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When you have an international best seller that was on the Nyt list for 42 weeks and then made into a multi-Oscar-nominated Swedish film that became the third-most successful in the history of that country Ingmar Bergman called home, you might wonder what the need was for an English-language American remake. The answer is a chance to give Tom Hanks a role he can run with and, more important, to bring a very human, often funny, character-driven story back to light in a time that needs it more than ever.

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It’s been a productive and exciting time for Rita Wilson — the esteemed actress, producer and singer-songwriter who has returned this awards season with her third Oscar-qualifying original song.

The tune, “Til You’re Home,” was written for Sony’s upcoming drama A Man Called Otto, based on Fredrik Backman’s bestselling novel A Man Called Ove, which had previously been adapted into an Academy Award-nominated Swedish feature of the same name. Wilson wrote the piece with David Hodges and performed it with Sebastián Yatra, the Colombian artist best known for his work on Disney’s Encanto — also producing the pic as the first project under her newly announced film production banner, Artistic Films. (View the music video for “Til You’re Home” by clicking above.)

Emblematic of the “inspirational stories of hope” that Wilson wants to continue bringing to the world, the film starring her husband Tom Hanks tells...

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Rita Wilson is the ultimate multi-hyphenate: actress, producer, singer-songwriter, spouse of Tom Hanks. For the film A Man Called Otto, adapted from the Swedish novel and movie A Man Called Ove, she gets to flex several of her sharply-honed talents — namely, writing and performing an original song for Otto’s soundtrack, as well as serving as one of the film’s producers.

Wilson became familiar with the source material after catching an FYC screener of Hannes Holm’s 2015 Swedish film, which earned two Oscar nominations in 2016 for best foreign film and best makeup and hairstyling. She was struck by the story’s heart, its message and the prospect of casting her husband in the eponymous role. She began producing movies with 2012’s Oscar-nominated romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and has since worked to get a number of majorly successful titles made,...