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All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 31
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Merchant Ivory boards Babenco's Independent People
Merchant Ivory Productions (MIP) has joined with Iceland's Pegasus Pictures to co-produce an adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning novel Independent People which Hector Babenco will direct from a script by long-time MIP collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.Icelandic producer Snorri Thorisson beat off stiff competition, both local and international, to option rights to ...
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Andersson's Songs wins French critics' prize
Roy Andersson's Songs From The Second Floor has been awarded the French critics' prize Le Prix Tres Special.Established by French critics Jean-Claude Romer and Gerard Lenne in 1985 in opposition to the "political correctness which dominates the juries at most international events", the prize is usually awarded to unusual, off-the-wall ...
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Production report: EU puts Danish film on a roll
Maverick Danish director Lars von Trier may have won the Palme d'Or in Cannes for Dancer In The Dark, but two other Nordic films, Roy Andersson's Songs From The Second Floor from Sweden and Liv Ullmann's Faithless from Norway, enjoyed just as much buzz on the Croisette. Both relied on ...
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Sweden's Tosh gets animated with Happy Life, EM.TV
Swedish animation outfit Happy Life is teaming up with Germany's EM.TV and Irish production company Magma to produce a full-length animated feature based on popular Swedish children's character Tosh. The feature, titled The World Of Tosh, will be supported by a 26-episode animated TV series. Pre-production on the project has ...
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TV2 Danmark appoints Price to film, drama role
Danish national broadcaster TV2 Danmark has appointed 33-year-old Adam Price as head of drama production starting 2001. The role has been expanded to encompass all fiction production including investments in features.Price has worked as a freelance writer in a wide range of genres and media for 14 years and has ...
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Ullmann receives Norwegian Aamot Award
Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann has received the coveted Norwegian Aamot Award in Bergen, Norway. The Award, given by Norway's theatre managers and distribution professionals, was bestowed on Ullmann for her "many sided artistic contribution to Norwegian, Nordic and international film over the past 40 years." Ullmann has been ...
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Per Holst appointed chair of European Film College
Per Holst, Danish veteran producer and creative director of Scandinavian major Nordisk Film, has been appointed chairman of the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark. "We have to give our young film-making talent more and better opportunities if we are sustain the positive flow we're experiencing now," said Holst.Holst, who ...
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SF Bio to open 14-screen multiplex in Malmo
Scandinavia's largest exhibitor SF Bio, has struck a deal with Krona Plc, to become an anchor tenant at the new Urban Entertainment Centre in Malmo, Sweden, where it plans to open a 14-screen multiplex.The 2,000-seat cinema will go into construction June next year in time for a 2003 opening. Geographically ...
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Senator falls in love with Vinterberg
Germany's Senator Film has boarded Thomas Vinterberg's $10m English-language debut, It's All About Love, as German co-producer. The UK's FilmFour and Italy's Key Films are also co-producing the project, set to shoot in New York next spring.While Senator and Key are taking rights for their respective territories, FilmFour is handling ...
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Nordisk swallows Per Holst as part of overhaul
Danish production outfits Per Holst Film and Victoria Film are being folded into parent company Nordisk Film & TV in an attempt to streamline production operations at the Scandinavian major. The two companies, which merged prior to being acquired by Nordisk in 1991, have operated as stand-alone units since the ...
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Zentropa boards Zenith's Jenny Wagon
White-hot Danish production outfit Zentropa will co-produce English-language western The Jenny Wagon with the UK's Zenith Productions. The film will be shot in Trollhattan, Sweden, one of the locations used for Zentropa's Palme d'Or winner Dancer In The Dark."We learnt so much about imitating the US in Sweden when we ...
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NWR, Nordisk team up for Rampage, Kuppet
Fledgling Danish production outfit NWR ApS, which teams long-time collaborators Nicolas Winding Refn and Henrik Danstrup, has signed a two-picture output deal with Scandinavian major Nordisk Film for distribution and international sales. The two new features are Martin Schmidt's Rampage, a youth thriller with a twist written by Dennis Jurgensen, ...
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FilmFour, Key back Vinterberg
The UK's FilmFour will take English-speaking territories on It's All About Love, the English-language debut from Festen director Thomas Vinterberg. Budgeted at an estimated $13m, the New York-set futuristic love-story, written by Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov, revolves around a world famous ice-skater separated from her lover. Key Films has boarded ...
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Angel swoops on Peter Bech
Danish mini-major Angel Films, which covers production, distribution, international sales and a facility house, has sealed an output deal with local production outfit Peter Bech Film.Angel will handle Nordic distribution on Peter Bech's slate but has not decided whether it will also handle international sales. The two companies previously worked ...
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Easy Film starts up feature arm
Danish commercials and documentary outfit Easy Film has launched a feature arm headed by producer Sanne Glaesel.The start-up, which has already associate produced Swede Roy Andersson's highly-anticipated Cannes competitor Songs From The Second Floor, is developing an adaptation of Danish author Leif Davidsen's award-winning 1998 novel Peter Lime (Limes Billede). ...
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Bornedal, Obel take on Lady
Danish director Ole Bornedal, who directed 1994 chiller Nightwatch and its English-language remake for Miramax in 1996, is set to direct The Lady And The Thief with long-time collaborator Michael Obel of Thura Film producing.Obel says he is close to securing German, French and Danish co-producers on the $8m ...
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NonStop starts up at Cannes
Start-up Swedish international sales agent NonStop Sales is launching at Cannes with two new titles - Shit Happens, by Maans Herngren and Hannes Holm, and Norwegian picture S.O.S by Thomas Robsahm.The new online focused outfit will also handle international sales for leading Nordic producers such as Norway's John M. Jacobsen ...
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Strom takes Mai's place at Trust
Danish production outfit Zentropa's international sales arm Trust Film Sales is in Cannes with a new head, Annakarin Strom. The 25-year-old Swede was previously with Trust's Nordic competitor Egmont-owned Nordisk Film International Sales for four years, and is taking the seat from Thomas Mai, who is moving to the US ...
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Fine Line commits to Zentropa trio
Fine Line Features has confirmed that it will take North American rights to three titles from Denmark's Zentropa Internationale which are being co-financed by German film giant Kinowelt.According to Zentropa co-founder Peter Aalbaek Jensen, Fine Line is expected to tip in 30% of the budget of the three English-language titles: ...
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Zentropa goes to Hollywood
Aggressive Nordic producer Zentropa is launching a Los Angeles production beach head while separately hatching a multinational partnership which is expected to involve Germany's Kinowelt and Fine Line Features.Trust Film Sales head Thomas Mai will relocate to head up the LA office which already has two projects in development. Harvey ...