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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,...

True crime stories are always intriguing to watch. It takes the actual event from several years ago and presents it in a manner that would help us understand what exactly happened when the incident occurred. It takes us through details that many did not bother to know about. The Nurse, a Danish Netflix Original limited series, gives us a gripping tale of a woman who gathered the courage to bring a disturbing pattern of incidents that is happening in her place of work to everyone’s attention. Will she bear the brunt of speaking the truth?

The Nurse starts from the year 2012 in Nykøbing Falster, Denmark. An elderly gentleman named Arne faints in his home, and he is admitted to the Nykøbing Falster emergency ward. Arne is slowly recovering, and he is told that he will be discharged the very next day. But on the night before his discharge, someone...

The talented Nordic filmmaker is developing a brand-new 6x30 show set in a small Danish suburban area in 1999. Young Danish filmmaker Kasper Møller Jensen is currently developing a new 6x30 TV series, entitled Nordland ’99. Møller Jensen debuted as a director with his short Resort in 2016, and one of his latter films, November (2018), was nominated for the Best Short Award at the Roberts last year. The script of Nordland ’99 is being penned by the director himself in tandem with writer Jacob Katz Hansen (the TV series Ragnarok and Anton 90), and promises to be a mysterious and suspenseful coming-of-age series set in a small Danish suburban area in 1999. The story revolves around a group of high-school friends who embark on a hazardous journey to find their missing friend. Speaking about the project, Møller Jensen disclosed to Cineuropa: “Imagine that Stephen King wrote the children’s books...