All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 27
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Moritzen appointed at Danish Film Institute
Marianne Moritzen has been appointed new head of development at the department for Production & Development at the Danish Film Institute following former head Lars Hermann's decision to move on to manage Egmont-owned Nordisk Film's new conglomeration of it's post-production in FilmTeknik A/S. Form Oct.1 she will be responsible for ...
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Acquisitions boost for Nordic Smile
Nordic distribution and production outfit Smile Entertainment, which has divisions in Denmark and Finland, has boosted rights acquisitions, grabbing a number of new titles for Scandinavia. According to Smile head Timo T. Lahtinen, the increase is in part due to delays in the outfit's own productions and co-productions, caused by ...
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Danish producer duo return to Early Bird
Passing the reins of Zentropa Internationale to Kaare Schmidt, the producer duo Ole Sondberg and Lars Sund Duus have left Zentropa to set up projects via their own outfit Early Bird. Zentropa Internationale is the international arm of Denmark's progressive production outfit and was set up one and a half ...
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Sweden's STV gets Happy Life for three years
Sweden's national broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) has signed an agreement with local media major Svensk Filmindustri (SF) and it's subsidy Happy Life, which will span three years and more than 80 hours of entertainment for kids. Kicking off from spring 2002, the deal will include alread- established characters like Karlsson ...
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Denmark's Trust Film Sales gets Manic
American newcomer Jordan Melamed's Manic has been picked up by Denmark's Trust Film Sales, which is now presenting the film at Toronto. The tough drama starring Don Cheadle (Swordfish) and Joseph Gordon-Lewitt, deals with a young man trying to cope in a juvenile mental institution, where he encounters a group ...
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Hermann to head Nordisk post-production facilities
Despite the fact that the appointment, in January 2000, of producer Lars Hermann as head of development for the Danish Film Institute was widely approved by the local industry, he has decided to move on to head up Nordisk Film's new conglomeration of it's post-production facilities ShortCut and Johan Ankerstjerne ...
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Denmark's Egmont announces restructuring plan
Nordic media major Egmont has announced a significant change in its group management structure. Analysts call the initiative vigorous as new CEO, Steffen Kragh only took up his position three weeks ago. Kragh says the changes are necessary to increase the company's profitability and re-focus the international business. Denmark's 123 ...
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Danish action-comedy sequel to film in Sweden
The follow-up to the first and so far only Danish action-comedy In China They Eat Dogs, which was well received by audiences and critics alike in 1999, Old Men In New Cars (In China They Eat Dogs 2), is getting ready to shoot in Sweden, after regional fund Film I ...
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Sandrew wins case against A.I. certification
Nordic distribution major Sandrew Metronome has won a court appeal against the decision of the Swedish State Board of Censors, which would have prevented children under the age of15 from seeing Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence. As a result of the court ruling, the film now has an 11-rating which ...
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Bellaiche joins I/S Danske Filmproducenter
Festival veteran Lissy Bellaiche has been appointed head of sales for I/S Danske Filmproducenter, a company handling Nordic TV-rights for an extensive catalogue comprising many hundreds of Danish films from production outfits like Nordisk Film, Sandrew Metronome, Scanbox, Crone Film, Palladium and Dagmar Film. Bellaiche headed the Danish Film Institute's ...
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New Country tops Nordic awards at Haugesund
Swedish dramatic comedy The New Country bagged two major awards -- best film and best screenplay -- at the closing ceremony of the New Nordic Films, the prelude event to the Norwegian International Film Festival. The 29th edition rolls today until Sept. 1 in Haugesund.Swedish-Norwegian newcomer Geir Hansteen Joergensen originally ...
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Swedish thriller sees off the competition
Not even a record-breaking heatwave combined with fierce US blockbuster competition could prevent local Swedish action-thriller, Executive Protection (Livvakterna) from drawing appreciative crowds and topping the Swedish box office last weekend.Despite reviews questioning the plausibility of the plot, about Eastern European gangsters threatening a Swedish businessman in Estonia, Anders Nilsson's ...
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Norway's PM criticised for Cool And Crazy
Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, has been accused by the local media of double standards in his election campaign. Speaking passionately about film, music and cultural values, the PM praised the success of the crowd-pleasing documentary Cool And Crazy. Yet, according to Tom Remlov, former head of Norsk Film, which ...
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Carlstrom strikes first look deal with SF
Nordic major Svensk Filmindustri (SF) has signed a first -look deal with Swedish producer Bjorn Carlstrom, who previously spent 10 years working for competitor Sonet Film."We have been in talks for some time," SF head of production, Kerstin Bonnier, told Screendaily, "because we believe Bjorn Carlstrom will compliment our other ...
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Danish Feltwave goes into receivership
Feltwave, the Danish-based sister operation of Increasingly prolific London-based post operation WAVEpictures, has gone into receivership, citing a downturn in the TV sector.Torsten Leschly,(pictured) who owns the two companies, may look to ease financial problems by selling a stake in the UK company, which invests equity in films and has ...
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Renny Harlin to shoot Finnish WWII movie
Finnish expatriate and Hollywood director Renny Harlin is set to return to his homeland, to direct a World War II drama, for the first time since making his US debut as director of A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 in 1988. Harlin, seen here directing Sylvester Stallone in his last ...
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Nordisk and TV2 launch 'Director's Cut'
Danish major Nordisk Film and national broadcaster TV2 have formed a pact to produce feature films with an average budget of $1m (DKR8.5m). Titled 'Director's Cut' the project has four directors already attached - veterans Morten Arnfred and Birger Larsen, and newcomers Tomas Villum Jensen and Christoffer Boe, the latter ...
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Local comedy takes Danish box office record
Anja & Viktor, the feature debut of Danish actor/scriptwriter/director Charlotte Sachs Bostrup has smashed local box office records over its opening weekend taking just short of $1m in its home territory.The romantic comedy, produced by 'midas-touch' Regner Grasten, opened on Friday August 3, achieving 157,305 admissions from 101 prints and ...
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Local pick-up leads UIP Denmark in new direction
The Danish branch of UIP has revealed that it is embarking on a search for local films to distribute.Following the Norwegian branch of UIP's surprise success with the release of Elling, which attracted a phenomenal 700,000 admissions, UIP Denmark has picked up the local feature-length documentary, Family.'We believe that this ...
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Kidman puts pen to paper on Dogville contract
Zentropa now claims Nicole Kidman has signed on the dotted line to star in Lars von Trier's Dogville after all - an agreement clearly hastened by noises from the film's producers earlier this week that a new lead was being sought because of the Australian actress' apparent hesitancy to commit.Zentropa ...