All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 15
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Kitchen Stories cooks up Norway Oscar vote
Bent Hamer's Cannes charmer Kitchen Stories has been selected as Norway's official entry to the Oscars in the foreign language film category. The original comedy had its premiere at the Tromsoe Film Festival in January where it picked up the FIPRESCI award, and has since been around the world from ...
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FINLAND
Timo Koivusalo's Sibelius, which has been a hot item in the local media, has steadily climbed the chart since BVI released it three weeks ago and now sits comfortably on the top, dropping less than 1% from last week.The other local chart topper in its fifth week finally passed Pirates ...
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Danish Film Insitute greenlights eight films
Six new Danish films and two Danish-Swedish co-productions have been greenlit after securing support from the Danish Film Institute. Two of these have received backing through the so-called 60/40 deal based on their high commercial potential, as they will be directed by the two successful female directors Hella Joof (Shake ...
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Copenhagen Children's festival unveils line-up
Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival - Buster (Sep 29 -Oct 5), has launched its first programme in collaboration with New Nordic Children's Film. This has led to by far strongest programme in the festival's three year history, which includes features, shorts, documentaries and animated films screened for free for young ...
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Danish Fakir conjures up impressive cast
Danish director Peter Flinth's family adventure The Fakir has attracted an impressive cast including Germany's Moritz Bleibtreu (Taking Sides), Denmark's Sidse Babett Knudsen (Old New Borrowed And Blue) and Sweden's Fares Fares (Jalla! Jalla!). They join the two young leads Julie Zangenberg (Catch That Girl) and Aksel Leth (Olsen Gang ...
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DENMARK
The weekend saw little change at the top of the Danish box-office as Pirates Of The Caribbean stayed in front of the local crime-comedy Stealing Rembrandt, though both films dropped 24.2% and 13.4% respectively compared to last week. While the two animated films Piglet's Big Movie and Sinbad swapped places ...
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Bell lands the lead role in Vinterberg's Wendy
17year-old British star Jamie Bell has landed the plum lead part in ThomasVinterberg's highly anticipated Dear Wendy which is based on a script by Lars Von Trier.JoiningBell in the cast of the thriller, which starts shooting on Sept 26 inCopenhagen, are US actors Chris Owen, Mark Webber and Michael Angarano ...
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Mongoland director cranks up Norwegian surfer tale
Acclaimed Danish actors Kim Bodnia and Iben Hjejle will join the cast of the unusual Norwegian surfer love story Monsterthursday directed by Arild Ostin Ommundsen, who made his feature debut with the low-budget surprise hit Mongoland in 2001. Shooting from Oct 7 until Nov 21 in and around the coastal ...
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Hot Swedish newcomer readies Disease debut
Swedish newcomer Daniel Espinosa will make his feature debut under Nordisk Film's low-budget label, Director's Cut, with Babylonsjukan (literally The Babylon Disease), a look at the world as seen through the eyes of a thirteen year-old girl in Stockholm. The film will be the first of its kind in Sweden, ...
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Veteran Danish writer directs King's Game debut
Nikolaj Arcel's feature debut Kings' Game (Kongekabale) has begun shooting this week.The script by Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg (Midsummer) is inspired by a controversial fact-based novel by Niels Krause Kjaer, which deals with a power-struggle in recent Danish politics. The cast is led by Anders W. Berthelsen (Mifune, Italian For ...
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Von Trier books into Swedish studio for Manderlay
Swedish regional fund Film I Vast has once again attracted Danish maverick Lars von Trier, who will shoot his upcoming Manderlay at the Trollhattan studio early next year. It had been speculated that von Trier might shoot this second part of his U.S.A. trilogy in either Germany or Norway. But ...
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ICELAND
Opening day-and-date with North America, Robert Rodriguez's return to his Latin roots with Once Upon A Time In Mexico blasted its way to the top of the Icelandic box-office with an impressive 4,020 admissions.The first international territory to receive the film, the final part the director's El Mariachi trilogy, Iceland ...
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Bergman's Saraband to premiere on Swedish TV
Despite being tipped at one time to world premiere at Cannes or Venice, Saraband - the new film from legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman - will make its debut on Swedish broadcaster SVT on Dec 1. The film, which stars Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt and Julia Dufvenius, reunites ...
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FINLAND
Buena Vista continued to compete with itself at the top of the Finnish box-office, with Pirates Of The Caribbean holding on to the top just ahead of BVI's new release of Timo Koivusalo's Sibelius, Koivusalo's biographical film about the famous Finnish composer was given a wide 50 print release, and ...
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ICELAND
Despite dropping 40% from its premiere weekend, the third installment of the American Pie-series, American Pie: The Wedding, managed to stay on top of the Icelandic chart in front of new releases The Italian Job and Daddy Day Care. Other than that there was little change at the top, where ...
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FINLAND
The top of the Finnish chart saw little change this weekend with Buena Vista's Pirates Of The Caribbean staying ahead of stablemate Piglet's Big Movie and local comedy Pearls And Pigs (Helmia ja sikoja).While Perttu Leppaa's local film boasts a better screen average of 471 admissions than Piglet, and went ...
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SWEDEN
Pirates Of The Caribbean refused to give leave from the top spot in Sweden leaving new Hollywood releases Piglet's Big Movie and American Pie: The Wedding to take up positions behind it.This resulted in local hit Miffo slipping to fourth place but it still fared better than the new local ...
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NORWAY
Hollywood blockbuster Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl was joined at the top of the chart by BVI stablemate Piglet's Big Movie in Norway. This pushed the two local crowd-pleasers, Buddy and United to third and fourth spot on the chart. Both local romantic comedies fell ...
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DENMARK
After a couple of uneventful weeks at the Danish box-office, Jannik Johansen's Stealing Rembrandt lived up to its high expectations and brought life back to the box-office.A solid if not quite spectacular 28,821 admissions on 67 prints, easily secured it the top spot in front of Dreamworks' Sinbad: Legend Of ...