All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 19
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NonStop dives with Cousteau
Sweden's NonStop Entertainment has signed a deal with Europe Images International SA to handle Jacques Cousteau's extensive catalogue of more than 100 titles for TV and video in Scandinavia and Iceland. The deal includes films like Silent World, Odyssey, Mississippi, Amazon and The Undersea World. The Cousteau film collection includes ...
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Film archivists convene in Sweden
The Swedish Film Institute and the Finnish Film Archive will host this year's congress of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). The event kicks off at Stockholm's Filmhuset on June1 and closes in Helsinki on June7. Attracting delegates from more than 60 countries, speakers will include UCLA film restorer ...
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Buyers on the road to Von Trier's Manderlay
Israel's Shani Films, Switzerland's Monopole Pathe and Taiwan's Crown Films have been the first to sign on for Manderlay, Lars von Trier's next project as director after Cannes competition contender Dogville. It will most likely also star Nicole Kidman. Manderlay is the second instalment in the Danish maverick's new trilogy ...
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Buyers on the road to Von Trier's Manderlay
Israel's Shani Films, Switzerland's Monopole Pathe and Taiwan's Crown Films have been the first to sign on for Manderlay, Lars von Trier's next project as director after Cannes competition contender Dogville. It will most likely also star Nicole Kidman. Manderlay is the second instalment in the Danish maverick's new trilogy ...
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Stealing Rembrandt to open first Copenhagen festival
The first edition of the Copenhagen International Film Festival, which unspools in Denmark's capital from August 13-20, will have the highly anticipated feature debut from Jannik Johansen, Stealing Rembrandt, as its opening gala screening. The full festival programme and the competition films will be announced in late July, but head ...
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Copenhagen to host int'l documentary fest
Copenhagen's first international documentary film festival, cph:dox, will take place from Nov 7-16 2003. The new independent festival is organised by the NatFilm Festival in cooperation with the Copenhagen Cinémathèque and the European Documentary Network. cph:dox plans to present some 60 new international documentaries. Like its popular sister event NatFilm, ...
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Welcome to Dogville
Whenever Danish maverick Lars von Trier premieres a new film at Cannes, audiences can expect something innovative and provocative. Breaking The Waves, The Idiots and Dancer In The Dark all aroused strong reactions on the Croisette - and his latest film, Dogville starring Nicole Kidman, should be no exception. Like ...
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Sandrew Metronome International reveals new team for Cannes
Scandinavian distributor Sandrew Metronome will this year be attending Cannes with an all-new acquisitions team. Assembled after veteran CEO Bertil Sandgren's retirement last month, Sandrew Metronome International's new acquisitions team now comprises Eivor Zimmerman and Stine Helgeland, with Frida Ohrvik as CEO in charge of strategic development and finance.Sandrew Metronome ...
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Sandrew Metronome reveals new team for Cannes
Scandinavian distributor Sandrew Metronome will this year be attending Cannes with an all-new acquisitions team. Assembled after veteran CEO Bertil Sandgren's retirement last month, Sandrew Metronome International's new acquisitions team now comprises Eivor Zimmerman and Stine Helgeland, with Frida Ohrvik as CEO in charge of strategic development and finance.Sandrew Metronome ...
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Dendy snaps up Dogville for Australia
Dendy Films has acquired Australian rights to Lars von Trier's highly anticipated Cannes contender just weeks before it is scheduled to hit the Croisette. The deal was signed last week with sales outfit Trust Film Sales, which now reports that only three key territories remain to be closed on the ...
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Dendy snaps up festival favourite Dogville for Australia
Dendy Films has acquired Australian rights to Lars von Trier's highly anticipated Cannes contender just weeks before it is scheduled to hit the Croisette. The deal was signed last week with sales outfit Trust Film Sales, which now reports that only three key territories remain to be closed on the ...
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Rembrandt steals early US buyer buzz
Danish newcomer Jannik Johansen's highly anticipated feature debut Stealing Rembrand may be months away from its scheduled domestic release, but it is already picking up considerable buzz following an early screening in London for US buyers, according to the film's producer Thomas Gammeltoft.The Danish-UK film, a co-production between Gammeltoft's Fine ...
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Nordisk Film appoints Magnusson in production push
Danish producer Kim Magnusson has been appointed general manager of Nordisk Film's film and TV drama operations across the Nordic region. The 37 year-old producer has a number of successes behind him for M&M Productions, the outfit he set up with his father Tivi Magnusson in 1995. These include Anders ...
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Danish director scores production hat trick
The Danish Film Institute has put writer-director Jesper W. Nielsen (pictured) in a highly unusual situation for a Danish filmmaker. With its $792,700 (DKR 5.5m) backing for his new comedy Don't You Know John Lennon (working title), Nielsen will have had a new film released three years in a row. ...
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Danish broadcasters sign production funding deal
Denmark's two major broadcasters DR-TV and TV2/Danmark have reached an agreement with the Association of Danish Film Producers on how to spend the $8.7m (DKR60m) they are obliged to invest annually in local film production. It was last year's media agreement which dictated the amount, but it is the first ...
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European Cinema Exhibition conference to expand
The Danish Cinema Exhibitors' Association (Danske Biografer) is to host its third European Cinema Exhibition at the European Film College in Ebeltoft (Demark) from June 4-8 - and for the first time follow it up with another in Rome from Sep 24-28. The conference, European Cinema Exhibition - A New ...
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Nordic films fight off Hollywood releases
Denmark's most prolific producer Regner Grasten returned to form with his latest film Anja After Viktor, which drew 81,700 admissions ($622,500) this weekend, dethroning local hit: Anders Thomas Jensen's The Green Butchers from the number one spot.The third instalment in a series, Anja After Viktor (following 1999's Love At First ...
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Devdas delights audiences at Denmark's NatFilm fest
Bollywood was yet again the big winner at Denmark's NatFilm Festival, which ended its first year as a two nation event on Sunday by handing out the audience award to Sajay Leela Bhansali's Devdas. With Lagaan winning last year, it is clear that Copenhagen has a taste for Indian ...
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Newcomer wins Denmark's NatFilm Natsvaermer award
At the opening gala for the 14th edition of Denmark's NatFilm Festival newcomer Jannik Johansen received the Natsvaermer Award along with $3,600, which is presented annually to a new talent. The 37 year-old Johansen has written and directed several shorts including A Quiet Death (1997) and Off Track (1999), before ...
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Nordisk Film reports $1.4m loss despite increased revenues
Major Danish Media Group Egmont has reported a 5% increase in revenues for 2002 to Euros 1.2bn, while its film division Nordisk Film registered a Euros 1.3m loss despite improved revenues - from Euros 399m in 2001 to Euros 432m in 2002. The outfit, which encompass feature production, TV ...