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Swedish producer Fredrik Zander of 08 Industries and Spain’s Antonia Nava of Neo Art Producciones are teaming on “Black Site,” an English-language action thriller written and directed by Peter Lindmark. Both companies will have a presence at this year’s European Film Market, where they will be holding meetings about their new co-production.

Plot details are being kept mostly under wraps for the time being, but the producers have said the film with be set against a high-stakes, ticking-clock narrative and that “Black Site” promises to be a brutal thrill ride with twists around every corner. Currently in the financing phase, the film’s team is now casting and scouting potential shooting locations.

The film’s narrative fits in line with Lindmark’s ouvre as an accomplished writer and director. His previous credits include the 2006 Mads Mikkelsen and Alexander Skarsgård-starring thriller “Exit” and recent Viaplay crime series “Lyckoviken.”

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Mads Mikkelsen will receive the European Film Academy's European Achievement in World Cinema 2011 Honorary Award "in recognition of a unique contribution to the world of film." Previous recipients include Milos Forman, Roman Polanski, Antonio Banderas, Lars von Trier, Isabelle Huppert, Maurice Jarre, Liv Ullmann, Roberto Benigni, Gabriel Yared, and Victoria Abril. Among the Danish-born Mikkelsen's credits are Nicolas Winding Refn’s crime dramas Pusher (1996) and With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II (2004); Anders Thomas Jensen's The Green Butchers (2003) and Adam's Apples (2005); Susanne Bier's Open Hearts (2002) and the Oscar-nominated After the Wedding (2006); and Ole Christian Madsen's Flame and Citron (2008). Outside of Denmark, Mikkelsen was the creepy villain with the bleeding eye in Martin Campbell's Casino Royale (2006); Igor Stravinsky in Jan Kounen's Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009); a corporate go-getter with a past in Peter Lindmark's Swedish drama Exit (2009); One Eye in Winding Refn's English-language Valhalla Rising...