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Tom Hanks is attached to star in a remake of A Man Called Ove, the Oscar nominated Hannes Holm-directed Swedish comedy that became the highest grossing foreign language film released in the U.S. in 2016. Pic will be produced by Playtone partners Hanks and Gary Goetzman, along with Rita Wilson and Fredrik Wikström…

Swedish production company SF Studios is teaming with A Man Called Ove producer Niklas Wikström Nicastro for a new big-budget drama series called Alex with Easy Money actor Dragomir Mrsic tapped to star. SF Studios, which created the Easy Money trilogy, will jointly produce the 6×44' Swedish-language thriller with Nevi…

EXCLUSIVE: Bahar Pars was born in Iran and has lived in Sweden for 18 years, carrying passports from both countries. But the co-star of Music Box’s Foreign Language Oscar nominee A Man Called Ove may now join other talent in being barred from entering the United States and attending the Academy Awards. Under the…

UPDATED with filmmaker reactions: Unlike the Oscars’ Best Foreign Language Film shortlist, which offered up snubs galore when it was revealed in December, today's Foreign Language Oscar nominees are pretty much in keeping with expectations. However, like last year's nominees, this batch comes with a number of firsts…

The Oscar shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film will be announced later this week in what is an earlier-than-usual reveal for the nine films that will vie for the ultimate five nomination slots. As with each year, there are dozens of distinct submissions from a host of countries — 85 this time around — with new…

Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson and Timothy Spall star in Bleecker Street's Denial, opening this weekend only weeks after its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival. The New York-based distributor is targeting its core adult audience for the bio-drama based on a true story. A24, meanwhile, will bow filmmaker…

The Swedish Film Institute has nominated Hannes Holm’s A Man Called Ove (En man som heter Ove) to represent Sweden in this year’s Foreign Language Film Oscar race. The movie based on Fredrik Backman’s 2012 novel became the third-highest-grossing domestic film in Swedish history after its December 2015 premiere, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Six weeks before the theatrical release of A Man Called Ove, Swedish best-selling novelist Fredrik Backman has extended his U.S. and Canadian publishing deal with Atria Books. The Simon & Schuster imprint will publish a novella and three novels by the writer, whose Ove along with a second book, My Grandmothe…

Swedish director Hannes Holm’s A Man Called Ove enjoyed a record opening weekend in its home country in late December, with about 240M admissions. It went on to hold the top box office slot for several weeks in January and has grossed nearly $20M in the market where Star Wars: The Force Awakens has taken a total of…

Fortissimo Films has appointed Berenice Fugard as SVP Acquisitions. The former StudioCanal executive has been consulting with Fortissimo for more than a year and now joins the company full time. She will work between Fortissimo's Amsterdam Office and France. Fugard started her career at Portobello Pictures and spent…