All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 16
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ICELAND
It was the teenagers' weekend at the box-office in Iceland, where they managed to sink Disney's Pirates Of The Caribbean from the number one spot with the third instalment of the American Pie-franchise American Pie: The Wedding. With an impressive 1,604 admissions screen average on its four prints, Samfilm's release ...
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Block's Decibel takes a shine to Danish Midsummer
US remake rights to Danish newcomer Carsten Myllerup's thriller Midsummer have been picked by Bill Block's DecibelEntertainment, which plans to move its story from the Swedish woods to warmerclimates on Hawaii. "At this point we don't know who will star in or direct the film,"Danish producer Rasmus Thorsen of Cosmo ...
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FINLAND
The three films which had been previewed at the Finnish box-office the week before sat squarely on the top of the chart, with Buena Vista's Pirates Of The Caribbean leading in front of Piglet's Big Movie and Perttu Leppaa's local comedy Pearls And Pigs (Helmia Ja Sikoja). All three had ...
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Björk joins voices on Icelandic animation
The UK's ex-Monty Python Terry Jones and unusual Icelandic songbird Björk have joined the cast of the 3D animated film Anna And The Moods, which is currently being developed by Iceland's CAOZ Ltd. in Reykjavik. Directed and created by Gunnar Karlsson, Anna And The Moods will feature music composed by ...
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SWEDEN
The successful run of Daniel Lind Lagerloef's romantic comedy Miffo was halted after two weeks in the top spot by Buena Vista's Pirates Of The Caribbean, which blasted its way to the top with an impressive screen average of $12,162 from its high 87 prints. However, Reza Bagher's Capricciosa proved ...
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NORWAY
While everyone's money was on local low-budget digital feature Buddy, Buena Vista's blockbuster Pirates Of The Caribbean raced past Morten Tyldum's romantic feature over the weekend at the Norwegian box-office. Buddy received rave reviews when it had its premiere at the Norwegian International Film Festival and local media have hyped ...
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DENMARK
Not much changed at the Danish box-office this week where Tomb Raider 2 managed to stay on top with Bruce Almighty, and new releases Hollywood Homicide and Buffalo Soldiers failed to attract Danish audiences. Overall the weekend saw a massive 46.9% drop in box office gross from last year. Only ...
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Buddy, Slim Susie set for pan-Nordic releases
Morten Tyldum's romantic comedy Buddy and Ulf Malmros' Swedish black gangster comedy Slim Susie (Smala Sussi) are both to receive pan-Nordic releases via distribution major Sandrew Metronome.Very few Norwegian films get released in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland with 2001's box-office hit Elling an exception to the rule. Swedish films ...
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Buddy, Slim Susie set for pan-Nordic releases
Morten Tyldum's romantic comedy Buddy and Ulf Malmros' Swedish black gangster comedy Slim Susie (Smala Sussi) are both to receive pan-Nordic releases via distribution major Sandrew Metronome.Very few Norwegian films get released in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland with 2001's box-office hit Elling an exception to the rule. Swedish films ...
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Norway's BV Film International files for bankruptcy
Norwegian industry veteran Bjorg Veland has filed a petition for bankruptcy for her distribution company Media West, formerly called BV Film International. A separate company from her sales outfit BV International Pictures, BV Film has had to close down after a disagreement over royalties on one unnamed film. Among ...
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Danish Film Institute takes on key staff
The Danish Film Institute has hired three new film commissioners in charge of development and production support. Dola Bonfils and Morten Hartkorn, who both have a background in documentary filmmaking, will be handling short- and documentary films, while Nikolaj Scherfig joins the recently appointed Lene Hansson in the feature film ...
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Kitchen Stories takes top prize at Norway's Amandas
Bent Hamer's Kitchen Stories picked up the best film award at this weekend's 19th Norwegian film and TV awards, the Amandas.Hamer's Cannes title was the clear favourite for the prize, and was up against Jonny Vang (Jens Lien) and Dark Woods (Paal Oie).Swedish actress Lena Endre's won the best actress ...
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Buddy emerges as Haugesund audience favourite
Romantic comedy Buddy by newcomer Morten Tyldum has picked up the audience award at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund (Aug 17-24). The Norwegian film, which also was an audience prizewinner in Karlovy Vary, also received the 'feelgood' award (Gledessprederprisen) from Norwegian exhibitors. The exhibitor jury also gave a ...
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Raggy Boy comes out top at Copenhagen
Aisling Walsh's Song For A Raggy Boy won the Golden Swan prize for best film at the inaugral Copenhagen International Film Festival (Aug 13-20).Walsh's story about one man's struggle against a violent and fascistic regime in a boys' Irish Reformatory School has won widespread acclaim since it world premiered earlier ...
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Bond writers pen thriller for Raggy Boy team
The team behind Song For A Raggy Boy - director Aisling Walsh and Danish producer Michael Lunderskov - are linking up again on thriller Return To Sender, which is penned by the two James Bond/Johnny English-writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. The cast has yet to be set, but director ...
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Magnusson takes over as head of production at Nordisk
Rumle Hammerich, head of production at the Copenhagen-based Nordisk Film Production, has been replaced by Kim Magnusson (pictured), general manager of Nordisk Film's film and TV drama operations.Hammerich previously developed highly successful TV-series like Taxa and Unit One as well as the upcoming Defense (Forsvar), and he will continue to ...
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Odense Occupied by Pederson's Palestinian tale
Joergen Flindt Pedersen's controversial documentary The Occupied (De Besatte) won the Grand Prix at the 18th edition of the Danish short and documentary film festival in Odense over the weekend.The film follows five Palestinians for one year and at the same time describes how the Palestinians lost their country in ...
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New Nordic films to unspool at Haugesund
The 31st Norwegian International Film Festival (Aug 17-21) in the small western town of Haugesund is set to benefit from one of the country's most interesting filmmakers being lured to Hollywood. Erik Skjoldbjaerg (Insomnia) is bringing the two US stars - Christina Ricci and Jason Biggs - from his latest ...
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Digital Film Lab completes Underworld process
Copenhagen- and London-based Digital Film Lab has taken it first full Hollywood movie - Sony Pictures and Lakeshore Entertainment's Underworld - through its Digital Intermediate process."We have been very quiet about this, but we are happy to announce that we have completed the film, and that Sony subsequently has boosted ...