Prime Video has greenlit Hell of a Date (working title), its first Swedish action series.
Production is underway in Stockholm, with Denmark’s Milad Avaz directing and Erik “Jerka” Johansson (Länge leve Bonusfamiljen), Hanna Alström, Adam Pålsson (Innan vi dör), Alba August (Unga Astrid), Valter Skarsgård (Beck) and Nina Zanjani (Älska mig) starring.
Hell of a Date is billed as a “thrilling, action-packed roller coaster set in the world of Swedish media and politics,” and a “gripping, funny and loving story that has something important to say at its core: how we humans embrace change.”
The action is set to a backdrop of Sweden facing primitive power outages and ominous predictions about the coming winter. Reluctant widower Arthur (Johansson) gets recruited to help his colleague, star journalist Cristina (Zanjani), who dares to question the mainstream narrative. Feeling cornered by the police and other powers,...
Production is underway in Stockholm, with Denmark’s Milad Avaz directing and Erik “Jerka” Johansson (Länge leve Bonusfamiljen), Hanna Alström, Adam Pålsson (Innan vi dör), Alba August (Unga Astrid), Valter Skarsgård (Beck) and Nina Zanjani (Älska mig) starring.
Hell of a Date is billed as a “thrilling, action-packed roller coaster set in the world of Swedish media and politics,” and a “gripping, funny and loving story that has something important to say at its core: how we humans embrace change.”
The action is set to a backdrop of Sweden facing primitive power outages and ominous predictions about the coming winter. Reluctant widower Arthur (Johansson) gets recruited to help his colleague, star journalist Cristina (Zanjani), who dares to question the mainstream narrative. Feeling cornered by the police and other powers,...
- 10/3/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Nominees for the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. Kate Beckinsale, two-time Golden Globe Award-nominee Peter Krause, Paula Patton, and Golden Globe-winner and five-time nominee Jeremy Piven joined Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) President Theo Kingma for the announcement. Nominations were announced in 25 categories.
Four out of the five movies to earn Golden Globe best picture nominations this year are based on true stories— Foxcatcher, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything and Selma. Richard Linklater’s story of a boy growing up, Boyhood, was filmed over 12 years.
The movies’ four actors, Steve Carell, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Oyelowo and Eddie Redmayne will vie for the best dramatic actor Golden Globe, along with Jake Gyllenhaal, who was nominated for Nightcrawler.
Actresses nominated in the best drama category are Jennifer Aniston (Cake), Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Julianne Moore...
Four out of the five movies to earn Golden Globe best picture nominations this year are based on true stories— Foxcatcher, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything and Selma. Richard Linklater’s story of a boy growing up, Boyhood, was filmed over 12 years.
The movies’ four actors, Steve Carell, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Oyelowo and Eddie Redmayne will vie for the best dramatic actor Golden Globe, along with Jake Gyllenhaal, who was nominated for Nightcrawler.
Actresses nominated in the best drama category are Jennifer Aniston (Cake), Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Julianne Moore...
- 12/11/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Here are a few interesting and/or noteworthy projects that were recently added to IMDbPro's database of development titles:
Under the Banner of Heaven – Ron Howard teams up with Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black to adapt Jon Krakauer's (Into the Wild) investigation of a brutal murder of a mother and her baby girl whose killers claimed they were doing God's work.
Arms and the Dudes – Hangover dude Todd Phillips has optioned the rights to the unbelievably true story of two young guys who land a $300 million contract with the U.S. military to funnel weapons into Afghanistan. Phillips will produce via his Green Hat Films production company.
Untitled Dorothea Lange Project –David Fincher will executive produce Angela Workman's script chronicling the life story of Depression-era photojournalist Dorothea Lange, whose photography inspired John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath".
Rockabye Baby – Ivan Reitman's Montecito Picture Company is producing this family comedy written by Christopher Baldi. The plot outline's being kept under wraps, but Variety describes it as an "Uncle Buck"-inspired project.
The French Concession – British actor Tom Payne, who stars opposite Dustin Hoffman in the HBO pilot Luck, is starring in this indie comedy from Jaime Wolf playing an American in Shanghai looking for love with a fellow ex-pat.
Under the Banner of Heaven – Ron Howard teams up with Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black to adapt Jon Krakauer's (Into the Wild) investigation of a brutal murder of a mother and her baby girl whose killers claimed they were doing God's work.
Arms and the Dudes – Hangover dude Todd Phillips has optioned the rights to the unbelievably true story of two young guys who land a $300 million contract with the U.S. military to funnel weapons into Afghanistan. Phillips will produce via his Green Hat Films production company.
Untitled Dorothea Lange Project –David Fincher will executive produce Angela Workman's script chronicling the life story of Depression-era photojournalist Dorothea Lange, whose photography inspired John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath".
Rockabye Baby – Ivan Reitman's Montecito Picture Company is producing this family comedy written by Christopher Baldi. The plot outline's being kept under wraps, but Variety describes it as an "Uncle Buck"-inspired project.
The French Concession – British actor Tom Payne, who stars opposite Dustin Hoffman in the HBO pilot Luck, is starring in this indie comedy from Jaime Wolf playing an American in Shanghai looking for love with a fellow ex-pat.
- 7/29/2011
- by Eric Greene
- IMDbPro News
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