All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 24
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Icon falls for Trust's Hearts and Wilbur
Icon has picked up UK and Australian rights to two of Trust Film Sales' hottest new Zentropa titles, Susanne Bier's Dogme-drama Open Hearts and Lone Scherfig's English-language romance Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself.Arsenal Filmverleigh and Shani Films have also taken German and Israeli rights to Open Hearts, which has already ...
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Carlyle says hello to Saying Goodbye To Mr. Welcome
Robert Carlyle, star of the hotly pursued Directors Fortnight title Once Upon A Time In The Midlands, has boarded psychological thriller Saying Goodbye To Mr. Welcome, which Gillian Barrie of Sigma Films will co-produce with Denmark's Zentropa.Scottish actor-turned director Kenny Glenaan (Gas Attack) will direct the Brendan Somers' script about ...
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Thura Film has Itch and Blues
Copenhagen-based Thura Film, which has offices in London and LA, is lining up a slate of new projects following their action-comedy Old Men In New Cars, which is getting good feedback in the market.Thura's London-based Ornette Spenceley has picked up Cecilia McAllister's 20 Year Itch, a comedy drama about a ...
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SF Bio to help promote short films in Sweden
Swedish major SF Bio will be giving new filmmaking talent a chance to have their short films screened in cinemas across the country from this autumn. "We want to point attention to these great films, which might not be seen otherwise," says Sture Johansson, SF-Bio. "The audience won't have ...
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Icelandic Film Corporation heats up buying activity
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Icelandic Film Corporation (IFC) has stepped up its buying/distribution ambitions, picking titles like 24 Hour Party People and Once Upon A Time In The Midlands even before their screening in Cannes.Distribution now accounts for 30% of IFC's activities, and the company has hired Isleifur Thorhallsson as new ...
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Svensk Filmindustrie to set up Danish specialist arm
Nordic major Svensk Filmindustrie's Danish branch SF-Film is to launch a new division in a bid to take a greater share of the booming local market."We will set up a branch focusing exclusively on the marketing and distribution of Danish films," said Michael Fleischer, who has been the managing director ...
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Snapper, Two Drivers alliance starts with two Minnie features
Juha Wuolijoki's New York and Helsinki-based Snapper Films has formed an alliance with Minnie Driver's outfit Two Drivers, which the actress runs with her sister Kate Driver and producer Lisa Fielding.Their joint slate includes two new features both budgeted under $10m, the horror-thriller Luci's Prayer based on a script by ...
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Zentropa unleashes 'Dogumentary' label
Under a new 'Dogumentary' label, Denmark's Zentropa has finalised deals for a slate of docs to be mentored by Lars von Trier as a documentary equivalent to his Dogme-movement.Organised by documentary arm Zentropa Real and headed by Carsten Holst, the idea has so far attracted filmmakers from Denmark (Sami Saif, ...
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Zentropa launches Industrial revolution
First there was Dogme. Now Danish maverick outfit Zentropa has a launched a new label - this time with even more confining rules. Industrial Films DK will champion ultra-low budget films from new directing talent. In a bid to keep cost right down, one of the requirements of the new ...
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Zentropa launches Industrial revolution
First there was Dogme. Now Danish maverick outfit Zentropa has a launched a new label - this time with even more confining rules. Industrial Films DK will champion ultra-low budget films from new directing talent. In a bid to keep cost right down, one of the requirements of the new ...
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Danish Oscar-winning short earns US remake
Danish newcomer Martin Strange's film Feeling Desire (Naar Lysterne Taendes), has won the Oscar for best foreign student film, which will be awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture and Arts and Sciences on June 9. Already, New York-based Kinetic Arts has been in contact with the filmmakers about remaking ...
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Jannike Ahlund appointed new director of Sweden's Goteborg Film Festival
Jannike Ahlund has been appointed director of Sweden's Goteborg Film Festival, the annual focus of the Nordic film industry which celebrated its 25th anniversary in January.She replaces Gunnar Bergdahl, who stepped down earlier this year after 15 years with the festival. Ahlund has a 20-year association with the festival, but ...
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TIME media law division expanded by DLA & Partners
Major European law alliance DLA & Partners (D&P), who established an international law alliance with one of Scandinavia's largest law firms Lindh Stabell Horten (LSH) last May, is to expand LSH's media arm, TIME, to include European and Asia clients. TIME, (Tele-communication, IT, Media and Entertainment), has been one of ...
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First-time director to make Finland's first Kung-Fu movie
Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark co-producer, Blind Spot Pictures, is to produce Finland's first-ever Kung-Fu movie, from first-time director Antti-Jussi Annila.Producer Tero Kaukomaa, who formed Blind Spot in 1997 and has since made films like Geography Of Fear and Cyclomania, was so impressed with Tampere Film & Media ...
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Nordisk Film adds to Egmont's profits slump
Newly restructured Nordic media major Egmont revealed its highest revenues ever on Wednesday (April 24) - at the same time as announcing a 67% dive in after-tax profits.While Egmont's revenues for 2001 reached an all-time high of Euros 1.1m, its profit after tax was a mere Euros 5.4m, compared ...
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MRP plans Finland's first digital cinema
Finland's MRP: Matila & Rohr Productions is planning to build the country's first digital cinema. 'We are building it from scratch,' Marko Rohr told Screendaily, 'it will have three screens and is the next obvious step for us in our ambitions to be involved in every part of the film ...
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Kaurismaki sheds past, switches sales to Bavaria Film
Germany's Bavaria Film International has picked up international sales rights to Aki Kaurismaki's new film The Man Without A Past (Mies Vailla Menneisyytta), which will appear in a Cannes competition slot.The Man Without A Past (pictured) is produced by the director's company Sputnik and co-produced with Kaurismaki regulars, Germany's ...
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Kragh-Jacobsen starts filming on English-language Skagerrak
Denmark's Iben Hjejle and New Zealand's Martin Henderson top the international casting line-up for veteran Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's Skagerrak, the highly anticipated English-language follow-up to his Berlin Silver Bear-winning Mifune Produced by Denmark's Nimbus Film by Lars Bredo Rahbek and Bo Ehrhardt, Skagerrak started shooting Monday April 22 on location in ...
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Danish fest audience awards Lagaan distribution cash
At the closing ceremony of Denmark's 13th NatFilm Festival in Copenhagen (April 14), the event's audience voted the Indian cricket-musical Lagaan yet another prize, but this time one which means it will get a theatrical release in Denmark. The prize, which is awarded in collaboration with the Danish Film Institute, ...
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Ulrich Thomsen to star in Fly's Arven for Zentropa
One of the most well-known Danish actors working abroad, Ulrich Thomsen, has returned to home turf to play the lead in Arven (literal translation The Inheritance), the eagerly awaited new film from writer-director Per Fly.Fly swept the national film awards last year with his strong social-realist drama The Bench. The ...