SF Studios is Sweden’s largest film studio. It is involved in production, distribution, and movie theater market chains (both Swedish and international, including American) with headquarters in

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and local offices in

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and

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. The studio is owned by the Nordic media conglomerate

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. The largest film studio in Sweden, it was established on 27 December 1919 as

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et Svensk Filmindustri, which means Swedish Film Industry in Swedish (AB Svensk Filmindustri) or Svensk Filmindustri (SF), and adopted its current name in 2016.

History

SF Studios was founded in 1919 through a merger between AB Svenska Biografteatern and Skandia Filmbyrå AB. From 1942 to 1961, Carl-Anders Dymling was the company's president. In 1946, the melodrama '' Sunshine Follows Rain'' was released, earning the studio's largest profit of the sound era. SF produced most of the films made by

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, as well as a long list of films by other filmmakers such as Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjöström,

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Bo Widerberg Bo Gunnar Widerberg (; 8 June 1930 – 1 May 1997) was a Sweden, Swedish film director, screenwriter, writer, film editing, editor and actor. Biography Early life Widerberg was born in Malmö, Malmöhus County, Sweden. Career Bo Widerberg began ...

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and

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. The majority of film adaptations of the works by children's author

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have been produced by SF. More recently, SF Studios has produced the Academy Award-nominated film '' A Man Called Ove''. The studio produces film and tv-series and has production divisions in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and since 2017 in the United Kingdom. In 2020, SF Studios released its first international film production '' Horizon Line''. SF also distributes foreign films in the

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and has deals with

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM or MGM Studios) is an American Film production, film and television production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered ...

Sony Pictures Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and rec ...

and

STX Entertainment STX Entertainment is an American independent entertainment and media company. Founded in March 2014 by film producer Robert Simonds and TPG Growth managing partner Bill McGlashan, the studio produces film, television, and digital media projec ...

in the United States and

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in France. SF was owned by from 1970 until 1973, when it was sold to the newspaper firm

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. Since 1983, SF has been owned by the

. In 1998, SF was divided into two separate companies, the production and distribution company AB Svensk Filmindustri and the cinema chain SF Bio (later Filmstaden) In 2020, SF started distributing Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's titles in Scandinavia after their deal with

20th Century Home Entertainment 20th Century Home Entertainment (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, LLC. and also known as 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment) was a home video distribution arm that distributes films produced by 20th Century Stud ...

expired, and signed agreements with

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Universal Pictures Home Entertainment LLC (UPHE) is the home video distribution division of Universal Pictures, an American film studio owned by NBCUniversal, the entertainment unit of Comcast. UPHE is the home video distributor for all of the ...

and

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to handle titles across the Nordic and Baltic regions. A year later, they signed a deal with Paramount Home Entertainment to distribute their releases in Scandinavia. In mid-2022, SF signed a deal with

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. (doing business as Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment) is the home entertainment distribution arm of the Walt Disney Company. The division handles the distribution of Disney's films, television series, a ...

for physical distribution of their titles in Scandinavia.

References

Bibliography

* Gunnar Iverson, Astrid Soderbergh Widding & Tytti Soila. ''Nordic National Cinemas''. Routledge, 2005.

External links

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SF Bio.se

SF International Sales
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