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Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cannes: Jasmila Zbanic Planning ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?' Follow-Up, ‘The Missing Part'
Jasmila Zbanic is planning a sequel to her Oscar-nominated drama Quo Vadis, Aida?, about the Srebrenica massacre, which will follow the aftermath of the genocidal killings in Bosnia in 1995. Quo Vadis, Aida?: The Missing Part will trace the story of the women left behind after Bosnian Serb forces under commander Ratko Mladic murdered more than 7,000 civilians, primarily men and boys, in the most violent incident of the Bosnian War. Jasna Djuricic will return to star as Aida, a local translator for the UN peacekeeping forces who tried, in vain, to save her husband and sons from being massacred and who now leads the fight to uncover the truth of the killings and bring those responsible to justice. More from The Hollywood Reporter Cannes According to... Space Program Producer Lizzie Shapiro Samuel L. Jackson, Pierce Brosnan Western 'The Unholy Trinity' Gallops to U.K. via Signature 'Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk' Review: An Intimate Portrait of Life and Death in Gaza, Haunted by a Tragic Twist Quo Vadis, Aida? premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020 and picked up two BAFTA nominations and the best film prize at the European film awards, as well as an Academy Award nod for best international feature. Damir Ibrahimovic of Bosnian outfit Deblokada will produce Quo Vadis, Aida?: The Missing Part in co-production with Erik Hemmendorff of Sweden's Plattform Produktion, and Swedish film financier Film i Väst. The project was among those unveiled at Film i Väst's annual Cannes film festival lunch on Thursday. Other highlights from the company's upcoming slate include Good Mothers, a Pretty Little Lies-style small-town melodrama, directed by Amalie Nesby Fick, based on a best-selling novel adapted by award-winning director and screenwriter Nikolaj Arcel (The Promised Land, A Royal Affair) and featuring Danish stars Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen, Westworld) and Sofie Grabol (The Killing); the animated feature Dante from Swedish director Linda Hambäck (The Ape Star), which features a voice cast led by Stellan Skarsgard (Andor, Dune) and David Dencik (A Royal Affair); and Bad Moon Rising, a romantic drama directed by Erik Poppe (The Emigrants) from the first-ever original screenplay by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jon Fosse. Other features Film i Väst is backing are Bloody Men, a literary adaptation from Jens Sjögren (I Am Zlatan) featuring Swedish stars Aliette Opheim (Black Crab) and Filip Berg (Whisky on the Rocks, Strul); Burden of Justice, from Threesome director Lisa Linnertorp; and Will You Care if I Die?, based on Nicolas Lunabba's autobiographical best-seller of the same name, directed by Rojda Sekersöz (Netflix's Young Royals). Film i Väst previously announced it had boarded Fjord, the English-language debut for Palme d'Or winning Romanian director Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, which Neon just pre-bought for release in North America. The company, which operates studios in Trollhättan, Sweden, is a backer in three films in Cannes competition this year: Oliver Hermanus' The History of Sound, starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor; Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value, with Reinsve and Skarsgard; and Tarik Saleh's Eagles of the Republic, starring Fares Fares. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now "A Nutless Monkey Could Do Your Job": From Abusive to Angst-Ridden, 16 Memorable Studio Exec Portrayals in Film and TV The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Snabba Cash' & ‘Paradis City' Makers Team For Legal Thriller ‘Burden Of Justice' From SVT, Strive Stories & Film i Vast; Scandi Pubcasters & DR Sales Attached
EXCLUSIVE: The creators of Snabba Cash and Paradis City are behind the latest legal thriller out of Scandinavia. Burden of Justice (Försvararna) is set in the world of Sweden's elite law firms, where desperation, ambition and moral compromise simmer just beneath the surface. More from Deadline Mokster Films Expands Into Production With Lester Hsi's Taiwanese Horror 'Phantom' - Cannes Market Chiara Mastroianni, Denis Podalydès, Guslagie Malanda & Jasmine Trinca Among Cast For International Co-Pro 'Jealous White Men'; Magnify Launches Sales At Cannes Market 'Sound Of Falling' Filmmaker Mascha Schilinski On Origins Of Her Generational-Trauma Epic - Cannes A co-production of Swedish pubcaster SVT, Strive Stories and Film i Väst, the modern Stockholm-set series comes from Snabba Cash writer and author Jens Lapidus and Frans Milisic Wiklund. Nicklas Wikström Nicastro and Caroline Landerberg from Strive Studios, which made both Netflix's Snabba Cash and Prime Video's Paradis City, are producing. Denmark's DR, Norway's NRK, Finland's YLE and Iceland's RÚV are attached alongside SVT as part of the European N12 drama partnership. DR Sales has landed international rights. Per the synopsis, Burden of Justice will follow 'the high-powered lawyers of Matsson & Markovic as they navigate sweeping legal reforms, shifting public sentiment, and the personal fallout of lives lived in the moral gray zone. Friends and partners Sasa and Kalle once shared a vision of justice — now, with one embroiled in a personal rape case and the other defending a high-profile gang member, their ideals and loyalties begin to unravel. Meanwhile, junior lawyers Oscar and Tilde face their own reckoning as ambition leads to criminal collusion, and the line between professional duty and personal danger begins to blur.' Season 1 will run to eight episodes ands begins filming in August ahead of a spring 2026 launch on SVT. Casting is currently underway. The Burden of Justice production team are out in Cannes this week, and just unveiled the project to prospective partners and buyers, we understand. For co-producer Film i Väst, the project is the second Deadline has revealed today, following news of Golden Boys, another Swedish drama set in the professional world. That TV4 series stars Adam Lungren in a story about two ambitious Swedish city boy cousins who rise and fall in the financial sector, creating various illegal business ventures along the way. Best of Deadline Where To Watch All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies: Streamers With Multiple Films In The Franchise Everything We Know About 'My Life With The Walter Boys' Season 2 So Far 'Bridgerton' Season 4: Everything We Know So Far
