Anthony moves to FLX from Avanti Film where she produced Becoming Astrid among others. Before Avanti, she worked nearly two decades for Memfis Film on award-winning films such as Josef Fares’ Jalla Jalla!, Zozo, and Jesper Ganslandt’s Falkenberg Farewell.

The producer who will take on her new job at FLX early October said: "I look forward to leading the Feature Film Department at FLX, the most dynamic production company in Sweden right now. It's a privilege to work with creative, sharp and friendly people, and to create with them audience-driven high-quality movies.”

Pontus Edgren, FLX’s co-founder with director/writer Felix Herngren and writer Niclas Carlsson said: “Anna has a fantastic track record and we’ve been in dialogue with her for some time. In her new position as Head of Feature Film, she will be responsible for driving the creative force for all our feature projects, that until now was split between 3-4 persons within our company."

Edgren says Anthony’s arrival signals FLX’s ambition to step up its feature film output. “We have a portfolio of outstanding IP and original ideas and want to increase our film activities with an average two high quality audience-driven films a year.”

So far, FLX has focused mostly on comedies, such as The 100 Year-old Man who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared, its sequel The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared, and Solsidan-The Movie. But going ahead, the company will consider all genres. “We’ll open up our slate to other genres, the way we’ve done with our TV dramas,” notes Edgren.

FLX’s latest feature project is a reboot of the all-time favourite comedy franchise Jönssonligan, directed by Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy). The film is the director’s first Swedish film since his 2008 acclaimed Let the Right One In, and his first comedy in 15 years since Four Shades of Brown.

Originally based on the Danish cult series The Olsen Gang, launched 50 years ago, Jönssonligan features a fictitious criminal gang comprising criminal genius Charles Ingvar "Sickan" Jönsson, Ragnar Vanheden and Dynamite Harry. The main roles are played by top comedian Henrik Dorsin, Anders Johansson and David Sundin respectively, as well as rising star Hedda Stiernstedt, just awarded a Swedish Emmy for her role in SVT’s period drama The Restaurant/Vår tid är nu.

The comedy is currently filming in Stockholm and will be distributed locally by SF Studios end of 2019.

The untitled Jönssonligan reboot has received support from Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

On the TV drama side, the production company partly owned by Bonnier Ventures, is currently filming Netflix’s Quicksand (Störst av allt) with a cast of newcomers including Hanna Ardéhn (30 Degrees in February), William Spetz (Solsidan), Felix Sandman (We Are the Best!), David Dencik (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Reuben Sallmander (The Bridge), Anna Björk (The Bridge), and Christopher Wollter (Modus). The series based on Malin Persson Giolito’s best-selling novel, is adapted for the small screen by Camilla Ahlgren (The Bridge). Norway’s Per-Olav Sørensen (Nobel) directs, together with Sweden’s Lisa Farzaneh (Arne Dahl). The series will launch on Netflix in 2019.

Other TV dramas set to premiere next year include:
  • Blinded (8X1h). Financial thriller based on a book by investigative journalist Carolina Neurath. Directed by Jens Jönsson, written by Jesper Harrie, with Maria Karlsson, Jonas Bonnier. Coproduced by C More/TV4, and All3Media, also handling world sales. 
  • The Bonus Family/Bonusfamiljen season 3. Premiere SVT spring 2019. The comedy drama about Lisa (Vera Vitali) and Patrik (Erik Johansson), their children and exes, is set six months after the closing episode of season 2. Creators are Felix Herngren, Moa Herngren, Clara Herngren, Jesper Harrie, and Ditta Bongenhielm.