Bonnier News - film

The Hypnotist Soon in Production

By Bert Menninga on 2011-11-15
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With lead actors named and a fall 2012 release date planned, The Hypnotist is ready to start filming.

Bertil Ohlsson, Börje Hansson and Peter Possne

When the thriller The Hypnotist came out in 2009, the debut novel of Lars Kepler was a huge hit, first for the Swedish publisher Albert Bonniers Förlag, and the book was quickly snapped up by other publishers - Cappelen Damm in Norway and Tammi in Finland.

Spoon Wins Big at Guldbladet 2011

By Bert Menninga on 2011-05-20
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Spoon shines with two gold and four silver awards at Sweden's Guldbladet awards for editorial communication.

Yesterday, the winners were announced for Guldbladet, Sweden's biggest prize for editorial communication. Held in Stockhlm at Operaterassen, Bonnier Tidskrifter's custom publisher Spoon won two first-place and four second-place prizes, including the best newcomer award for Fixa Själv, the do-it-yourself magazine from hardware chain Clas Ohlson.

Svensk Filmindustri signs long-term distribution agreement with MGM

By Linnea Pontvik on 2011-05-11
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Deal covers Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland and includes both theatrical and DVD/BluRay Disc rights.

Svensk Filmindustri (SF), the leading Scandinavian production and distribution entity, announced today that it has signed a long-term distribution agreement with Metro Goldwyn Meyer (MGM) covering Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland and including both theatrical and DVD/BluRay Disc rights.  The deal includes the entire MGM catalogue and new releases over a five-year period, as well as both of the highly anticipated upcoming two Hobbit films (set for release in 2012 and

Lasse Hallström to Direct The Hypnotist

By Bert Menninga on 2011-02-07
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Lasse Hallström will direct his first Swedish film in 24 years, The Hypnotist, with SF and Sonet Film.

The 2009 Swedish bestseller The Hypnotist, a thriller by Lars Kepler published by Albert Bonniers Förlag, will be the first Swedish feature film from director Lasse Hallström in 24 years.

Bonnier Carlsen Book Tusen gånger starkare To Be a Feature Film

By Bert Menninga on 2010-07-22
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Christina Herrström's book Tusen gånger starkare will hit the big screen in September.

On September 24, the latest Swedish book-to-movie will have its premiere when Christina Herrström's young adult novel Tusen gånger starkare (A thousand times stronger) makes it to movie theaters around Sweden.

Three SF films compete in the Berlinale

By Niklas Sessler on 2010-02-03
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Three films distributed by SF Film have been chosen to compete in the 60th Berlin International Film Festival – the Berlinale.

Babak Najafi's Sebbe will compete in the Generation 14plus competition, while Roman Polansiki's Ghost Writer and Noah Baumbach's Greenberg will show in the main competition. The festival runs February 11-21.

Svensk Filmindustri is filming The Hypnotist

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-11-25
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Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri has acquired the rights to film the Swedish crime novel hit The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler.

The Hypnotist is a co-production between Svensk Filmindustri and Sonet Film, producers Börje Hansson and Peter Possne. The principal shooting of the movie will commence in 2010/2011.

SF boost production activities

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-09-10
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Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri is further strengthening its production activities in the Nordic countries. 

The present level of production at Svensk Filmindustri (SF) is higher then ever and several new films are either in development, in production, in post-production, or are ready to have its theatrical releases and to be exploited on the international market.

SF and SF Bio – which is which?

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-08-28
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SF and SF Bio sound almost the same, but in fact they are two completely different companies. Here, we explain the differences between the two.

They have similar names, similar logos and are constantly confused with one another, even internally by us at Bonnier - for instance, in the newsletter that went out to all employees last week. Yet, SF and SF Bio are devoted to completely different business areas. We asked Stefan Klockby, CIO at SF, to help sort things out.