All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 9
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DENMARK
Though dropping some 54% Brother Bear stayed on top of the Danish box-office chart, while the veterans in Something's Gotta Give managed to squeeze in front of The Last Samurai to the second spot with this weekend's best screen average, almost twice that of the animated hit.However, this week's two ...
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SWEDEN
While Brother Bear sat solidly on the top of the Swedish chart, Scary Movie 3 maneuvered into second in front of Kjell Sundvall's action outing The Threat with a strong $5,514 screen average on its 60 prints.Meanwhile the veteran romance between Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in Something's Gotta Give ...
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Music rocks Berlin's festival and market
From the famous to the exotic, this year's Berlinale has been flooded with features and documentaries centering on music."I'm never just looking for portraits, but films with an original approach and the music documentaries we're screening this year have those bridging qualities," says Wieland Speck, the director of the Berlinale ...
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North by Northwest open to Eastern Europe
North by Northwest, the popular Copenhagen-based training body for film professionals from across Europe, has expanded its pan European activities with a new programme, East of Eden.From its new Prague office, the programme is open to participants from all over Eastern Europe from Latvia to Poland, Cyprus and Slovenia.Deadline is ...
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Dogme retains its bite
Often thought to be on the verge of extinction, the Danish Dogme-movement fathered by Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg back in 1995, is as alive and kicking as ever.The success of Annette K. Olesen's Berlin competition entry In Your Hands, which despite its dark themes won acclaim after screening ...
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Von Trier Peace speech censored
Speaking to Screen, Danish director Lars Von Trier has expressed surprise that his video-taped acceptance speech at Monday's Diamond for Peace Award was censored by the organisers.Von Trier, who is famously averse to flying, sent in a video speech critical of the Cinema For Peace committee.However, the tape was cut ...
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SWEDEN
BVI's Brother Bear beat the thrills of the prolific Kjell Sundvall's latest action film The Threat, partly because of its massive 149 prints, although its screen average was only slightly better than last week's new local release The Ketchup Effect (Hip Hip Hora!), the feature debut from newcomer Terese Fabik.However, ...
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FINLAND
Scary Movie 3 literally terrified the Finnish box-office this weekend as it moved from seventh to first spot besting The Last Samurai and The Return Of The King with its strong 498 admissions screen average.The previews of Disney's Brother Bear easily put it into fifth from just 17 prints, while ...
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Cinema Vikings search for soft money booty
Moderating last week's panel on location hot zones at Screen International's European Film Summit in Berlin, Jonathan Olsberg had an apt analogy for the industry's worldwide pillaging and plundering in search of soft money booty. "We're the Vikings of modern cinema."Oldsberg, whose management consultancy helps structure international co-productions to take ...
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NORWAY
The latest Norwegian addition to the originally Danish Olsen Gang movies, The Young Olsen Gang Rocks It, easily muscled The Last Samurai from the top spot with a strong 990 screen average on its high 61 prints.The film follows last year's most successful local release in Nordisk Film's hit franchise. ...
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DENMARK
Disney's animated Brother Bear managed to charm its way into the top spot in front of Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai, with a slightly higher admissions screen average but a lower box-office average of DKR42,722 compared to Samurai's DKR57,693.Though only dropping just 15%, Annette K. Olesen's Berlin competition entry In ...
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African cinema gets Dogme injection
The low-budget adrenaline injection which awoke the Danish film industry in the mid 90s is set to be applied to the African film industry.That, at least, is the hope of Zentropa staffers Pia Severin and Pia Nielsen as well as filmmaker Vibeke Muasya (Birds Of Passage), who have thrown themselves ...
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Cinema Guild gets Inheritance for the US
Per Fly's The Inheritance, which won six Danish Film Academy's Robert awards last week, has been picked up for US release by The Cinema Guild's Philip Hobel and Ryan Krivoshey.The film was the most popular local release last year in Denmark and was in the main competition in San Sebastian, ...
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Zentropa and Sigma to throw Advance Party
Denmark's Zentropa and Scotland's Sigma Films have formed an alliance to back three low-budget English-language films which will shoot in Scotland later this year.Under the Advance Party banner, the three digital £1m films will be directed by Scottish feature debutants Andrea Arnold and Morag McKinnon as well as Denmark's Mikkel ...
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Fly creates buzz at Danish Oscars - again
Per Fly's critics and audience darling The Inheritance swept the Danish Film Academy's Robert ceremony on Sunday night taking six awards including best film, best director and best actor for Ulrich Thomsen. It also won best supporting actress and actor for veterans Ghita Noerby and Peter Steen, best music for ...
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DENMARK
Annette K. Olesen's In Your Hands (Forbrydelser) retained its second spot after The Return Of The King, falling just 12% after its first week in release and has so far had 37,989 admissions.However, this week's best admission screen average belonged to Lost In Translation on just nine prints in fifth ...
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Upswing tops Finnish Jussi awards
At this year's Finnish film awards, the Jussi, held in Helsinki on Sunday night, Johanna Vuoksenmaa's popular comedy drama Upswing (Nousukausi) took top honours including best film as well as best script for Mika Ripatti and best music for Kerkko Koskinen.However, the Lasse Saarinen production didn't take more awards than ...
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Hiding emerges as Gothenburg winner
The overall theme of Sweden's major film event, the Gothenburg Film Festival, was the blues, but after its 27th edition, there was nothing to be blue about but the weather.Early estimates indicate an increase in the already impressive admission numbers, and so did the number of attendees for the festival's ...
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NORWAY
Despite a number of new releases, the top five spots of the Norwegian chart remained unchanged with The Last Samurai in front of Petter Naess' Just Bea.However, the latter dropped only 5% and performed almost as well, despite the limiting 15 label it received from local censors. Julia Roberts' considerable ...