All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 26
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Danish films hit 20-year high at home
Danish films hit the box-office jackpot at local cinemas last year, with a 20-year high of 3.6m admissions.The Danish Film Institute reported that local productions accounted for 3.6m of the territory's 12m total tickets sold - a 30% market share and a 75% increase on 2000. Over the past five ...
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Nordic distrib SF Norge acquires Monster stake
Norway's leading distributor, SF Norge, subsidiary of Nordic major Svensk Filmindustri (SF), has acquired a substantial stake in local start-up production outfit Monster Media. Headed by veteran feature film, TV and commercials producers, Edward A. Dreyer, Olav Oen and Trond Kvernstrom, Monster Media is now set to become a major ...
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Bacall, Gazzara join von Trier's Dogville
Hollywood veterans Lauren Bacall and Ben Gazzara have been the latest additions to the all-star cast of Danish maverick Lars von Trier's highly anticipated follow-up to the multiple award-winning Dancer In The Dark. His new project, Dogville, has already attracted high-profile talent, including: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Chloe Sevigny and ...
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CinemaxX reverses sell-off policy, expands Denmark
German exhibition group CinemaxX, which embarked on a sell-off programme to ease its financial concerns, has done a policy U-turn and will now hold on to its Danish theatrical complexes.Indeed, the Danish circuit, now CinemaxX's only operation outside Germany, will now be expanded. When it opened last year, CinemaxX's 3,200 ...
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Angel first of new distribution deals for Scanbox
The former Danish entertainment company Scanbox has signed a new deal for theatrical distribution with Mogens Glad's independent outfit Angel Films. While the current deal only covers Denmark, Scanbox is expected to announce similar agreements for the other Nordic countries. Since Jan 2000 UIP has handled the theatrical distribution of ...
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Danish films hit record market share at home
As Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone sweeps across Scandinavia, few other films have had much chance of attracting any attention - with the notable exception of local titles. Danish films, in particular, continue to prove their appeal. Indeed, During the first 9 months of 2001, Danish films have sold ...
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Danish film institute appoints new consultant
The Danish Film Institute has appointed the 66-year-old Morten Grunwald as film consultant in charge of new projects in collaboration with Vinca Wiedemann, film consultant since 1999, who, at the same time, has had her contract extended another two years. Between them, the consultants manage some $8.9m (DKR75.5m) annually.Grunwald is ...
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Danish films continue market-beating home runs
In a year that will no doubt go down as the most profitable ever for Danish films in their home market, new films continue to impress at the box-office, with Friday's release of Niels Arden Oplev's black comedy Fukssvansen taking the top spot from Rush Hour 2 with 25,788 admissions ...
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Truly Human tops Luebeck's Nordic Film Days
Danish Dogme-title Truly Human (Et Rigtigt Menneske) went away with top honours, the NDR-Foerderpreis worth $11,500 (DM25,000) and the Baltischer Filmpreis, at the 43rd Nordic Film Days in Luebeck, Germany.The jury glowing said of the film: "Through the eyes of a modern Kaspar Hauser, the film succeeds in laying bare ...
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Refn secures Eno to score Fear X
Musician and producer Brian Eno is to score Nicolas Winding Refn's English-language debut, Fear X. The script for Fear X was penned by Refn and cult author Hubert Selby Jr, writer of Requiem For A Dream. The Danish filmmaker sent Eno his previous features Pusher (1996) and Bleeder (1999) along ...
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Bergman marries up again with Ullman, Josephson
Sweden's most renowned filmmaker, 83 year-old veteran Ingmar Bergman, has written a TV-movie for national broadcaster SVT Fiktion entitled Anna, which is set to shoot in 2002. The chamber-piece, which Bergman is to direct, will star regulars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson as well as Borje Ahlstedt and Julia Dufvenius ...
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Danish Film body may sack critical consultants
The Danish Film Institute (DFI) has suspended two of its film consultants, Thomas Danielsson and Gert Duve Skovlund, for publicly rubbishing a new production, Jolly Roger, which they themselves had awarded state funds worth $900,000 (DKR 7.5m).It all began with an editorial in the Danish newspaper: Information, criticising the consultants ...
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Svensk Filmindustrie appoints new acquisition head
Nordic major Svensk Filmindiustri's veteran head of acquisitions: Anders Bergholm is to hand over his duties to new head Robert Enmark, as of Nov 2. Bergholm spent more than 30 years within the parent company Bonnier Group and 20 years with Svensk Filmindiustri (SF). "Anders has been with us for ...
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Egmont takes Scandi rights to Skagerrak
Nordic major Egmont has taken Scandinavian rights to Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's Skagerrak, the veteran director's second English-language film after 1997's The Island On Bird Street.Set in the UK, Skagerrak will star Iben Hjejle (pictured), who also appeared in Kragh-Jacobsen's crowd pleasing Dogme-title, Mifune. The romantic-comedy-drama, budgeted at up to $5.5m, follows ...
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Musa: The Warrior
Dir: Kim Sung-Su. South Korea 2001 154 MinsThis South Korean blockbuster had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival at the same time as the September 11 attacks sent journalists and buyers racing from screening rooms to watch real-life horror unfold on TV sets. Those who missed the film ...
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Lars von Trier lines up Wagner and Wendy
Fully living up to his maverick reputation, Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier (pictured), will not only direct Richard Wagner's mammoth 3-day long opera The Ring Of The Nibelungen in Germany but is writing a US-set film that features guns - but not lead girls."To head a staging The Ring Of ...
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Industry mourns tragic death of Steen S. Larsen
One of the most respected and competent cinema builders in Europe died on Monday Oct 8, when Nordic major Nordisk Film Biografer's vice president of Logistics, Steen S. Larsen, was among the passengers killed on board the SAS flight that tragically crashed in Milan. Larsen had attended the IBTS Mediatech ...
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Interactive Dogme film heads for MIPCOM
On the eve of the Millennium, the four Danish directors behind the Dogme 95 movement spent the crucial hour between 23.30 and 00.40 making their first film together -the first interactive TV movie, simply known as D-Dag (D-Day). The movie, which had its world premiere at the Danish TV-Festival, will ...
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Sweden's Film I Vast to sponsor Goteborg festival
Sweden's successful regional fund, Film I Vast has become the new backer of the Nordic Film Award at the Goteborg Film Festival. The award was instigated in 1989 by local newspaper Goteborg Posten, and has been known as the GP's Nordic Award, but from next year's 25th edition it will ...
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TV commercials break out into feature films
Start-up Danish production outfit, FilmPeople, has begun production on its first independent project, Polle Fiction (pictured), a feature comedy based on a TV commercial. This is only the second feature to be based on a television advertisement concept, although it is the first to go into production; as Rowan Atkinson's ...