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All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 20
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Rising Danish star takes on Norwegian thriller
Hot Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is to star in Erich Hortnagl's Norwegian psychological thriller A Cry In The Woods (Den som frykter ulven). Mikkelsen will play a Danish police detective investigating a horrific murder in a small Norwegian town, which turns out to have a personal significance to him. Mikkelsen ...
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Focus closes North American deal on Love
Focus Featureshas acquired North American rights to Thomas Vinterberg's It's All AboutLove from Denmark'sNimbus Film. As reported earlier in Screen International negotiations have beenongoing since the film's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. "Ever sinceThe Celebration,we've been seeking to work with Thomas," commented Focus co-presidentsDavid Linde and James Schamus ...
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Bille August gets Hans Christian Andersen Award, prepares biopic
Danish expatriate filmmaker Bille August will receive The Hans Christian Andersen Award 2003 from the city Odense, where the world famous author was born 198 years ago, on April 2. August has just returned from Hollywood after financing collapsed on his Without Apparent Motive with Oscar-darlings Richard Gere and Julianne ...
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Intended is late addition to Denmark's NatFilm
Danish expatriate Kristian Levring's new film The Intended, which screened in Toronto last year, will have its first screening in his home country as a late addition to the already packed NatFilm Festival programme. Levring's film to is a companion piece his Dogme-film The King Is Alive. Set in ...
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Danish talent attracted to historical drama
Danish director Jorn Faurschou and producer Henrik Moller-Sorensen have attracted three major local names to head up the cast on the $3.3m (DKR22m) historic drama Dagen Og Vejen. Kim Bodnia (Bleeder, Old Men In New Cars) will play the self-centred and powerful lead, while actor-director Erik Clausen (Fish Out Of ...
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New head of production appointed at Nordisk Film
Norwegian producer Aage Aaberge has been named head of feature film production at Nordisk Film & TV in Norway to boost the company's production volume. This also means that the Nordisk-controlled Northern Lights is merged into Nordisk Film & TV. Former Lights chief Axel Helgeland, who produced I Am Dina, ...
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Finnish Grand Prix goes to Australian Projectionist
At the 33rd International Short Film Festival in the Finnish inland city of Tampere, the international jury awarded Michael Bates' Australian stop-motion film The Projectionist with the Grand Prix - out of the 75 shorts and documentaries from 36 countries in the international competition. The Finnish jury, headed by the ...
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Denmark's NatFilm reveals fest programme
The line-up for the 14th edition of Copenhagen's NatFilm Festival (Mar 28-Apr 6) contains 143 features and documentaries, including many of the hottest titles from the recent Berlin Film Festival. The full programme is due to be officially announced tonight (7 Mar) at a pre-launch party and screening of writer-director ...
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Denmark's Steen wins best actress & supporting actress awards - again
Danish actress Paprika Steen made awards history on Sunday by winning both best actress and best supporting actress prizes at the Danish film critics' Bodil Awards - having done exactly the same at last month's Danish academy awards, the Roberts.Steen (pictured) and director Susanne Bier took centre stage at Sunday ...
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THINKFilm buys Scherfig's Berlin hit Wilbur
THINKFilm has acquired all North American rights to Lone Scherfig's darkly humorous drama Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself. The film, which is her English-language debut, is Scherfig's next film after Italian For Beginners, which was a critical and commercial hit around the world including the US. Trust Film Sales handled ...
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Inheritance inherits Danish box-office crown
Per Fly's highly anticipated new film, Inheritance (Arven), was very well received by both critics and audiences on its opening weekend in Denmark, which was the biggest for a local film this year. With 41,000 admissions and $319,430 (DKK 2.2m) from 60 prints local distributor Nordisk Film's high expectations were ...
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Icelandic Film Foundation drafts in new chief
The Icelandic Film Foundation, the new name for The Icelandic Film Fund, has appointed Laufey Gudjonsdottir as its new managing director. .The appointment of Gudjonsdottir, a former buyer from the Icelandic national broadcaster, has meant that the former managing director of the Film Fund, Thorfinnur Omarsson, has been forced to ...
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Shooting Stars head for NatFilm festival
Six of Berlin's Shooting Stars will travel to Danish NatFilm Festival, for its opening gala on March 27 in Copenhagen. Among the European talent attending are Denmark own Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Iceland's Nina Dögg Filippusdóttir, Norway's Kristoffer Joner, Finland's Minna Haapkulä and Germany's Daniel Brühl. Apart from the busy Danish ...
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Europe gets Dogme Blues
Natascha Arthy's Dogme film Old New Borrowed And Blue has notched up brisk sales for Trust Film Sales, which sold German and Austrian rights to Senator. The romantic comedy-drama also went to Artcam and AG Market for the Czech Republic and the former Yugoslavian respectively. Both companies also bought Swedish ...
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Iceland's youngest film-maker readies gay football feature
Iceland's youngest, yet most prolific, filmmaker Robert Douglas is preparing his third feature film, Off Side, which has been put on the fast track after Ingvar Thordarson (101 Reykjavík) stepped in as co-producer along with director-producer Julius Kemp. The latter also produced Douglas' two previous low-budget digital features, The Icelandic ...
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Trust takes on international sales for Details
Denmark's Trust Film Sales will be handling international sales of the Swedish film Details, the highly anticipated new film from writer-director Kristian Petri. The film has been tipped for a slot in Cannes - if it is finished in time - and is based on a play by Sweden's provocative ...
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Danish duo create five-for-one animation plan
Danish producer-distributor Angel Films has joined with Anders Morgenthaler's TV-Animation in a new production outfit Five For One, which plans to produce five digital animated children's features. Using a new specially designed computer software and Dogme-like production principals they intend to make the five films for the price of one. ...
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Nordisk Film forges alliance with Finland's MRP
Nordic major Nordisk Film has signed an output deal with the prolific Finnish production outfit MRP Matila Röhr Productions. The three year deal will see the production company, which is Finland's largest, produce six new features. The deal is the first of its kind in the Finnish film industry, which ...
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Reviews
Confidence
Dir: James Foley. 2002. US. 98minsJames Foley's con-thriller, Confidence, tries to be as clever as the word play in its title, but this attempt at a clever-clever heist story fails due to a slack script and so-so performances. Despite some snappy dialogue, twists and turns and toying with the linear ...
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Refn and Danstrup form alliance with Nordisk Film
Following the successful world premiere of Fear X in Sundance, the Danish director-producer duo, Nicolas Winding Refn and Henrik Danstrup have announced that they will establish a joint company with Danish major Nordisk Film for their next two films. The company, which will retain the producers' NWR label, will most ...