09/08/2013 - Danish director Christian E Christiansen whose The Roommate was an American chartbuster in 2011, shoots the sequel to his Danish 2006 feature debut, Life Hits

Danish director Christian E Christiansen, whose first Hollywood movie, The Roommate (2011), opened No 1 on American charts, will shortly launch his next US thriller. Starring Rufus Sewell, Alycia Debnam Carey and Adelaine Kane in the story of a religious cult ­where young girls start to go missing - older followers fear a long-told prophecy, while the younger members suspect that abusive elders are killing them off - Where the Devil Hides will be released on October 11.

Meanwhile Christiansenhas returned to Denmark, where he has started principal photography for a stand-alone sequel to Life Hits [+see also:
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Scripted with his Life Hits partner Rasmus Dragsted, On the Edge is described as “a grim tale of rootless desperadoes, friendship, loyalty, love and guilt” – this time about boys - starring Cyron Melville, Jakob Oftebro and Danica Curcic (photo).

Life Hits producer Louise Vesth has also returned, with Denia Dremstrup and Jakob Balslev for Zentropa Entertainments, in collaboration with Aarhus-based M2 Film (Mads Munk, Kenneth Plummer), for the five-week shoot in locations in Aarhus.

Street racing, alcohol and fast love are the excitements of Nikolaj and his restless and adrenaline-hungry group of friends, but also a dangerous combination: at full throttle, Nikolaj and his friend Martin hit and kill a young woman. Martin, the driver, goes to jail – Nikolaj feels guilty, even more when he falls in love with Martin’s girlfriend, Signe.