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PRESENTS LAST WILL AU Marketing & Publicity enquiries: Caroline Whiteway – Marketing & Publicity Manager [email protected] +61 3 9682 2944 Runtime: 90 minutes Censors Rating: M – contains violence & nudity New Zealand Release Date: 8th March 2012 SYNOPSIS Sweden’s premier crime writer Liza Marklund and Yellow Bird, producers of the multi-award winning The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, have collaborated on Marklund’s international best-selling Annika Bengtzon novels. Annika Bengtzon is a devoted crime reporter; workaholic and mother of two struggling to keep her marriage alive. When she covers the prestigious annual Nobel banquet for tabloid newspaper Kvaillspressen, Annika witnesses the murder of a high-ranking Nobel committee member. As a key witness, Annika is banned from writing about the murder, but cannot resist her journalistic instincts to pursue the investigation, drawing her perilously close to the corrupt power at the heart of this thriller. Malin Crepin will play Annika Bengtzon. A former Rising Star at the Stockholm Film Festival, Crepin has also played the lead role in In Your Veins (I skuggan av varmen), which earned her a nomination at the Swedish Guldbagge Awards. Peter Flinth directs Last Will. Flinth is one of Denmark’s top directors, whose credits include: the Arn films; the Wallander film Mastermind; and episodes of the Emmy awarded TV series Unit I (Rejseholdet). Eric Kress, whose credits include The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, is Director of Photography. Last Will is a co-production between Yellow Bird, Nordisk Film, TV4 and ARD Degeto. Zodiak Rights represents rest of world distribution in all media. 2 KEY CREDITS Director Director of Photography Producer Cast Executive Producers Peter Flinth Eric Kress Jenny Gilbertsson Malin Crepin as Annika Ole Sondberg, Anni Faurbye Fernandez LIZA MARKLUND Born in 1962 in the village of Palmark, close to the Arctic Circle in Sweden, Liza Marklund is a best-selling author, journalist, columnist and goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. Her novels about Annika Bengtzon were among the world’s bestsellers during 2002 and 2003 according to the American online magazine Publishing Trends, with The Red Wolf ranking number 12 and Prime Time number 13. Marklund is the only female Scandinavian writer to have become a number one bestseller in all five Nordic countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland. Her 2010 collaboration with James Patterson on The Postcard Killers reached number one on the New York Times best-seller list. THE ANNIKA BENGTZON SERIES Yellow Bird will produce 6 x 90’ films based on the Annika Bengtzon novels. Last will is currently in production. Following it’s theatrical release it will be launched on DVD and TV. A further five films will be released on DVD and TV: Prime Time, Studio Sex, The Red Wolf, Lifetime, and A Place in the Sun. Whilst the film series arc demonstrates a dramatic and evolving personal journey for Annika Bengtzon, each film will contain a stand-alone 3 narrative that offers broadcasters and distributors a great deal of flexibility. The Annika Bengtzon series of novels has sold over ten million copies in thirty countries, with fast paced and gripping stories fascinating readers all over the world. The timing of the theatrical and TV releases could not be better, as sales of the books continue to grow internationally. Random House launched the books in Canada in October 2010. In the UK, publisher Doubleday will launch the series in February 2012. Ullstein is re-launching the franchise in Germany and in Spain SUMA has bought the rights to seven books 4