Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content) has acquired international distribution rights to Elisa Viihde original series The Man Who Died, the adaptation based on Antti Tuomainen’s bestselling book with the same name. The six-episode series is adapted by Brendan Foley and Markku Flink and led by Jussi Vatanen (Dead Leaves).

Since its premiere on June 19, The Man Who Died has been the most watched series on Finnish streaming service Elisa Viihde Viaplay. Produced by Helsinki-based ReelMedia Ltd. and Germany’s ndF International Production, the series follows mushroom entrepreneur Jaakko (Vatanen) who discovers he has been slowly poisoned. Jaakko is a man in his prime, with a thriving business and keen customers, but his world shatters when a doctor reveals his days are numbered. During his hunt for the killer, people have a habit of dying or vanishing. And yet he feels gloriously alive, for the first time in years.

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The Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) has unveiled the nominations for its 28th edition. Competing in the International Series section is the acclaimed thriller Headhunters, the lauded psychological drama thriller The Dark Heart and the crime comedy The Man Who Died.

Headhunters, inspired by Jo Nesbø’s eponymous best-selling novel, is written by Rolf-Magne Golten Andersen and Geir Henning Hopeland, who is also the series’ director. The Dark Heart is created by screenwriter Oskar Söderlund and director Gustav Möller. The Man Who Died is based on Antti Tuomainen’s bestselling novel of the same name.

The 2022 GIFF is running from November 4-13.

The Russo brothers’ adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s acclaimed The Electric State has begun filming in Atlanta, Georgia. The film, which will star Millie Bobbie Brown and Chris Pratt, focuses on an orphaned teenager who attempts to search for her brother as she travels across the American West with a mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter. While no premiere date has been set yet, Netflix acquired the rights to the film earlier this year.

The going gets tough and the tough get tougher in the comical, touching conclusion of The Rabbit Factor Trilogy.

How best to reconcile the ongoing skulduggery of the adventure-park business with the unpredictable realities of life in a blended family? The two appear to have only one common denominator: neither is well equipped to cope with a rising body count. In order to solve this seemingly impossible conundrum, Henri Koskinen has to step far beyond the order and precision of his mathematically-defined comfort zone.

In The Beaver Theory, Henri Koskinen, the actuary and adventure-park entrepreneur who has won the hearts of readers around the world, encounters the biggest challenge of his career. The first part of the trilogy is currently being adapted for the silver screen in Hollywood.

Måns Mosesson has been awarded Dare to Share’s honorary award 2022 by the non-profit organization Suicide Zero for his book Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii. The award has since 2015 been handed out by Suicide Zero to journalists, editors, presenters, and writers who have produced outstanding work on the theme suicide. The motivation reads as follows:

“Author and journalist Måns Mosesson depicts in Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii, a young man’s quest to make his way in a music world that knows no restraints. Through interviews, text messages, email conversations and careful research, Måns Mosesson paints a story about the joy of creating and a young man’s strong drive and longing for recognition and success. Simultaneously, it’s a story of anxiety and anguish reflected through the dark underbelly of the performance society, the music industry and success. As a reader, you want to stop the course of events in its tracks and support the parent’s fight to have Tim get off what is a speeding train. Mosesson’s portrait is like a punch to the gut and a call to action to have all of us take mental health issues seriously as well as help each other safeguard the space needed for recovery, and to be true to ourselves.”

Mattias Edvardsson’s novel A Nearly Normal Family is being adapted into a miniseries for Netflix. Anna Platt and Hans Jörnlind are the series’ writers, with Per Hanefjord directing.

From the outside, the Sandells are the perfect family, but that facade crumbles when the nineteen year-old daughter stands accused of the brutal murder of a much older man. The family is desperate to help Stella at all costs, but the question is whether they really know their daughter. Or each other.

Alexandra Karlsson Tyrefors will star as Stella Sandell, Lo Kauppi and Björn Bengtsson will portray Stella’s parents Ulrika and Adam Sandell.

A Nearly Normal Family is being filmed in Lund, and is set to premiere on Netflix in 2023.

Investigator Liv Jensen is in a frenzy. Unpleasant circumstances force her to quit her job at the Aalborg police and return to her childhood home. Fortunately, she quickly finds a lease in the basement of a house in Vesterbro with the retired frame maker, Jan Leon, and his grown-up daughter Hannah. Two people who share a great sadness.

Liv dreams of a position at the homicide department in the capital, but has to settle with working as a private detective with the case she gets from her friend and mentor, Petter Bohm from the Copenhagen Police. The case is about a cultural journalist who was strangled three years ago, the perpetrator was never caught. Maybe Liv can solve that case, erase the memories from Aalborg and return to the police again?

The case forces Liv to revisit the past, travel to the west coast of Jutland and into one of the darkest chapters in Danish history. It all ties together. Everyone is running from something, and no one can feel safe.

The Writing on the Wall is the first installment in a new crime series starring investigator and private detective Liv Jensen, car mechanic Nima Azour and psychiatrist Hannah Leon.