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All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 12
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Norwegian Film Fund backs nine production outfits
The Norwegian Film Fund has pumped $1.6m (NOK11m) into nine local production companies to back their slates or to help develop their outfits. In the latter category Stavanger-based Sydvest Film and Oslo-based Fenris Film AS both recieved interest free loans of $75,000 a year for thee years, while Trondheim-based Klapp ...
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FINLAND
Last week's previews week swept all competition from the top of the Finnish chart, as Finding Nemo and Master And Commander pushed Love Actually down 28% to third. However, no other films were released over the weekend, which was 40% lower than last year. Little else changed at the chart, ...
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Von Trier close to finding Grace with Howard
Newcomer Bryce Dallas Howard - the daughter of director Ron Howard - is close to taking on the role of Grace in Lars von Trier's Manderlay, the director's follow-up to this year's controversial Dogville."I can confirm that we are negotiating with her, and that we believe she would be a ...
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Holst named new head at Thura Film
The founder and main producer of Zentropa's documentary arm Zentropa Real, Carsten Holst, will from Jan 1 shift over to become managing director and producer at Michael Obel's Copenhagen-based Thura Film. "I believe that he is a highly competent man, who has some interesting experiences behind him, a good mix ...
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Danish Scratch heads for Berlin
The Danish feature debut from Swedish-born Anders Gustafsson, Scratch (Bagland), has been selected as the first of six for the Berlin Film Festival's new youth film sidebar 14plus, an extension of the Kinderfilmfest. Though the film won't be released locally until December 25, it has already picked up a number ...
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Schultze sweeps Stockholm festival prizes
The 14th edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival, which wrapped on Sunday night, showered most its awards on German newcomer Michael Schorr for Schultze Gets The Blues.The picture won best film, best actor, best script and writer-director Schorr was also named best debutant. The film, which previously screened in ...
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DENMARK
Though Finding Nemo had no problem hanging on to the top spot this week, with twice the screen average of two new releases Love Actually and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this weekend's box-office total was down no less than 51,8% from last year. Matrix Revolutions continued its rapid retreat from the ...
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Scanbox, Paradox strike co-production deal
Nordic distributor Scanbox Entertainment, which has emerged in a strong position after a major restructure in 2001, has through its Norwegian arm signed a co-production agreement on six feature films with the prolific production outfit Paradox Spillefilm AS. The deal will see the companies select, develop, produce and market the ...
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SWEDEN
Though Finding Nemo swam safely into the top spot on its massive 181 prints and a strong screen average of $9.879 Matrix Revolutions clung to second place despite falling off 51%. The local box-office hits Evil and The Third Wave continued their successful runs, but for the first time in ...
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Trust strikes Third Wave deals at MIFED
Trust Film Sales sold Anders Nilsson's Swedish box-office hit The Third Wave (Den Tredje Vagen) to a number of territories at last week's MIFED. Among the buyers were Summerstorm Entertainment (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan), ATLAS Film + Medien (Germany, Switzerland, Austria) and Intersonic Inc. (Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic). ...
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Dans, Grozny, Dans and Bus 174 win at cph:dox
Copenhagen's first international documentary film festival cph:dox, which wrapped this weekend, saw its major awards go to Jos de Putter's Dutch film Dans, Grozny, Dans and Jose Padilha's Brazilian Bus 174. 'Dans, Grozny, Dans is a deeply humanistic tale of a dance group and their dedicated teacher in a tale ...
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Nordisk Film goes to Hollywood
Nordic major Nordisk Film is to open a US office in Los Angeles on January 1, where international head of acquisitions Kim Beich will handle the company's many US relationships. "It is a part of the strategy we have been following for some years now," Nordisk Film MD, Kenneth D ...
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DENMARK
While Matrix Revolutions took the box-office crown with a solid if not amazing 775 admissions screen average on its 79 prints, the film that was most influenced by it was Kill Bill, which dropped from number one to six, down some 60%. Last week's new local release from newcomer Oliver ...
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SWEDEN
After seven weeks at the top of the chart even Mikael Haafstroem's Evil had to step down to the Matrix Revolutions' massive 134 prints and impressive $8,441 screen average. However, since both Evil and the action-thriller The Third Wave are still out in 91 and 96 prints respectively, they are ...
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Trust to sell Mother's Elling
Trust Film Sales will handle world sales on Mother's Elling, the follow up to 2001's international box-office hit Elling, which has already been seen by more than 300,000 Norwegians and grossed some $2.5m in four weeks. UIP, which distributes the film in Scandinavia, had first look, but Trust Film Sales ...