All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 22
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Smile snaps up Sinatra pic for Scandinavia
Copenhagen-based Smile Entertainment has acquired the Scandinavian rights to Paul Goldman's The Night We Called It A Day, which started shooting in Australia earlier this month for Scala Productions and Ocean Pictures. The deal was negotiated between Smile's Timo T. Lahtinen and Scala's Nik Powell as an early pre-buy. International ...
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Sherfig's Wilbur opens to strong Danish results
Lone Scherfig's highly anticipated English-language debut Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, (pictured) which last week attracted buyers from around the world to it's national premiere, attracted a strong 16,993 admissions and a $101,957 gross on just 40 prints over its opening weekend. The film which received highly favourable reviews ...
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Danes win multi-million film support package
The Danish government has won political backing to pass a new $237m support plan for the film industry, spread over four years and provided by both public broadcasters and the state.The package, put together by the new right-wing cultural minister of Denmark, Brian Mikkelsen, was passed by all political parties ...
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Local films in Estonia, Serbia/Montenegro smash opening records
Local films in both Estonia and Serbia/Montenegro have this week smashed local box-office records, each taking more in their home territories on their opening weekend than blockbuster Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone. Estonian film, The Names In Marble, became the first local picture in its country's history to break ...
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Danish veteran Holst goes solo
Danish veteran producer Per Holst, who won the Palme d'Or, Golden Globe and Academy Award for Pelle The Conqueror, has once again set up his own production company after working under major Nordisk Film for some 10 years. The 63 year-old Holst (pictured) has established Asta Film with two newcomers, ...
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Rialto Film is first in line for Dear Wendy
Switzerland's Rialto Film has been the first to pick up distribution rights to Dear Wendy, the highly-anticipated collaboration between Denmark's award-winning filmmakers, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. The two previously fathered the influential Dogme95 movement, and this time Vinterberg will direct the English-language film based on Trier's script. Wendy ...
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Von Trier eyes Kidman for USA trilogy
Danish maverick Lars von Trier has been so pleased with the results of his highly anticipated new film Dogville, that he has started to write a sequel called Manderlay - in what will be the second part of his planned new ``U.S.A. Trilogy - especially for Nicole Kidman. Producer Vibeke ...
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Bornedal writes Just Another Love Story
Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal is putting the final touches on a new feature script, Just Another Love Story, set to go before the cameras in spring-summer 2003. The thriller sees an ordinary family man, who gets a chance to change his identity in a split second and does - only ...
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US buyers kill for Wilbur premiere in Copenhagen
Several leading US buyers will be leaving the halls of MIFED this week for a flying visit to Copenhagen where the attraction will be the first ever screening of Lone Scherfig's highly anticipated Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, the follow-up to her Berlin Silver-Bear winning Italian For Beginners. Though sales ...
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Dragonflies takes off with Nordic Film Days award
Marius Holst has walked off with the main award - the NDR Promotion Prize - for Norwegian drama Dragonflies, at the 44th edition of the Nordic Film Days in the German city of Lübeck.The NDR Promotion Prize of 12,500 Euro has been awarded annually since 1990 for a feature film ...
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Man Without A Past wins new Nordic prize, joins Oscar race
The Nordic Council's Film Prize 2002, which was awarded for the first time on Tuesday night, went to Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki for The Man Without A Past - which has also been selected as the Finnish candidate for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. With the Nordic Council's Film Prize, ...
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Danes choose Dogme hit Open Hearts for Oscar race
As expected, Susanne Bier's acclaimed Dogme hit Open Hearts (Elsker Dig For Evigt) has been chosen as the Danish candidate for the Academy Awards' best foreign language film Oscar. The film received rave reviews on its domestic release and has scooped an impressive 450.000 admissions in eight weeks, never leaving ...
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Locally-produced family films dominate Nordic box office
Locally-produced family films are enjoying a strong run at the Nordic box-office, with home-grown films proving more than a match for US product. Hayflower And Quiltshoe (Heinähattu ja Vilttitossu) (pictured) had the biggest opening for a family feature in Finland this year with a weekend gross of Euros 224,453 and ...
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Indigenous Sami people ready second movie for release
With a tiny population spread across the outer reaches of Scandinavia, it seems incredible that the indigenous Sami people can boast of a film-making culture. Yet the town of Kautokeino, based in the northern most part of Norway and with just 3,000 inhabitants, already boasts one Oscar-nominated director, Nils Gaup. ...
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The Intended
Dir: Kristian Levring. UK-Denmark. 2002. 110minsDanish expatriate Kristian Levring's follow-up to his Dogme-film The King Is Alive is a companion piece in every sense, visually, emotionally and thematically. Even if this sombre drama is more straightforward than its predecessor (it was shot using more conventional methods of film-making than the ...
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All-star cast lines up for Olesen's Crimes
An impressive cast of Danish talent is lining up to star in award-winning local filmmaker Annette K. Olesen's Crimes, the 10th Dogme-style production to come out of the territory.The story is set in a women's prison, where a minister, played by Ann Eleonora Jorgensen (Italian For Beginners), finds her faith ...
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Local films steer Danish box office to 19-year high
Local Danish product is continuing to fend off Hollywood competition, as Tomas Villum Jensen's family film My Sister's Kids In The Snow easily outperformed competitive release The Sum Of All Fears.At this rate, the boost given to local ticket sales from home-grown films looks set to achieve an end-of-year admissions ...
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Two Nordic majors gear up for market growth
Sweden's Svensk Filmindustri and Denmark's Nordisk Film have both announced new appointments as part of their ambitions to increase their activities in the Scandinavian market.Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri is expanding into international production and will further strengthen its Nordic presence within film and television. The company is presently involved in ...
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Nominees announced for Nordic council's new film prize
The nominees for the inaugural $46,000 (DKR350,000) Nordic Council's Film Prize, which will be awarded at the council's 50th anniversary on October 29, include ten new films from Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. The films range from internationally acclaimed features like Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without A Past, Susanne ...
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Danish award-winner lands first lead role
Danish actress Susanne Juhasz who won the prestigious Bodil Award as best supporting actress for her film debut One Hand Clapping, has landed her first leading role in newcomer Oliver Kanafani's feature directing debut Sten, Saks, Papir (working title). It is a comedy-drama about the relationship between two very different ...