All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 14
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The Good Cop attracts great cast
Danish stuntman-turned-filmmaker Lasse Spang Olsen and actor Kim Bodnia have joined forces to set up their own production outfit, Endaxi Film, to make the action comedy The Good Cop. This is a continuation of the working relationship they have had on three films, the two successful action-comedies In China They ...
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Comfortable premiere anticipated at Bergen
Norway's Bergen International Film Festival (Oct16-21) will see the world premiere of highly anticipated local documentary, Gunnar Hall Jensen's Gunnar Goes Comfortable.The Bergen-based filmmaker's highly autobiographical documentary has been much talked about since an incomplete version won the Swedish Film Institute's Documentary Award back in 2002. It follows Jensen who ...
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Evil director returns to school for ghost story
While Mikael Haafstroem's adaptation of Jan Guillou's autobiographical bestseller, Evil (Ondskan), is still dominating the local box-office, he has started shooting his new film Strandvaskeren (literally 'the body washed ashore') outside Stockholm. A co-production between Hans Lonnerheden's Greta Film and Nordisk Film's H.P. Lundh, the SKR16.8m psychological thriller takes place ...
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Pullman boards Vinterberg's Dear Wendy
Bill Pullman has joined the cast of Thomas Vinterberg's Dear Wendy, which is based on a script by Lars Von Trier.The thriller, which started shooting on Sept 26 in Copenhagen, stars Jamie Bell, Chris Owen, Mark Webber and Michael Angarano, Danso Gordon and Alison Pill.The film is being shot on ...
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Ahrne takes key post at Swedish Film Institute
Marianne Ahrne has been appointed as the new film commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute, in charge of supporting feature films for the state's film funding body. The 63 year-old veteran of the Swedish film industry has worked as both director, writer and editor since the 1970s after graduating from ...
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NORWAY
As expected the release of Mother's Elling, the prequel to 2001's box-office sensation and Oscar nominated comedy-drama, thundered into number one with more than four times the take of number two The Woman Of My Life. Both Alexander Eik's romantic comedy and S.W.A.T. dropped considerably - 40% and 50% from ...
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Noi Albinoi sweeps Iceland's EDDA awards
Dagur Kari's Noi Albinoi continued its winning streak scooping most of the major awards at the annual EDDAs - the Icelandic Film & TV-Awards.The ceremony, which is considered one of the most important events of the social calendar in Iceland, was broadcast on RUV, the national Icelandic station, and achieved ...
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DENMARK
As Pirates Of The Caribbean sailed back into the top spot past last week's chart topper The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which dropped a massive 42% - the new release of Aage Rais Nordentoft's well received youth film 2 Moves One Pass carved a solid if unremarkable 17,020 admissions on ...
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Serious films win Copenhagen children's fest prizes
Two children's films with serious topics took top honours at the Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival BUSTER, which wrapped this weekend for the first time in collaboration with the industry event New Nordic Children's Film.Dominique Standaert's Belgian Hop about illegal refugees in Europe was chosen as the best feature by ...
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SWEDEN
The new release of Ulf Malmros' black comedy Slim Sussie was able to put a dent in the successful run of Mikael Haafstroem's Evil, which stayed at number one with more than double the screen average of the newcomer at second. Pirates Of The Caribbean continued its strong performance in ...
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Evil a smash at the box office and Sweden's Oscar submission
Sweden namedMikael Haafstroem's highly anticipated Evil (Ondskan) its submission for this year's foreignlanguage Oscar yesterday, the weekend after it opened in Sweden with a dazzling108,000 admissions (SKR1.1m) on 95 prints.The gross wasdouble the take of the second film on the chart Pirates Of The Caribbean, reflecting the fact that the ...
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Elling set to become a trilogy
A third film about Norway's favourite neurotic Elling - the main character from the Oscar nominated Norwegian box-office hit - is set for the big screen, producer Dag Alveberg of Maipo Film confirmed this week."This is not a case of boiling soup on a thin bone," he told ScreenDaily.com "There ...
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SWEDEN
Mikael Haafstroem's highly anticipated Evil (Ondskan) had a tremendous opening weekend with 108,000 admissions on its 95 prints, more than double the take of second-placed, Pirates Of The Caribbean. With more than two million copies sold of Jan Guillou's autobiographical novel from 1981, it wasn't surprising that expectations were high ...
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November (Noviembre)
Dir: Achero Manas. Spain. 2003. 104minsActor-turned-director Achero Manas marks his position as one of the most interesting young filmmakers in Spain with November, but it is unlikely that the film will get him recognition beyond what he gained from his impressive debut Pellet (El Bola). But this well-acted and great ...
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NORWAY
The record 100 print release of newcomer Alexander Eik's romantic comedy The Woman Of My Life paid off in the film's first weekend, where it pushed American Wedding down 43% and Pirates Of The Caribbean 30%. Well known for his sure hand at marketing, veteran producer John M. Jacobsen has ...
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DENMARK
The release of Christoffer Boe's multiple-award winning feature debut Reconstruction couldn't have bought the publicity up to its premiere if it had wanted to. Just the day before it's release it became the Danish submission for the Oscars; before that it had picked up the Camera d'Or in Cannes and ...
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Yuzna's Beyond Re-Animator takes Fantastisk prize
Prolific producer-director Brian Yuzna's Beyond Re-Animator won him top honours, the Melies d'Argent Award, at this weekend's Fantastisk Film Festival in Lund, Sweden. The American filmmaker, who has made most of his recent films in Spain, made his feature debut as producer of the original Re-Animator, a cult classic from ...