All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 3
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DENMARK 12 October
Although last week's local chart topper Kings' Game retaineda better box-office screen average (DK34,005), My Sister's Kids In Egypt took the lead with its massive 90 printrelease - and a DKK31,566 average. The family-children's film, which was pannedby the critics, is the third in the successful series, and like the ...
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Multicultural Import-Export takes off in Norway
More than a year after receiving $1m (NOK7.3m) in productionsupport from the Norwegian Film Fund, Pakistani-Norwegian filmmaker KhalidHussain has finally got his new film Import-Export off the ground with $330,000 from Eurimages.It is the first film to be set in the Pakistani community inOslo, and shoots from Oct 11 with ...
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Danish Film Institute names Ramskov as production chief
The board of the Danish Film Institute has appointed JoergenRamskov as its new manager for production and development. He will beresponsible for the DFI department charged with spending Euros 16.5m on backingDanish film.Ramskov replaces Lars Feilberg who resigned earlier thisyear.Atrained journalist, the 47 year-old Ramskov has worked for the DanishBroadcasting ...
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SWEDEN 5 October
Though As In Heaven, which is now Sweden'sofficial Oscar candidate, stayed securely at the top of the local chart havinggrossed $4.3m and retaining the best screen average of $5,347 from its 103prints, this week's most impressive performance was by another local film.Afteropening in the shadow of Home On TheRange and ...
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DENMARK 4 October
The highly anticipated feature debut from Nikolaj Arcel, Kings' Game (Kongekabale), dealt awinning hand at the top of the Danish box-office chart this weekend with astrong DKK2,3m gross and DKK39,692 screen average on its 60 prints.The critically praised film has been a hot item in the mediafor the last month, ...
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Nordic filmmakers still speaking English
Recent years' lackof international and domestic success for Nordic films shot in English, haven'tdeterred filmmakers across the region from trying. Although Norwegianproduction outfit, Dinamo Story, dismantled its feature film department aftermaking Hans Petter Moland's A BeautifulCountry earlier this year, the film's two local producers, Petter Borgliand Thomas Backstroem, are going ...
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Hawaii, Oslo named as Oscar candidate by Norway
The Norwegian Oscarcommittee has chosen Erik Poppe's Hawaii, Oslo as the country's official candidate for the Oscars'best foreign language film category.The film grossed a solidNOK1.2m upon release this weekend after rave reviews from the Norwegian InternationalFilm Festival in Haugesund, where it also picked up the critics' and ecumenicalprize.Written by Harald ...
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Thriller pair win Danish funding
The Danish Film Institute has shelled out $2.2m (DKK13.1m)in production support for two new local thrillers that begin shooting inOctober.Nordisk Film received $900,000 for their production of AakeSandgren's $1.7m Fluerne Paa Vaeggen(literally: The Flies On The Wall),which is made under Nordisk's low-budget Director's Cut label in collaborationwith broadcaster TV2/Denmark.Sandgren also ...
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Pollack's Heaven named as Swedish Oscar contender
Swedishwriter-director Kay Pollak's Saa Som I Himmelen (literally: As InHeaven), has been selected as Sweden's official candidate for the 2004 bestforeign language Oscar.The filmis riding high in the local box-office chart at the moment having attractedsome 350,000 admissions and has grossed $3.3m after four weeks.DistributorSonet Film has upped its number ...
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SWEDEN 28 September
Kay Pollak's romantic drama Saa Som I Himmelen stayed on the top of the Swedish chart, despiteseveral new releases including the highly anticipated adaptation of the localbestseller Popular Music (PopularmusikFran Vittula), which disappointed opening fifth taking just $3,607 screenaverage form its 48 prints. However, it fared batter than this week's ...
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DENMARK 28 September
The new release of TheVillage did manage to scare up this week's best screen average ofDKK40,307, but was unable to topple Shrek2 from the top spot, which it has held for four weeks. Susanne Bier's Brothers, which took home both the bestactor and actress award from San Sebastian this weekend, ...
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SWEDEN 22 SEPTEMBER
In its third weekKay Pollak's local romantic drama Saa Som I Himmelen managed tooutperform Shrek 2 as it moved into the top spot with a strong $6,673screen average on its high 100 prints.In second place Shrek2 had just half that on its 159 prints, while the new release of TheBourne ...
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Finland submits Producing Adults as 2004 Oscar entry
Aleksi Salmenpera'sfeature directing debut Producing Adults was been selected as the official Finnish submission forthe 2004 foreign language film Oscar.The romanticcomedy is written by Pekko Pesonen and produced by Petri Jokiranta and TeroKaukomaa's Blind Spot Pictures. It follows Venla (Minna Haapkyla), apsychologist working at an infertility clinic, who decides to ...
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Hotel Rwanda
Dir: Terry George. 2004.S Afr-UK-It. 122mins.Terry George's gripping,fact-based Hotel Rwanda brings to mind both The Killing Fieldsand Schindler's List, but its low-key approach means it is unlikely tobecome as commercially successful as those two titles. That said, it did winthe Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival at the ...
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NORWAY 16 September
Thehighly anticipated release of actor Aksel Hennie's directing debut UNO lived up to its expectations thisweekend, where it took the top spot with a impressive NOK77,07 average on its37 prints. The film had highly favorable reviews and screened at the filmfestival in Toronto this week. Hennie also plays the lead ...
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SWEDEN 16 September
It was anunusually uneventful weekend at the Swedish box-office this weekend as all thefilms on the top six kept their position. That meant Kay Pollak's Saa Som IHimmelen stayed second after Shrek 2, but it actually improved its alreadysolid run taking a this weekend's best screen average of $5,496 from ...
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DENMARK 15 September
Shrek remaineduntouchable on the top spot with its high 119 prints taking a strong DKK44.350screen average. This week's best average was, however, the new release of Resident Evil: Apocalypse's DKK51.962 onits 12 prints putting it on fourth, two slots higher than Around The World In 80 Days on seventh, which ...
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NORWAY 9 September
BuenaVista saw its animated Home On The Rangedebut as number one in the Norwegian charts. This week's biggest disappointmentwas, however, the new release of newcomer Annette Sjursen's drama comedy My Jealous Barber, which took justNOK10,032 from its 31 prints. It is produced by Kaare Storemyr and Dag Alveberg(Elling) and star ...
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Danish broadcaster TV3 backs first ever feature
MTG owned Nordic broadcaster TV3 has backed its first everfeature film, the romantic comedy Nynne, which starts shooting inCopenhagen from Oct 18.The $2.4m (DKK14,5m)project, which is based on the local bestseller Nynne's Diary,has had a number of different producers, writers and directors attached overthe year, but now heads for the ...
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SWEDEN 7 September
The Village's timeat the top of the Swedish chart was brief as two new releases pushed it down tothird in its second week. Local writer-director Kay Pollak's return tofilmmaking after 18 years, Saa Som IHimmelen, (As In Heaven) impressively managed to go head to head with Shrek 2 with almost ...