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Cannes: Michael Nyqvist Is ‘My So-Called Father’ In Bob Film & Disney Dramedy

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday May 10, 2013 @ 4:37am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Millennium Trilogy, The Walt Disney Company

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Trilogy star Michael Nyqvist, whose recent Hollywood films include Disconnect and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, is returning home to Sweden for dramedy My So-Called Father. Directed by A Summer Tale‘s Ulf Malmros, the film will be released in Scandinavia by Disney/Buena Vista next year. Up-and-comer Vera Vitali also stars in the story of a self-involved dad and the estranged daughter who tries to re-create him when he loses his memory. Jan Blomgren of Bob Film Sweden, which produced 2008 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner The King Of Ping Pong, is producing with Film I Väst, The Walt Disney Company Nordic, TV4, Molkom Film, GEL Investment and Nordsvensk. Bob Film is handling international sales.

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Rooney Mara Gets Coveted Lisbeth Role In ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 16, 2010 @ 10:21am PDTTags: Daniel Craig, David Fincher, Millennium Trilogy, Movie Casting, Rooney Mara, Scott Rudin, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Stieg Larsson, Stieg Larsson Books, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Casting
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Sony Pictures Entertainment has issued a press release on Mara. I’ve included it after Deadline’s story break.

EXCLUSIVE: Ending one of the most drawn out and closely watched casting searches for an actress in years, Sony Pictures … Read More »

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Sony Starts Talks With Steve Zaillian To Script ‘The Girl Who Played With Fire’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 3, 2010 @ 3:13pm PDTTags: Daniel Craig, David Fincher, Lisbeth Salander, Millennium Trilogy, Scott Rudin, Sony Pictures, Steve Zaillian, Stieg Larsson, Stieg Larsson Book Sales, Stieg Larsson Books, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment has begun deal talks with Steve Zaillian to adapt The Girl Who Played With Fire, the second installment of the Millennium Trilogy of crime novels written by Stieg Larsson. Zaillian adapted The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which SPE puts into production this fall after director David Fincher and producer Scott Rudin end the well-publicized search for an actress to play the troubled genius computer hacker Lisbeth Salander. Like Daniel Craig, that actress will sign a deal with two options covering The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest. Craig is playing journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
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