All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 28
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Trust snaps up record-breaking Elling
Zentropa's sales outfit Trust Film Sales has picked up international sales rights to the most popular Norwegian film in recent history, Peter Naess' comedy Elling. Produced by new outfit Maipo TV & Film and producer Dag Alveberg, the $1.6m (NKR15m) film has been distributed by United International Pictures' local branch, ...
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Denmark media giant Egmont names surprise chief
Nordic media major Egmont has appointed Steffen Kragh (pictured) from within its own ranks to take over from president and CEO Jan O. Froshaug who quit earlier this year after 14 years in the position.The 37 year-old Kragh has an eight-year track record with the company, working primarily on its ...
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Tom Sizemore joins up to Fear The X
Fresh from Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, Tom Sizemore has signed up to play the lead in the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn's english-language debut, Fear The X, co-written by Hubert Selby Jr. (Last Exit To Brooklyn). Fear The X begins shooting in the US and Rio from November with ...
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European bodies unite to form digital forum
Pulling together a swathe of public and private European film bodies, the nucleus for a single agency representing the Continent's interests in the digital era was formed last week under the banner of the European Digital Cinema Forum.The forum is to act as a consultative body for governments and the ...
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SF backs low-budget film incentive
The Danish arm of Nordic major Svensk Filmindustri (SF) has signed a first look deal with the young production outfit Buttenschoen & Budde. 'Our aim is to finance and initiate projects from young professionals and new talents,' explained producer Mads Buttenschoen. 'What we can offer is an incentive for the ...
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New York's Snapper teams with Scandinavia's Smile
New York-based production outfit Snapper Films has partnered with Scandinavia's Smile Entertainment to co-produce a slate of English-language features.The three-year arrangement includes Fidelity, written by Tom Griffin and to be directed by Juha Wuolijoki, and Arto Halonen's Guardian Angel. Both projects are drama thrillers that are expected to shoot in ...
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Dogme film heads for competition at San Sebastian
Danish Dogme title Truly Human (Et Rigtigt Menneske) has secured a competition slot at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain in September.Seen as somewhere in between the gritty realism of Festen and the Dogme-lite of Berlin title Italian For Beginners, the film was well-received critically and a box-office success ...
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Iceland's Kormakur readies trio of new projects
Hot Icelandic actor-writer-director Baltasar Kormakur is going to follow his festival and crowd pleasing feature directing debut, 101 Reykjavik, with two new films from his own hand as well as one as producer. Kormakur, who is in Cannes acting in Hal Hartley's No Such Thing, has set up his own ...
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Concorde, StudioCanal, USA back Zentropa Zhillers
Germany's Concorde has joined Studiocanal and USA Films in backing the 3-6 picture Zentropa Zhillers slate from Denmark's Zentropa. Produced by the company's international arm, Zentropa Internationale, the films are budgeted around $5m. The first, Saying Goodbye To Mr Welcome, is set to shoot in Oct on location in Scotland ...
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Vinterberg completes All About Love financing
Months of controversy ended early this week Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love completed its financing. The Danish Film Institute (DFI) reversed an earlier decision and decided to back it with $600,000 (DKR5m) and Nordic Film & TV Fund raised its support by $110,000 (NKR1m) completing the $10.2m (DKR85m) budget. ...
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Nordisk pulls all the Strings
Nordisk Film and director Anders Ronnow-Klarlund's Revival ApS have started production on Strings, an animated feature using marionettes.While, in the era of 3D digital effects and synthespians, puppets on strings may seem old-fashioned Klarlund argues that it is perfect for his story. "I'm fascinated by the idea that our lives ...
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Pussy Power roars again after Zentropa rethink
A new company Innocent Pictures is to lick Zentropa's porn for women label Pussy Power into commercial shape.Pussy Power will become a label under Innocent Pictures, which will be 50% owned by Zentropa. Innocent's Nicolas Barbano, a journalist and TV-show host, will act as distributor and creative producer, while local ...
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Egmont signs output deal with Zentropa and Nimbus
Nordic major Egmont Entertainment has struck an output deal with Denmark's two most progressive production outfits, Zentropa and Nimbus Film, securing all theatrical and video distribution rights in Denmark. "We are very proud to be working with Zentropa and Nimbus Film," said Kenneth D Plummer, managing director of Egmont Entertainment, ...
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NonStop subscribes to Swedish Dream
Sweden's NonStop Sales has secured rights to Swedish feel-good movie, Dream, from new production outfit Finalcut Entertainment. The English-language romantic comedy-drama, which was shot on location in Sheffield, and London on a $3.5m (SKR35m) budget, stars UK veterans Sinead Cusack and Philip Martin Brown as well as EastEnders TV actor ...
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EU awards $2.3m to Swedish regional funds
The EU funds aimed at supporting social and economic projects joining different regions of Europe has awarded $2.3m (SKK23m) to the regional film funds in Northern Sweden, Norrbotten and Vasterbotten. Filmpool Nord has recieved $1.4m (SKK 14.6m) to the development of Norrbotten as a centre for film production in the ...
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Danish funds overcome Dogville's language barrier
Lars von Trier will always be regarded as the exception to any rule, so while there is still some dispute over the Danish Film Institute's reluctance to back Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love with more than $357,000 (DKR3m) on the grounds of it being an English-language project, no one ...
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Toronto spotlights Nordic Visions
At a time when Nordic and especially Danish films are in the public eye: the Danish Berlin winner Italian For Beginners, the pan-Nordic Palme d'Or winner Dancer In The Dark as well as Swedish hit comedies Jalla! Jalla! and Together, it is appropriate that the Toronto International Film Festival has ...
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Danish Wise Guy aims for One Hell Of A Christmas
Denmark's Dogme films this week chalked up another popular success in their home market.After the success of Berlin Silver Bear-winning Italian For Beginners,Ake Sandgren's Truly Human (Et Rigtigt Menneske) opened this week on just 14 prints with an impressive screen average of 840 admissions. That performance put it second in ...
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Danish Film Institute banks on serious comedies
The Danish film industry is currentlychurning out comedies with a touch of seriousness, and with Lone Scherfig'sserious dogme comedy Italian For Beginners taking a Silver-Bear inBerlin, other producers are hoping to follow suit. Among the new (romantic) comedy projectsare veteran Gert Fredholm's One Hand Clapping from Zentropa and HellaJoof's feature ...
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Danish box office
Following the international success of Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners it is no surprise that even after 14 weeks on release is still hanging on to the number two spot with a total of 740.305 admissions so far. At the top of the chart, Hannibal gave way to the very ...