AI Film (I, Tonya) has set Craig William Macneill whose film Lizzie is currently at Sundance in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, to direct the adaptation of the psychological thriller She’s Never Coming Back. The project is being adapted by Macneill from the best-selling Swedish novel by Hans Koppel. The story follows…

The Imitation Game director Morten Tyldum is looking to bring his breakthrough feature, Headhunters, to the U.S. The Norwegian helmer has teamed with the film’s producer Yellow Bird (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) to develop an English-language version of the 2011 Norwegian comic thriller. It hasn’t been determined…

Millennium Trilogy producer Yellow Bird is embarking on a 10-part original series based on an idea by bestselling Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø. International drama Occupied is a political thriller set in a not so distant future where Russia has staged a "silk-glove" invasion of Norway to officially secure the oil…

EXCLUSIVE: Yellow Bird, which turned Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy into three hit Swedish films that began with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, is expanding its scope from Scandinavian crime films to international properties. It has acquired rights to international best-selling author Karin Slaughter's Will…

EXCLUSIVE: An American version of Norwegian bestselling crime author Jo Nesbo's new TV series Occupied is being talked about. That’s what I’m told by Swedish producer Marianne Gray, who gave the keynote speech at the Film London Production Finance Market this morning. American actors and a U.S. director are also being…

Summit Entertainment has acquired English-language movie rights to the international bestselling crime thriller Headhunters, by Norwegian author Jo Nesbø. The novel, recently published in the U.S. by Doubleday and a New York Times bestseller, chronicles the escapades of a high-living corporate headhunter who steals…