Vinterviken, directed by Alexis Almström (Top Dog), is Netflix’s new Swedish feature film enterprise for fall 2021. Based on the YA classic by Mats Wahl, the feature is a coproduction between Filmlance, Netflix and Sveriges Television. In addition to premiering on Netflix in the latter half of 2021, the film is set to air on SVT, Sveriges Television, in 2022. A first look trailer has just been made available for fans keen to see how this classic is reinterpreted and revived.

Vinterviken is set in Stockholm, 2021, and centers on the love story between Elisabeth and John-John, two teenagers raised in the same city, yet living light years apart. They are separated by economic, social, and cultural differences until the day they enter the same high school class.

The lead roles of Elisabeth and John-John will be played by Elsa Öhrn and Mustapha Aarab. Dunja Vujovic (Top Dog, Heder) is the screenwriter.

Series Mania has announced the lineup for its 2021 event and the selection includes world premieres of some of the most hotly anticipated international series this year, including Furia, the original crime thriller created by Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen and directed by Magnus Martens, about a police officer who goes undercover in a neo-Nazi group.

Furia is a co-production between German producers X Filme (Babylon Berlin) and Norway’s Monster Scripted (Noble).

The festival will take place in Lille, France, on August 26 – September 2.

Read more in The Hollywood Reporter by clicking “Read More” below.

Amazon Studios is teaming up with Mandeville Films to turn Antti Tuomainen’s hit novel The Rabbit Factor into a feature film starring Steve Carell.

In the adaptation of the darkly comic novel by the Finnish Tuomainen, Carell will play insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen, who knows most of life’s answers because he calculates everything down to the very last decimal. Everything changes when he suddenly loses his job, and other variables enter the fray. Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother – its peculiar employees and troubling financial problems included. Most pressing: big loans were taken from criminal elements, and the lenders are now keen to get their money back. In the adventure park, Henri also crosses paths with Laura, an artist with a checkered past. As the criminals begin to collect their debts and as Henri’s relationship with Laura deepens, he finds himself faced with situations and emotions that simply cannot be quantified on a spread sheet.

To read more in Deadline, just click the “Read more” button below.

Yellow Bird, the production company behind such hit titles as Millenium, Wallander and Bäckström, have acquired the rights to adapt Anders de la Motte & Måns Nilsson’s new whodunnit series, The Österlen Murders, for TV. The first installment in the book series, A House to Die For, was just published in Sweden.

“We wanted to create Sweden’s own Midsomer, and what better locale is there than the Österlen region. Conflicts and intrigues abound among the idyllic villages and their eccentric inhabitants. Here the readers will encounter betrayal, greed, and murder among the castles, apple trees and blooming fields of Österlen,” says Anders de la Motte.

“We are beyond pleased to work together with Yellow Bird; their film and TV productions are always of the highest quality, and they share our vision of how to make our stories and wonderful characters come to life on the screen,” says Måns Nilsson.