Peter Sunde: Last News

Annika Pham L.A.-based Dynamic Television has acquired worldwide rights to the Swedish series “The Pirate Bay,” about the notorious pirate BitTorrent site and its co-founders Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, and Gottfrid Swartholm. The six-part series, set to go unto production this fall, is being produced by Stockholm and L.A.-based powerhouse B-Reel Films (“Midsommar,” “Before We Die”) for Swedish pubcaster SVT. “I Am Zlatan” helmer Jens Sjögren is directing, from a screenplay by head-writer Piotr Marciniak (“Everything I Can’t Remember”), with Patrik Gyllström (“Agatha Christie’s Hjerson”) serving as episodic writer. The character-driven show turns on Peter, Fredrik and Gottfrid, who ended up creating in 2003 one of the world’s largest BitTorrent indexes as a reaction to big business trying to take control file sharing over the Internet. 

Greta Thunberg, 19, shut down former professional kickboxer Andrew Tate, 36, whose controversial views and misogynistic commentary has resulted in his suspension from several social media platforms in the past. After Tate tagged the Swedish icon on Twitter in a mocking statement about his own carbon emissions, Thunberg did not hold back with her response. “Hello @GretaThunberg, I have 33 cars,” Tate tweeted yesterday beside a picture of himself with one of the vehicles. “My Bugatti has a w16 8.0L quad turbo.