All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 6
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FINLAND 15 June
As Finland wasn'ttreated to the magic of Harry Potter this weekend, The Day After Tomorrow had no problem staying on top of the chartin front of Troy and the new releaseof Guiliermo De Toro's Hellboy.With just 10 printsthe comic book adaptation performed well if unimpressively with this week'ssecond best screen ...
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Kaufman to bring Sunshine to Karlovy Vary
The39th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July2-10) hasattracted a number of celebrity guests to this year's event.Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is expected to present MichelGondry's Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, which screens in theHorizons sidebar, while screen veterans Ben Gazzara and Seymour Cassel willintroduce the films in ...
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SWEDEN 8 June
After RolandEmmerich blew all competition down the chart last weekend, hardly anythingchanged in the top 10 this week. Though all the films placed one to six on thechart dropped some 50%, they kept their places with The Day After Tomorrow achieving the best screen average of $5,126on its high 96 ...
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FINLAND 8 June
Despite his hometerritory advantage, local boy Renny Harlin's latest US action flick Mindhunters was no match for thedominance of The Day After Tomorrowand Troy, though they dropped 45% and38%.However, RolandEmmerich's ecological disaster extravaganza retained the chart's strongestscreen average with Euros 3,412 on its 52 prints compared to Harlin's Euros1,201 on ...
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DENMARK 8 June
Despite ravereviews Jim Carrey-starrer EternalSunshine Of The Spotless Mind's 10 prints couldn't overthrow the dominanceof The Day After Tomorrow and Troy, though both films had a lowerscreen average and fell back 43% and 35% respectively.Overall it was allbut impossible to spot why this weekend's gross was up some 58% from ...
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Von Trier pulls out of Wagner opera project
Despite already spending more than two years onpreparations, Danish director Lars von Trier has decided to pull out of theopera production of Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Opera Festival inSouthern Germany.Von Trier's adaptation of Richard Wagner's mammoth 15hour opera cycle was meant to premiere in 2006 and would ...
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Shanghai fest selects sixteen for international competition
Sixteen features have been lined up to compete for the ShanghaiInternational Film Festival's (June 5-13) main international competition.The event will also have a special focus on Nordic, UK, Irish, Spanishand New Zealand cinema. 1200 guests from 51 countries are expected to attendthe festival.This year's competition jury is presided over by ...
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DENMARK 3 June
Mimicking the situation in the rest of the region the Danishbox-office this weekend was all but swept away by Roland Emmerich's ecologicaldisaster extravaganza, The Day AfterTomorrow. However, with just an admission screen average of just 770 on itshigh 87 prints, it might not have been quite the phenomenon hoped for.But ...
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Danish film institute loses production chief
Lars Feilberg hasdecided to step down as head of production and development at the Danish FilmInstitute from Aug 1, despite recently getting his position prolonged by threeyears."The Danish FilmInstitute has been a highly inspirational and exiting place to work for thepast three years," he says, "and I am proud to ...
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FINLAND 1 June
RolandEmmerich's ecological disaster extravaganza, The Day After Tomorrow, easily blew away the other action flicks, Troy, Van Helsing and Kill Bill Vol.2, off the top of theFinnish chart with its impressive Euros 6,199 screen average on its 52 prints.Troy has ten moreprints, but dropped 52% to a low Euros 1,357 ...
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Nordic newcomers emerge - against the odds
Although producers throughout the Nordic region are stillstruggling with their various unresolved issues of government funding, thereseems to be no shortage of new talent -or producers willing to back their feature debuts.In Sweden, there are signs that the continued emergence offirst-time feature directors (as well as more box-office success), might ...
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FINLAND 26 May
The trioof action extravaganzas, Troy, VanHelsing and Kill Bill Vol.2, wereuntouchable at the top of the Finnish chart despite far from impressive screenaverages, but it meant that this week's three newcomers, Jersey Girl, The Butterfly Effect and Honey, only managed to reach fourth to sixth with equallydisappointing screen averages.The Girl ...
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DENMARK 25 May
Troy opened a weeklater in Denmark than the rest of the region, cleverly not trying to competewith the royal wedding for the media's attention, and despite it's coolcritical reception it had no problem conquering the top of the chart with itshigh 72 prints.Neither of this weekend's other two releases - ...
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SWEDEN 25 May
With Wolfgang Petersen's Troyeasily dethroned Van Helsing lastweek, nothing much changed this weekend on the Swedish chart. Troy even retained a solid screenaverage of $6,393 on its massive 111 prints.The only new release, ThePrince & Me, posed no threat to any of the top 10 films and opened12th, while last ...
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Dagur Kari directs Grown Up People
Icelandic filmmakerDagur Kari, who charmed audiences and critics alike with his unusualmultiple-award winning debut Noi Albinoi,started shooting his new film Grown UpPeople (Voksne Mennesker) this week in Copenhagen.Kari graduated fromthe National Film School of Denmark, but this will be his first Danish film -and it will be in black and ...
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Kormakur embarks on A Little Trip To Heaven
Forest Whitakerand Norway's Maria Bonnevie are heading the cast of Baltasar Kormakur's hotEnglish-language debut A Little Trip ToHeaven, which has become the biggest Icelandic film ever with its $8.5mbudget.New sales outfitKatapult Film Sales has already pre-sold the project to A-Film (Benelux) andArtfree (Greece), and LA-based Icelandic producer Joni Sighvatsson is ...
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Carlsen ready to Jump again
Danishfilmmaking veteran Henning Carlsen gets back behind the camera on May 28 whenhe starts shooting his new film Spinget(literally: The Jump), his first film since 1998.The77 year-old writer-director's film follows an average 42 year old married manwho gets the rug pulled under him when he is told that he suffers ...
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FINLAND 18 May
As expected the all-star monster get-together Van Helsingcouldn't hold the fort against Wolfgang Petersen's boys in skirts Troyepic, which had a massive 62 prints and a solid Euros 4,255 screen average.However, the most impressive screen average was The GirlWith The Pearl Earring's Euros 8,857 on just one print, which moved ...
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DENMARK 18 May
Nothing changed at the top of the Danish box-office chartthis week as none of the new releases had a chance of challenging the rule ofStephen Sommers' all-star monster get-together Van Helsing - despite the fact that it dropped 54% and had aadmission screen average as low as 236.But neither House ...
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Finland's MRP joins Russian Legion
Finland's MRP Matila RöhrProductions has joined Russia's PK Slovo production outfit to back FyodorBondarchuk's $3.3m The Ninth Legion, which shoots in Tadzikistan,Ukraina and Moscow from June to September.Fyodor Bondarchuk, who isthe son of the legendary director Sergei Bondarchuk (War And Peace),previously acted and co-produced Moving (2003) among other films, buthas ...