larsson’s Millennium book series — vigilante Lisbeth snares her first creep with a simple but highly effective rope trick that would do any Batman villain proud.
Haunted by her past and driven by fury at abusive men (like the wife-beating CEO who gets caught up in Lisbeth’s top-of-the-trailer snare), the title character battles her way through any number of action-packed adventures in this first-look trailer.
Directed by Fede Alvarez (2016’s Don’t Breathe) from a screenplay adaptation by Steven Knight and Alvarez & Jay Basu, The Girl in the Spider’s Web also stars Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Stephen Merchant, Claes Bang, Christopher Convery, Synnøve Macody Lund and Vicky Krieps.
Producers are Scott Rudin, Ole Søndberg,...
Haunted by her past and driven by fury at abusive men (like the wife-beating CEO who gets caught up in Lisbeth’s top-of-the-trailer snare), the title character battles her way through any number of action-packed adventures in this first-look trailer.
Directed by Fede Alvarez (2016’s Don’t Breathe) from a screenplay adaptation by Steven Knight and Alvarez & Jay Basu, The Girl in the Spider’s Web also stars Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Stephen Merchant, Claes Bang, Christopher Convery, Synnøve Macody Lund and Vicky Krieps.
Producers are Scott Rudin, Ole Søndberg,...
- 6/7/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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The Girl In The Spider’s Web has found its leads, as Sverrir Gudnason becomes the latest to join the film...
Update:
To confirm the casting for the The Girl In The Spider's Web, that in turn will reboot the film series.
Sverrir Gudnason, of Borg/McEnroe fame, is to take on the role of Mikael Blomquist in the new movie (Daniel Craig played the part last time).
Claire Foy is to play Lisbeth Salander, with Sylvia Hoeks and Claes Bang also in the cast. Filming begins early next year.
March 2017
Sony Pictures is officially moving ahead with a The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo sequel, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, slated to hit cinemas on October 5th 2018.
The new film in Millenium series will be helmed by in-demand director Fede Alvarez, who directed surprise hit Don’t Breathe. Skipping over the next...
The Girl In The Spider’s Web has found its leads, as Sverrir Gudnason becomes the latest to join the film...
Update:
To confirm the casting for the The Girl In The Spider's Web, that in turn will reboot the film series.
Sverrir Gudnason, of Borg/McEnroe fame, is to take on the role of Mikael Blomquist in the new movie (Daniel Craig played the part last time).
Claire Foy is to play Lisbeth Salander, with Sylvia Hoeks and Claes Bang also in the cast. Filming begins early next year.
March 2017
Sony Pictures is officially moving ahead with a The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo sequel, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, slated to hit cinemas on October 5th 2018.
The new film in Millenium series will be helmed by in-demand director Fede Alvarez, who directed surprise hit Don’t Breathe. Skipping over the next...
- 3/13/2017
- Den of Geek
If you've been wondering what project Fede Alvarez would take on after Don't Breathe, the wait is over, as the director will reignite Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander franchise with The Girl in the Spider's Web (an adaptation of David Lagercrantz's 2015 novel of the same name) for Sony Pictures.
Press Release: Culver City, Calif., March 13, 2017 – Lisbeth Salander, the cult figure and title character of the acclaimed Millennium book series created by Stieg Larsson, will return to the screen in The Girl in the Spider's Web, a first-time adaptation of the recent global bestseller written by David Lagercrantz. Fede Alvarez, the director of 2016's breakout thriller Don't Breathe, will helm the project from a screenplay by Steven Knight and Fede Alvarez & Jay Basu. Scott Rudin, Søren Stærmose, Ole Søndberg, Amy Pascal, Elizabeth Cantillon, Eli Bush, and Berna Levin will produce; the executive producers are Anni Faurbye Fernandez, Line Winther Skyum Funch,...
Press Release: Culver City, Calif., March 13, 2017 – Lisbeth Salander, the cult figure and title character of the acclaimed Millennium book series created by Stieg Larsson, will return to the screen in The Girl in the Spider's Web, a first-time adaptation of the recent global bestseller written by David Lagercrantz. Fede Alvarez, the director of 2016's breakout thriller Don't Breathe, will helm the project from a screenplay by Steven Knight and Fede Alvarez & Jay Basu. Scott Rudin, Søren Stærmose, Ole Søndberg, Amy Pascal, Elizabeth Cantillon, Eli Bush, and Berna Levin will produce; the executive producers are Anni Faurbye Fernandez, Line Winther Skyum Funch,...
- 3/13/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Global casting call underway for actress to play Lisbeth Salander in new ‘Millennium Series’ instalment. Thriller to open on October 5, 2018.
The studio announced the development at the London Book Fair on Monday and has set Fede Alvarez to direct from a screenplay by Steven Knight, Alvarez and Jay Basu.
The Girl In The Spider’s Web is the fifth book inspired by the late Scandinavian crime writer Stieg Larsson’s ‘Millennium Series’ that famously kicked off with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and will be the first in the series to be produced in English in its initial adaptation.
David Lagercrantz wrote The Girl In The Spider’s Web and Alvarez, who directed last year’s horror break-out Don’t Breathe, is scheduled to commence shooting in September for release on October 5, 2018.
The studio and Alvarez have launched a worldwide search for an actress to lead an entirely new cast. The Swedish-language...
The studio announced the development at the London Book Fair on Monday and has set Fede Alvarez to direct from a screenplay by Steven Knight, Alvarez and Jay Basu.
The Girl In The Spider’s Web is the fifth book inspired by the late Scandinavian crime writer Stieg Larsson’s ‘Millennium Series’ that famously kicked off with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and will be the first in the series to be produced in English in its initial adaptation.
David Lagercrantz wrote The Girl In The Spider’s Web and Alvarez, who directed last year’s horror break-out Don’t Breathe, is scheduled to commence shooting in September for release on October 5, 2018.
The studio and Alvarez have launched a worldwide search for an actress to lead an entirely new cast. The Swedish-language...
- 3/13/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
After years of rumors regarding who, exactly, will be in a sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — or if it will happen at all — Sony Pictures have now officially confirmed their plans. As reported last fall, Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez will be staying in business with the company to direct The Girl in the Spider’s Web, which Steven Knight (Locke, Eastern Promises) adapted from David Lagercrantz, but don’t expect to see any familiar faces.
Sony has announced today that the ensemble for this follow-up will be “entirely new” and a worldwide search has commenced to take over the Lisbeth Salander role, last played by Rooney Mara and Noomi Rapace. There had previously been rumors that Alicia Vikander was circling the part, but she has long been unattached, so with this global search underway, perhaps we’ll see some new talent fill out this cast.
Sony has announced today that the ensemble for this follow-up will be “entirely new” and a worldwide search has commenced to take over the Lisbeth Salander role, last played by Rooney Mara and Noomi Rapace. There had previously been rumors that Alicia Vikander was circling the part, but she has long been unattached, so with this global search underway, perhaps we’ll see some new talent fill out this cast.
- 3/13/2017
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
"The Imitation Game" director Morten Tyldum is teaming with Yellow Bird to develop an English-language version of their 2011 Norwegian comic thriller "Headhunters".
Based on Jo Nesbo's 2008 novel, the story chronicles the escapades of a high-living corporate headhunter who steals artwork from rich clients to finance his expensive lifestyle. When a heist unexpectedly goes wrong, he ends up in way over his head. Aksel Hennie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau starred in the original film.
Both a feature and TV series remake of the film are being considered with a search currently underway for a writer. Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray, Berna Levin and Janne Tyldum will produce.
Yellow Bird previously setup a "Headhunters" TV series at HBO and Lionsgate in 2013, a project that did not go past the development stage with the rights now reverting back to Yellow Bird. Neither HBO or Lionsgate are involved any longer.
Source: Deadline...
Based on Jo Nesbo's 2008 novel, the story chronicles the escapades of a high-living corporate headhunter who steals artwork from rich clients to finance his expensive lifestyle. When a heist unexpectedly goes wrong, he ends up in way over his head. Aksel Hennie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau starred in the original film.
Both a feature and TV series remake of the film are being considered with a search currently underway for a writer. Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray, Berna Levin and Janne Tyldum will produce.
Yellow Bird previously setup a "Headhunters" TV series at HBO and Lionsgate in 2013, a project that did not go past the development stage with the rights now reverting back to Yellow Bird. Neither HBO or Lionsgate are involved any longer.
Source: Deadline...
- 3/9/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Cable network HBO is developing a series based on Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters with Zodiak Media-owned producer Yellow Bird Entertainment.
The Time Warner-backed broadcaster is working with Scandi producer Yellow Bird, which made The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo films and Wallander, and Mad Men producer Lionsgate, on the adaptation.
Headhunters is based on Nesbø’s novel, which centres on a corporate headhunter who leads a double life as an art theif. It was turned into a film in 2011.
True Blood exec producer Alexander Woo is adapting the book for TV and is working with former HBO exec and Game of Thrones producer Carolyn Strauss, who will exec produce along with Yellow Bird’s Berna Levin and Marianne Gray.
It’s not clear whether Zodiak Rights, the international sales arm of the UK producer, or Nashville distributor Lionsgate will sell the show globally.
Headhunters is the latest Scandinavian project to be adapted in the Us. Yellow Bird is working...
The Time Warner-backed broadcaster is working with Scandi producer Yellow Bird, which made The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo films and Wallander, and Mad Men producer Lionsgate, on the adaptation.
Headhunters is based on Nesbø’s novel, which centres on a corporate headhunter who leads a double life as an art theif. It was turned into a film in 2011.
True Blood exec producer Alexander Woo is adapting the book for TV and is working with former HBO exec and Game of Thrones producer Carolyn Strauss, who will exec produce along with Yellow Bird’s Berna Levin and Marianne Gray.
It’s not clear whether Zodiak Rights, the international sales arm of the UK producer, or Nashville distributor Lionsgate will sell the show globally.
Headhunters is the latest Scandinavian project to be adapted in the Us. Yellow Bird is working...
- 11/7/2013
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: HBO has put in development Headhunters, an hourlong project based on the best-selling 2008 book by Norwegian crime fiction author Jo Nesbø. Alexander Woo will write the adaptation and will executive produce with HBO-based producer Carolyn Strauss for Swedish production company Yellow Bird Entertainment, which owns the rights to the book, and Lionsgate Television. Headhunters is a dark comic thriller centered on a corporate headhunter who becomes the hunted when his life and marriage are suddenly targeted by an unknown individual. Yellow Bird, which first produced a hit Scandinavian film based on the novel, sold the English-language movie rights to the book to Summit Entertainment in 2011, shortly after the book was published in the U.S. The rights transitioned to Lionsgate following the company’s 2012 acquisition of Summit, with the project morphing into a TV series. Yellow Bird’s Marianne Gray and Berna Levin also executive produce. Another Nesbø novel,...
- 11/6/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: ABC has put in development a crime thriller from writer Charles Randolph (Love and Other Drugs), Peter Traugott’s Tbd Entertainment and Sweden-based Yellow Bird Entertainment. The project, from Universal TV where Tbd is based, is an adaptation of the best-selling novels by Liza Marklund that also were the basis for the hit Swedish drama series Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter, also produced by Yellow Bird (watch the trailer below). Written by Randolph, the drama centers on a dogged, no-nonsense tabloid reporter searching for the truth while also juggling her bosses and her family. Randolph is executive producing with Tbd’s Traugott and Rachel Kaplan and Yellow Bird’s Jenny Gilbertsson and Berna Levin. This marks the latest sale for Tbd this season for a total of three dramas and six comedies at NBC, Fox and USA. Yellow Bird recently teamed with Chernin Entertainment to develop a series based on another Swedish crime novel,...
- 10/31/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Another hot Swedish novel is headed for an U.S. screen adaptation. 20th Century Fox TV has acquired rights to the upcoming thriller De Redan Döda by author Robert Karjel, for studio-based Chernin Entertainment to develop as a drama series with Sweden-based Yellow Bird Entertainment. Titled The Swede, the project centers on a Swedish secret service agent summoned to a remote U.S. military base to interrogate a prisoner thought to be a fellow Swede. He is drawn into the complex investigation led by a female CIA agent, where the evidence takes them from the 2004 Thailand tsunami to a terrorist attack in Topeka, Kansas, and where no one is who they seem to be. De Redan Döda follows in the footsteps of the Millennium trilogy by Swedish author Stieg Larsson, which became the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movie franchise and Leif G.W. Persson’s Backstrom books, which have...
- 10/28/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Yellow Bird, which turned Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy into three hit Swedish films that began with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, is expanding its scope from Scandinavian crime films to international properties. It has acquired rights to international best-selling author Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent book series. This one takes place in Atlanta. Yellow Bird will produce three television films based on the book series. They begin with Triptych, the first novel in the series of books featuring Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent Will Trent, his partner Faith Mitchell and their legendary boss Amanda Wagner. Slaughter will write the first script. Financing is being arranged out of Europe, and the films will shoot on location in Atlanta. Yellow Bird’s Berna Levin and Marianne Gray will produce, with Slaughter executive producing. Ole Sondberg and Anni Furbye Fernandez will also executive produce. Aside from producing the Swedish-language...
- 12/7/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING JR.
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Yellow Bird, which turned Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy into three hit Swedish films that began with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, is expanding its scope from Scandinavian crime films to international properties. It has acquired rights to international best-selling author Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent book series. This one takes place in Atlanta. Yellow Bird will produce three television films based on the book series. They begin with Triptych, the first novel in the series of books featuring Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent Will Trent, his partner Faith Mitchell and their legendary boss Amanda Wagner. Slaughter will write the first script. Financing is being arranged out of Europe, and the films will shoot on location in Atlanta. Yellow Bird’s Berna Levin and Marianne Gray will produce, with Slaughter executive producing. Ole Sondberg and Anni Furbye Fernandez will also executive produce. Aside from producing the Swedish-language...
- 12/7/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING JR.
- Deadline
Sacha Gervasi ("The Terminal," "Henry’s Crime") has been hired to adapt the English language film adaptation of Norwegian author Jo Nesbø's best-selling crime thriller "Headhunters" for Summit Entertainment and Yellow Bird reports Deadline.
The story chronicles the escapades of a high-living corporate headhunter who steals artwork from rich clients to finance his expensive lifestyle. When a heist unexpectedly goes wrong, he ends up in way over his head. Marianne Gray, Ole Sondberg, and Berna Levin are set as producers.
Much like with the recent Swedish and then American film adaptations of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", Yellow Bird produced a Scandinavian film adaptation first which scored a release back in August in Norway and will spread out to various other international territories early next year.
Martin Scorsese is also attached to direct an adaptation of Nesbo's "The Snowman" at Working Title.
The story chronicles the escapades of a high-living corporate headhunter who steals artwork from rich clients to finance his expensive lifestyle. When a heist unexpectedly goes wrong, he ends up in way over his head. Marianne Gray, Ole Sondberg, and Berna Levin are set as producers.
Much like with the recent Swedish and then American film adaptations of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", Yellow Bird produced a Scandinavian film adaptation first which scored a release back in August in Norway and will spread out to various other international territories early next year.
Martin Scorsese is also attached to direct an adaptation of Nesbo's "The Snowman" at Working Title.
- 12/15/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Sacha Gervasi ("The Terminal," "Henry’s Crime") has been hired to adapt the English language film adaptation of Norwegian author Jo Nesbø's best-selling crime thriller "Headhunters" for Summit Entertainment and Yellow Bird reports Deadline.
The story chronicles the escapades of a high-living corporate headhunter who steals artwork from rich clients to finance his expensive lifestyle. When a heist unexpectedly goes wrong, he ends up in way over his head. Marianne Gray, Ole Sondberg, and Berna Levin are set as producers.
Much like with the recent Swedish and then American film adaptations of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", Yellow Bird produced a Scandinavian film adaptation first which scored a release back in August in Norway and will spread out to various other international territories early next year.
Martin Scorsese is also attached to direct an adaptation of Nesbo's "The Snowman" at Working Title.
The story chronicles the escapades of a high-living corporate headhunter who steals artwork from rich clients to finance his expensive lifestyle. When a heist unexpectedly goes wrong, he ends up in way over his head. Marianne Gray, Ole Sondberg, and Berna Levin are set as producers.
Much like with the recent Swedish and then American film adaptations of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", Yellow Bird produced a Scandinavian film adaptation first which scored a release back in August in Norway and will spread out to various other international territories early next year.
Martin Scorsese is also attached to direct an adaptation of Nesbo's "The Snowman" at Working Title.
- 12/15/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Sacha Gervasi has been set by Summit Entertainment to adapt Headhunters, the English language adaptation of the Jo Nesbo novel. Marianne Gray, Ole Sondberg, and Berna Levin will produce via the Yellow Bird production banner. Yellow Bird produced the Swedish adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy and is a producer of the upcoming Hollywood trilogy that begins with the David Fincher-directed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Similarly, Headhunters was first made into a Norwegian film by director Morten Tyldum, with Yellow Bird among the producers. In the wake of the success by Larsson, the Norwegian author Nesbo’s crime thrillers have become big business. The book was published in the Us by Doubleday and became a bestseller. The novel is about a corporate headhunter steals valuable artwork from the homes of his applicants. After his latest heist goes awry, the headhunter finds himself in over his...
- 12/15/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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